Star.
London, England, 1816-08-15 00:00:00

THE MORTAR IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.

The following is a description of this'lmmeise in-
strument of destruction, and of the circumstances re-
lating to its transmission to England:
During the war in the Peninsula, the City of Cadiz
was bothbarded from a distance previously supposed
to be beyond the range of projectiles—a circumstance
which attached so much consequence to the ordnance:.
employed and left by Marshal SOULT on his :circa,'
as to induce the Spanish Regency to send one of the
Marian to his Royal Highness the PRINCIt Reomyr,
intrusting it to the care of the Hon. Rear. Admiral
• LEGGR, who was instructed by the Presidect, the Duke
del ltifarrrano, retp,est it might be placed in.osie
of the Royal Parks. His Royal Highness was pleased
to accede to this request, and directed the mortar to
be suitably placed on the Paradq of the Horse-Guards,
to rccord the glorious victory gained at Salamanca,
the consequent liberation of the South of Spain ; and
' in honour of the Duke of WELLINGTON. to whom both
countries were indebted for it. His Royal Highness
commanded the Earl of MULGItAVB to direct a car-
riage to be prepared, for the purpose, which has been
made in the Royal Carriage Department at Woolwich.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CARRIAGE.
An emblem has been selected (in allegorical allusion to the
means by which the Siege of Cadiz was terminated) from the
labours of Hercules, who destroyed the monster Geryon, they
tyrant of the Isle of Casks, thus figuratively describing the nosing
of the siege, and to illustrate the fame of the hero who had
broken the enchantment of the modern Geryon.
Some liberties have been taken with the principal figure in
substituting wings for.the heads; the rails twist round to the vent
in order to convey the scorpion fire.
The heads of the tyrants guardian dog are represented in the
;Alternate state of activity and repose, to denote eternal watch-
fulness.
The mortal Is left as It was found, being mounted on its car-
riage at an elevation of 45 degrees, upon a bed of brass, sepre-
sething s rock on which the monster bpi alig.hted.
FT. IN.
Length of the bed
Breadth of ditto ••e 00000 • 4..6 *as 000000 4 6
Goleta' height
Weight of the whole
INSCRIPTIONS CH THE lIDLS OF TUC RUN
Devictis a Well:uwon Duce prope Salamaricam Gallia
Soiutaque eilude Gallium Ohsidione hand quam Aspititio•
East superimpositam Bumbardak, vi praditarn adinic inaudita
Ad Ur hem portunique Gaditainun DestruendunaConflata.m.
Et a Coitus 'Forbad*, Relictam, Cartes Hispanici, pasunorum
baudqu aquam
Benefictortun Obliti.sumnis veneration's Tcstimonio dunaverunt
Geory4o. Illus. Brit. Trine.
Qu'i in perpetuam Rci ratmeriam hoc loco piatttudain, et his
Ornament'. Decocandani
To Commemorue
Tl* Raising of the Siege of Cad a, in consequence of the
Glevioui Victory obtained by tie
Duke of Wellington
over the French near Salamanca, 011 the 22d July 1012.
This Mortar, ca-t for the Destruction of that Great Vrt,
with Powers surpassing 01 others,
and abandoned by the Besiegers on their Retreat,
was presented as a Token of Resp. ct and Gratitude by the
Spanish Nation
To His Royal Highness Ihe Prince Regent.
11 TOIL JIONT Or THE RILD.
the Crest and the Mottoof His Royal Highfiess
'1 be Prince Regent.
IN THE IRAK.
Constructed in the Royal Carriage Department,
Earl of Mulgrave, Master-Osnerai,
A.D. 1814.

