Star.
London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

OUTRAGEScIN IRELAND.

A widow woman, named Ellen Kelly, aged eighty.
end blind, occupied a small tenement, at Clonclon.
labout two miles from Tullainores consisting of about
two acres of land, and a cabin ; two sons and two
daughters, all grown up; the youngest daughter,
Ellen, being fifteen years old, lived with their mo-
ther. For some time back the widow's rent was in
arrear, and Mr. Jackson, her landlord, required that
the farm should be given up. After taking the pro-
ceedings necessary to enable him to obtain possession,
Thomas Jackson, the son of the landlord, a young
man about twenty-one years of age, armed himself
with a bayonet attached to a pole, eight or nine feet
long, and set out between three and four in the morn-
ing of the 28th of May, accompanied only by a man
named Sothern, to take possession of the cabin where
the family of the. Kellies resided. When they came to
the house they found the door open, a neighbour, a
schoolmaster, having called at that early hour to
speak to one of the sons about hiring a horse. The
schoolmaster retired just as Jackson entered the cabin.
Thomas Kelly, the elder of the two sons was in his
shirt, having been called up by the schoolmaster;
when he heard the voice of Jackson he approached
him, but was immediately struck at by Jackson with
the weapon ; the cries of •fhomas Kelly brought the
other brother to his assistance, also in his shirt, who
was assailed in like manner by Jackson; both bro-
thers were wounded in various parts of the body.—
The two sisters having now got out of bed, nearly
naked, were set upon by Jackson with the utmost
fury: Mary Kelly, the elder, was wounded in two
places; Ellen, aged fifteen, received a mortal wound
in the side, under the breast; she was also pierced in
the arm. It does not appear that Ssthern, who ac-
companied Jackson, took any part, either to assist Of
to restrain him. The schoolmaster stood at some dis-
tance, but was so alarmed for his own safety that he
did not venture to interfere. Jackson did not desist
from his deadly purpose until the whole of this
wretched family, except the aged, blind mother,
were disabled or dying. The Gentlemen of the neigh-
bourhood, when they received an account of this
bloody business, had Jackson immediately secured.
The unfortunate wounded persons were taken every
care of, and a collection made for their relief. In
this benevolent work, Dr. Wilson (a Magistrate), and
the Officers of the Enniskillen Dragoons, quartered
at Tullamore, particularly exerted themselves.—An
Inquest was held on the body of Ellen Kelly, by
George Pierce, Esq. Coroner. The verdict was-
4, Died in consequence of wounds inflicted upon her
by Thomas Jackson with a bayonet."
A person of the name of Thomas Kavanagh, was
barbarously murdered about two o'clock in the morn-
ing of the 29th ult. upon the lands of Clonboo, within
four miles of the town of Templemore, in the barony
of Ikerin, in the county of Tipperary, under circum-
stances of the most aggravated atrocity. The fol-
lowing are the particulars of this horrid outrage:—
The lands of Clonboo, part of the estate of the Earl
of Carrick, containing about 233 acres, were lately
tenanted, as a grazing farm, by Theophilus Barnett
and James Bennett, Lsqrs. who held theta) from. his
Lordship, for the life of a Mrs. Skies, otherwise Lid-
well, who died in the month of August last. Edward
Cronyne, Esq. of Thomastown, in the county of Kil-
kenny, the land agent of Lord Carrick, thought it for
his Lordship's interest to make three divisions of this
farm, which he let to new tenants ; one of which di-
visions, containing 56 acres, was leased to J. Kayes
and Daniel Kavanagh, the son-in-law of Kayes, both
of whom resided for many years on the lands. The
former was herdsman to the late tenants. Since the
letting of those lands several threatening notices were
from time to time served on the new tenants, and
posted up at night, cautioning and requiring them to
give up the lands ; the ditches and fences on different
parts of the farm were levelled by night ; and the
persons who attempted to plough for the new tenants
were hunted away in the day time by armed men.—
Kayes, and his son-in-law, Kavanagh, two or three
days previous to the 29th ult. commenced erecting
the walls of a house on the division of the farm taken
by them, the houses wherein they resided being on
another division of the farm, lately set to Theobald
Butler, a new tenant ; and for Butler's accommoda-
tion, Kayes removed his family into the house of his
son-in-law, Daniel Kavanagh, with an intention of
residing there until the new house should be finished.
