Star.
London, England, 1817-09-12 00:00:00

TO A YOUNG LADY.

Sweet Msld! ss through the world thou go'st
May happlvt,s be thine;
And may thy irk:A.lllp he the boast
Of hews as !rue as ewe.

May ever/ year that glic!es b; thee
1 hat mental w.,rth insprnee.
Which more than Iseauly plessxt we,
AnJ more ensures ray love.

0, In peaceful rub of life
May ro rode thorns be fonn4 ;
No wtrrow, trouble, care or sttl e,
Tby bcaom's peace to weird.

rut tray some kind eelestbl Chile,
itivlsible to thee,
By .lay and night, on every el !e,
Thy cons•ant tn.se.t..n L.:.

He will condor thy .luVitis feet,
When the weld'', wheer lowers,
To wee . er.ild retrva,
Where bloom premiial fl.mere.

And when He leaves his charge a• last,
And thou to earth a:t giveu,
fled say," The grave through whleb slut rased,
Was but the gate of Lovett r X.

gDINDURGII, SEPTEMBER S.

HIGH COUR I OF JINTICIARY.

On SaturdAy (as mentioned in our last) came on
the trial of Murray Shama, accused of breaking into
the Custom•hnnse of Gretnock, on the 10th of Fe-
bruary, 1816. and stealing therefrom a sum of money
in notes, to the antruint of afl2oo. _

The pri‘nner ;,!e.olcd Not Guilty, and no objectioa
being made to the relevancy of the indictsont, a
Jury was clwsen, and the trial proceeded.
Claud Marshall, Esq. Sherie-Substitute of Ren-
frewshire, identified tour declarations emitted by the
.prisoner ; that in the course of the taking the fourth
declaration the prisoner wished to have the former
declaratioi4 read over to him, which the witness
would nut allow ; that Mr. Johnston was present
when some nt the declarations were taken, and he re-
r.enibers Johnsto-. saying he had in his hand what
would convict tl.e prisoners that the prisoner did not
appear confounded, hut was rather uneasy ; identi-
fied some receipts and a letter. Mr. Marshall said,
his reason fur not allowing the reading of the decla.
TAtiOnS of the prisoner, was to see if the story he told
was consiste►.t with truth.

Before leaving the box, the LORD RISTICS CLERIC I
told the witness he did wrong, as, by the laws of
Scotland, the prisoner was entitled to have all his li
former declarations read over to him Wore he emit.
ted a new one, and would not allow a prisoner to be
entrapped by telling a different story in a last decla-
ration from those in his fits', without the whole hav-
ing been read over to him, and that being expressly
stated in the body of the declaration. His Lordship
added, that he hoped the Court would not again have
occasion to animadvert on such conduct.
Peter Jackson, Depute Shetiff.Clelk of Renfrew.
*Hie, corroborated the Preceding witness as to the
declarations 01 the pi isoner.
Neil Leitch, Clerk in the Custom-house, Greenock,
said, on the 9th of February, 1816, he lett the Col-
lector's Office about twenty minutes before nine at
night ; that the matey left in the chest was £1199,
119 s. that be put into the chest £461 some shillings
that evening, which, with other sums previously de-
posited there, the witness enumerated, madealtogetber
£1199. 19s. that the notes were, he believed, all
Scots notes ; that above three hundred were Bank of
Scotland notes, which had lain there since JBl4, and
were old ones ; that he locked the chest and put the
key of the padlock into his pocket, and he after-
wards locked both doors of the safe, the keys of
Which I.e put into his desk, and put the key of it in
his pocket, and he is sore he locked his desk ; that
he went first to the euiilic news room, which he lett
at ten o'clock, went home, and immediately retired
to bed ; that. about six next morning he was alarmed
by James Laird, the messenger ..t the Office, who
knocked violently at the I.l(.or,:ind said the Office was
broke into and all was lost ; that he imme,:iately
went to the Custom-house, the situation of which he
described ; that he found a ladder in the court-yard,
and afterwards went up stairs, and observed the lobby
door tut apparently by a small saw ; that he went
forward to the safe and found bath doors wide open ;
that the chest was open, and found two or three po.
k,ers belonging to the house in the machinery of the
lock of the chest ; the padlock, he supposed, was
opened by a key, as no marks of violence were on it ;
thinks this, because there were several keys both in
hie desk and in that of the Collector ; that the chest
and lock were mach damaged; that he looked into
the chest, and found all the money gone but Ji2. 9s.
he afterwards examined his desk, which was much
deranged, the papers partly on the Boor, and th,
keys of the safe were gone, but were afterwards found
in the door of the safe ; that the keys were never out
of his possession, and he was not in the Office till he
WAS called next morning ; that tide-waiters might
go about the Office in the long room, off which the
safe is situate—they are paid monthly ; that Murray
Stewart was a tide-waiter at Greenock, his salary was
forty pounds a year, and Is. 6cl. every day ha was
employed,
Crest-examined— Said the chest was three feet long,
and he could see bundles of notes, with labels on the
different parcels ; that Laird, a messenger, and Mac-
farlane, a Clerk, were in the Office when he left it on
the evening of the 9th of February ; that there were
not less than 42 money transactions on that day
;
that the chat was. of Wrought iron, appeared or a
foreign make, and very along ; that in December,
1815, an attempt was made on the Custom-house,
by entering a windoW ; his desk was broken open,
and a few pounds taken ; that after that time an or.

tier was given to secure and bar the windows.
Janiesisaitd, Messen,,,er at the Custom House,
Greenock, said that it was his duty to lock up the
horse awry night; that on the 9,h of February he
locked the outer door, thi sale was that and the
windows secured ; was present when Mr. Leitch
/nckc4 the sate; that he locked the Long Room. the
Culicctor's Room, and Comptroller's Room, and put
the keys into a box in the Lobby, which he locked;
lie also locked the other doors, and carried the keys
pith him. Next motniug, he found the court-yard.