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Star. — 1808-09-01 (London, England)

EING STAR.  LONDON.  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1.  The public are in general in a mistake respecting Bilboa, and believe that the French continued to occupy the place. The fact is, as stated in the STAR of Tuesday, after exercising their rapacity and cruelty upon the inhabitants, they returned again to Vittoria, carrying their booty along with them. The public are extremely anxious to receive intelligence from Lisbon, and the general hope is, that the first accounts will announce the surrender of General Juxor. It is not likely, however, that in this their hopes will be realised. Government, we understand, do not expect this event for some time. Juxor, it is ascertained, has not only rendered his position very strong, but had laid in a considerable supply of provisions the moment he saw indications of the present struggle ; and it is known that General WELLESLEY'S instructions were, to proceed against him with every requisite precaution, and to precipitate nothing in a contest with a man who is acknowledged to be one of the best Generals in the service of France. This is sound policy. A letter from a British Officer, at the head-quarters of the Gallician army, gives the following account of the barbarities committed by the French after the action at Rio Seco on the 14th July At Rio Seco, immediately after the action, the town was plundered, and 600 persons, priests, friars, nuns, women, and children, were massacred in cold blood ; no age, no sex was spared ; the nunnery was broken open, and the nuns violated and murdered. —After stealing every thing they could find, in order to get more, they literally took away the infant children, and made their parents redeem them. A Spanish Officer, who was wounded in three places, was taken before General LA SALLE by one of the dragoons ; the General abused him grossly, and order( d the soldier to cut him down ; he obeyed : the /sung man put up his hands to save himself, and they were both almost cut off from his arms ; he fell, and when the dragoon was going :away, the General called him back, and said, the blackguard still lived, and ordered him to be shot.— The ball passed between his arm and his body, and the Officer, who was upon his knees, threw himself down as if he had been killed. This poor young gentleman crawled away in the night, and yesterday was brought to the army. " Another officer who was wounded, and joined yesterday, declared to General BLAKE, that in the neighbourhood of Rio Seco, when the French were retiring, eight soldiers of .their grenadiers, Who now allow their beards to grow, to impose upon the lower class of people, entered the house of a man, whom they seized, and, before his face, one after another, violated his wife, cut off her breasts, ripped her body open, and then murdered the husband ! ! ! " Such savage cruelty has scarcely ever been recorded. This army, I think, seems determined to give no quarter."
Star. — 1808-11-11 (London, England)

BAYONNE, OCTOBER 22. By letters received from the interior of Spain, it appears that the unbridled fury of the revolutionary commotions begins to flag of itself, and that the power supposed to be possessed by the fit st instigators of them, begins to exhaust itself from its own violence. We even learn, that amidst the fury of the first ex• cesses perpetrated in some places against the French, several towns had declared in favour of measures more consonant to the dictates of humanity. At Alicant, for instance, our countrymen have got off with three months imprisonment. The ringleaders, it is true, demanded their heads but the firmness cf the Governor and his secretary prevented the execution of the cruelties intended by the insurgents. Justice also requires that it should be known, that the Religious Ministry was honoured by the zeal of the Canon Santo, and a Dominican, ulto greatly exerted themselves to preserve the French from the fury of the mob. Their property was secured by being placed tinder sequestration, acid there is every reason to hope that it will be restored upon the entrance of the Imperial army. Numerous bodies of the insurgents disv'rse themselves upon the approach of the feeblest rench corps. All that had arrived at Alicant in their way to defend Valencia, separated from each other without so much as waiting for a sight of the French. After the bloody scenes which took place at Valencia, the Junta fortunately again assumed the supreme authority, and caused many of the 1200 brigands, who took a part in these assassinations, to be apprehended and executed. This sentence was carried into effect in the night, and next morning their bodies were exposed in the street with this inscription : 4, For murdering the French, and committing theft and other excesses." It appears, however, that such enormities took place only in the kingdom of Valencia ; and that at Cadiz, Seville, Malaga, and other cities, the French have been treated with every degree of respect. According to some reports, the English are negociating a treaty with the Emperor of Morocco, which stipulates, that the latter shall, in case of necessity, supply them with an army of 80,000 men, who are to pass the Straits of Gibraltar, and land in Spain.— We are as yet at a loss to say whether this intelligence is gravely stated, or whether it is a piece' of irony meant to exemplify the expedients to which the English are compelled to have recourse. We have received no news by the last post from Spain. We learn only, that General Lasalle had pushed on to Haro, where he came up with, and cut in pieces from three to four thousand insurgents, almost all of them students and monks, who took the silly denomination of the Literary Battalion. A number of them were made prisoners. Generals Blake and de la Romana are still at Bilboa, where they will be attacked by a strong division of the French that has been assembled at Durango. A single battle, if they only dare hazard it, will be sufficient to annihilate those doughty Castilians, who hitherto have done nothing but fly before our troops in all directions.
Star. — 1819-10-09 (London, England)

