Star.
London, England, 1804-10-30 00:00:00

Wm. Henry HoWord fniorn....." I happened. on
'he evening of that day, to be advancing towards 1
the houfe, No. tt. Thayer-ftreet. I faw a Lady, ,
oppnlite to it, looking up to the tipper part of the
houfe, the cried out to me—" For God's fake go over
to that houfc," pointing to the bottle oppofite to her,
which was the houfe, No. t t ; in cohfcquence of
which I went to the houfe, and then faw the Lady
knocking violently at the door of No. t i. I had prc.
ceeded about half way acrofs the Area, when the
door opened, and the prifoner rollied out of the
houfe, Qriking the Lady a violent blob, and then
run up the area to the rip of Thayer-lireet, palling
Very near me. The prifoner is the perfon I law
coming out of the houfe. I fprang and fuzed him.
I 1 litaggled very violently, and in his right hand
he had an inftrument, with which he made a violent i
blow, and lirtick at my head, which i warded off,
'and he flruck me on the thigh. It was an iron M-
-11rument he bad in his hand. I have no doubt what-
ever the prifoner was the than. 1 never loft fight of

him."
Crofs examined, the witnefs Paid it was algpto
Teven at night, and dark, but he raw the man per-
%illy when he came to the light. He laid he did not
See one other perfon running in the flreet at that time.
Thomas WiMention (worn.—" I live exartly oppo-
te to the houfe, No. 11, Thayer-greet ; I keep a
tld.y &op there ; it Was at my kook Mrs. Wilfon and 1
• s Jenkins were watching. I was quite dole to 1
rs. Warm; when the was knocking at the door of
No. tt, and fo was my wife alto. I law two men
Coming out of die houfe, No, tt. The Prifoner was
the firil who came out, but I think they were very
nearly together. I raw the prifoner lift up his hand
to Mrs. Wilton. I did not flop, but purfued the
. 'Tirana., it might be about futy yards, then a gen-
tleman met, and I believe (sized him. He had a
Punk, and craned the Rivet, and fell down, and was
getting away down William-greet, but I never 101 l
fight of Sim till be was apprehended. He was ap-
prehended about fifty or fixty yards off. lam quite
fertile is the man who came out of No. i s."
William Swollen, butcher, (worn.—l faw the pri-
foner in Marpla-bonne-lane about five minutes be-
fore fives; he was then running. Hearing the cry
of " flop thidl" I and another nun Rept him. He
had an iron crow in his hand. We had taken him
twenty yards before be made any refinance. He
then arisek the man who was with me with ate iron
crow over the eye-boneb and Whined a Witte wound
ea him. He *rack four times at me. but be miffed
me every time. I kept hold of bins, and took him
to Mary-lp-lionne watch-houfe. I kept the crow nn.
tiler* got to the watch-hook, and delivered it there,
after having marked it—it is an iron crow.
Jabs Toy. an Officer of the Marlborough-areet
Police Office, proved, that he took the crow to the
booie, No I • . Thayer-greet, tried it with the wrenches
at the door, and in the.houfe, and they correfponded
and fitted euely. He found alto a dark lantern there.
Mr. James Bailey. the Surgeon who attended Mrs.
Wilton, gave an account of the wbund, which was
three inches long, had penetrated the cheek, ant
knocked out a double tooth of the lower jaw.
Mr. Knorr, the prifoner's Counfel, after making
an spot gy for taking the courfe which his profel-
fional dury; and not his feelings prompted, ft:braided
to the Court, that this cafe did not come within the
letter of the Statute. for that Mrs. Wilfon could not
be &Mt* have taken the prifoner into cultody. but
was only nuking an alarm that he might be appre.
heeded; be cotad not be raid to have apprehended
and detained " him. He futunitted the propriety of
referring this cafe. which was of the firtt impreffion,
upon this part of the Alt of Parliament, for the °pi-
ston of the Judges.
Rteriaota --It Tie queflion cannot arik, be-
au& Mel Lady's evidence is dircaly in point with
the oboist ; the lam I knocked at the door violently.
—The door opened quickly, and a man ratted out.
I put up my hand to flop him, and be lifted up his
band to bike me. Therefore he refitted hi: appre•
benSon and lawful detainer.
P Gentlemen of the Jury. you have heard one trial
before, of this AA of Parliament, which is certainly
a very beneficial and a very ukful Ain of Parliament,
bid, as I told you before, it is a very penal Aft, and
we mall be careful not to extend it beyond the letter.
