Star.
London, England, 1817-07-18 00:00:00

gad themselvei called op to give damages which
/night have the effect of immuring him in a prison,
where tie law would not allow him to be released for
a period of lets tl'..n ten years.
Lord ELLlENamtovoit recaoitulated the principal
puts of the evidemce to the Jury. With regard to
Mrs. Stewart, he said that blame was certainly im.
pitted to ILI, for not having communicated to her
brother the knowledge she had of his improper con-
duct towards the wife of his friend, as soon as she
was in vssession of such knowledge, instead of which
she kept it co.iee•ticd tro:n all the parties for several
months. P,,,•n her ril'ence, however, in that repect,
it was not to be ii,feried that she had fabricated this
army; for it teas in part confirmed by the evidence
cf Mary Rolfe. the servant; and it was pr: vLd that
sl.e had c”rnolunkatcd the c;rcurnaance to a friend
very won after it took place. If the Jury believed
that the seduction and adultery had taken place, they
must estimate the damages ac..ord nit to the amotint
of the injury the plaintiff api.e.tred to Lave suatainedi
and in doing so, t`,.•y mita not attead to any argu-
ment drawn from the supposed F.vcrty.of the deter.
dant ; for it mas a rule of law, that it a man could
not pay in his ta►rse, he most pay in I i, Arson.
The Jury, without retiring, found A verdict for the
plaintiff. Dismagts —One Thousand POWIti!.
The Court was uncommonly crowded during the
whole trial, which lasted several hours.

One of the State Prisoners committed to Lincoln
Castle was liberated from thence on Monday se'n-
night, by Lord Sumouru's order, on his entering
into a recognizance of al2loo for his appearance on
the first day of next Term at Westminster.
Monday, in the High Court of Justiciary. at Edin-
burgh, .laNtes Stash and Beatrice MLerod, charged
with forging a bill for relti, pleaded Guilty, and
were sentenced to seven years transportation.
MAII L DOROIIOII•STUELT.-The Horse Chaunting
case came on again yesterday at this office. which
was in consequence much crowded, a number of per.
sons hAving been defrauded in this way. The evi-
dence w is only partly gone into, one of the men im-
plicated not being forthcoming ; so far as it went it
d a scene of gross fraud in the sale c•f horses
(preett:usly advertised) pretended to be of great va-
in::: and warranted sound, for which the pa: ties nb.
tained the money, and when the anima!, were found
(as they were alrnost immediately) to he lime or
b.lls were given to the purchasers as a secu-
rity fur the soms p.i J, whielhion inertiry,tinnedotit
to Le of no v.du.., tfe person pretended to be the
ec.:eptor not L•eing discoverable. The case stands
evi.r tilt Monday.

tTmos ALL.-- Mars Shull:on was brought before
the sittieg Magistrate y.sterday, ~ect with the
wilful m.irder of her daughter. John Owen, a r..zer
grinder, who lived in tile same house with the priso.
ner and the deceased at Lambeth, stated, that on
ht iday evening last his attention was drawn to a noise
in the prisoner's room. He looked is at the window,
where he baw the prisoner strike the deceased a vin.
lent blow, which knocked her down against the beclz
post. She .hen lilted her up, placed her in a chair,
and gave her another blow under the eye: The de-
otamtd lived from that time till Tuesday morning,
when she died in Lambeth work-house. One of the
nUSISS of the workhouse stated, that when the de-
ceased was brought into the house, her eye was black
as if from a violent blow; she was very sick and
weak, and appeared to be in a decline. She spoke in
moat ffectionate terms of her mother, who, she said,
had always been kind to her up to the night when she
struck her. On Friday night her mother came home
much int• xicated, and she foolishly called her a
diunken bunter ; this she believed provoked her, and
caused her to beat her. The deceased told the wit-
ness she had been in a decline two years, during
which time her mother supported her, and treated
her with great kindness. The prisoner was ctmmit-
ted till the result of the Coroner's Inquest is known.
Colin/me: leuuraer.—An Inquisition was taken
at the White Raven, back of the London Hospital,
Whitechapel-road, on the body of Ann Boone, a wo-
man of the town, who was stated to have died in
conseqeence of a wound she received on the head
with a pint pot, by the hand of a Young man named
Thomas Swan, the son of a respectable tradesman,
who had been dancing with the deceased at the Star
public house, opposite the Royalty Theatre, Wells-
aireet, Wellclose-square.—Mary lieone, the sister of
the deceased, being sworn, stared that she was at the
Star public house on Saturday night ; the deceased
herself, and a number of girls (abandoned women),
and young men, were in a room on the first floor,
dancing and singing. The deceased and a girl named
Elizabeth Warren, quarrelled and struck each other;
they were parted by some men in the room ; they
*Bre they would fight, and set-to. The deceased
received and gave several blows and fell ; the second
round she bad no better chance than the first ; she at
the close fell again. Thomas Swan was present ;
he took the part of Warren, and in the scuffle he came
in coptact with the deceased, but he never struck her.
Several other women of the same description were
examined, and they all stated that Swan never struck
the deceased with a pint pot—he might have pushed
against her.—Mr. Cobb, House Surgeon at the Lon-
don Hospital, and two other medical gentlemen,,
stated, that they had examined the-head of the de-
ceased, and were satisfied that her death was not
caused by the wound ins the back of the head, but by
a suffusion of blood in the ventricles of the brain,
caused by over-exertion, or a deterrninatio of blood
to the head. Verdict—." Her death was caused by
a suffusion of blood on the ventricles of the brain,
and not by any violence exercised towards her by
Thomas Swan."--A certificate of the decision of the
Jury was sent to Lambeth-street Police Office, and
swan was discharged.
HiGHWAY ROB/MY. -..TUIIday night, about 12
./clock, as Mr. Parkhouse and Mr. Warrenwc re pro-
te-eding along Wych-street, they were surrounded by
•a_gaing of fourteen er fifteen fellows, who began to
hoidelhem. Mr. P. knocked four of them down,
sail the rest ran away. They were igain attacked by
tie unit gang at Drury-lane Theatre, and agaiu
eonq'' Ise' red them. The fellows then gave a whistle,
and attacked them in greater numbers at the Bury.
ink-ground higher up, where they succeeded in rub..
biog Mr. Parkhouai of his watch. By the activity,
however, of several watchmen, four of the offenders
were lodged in St. Giles's Wstchhouse.