On the night of the 28th, or rather about two o'clock
in the morning of the 29th ult. both families were in
bed in the house of Kavanagh, when an armed party,
about twelve in number, attacked the house in a most
furious manner, and in an instant shattered the door
to pieces, firing shots through it, and battering it
with large stones. The door being dashed in, the
party broke into the house, and tired several shots in
the directions where they heard the voices of any of
the family. They then rushed at a bed in the kitchen,
in which Thomas Kavanagh, a tailor, 70 years of age, •
and who was the father of Daniel Kavanagh, and
one Martin Bergin, a journeyman tailor, were sleep-
ing, and the ruffians, seizing upon Bergin, dragged
him towards the cabin door, where he cried out for
mercy, declaring that he had nothing to de with the
land, and that he never would sleep is the house
again; whereupon he was spared, and the party im-
mediately laid bold on Thomas Kavanagh, the old
man, and dragged him outside the door, striking him
with a spade-handle, guns, and blunderbuss, on the
head, and in a moment put an end to his existence, after
having inflicted a number of dreadful wounds on his
head.—Kayes, the tenant, concealed himself under a
bed; and escaped observation in the dark, the party not
being prepared with lights. Young Kavanagh, the
son-in-law of Kayes, succeeded in keeping test the
room-door, wherein he and his wife, with an infant
child about five weeks old, with. four other children,
lay; some of the family, who slept in the kitchen,
crept up the chimney, and others lay flat on the floor,
by which means they escaped the &sets that were
fired in every direction through the cabin. There
were twelve persons, young and old, sleeping in Ka-
vanagh's cabin on this night; and the party who en-
tered broke every atom of furniture therein to pieces,
and then left notices, ordering the tenants, under dread-
ful threats to quit the farm they had lately taken.

A boat, in which were six men and two women,
was yesterday upset, off 'Deptford, by the sudden
rising of the women, apprehending danger from
barge laden with deals coming athwart them. They
weir all fortnnately picked up by some boats passing.

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

R. Kihg and J. Cotton were indicted for a libel
on J. Waiteley.
The prosecutor is a managing clerk to Mr. Price,
a Solicitor; the defendants, one of-them the Clerk,
and the other the Steward of a Benefit Society. Some
time ago the prosecutor became a member of this
Society, and soon after had the misfortune of cutting
his hand, in a manner which disabled him from fol-
lowing his occupation. For some time he supported
'himself without making any application to the So-
ciety, but his disability of following his employment
continuing much longer than he expected, he applied
to the Society for assistance, and 12s. 6d. a week
were allowed him. But although he was unable to
write, it became necessary that he should go to Mr.
Price's office, to give information respecting the busi..
ness in which he had been previously engaged. The
officers of the Society having heard of those visits,
refused to continue any further relief. The prosecu-
tor, who was not receiving any salary in consequence,
summoned them before the Magistrates at Worship-
street Office, when the payment of his allowance was
ordered. In the course of the examination the pro-.
secutor'ssage was enquired, and he stated what he
believed it to be, 23 years. The defendants proceeded
to make a search in the Church books; where the
prosecutor's baptism was registered, from which they
came to the conclusion that he was not quite 22, and
they issued a circular letter to the members of the
Society, in which they stated that he bad committed
perjury, in the account he had given of his age
before the Magistrates.
The prosecutor proved the case as stated. He ac-
counted for his uncertainty respecting his age by the
death of his parents in his infancy; but remembered
having entered into the Navy in the year 1811. • •
Mr. ANDREWS, for the prisoners, said the circular
was only intended to give notice to the Members of
the Society of the conduct on the part of one of them,
with which it was proper they should be made ac-
quainted, for the purpose of considering whether any
proceedings should be taken on it.