It is an Aft made in confequence of violent and grofs
'armlet frequently committed upon the rubjells of the
King, who received grievous wounds while they were
in the emotion of their duty in apprehending per-
'lons who sere offenders againn the Law, of which
they lingered and perh ,ps fome died, but if they ex•
illed a year and a day, the party infliffing the wound
could not be profecuted as for a murder, nor for any
thing but a common affault. In many inflances, this
was a deft& ;n the Law, fo monfirous. that it was
thought wife to one, that if any perfon (ball with
an evil and malicious mind, ufe any deadly innru
merit egoista any of the King's &Netts, (although
by accident the (wenn on whom the wound is en-
flitted than not die within a year and a day). for the
purple of refining his applehenfinit or legal dentine,
. he Sall be guilty in like cafe as that of murder."—
Here the learned Recorder read the words of the A&
as applicable to this cafe t the fubeance of which is,
" Rail gab or cut, Ste. with intent to °barna, refill
or prevent the lawful apprehen lion and detainer of
the perfim or pertion fo nabbing or cutting, or law.
fully detaining hi., her, or their accomplices, &c. for
any nffer.re setsieh lie, the, or they may be liable by law
toile det.ined s" and therefore if any perfoo has com-
mitted any offence whatever, for which he is liable to
heappirebeeded or detained, and null rein %with asked.
lv weapon any of the King's fubjeas, that is within
the meanies of this Aft of Parliament. The loft cafe
bas nothing to do with this, berms& there was no quer-
titan whether the apmeheaton of that prifoner was
legal nr not ; it was iliCAal, for he had not ereennieeed
any offence, and tl.e warrant was not formal. No
sitielli,n could ar ife whether be was able to be appre-
hended as a futnian or not, becaufe the warrant was
incotreet, and as lie had committed on crime, art flood
charged *A any crime. he could not be legally ap-
prehended for any purport. bat under the authority
of a legal warrants but in cafe of felony, every one
who hornets& to come by is a eonnable to apprehend
a Mon. Evesy Ferran, in that cafe. is a peace officer.
and has a right to apprekead the felon. It was very
properly Rated to yna in the opening of this care, that
it is not sweeter, that the property thoold hare been
taken from the hook, tor the reasoviag any pro.
pst.7 is the Lark how one roam to another, Of

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in the leak degree from one place to anotheti m
the copper and other articles were on this °Ka-
fion, conftitotes a felony, becaufe the criminal has
gone as far ai he could towards the accompliihment
of his objeil. Indeed the breaking . open the brute
only with itsiot to Real, and without removing
one article, would have been a burglary. The
fiat quellion then is, whether i felony has been
committed ? Of that there can be no doubt upOn
the evidence. Then the next queßion is, was the
prifoner coming from the houfe, and endeavouring
to refill his legal apprehenfion Sod detainer.?—
Yon find he was in the houfe, you find that Mrs.
Wilfon went to the door for the putpofe of flopping
him, rather more courageoilly than wifely, but the
had a right in point of law to do fo. The next
paint is, did he mill& the wound in his endeavour
to raft or prevent his lawful apprehenfion and
detainer ? Theta art the points you will have tp
edde-
termine.
after u (ballhavelleard a recital of thd
evidence." ere the Learned Recorder read the
evidence, an obferved--.A It is your province now
to fay, whether the prifoner at the bar has or has not
been guilty of the crime for which he Rands charged?
In the firft place a felony bas clearly been commit-
ted, becaufe removing the property for one inch; with
intent afterwards to carry at away, is a felony. But
if he had not removed any part of it, the breaking
and entering with intent to do fo, would have been a
felony, as I laid already. And in fuck a cafe
every perfon whomfoever would have a right by law
to apprehend him ; and therefore whether you mould
think that he had committed the robbery, or only
broke and entered with intent to commit a robber',
is a matter perfeltly indifferent to the law. If you
are fatisfied that he ufed that crow to refill his ap-
prehenfion, and wounded Mrs. Wilton, it is ftifficieut.
