Star.
London, England, 1827-05-29 00:00:00

. . THE ARMY:
The Notthigismahlre Yeomanry °marl na l* ANN
during their week's trades at Nottin m i
: lid therE
thous paming along die-wrest gave the O
yeomen.. On Thursday, the last Mgt* days' t
were reviewed by Major Lorne, of Mar Sib Dreams', .yem
seem of an immense number of spolootoeN who were drawer
getber, both far and near, to whoa, the .'stet, sight; the AIN
was fine, and the ground was kept by ai tune a Anilines atm
the barracks. At twelve &sleek the YINMIONT witeirseawl their
evolutions, which they went three. he such ssmahlawmayarseees
al to call forth a very high coespileere tsars Maier Lams
Wednesday a troop of the Sesta Geer. =l/1114 bf,
Fainters, arrived in Cloomel from Caber,
ip aresrligatt
Government, on the meows* of the nafilfthein assalds
the protectioon of the trade between that esseitihee-
Salt in boats- As yet they him ast Site ea this service, dlt pee.
mission be obtained for thus to act alder the direction of Nate-
officers subordinate to the limellissey.
Wednesday, the grand dish's.' tette 7111 MOMMllded
by Lieutenant Colonel Autumns*, arrived he, kola Ar-
dee. as their route from Derry to. LIMN. Datachamots of the
No. !lima* which had born asked ea maws duty in the
aseety Derry, paned through D. last week far the ante
destination.
The Depot of the I ilk Regiment bus moved from Fermoy to
Cork.

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MAJORITY AND MINORITY . .
On the Third Reading of Lord Althcrp's Bill for prevail/
Expenses at Elecdons.
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XAJOBITT• •
Corbett. P. - Manse, J. Smith, W.
Davies, Col. iolsoth••• Talesash, J.
Dwane, M. Kennedy, T. Tennyson, C.
Easy, J. Leath, W. Wilson, Sr R.
litmee^ J. losinbo. IL Weed, John
BIN. Lord MotwALL Wynn, R.
•Ilknkwb J. Palkar. A.
Orebro. Sr 4. - Pilmantes, Lord Tutees.
Whitt, D. . ' • Melideseelir G. Althorp, Lord
'Grain, SW A. essiiy, Sr J. Race, S.

rinionnr.
Omastesay. P. 011Miage L Maury, Adm.
Forbes, Sr C. limbo, J. C. Tutus.
Gorden, Capt. Lowther, Lord Clamart, 3.
Grant, C. Petit, -- Graves, Lord
Grant, R.
DRURY•LANE THEATRE.

HOWARD PATlffleB Tragedy of Brutus was excellently
performed here last night ; after which (such is the rage
for competition and novelty) the four Messrs. Rotas-
CHILD, from Hamburgh, were introduced, who sang or
rather executed a variation of the Hunting Glee in I)er
Freischutx, and the Tyrolese National Asr with imita•
firms of various unmusical Instruments. Their per.
formance was one of the strangest combinations of
sound we remember ever to have heard for a musical
display. One of them gave a sort of imitation of the
13esrornr, and the coxtralto was sometimes a very squeak ;
altogether it was an unity of opposites, tolerable only
for the curiousness of it.

This morning the senteir of the law was carried
into effect, in the Old Bailey, upon Benjamin Saunders;
aged 24, George Williams, 35, and John F.agke, 40.
The unhappy culprits were all convicted in the tebruary
Sessions, The crimes for which they suffered appeared
in the STAR of Friday.—At eight o'clock the Sheriffs
arrived at the Prison; and, in a few moments after,
Saunders was led into their presence, in the Preswroom.
He looked with calmness upon the silent group before
him,and while under the operation of pinioning,appeared
to be perfectly indifferent. He was led to a seat,and, in
answer to some questions, said he was penitent and pre-
pared for death. He requested Mr. Sheriff Witsormarza
to write to his father, and state that he was happy, and
hoped for mercy from ALMIGHTY GOD, at his last
moments. Eagles was the second conducted into the
room : be looked haggard and dismayed, bat appeared
to be in deep prayer. He raised his clasped hands to
Heaven frequently, while the officers were securing his
arms. The attention of those present was attracted to
Saunders, whose countenance bad assumed a ghastly
paleness r his eyes closed, and he sank back against the
wall in a profound slumber, from which he was with
some little difficulty aroused. The unhappy man was
dressed like a sailor, and had much the appearance of
a person of that description. While the Rev. Ordinary
was directing the thoughts of Eagles to another world,
Williams slowly and firmly entered the room. He was
dressed in a dark coat, and wore a red shawl handker-
chief: his countenance was pale, but displayed a calm
and settled firmness, which even that awful moment
could not shake. He looked upon all around with a
serious but determined look, as if he scorned to chew

