Star.
London, England, 1821-03-30 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Earl Whitworth and the Duchess of Dorset, for their seat,
Knowle, in Kent.
From Blake's Hotel, Jermyn-street
to Portsmouth.

:—Sir George Cook, Dart.

From she Prince Saxe of Coburg Hotel, Charles-street, Gros-
venor-square :—Mr. and Mrs. Bush and family, to Paris.
From the Hyde Park Hotel, Oxford-street :—Mr. and Mrs.
Hinde, to Richmond ; Daniel Buller, Vsq. to France ; Captain
Richardson, 9th Lancers.
From the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street—Lord Cranley, for
&spy.
The Earl of FIFE and the Earl of EGRENIONT have
reduced their rents twebity per cent.
H. P. Dimme, Esq. of Cams• hall, near Tareham,
Plants, whose rents were nearly doubled by his pre-
decessors during the high prices of grain, has justly
made a reduction in his rents of 40 per cent. upon his
land, and 30 per cent. upon his tithes.

Thursday evening, the 22.1 inst. in consequence of
car& of invitation having been pi evionsly issued to
upwards of one hundred' aid seventy of the princi-
pal inhabitants of DorcheAer and neighbourhood,
Colonel BOWER gave a most magnificent Ball and
Supper, in a style of splendour and sumptuous pre•
paration seldom witnessed.
Weinesday, Mr. and Mrs. YOUNG, previous to their
departure from Weymouth for London, gave a grand
farewell Dinner, Ball, and supper, at Gloucestei
Loage, to Colonel MURRAY and the Officers of the
16th Lancers, and a large party of Nobility and
Gentry. The entertainment exhibited the same splen-
dour and magnificence as those given on former oc-
casions by these highly respected persons.

Wednesday, Earl and Countess FORTESCUE gave
dinner, at their house in Grosvenor-square, to the
Duke of DEvosstitttg, Earl and Countess of DERBY,
Lady MARY STANLEY, Earl and Countess of DA RN•
LEY, Lady MARY WAG'', the Archbishop of YonK,
Lady AN VERNON, &c. After dinner, ti:e whale
of the party proceeded to the Ancient Music.

Madame MAIXVILLE Fonon, who, for several sea-
son,. sang at the King's Theatre, and at the Oratoi ios
at Drury. Lane and Covent-Garden, died at Pails on
the lOth instant.

• A duel has taken place at Paris betaten a well-
known Author and the husband of one of the Tra-
gedy Queens. The latter has been wounded. The
subject of drspute was not politics, but of a more
tender and private nature!

A Crim. Con. case of great interest will be tried at
the ensuing Gloucester Assizes. The plaintiff is a
a highly respectable citizen of London, and the de-
feirdant a Gentleman of large fortune, and well
lonown in the fashionable circles. The damages are'
laid at £lO,OOO.

The following strange bill was actually banded by
a shoemaker to a Gentleman in the county rf Kent,
who, without questioning the items, paid the same :
" Squire 1)--, debtor to S. Wotton, shoemaker: Dec. 26,
Clogd up Miss, 10d. Mended up Miss, 2d.—Jan. 3, Toe-capt
Master, 111. Turned up, clogd up, and mended the Maid, is. 64.
llcel.tapt Master, 3d.—Jan. 7, lined, bound up, put a piece on
Madam, 4s. Stitching up Miss Kitty, 6d.—Jan. 12, *ding the
Maid, 6d. Tapping Madam, Gd. Putting a piece on Madam, 2d.
Total, 95. 10d."

Moa4L Ahczt.ixlsm !—An artist has invented a
machine for schools, which, by means of steam, not only warms
the room, but flogs the leaughl9 bo
lls, on a general scale !
LARGE DRAUGHT OF 14418IIES.—Last week was
caught, at one draught with a thraul net, by a small
fishing sloop, called the Caroline, of Sunderland,
11cw:. of haddocks, 3icwt. of flounders, 56 pair of
soals, besides gurnets, and other fish.

Last week, as some workmen were endeavouring to underset
a building on Ilooper's-hill, Margate, to convert a coach-house
and stables into dwellings, the whole fell so instantaneously that
the workmen with great difficulty escaped from being crushed
sander the ruins. •

Monday, as a lad about 13 years old, named Drury, employed
at Mr..lsh's brew house, in Canterbury, was standing on the edge
of the mash-tub, breaking the head of the liquor, he fell into It,
and was drowned.

