Star.
London, England, 1803-09-02 00:00:00

H/ITFI;:LR.

CAP LIS Lv, Ayr.. 29.-01 the trial of Hatfield and
of his coodenittation you h ire r.ireadr had an ac-
t:lva. I fend you now a few part;cublis of his bc-
h viour fince rest ence of death was paired upon him.
T. it have heard that his behaviour was fit m and col-
-I:sled during the firtl part of his trial :—he attended
initautly to the evidence, and took notes, and italic
milted them to his Counfel, Meas. Topping and
1-loltoyd ; but when Mr. Quick, who was clerk in
the bottfe at Tiverton, in which Hatfield was a part-
ner, Iwore to his hand.veriting to the 301. bill, drawn
upon Mr. Cramp, of Liverpool; he then teemed
deeply agitated, took no more notes, and teemed
prepared for the verdia that was given againfi him.
The Court was.amaztngly thronged, but he did not
once look round upon the perfons prefent. His eyes
were fixed upon the witneffes and the Judge and Jury.
As foon as the verdift was given, he bowed' to the
Judge and retired without laying a word. A poa-
ch:tile conveyed him from the ball to the rrifon. He
was cool and cnile'9ed (hiring the time he was in the
chalk; and as loon the got back to his room he fell
upon his knees, and prayed in a fervent and ferious
manner for about half an hour; after which he defied
Tome refrefhment. His behaviour, when fentence of
death was pafred upon him next morning, was equally
cool and deliberate. He knelt, looking fixedly at
the Judge, bowed, but Paid not a word.
I had an opportunity of feeing him foon after his
return to prifOn on the morning of his condemnation.
He was writing when I entered his room, but finned
realty refigned to his fate. I converted with him a
good deal, and he told me he had been fairly tried
and converted by the laws of his country ; that indeed
the world was now and had long been a mifery to
him; that he had been tinhappy in his mind for nearly
2o years. The original caufe of that unbappinefs I
could not learn, nor, as he did not think proper to
difclofe it, did I prefs him upon the inkjet. He laid
he had for force time pall been employed in making
his peace with the ALMIGHTY, whofe pardon, he
humbly hoped, he fhould obtain, and who, he fer-
vently prayed, would give him fortitude to bear the
last great event that fhould clofe this world upon him
for ever. I left him in a few minutes after he had
exprelfed this hope, and as I quitted the room I ob-
ferved him drop on his knees in prayer.
He does not teem to entertain the flighteft hope of
being pardoned. He expels to be conveyed on Sa-
turday next, according to his fentence, to the Sands
near the River Edon. the ufual place of execution.
He paffes much of his time in reading and writing.
A great part of every day has been employed in writ-
ing letters to his acquaintance ; the number of there
letters is very great. The refi of his time he paff s
in prayer, and in reading the Bible. None of his re-
lations have vifited him lince his condemnation. He
Jeeps entirely in his own room, and will fee no one
but thofe belonging to the gaol, and two Clergymen
of the Church of England, Mr. Pattifon, of Carlifie,
and Mr. Mark, of Burgh on Sands. They have been
much with him, and he expreffes himfelf under great
obligations to them for their humane Alliance, as well
as to the keeper of the gaol, and his aitants, for their
hindnefs and attention to him.

Neither before his trial nor fince his condemnation
has he ever alluded to his conneCtion with Mary of
Buttermere, nor even mentioned her name.

ASSIZAS.

At Nottingham affixes, William }Ell, aged 28
years, for committing a rape on the body of Sarah
Jukice, the wife of Thomas juilice, of 8010, near
Gainibto', on the 28th of May lall, was capitally
conviBed. and received featence of death and on
Friday fc'nnight he,Mibi executed at Nottingham, put..
faun to' his lentence. His oonduEt after condemna-
tion was obdurate, nor was it fuitable even at the
place of executi-n ; he there attempted to efeape by
jumping out of the cart as the rope was abotst to be
filed. He confered to fame offences, but died de-
nying the crime for which he faffered. At the fame
the .ffoLl.maffer of Eaft•Retford was fro.
tencad,tti twelve months,imprifonment, for altering
the. charge of Pottage in * great nurnber of letters,
ad d. to Mr. Thomas. Brumby of that town,
will** accounting to ate General poil Office for
the increafe.— This isabe fccpnd conviBion of the
Jr-od tbai has taken place, and the profecutions taken
ttp aT. l fseaeral Pelt Office.
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At.tarawall Affixes jape Carleen wat brought re
thrilour: charged with a tritderneanor.. She wail
stikedif tee wonid take her trial now or Rand over
till the next Aftires t She chnie to be tried *ow.

