Star.
London, England, 1821-05-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN, MAY 5.

Yesterday Bridget Butterly and Bridget Ennis were
executed, pursuant to their sentence, for the murder
of MISS THOMPSON, otherwise MISS ARY DAMES, at
the house of Captain PECK, in Portland-place.
At eight o'clock on the preceding morning, But-
terly made a confession in the jail, to which Ennis
assented, in the presence of several Gentlemen. The
confession, which was taken down in writing, stated,
that an improver intimacy had subsisted between her
and Captain Peck, when in his service; that she had
been turned away ; that, about eight days before the
murder, the prisoner Ennis pressed her to go to
England, and that the robbery was planned for the
purpose of raising money to defray the expense of
their journey, but without contemplating the murder
of Miss Thompson. The following is the account
she gave of the perpetration of the crime:
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" On coming up to the house, an alteration took place as to
which of us should enter; I rapped first; Miss Thompson let
me in, kindly received me, and shook me by the hand; she
brought me into the parlour; I took up the young child, about
two years old, and caressed it; by this time Ennis rapped at the
door; I laid down the child, and Miss Thompson opened the
lour for her; Ennis then desired me to put the handkerchief
about her (Miss Thompson's) neck or face; cannot say which she
used; I immediately fastened it about her neck, and dragged
her down the staircase leading to the kitchen; the young Lady
called upon Ennis, and implored her to help her; Ennis cried
out—' Biddy, don't injure the young Lady!' I replied—' I have
no intention to hurt Miss Thompson.' Ennis immediately left
the house with a trunk ; I had dragged Miss Thompson two or
three steps down before Ennis had left the house, but had not
given her a blow or any other injury at that time ; I pushed her
down the stairs, until I got her in.° the kitchen; I then seized
a poker, aad began to beat her, and gave her two blows with the
poker un the head ; Miss Thompson screamed, and so did I ;
the blood gushed out in torrents; Miss Thompson then lay quiet.
I stooped forward over her, and endeavoured to raise her in my
arms, cannot account for this impulse, by which my clothes be-
came besmeared with blood. I left Miss Thompson lying in
that state, and went up stairs; met the child on the stair-head,
took it up and kissed it, and set it down in the parlour. I then
took up the desk, instantly left the house, and proceeded to
Mary Brieu'slouse, and to my great surprise found Enais had
not been there."—She solemnly declared that she made use of no
weapon but the poker—neither knife, garden-trowel, or tongs.

During the storm, a few days ago, the church of
St. Giles, near Great Torrington, Dorsetshirc, was
struck by lightning, which rent the tower from top
to bottom ; the four pinnacles were shivered in pieces,
and one of the stones, which weighed 33 pounds, was
found in a field at a considerable distance. The clock
was materially injured, but the body of the building
escaped without any damage.
A few days since, a Nobleman's assistant-game-
keeper, in t;te vicinity of Gravesend, .was watching
two crows on the ground, when a young rabbit came
out of a burrow, which the crows instantly seized,
and began to devour. The cries of the young rabbit
brought the old one to its assistance, and while they
were fighting with the crows, the man fired his gun,
and killed both the crows and the rabbits.

At the Reading Sessions, WILLIAM HALLETT,
Esq. appealed to hve rates made for the Parish of
Kintbury : the chief ground of his objection to them
was, that the Clergyman was not rated as occupier of
his tithes.—(ln the 23d Edit. just published, of Burn's
Justice, p. 53, is is stated, " And a parson, who lets to
each parishioner his own tithes, is properly the occu-
pier and ought to be rated.-16 Vin. 427. Abr.")_'
No' defence was attempted ; and it was allowed by
one' of the Overseers, that no parish in England re-
quired a re•valuation more than the Parish of Kint-
bury : upon which, CHARLES DUNDAS, Esq. the
Chairman, and a principal owner of lands in the said
Parish, advised the Overseer, by his Counsel, to agree
to the rates being quashed with costs, which was re-
corded, and the costs referred to RICHARD POWLETT
WRIGIITR BENYON, Esq.

Guu.nu.sic.—The congregation at St. Sepulchre's Church was
disturbed during Divine Service, on Sunday last, by the indecent
behaviour of a drunken man, who made his way into the Church,
and was with some difficulty taken out by Pike, one of the bea-
dles, and lodged in the Compeer. When brought up on Monday
to answer for his misconduct before Mr. Alderman Cot, h' was
recognized as a regplarly ordained Clergyman of the Church of
England, and not long since a popular preacher at a very respect-
able Episcopal Chapel at the West End of the Town, where he
was for many years the established Minister. He arried the
daughter of a Banker of the greatest respectability, by whom he
has a very lovely family, all of whom have by his unhappy pas-
sion for liquor been reduced to the utmost distress, and are now,
by his own description, destitute both of food and raiment. The
only visible means of support he at present possesses is an allow-
ance of some kind from the Navy of between £5O and £6O a-year.
This pittance, unfortunately for him, he receives annually in one
sum, and it is soon squandered in his fatal indulgence. The re-
malnder of the year is one continued scene of poverty and misery.
Being sober, his behaviour before the Magistrate was most re-
spectful and gentlemanly; he expressed great sorrow that he
should have been guilty of such excess, and promised a stricter
guard upon his conduct in future.—Mr. Alderman Cox, after a
serious admonition upon the dreadful effect of his conduct upon
his wife and family, permitted him to be discharged.—Tbe pri-
soner returned his thanks in a most imprenive and feeling man.
Der, and retired from the Bar..