Between one and two o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing, three men and a woman, in a spring-cart, with
one horse, driving furiously from Petersham towards
the road leading to Richmond, refusing to stop when
called upon to do so by the watchman, the latter,
suspecting them of robbery, fired his blunderbuss, by
winch one of the men was killed, and another man
and the woman were wounded. The party drove on
to Richmond, and gave notice of what had taken
place, in 'consequence or which, the watchman was
taken into custody. It afterwards turned out that
the house of a Gentleman at Long Ditton had been
robbed, the same night, to a large amount, and the,
survivors of the party in the cart are detained in cus-
tody, on siispicion of being concerned in the robbery.

LAW IId'ELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, bII,IICH 29.

STRATHMORE. V.• STRATHMORE.
Mr. ABRACROMBY stated that this cause had been
put down in hi; Lordship's paper for hearing this
day, through a mistake of the Registrar. He would,
however, take this opportunity o& stating that the
Master, to whom the Petitions in this case were re-
ferred, was of opinion that the infant plaintiff ought
to be served as the Scotch heir, and that his Petition
in that character ought to be prosecuted in the House
of Lords. _ _ _ _

The LORD CRANCRLLOR said that the House of
Lords would not proceed on the Scotch title until
the question of the English title was alsn before
them. It was a mistaken notion to suppose that the
infant could be legitimate in one place and illegiti-
mate in another. If the plaintiff were served as heir
to the Scotch title fifty times over, the House of
Lords would not pay any attention .to that circum-
stance, in inquiring into the dignity.
Mr. HART observed that he bad received a brief,
in this case, but had not been able to read it. He
would, however, now do so ; and if anything should
occur to him on the subject, he would take the liberty
to mention it to the Court on some future occasion.

SUSSEX ASSIZES.
HORSHAM, MAItcH
Before the Lord Chief Baron (111clunos).
MURDER.

George England, a seaman, belonging to his Ma-
jesty's ship Severn, employed on the Smuggling Pro-
Aghtive Service, was indicted fnr the wilful murder
of Joseph Swain, at Hastings, on the 13th of March
instant, by shooting him through the body with a
pistol, loaded with powder and ball. The. prisoner
also stood-charged on the Coioner's. Inquisition for
the like murder.
The interest which this case has excited on the
coast, particularly amongst the fishermen, is scarcely
credible. The prosecution was conducted by Mr.
ADOLPHUS and Mr. Love; and the defence by Ser-
jeant ONSLOW, Mr. MARRYATT, Mr. 6t7itNev, and
Mr. Ksox, who were retained by the Admiralty.
Mr. ADOLPIIUS in an impressive and temperate
address to the Jury, opened the case for the prosecu-
tion, conjuring them, in the most earnest manner, to
dismiss from their minds any rrezonceived impres-
sion which they might have imbibed before they.
came into the box, and bring to the consideration of
the case their calm and unprejudiced deliberation,
upon a case fraught with momentous consequences,
alike to the prison as the Public.
The witnesses for the prosecution were nine in
number, almost all of them being labourers, fisher-
men, or mariners, and they gave their evidence in a
manner perfectly free from prejudice or bias. The
case disclosed against the prisoner, by their respective
testimony was to the following effect :
On the morning of the lath of March, between
'lke and ten p'elock, the boat of the deceased, -a
fisherman of Hastings, had just come in from sea,
after being out the preceding night, and was in the
act of being hauled up by a windlass to the beach
above full water mark. A ~artner, or assistant of
the deceased, named William Tassel, had his back
against one of the sides of the boat, steadying it on
its keel, whilst the windlass was hauling it up, when
the prisoner, one of the ctew of the Severn, came
up, and said he must search the boat. Tassell said,
" Be so good as to stop until the boat is above full,"
meaning full tide mark. The prisoner said " No; I
will search now." Tassel rejoined, " Now do stop
until the boat is above full ; for, if you get on board
I can't hold her up." The prisoner said, " No, I
will search," and immediately stepi:ed into the boat.
At this moment the deceased came round from the
other side of the boat, and asked Tassell what was
the matter? The latter told him, that in consequence
of the man getting into the boat, he could not hold
her up; upon which the deceased jumped on beard
Idle boat, and a scuffle ensued between him and the
prisoner. In the scuffle they both tumbled out upon
the beach. When the prisoner recovered his feet,
he drew his cutlass, and attempted to strike the
deceased, who caught the prisoner's hand as the
blow was descending, wrenched the cutlass from him
and flung it into the sea. The deceased was com-
pletely unarmed. After the cutlass was thrown into
the sea, the prisoner unbuttoned his jacket, and
drew a pistol, and took hold of the deceased again.
fresh scuffle ensued; the deceased seized the muz-