The CHAIRMAN charged the Jury, that they were
the Constitutional Judges of both the law and the
fact ; and, be their verdict what it might, the charac-
ter of the prosecutor must stand above suspicion.
The Jury consulted for a long time, and then en-
quired of the Chairman whether a part of them might
give up their opinion to the. majority ?—The
Cttntn-
MAN told them they must all agree in the verdict.—
They renewed their consultation ; and, after a little
time, brought in a verdict of Not Guilty on both
defend ants.
Richard Abbott and his wife were indicted for
uttering counterfeit coin. In May last the prisoners
went to several shops in the vicinity of Finchley, and
passed several bad half-crowns, and sold the commo-
dities they had purchased, till at last they were taken
into custody by a Bow-street Officer. There were
about ten different charges against them. Verdict—
Guilty, and the Court adjudged them to be confined
for twelve months in Newgate. •
William Rayon was convicted of passing a bad
half-crowns and sentenced to six months imprison-
:Lent in the House of Correction.
Jan:es Moore was indicted for assaulting A. Dallas,
Constable of St. Mary-le-Strand. The prisoner was
a pauper on the Parish, and in April-List he applied
to one of the Overseers, and conducted himself with
such violence, that he was sent to the watch-house,
but after the watch was off, he broke out and escaped.
The Constable met him begging at the Church door
afterwards, upon which he struck him, and again
escaped, but was found at the Apple Tree, in White
Hart-yard, where he again attacked the Constables
with a knife, but he was overpowered, and taken to
Bow-street. Verdict-Guilty. He was sentenced to six
months solitary confinement in the House of Correction.
William Odam and William Robertson were indicted
for assaulting J. Henson, Headbotoueh, in Kentish
Town. Verdict—Guilty. Sentenced to two months
imprisonment in the House of Correction.
A young man, a Lieutenant in the Navy, was pro-
secuted for a violent assault, by his own father! The
father, who delivered his evidence in a state of agi-
tation little short of insanity, stated, that lie went to
a public-house where his son was, and stated to life
landlord, that his son was living with another man's
wife ; that on leaving the house his son followed him,
and took his stick from him, with which be brat him
till the stick broke. He produced the broken stick
in Court. A person who saw the assault corrobo-
rated the father's statement.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS made a feeling address to the
Jury on behalf of the defendant. He said he would
produce evidence to prove, that the monster of a fa-
ther made it his daily employment to report to every
one to whom his son was known, that he lived by
the prostitution of his wife, who was, in fact,* a wo-
man of purity of conduct. 11 on such provocation
the son had been betrayed beyond the bounds of
duty, they must attribute it to the constitution of
human nature.
The Learned Gentleman was proceeding to call
his witnesses, when the COURT said, the father's con-
duct, however bad, could not justify the assault, and
•it was therefore better not to distress the feelings of
the Court any further by hearing it.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty; and the
CHatastatr, after an eloquent admonition, sentenced
him to pay, a fine 'of Is. and to enter into recOg-
nizar.ce; to keep the peace in the sum of £2O.

Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, as Mr. Harris,
a'solicitor; was, in company with his wife, proceed-
along Oxford-street, a daring ruffian came behind
Mil.. Harris, and gave her a desperate blow on the
side of her face, which cut her severely. The villain
endeavoured to drag her shawl froth her shoulders,
but in this attempt he was frustrated, in consequence
of its being carefully pinned. Mr. Harris pursued
the fellow till he saw him enter a house, whets he
infortned some watchmen of the occurrence, and they
accompanied him to the house, where they found the
fellow undressed, in the act f getting into bed.—
Mr. Harris instantly identified him, and he was taken
into custody. He was yesterday committed to New-
gate for trial.
In taking up the population list, last week, one of
the High Constables found, in Bell's Wynd, Edin-
burgh, an Irishwoman, aged 141, who still continues
to earn her subsistence by spinning.

