Star.
London, England, 1810-08-22 00:00:00

LORRAIN 1. FRANCIS.

This was an action against the defendant for poi-
soning 17 fowls, the property of the plaintiff. Both
parties in this case lived at Wallingford, in this coun-
ty, and it seemed that the fowls in question were in the
habit of straying from off the common into a field of
the defendant. The defendant, on the 2.=.2.1 of May
last, was observed by three persons, about six o'clock
in the morning, feeding the fowls of the plaintiff on a
piece of waste land, and before nine o'clock several
died, and the rest on the same day, except the cock,
which lived a few hours longer. On examination of
their stomachs, a surgeon said he had no doubt but
they had been fed with barley and wheat steeped in an
infusion of the nox vomica. Another witness deposed,
that the defendant had told him he had given Lor-
rain's fowls a breakfast that morning, and he would
hear of it before the day was out.
Lor ELLENBOROLIGH, in his summing up, expressed
his indignation in terms of great force and feeling.
He said, man, by the laws of Goo, had dominion
over the other animals of the creation, but it was to
be exercised in mercy, and he had no right to put
them to death with torture, or to revenge a quarrel
with man, their proprietor. The defendant had
equally violated the law of the land, the law of mo-
rality, and of social duty. But the Jury, however
indignant they might feel, must restrain their dama-
ges within legal bounds, they must give the value of
the fowls, but beyond that amount they ought not to
suffer themselves to be transported. Verdict for the
pLtintiff. Damages 40s.

The prisoner grid his companion were locked up in
a
separate rooms, and upon the woman 1),..;1iz ,Iski
.where she got the note
in
of £2O ? and saying thq p,',..
soner gave it her, he being within hearing, imi,df.
ately called out, g, No, you got it from a gentletitifo
Before they were removed irom tliv.e n;orns, then .
cers searched a privy communicating with the room
in which the woman was confined, and found (rag.
ments of notes of £lO and £2O, to the almnint of
£360, and upon sevvral I f the pieces were the d.it..3
corresponding with the entry of the Clerk of the Bank
In addition to this, Mrs. Johnson, the mistress of the
Equestrian Coffee Hou,,e, produced a 420 rote, which
she had received from the prisoner on the s ime day
the check was presented, and which made up tile'
whole I€4oo.

The fact of the forgery being established by Mr.
DitTcll, who bad for that purpose been released by
Messrs. Smith and Co. the Jury, without hesitatlaz,
returned their verdict Guilty—Death.
The prisoner was a young mall of very genteel ac.
pearance.

At the Assizes held at Monmouth, on Tuesday
last, in the cause of Jilin L. Yates against the Rev.
Dr. Whalley, of Mendip Lodge, John Crane, M. D.
of Lyme, James Ant!loay Wick!lam, Esq. and Mrs.
Mary Wickham, widow, both of Frame, for enticing
away and harbouring the plaintill's wife, it was agreed
that a Juror should withdrawn ; and John L
Yates was bound, by an order of the Court, never to
molest his wife, Frances Elizabeth Yates, int! to leant
her at full liberty to live separate from him, and to
have the undisturbed possession and education d
John Whalley Yates, her infant s:n.

An action respecting a right of toll was to have
been tried at Shrewsbury Assizes, wherein the de.
visecs of the late Earl of Powis wcre an 3
Mr. Richard Caink defendant, for the recovery of tfe
toll of barley delivered in the town of Oswesu y ; but
the defeaant has agreed to pay the value of the toll,
and the plaintirs cases.

Exuel;ntox.—Monday se'nnight, Betty Amplett,
convicted at Gloucester Assizes, on the preceding
Friday, for the wiiful murder of her bastard child,
was exccuteil in front of the County Gaol, agreeably
to her sentence, and her body delivere,l for dissection.
She conducted herself with great penitence and de.
ccrum, acknowledging the erif:,rnfty of l-:er crime, and
the justice of her sentence. This truly unfortunate
young creature, who was not more than twenty.
one years of age, was a native of the parish of Bree.
don's Norton, Worcestershire. Being herself the ille-
gitimate ofT,pring of parents by whom site was aban.
tinned in her infancy, she was &pendant upon tl:e
heunty of some poor relations ; and, during the shot:
interval of peace, in ISO 2, went to France with an
uncle, a shoemaker, who intended to settle there.—
Upon the detention of the English in .France, they
were sent, with many others, to the depot at Verdun.
Here she was seduced, and cohabited with an English
prisoner, by whom she had several children, who all
died. Female prisoners being permitted to leave
France, she returned to England in June last year,
and sought an asylum with an aunt, who resides near
Gloucester ; but when her pregnancy was discovered,
she removed to Breedon's Norton. •The reception
she met with there, from those whose urst duty it was
to have protected her, was such, that she left the
place soon after her delivery, and became a wander.
in outcast, without the means of subsistence for her-
self or her helpless infant ; and, under these circum.
stances, committed the awful crime for which her life
became forfeited to the laws of her country. It was
the subject of her constant regret, during the short
interval between her condemnation and execution,
that the duties of religion had never been inculcated
upon her mind, and was hardly even aware of the
exhtencc of a GOD ! ! !

A reprieve has been received at Oxford for .I,lin
Bennet, who received sentence of death at the last
Assizes.

One of the most dreadful storms which has occur-
red within human recollection, came on at Liverpool
on Wednesday last. It was seen approaching from
the northeast, about half-past 12 o'clock at noon, in
the form of a large dense cloud of most tremendous
blackness, and visibly surcharged with electric matter.
Soon after it came down in the greatest flood of rain
ever witnessed there, mixed with hailstones of astonish.
ing size and quantity, and accompanied with the most
awful bursts of thunder and flashes of lightning. The
• storm lasted for above an hour and a half, we hear
that one man in the neighbourhood was hurt by the
lightning, and some houses have sustained consider.
able damage ; but there is great reason to rejoice that
the devastation has nor been much greater. Tbe dis-
tresses suffered in the lower parts of the town from
the sudden flood, particularly in Whitechapel, Para-
dise-street, &c. have been greater than almost ever
remembered.

IF EXCHANGE.
Palermo, ICI rer oz.
I.reiortis
(;t:gioa., .4
Venice, aC. I iv. Picsole
rorvcriv.: purl. mos.

Naples, 4 2
1.1540 n, Cs
();,,,rto, 64
Cork, 101
New Dollars, Ss. sad.
IR). Gibraltar .3se.
sts, XS 9s. at.

MARRIED.

At Edinburgh, on the 15th inst. Andrew Steele, Esq. writer to
the signet, to Marion, eldest daughter of Thontas Bell, Esq. e
of Nerherhorsburgh.
At liaddington, on the lith in.t. Mr. Thomas Dick, writ, r in
Edinburgh, to Eliza., claret daughter ot llr. George Hey, Had-
dington.
On the Bth inst. at Mary-la-bonne Church, Captain N!ae,!nnell.
of the 56th Regiment, to Maria, eldest daughter .4 W.lLant
Nassau, Esq. of Nottleghamyplacc, Portman-square.
Yesterday, at St. Pancras Church, Andrew Trevor, Esq. Sur-
geon to his Majesty's 331 Regiment of Foot, to Harriet, yourga
daughter of Charles Binney, Esq. of HowLuht4trect.