_ale of the pistol with his hand, and appeared to be
trying to prevent the contents from injuring him,
should it go off. In the midst of this struggle, three
or four more of the blockade-men (the Severn's crew)
came down to the beach from the watch-house, and
tivo of them took hold of the deceased, one on each
side. The deceased exclaimed in a loud voice, that
he would- go to the watch:house with then), or any
where else they pleased. At this time the deceased
still had hold of the muzzle of the pistol, and said to
the by-standers, " See, he is going to shoot me,"
meaning the prisoner. The latter said, 4! If you'll
let me go, I won't shoot you." The men who held
the deceased said, " You must go along with us to
the watch-house." The deceased said he would go
to the watch-house, or anywhere else. The prisoner
-then extricated the pistol from the deceased's hand,
and went round two or three of the persons wl:o en•
closed the deceased, took deliberate aim at the de-'
ceased, and shot him .through the body, the muzzle
of the pistol not being more than six inches from
him. The deceased exclaimed, " 0 LORD, I'm shot,"
staggered two or three paces, and instantly expired.'
The deceased was a much taller and apparently a
much stronger man than the prisoner. There was
no proof that there were any smuggled goods on
board the boat of the deceased. Indeed, it was' not
searched, for after he was killed the Severn's men re►
tired, amidst the indignant exclamations of the pope=
lace. It was distinctly proved that there was no at-
tempt to rescue the deceased after he was taken into
custody, and that he himself did not offer any resist.;
ance when seized by the Severn's crew.
Several of the Severn's crew had been examined
before the Coroner, but none of ibent were called on
the part of the prosecution ; neither were their depo-
sitions returned.

The Coroner's Clerk was the Attorney for the pro-
' secution. These circumstances called forth the strong
animadversions of the Counsel for the prisoner, and
of the LORD OhIRF BARON.

The poisoner, who appeared to labqur undo► great

•anxiety iiuring his trial, put: in a written defence, in
which he bisought the Jury to bring their minds to
an impartial consideration of his unhappy case, and
expressed his unfeigned sorrow for the melancholy
catastrophe which had happened, urging, that he
could have *no malice against the deceased, with
whom he bad had no previous acquaintance. He re-
capitulated the circumstances of the scuffle, and
earnestly declared that his pistol went off in the sud-
denness of his separation from the deceased, when
released from his hold, and not from any design or
premeditation.
Five of the Severn's crew were then severally exa-
mine. and they deposed most solemnly, that the
discharge of the prisoner's pistol was merely acci-
dental; that, having suddenly released himself from
the deceased's hold, lie staggered, and, on the instant,
his pistol went off. They expressly declared, that
the prisoner did not take aim ; that he did not re-
treat, and go round two or three other persons to
take aim ; that he did not say, " Let me go, and I
won't shoot you e. that the deceased did not say, he
was ready to go to the watch-house, or wherever the.
Severn's men pleased ; and that both prisoner and
deceased were in a v'olent passion ; and that the
whole was an accidental transaction of the moment.
There were several contradictions in the statement
of each of the witnesses, some of whom contra-
dicted each other.

The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up the case with
minuteness and strict impartiality. He charged them,
that to constitute murder, it must be an act of deli-
beration malice could not be presumed, and '
ith-
out malice there was no murder: His Lordship
pointed out the direct contradictions between the
evidence for the prosecUtion, and that for the Crown.
If they believed the former, the prisoner was guilty
of murder ; if the latter, he was entitled to a verdict
of Not Guilty.
The Jury retired for about half an hour, and found
the prisoner—Guiky of Wiffid Murder, both on the
indictment and Coroner's Inquisition.
The prisoner was greatly agitated on hearing the
verdict, and burst into violent via.

The LORD CHM BA nos' then addressed him :•••••
" George England, a verdict of Guilty ha, been
passed against you, and it is my duty to pronounce,
the sentence of the law, which I cannot avoid. But
I have no difficulty, in the face of the country, in
saying, that I should hart been b(lad if the verdict had
been the other way. At present,-however, I must pass
the sentence of the law—(Prisoner, sly Lord, have
mercy upon me !)—which is, that you be taken from
hence—(Prisoner, Consider, I was in the execution
of my duty l')—to the place from s;hence you came
—(Prisoner, Gentlemen of the Jury, pray consider
your verdict again !')—and from thence to the place
of execution on Friday. next (this day), where you
are to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and
may the LORD have mercy on your soul l"
Prisoner..-." 0! Gentlemen of the Jury, pray con-
sider your verdict again."
The Loaf► CHIEF BAROW—gI Prisoner, I'll do all
in my power to save your life."
- Pi isoner—.44 Do, if you please, my Lord."
The prisoner was then takes from the Bar.
YORK. •

Joseph MasOn was tried for the wilful rrwrder of
his brother, Ibbotson Mason, by fracturing his skull
with an axe, on the .sth of Imuary last.