• Klitatox-Hottaz.—Yesterdaya poor fisherman was
airged with working with an unlawful net. In his
defence he complained that the water in the Thames
had been rendered so unwholesome by the continual
discharge of the poisonous gas matter into it, that
but few fish could live in it, and the fishing had been
so unprofitable for some time past as to compel the
fishermen to have recourse to unlawful nets, to avoid
utter starvation. The fish in the River had been de-
creasing for some time ; but now the increased dis-
charge of gas water into the River promises to drive
the fish out of it entirely. The LORD MAYOR ex-
pressed his astonishment at this statement, as, he
said, the Gas Company had been indicted at the
Sessions, and the nuisance had been promised by
them to be abated.—Mr. Nelson, the Water Bailiff,

assured his Lordship that the nuisance was more ex-
tensive than ever, and that -the water was in an in-
creased degree unwholesome. The baneful effects
were felt as far as Bretitford up the River, and be-
yond Rotherhithe down it • but the extent of the evil
was incalculable, as the fish that entered the conta-
minated water were destroyed often by whole shoals.
There was a long bank of mud, which extended for
a considerable space, before the Temple, on which
the red worm •was bred in great quantities, and to
this bank the smaller flat fish formerly resorted in
abundance, but now that the gas water was .dis-
charged, the numerous broods of fish were destroyed
or driven away. He mentioned the recent circum-
stance of a horse having drank at the water-side by
Westminster, and died immediately after, when, on
its being opened, it was declared that its death was
caused by the poisonous quality of the water, which
was saturated with the residue from the gasometer.—
The fisherman also declared the docks had done suffi-
cient injury before, for those bodies of stagnant water
were saturated with copper, and other ingredients, to
such a degree, that if a man sunk in it, death was as
certain as if e had fallen into a brewer's vat. The
water of this description which was emptied from'
the docks, had driven away many species of fish that
formerly visited the river periodically. The salmon
was some time sive caught in abundance, but during
the last year oily one salmon had been caught. The
shad and smelt had almost entirely departed, and if
the Gas Companies were suffered to- go on as they
had done for some time hack, the fishing would be
totally destroyed. The LORD MAYOR expressed his
regret at this intelligence, and said that the use of
such nets as that found upon the prisoner would only
tend to increase the evil. The Act was imiserative
upon him, and he condemned the net, but ordered its
appendages to be restored, and mitigated the penalty.
GUILDHALL.—RIGIIT OF CITY COMPANIES.—Mr.
Boult, who formerly carried on an extensive business
as ,a wharfinger and lighterman, at St. Catharine's,
appeared before Mr. Alderman ANst.ev, to answer
the complaint of the Master, Wardens, and Assist-
ants of the Lightermaa's Company, for refusing to
pay the cwarterage due from him as a Member, by
virtue of a bye-law of the Company. The informa-
tion was founded upon the statute of the 34. th of the
late King, which inflicts a penalty of five shillings for
such refusal, and gives jurisdiction of the case to the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen. Evidence was then
given of the. existence of the bye-law by which every
Member is bound to pay sixpence per quarter to the
use of the Company. This Mr. I3oult had refused
to do for the space of twelve years, the demand for
the same having been regularly made by the Corn-
pany's beadle. Mr. Boult, in his defence, admitted
he was a freeman of the Company, and so long as he
carried on the business of a lighterman, had regu-
larly paid his quarterage; but having long since re-
tire,l front business, and now deriving no advantage
from the Company, he conceived he was no longer
liable to contribute to its funds. The clerk of the
Company, in reply, observzd, that until Mr. Boult
'was disfranchised, he was, to all intents, a legal Mem-
ber of the Company, and bound by his oath to con-
form to its bye-laws. Mr. Payne, the Magistrate's
clerk, said, if the defendant had chosen to avail him.'
self of the rights or privileges of the Company, he
could not have been debarred therefrom, and watt
consequently liable for all the dues of the Company,
so long as he remained a Member. By application
to the Lord Mayor's Court, lie might probably have
been able to have disfranchised himself; but as that
.did not appear, he must certainly be considered as a
Member of the Company, although no longer carry-
ing on business. Mr. Boult then urged the Statute
of Limitations, and contended that the claim could
not be enforced beyond the period of six years. Mr.
