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Star. — 1818-03-14 (London, England)

DNS ATTACK.—Tlitimiay night,  Matilda Emery Will walking along l iccadi friend's towards home, when a man, when appearance of a gentleman, address d her, She walked on without making any repl low her, and a second time addressed hat-, her very violently, which caws d her to before she could recover lwrself the ir.h; instrument into her side ; she screamed ' ground ; he ran offthe moomnt he had p' act. iler exclamation brought several pe, and they instantly pursued biro, but nub too great a di.nance to be overtaken. Th, St. George's Hospital by some strangers ; the wound, which is considered daugeto: &Ile, fr.oat this moment returned fins tragic scene. Ten wretched victims h the altar of offended justice, (convicted murder of the Lynch latttily) can ely, bell, Malone, 31‘Cabe, Craven, Kierm and Laurin. (hi the Craven  Campbell, confessed thAr guilt ; but beings declartd, in the most <ckmn that-4 they were innocent as the child which tLey were about to r.:fter ; :i-liac; were at the burning of V.",'  forgave their proaccutors and all the parently very penitent, and some of th fortitude worthy of better meta concourse of 20,040 persons, who aNst.: beholding the melancholy spec:ack. tims to be sus:it:toted in chairs at (.%T..../ three at a pace C fram Dundalk to Castleblayney.—Tie in this abominable catastrophe are rut 4 A few eights since, the slauzivoir of keel, in Ireand, was furci!dy taken frc named Donnal, snd has t ot since beer lb/. has been offered for their apprehe  Tuesday se'nniblat, the Derr): -Mail to of notes to the amount of 7,, GRAND HURLING .t CRICi:i minary arrangernents are Makin and Harlin& Match, after E.i. tween Engltsh and Iri h Cie  between tl.c Irishmen resi.le:.i. of the Metropolis. The Munster are to hurl against C. anti preparations will be made nessts t.f the sport, who .tre ex? " Where is the name said a tradesman to anaher through Cheapside the oil.er expedition. " Why," any where im the : • the name P Asti, to (.1,1 that I am entitled to; fcr you part of his lucky Number w ‘• " 'out," saidtl " hate?" " Because lam at, may he gone, and you know 1: and away he ran. COUNTRY DANAeux, N'arch ss. to 9 td—Vetch...s, t,t's od -r•er busht I —0.tt5,.28% Oil to 36s 0.1 rer cyar.rti 69s to utm per th:to.tl),' Audi pri". of ' —1 h. Itunrt,.r• Wheater, Is ' I Ut 31,11X.Y. per qumt, a., 5., to ;2,; 41..4 to iron—Yeas, 4.1 s to  f.; '4'  -111  I.ON LUN rrinted and put Teaapint'ar.   the leas Sir ‘ that th rested g:ven. I' Was vet el...bate. : was stiff greater read a The were u once to withou Sir 1 that pa that It g i strat Sir tented be sari captan del of ki..gsh th: FL it star Weilii ~ .. . mittee hirnse reconi rope, had n to Ire 1 to th leut ( the pi , to du • : Th S[ Sir nient i whicl. 1 i gistr. coin! pubT ii mem set f meal Justi -amb Sir 1 in th I t . clans, that i Ti , rive were II preal 111 1 prim ii.tri T. i Si tive 1. • a„a Bill shat 1 " ft 1 1 i isal .: 1 • " v I f see 1 tio *hi t 11F1 Pit 1101 • tx sib i • • w 4 i NV os 1.., i 1 P , . .4. ,
Star. — 1818-03-17 (London, England)

HIS FATHER.—Last night, at seven o'clock, an 1.., was taken in the Board Room, St. Thomas's Hospital, Borough,  on the body of John Faweett, jun. who died from the a shot he received by the hand of his father, on Friday ni Mary Ann Bush, aged eleven years, said she was the e of Mr. Bush, potatoe-dealer, corner of Joiner and Tooter On Friday night, a little before nine o'clock, she was in he. thee* shop, when John Fawcett, the elder, (now a prisoner Hoesemonger-line Jail,) came in and asked for her father. went immediately to the bottom of the stairs, knowing ti father, the deceased, and Mrs. Fawcett, her father's housekeeper. were up stairs, and she called " Father." He did not answ ' when she first called, and she called " Father" a second s' her father replied, " I am coming;" she said to Mr. " My father is coming down." Her father was on floor when she first called. The deceased, John Fawcett, down stairs, and as he was coming down the bottom sta3cett the elder fircd a pistol with his 11l hand, which he tt under a large white coat, at the deceased; the pistol was towards the deceased's left side. The deceased fell ul knees, and put his hand to his side : his father said " Oh rushed out of the house. A Mrs. Cummins followed 1," took hold of him; he forced himself out A her grasp, down a court, but was soon apprehended by Mr. Sped Mrs. Cummins corroborated the above evidence. Juryman.—" Do you know v.hether the stairs are so that the deceased could be seen by his father as he came  Witness continued.--" I have once examined the stairs: are very dark and winding. The father looked very piteous the deceased when he saw that he had wounded him.  Mr. William Speck, Attorney, Horsleydown, visited at the Watchhouse; Le told him that he had been used humanly by his wife and Bush. She had been married twenty years; he had had sixteen children by her, and tb happily before Bush became acquainted with her. He , his wife, and she supplied him with money, which the bread duced by its sale, and he could not thereby meet his den,Mr. Henry Speck, of Rotherhithe, corroborated the . ness's evidence, and added, that when he told the prisoner he had shot bis son, ha replied—" I am sorry for it." Mr. Bassett, of St. Thomas's Hospital, stated, that he ned the deceased, and found a large wound under the los on the lift side, about two inches in diameter. He attends all night, and administered those things likely to do him s He died neat day at two o'clock. He previously asked ceased, how he happened to be shot? He replied—" shot me in mistake for Bush." He did not think the believed himself in danger when he said so. The Jury having viewed the body, the CORONER them briefly. He said that the law would not justify a repaired to a house with an intention to murder one man, mistake killed another. The Jury, after about half an hour's deliberation, returned Verdict of infid Ma, der against John Fawcett, SC7I.
Star. — 1818-08-22 (London, England)

GEORGE MARMADUKE METCALF. On these '. names being put up in succession, the shew of hands was very great, nearly unanimous, fur Mr. Timm The other Candidates considered the opinion of the Livery so decidedly expressed, that they all resigned their pret,:asions without demanding a poll. Mr. ..I*3DIF was then duly elected ; and, after he had returned thanks, the-Hall was dissolved.  'Yesterday, as one of the dtays of Messrs. Barclay and Co. was proceeding along Star-court, Bert:pond:Cy, one of the wheels came in.contact with a cart, which was standing by the side of the road ; the cart was upset by the shock, and a man who was inside hid both his legs broke.  Saturday, as a person named Kelly, was conveying a raft of timber down the Shoreham River, he by some accident fell off into the water, when owing to the shallowness of the tide, he was jammed to death. Wednesday morning, an oyster salesman, at Billingsgate, took three 11. and.one 51. notes, the whole of whirl. on lying presented at the Bank, proved to be forgeries.  HvssEv's CoNvEssm);.