The following is a short account of the melancholy
transaction :—'l he prisoner, at the time this dreadful
act was committed, lived with his mother and bro.
:her, flea: Pateley-bridge. The prisoner, some years
ago, had been a joiner at Knaresborough, where he
fell into difficulties, and into a state of mind which
rendered it necessary to place him in a lunatic asy-
lum. Ile remained under this restraint cne year and
nine months, when he was discharged as much re
lieved, if not cured ; and he was subsequently placed
under the care of a Mr. Beale, where he remained
some months ; but he was taken from this place be-
fore be was considered lit to be discharged ; since
that period he had lived with his mother and brother,
up to the time when the dreadful catastrophe occurred.
The prisoner had a few joiners tools in a building,
which was also used by the deceased as a slaughter.'
house. On Friday, the sth of January, last, the ,
pri-
soner and the deceased had breakfasted together,
and .soon after the prisoner went to fetch a sheep
which the deceased was going to kill, and the last li
time the deceased was seen alive, was on carrying,
with the assistance of the prisoner, the sheep into the
shop. In about half an hour the prisoner was seen.
standing with his face towards the shop door, but
what he was doing the witness who mentioned the
circumstance could not tell, but it turned out that
he had been fastening the door. The prisoner was'
then seen to run away laughing. Some suspicion
having been excited by this strange conduct of the
pi isoner, the door was forced open, and the deceased
was found lying behind the door ; his skull was..
dreadfully fractured, and a great part of the brains
lay -upon the floor ; he was quite dead ; a joiner's
axe, besmeared with blood, was found in the shop;
with which, doubtless, the murder had been perpe-
trated. Suspicion almost immediately fell upon the
prisoner, who had changed his dress, and gone to
Knaresborounli where the constable who went to'
P
ahrehend him found him already in custody, and
' under the restraint of a straight waistcoat. When
the constable went to him, the prisoner asked him if
his brother was dead? being informed that he was,
he said, " I am sorry for it ; but he deserved it."
'The prisoner here said, that his brother owed him
money under the black art. •

Five witnesses were examined on the part of the
prosecution, from whose evidence we have given the
preceding account ; and all of them, on cross-exa-
mination by the prisoner's Counsel, stated facts and
conversation held with the prisoner, which evinced
the most deep-rooted and deckled insanity, brought
up to the very time when the murder was committed.
In short, the proofs of insanity were so overpowering,
that the Judge stopped the trial, and said he thought
it was unnecessary to go further, as to his mind the
insanity of the prisoner had been abundantly made
out.. The Jury expressed their concurrence in this
opinion, and found a verdict of—Not Guilty, the
prisoner being insane at the time he cogimi tted the act.
His Lordship explained to the Jury that the pri-
soner would be retained in custmiy until the pleasure
of'his Majesty was signified, when he would be placed
in a sinittine proper for persons in his state of mind,

and where he would be confinea until his ynaLi
was cured, and until the King should order otherwl

Saturday, Thomas Dyer, capitally convicted at the.
late Worcester Assizes for horse-stealing, underwent
the sentence of the law. lie declared his innocence
to the last.
At the Assizes for the County of Stafford, twenty.
eight prisoners received sentence of death, of whirl
number five are left for execution.

A young man of respectable family was yesterday
charged at Marlborough-street Office with utterir,g
forged notes of £lo and £5 to a considerable amount.
He was remanded upon five different charges. Ant).
titer young man was committed from Hatton-Gar.
"den for passing forged £5 and £1 notes, and a young
woman for uttering forged £1 notes.
As great numbers of Persons are rendered very unhappy W
' Spasms, Wind in the Stomach, Ohstructions in the Bowels, waue
of regular Perspiration, Vomitings, and Ililious Complainty
Head itches, Heart Burn, Costiveness, Nervous Brierderst
Cholic, Gout, &c. we are authorised to say, that Spordln,ar.'i
fills are in most cases an excellent remedy for thttse Cotirp!?irrti
and especially recommended during the time of Sea Bathing,
and drinking the Sea and Mineral Waters; also for those
visiting warm climates. Prepared by Taunts Strirlare...,-
jun. Druggist, Tottenham High Cross, lliddit-sex, hy tirtus
an assignment from 11. and 1 Betwich, sole Proprietor. of the
Receipt, by the Will of Al. Speediman ; and are sold by Shale
and Edwards, No. 6G, St. Paul's Church-yard; and 8.,c0n and
Co. No. 150, oxfor6l-street, in Boxes at 2s. 46. 661. 10s. Ca.:;.,(
Clue Guinea ; and may be had of the principal Venders of lia
dioines in Town and Cdtatry.