Star.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

SMILING SHERIFF COUNT.

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Thursday se'nnight cameo 'Stirling, be%
ItANALD MACDONALD, of Staffa,TAq. Advocate, Sh,.
yif-Depute of Stirlingshire, the tr4l of John Stainift.
Advocate, charged with having causelessly and
groundlessly taken up deadly' malice and
against Joseph Stainton, of Bitgarshiells, manager a
Carron Company, his uncle, abd with hating, on se.
veral occasions, assaulted, molested, pursued, and in.
vaded the person and house of Joseph Stainton,
lowing him from place to place, forcibly entering his
dwelling-house, and threatening to take the lives or
Joseph Stainton, and Mrs. Jean Stainton, his wife„.
This was the substance of seven charges contained itt
the indictment. The third charge, of which the priL
soner was convicted, accused him of coming to she
house of Joseph Stainton, accompanied by ano.J
person, about eleven o'clock at night of the 9th Jul?
last, and with violent oaths demanding admittance.
Failing to obtain admission by the door, he agaiti
broke to the kitchen window, which had been re-
paired since the former attack, and entered the
kitchen, attempting to get admission to that part of
the house where Air. and Mrs. Stainton were, by a
door which is between the house and kitchen.
door being locked, John Stainton beat violently
against it with a poker or totgs, for the purpose of
breaking it open, declaring with many oaths that !I
had come to take their lives. The servant at that it,
scant bolted the door, and confined them to the
kitchen. Being unable to break the door, they fee.
cibly entered an adjoining house by a window, and
endeavoured to force an entrance to his uncle's house
through a brick partition.
The female servant of Mr. Joseph Stainton detailed
the particulars of the attack upon the house.
Some other witnesses were examined relative te
other charges in the indictment, of which the prisest
was acquitted.
Mr. JEFFREY, in his address, dwelt partially!!
on the aggravated nature of an assault on a dwelliet
house, the retreat of domestic peace, and the ua
protection of midnight slumbers, while it contained
only two unprotected females ; one of them hiiunctei
wife, who was in the fifth month of her pregnancy.'
Mr. COCKBURN, in defence, denied that the pri.
soner was actuated by malice, and attributed his d*
orderly conduct entirely to intoxication. He arid,
it had been suggested that he wished to destroy the
succession likely to arise in his uncle's family, thok
might possess himself of his well-earned estates/14f
wealth. But the fact was, that Joseph Staintairee
the head of his family, and the hopes of his ne*
could not be advanced in the most distant mannerby
the death or murder of his wife, or by cutting shah
the days of his unborn child. He was not the*
at law ; and no person would give five shaky
I sterling for his whole interest as heir at law.
The Learned SHERIFF summed up the reidesce,
and the Court adjourned till the follow ing day, wls3
the Jury found the charge of having entered the home
forcibly proven; and, after a suitable admonitica
from the Sheriff, the prisoner was sentenced to pays
fine of £5O, to be imprisoned one month, and to fiad
security to keep the peace for fiveyears, under ape-
nalty of £3OO sterling.

STATUARY EXTRAORDINA ay.—The Winked SO
ter has been published as a genuine copy of one pt.
sented to the Committee appointed by the Doha
Literary Society, for erecting a bust of the las*.
KittwtN, the Naturalist, who had been Presiaistof
the Society :
"To the Committee appointed-to see Mr. Kirmateslstaa
by the Dublin literary Society. Please your Honours, I ten
advertisement in the freeman's journal air yesterday, n I pre
every mornin, and pays sive/we per week for the maths it,*
riot forth that all statuaries aauld send in their propotials kris*
a bust of one Mr. Kirwan that died lately it seems in this To
Now's there's near a man in Dublin that could doo it cheap et
neather than myself, and Why, Bekase i ave a Boy That's aka
out of his time his name is tim Slattery and can work nifaii
as well as myself to help me with, and if Your ilonoon weal
see Any of my work yule go any day tp Jameses Church*
yule see there's a head Stone leetly put up over One Mr. balk
with death on one side and time with his hour glass and ink inn
other, I did Death, and tim did time,—andldefie any mash iki
lin to do them better. i ave as Nise a Block of black rtosse,thros
as Mr. Smith did them chirrips Heads with upon the set iki
the castle chapel where I worked mysel and Tim fur Swim
where id be yet if it wassent that i was beelyd, bad huh al
them Same that dun it to Mr. Johnstone, but its no rasa
up to them yet, and as i think Tim and i could have din,"
how in a week say thirty shillings for mysel and a Guinesbris
that's 4!.121. W. and say too more for the block (which ha 4
as bog Water) th..t would make it in all 4. & 3.which is eV
in all conshinse, if your Honours approves of the proposal
send to me to N 0.23, Patrick clothes (Patrick's close) a re&
and if i and Tina bees out Mrs. Casee a very decent wools
myself and tim dietswith,vrill take any message for your
humble sarvant to command, JA MES NIEAII.
N.B. If anyother offers to do tbeGob cheaper may henna;
else mite be in "our honours way. Iwould be glad to make alis
stone or a tome stone for any of your honours—direct as mini

BIRTH.
Nov. e 2, at Leghorn, the Lady of Major. General Sir Pan
Rosa, K.C.3LG. of a son.

MARRIED.
Dee. 14, at Edinburgh, David Scott, Esq. writer to tb
to Theodosia, youngest daughter of Robert Anderson,

DIED.

At Gosport; after a few days illness, of an inllammatioa
lungs, Henry Howe, youngest son of the late Major Besot
the Royal Engineers, aged two years and four months.
Saturday, at Kingston, near Portsmouth, after some m
Illness, Mr. J. P. O'Berne, surgeon, R.N. and late of his
ty's ship Queen Charlotte.
Dee. 16,at Brighton, Susannakieffe of the Rev. 11017
well, of Maidenhead.