An iron crow is a weapon which you never fee in the
bands of a tradefman for ufe. It is made only for
the porpofe of committilig felony and murder, end
it is made with loch a degree of firelight st to ena-
ble a man to break open doors. The prifoner is
f ound in the bottle in poffeffion of this i &tomcat.--
You find it had been ufed againft the door and parts,
of this houfe. What is the ufe be makes of it when
an attempt is made to apprehend him I The fire,
perfon who oppofes his efcape Ise Rrilses, and lollies',
With it a wound which, fortunately for the Lady, was
not mortal, but had the blow been a few inches
higher muft have been mortal ; and for what pus
pole is this defperate blow given ? Mcdt affuredly to'
pref ent the legal apprehenfion and detainer of the 1
man who gave it, and therefore this is within the I
fpirit as well as the letter of the astute ; and I bray I
add there never was a cafe in which the wifitom ofl
the Aa was more clearly exhibited. If you believe '
the evidence, you will find the prifoner guilty. If
you have any reafon to doubt the evidence, you will
acquit him."—Guilty Death. There were four other
indillments againtt the prifoner.
He was a young man of a molt diabolical and for-
bidding countenance ; his age was twenty-four, and,
during the whole of his trial, he appeared with the
greaten fans frail.
While Mrs. Wilton gave her evidence the appeared
in great agitation. The wound the had received has
molt materially injured her health, and the Hill la.
boors under the molt excruciating torture!.
The poor man, Champley, who received the wound
over his eye.. we underhand has been three times tre-
panned, and his life is Hill defpaired of.
Bus GLAR Y.—ThemaJ Roach was indithed for break-
ing open and entering the dwelling houfe of William
Gee, in the parills of St. George, Bloomfbury, and
taking from thence upwards of 31. in money, betides
a coat and waillcoat, Elizabeth Mowton and her
child being in the houfe at the time.
It appeared in evidence, that the prifoner went to
the houfe, and told Mrs. Mowton, who had the care
of it, that he had been fent by the landlord to repair
the water clofet. She believed this ftory, and went
out of the houfe, leaving the prifoner. The door
I teemed to have been broke open with a ehiffel. The
profecutor law the priloner loon after in St. Giles's,
with the propel ty in his poffellion. He fwore that he
had nes cr given any direitions to repair the water
clofet to any body. He was found Guilty—Death.
The burtnels of the Court was finithed about eight
o'clock, when fentence was puffed on the fermi'
prifoncr.. Previous to paffing lenience en thole con-
victed of capital crimes, the Recorder addrefred them
in terms adapted to their awful fituation. .‘ You
have all," he laid, .‘ had fair, candid, and impartial
I trials. Every plea which could be urged in your de-
fence, has been maturely weighed, and your own
confeiences mutt edify to you, that your punifhment
is merited. You have been adjudged unworthy to
live and enjoy the bleffings which PROVIDENCI be.
Rows on man. The only ufe of which you can now
be to fuciety, mull confitt in the terrible example
which you will furnith of the vengeance of the law
againft offenders, fuch as you are." He then pro-
ceeded to hate, that there was no hope of pardon
from man. and therefore exhorted them to make ufe
of the little time they had to live, in making their
peace with that Banta who, thong%) his juftice was
Infinite, abounded in mercy. and who would not m-
ite tit:humble and finccre penitent. The femme
of death was then patted in the areal form, on
I. Iwo. J Hans J. Pranks, it. manned, Am a. Menyval,
and T. Roach.
J. Martin. W. Cot. Mary Mercer. Thomas, atlas Dr. Morris,
Mary Bernardi, Ann Kelly, I. Han. Mary Mahoney. R. Rocket,
,Pfluaaah Murphy. P. Marks, T. Williams, J. Wdtlick, and H.
Dimas, were ordered to be tranfporvol for the terns of keen
years. C. Armitage, for receiving Rolm goods; was ordered to
be tranfrorted for to scan.
Poor were ordered to be Imprtfoned Is Moravec ; id In the
Hook of Cor teflon ; two to be pivotal', whipped and diklarg
alt aid it were Sikbar,;ed by Proclamation.

CarLoa.—A kind of Pulre grows in the Ifland
which is pollefled of very valuable properties. It is
called Hans, and might be rendered of very at uti•
lity. The Hem of this plant is ftom three feet and a
half to f. or feet it. length, and furnithes a flax whilst'
is twined i Ito Ion.; ropes. It is patticularly employed
by Mermen for their nets and lines from the estrum,
dinary quality it padres of paver decaying or tot-
tin, in the water. It appears. however, to be rather
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de mot in elallicity, but that is mull:silted to its
Dever having been sufficiently Beeped. From fosse
experiments which have been made. its flrength ap•
pears to be in the proportion of sto of Eutopt Ars
cordage. The plant grows fpontaneoully in C.') Inn,
and many tons of it can be collated in Kandy, b.. t
the natives arc entirely ignorant 41 the proper method
of inasufadurirg it.