Alderman ANSLEY was clearly of opinion that if the
case now before him was for the recovery of the
amount of the quarterage, the Statute a Limita-
tions could not be pleaded under the circumstances.
With that, however, he had- nothing to do. Mr.
Boult was there before him upon an information un-
der a penal statute, under which he was liable to be
convicted in the penalty of five shillings for refusing
payment. The object sought now before him as a
Magistrate, was not the recovery of the twenty-four
shillings quarterage, but the penalty for refusing to
pay it, which, if pressed, he (the Magistrate) must
certainly at' and against him. Mr. Boult perceiving
that the opinion of the Magistrate was against him,
consented -to pay the sum demanded, and the in-
formation was accordingly withdrawn. •
BOW,STREET.— G. Payne and G. Springet, the lat-
ter dressed like a respectable farmer, were charged
with defrauding a lad named Johnston, of his watch.
Johnston is groom to a Gentleman in Portland-place;
and being in attendance upon his master at the Ep-
sin Races, he saw the two prisoners at a table, play-
ing with cups and balls, betting and losing sovereign
after sovereign, with infinite good humour, to a num-
ber of other men who surrounded them. The silly
lad took it for granted that these winners were all
strangers, and that " it was all right;" and there-
fore he offered to bet to the amount of half-a-crown.
Half-a-crown," exclaimed the farmer-looking pri-
loner, " plant a sovereign and win it—you're sure to
win it, for I saw' the ball roll from under the cup."
The lad said he had not a. sovereign. " Then plant
Tour watch against five sovereigns, and make a man
of yourself at once," rejoined the pretended farmer.
The lad hesitatingly drew forth his watch ; the far-
mer took it in his hand, the other prisoner added the
five sovereigns to it, the cup was lifted, the ball was
under it,. the horses for the Oaks were coming up to
the winning-post peck aud neck; and;-in the twink-
ling of an eye, the table, the cups, the balls, .the.bet-

ten, the prisoners, and the watob, were all vanished ; •
leaving the simple lad with his empty fob, staring in
stupid wonderment. Shortly after, some of the pa-
trol accidentally hearing the prisoners, who were ca-
rousing in a booth, congratulate themselves upon
having "swished a thimble which was worth two quid
upon the cross," took them into custody, and locked
them up in Epsom cage, where they were soon after
recognised by the lad. Messrs. HARMER and ISAACS
attended for the prisoners, and argued that the pro-
secutor had lost his watch by fair betting ; but the
Magistrate was of a very different opinion, and com-
mitted both prisoners for trial at the next Surrey As-
sizes, on a charge of feloniously stealing it.
An unfortunate girl, apparently about eighteen
yeari of age, and of the most interesting and hand-
some person, but whose attire indicated extreme
poverty and distress, applied to the Sitting Magis-
trate, RICHARD BIRNIS, Esq. under the following
circumstances :—lt appeared from her statement,
that she had for the last three weeks been living at a
house of ill-fame in Exeter-street, Strand, kept by a
Man named James Lock ; this wretch had exacted
the enormous sum of three guineas per week for her
board and lodging, and in consequence of her not
being able to pay the sum due for the last week, he
threatened to strip her of her clothes and turn her
naked into the street. This threat he deferred exe-
cuting until yesterday morning (having in the mean
time kept her locked up in a dark room, without any
covering whatever), when in lieu of her clothes he
gave her the tattered and loathsome garments she
then appeared in, which were barely sufficient to
preserve common decency, and then brutally turned
her into the street. Being thus plunged into the most
abject wretchedness, without money, or fliends to
whom she could apply in her present situation ; her
bodily strength exhausted by the dissipated life she
had led, and rendered more so by a long abstinence
from food; her spirits broken and overcome by the
bitter and humiliating reflection that her own guilty
conduct debarred her from flying to the fostering
arms of affectionate parents whom she had loaded
with disgrace and misery, and the now inevitable
exposyre of her infamy, it was some time ere her
wandering senses were sufficiently composed to de-
termine what course she should pursue in the present
emergency, when she thought she could not do bet-
