Star.
London, England, 1826-09-16 00:00:00

CHARGE OF MURDER.

Yesterday, Isaac Bateman, a gardener, aged 36, was
indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah, his wife.
Mary Hughes stated, that she lives in Fulham-fields,
and knew the prisoner and the deceased. They lived at
the Old Greyhound hotises, in Fulham-fields, about 150
yards from witness's residence. The prisoner and wit-
ness's husband worked with the same market gardener.
On Monday, the 31st of July, about twelve o'clock •at
night, witness was standing at her door, and heard a
violent noise at the Old Greyhound houses, like the
breaking of crockery; she went near the house iti which
the prisoner lived, and heard a groan; the prisoner
came out o( the house, and witness said to him, "You
villain, you have murdered your wife!" he said he had
not hurt her, and went away, and did not return again
till three o'clock. Witness screamed " Murder!' and
several of the neighbours came to the house; they
found the deceased lying on the floor. A Doctor was
sent for, and came; the deceased was put to bed, and
witness went away, leaving her in care of Mrs. Mason.
Mr. Bowling, a surgeon, stated, that he lives in Ham-
mersmith, and was called to the deceased on the morn-
ing of the Ist of August, about ten o'clock; be found
her face much bruised; she complained of pain all over
the belly, and near the heart. Witness supposed her
bladder was ruptured; she said she was very bad, and
should not be here long. If the bladder was much
distended, it might be ruptured by a fall or any violent

Mr. Russell, House Surgeon of St. George's Hospital,
stated, that the deceased was brought there on Tuesday,
the Ist of August. She complained of great pain in
the lower part of the belly ; she said, she should not live,
and she died the next day. Witness opened her body;
the bladder was ruptured, which was the cause of death.
The deceased told him, she had been knocked down by
her husband, who then knelt on her. That violence
might have ruptured the bladder, if it had been pre-
viously distended.
Mr. Bowling was again called, and deposed, that the deceased
told him that her husband had knelt on her.

John Chapman, brother of the first witness, and living
in the same house, deposed, that in consequence of his
sister's crying murder, he went to the prisoner's house,
and saw the prisoner go from the house. He saw him',
again between three and four o'clock that morning
about 120 yards from his house; witness went towards
him, and he ran away ; witness called to him, and he
came back and gave himself up. The witness told
him his wife was dead; he said, he had made up his
mind to die for
,the b—y b—h. Witness took him to
Hammersmith, and delivered him to a watchman. The
Iprisoner night have been alarmed by the appearance of
the people who collected about his house when he left it.

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. BRODERICK, on behalf of the prisoner, submitted
that there was no e►idence that the woman seen by the
Surgeon and other persons, in the Greyhound houses,
was the same that died in the Hospital.

All the witnesses were again examined u to that fact, but none
of them could speak to it potitively, u no one who had seen the sle-
ceaied before she was taken to the hospital had seen her there:
Mr. Justice Gaau.ss refused to stop the case, but said be would
leave it to the Jury to decide on the question of identity as part of
the cue.

The prisoner being called on for his defence, called
Gop to witness that he had not knelt on his wife, and
that he had no malice against her, but she being in a
state of intoxication, fell in a corner •f the room, where
there was a tub, a pail, a chair, and a box on the floor
on which she fell. .

Ann Mason deposed, that she saw the deceased at two,
at six, and at ten o'clock the day she received the injury;
at two o'clock she was forward in liquor ; at sir she was
tipsy, and at ten she was so intoxicated as to be inca-
pable of recollecting what might happen to her. She
had been in a state of intoxication for the four previous
days. The deceased had frequently spoken of the pri-
soner as a kind and affectionate husband.

By the Court —Witness helped to flut the deceased in
the cart to be taken to the Hospital, but did not see her
after. She complained the week before the injury of a
pain in her side.— After the injury she told witness seve.
ral times that she thought she should not recover, and
that she did not know what her husband had done to
her. When witness went into the-house on the night
the deceased was injured, she saw a washing tub and
other things on the floor.
Thomas Denman, a market gardener, deposed, that the prisoner
worked for him four years, and was as quiet a man as be ever knew.
He had frequently seen the deceased in a state of intoxication.
Six other persons gave the prisoner an excellent character for
industry, inoffensiveness, quietness, and humanity.
Mr. Justice Gartams, summed up the evidence, and made com-
ments as he proceeded.
The Jury retired, and after deliberating about a quarter of an
hour, acquitted the prisoner.
John Steaks was indicted for being at large in this
kingdom before the term bad expired for which he had
been transported.
Mr. ADOLPHOO stated the case for the prosecution, and after-
wards called the following witnesses.
Mr. Stafford produced the Record of the prisoner's conviction of
a felony at Norwich in the year 1813.
Jeremiah Herbert, one of the City officers, stated,
that in consequence of inf. rmation he received, he took
the prisoner into custody on the 34 of July last, at the
White Hart in Fetter•lane.
Juhn Johnson, the keeper of the Castle, at N'rwich,
stated, that the prisoner was in his custody in the year
1813. He was quite positive as to his identity, having
had him in custody upwards of five months, dating
which time he was in the habit of seeing h:m every thy.
He afterwards, pursuant to the sentence he had received,
conducted him to Portsmouth, a:4 conveyed him on
board a convict ship lying off there.