any fear, and spurned "the coward crouching of
despair." As the clock struck the last chime of eight,
that last hour which the culprits saw'upon this earth,
the Sheriffsleft the room, sod they followed. Eagles
walked with a hurried and tgitated step, and appeared
as if sinking with horror. Saundet s followed him, with
a calmer manner ; but nothing could awe the convict,
Williams, he stepped for ward with a vigorous st,p : as
the melancholy group approached the lobby leading to
the scaffold, the agony of Eagles appeared to increase ;
and when the melancholy sound of the funeral bell
broke on his ear, be paused, as if unable to draw breath,
and staggered against the wall. Williams smiled at
him with a peculiar expression, as if in contempt of the
dismay the unhappy man manifested. The Rev. Ordi•
nary at this juncture commenced reading the Burial
Service; and at that part of this sublime Revelation of
the Apostle--" He that believeth in me, though he be
dead, yet shall live," Williams smiled again; but Eagles
prayed aloud, and repeatedly called upon Heaven for
mercy, and as he ascended the scaffold continued his eja•
culations. Saunders was the second who appeared on the
drop; he seemed nearly in a state of stupor. Williams
was the last brought out ; he slowly and steadily walked
up the steps to the scaffold, and the only observation he
was heard to make during the whole of the preparations
for that awful scene, was a direction to rye his necker-
chief over his eyes; he gave this order to the erects-
tiouer with a loud and firm voice; such was that un-
happy man's firmness of nerve, that nothing could
subuue him.

At a quarter past eight o'clock, the Reverend Ordi-
nary, Mr. Cotton, gave the signal, the drop inst,antiy
fell, and the three victims to justice, in a few moments
after, had passed into eternity. They struggled but little.
The crowd wits very great, and more orderly than usual.
Yesterday, an order was sent to Newgate from the
Secretary of St4te's Offi.e respiting, during his Ma-
jesty's pleasure, Joseph Brown, who vas to have been
executed this day along with the above persons.
It was currently reported here, on Wednesday last,
that a duel had been fought near Turnchapel, and that one of the
party had fallen a victim, having been billed on the spot by his ad-
versary's shot. On inquiry, we found that though a duel bad been
fought, the result, as repotted, was not true. The parties ate
31r. M—Lv, R.N. and a Air. P of Stonelsouse. The oc-
Csierence took place at Mount Batten. Both were wounded, but
neither eery seriously—one in the right arm, and the ether in the
abdomen- The meeting arose from # quarrel about the Ladies. It
has given rise to a deal of coneereatioa in these towns.—Pronnirk
Ifchvd.

I. KW ttneIPOOTCE
tt.
COURT OF KING'S SllNOH„lifer
Thirbeing the last 'day of Teem, the Court was oc
espied, detain the early part of the morning, in hewing
smetioos of no public interest.
. J • aseitecs or °moan.
thoraisi of die beedinen of the Bar were called upon to proceed
swish their inetieeei bet in consequence of the absence of Mr.
Caspent, who wee elegised in the same causer, they were cons.
joint to pall ossiii dem
•As *non as the lia Cum Jotruce had gone through the Bar,
be Observed, that if Counsel were not present to attend to their
hoiess, he could clot help it. II there was nothing to go on with
after he had given the judgments in his paper, the Court would cer-
Ztrtaiinastro—His Lordship then proceeded to pass judgment in the
use of
OARNITT V. ItARRAWD.
The Court then proceeded to give judgment in the
above case, which was an action brought to try the right
of *porting proceedings at a Coroner's Inquest. The
fame of the case were, that the plaintiff who is con-
nected with the Manchester Guardian, attended a Co-
rimer's Inquest at Oldham, fur the purpose of report-
ing the proceedings, and was foreftsly ejected from the
room by the Ceroner,upon which hebrought his action
of trespass, under the Impression that the Coroner's
Court was in open Courts.
• The LORD Cam Joevice, in pronouncing the judg-
ment of the Courrobserved, that the Coroner's Court
was a Court of Record, and that he and his Learned
Brothers were unanimously of opinion, that no action
could lie against a Judge of a Court of Record, for any
act committed in the exercise of his judicial functions.
This fieoilcon from actin* was given to Judges, not so
mooch for their own sakes, as for the sake of the pubr
that their thoughts being free, their judgments might
be independent. In particular cases, too, it was cm=
tainly desirable that the proceedings at a Coroner's
Inquest should not be made public. It was a pre-
paratory proceeding, and its publication in some in-
stances might defeat the ends of justice, by informing
the accused party of the nature of the evidence against
him, and thus giving him an opportunity to escape, or
to suborn witnesses. In other instances, the publica-
tion of a part of the proceedings might be improper,
as an offence against public decency. In fact, the
Court could contemplate a variety of instances in which
the publication of the proceedings at a Coroner's In-
quest might do injury and could do no good. Then
who should have the power of deciding when those
instances occurred, but the Coroner) and the Coroner
alone? Under all the -circumstances, the Court were
decidedly of opinion that the power of exclusion
from a Coroner's Court was necessary to the due ad-
ministration of justice, and therefore that the plaintiff
could not maintain an action against the Coroner, for
the exercise of a power with which the law invested
him. In conclusion, the Court referred to the case of
Hammond tt. the Recorder of London, where the Fore-
man of a Jury was imprisoned by the Recorder; and
yet the Court of Common Pleas maintained that no
action could lie, as the Recorder bad acted, however
improperly, in his judicial sittutioo.