The french, not contented with introducing the
story of Afire 's Sacrifice on the stage, have drama-
tised also the episode of, Samson. It is, as may be
'supposed, very different from the noble poem of our
MILTON on the same subject ' • in fact, it is made a
ballet. Samscst dances a itasde seul with the gates of
Gaza on his back; Dahlak cuts off his hair in the
intesvals of a hornpipe ; and the Philistines surround
and /seize their victim amidst the involutions of a
country dance
Yesterday an inquest was held on the body of Sarah
Pinner, aged 27 yea's, who lived servant at the Duke
of Gloucester public-house in Hoxton.—Ann Fos-
,ter deposed, that she was a servant in the same house,
and the deceased and she slept together they went
to bed together, about ten o'clock on Sunday night,
and when witness awoke, about 6 o'clock next morn-
ing, the deceased was dead by her side..... Verdict--.
Died by the visitation of God.
A distressing accident happened in the City of Car-
lisle on the morning of Monday se'nnight. A soldier's
Widow with two children, one of them an infant, took
hex station on a. baggage cart destined to follow the
route of the sth Dragoon Guards, before the horse
was put, to the vehicle. The driver, wishing to ascer-
Win if the cart was properly .loaded, lifted, apthe
ehefts, and the weight being too much behind, weigh-
ed it down, in consequence of which the wonian,
children, and baggage, fell into the strict together.
The infant was killed on the spot : the second moue-
ded in the groin, and the woman-herself bruised con-
siderably ; the effects of which were heightened by
the fate of her child. The woman's husband belonged
to the sth, but was killed in the battle of Salamanca,
thus her,situation is•repcleted sttH more distressing.
About a week since, a shipwright, named Chain.
hers, fell from the side of the TILZMUNDOLUI, into'
Chatham Dock, and was very Touch hurt; he was,
taken immediately. to the surgery, and afterwards to
his home, where he lingered till last Thursday, when
he died. lie was a single mano_and his mother, a few
days before the accident, came to see him from the
North of Efigiaud.--hin. John King, a quarteratin
of the caulkers,. in the same dock-yard, since the,
above accident, has fallen into the dock and is anti.
coaftuett at home dangerously* .1

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iSWEL, wasjocv AUGUST
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an eminent papas-Merchant in dis Minty.
was indicted forthat he, being a bankrupt, entbeizied
and concealed bill &oda-above the valve,of £2d, v4tb
'intent to cheat and defraud his zreditris.
Mr. Common Serjeani Komvuts stated the case on
the part of the prosecution, which, *from the gian-
tity of documentary evidence. necessarily occupied a
considerable time, but the farts of the transaction lay
in a small compass. •
• The Commission end the proceedings under it
were produced. and it appeared that thetrisoner was
duly declared a Iletikrupt in November, 1814. His
being a trader, yik. a paper-maker, the debt due to the
petitioning creditor, viz. the Bank at Petwotth, and
an act of bankruptcy, by leaving his house to avoid
his creditors, were all distinctly proved. The con-
cealment of his effects, which was the substance of
ithe offence, was stated to be as follows :=lst, ,That
he had shipped a quantity of paper on the 4th of
March, 1814, consisting of 1801bs. of first Class, and
$484111. of second Class, cpnsigned to the Cape of
Good Hope, and that he had also received thirty-two
pounds ten shillings and pine pence upon debentures
for drawbacks on paper shipped, which last sum he
had not accounted for. To prove these allegations,'
bis various books and accounts were produced, and
an accountant of the name of Hade stated that be
had looked through all the accounts of the prisopee,
and he could- find no account of the shipment of the
paper.
T. Lewellln, an Officer of Enke, proved that he
had weighed off the quantity of piper *charged for
exportation; and the., paper was regmlarly traced as
being exported, and the prisoner received a deben-
ture for the return of the duties as a drawback, which
debenture was paid by the proper. Officer of Excise
on the 15th of December, 1814, with three other de-
bentures for drawbacks, and they appeared to have
been 1)&41 by their books to a person of the name of
Cooke, hut he did not recollect the person to whom
he p .td them.
With respect to this pan of the transaction, Lord
ELLaNnofrocon held, that it did not come within the
meaning of the Statute, which made it -an offence to
44 conceal or secrete, &c. any goods ;" that implied
that the goods were in the possession of the party,
-and the act to be done was an act of concealment.—
Now in this case he had exported the goods before bit•
bankruptcy, and the act he had done was a conceal-
ment of the history of the transaction, and not of the
goods themselves.
Mr. Cosmos SZRJEANT, on this intimation of his
Lordship's opinion, stated, that he would then ad-
dress himself to the other part of the case, respecting
the receipt of the money under the debentures.
The Assistant Auditor of the Excise was called,
who produced four debentures, dated 6th April, 17th
Septesnber, 18th and 15th February, and 4th Much,
1814, which entitled the bolder to receive thirty-two
pounds ten :billings and nine pence drawback for
duty on exported paper; and another Officer of Ex-
cise ;moved that these debentures were delivered on
the 26th of November, 1814, to a rrson who signed
his name a H. Cooke," and this signatuee was proved
to be the prisoner's hand-writing, so that it was suffi-
ciently clear the prisoner was the person who received
the debentures from the office.

