Star.
London, England, 1817-07-31 00:00:00

LOSS OF FOU! rREEKI IND2:frr.

We regret to state. that a letter has been tree. iveJ
sit Liverpool, from H Almouncing the lyre
lour Greerlandmen ; thr ere xs of which were,
ever. eared. The follqwhig is an extract Won
,he lever :--
Erritacr OF A LETTER PROM MR. TM LIAM PELL, '.l"
DAMMAM:D. DATED ALT.

o off Ills. ship, the hf.• joet st-
rived front .otrettland—lur Ives is t.f tl r MII It.ly,
was In lat. 74, that the 1.14.11. of Liverpool the
Datingle.s. of Lontb.tt, and two other Eari•ls vest& (cite cl
them a let), tames, Etc. us.s,:own, nee levt—etew‘•.serti. A
Ault heir, probahl) (rum hit.l:, on her e,•yage home, MU. The
Germin vessels In mutt:A bad •;:crets, ritly knows of Ave
13,,i.:es seals, being cat glit by them, t.f which be had three."
The Above news is from Ott nwner. While Oa.
in cfinseriu:!,ice, Las risen from 69 to 73, and
.again
(0 75 marks, and few sel'ers.

Ye el rd., y . Curt of Do etti;rs we, held at the Ees
India lintrse, when R. C.:Amens:Le, Esq. took the usual
oaths and his seat as a Director, in the room of R.
Peeve, Esq. deceased.
Sir Li weno Tiontezonoteois has written to ac.
quaint the Admiralty that the American ship Minerva
had arrived ot Cowes from Batavia. Her Master se.
ports that Lerd Amos:us-le with the whole ot the Em-
basy and crew of the Aecestre, sailed from Batavia
in the tsar, of London, on the 12th of April, fire
days previously to the sailing of the Minerva. The
Caesar had nothing on board except the Embassy
and Ateesres ship's company, and may be hourly
expected.
The French brig Noirmoutier, Captain Maccau,
arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday. The Captain
states, that in the south of France the crops have been
must abundant. New corn has been in the maiket
for the last month I r six weeks. A loaf of the best
bread, weighing leles. sells for 4(1 franks (not quite
20d. English).
John Charles, of N 0.14, St. James's-street, Lissos
green, went with a cart to West-End Fair, on Tues-
day ; his horse took fright, threw him out, and one
of his legs was broke, and his body lacerated.
Saturday se'nnight, at the Assizes for the County
of Louth, Patric l llivaae was found guilty of mur-
dering and burnieg the Ly. ch family, consisting of
eight pet sons, in their house at Itiorstowa, on the
30:h of October last, and was executed and hung in
chains at Conreagh, near Stonetown Chapel, on Wee.
nesd.iy se'nnight. He made a lull confession of his
guilt, and conducted hire self with becoming resiena-
tione He was a weaver, a schoolntester, and clerk
of the chapel of Stene:own.
CONPILSMION Ole Dix MUNN.—The case of Da-
aid Munn, who was convicted of murder at the Hert-
ford Assizes. was one it the most atrocious that ever
occurred in the et-in.:real annals of this country. He
WAS convicted of ths murder of John Payee, on hi;
return from Hempstead market, where lw was io th 2
habit of selling corn for the farmer, are.. r«eivirre
their money, which he frequently took home with
him. The prisoner was intimat, ly aeries:wed with
him, and u;seq knew his habits as wee as to
road he travelled home front m it ket —he attacked die
unfortunate man in a lane uireearss, 'truck lent be-
hind the ear: and upon the head, with a hammer,
and then cut his throat. He was convicted on a
chain of circumstantial evidefice, so st,eng tl.at no
doubt could possibly remain in the minds of the
Court or Jury as to his guilt ; note itlistandine which,
however, it is sstislactery to know that, previous
to his execution, he made a full confession r f his
guilt, and stated tee only circumstance which did not
come eut in the tivid, nce, where the hammer and knife
were deposited with which he commined the murder.
The tiehappy wretch aho made a veluntery conies
s.on of two other horrid murders which he had com-
mitted ; 0 e one on a poor old woman (by the name
of Hail), who kept a small shop at Dagnalt, near
Ibis own residence—(he rented a small ham in tee
same parish under the Earl of Bridgewater). He
stated; that he went into her house (being known to
her) about nine o'clock in the morning ; that he took
'an opportunity of getting behind her and striking
her sitar a bill, which lay in the !tense, behind her
ear ; dint he then cut her throat with a knife sinoler
to the one he cut pent Payne's throat %site' (a but-
cher's knife) ; and on being asked where he had se-
creted that knife, he said in a well on the old airmen's
premises ; that he took £4O horn li r £23 of sch;c4
he paid to Lord Bridgewater for rent, and the rs-
maunder he paid away to different persons in the v !-
lege in discharge of small debts. Thos ()mere&
about a year and a half ago. In respect to the tr es-
der of his wife, he stated that he ((Mowed her into !:.c
cow-house, whete she went to give write hay to tt e
cows, ..bout two o'clock in the efe reams ; iliat he
struck her with a billet of wood behind the ear, a hich
nearly killed her; that he immediately afterwards
dragged her to the well, and put her down, head fore-
most. This occurs, deeout six ere, ks before themurder
of Payne. She was found in tic secll on the same day,
upon an alarm being given by her limbar.d. H-
could assign no motive for this horrid act. He ad•
mitted, he and his wife had frequently words together,
but nut on that day, and stated that she was a gsod
wife. It is not enly fortunate for the ends of public
justice, but mere patticulerly se for the immediate
neighbout hood in which these horrid transactions ce-
tumid ; two innocent men having been strongly sus-
pected of the murder of the old woman at Degmei,
and the whole iteighhottrhocd being under the most
horrid apprehensions of repetitions of the cruel scenes,
which had so recently taken place there. It is rophe
of observation, that the first suspicion of this mace.
guilt, who had rrevionsly borne a good character.
and upon whom the slightest suspicion had net
Attached, arose out of an act of Pitevineent.--
The murderer had hidderi a pocket-book which
he- had taken from Payne, in his warn.—Cie
rf his own men went into tl.e barn with a pee; e
fork, to get some loose straw. lie observed as 1.1
thought the motion cf n rat in the corner of the baits
tinder the straw. He itsuck at it with his losk, and
instead of a rat, pierced the pocket-book, which cerre
out at the end of his tore. Amongst others, ne. per.
, son has been more sesiseed in a business of so horrid
and disagreeable a reiriire, by the confessioe of this
wretch, than the Eat I of Bridgewater, to whose inde•
tatigable cxertit;rs, it is but justice to add, is to h..
attlibuted the ',ringing to justice and condign punish-
went the perpetrator of theie atrocious crimes. Munn
VAS executed on Monday morning, in pursuance et
. • sentence ; ne died es penitent as a man could di.
oh such a weight of guilt upon his bead. On tee
colloid ht ttesged the spectators to take warning b'
~is t; !c.