REPORT of the co ITTEr on .57 R.t 31 BOATS.

(Continued from the STAR of yesterday.)
Seth Hunt, Eq. called in and exirineei.
Are you concerned with the province ot Louisiana?
I have been in Louisiana ; I formerly was Comman-
dant in Upper Louisiana.
Can you furnish the Committee with any informa.
tion in respect or the safety of Steam B tat; ?—ln the
United States a great number of Steam Boats have
been established. The first was at New York; there
are now running between New York and Albany ten
heats; two between New York and the State o$ Con-
, necticut ; four or five to New Jersey; be.,ides the ferry
boats that pass and repass across the river, of wl:ich
there ate four; those boats work all by low pressure
engines; no accident Las ever happened to any ene
of them; they have beers running since the year 1837 r
and the boats at Albany perform about forty sips
' each per annum.
What distance is that ? —An hundred and sixty
miles. They go np in 21 hoots, and come down in
19; sometimes a little longer, but never shorter than
19; that is the quickest passage.
At what rate per hour do they go ?—Some of them
go about seven miles an hour in still water ; suns
boats have gone trine, ten, or eleven knots; but that
is under particular circum,tances. They have come
from Newhaven to New York (90 miles) in sic hours
and a half, without any sail.
Do they ever make use of a sail?—They have a
sail and a mast, which they can lower down and raise
up to take advantage of a favourable wind, to assist
them in their passage.
Those boats are upon the rivers ?—Those which
go to Albany pass the North River, and the others
to Cennecticut pass through what is called Long Island
Sound, which is 40 miles broad in one part of it. On
the river Delaware there are a number of boats alto
established, which ply between Philadelphia and Tren-
ton, its New Jersey; and Philadelphia and Bordenton,
in New Jersey ; also others between Philadelphia and
Newcastle, and Philadelphia and Wilmington; beside
ferry.boats which pass and repass the Delaware. Se-
veral of those boats have low pressure engines, others
have high pressure engines, working the high pressure
engines from 100 to 140 lbs. the square inch, and as
high as 160; but those eugines are constructed upon
Oliver Evans's plan, called the Columbian Plan.
Are they of wrought iron ?—Yes; there are no cast
iron boilers in America. I presume that may arise
from their not having founderies in which theycatt cast
them sufficiently large ; they are all wrought iron
boilers or copper ; all which have to pass through salt
water are copper. The boat Etna, which passes be-
tween Philadelphia and Wilmingtmeis a high pressure
engine, and outstrips all the other boats ; there is no
competition between them. There are boats which pass
also on the Chesapeake, which is there 4.0 miles wide;
they pass from Baltimore to French Town and back,
regular boats, two lines of boats ; or.e leaves Baltimore
one day, and the other the next ; they pass every other
day alternately. There are other boats from B thimore,
which go to Norfolk ; there they pass a still wider
part of the Chesapeake, which may be GO miles wide;
they have been to New London, which is still more
exposed ; and ben been up to New Hertford.
Are those with high pressure engines ? No ; low
pressure. On the Potowmac there are also Steam
Boats, *and the James River, which pass between
Richmond and Norfolk.
Have any accidents been known to arise on account
of the heavy seas? No, no accident whatever. I have
not mentioned the most important circumstance con-
nected with this c the Powhattan Steam Boat was built
at New York, went into the open ocear, enecuntered
for three days a very severe gale, arrived s.ile at Nur.
folk and up to Richmond. The gentlemen is now in
England who navigated her, and I have heard bins
say that he felt himself as safe as-he should in a frigate,
and he said there was this advantage, that the steam
power enabled him when they could not have borne
sails, to put the head of the vessel to sea, instead of
lying in the trough of the sea, being exposed to be
over-run by the waves. _