—Considerable doubts arc entertained as to the correctress of II ussey's statement. Mr, SMITH, the Magistrate, of Greenwich, and other Gentlemen, are still persevering in endeavouring to ascertain the most correct information on the subject. On Wednesday, they employed, some men in clearing out the pond near Vansittart's Place, Greenwich, in search of the mallet which Hussey said he threw into the pond with the hammer, both of which instruments he pr;:tended to have been used by his companions who entered Mr. Bird's house. The whole of the mud and dirt was taken out of the poad,• in the presence of several Police Officers, &c. but no Mallet. nor any appearance cf one, was found. The Bow-street officers and others who saw the mangled hodies of Mr. Bird and his housekeeper on their being washed from the stains of blood, allege, that there was every reason to believe that all the wounds on both of the bodies had been inflicted with the same' instrument, and t'i'e impression of the wounds resembled that which would be produced from the hammer.' The confession states, that while one of Hussey's coiny,anions wits engaged with the housekeeper at the reet-door, the other man broke his way into the sidedoor: whereas, on Adkins and Lavender, the Bowstr,;et :,fficers, arriving there, in a very short time after t!ie first alarm, with all possible speed, were of opinion that there had been neither breaking in nor breaking out of the house. It is said, that Hassey assigned as a reason to the Rev. Mr. Emon, for his tot milking a confession sooner, that he and his associates 'had sworn such horrid oaths not to impeach etch other, that he was frightened even to repeat them :•and he inquired of the 11ev. Mr. litinuE, if he thought he should be forgiven hereafter if he broke the oath he had taken, not so divulge any thing respecting the transaction? It is still suspected that' t'le murderer gained admittance into. Mr. Bird's house a )olt nine o'clock„ ,At six o'clock the same evening a itamictiocked. at the door, and the housekeeper pu; up the 'Chain before :,he answered hita. • .
Star. — 1818-10-01 (London, England)

HATTON-0/11DEN.—Yesterday (1 ert Leonora, his wife, were brought heft, strates of Hatton-garden Police-office, cruelty to their own child, a very consequence of an anonymous hater ad, Magistrates of Hatton-garden, fiend, c lice-officers, was sent to search the hoe soners inTisher-street, Red Liu.fll guar found the boy naked in a garret, and post by a leather belt fastened round ld evidence of the lodgers proved that been kept in that -state for several rn bread and water, and frequently beitca The parish having undertaken to prolci nesses were bound over to appear (z th: the prisoners were committed to Clcri until they found good-and sufficient b.; was ordered that 21 hours notice shall!  CORONER'S IIiQUEST.—.-Yesterday an held at the Spread Eagle, Sc. Giles's,' on Joanna Duggin, a child, whose death sr by strong liquors given to het by a sv Ellen Bryan. It appeared from the et parents and sister a the deceaml, tha the child out about half past seven on ning, and returned about nine o'clock. down ths child it could not stars. Br: what she had done and the child sa drank two glasses of gin, one of rum, at ment, and a share of tsvo pots of porter ~trew very ill, and died in the course l yan had betort taken her out and may in consequence of which she had been body of the child was opened, and the found to be greatly inflamed. The Jut verdict of—Wilful Murder.  DIVIDENDS to be made zt GUILD  Oct. Mt B. Pellowe, Falmouth, mercer. ate. S. Morand, Deanotreet, Finsbury-square, mere Oct. 17, A. L. Pfeil and E. A. Van Voor.t. K. Within, merchants, at en. Ort. 31, J. NlAsea Chambers, Leadenhall-street, merchant, at ter Scholefield and T. W. Kershaw, Greenwich, I tea. Oct. 30, F. Kelly, Black Lion.lanc, P.. 1 at tea. Oct. 30, W. Bolliag and J. Seliwood, linen-drapers, at ten. DID 101;NDS to be made in the MC  Oct. 27, W. Alien, Westgate, near NC•V nursery and seedsman, at eleven, at the Ge. upon-Tyne. Oct.aa, J. Eccles, Penkridge, S. cer, at eleven, at the George, Stafford. Oct. mon, Birmingham, pencil-maker, at twelve, at Birmingham. Oet. 21, It. Broughall, Sturm eleven, at tPe Talbot, Shrewsbury. Oct. 21, J. bary, Ilaz-spinner, at eleven, at the Talbot, SW 22, W. Love, Huddersfield, shop-iteefer, at ti lington, Huddersfield. Oct. 20, J. lrevor ar Whittharcts, Salop. 