Star.
London, England, 1821-04-21 00:00:00

OLD DOLBY-

Yesterday William White, James Ford, and ,brinesl
Wells, were indicted for stealing. 6001bs. weight of!
raw silk, value £6OO and upwards, the property of
Messrs. Doxat.
Five witnesses were then called by the prisoners'
Counsel, who positively swore, in the most unequivo-
cal manner, that the prisoner Ford was at the public
house of Mrs. Thomas, Worcester-street, Birmingham:
on Saturday, the 14th of September, the night of •the
robbery, and on the Sunday following.
The witnesses were severally cross-examined; but
their evidence was not shaken. They all joined in
giving Ford a most excellent character. Two other
witnesses were also called to the character of White.
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a
verdict of Guilty against White, and acquitted Ford
and Wells.
The COMMON SERJEANT immediately sentenced
White to seviin years' transportation.
William Pentberton was indicted for violating the
person of Sarah, the wife of F. Harlow.
The prosecutrix swore that her husband was a
watchman, in Crawford• street, and on the evening of
the 23d ultimo, she left home, about seven o'clock,
to take her husband's supper. She met the prisoner,
and he persuaded her to go to a public-house, and
take something to drink. They left that house, and
as they were walking along, he forced her into a se-
cond public-house, but she refused to take anything.
She then went up Oxford-street, the prisoner still fol-
lowing her, and when they got near Hyde-park, he
forced her into the Park, and there perpetrated the
crime with great brutality. She resisted, and screamed
loudly, until several persons came to her assistance,
and the prisoner was secured.
Cross-examined.—The prisoner was a stranger to
her before the night in question. She left her house
at seven, and it was ten o'clock when the scene in the
Park took place. She did not pick the prisoner's
pocket of a crown-piece.
Captain J. V. George deposed, that on the evening
in question he was walking near Cumberland-gate,
when he heard a violent screaming; he proceeded to
a retired part of the Park, where he found the prose-
cutor lying on the ground, and the prisoner kneeling
over her, with one hand upon her person. The dress
of each was disordered. The woman exclaimed,
upon seeing witness, The villain has me, and
robbed me of a I:1 note!" The prisoner denied it,
and declared that she had picked his pocket of a
crown-piece; and that her screams arose from his
attempting to search her to get it back. The prisoner
was taken to the watch-house, where the prosecutrix
went into violent hysterics, and continued so for a
long time. She and the prisoner were searched, but
no money was found upon either of them.
Mr. Coffin, a Dissenting Clergyman, swore that he
also heard the screams, and saw what was described
by the last witness. He heard the prisoner say that
the prosecutrix had been drinking with him in several
public-houses ; that she consented to intrigue with
him, and while they were intriguing, she robbed him
of a crown-piece.
Cross-examincd.—The .prosecutrix swore, at the
first examination, that she only went into one public-
house with the prisoner. The latter, however, told
witness the signs of several houses into which he de-
clared she had gone with him; and at the next exa-1
mination witness brought the landlords to the Office,
and she then admitted going to the houses; but de-'1
clared she was forced to go!
Here Mr. Justice PARK observed to the Jury, that
there was too much doubt in this case for him to per-
mit it to go any farther. Nothing could be more
gross than the conduct of the prosecutrix previous to
the alleged offence; and it would be too much to
place the life of a man in jeopardy upon the testi-
mony of such a woman. Verdict—Not Guilty.
The piosecutrix was hissed out of Court, and there
was such a strong indication of feeling outside, that
it was judged prudent to take her into Newgate, and
let her out by stealth.