IJohn Cainley silted that he saw the prisoner in New'
Soot)) Wales, where he, being a privileged man, was
employed as a carpenter. He afterwards saw him on
board the Harvey, where he had secreted himself until
after that vessel had sailed.
The prisoner, in defence, said that hie name Was King, that he
had never gone by the name of Shales, and that he had been a sea-
man all his life.

The RIWORDER summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned
a verdict of Guilty.
Maria Smith a very decent•looking elderly Lady, the
widow of a Lieutenant in the Navy, was put to the bar,
charged with stealing three pounds of bacon, the pro'
perty of Richard Morris, cheesemonger, of Skinner-
street, Satnerstown.
Mr. Mn, ris stated, that on the Bth July, in the evening,
he was his shop, and saw the prisoner looking at 'a
piece of bacon in his open window. He turned round
for a ornent, and on his looking again towards the
place where the bacon had been, he saw that it was
gone, and the prisoner had also departed. He followed,
overtook, and gave her in charge to a watchman. The
bacon he found rsear the spot where the prisoner was 'I
taken into curtody4
Mrs. Smith, in her defence, solemnly protested her
innocence, and declared that she had passed by the]
shop, but bad not touched the bacon. She was standing
at a greet'-grocer's shop near Mr. Morris's when she was
taken into custody.
The little girl, who had seen the other woman take
the bacon, was now put into the box, and stated, in a
very clear and circumstantial manner, that she having
been sent by her mother to purchase some little articles,
was at Mr. Morris's shop at the time to which her evi
dence referred. She saw the prisoner standing at a
green grocer's shop, next door but one to Mr. Morris's,
and just at that time the saw a woman, who appeared
like a dustman's wife, take up the piece of bacon and
walk off with it. She was certain the prisoner was not
the person who took it.

The prisoner called several persons who gave her an excellent
character, and described her as having an independent property.
The Jury, without hesitation, aairuiteed the prisoner.

. STATE OF NEWOATE.

In consequence of the very great number of prisoners for trial
this Sessions, and the consequent crowded state of the gaol, the
Court have found it necessary to pus sentence daily on those who
wee convicted, in order to reduce as fast as possible the number of
persons in confinement.
At five o'clock yesterday the Court passed the following sentences
on the prisoners convicted during the day t
Margaret Johnson end Mary Smith—to be transported for four-
teen years. _ _

Join Bromley, Henry Burket, and Thomas Ferguson--to be
transported for seven years.
Joseph Emmerson and John Andrews—to be imprisoned three
months in the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour .
John Anson—to be imprisoned four months in the same place ; and
John Davis, for two months. _

John Dean and James Miles were sentenced to be privately
whipped and discharged.

A cue of Maisolaugleter came before the Court this morning. The
prisoner was charged with slaying an individual in a pugilistic
affairs but was acquitted.

We see by the Sound list, that from the 30th of Au-
gust to the 2d instant, inclusive, twenty-six vessels bdund
to Great Britaiff passed the Sound, laden with grain,
principally oats, besides one with linseed.
It appears, by the last accounts from Corfu, that
Athens had not fallen into the hands of the Turks, as
has been currently reported. The town has been de-
serted by the inhabitants, who have fled to the Islands,
from apprehension of the advance of the Turks; but
the Citadel is still garrisoned by a small Greek force,
under GOURA. .

Sheep-stealing has been very frequent lately in the
neighbourhood of Leeds.
A great mortality has prevailed amongst the sheep in
Lincolnshire, and in parts of Scotland, from the attacks
of noxious insects. Plunging the sheep in the sea, or a
solution of salt and water, has effectually been resorted
to by many sheep-graziers.
This Reverend REGINALD PYNDAR, of Upper Hall,
Ledbury, and Mr. Tuostas (iINN, of Sudbury, have
both sustained serious injury, by accidents with the gun
whilst shooting. .
A young man, who has been several times examined
at Gravesend, on the charge of feloniously taking away
a horse and gig, the property of a stable-keeper of that
place, has been fully committed for trial. He had four
or five aliases, but his real name is Simmons, a native
of York, and was heretofore possessed of some property.
It appears ghat he has been dabbling largely in ficti-
tious bills; but the constable who had him in custody
suffered him to destroy his papers.
Tuesday night, a man of the name of Alexander, re-
siding in Leith Wynd, Edinburgh, in a fit of passion,
stabbed his wife in the neck with a knife. The woman
was taken to the Infirmary, but the wound was of so
serious a nature that she died in a few hours. We un-
derstand that the parties had frequent jars, which arose
from the jealousy of his wife. Alexander is in custody.
Wednesday, in an exhibition of wild beasts at Aber-
deen, a little girl belonging to the proprietor, having a
piece of bread in her hand, a Greenland bear, near which
she was standing, made an attack on her, and before she
could be extricated from his fangs, tore away the calf of
lone of her legs. She was carried to the Infirmary.
Two horse-dealers by profession, James Reeves, of
Westbury, and William Taylor, of Wells, meeting at
the latter place a few days since, agreed upon an ex-
change of their steeds; but the next morning, Reeves,
whose bargain had in the mean time departed this life,
hastened back to Wells, in order to exchange again. To
this proposal, Taylor, after some conversation, assented ;
and Reeves, on giving ten shillings to boot, was fa-
voured with the body of his own horse, which he now
discovered was also dead