54:,kers, at eleven, at the I. cluirch. Oct. 20, It..llnni, East Holey, lie at ten, at the King's Head, Thatchnn. 0: Thatcham, Berkshire, Ina-keeper, a: ten, at ri Tbatcham. Oct. 20, R. Adman, jun. I...ekba 'aldre,, fanner, at eleven, at the Kir's Head, TI 110, W. Adman, Harwell, Btrk.hire, King's Head, Th.nch.m. Oct. 21, J. Holna brazier, at ten, at the White Bear, ?lateen v; Pitts, Thorpe Abbott% Na folk, mcrchar.t, a, 2.• Inn, &a.. Oct. 24, W. B^.!•n1, Birmißha twelve, at the White llotge Ittrairkkam. 0. Bradshaw, Lancaster, tallinv-chandlers, Anne., Lancaster. CERTIFICATr _S __roars SD.  C. Jenden' NVorthinr, sad.l..r. I'. tiricv Strand, dialer. T. Spencer, :tit -.cheater, au J. Quint, Tooky-strcut,cvirr ar.d bnirit-:nereL:.! Stockport, Plallauturcr. J. iluiford, monger.
Star. — 1818-09-07 (London, England)

GARROW.--" Gentlemen of the Jury, this case is so dark and intricate, perhaps you will laink it safest to acquit the prisoner."—Not Guilty. Judge—" Let him be dicharged." Anothyr case of theft and breaking from jail, which terminated in conviction and sentence of transportation for seven years, and an insolvent debtor, occupied the Court for a long time. Jo/in Painter, aged 61, was tried for having burglariously broken into a shop, at Child's Wickhant, and stolen one, quartern loaf, value one shilling. h was proved that he-had lifted up the latch. He was convicted of the burglary and theft. When the Judge was proceeding to pronounce sentence of death,, tlse horror of the immense multitude of 'Newham was most visibly and could not be fully repressed. Isis  Lordship intimated that he-might expect some mi-iJ tigaxion. * "ri Richard r,ellims, aged SS, end -Mary teak^ •his wife, aged 41, wereatied-for stealing in a dwellingLouse, under the value of 40s. was "conViceed she, as acting in his presence, *as =quitted. he was sentenced to transportation for 14. years, she earnestly implored to lie ails:owed to accompany him. She is good looking, and seenntd tin Sid and modest. , James Gardner .was condemned to death for sheep stealing, without hope of mitlgation.• it-Was a *singular circumstance in his .ease, .that he had . appointed a day for die-oak-of thasheep befote he had stolen them. The last trial of the day was that of Thomas Drr-i7s, aged 44. There were three indictments against him for an assault on three girls, on the same day, one aged three years, the other two, and the last five.— He was tried only on two. In the first instance he was convicted of a common ssault, in the second of an assault with intent.to commit a rape. The scehe of this unparalleled atrocity was the garden of the Cross Keys, Cheltenham. For the first offence he was sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months, for the second for eighteen months more ; he was, besides, ordered to be privately whipped on Saturday se'nnight, and the whipping was ordered to be a serious punishment. • The enraged mother of one of the infants stated, that she had been anxious to have him tossed in a blanket, or thrown into the horse-pond. The ruffian had knocked her down. •  Mr. Baron GARROW said bet rage was most na• turAl, but it should not be so in-directed. Had he been drowned in the horse•pond, she would be answerable for murder. She saw now that Courts of Justice could tike cognizance of such brutal conduct. None could have knocked down a woman but the ruffian who was capable of assaulting an infant. The following prisoners received sentence of death : Dairy Moreton, aged 20, fee burglary; Thomas King, aged Sit ; • David James, aged la ; John Stone, aged 211; and Jacob Qsvely, aged Se, all for stealing in dwelling-houses; also Wm. smith, aged 13, for horao-stealing. Ko hops of mitigation 1v.% held out.