KENNINGTON COMNlON.—According to custom im-
memorial, all the loose, idle, and disorderly vaga-
bonds that infest the Borough, Westminster, and other
parts of the Metropolis, began to assemble on Ken-
nington Common at an early hour yesterday, for the
disgraceful purpose of devoting that sacred day to
drinking, fighting, jack-ass racing, boxing, single-
stick, dog-fighting, gambling, foot ball, and picking
of pockets. The Surrey Magistrates, to prevent a
recurrence of the scandalous and audacious insults and
robberies committed on passengers and others on last
Good Friday, caused large posting-bills to be stuck
up all round the neighbourhood, to give notice that
no such disgraceful and unlawful assemblage would
be permitted on that day. All the Police, and up-
wards of 200 Constables, arrived there at ..n early
hour, seized upon several jack-asses and gaming-
tables, and dispersed the rabble.
The main of cocks fought at Dundee, between the
Gentlemen of Fife and Forfar-shires, was decided on
the 6th inst. in favour of Forfarshire ; but the bye
battles were gained by Fife.
SINGULAR CIIARAGTER.--.-The Bristol Observer
says, « There is something amusing in the peculiari-
ties of men's minds. I was in company for a few
minutes to-day (March 21) with a rich young far-
mer, of St. Kevern, who appeared to be a man of
few words. Observing this to a friend, who is a
neighbour of his, he replied, it was somewhat sur-
prising that I heard the young man speak at all ;
for that he carefully avoids speaking to any but a
confidential man servant. Though a principal inha-
bitant of the parish, his property being estimated at
00,000, he can never be induced to attend any
Meetings for parish business. His way is, to com-
municate his mind to his man, and leave to him the
completion of eveiry business. With this man he
works hard, takes his meals, and sleeps, employing
one female servant to do the drudgery of the house.
His only recreation is wrestling with his man some-1
times, at the close of the day's work. When persons
have called at the house, and his man was not in the
way, he has made his escape through some back
door, or window, into the fields, because he would
not speak to them. It is not known whether timidity
or policy is the motive of this singular conduct, in a
young maa who is not much more than 20. He is
lunmarried ; and it is considered likely he will con-
tinue so ; but should any Lady succeed in persuading
him to anatverftor himself al the A(Mr, there is little
doubt of his being a flat hifsbipd..

ASSJ2E&

WARWICK, APRIL 12.
The trial of Quincy, Adams, Sydney, and Heylrey,
for the murder of Mr. William Heron, came on this

morning.
Mr. CLARKS, sen. in detailing the case, said, Mr.
William Hiron, the deceised, was a Gentleman who
possessed some property in this County. His usual
residence was in London ; but he sometimes came
down to Alveston, to spend a few weeks with his
mother, who lived at -that place. In November last,
it must be well remembered, there was a County
Election at Warwick ; and on Saturday, the 4th of
that month, which was market-day, Mr. Hiron came
to Warwick, to give his vote for Mr. Lawley, one of
the candidates at that Election. He was returning
home about eight o'clock in the evening, and in his
road home he had to pass along Little Ham Bridge,
which was about six miles and a half from this place.
Mr. Hiron did not arrive at home that night. The
next morning, Mr. Hiron's keys, his stick, and some
other things, were found near this Bridge. There
was also a quantity of blood upon the ground where
the keys lay. About eight o'clock in the morning,
allow half a mile from this spot, Mr. Hiron was found
lying in a ditch. He was nearly in an insensible state,
but he was not quite so. He was all over blood, and
appeared to be in a dying state. He was carried
home, and everything that medical skill could effect
was done for him ; but he died on the following
Tuesday. Mr. Hiron, when he was found, was asked
how he came to be in that state? The only answer
he could make was, " Three villains." By the con-
fession of all the prisoners, when he got to Little
Ham Bridge, Mr. Hiron was pulled off his horse by
a hook; that on falling to the ground he jumped upon
his feet, and then he was attacked and beat in a brutal
manner. It does not appear that they intended to rob
Mr. Hiron but a person of the name of Parker, who
is the Bailiff of Mrs. Bradley, of Alveston. The pri-
soners all went out for the same purpose ; they were
all dressed alike, and all had their faces blacked.

Witnesses were then examined, who gave the hor-
rible details of the case. Elizabeth Spier said, on
•coming along the road from Stratford to Welles-
bourne, Little Ham Bridge is on the side nearest to
Wellesbourne. As I came from'Mr. Lucas's, about
forty yards out of theroad leading from Wellesbourne
to Stratford, I found some person lying ia the ditch.
He lay flat on his back, cut and mangled in a bad man-
ner. I said, " LORD have mercy on me! how came
you here in this state?" He did not speak. His head
appeared to be beaten all to pieces, as if a person had
taken a mallet and beaten it.