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LAW fATELLIGENC/c.

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NEW MASTER IN CHANCERY.

" FI: DO 1.-.1."

There never was an appoin!rnent which gave more
ttqsfaction to the Bar, or has dr,ne mare credit to
Lordship. Politics here were ntit of the ques-
'::,Qll, for on all Breit questions Mr. CoURTF.NAY, as a
memiwr nr Parliament, v.,ted directly eertvary to
i' Administi ado's, prticularly on the Catholic
Ai and the Silveri...ion of the Habeas Ct,rpu: Act.

cwltT OF CHANCERY, !TJLY 4P•
PART.T. CIIAMPE!.% it nANXItt:Fr.

appl!cation which had h en made, by
desire of the creditors, to dise•lace Mr. Brown from
the office of Assignee, to which he had been ap-
ainted as a substitute for Mr. Mills, who had before
?creel in that capacity. It appeared that the act of
bankruptcy WAS committed in October, 1812, and
that Mr. Mills was then made assignee, and remained
assignee until December, 1815. Daring the three
years there were constant litigatines among the par.
ties, in which Mr. Mills took no active part, and, in
fact, did not at all interfere in the concerns of the
bankrupt. In consequence of this indifference on
the p trt of Mr. Mills, Mr. Brown uas chosen by the
creditors as an assignee. for the purpose of super.
seding t.im. Mr. Brown, when he became assignee,
made frequent applications for a statement of the
proceedings of his predecessors, which, however, he
did not obtain until 1817, and he then claimed an
indemnification for his costs. To this, however, the
credit rs objected, and they thought it necs:ssary to
attic another assignee in hls place, which was the
object of the application.
The I..utti CHANCLLLOR having recapitulated the
szrou.'.lz of the application, directed that the creditors
sh• . ' e allowed to chuse a new assignee, reserving
question of costs.

RAITNLEY AND OTHERS V. UALPAYR.

This CAW, in which the LOUD CIIANCZLLOR also
gave judgment, was an application for an order to
compel the defendant to pay the amount of 2500 pa-
godas, with the interest of 12 per cent. thereon, ac-
cording to the terms of bond given in India by the
defendant, to Lerni and Reynolds. It was admitted,
on the part of the defendant, that such were the terms
of the bond ; but he objected to pty 12 per cent, in-
terest, on account of certain regulations of the East-
India Company, by which the rate of interest was
reduced there ; and also on account of the refusal of

the late Nabob- of Arcot to pay l 2 per cent. on a
band, under similar circumstances. The defendant
was willing to pay the reduced rate of interest,
n .melt', 3 per cent.
Tile LORD CIIANCIt.LOR recapitulated the various
circumstances of the case, and directed that the de-
fendant should pay the interest which he originally
stipulated to pay ; but that he was entitled to the as-
signment of the bond.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULY SO, •

'The following is a copy of the leper sent by the
LORD CHANCILVIR tO Mr. COURTENAY, Appointing
him a Muster in Chancery :

" DEAR tha-.-A• the public live already appointed you a
'.lever in Chancery, in the room of the late ever-10-h:antente.l
ye. %feel, I attune you 1 have great rleagOre in zOriflirminl'it, by
st.kolfig you yk,ur patent for the ()Tice.— Yo..ea, with regard,