What was her toanage ?—Two hundred and fifty
tons.

What k the largest Steam Boat in America ? The
largest I have seen are those on the Mississippi, the
Etna and the Vesuvius, which ply between New Or-
leans and Natchez :• they are 450 ions, and they carry
280 tons merchandise, and 100 passengers, 700 bales
of cotton besides the passengers, are transported to
New Orleans.

Have you any regular allowance of power accor-
ding to a ton ?—I believe that after they have proved
their boilers, which I presume should be done in all
cases, if they wish to ascertain the pressure, they work
with safety at half that which it has been proved at.
Is there any rule according to tonnage established
as an usage ?—I am not an engineer, and am not
conversant with that subject ; I have passed through
the countiy, and have been on board most of those
boats, but am not acquainted with that fact.-
Have any accidents happened ?—Within my reed'•
lection only three accidents have happened to Steam
Boats in America; the first happened on the Ohio,
and was tccasioned, as stated by the public papers,
by the negligence and inattention of the engineer,
who loaded the safety-valve, and neglected to attend
the fire; all hands were engaged in hoisting the an-
chor, the fire was in a very high state, and of course
produced a van deal of steam that did not escape by
the ordinary operation of the engine, which would
discharge it and carry it cff.
What is called the safety-valve had been impro-
perly loaded and neglected 3—Yes, but that never
need happen ; the principle of steel-yards is to put a
weight at the enst, and if you put no more than that,
it will answer its purpose ;—so with a Steam Engine;
it may be overloaded, and its effect destroyed. The
neat accident happened, not from a fault of any body,
but from an act 01 GOD it was lightning, as was sa-
-tisfactorily explained to the public,•both by the pas-
sengers and those interested in the boat ; that was at
Charleiton in South Carolina; the pipe which carries
the smoke up to the top attracted the lightning, and
it went down and split the boiler.
It was not considered as at all connected with the
operation tit the engine ?—No, not at all through
negligence; a third accident happened lately to the
Nyman:us ; she was not in operation when it hap.
petted; they were out of feel, they stopped their
boat and lay still upon the water while they went
alter wood ; still, however, they kept up their fire,
and the steam was highs and it euluded to that situa

tion, there bring no eottomptin at the dram as it
accumulated. 'Those are the only accidents that ever
happened, except such as have happened from vessels
taking fire.
Were those vessels high or low pressure engines ?
—All fow pressure engines. No accident has tver
happened in America to a high pressure engin:,, eii!xr
in a manclactot y or out of it; and there arc m
engines used in the manufactories, and in flour mills
and saw nulls, constructed upon tile plan a
Evans, whichact on the high pressure principle t,,
150 lbs. Aft inch ; be has worked ICO3 hut 120 is his
constant average. There is not an 041 woman in
Ant .rica that is ever frightened at all at 4 high pre.-
'ire
eitgire,nny mote than they are at cannon.—
.I%,ete is a very large eagine, about 4. horse power,
at St. Sentiati, on the Ohio River, which nuevcs scv n
pair of stones in a flour-mill, a wo filet:-manuiactory,
And A cotton-manufactory seven stories high ; it tv,,i ks
upon the high pressure, and there are saw-mills and
grist-mills at various places.
What is the fuel ?—Wond in mcst places. At Pitts-
burgh and on the alio River, it is coal and word :
at Pittsburgh and at Weeling, and a hundred other
places, there is fifty miles square a solid mi!ss of c, al,
they drive the shet horizontally into the hill, an.;) the
coal is abundant, their head in the mountains, as iitie
coal its any in the world; it is delivered at t lie houses
of the inhabitants at 16 bushels for a clonal-.