The prisoners all confessed the deed, though they
pretended, in their defence, that they were drunk,
and did not know what they did.
Ashfield, the constable, states, that he heard them
talk about it; and after doing so, Adams turned to
the witness and said, " If it had not been for that
d—d rogue (meaning Sidney) it would never have
been done ; he was always baiting us to it, and told
me he had done many good things. It was he that
killed him ; he hit him twice, as soon as I pulled him
off his horse; and after we left him he turned back
and hit him twice again; and when he came up to
us we asked him if he had hit his boot, it rattled so?
and he said, No, d—n him, I thought I hit his
head.'" Quiney then said, "As he was rising up to-
wards Sidney, who had struck him twice, I struck at
him, and I do not think I hit him on the head; I
think I struck him on the shoulder; and then that
d—d villain (meaning Sidney) hit him twice-after-
wards." Quiney was crying whilst he said this.
The prisoners were all found. Guilty; and the
JUDGE, in passing sentence, told them there was no
lope of mercy in this world : the grave was yawning
to receive them, and in a few hours they would be
called to their awful account. He then passed the
awful sentence of the law.

Adams then stepped forward, and, with his hands
clasped together, prayed for mercy, for the sake of
his poor children, who had been deprived of their
mother since his apprehension.—They were executed
a quartet before twelve o'clock on Saturday last.

SLAVE TRADE.—We subjoin a short extract from
the Correspondence just published in the Parliamen-
tary Papers on the Slave Trade. It exhibits one of
the most disgusting pictures of human brutality that
ever came under our observation. The case is that
of a boat, of eleven tons, the property of a Portuguese
Governor, having packed on board it, for a voyage
across the Atlantic, no less than seventy-one human
beings! The condition of these unhappy creatures is
thus described in the words of a British Officer, who
states facts appalling to every feeling heart :

IXTILACT IMOSI A -112CLAZATION Of /.. Y. Xllll4-Y, MK.

HIS 31.1.113Tr's SLOOP PIIILASAIIT.
" I do declare, that the state in which these unfortunate crea-
tures were found, is shocking to every principle of humanity ;
seventeen men shackled together in pairs by the legs, and twenty
boys, were on the ashes in the main hold, a space measuring 18
feet in length, seven feet eight inches main breadth, and one foot
eight inches in height, and under them the yams for their sup-
port. One of these unfortunate creatures was in the last stage
of dysentery. On their being released from-irons, their appear-
ance was most distressing, scarcely any of them could stand on
their legs from cramp and evident starvation. The space allowed
for the females, thirty-four in number, was even more con-
tracted than for the men, measuring only nine feet four inches
In length, four feet eight inches main breadth, and two feet
seven inches in height."

A scientific Gentleman of Brighton has furnished
the following curious and interesting remarks on the
shortness of human life :—Of 1000 persons 23 die in
the birth ; 280 from teething, convulsions, and worms;
25 from small pox ; 7 in the measles ; 160 of fevers ;
14 of apoplexy and lethargy ; and 41 of dropsy ;
omitting other diseases not so well ascertained ; so
that only 78 of 1000 attain what may be deemed old
age. Or it may be taken in another point of view :
OT 1000 persons 260 die within the first year ; 80 in
the second ; 40 in the third ; 24 in the fourth ; and
within the first eight years of life 446, or almost one-
half of the number are cut off by premature death.
Sickly years are from one in four to one in six or
seven to the healthy. December, January, and April,
are, from observations, found to be the most sickly
months, and June the most healthy, in the year.—
Jannary is to June as 11 to 1.
' Yesterday, an Inquest was held at St. Thomas's
Hospital, on the body of T. Davies, ten years old,
the son of a tradesman in the Broadway, St. Tho-
Las's, who, in getting out of bed, laid hold of the
curtain, which gave way, and he fell against the end
of the rod, which entered his head just under the lef..
eye, and CAILIO4 his death. Verdict) Accidcntal Dcath.

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