STONE V. MASSE.
Lord TiNTSEDZS gave the judgment of the Court
in this case. It was a forgery committed by H. Root.
leroy, and the proceeds 16,0001. being carried to the
account of Marsh and Co. the action was brought
against that firm. It was contended that the debt
merged in the felony, aod, therefore, that the firm was
not liable. The Court now decided that the Defendants
could not protect themselves from liability by chewing
felony epos the part of one of their own partners, and,
therefore, the judgment of the Court was in favour of
the Plaintiffs.

TES ZISO V. TROIKAS IRADLIT,
Mr. TATI.Oa shewed cause against a Rule Nisi, ob.
tained on a former day by the Attorney-General, for a
criminal information against the defendant, late Colonel
of the 2d West India Regiment, for an alleged libel on
General Fuller, late Commander-in-Chief of Jamaica,
published in arch last, in a Morning Paper, in a pub-
lic letter to the Duke of Wellington, imputing to Ge-
neral Fuller that he had joined in a conspiracy with
other distinguished officers to stifle an inquiry into cer-
lain proceedings, to which Colonel Arthur, Commander
of the forces at Honduras in 1814, was a party, and
by which the defendant had sustained great in-
jury, both in his character as an Officer and a Gentle-
man, and had been unjustly deprived of his commission.
In other letters, privately addressed to the General, the
defendant had imputed to him, that. in order to screen
Colonel Arthur in an action brought by the defendant
aigainst that Officer for false imprisonment, in 1814, the
General had given Colonel Arthur a commission par-
porting to bear date in that year; whereas, in fact. it
was only made out for the purposes alluded to. The
Learned Counsel now entered at coesiderable length
into the circumstances of the case, and contended that,
inasmuoh as the defendant had acted without malice,
and under the impression of Ids owl mind, that the Ge-
neral was privy to the injuries of which he complained,
it was not a case calling for the extraordinary memo-
sitioo of the Court by criminal information, and these-
fore he trusted that the prosecutor would be left toms!'
redress by the ordinary proceedings of justice.
The ATTORIIIIT GENZAAN in support of the Rule,
was stopped by the Court.
Lord Miramar —We think this Rafe must be made
absolute. This is almost the only course that could
well have been taken by General Fuller. If he had pre-
ferred an indictment, he would have been told that be
ought to have applied for a criminal information, for
then he must by affidavit have denied the truth of the
charges contained in the libel ; and if be had brought
an action, he would have been told that the defendant
could not defend himself, because the truth of the
libellous matter lay in the plaintiff's own breast.--
Rule absolute.

THE KING V. SIR WILLOUGHBY DMZ, BAIT.

Mr. RIADZIR appeared to shew cause in this case upon
affidavits, in answer to those upon which the motion to
admit the defendant to bail in the country was made.
At the suggestion of the Court (considering the nature
of the case), it was ordered that the matter should be
taken before MrJustice Bayky,at Chambers,to-morrow.
This being the last day of Term, the Court sat until a
late hour of the evening.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, like 23.
(tremors to *mica)
At the last Sittings at Guildhall, an action was
brought by Mr. Newton, the proprietor of a periodical
k, called The London Journal of Arts and
,Sciences,
against the defendants, the publishers of a week',
pamphlet, called l lie Register of Arts and Sciences, for
hawing pirated several prints or engravings, which had
been published in the plaintiff's work. The Jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeint WiLui
moved, and obtained, on a former day, a Rule to s eM
icause why the verdict should aot be set aside and a are..