Is the number of Steam-boats now increating in
America ?—Very rapidly.
Are those that are now constructing upon the
high or the low -pressure system ?—Upon both, be-
cause there are different interests and different com-
panies. Mr. Evans being a patentee, they hays to
give something for the use of his patent ; it they
cannot make their bargain with him they use the low
pressure engine ; but there is a new engine invented
in America, a perfectly rotatory engini, bait ler one-
third of the money, which is now coming into use in
several of the Steam Boats; and it v.'it; supposed
when I cameaway it would supersede albitlivr engines.
Do you know of any particular guard in tit,. con-
struction of Steam Engines tl,cci in Am. rica to pre-
vent accidents ? --I know of no other than that of
properly constructing the safety vtave, and the man-
lier of loading it, so that they cannot get on more
than a certain weight ; they must, of cute se, con-
struct them strong enough and prove Cum.
They are under nu Government regulation ?
, They are not.
Does that with a rotatory motion consume more
coals ? -.•lt is supposed to consume less : twelve
bushels of coals with the rotatory mntiou will per-
form the same work as the other engine with twenty.
Arr. T. Braasala, called is end examined.

Yon are an Engineer, at Ptrnheti ? -I am.
Volt were one et the gentle:nen that went to Nrw-
wich to inquire into tlic explosion of the Steam Brat ?
I was.

Did you go nt the request of any party, or of your
own voluntary suggestion ?—I went in consequt ace
of my hiends, Mr. Collinge and Mr. Donkin,
upon me to ask my opinion, whether it would to rig!.:
for us to inter:etc upon such an occasion ; I tor:en:lei
with them :hat it would, and •olunteered to go.
Your deni;.,,n was to inquire into the CAUSei of the
explosion ?—Yes, and to examine as much ot :he
wreck as we could find.

State to the Committee to what yin att.:ll)llre Ow
accident ?—Tht. observations I made ltd me to dete:-
mine it was owing to the expansive force of the steam,
and tivz inadequacy of the boiler to sustain that force.
Was a Ifigh prestige or a low pressure engine ?
A high prestige engine; the boiler was bAdl) con-
structed and shaped.
Qll what materials was the boiler composed ?
Of wrought and cast iron, and it was the cast iron
part that gave way.
Those two materials expand in a different propor-
tion with the same degree of heat ?—Yes, the) do.
Is it usual to have the boiler of wroiight and cast
iron ?—I should think it would be avoided on all oc-
ca►ions by experienced enginceis ; but I have often
seen it.

This engine was not made so at first, but altered af-
terwards, was it not ?—Yes, in consequence ul the
other giving way.
Have you any reason to suppose that the accident
might be attributed to negligence or mismanagement
in the director of it ?—We had veibal testimony,
from which I had no doubt that the steam was at a
considerable degree of pressure ; but the end was very
improperly made.
Did you ever learn at what rate the man was
working ?—No, I understood lie was autking at
601bs. an inch generally, probably it might be 120
at that moment ; but 1 should think it not equal to
the working of 60, for it was only three-fourths of
an inch and a sixteenth in some places in thickness,
and it was four feet in diameter at the end; it was a
flat end to the cylinder like a drum.
Is it possible to construct the engines in Steam
Boats in such a manner that
their is great
of any accident happening ?-1 do not k:liw
how to answer as to their being perfectly sate ; 1 do
not feel that materials, when they are submitted to
so great a pressure, are safe, for we fend that very
few materials will stand a great degree of prerttre
for any length of time; we often ii;U that a water-
. press, which lids been efficient six or seven )e:as Ll;-
gether, at length gives w;:y, when the metals are sub-
jected to a very great pressure ; it is like a i;le,c with
a heavy machine for bteakiag metals, which dues net
break the tirst time, but is .cumtantly tensfing to
loosen the particles.

Do you that a liiAh pressure eviyi;:e, outlet
any guard that can be sop.ied to it, is a si!c et:gine
to use ►n a Steam Boat?-1 do lan cunctive it ►s a
proper engine, or a bale o►:e.
Do you ever hear of their having been us.•d with
wrougtit iron boilers with perfect safety ?—No, I have
not heard of any comparative statement nt tither the
wrought or cast; I know they are usually made
with cast.

Do you consider yourself sufficiently an engineer,
with respect to the construction of stem engines, to
be able to give, of your own knowledge, a decitiej
'answer to such questions ?..—Yec, I do conceive s.) ;
I have paid a great deal of attention tq the subji:ct
of steam engines. and I believe I-know the Ft
of every one in existence.

If on a certain pressure in a high pressure engint
a safety valve or safety valves wtre, si. ecustr nor d,
as that they would open and dischArge the stc..n.
with a ptessurc much less than the la..tkr. WAS t;etittl-