Elizabeth' Sedgman &poled, that the being in
Cunlieston workuonfe, found berfeit with child by
Mr. Jolm Tremaine, of St. Keverne. The prifoner
came to the workhoufe, and find the was feat by Mr.
T. to know whether the was wi;b child ? Told her
the Was, and by her Mallet. Wanes was delivered
shunt five months after this of a male child. It was
taken from her on the fourth day, and placed with
Mary Evans, the overfeer's wile, and withers never
f.tw it after.—She deferibed very minutely the drefs
the child had on when taken from her, and a kretch•
on its kit hand. The child was born en the 4th of
December ; on the 7th the ;tanner cams to the
•worker's Itnufe, brought with her a hun.:le of
clothes for the child, and faid, (he wa. ordered by
}.lr. T. to take hinter Mawganparith, where a nark
was provided for it. The child was delivered to the
yriferner about fuur in the afternoon; the was on
t.rot, but Aid the had left her boric at the houfe of
flee and walked fik" trawardt Maseitar. Pri•
toner nes er namc.l the oink, and gave as a tea fon,
'that her mailer rlitl not with to have it known where
the child was to be kept. The child isa.l no appear-
ance of weaknef. or ill health when dcl:vered to the
rainier. ►boat eleven o'clock at night the child
was found w rapped u p with a woman's oetticoat above
its own clothes. lying in a cart about twelve miles
(HAW, near Natat►on turnpike. It was encircled
and taken care of fist that niFht and following day
at the turnpike•houfe by Serfannah Iteacilly. and de-
livered by her to Mice F.-rd. It appeared to he
ailed in the lcit tide, which (cooed to wither from
head to friar, and in fewenteen days after it died.--
The fcratch on ett left band, and the clothes it had
on, proved it to be the-fame child that was delivered
to the erifoncr. The prik net's Counfel having made
a very Ingenious &deuce the Judge lualaytd tip Ike

evicrente, expatiVai Upott,the Mat, Of she offence,
and t!.: jury found the.prifiener Guilty.
Hid Lor.lfilio. in proceeding to paafentenee, told
the psiOu.er, that hid the-child died before it way
found. Cie wouid cc*: tainly hire beet. lianged i 6
was, he would lenience her to the pilinry, but he
thought the indignation of the populace /night en-
danger her lire; he therefore fenteneed her to two
years imprifonment, to ray a fine of :a. and to re-
main in prifon till it was paid.
Mr. John Tremain appeared in Court, and enter-
ed into secognizances, himfeif in soca and two Cure-
ties in goo). each, to take his dial at the nest Affire.
for a mifdemeanour.