Star. — 1810-09-13 (London, England)

CUMBERLAND ASSIZES, SEPTEMBER 5. Sarah Bushly was Charged with the wilful murder of her male bastard child -- The prisoner lived with Holmes Morley, of little Corby, whose service she entered at Whitsunday, 1809. From Lammas till May 1, 1810, it was the general conversation of the prisoner's neighbours, that she was pregnant. The aunt and brother of the prisoner, about 6 or 7 weeks previous to the Ist of May, took her to Mr. Holmes, a surgeon, who gave it as his opinion, that the prisoner was with child ; but she denied it.—On the 30th April the prisoner was visited by her aunt about nine o'clock in the evening, who remained till eleven; she proposed continuing all night, but the prisoner told the witness that her maser was unwilling. About four o'clock in the morning, William Elliott, who was in the employment of the prisoner's master, had occa,ion to go to his house, where the door was opened for him by the prisoner. She appeared considerably reduced in size, lo,,ked very poorly, and had a cloak about her. A little after five, the prisoner's aunt repeated her visit, and interrogated the prisoner on the subject of having born a child, which she acknowledged she had, ‘, but that it was dead, for any thing she knew " About seven, Mr. Holmes, SLITgIIO2, accompanied by a constable,visited the prisoner, and found her in bed, and being satisfied in his own naiad that the prisoner had born a child, charged her ith it. -Leave not having been obtained from the prisoner's master to search his house, applicatip&was made to a Magistrate, and a search wart, having been -bbt-ained, the Constable, attended by Henry Faster, *boot one o'clock the santeday, proceeded to • anAketbeateceisary investigation. • A Alposkii witness, askantecing theism, saw a bap - • t).l •. . : • - . • .  ,`.  4t  'of chaff lying against the wall. This, it appears, excited.his susplciOn, and he put his hand into :t, and brought out a dark-coloured gown, pinned. in 1 welch WAS irclosod the body of a nerd bon male child, dead.- This he brought into the, kitchen., ijnd the surgeon. being a Second time sent for, .foiniti sPe child lying on the kitchen table. He described the child as having been laM on its back in dun,.,+, tt..e belly was covered with chaff; there was a small mark on the cheek, on the neck a great degree of redness. Its mouth was filled with dung, which was in a very dry state—and which witness thought was horse dung. It appeared c-miprcssed, and in the opinion of the witness was sufficient to have produced suffocation.  The Learned Judge, in summing up the evidence, directed the attention of the Jury to the consideration of two particulars ; first, whether the prisoner had barn the child alive ; and, secondly, whether she had been its murderer ? --Verdict, Not Guilty. Against William Masterman, charged with shooting and wounding Corporal Thomas Nun, of the Suff .1k Militia, the indictment was abandoned, on account of insanity. James Farber and Hannah Grape were then sentenced to death, but were afterwards reprieved.