ter than to have recourse to the justice of her coun-
try against the villain Lock, who had so basely
treated her, and after extreme pain and difficulty she
succeeded in dragging her enfeebled limbs to the
Office. During the detail of the foregoing particu:
lars she seemed overwhelmed with shame and re-
morse, and at times sobbed sq violently as to render
her voice inarticulate. Her piteous case excited the
attention and sympathy of all present, and it was
much to the general satisfaction that Mr. BIRNIS or-
dered Humphreys, one of the conductors of patrol,
to bring Lock on the Office. On his being brought
there, the necessary proceedings were gone into for
the purpose of indicting the house as a common
brothel. This unhappy girl is of the most respectable
parents, and for the last six years had been residing
nith her aunt. About three months ago some dif-
ference having arisen between them, she absconded,
taking with her a few shillings, and the clothes which
she then wore. The first night of her remaining from
home she went to Drury-Lane Theatre, and was there
picked up by a genteel woman dressed in black,
who, having learned her situation, enticed her to a
house in Hart-street, Covent-Garden, where the ruin
of the poor girl was finally effected. It was not un-
til she had immersed herself in vice and folly that
she reflected on her situation, and it was then too
late to retract; and, after suffering unheard-of mi-
set ies, was in the short space of three months re-
(timed to her present state of wretchedness.—The
worthy Magistrate ordered that proper care should
be taken of the girl, which was readily undertaken
on the part of the Parish.—The prisoner set up a de-
fence, in which he said that a friend of the girl's
owed him £l4, and that he detained her clothes for
it, but was stopped by Mr. BIM:IE.—Ire at first
treated the matter very lightly ; but on perceiving
the determination on the part of the Parish to pro-
ceed in the business, he offered to give up the things :
this„,however, he was not allowed to do.
RLSOROUG II STREET.—Yesterday, a soldier of
the Ist Regiment of Guards presented himself before
Mr. Mats WA nt NC, the Magistrate, and made the fol-
lowing statement :—Having found it necessary lately
to changelis lodgings, he and his family, consisting
of a wife and three children, took up their quarters
in Hopkins-street, Golden-square, in apartments ad-
joining the Chapel in which Wedderburn, the Black
Pt eacher, used to a fEciate. In the course of the last
week, they had been frequently alarmed by the hi-
deous yells of some animal, and the shouts of an as-
semblage of persons. On. inquiring into the cause of
this annoyance, be ascertained that an amusement
called a bear-bait was held in the Chapel; twice
a-week, which being separated from his apartment
by a very thin partition, he and his family were in a
constant state of alarm, fearing that the bear might,
in an unlucky moment, take it into his head to pay
them a visit. It appeared that his apprehensions
were not altogether groundless; for on Sunday night
last, when his family were retiring to rest, his wife
had occasion to go to the cupboard, where, 'to her
great alarm and astonishment, she beheld ruin on
all fours through the partition regaling himself with
the contents of her beaufet ! She and her children
were so terrified, that they all ran into the street, and
did not return till their uncourteous visitor was
escorted to his own apartment. The poor soldier
wished to be informed how he should proceed, in
order to prevent a repetition of the visit. The Magis-
trate ordered the apprehension of Bruin and his mas-
ter, as well as all persons who were found attending
the sport of bear-baiting.
William Jones and Thomas Woodgate were brought
up to the above Office, charged by the Hon. Berkeley
Noel, of Seymour-place, Mary-la-Bonne, with having
attempted to break open his dwelling-house. John
Harris, a groom in the service of Mr. Noel, deposed,
that on Sunday evening last, about five o'clock,
being in the servants'-hall, he overheard the prisoners
discussing how they should enter the house and rob
it; soon after, he heard a noise, as if •serie one was
forcing open an iron grating which communicates
with the coal cellar, but being alarmed they ran off.
At about tend:o'clock, however, witness having occa-
sion to go into the coal-cellar- found the prisoners
again at work, and so fir had they that
. the body of Jones W 43 alicady through the hole