A cnnfiderable bunk was occanoned the other day
near Charing Croft, from a hackney coachman• accnf
ing a Gentleman's fervant of having Rolm his num
ber. The fad was, that the coachman having taken
more than his fare, the Gentleman, who conlidered
himfelf impored upon, ordered hir fervant, who s. a-.
lately come from the country, to take the number ot
the coach, which he literally did, for he twilled it off
the coach door, and put it in his pocket
The accidents which fo frequently happen of ladies
being burnt by their mbflin dreffes raking fire, can
not he too nnich guarded againfr. Ahont the mid-
cl!e of laft month as Mrs. Brosholm, at Prefcnt, was
putting out one of the candles on the utile previons
jr going to bed, her maim handkerchief was fet fire
to by the other, and the flames communicated to her
drefs, which was alto of muffin. She ran down flair.
in that Rate, whictroccafioned a current of air, and
when (be got to the bottom, fell down. Though by
the,exerticas of the family the flames were almolt
immediately fuppreffed. (he only lingered till between
one and two the next day.
Left week, a fat mer'a fervant, near Stanwell, who
had been tipping at a public houfe till a late hour,
went home with a lighted pipe in his month, and
finding his fellow—fervants gone to bed, took up his
lodgings in the barn, where laying the pipe down,
(as he thought estinguithed) he fell afleep, and was
Ihortly after awoke, almott fuff”cated, enveloped in
flames. Fortunately, in(lcad of running away, he
alarmed the family, and the fire was loon extinguifh-
ed, btit not till it had dellroyed the barn and part of
an adjoining out-houfe.
On Saturday LIR a (hocking accident happened at
a gentleman's houfe in Giiiinerfiniry.lane, near Kew.
A fervant was fent there by his matter in Town, for
a gun, which he wanted to u e for a day or two.—
Having received it, he was deflrous of proving to the
fervints in the kitchen his proficiency in manual ex
ercife, when he was jeered by one of the females, who
told him he durft not fire a gun. The man nnt ima
gining the fowling piece was charged, as it had not
bcea ufed fora twelvemonth, prefented it at the un-
rut-innate girl, and (hot her dead. There accidents
become fa frequent, that it is high time tn inflict a
fevere punifhment on thole who, on any pretence
whatever, prelim fire arms to another, whether load-
ed or not.
A few days ago an accident occurred at Brighton,
which was very nearly attended with fatal conic-
quences. An old gentleman and his daughter were
driving in their gig from the top of North-greet,
when the horfe fet out at full gallop, and never flop-
ped until he reached the iron railings at the rear of
the Prince's Pavilion, in Eaft-greet,againft which the
(hafts of the carriage ftruck, and both were violently
throw& out. The young lady was feverely wounded
in one of her arms, and received a contufion on her
temple. She was railed from the ground fenfelefs,
by a gentleman, who conduced her to a furgeon's,
where, after frame time, the was retiored. Her fa-
ther was alto feverely hurt.
On Monday evening, a porter was fent from Mr.
Pewit's, a gunfmith, in Holborn, tn a Gentleman's
houfe in Portland place, with a valuable fowling.
piece, which he delivered to a female fervant, when
loon after a man called at the houfe, told the fervant
a wrong gun had been delivered, and reqiiefted to
have it back again, and that he would bring the other
in a (hurt time. The fervant accordingly returned
the gun. and the man went away, but did not re-
turn with any other. The next morning, informa-
tion of the tranfattion was given at Boss-ttreet to the
Sitting Magiftrate, who directed proper means to be
taken for difcovering the offender, and the gun was
found in pledge at a pawnbroker's in the neighbour.
h .od of the Haymarket ' • and on Wednefday, the
woman who pledged it, her hufband, and two other
women, fuppofed to be implicated in the bulinefs,
were taken into cußody, and the fame evening exa-
mined before Mr. Ge•fraw, at Bow-greet, when
Mr. PARR it's gun was produced by the pawnbroker,
who identified the woman that pawned it, and who,
in her defence. laid the received it of a man for that
purpefe : another valuable gun was produced by the
Officers, who Rated, that they bond it in the apart.
meats of one of the prifoners, and which was claim-
ed by Mr. Mene', a ganfmith, in Dover.fireet,
who was defrauded of two guns in r fimilar way in
July lag, one of which it appeared had been pledged
by the bufband of the woman before fisted. They
were therefore committed for further examination;
the two other women were ditch:a:Red.
About two months ago a Frenelf deferter arrived
in London from the Hanoverian army, after expe-
riencing many difficulties in his pave. He acid be
had friends in York(hire. This perton remained in
the neighbourhood of London till very lately, with-
out ha ring been appointed to a Ration in the army,
as he expelled ftnm the reception he met with from
his Royal Highnefs the Duke of YORR. About a
fortnight ago he fat off for Brighton to join the Prince
of Wa Lb Regiment. It was thought that he was
an impoßor, but all fulpicion ceafed when it was
found he had been Ritually accepted by the Prince of
Waxes, and filled a Ration in his regiment. His
flay, however, was of !bort duration. His Higb-
nefs having difeovered (unsettling in his essodua that
created fulpicion, fent him to town lag Saturday in
e:rfody of one of the Serjeants of the regiment, with
a letter to Sir RICHARD FORD, requiting that he
might undergo an examination. Accordingly the
Passer bad a hearing before Sir RICKARD and Mr.
Under Secretary Kt no at Mr. Batico's Office, when
he repeated his real-on:for quitting the French army
and the manner he made his cfcape, which differed
in Come repeats from his former lion. As he pen
filled that he was related to Sir H. V. TIMPEST' it
was judged expedient to write to Sir HARRY on the
fuLjea. Till the truth can be alcertained, the defer-
tee is Flexed under the tare of Wass* Use Medina.,