Star. — 1810-08-06 (London, England)

WINCHESTER, AUGUST S.  John Britton, Captain of the West India Rangers, I was indicted for the wilful murder of his son, George Britton, by beating and kicking him about the body. The circumstances of this case are as follow Tke prisoner was commanding officer at Niton barracks, in the Isle of Wight, and his son, who was described as a fine boy, ten years of age, was brought up under his own eye. It was proved by two fe:nale witnesses that the prisoner was severe in his correction of the deceased, as he applied a walking-stick or a tope to his back without mercy, and that, too, daily. It was stated by these witnesses, and confirmed by several others, that the cause of these merciless beatings was in consequence of the deceased being dull at his book, the prisoner having undertAken to educate him. It was allowed by all the witnesses, that s: hen the priso• ner was not employed in teaching his 513119 lie was a very fond father. A youth, of the name of Wilson, who is an Ensign, and who was quartered in the barracks at Mum, proved several acts of severe correction administered to the deceased by his father, on the 29th and 30-h of. April, and the Ist of May ; but on the latter day this witness saw the prisoner kick the deceased violently on the loins on the left side; and on his remnoslrating with him, he said that he had only kicked him with the side of his foot on the stomach, which could ne• hurt him. These and other acts of severity were fully established by Eve witnesses. Mr. Powell, a surgeon, who opened the body of the deceased, proved that the prisoner had informed him that he thought his child had died in cons: quence of his having scolded him for not repeating his le: spits, and he acknowledged hating beaten him. On examining the body, the deceased appeared to have b.:en bruised &cm his neck to 1 i heels, with a blunt ins-rnmen, such as a sfck or a Is:. There was a recent wound under the ribs on the left side. The kidn and lungs were much inflamed, and witness had .r.o doubt that the mortification which was the cause his death, ensued from d e contusions on the Wick which were the aggregate of several days heating.— Witness could not state that a m"re recent blow which appeared on the g..oin was :h! catue of death, n)r would he hazard an opinion that any particular contusion was the cause of death, but 1 e believed, froni the general appearance of the body, that mortificationlad ensued from the repetition of ill treatment. The case was here ended, as the indictment stared the defendant to have been killed on a specific day, when it turned out that he died of the aggregate ill treatment he had received on several days, and the chastisement inflicted on him on any one day would would not have been sufficient to have caused death. The Judge consequently directed the acquittal of the prisoner.
Star. — 1815-09-21 (London, England)

MURRAY. _  The defendant was a navy agent, and upon being examined, he admitted, that he had an order on the Treasury for fifteen shillings a week, payable every until hitcher order. It was paid to him from 'lBO7 to 1814, and then he gave teceipts to a person who furnished his house, who received the money since. Mr. PRINCE SNIMI contended that this should be inserted in the schedule. Mr. l'ou.r.cK igu(d, that it was a mere gratuity from Government, for some secret service., which Might at any time be withdrawn. Mr. Serjeant IturiNoicron said, as it had been so long received, it was clearly a beneficial interest in the defendant, rtr.d he ought to assign it. lie was allowed to inert it in his schedule in Court.  Sundry se'onight, a man of the name of Dwr,r, Ty the Proctor to the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, of Cionoulty, was barbarously murdered near Dun drum. A man of the name of Money, who has lel: a widow and large family, was killed in a riot near on the evening of Thursday se'Lnight. He had been in that town, at a ',age ass-..mblage of rersons awning themselves beholding tumblers anti mountebanks, who dispose "of lottery tickets, aid give prizes of clocks, watches, silver cups, cows, sheep, &c. In the course of this entertainment, a! party quarrel arose, which terminated as above. .1 A few evenings since a young woman named Anne Panley, who had come by the coach from Buckland, in Dorsetshire, on her way to the service of a family hi town, was met by a fellow inlCuthtsbridge, where the coach, had stopped.a.short when he accosted her, and inquired if:she waa not the person who was on her way at her new .place ? she •replied in the affirmative, and, he having examined, the card affixed to her trunk, said it was all right, and as he was ordered to meet her he wished to take 'her the nearest way.. He then proposed carrying her trunk, and led her through the Green Park into St. James's, along the Pagoda Bridge, and into West. minster, where, after taking a number of turns, he stopped at a house next a gateway. Here he desired her to remain, while he went in the backway and deposited the trunk, when he would afterwards let her in by the front doOr. The credulous girl waited nearly half an hour, and no door being opened, nor her pre. tended new fellow servant appearing, she at length knocked at the door, and stated the circumstance, but discovered too late that she had been grossly imposed upon. The gateway through which the Miriader passed having led to another street, he naturally , escaped. The situation of the poor girl, an utter stranger, may easily be conceived, deprived as she wes by this nefarious act of her little all. In her trunk were contained some Bank-notes and silver, a pair of ear-rings, a broods, and some family trinkets, and valuable articles of wearing apparel.