Star.
London, England, 1817-08-18 00:00:00

NELSPA'S PILLAR.

The interesting spectacle of laying the Erst stone
of a Naval Pillar on Yarmouth Denes, to comme-
mores the v;ctories of the immortal NEcsoN, took
place on Friday. At half past twelve the procession
moved to the place cht•sen for this national memorial
of British heroism in the following order s
Constables, Flags, Band,
Mayor and Corporation, Officers of the Navy,
Model carried by Sai!or3,
Flanked by Sailor,' carrying Flags.
Architect and Secretary, Committee, Flsgc, &c.
The first stone was laid by Clone' WODF1101:SE,
as Chairman of the Committee. The day being five,
rendered the sight truly animating. In the stone was
placed a plate, on which was engraved a Latin in-
.
....crption, written by Mr. Serjeant FRERE, the learned
Master of Downing, of which the following is a
translation :
HORATIO, LORD NELSON;

•
Whom as her first and proudtst Champion in Naval Fight,
illitais honoured, whale living, with her favour,
and. when lost, with her tears ' -
Of whom, signalized by his triumphs in all lands,
e whole Ernk

Stood in awe, un account of the tempered firmness of Ws
counsels,
And the undaunted ardour of his courage;
This grre man Airfoil
Boasts her own, not at ly as born there at a respectable family,
And as there having received his arty education,

But her emu also in talents, ntasiner, and mind.
The glory of to great a name,
Though sure long to outlive all monuments of bra:c and scone,
Ili, fellow-countrymen of Norfolk have resolved to
to .morate
By this column, erected by their joint contributions.
He was born in the year 175 K,
• Entered on hit :.rotession in 1771,
And was concerned in nearly 150 114va1 engagements
wish the enemy;
Barg conqueror, among valo•us other ezcaeions,
At Aboukir, August, 171'8 ;
At Copenhagen, Apr I, tern ; and
At Trafalgar, October, 1%05;

Which last victory, the crown ot so own:4l.'6mo achievements,
lit. rums crard by a death
Fqually ntouratul to hi. cou!.!ry, and honourable
to ithnv...lt.

The followipg trial of courage of M. Quostam,
Captain of the Trois Z. res. which lately took fire in
Cherboursy Roads, is recorded in the Chet-tours Journal:
—Recoilecting that a barrel of powder stood near tl.c
part of the ship where the file was raging, he flew to
the spot and removed the barrel, which had already
become extremely hot, in conlequence of its proximity
to the flames. By this act of intrepidity he preserved
the vest 1 and the crew from the dreadful effects of
the explosion, which would infallibly have taken
place in a few minutes.
Friday, the Royal Sovereign yacht, Captain Sir
EDWARD Owes, sailed from Deptford to Brighton.-
The new yacht, the Royal George, has already sailed
for the same place. No expense has been spared in
rendering the latter vessel most complete in all its
decorations ; and wines of every description from the
cellars of Carlton-house, with other stores. were put
on board previously to her departure. She is the
largest, and therefore possessing more accommoda-
tion than any Royal yacht hitherto constructed. A
division of picked seamen and petty officers from the
Northumberland, 74., at Sheerness, are r n board as
the crew during the attendance of this elegant vessel
on the PittscE REGENT; and suits of new clothing
have been provided for them on this occasion, as also,
new sets of colours, including the Royal Standard of
silk, which is to be displayed on board the yacht.
Thursday night a woman was brought into the
London Hospital with her right arm dreadfully la-
cerated. She and her husband having a quarrel, she
leaped out of the window, which was three stories'
high, when her arm was caught by a large iron spike,
which was driven in the window sill to hold garden.,
pots. In this perilous situation she was suspended
for about three minutes, when her piteons cries
brought some p,rson into the room, in which her
husband was in a state of stupefaction, who pulled
her in at the window.

Stioacteci TuaNsacrion.—At the Clonrael As-
sizes, E. Cormici WAS indicted for a burglary and
robbery in the dwelling house of P. Dowling, at Fro-
wn., on the of April last, and convicted thereof.
This prosecution exhibited an unusual character of
the most disgusting depravity. It appeared from
the evidence of old Dowling, that on the above night
his housz was entered by a breach through the wall
and the thatch, by three men, armed, who after-
wards admitted two more at the door. Dowling
knew three of them, the prisoner and his two sons, al.
though the faces of all the party were partially dis-
guised by streaks of black dirt down their forehead.
They were armed with two guns, two bayonets, and
a pistol. In order to extort a confession where his
money was, they roasted him, by placing his back on
the tire, and applying a heated fire-shovel to his
beily ; they also burned his wife's arm and body in a
shocking manner, for the same purpose. Having
procured information where the money lay, they
plundered him. of 19s. sd. and some clothes ; and
during this pillage, while the father and mother were
writhing under their torture, four of the villains
dragged Dowling's daughter, a girl between 17
and 18 years of age, into an inncr room, and suc-
cessively violated her person ; tee) of these villains,
who immediately fled from justice, being the sons of
the prisoner. It appeared, that this girl had been
taken off by two strangers (according to the custom)
some time previous, in order to force her marriage
with one.of these delinquents, J. Cot tr• id:, one of the
above meinioned sons of the prisoner ; that she was
restored however to her family in a few days, unin.,
jured ; the taking off being with a view to extort a
formic. Her father being willing to give her £2O,
these fellows hoped, that by blowing on her charac-
ter, they could extort 4100, the negotiation for mar-
tiage broke off. They persisted in this hope, and
took her off a second time, when she persevered in
refusing to marry Cormick, and she was permitted
to return a second time, without violation, with a re-
' newel of the proposition for a marriage, which, as
before, was again rejected. In the outrage now on
trial, when old Dowling was shrinking under the
buruing, one of his younger children, not ten years
old, ran out to assist her father, when one of theie
fiends struck her a blow with the but-end of his
bayonet, rshich broke her skull, and has left a mark
in it into which the top of a man's thumb could be
thrust ; and in the first attack on the father, he re-
ceived various bayonet wounds in the body and
thighs, and had four teeth knocked out. Dowling's
daughter corroborated his evidence.