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J. Mullis, from the Receiver's Office in the Excise,
proved that he paid these debentures on the 15th ut
December, 1814.

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To prove' that these were not accounted for, the
prisoner's accounts were again produced, and the Ac-
countant examined, when it turned out that he hmd
rendered an account of AM 10s. 2d. as received by
him on debentures, but it was undtr the date of the
22d October, 1814, being a day anterior to the time
when he actually received them. The prisoner also
insisted that there was an original entry of the ship.
ment of the paper abort; alluded to, but in reference
to the book the accounti appeared so' ndistinctly sta-
ted, that it could not be well ascertained whether k
was or not. Indeed, the greatest difficulties arose
from the contusion of vary large accounts, as the
transactions included in the bankruptcy exceeded

£130,000.
The prisoner being called upon for his defence,
addressed the Jury at considerable length, in which
he disclaimed any intention of fraud, and said the
regularity of the date in making up his account was
done entirely at the suggestion of the Accountant,
who told him it was no matter under what date it was
entered, so that it-appeared in his account. He de-
clared that the whole prosecution was founded in the
malignant conduct of his assignee; who had instituted
it against the express wish of his creditors, twenty.
three of whom, out of thirty, were ready to speak to
his character.
The Jury found him Not Guilty, which yen..
was received with expressions of satisfaction by the
audience. .
Charln Floyd was indicted for malidonsly setting
fire to a wood near Maresfield,called Vetchiry Wood,
the property of Lord Whitworth and the Duchess
Dorset, on the 23d.0f March last.
The prisoner was himself the woodreve to the pro-
prietors • and. by the evidence of a man of the name
of Wheeler, it appeared, that on the night of the-25th
of March, as he was returning from Nutley lon, he
discovered the Vetchery Wood to be on fire; he re•
turned back to the Inn, and got some people toge-
ober ; he sent a ma* who called.up the prisoner ; se-
veral went to the wood-, and about twenty or thirty
acres of the underwood was destroyed.

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The witnesses; however, who were adcfneed to fix
the guilt upon the prisoner were two brothers, .of the
name of blephain, and they, stated that they were out
smuggling on the night of the 25th of March, and
for that purpose were conbealed in the Vetchery
Wood ; at about seven o'clock they saw the prisoner
come into the wood And set fire to it in three place&
'They, however, never gave any infer:tuition to any
ofie for nearly • a month after, and after s reward -elf
fifty pounds-was offered for apprehending the ofiewj
den. Oa cross-esantination alto of all the winless**
it was evident. that the prisoner was obooeious to the
neighbeurhonds because he resisted their enersisch:
thous inibe forest and. wood itt .questids, Vbidti
woOdrove lie was Woad to do.
Yely Oiilty; and indeed'►
Nokde Progrittors ire* AO satisiod of pi.—

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