Star. — 1811-08-17 (London, England)

ARMAGH. The following trials took place at the Armagh , Assizes Hugh Brereton, alias Briers, for feloniously uttering and publishing as true, a forged note of the Belfast Bank of Messrs. Gordon, Batt, Houston, and Craw! ford. Guilty—to be hanged oa Tuesday the 20th August. I Timothy Bell, for feloniously publishing as true, a note of the bank of Messrs. Gordon, Batt, Houston, and Crawford, which had been feloniously altered from • two pounds to ten ; and also for publishing as true, a note of the bank of Messrs, Montgomery, Hama• ton, Orr, and Sloan, which had been altered front one pound to two. Guilty—to be hanged same day as Brereton. Loughlin Kennan, for falsely pretending•and affirming that one John M'Parlan was a deserter, and thereby obtaining from Leonard Dobbin, Esq. the ProCollector, the sum of one pound. Guilty—to be transported for seven years. It appeared is evidence that M'Parlan, after his • being apprehended as a deserter, was sent to the regiment which Kennan asserted he had deserted from, and from thence he was ordered to Spain, where he served the whole campaign under Sir John Moore, and was at the memorable battle of Corunna, and afterwards served under Lord Wellington. On it being discovered, however, that he was not a deserter, nor ever had been enlisted, an immediate order was se.t . by Government to the army for his return. • George Timing, indicted for feloniously disposing of a bank note of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland. The witness against him was Willian Steenson, an approver, who had been ernpioyed by Tipping to circulate the note for him, and on the table he contradicted every fact swore to in, his information. Tipping was consequently acquitte 1, and a bill of indictment sent up against Swenson, lon which he was convicted and sentenced to be pil-1 loried, and then to be transported for 7 years.  The trial of Charles Lee and John Oughton, at Warwick Assizes, for the wilful murder of John Whitton, at Kenilworth, so long. ago as the year 1799, attracted much attention in the Court. on Tuesday last. Oughton was acquitted, and the Jury returned a verdict of Manslaugh= against C./Lee. Before the Judge left York, at the conclusion of the late Assizes, he was pleased to order the execution of William Hodgson for a rape, to be respited until the 23d of November. His Lordship also reprieved six others who had severally received sentence of death. In a former paper we gave an account of a supposed murder in Lancashire, related by a boy in tire County Bridewell. He has confessed the whole to be a fiction he invented on ship-Isoard, in order to be sent on shore. He is sent back to the Port Admiral at Plymouth.—Exeter Paper. The horse and gig stolen from the Nursery, New. road, St. Mary-la-bonne, about two o'clock in the imorning of the 29th July, were taken to Seagrove, a village in Leicestershire, 120 miles from London, by ten o'clock the same night. The robbers were detected there, and taken back to Leicester, where they were tried, and one of them, William Martin, cast for death ; but he has since been reprieved for transportation. The Essex Assizes proving maiden, by no convict being left for execution, the Sheriff, CHARLES SMITH, Esq. presented the customary offering of a pair of white gloves, silver fringed, to each of the Judges. A dog-stealer was committed on TuesL'ay fro n Marlborough-street Police-otfice, for having stolen a pointer, which he had sold to a Mr. Nightingale for eight guineas. He had sold the dog again to an t er Gentleman, of whom it was owned by Mr. N an I it turned out that the dog was originally stolen t,,,An Hounslow ; and the prisoner confi s ed having st, e and sold the dog five several times In one zu