As the shooting season has commenced, the county
Magistrates will have much of their time occupied in
hearing cases under the game laws. The conduct of the
Earl of GROSVENOR, at the Shaftesbury Petty Sessions,
on Tuesday, when a man was brought before the Court
on an information for having shot game on his Lord-
ship's manor, is worthy the imitation of other landlords.
/Vs Lordship, through his law-agent, forebore pressing
for a conviction on the man promising never to offend
again ; and who was, of course, discharge,' and restored
to his family. At present there are fellows going
about to entrap unsuspecting individuals by selriag
them game, and afterwards hying informations agai,!st
them for having game in their possession.
Saturday a fine little girl named Castles, whose pa.
rents reside at B Tmondsey, incautiously drank some oil
of vitriol which had been left in her reach, and -died
soon afterwards.

A dieadtul storm and tornado were experienced at
North MuskhAm on the 6th. The clouds were so low,
Chet they took up a considerable quantity of water, and
left the bed of the Trent neatly dry. Tees were scat-
tered in all directions, and nearly three hundred are
broken down. The teaches could not proceed for the
obaruction.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DAVIS'S STRAITS FISHERY.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, dated Peterhead,
Sept. 12 :—" The Active, of this port, which was abandoned this day
last year at Davis's Straits, is ar►ived in the Bay. Capt.Griar, of the
Perseverance, in the hope of finding the Active,took out with him
an extra crew, anti discovered her on the 5d oh. upon a beach, abort
a mile from where she was abandoned, and much in the satrie state
as she was left, and sent her home under the command of his son.
The Cicero, Lie, of Hull, was lost the Ist of July ; and the Del.
terity, Rostasost, of this port, on the 21sth of June—the crew saved.
The Active left the west land on the 18th ult. and brings the fol.
lowing account of the Fishery : Hull ahips—Ariel, two fish, 10th
June; Cambrian, clean, 17th August; Lord Wellington, one fish;
Progress, one; William Torr, one. London ships--Dundee, two,
10th June; Margaret, one, 28th July. Whitby ship—Phtenfit,
two, 10th June. Newcastle ships—Cove, one; Grenville DaY,
one ; Lady Jane, one. Kirlsaldy ships—Caledonia, one, 2d Aug.
Earl Percy, two, 25th July. Leith ships—Baffin, two; Rattler,
one, 17th August. Dundee ships—Achilles, one, 28th July;
Princess Charlotte, one, ditto. Aberdeen ships—Dee, one, 17th
August; Letitia, clean, ditto; St. Andrew, one, 10th June. Pe-
terhead ships—Hannibal, Hope, Perseverance, and Superior, clean,
17th August; and Traveller, clean, Ist August."

PORTSMOUTH, Strr. 15.—Wind E.N.E. —Arrived the Faconomy,
FLOM% from Memel; and Carolina Frederica, —, from Dant-
sic. A large ship is coming in from the eastward. Sailed the
Minerva, —i for Guadaloupe. Passed by, the Sir A. Hammond,
Au m, from London to the South Seas.
Cowes, Sam 14.—Wind W. by S.—Arrived from London,
and sailed, the Sir C. Forbes, —, fur New South Wales, with
female convicts avid Government stores.

Dirac, SEPT. 15.—Wind N.R.—Last evening the wind changed
to the eastward, and the whole of the outward bound sailed. Ar-
rived the Calypso, HOG.% arm, fmm Miramichl—spulte, on the 21st
of August, the Alonzo, from Liverpool to Miramichi, out 30 days,
in lat. 46. long. 53. W. On the 22d, the Triton, of London, in
the Bay of Fundy, out 30 days, in lat. 46. long. si. 25. W. On
the 24th, the Highland Lad, fronrLondonderty, with passengers,
out 35 days, in lit. 46. 34. long. 47. 50. Sept. 7, the Peterhead,
of Newcastle, in lat. 50.30. N. long. 12. 22. W.
GRAVICSeND, Sem 15.—Arrived the Diana, JAY, from Leghorn ;
Blanchard, lYloaarsorr, from Quebec; and Burleigh, CHANCRLI.OI4
from Odessa. Sailed the Thalia, HAIMOND, for Trieste; and the
Aurora, BILOTHWICIC, for Naples.
MILroaD Haves, Sem 13.—Wind W. light breeze, and fine.
—Sailed the William and Mary yacht, Capt. Maccor.si, It. N. for
Dublin; his Majesty's sloop CADMUS, Capt. ilautowint.; and the
Royal George revenue cruiser.—Lord CAVIUOR has left hie seat,
Stackpole Court, in this county, for his seat, Golden Grove, Car.
marthenshire.