PARIS, OCTOBER S.  An important affair will shortly occupy the Tribunals of Bourdeaur. M. Noguez has deposed, that in the month of July last, M. le Bouteiller offered him the situation of Lieutenant on board the ship Atalanta, belonging to Messrs. Mieussens, Roze, and Co. telling him at the same time, that the ship, on leaving the river, would attack every trading vessel she encountered, of whatever nation, preferring always those' that traded with India, because they were generally laden with specie. Three ships of Bourdeaux, which were preparing to sail with rich cargoes, were marked out to be the first attacked. Noguez says, that he accepted the offer for the purpose of frustrating this criminal enterprize, and, in pursuance of this intention, he, in a few days after, communicated to the Commissioner of the Navy all the details with which he was acquainted.  •On the Bth of August M. Noguez was presented to M. Roze. A meeting was appointed in-a public garden, where all the Chiefs of the Expedition assembled. It was then determined that the Atalanta was. to be equipped en corsaire, with all possible diligence, for the purpose of sailing from the river, in company with the Sophia. This ship was known to contain a million of piastres. She was to be carried in the night by boarding, and being pillaged, was to be sunk, with every perso non board her. The same principle was to be pursued in All their subsequent enterprises, and when prudence required them to return to France, they were to give a fete to the crew on a desert island, and murder all whose discretion should be suspected. Some persons have been arrested, but they engage to refute, victoriously, all the allegations piefeged against them. •  The Paris Papers of Wedneiday have also arrived this forenoon. The intelligence _which they- contain from Cadiz continues to be of a very melancholy description. The following is the latest Official Bulletin of the progress of the Epidensy:  Cadiz 14, 15, and 16th Sept: isle de Leon 12, 13, 14, —The disease has also burst out at Port St. Marie, which has been equally abandoned to its own resoarces, and all communication with it interdicted. Cadiz does not now contain a single regulai soldier, the whole of the intended expeditionary army having dispersed itself throughout the towns of Andalusia. The town of Xeres is so wisely strict in its precautionary measures, that it even refused admission to Count CALDERON, the Governor of the Province, when on his way from Cadiz to Aras, where he has etAblished his head-quarters.—kive per Cents. TuestLiy, (i)fr. 80c.  - 95 deaths. - - 141.  Sunday morning her Excellency the Countess TAL• sor was safely delivered of a sou, at Dublin Castle.  Psince LEOPOLD is now at Derby. His Rapti Highness was present at the Grand Musical Festival there, of which his Glace the-Duke of DEVONSMRE is the Patron.  The two greatest planters of trees in Perthshire, and perhaps in Scotland, are the Duke of Arum, and the Larl of BREDALBANE Each of these Noblemen, we are informed, has planted 60,000,000 trees!  II 1 ,  ILI
Star. — 1819-08-17 (London, England)

OTREET--r-Yetterday an investigation took place into, a robbery that was committed at the Opera House on Saturday. A pocket-book containing a draft for L 45 on Cos and Greenwood, and some othe papers, had been taken from the person of Mr. Higgins,. of Beaumont-street. A man who stated himself to be a ticket porter at the Inner Temple gate, presenting the draft, was taken into custody, and committed as having the stolen property without bcing able to produce the thief, or to prove that be was ignorant of its being stolen. Ten young men were convicted of bathing in the Regent s Canal on Sunday morning after 7 o'clock, the-hour allowed by the Company. CHARGE or A RAf&—Captain Mills, of Chelsea, vas charged with a rape on Hannah Whitehorn, a girlof only 15 years of age, at the time she lived as a servant in his house. The charge was brought forward by the girl's parents, she beulg, it was said, unable to attend in consequence of the ill-treatment she had received, and the disease with which she was infected. This was confirmed by Mr. Campbell, a medical student, and*Mr. Fincham, a medical Gentle-, man of Spring-gardens, who had examined the girl. The Captain denied the charge most positively, and entreated that Mr. Astley Cooper might be allowed to examine the girl. He stated himself to be a Magistrate, a housekeeper, and offered to give bail to any amount : Mr. Drummond, his banker, would be bas hail.—He was committed for re-examination.  The execution of Edward Broadbent, of Horsham, On Friday, for the murder of Serjeant Watson, at Brighton noticed in nur Paper of yesterday, was accompanied with the following distressin circumstance :—When the wretched mandroppe his handkerchief as a signal that he was prepared. r. Smart, the jail-keeper, ordered the man who was at the head of the horse to move on, which he did not appear to understand, and the unfortunate man finding no attention paid to his signal, threw himself from the cart. when, .dreadful to relate, the noose being bunglingly fornned, the rope slipped, and lowered the poor fella w so .that his toes rested on the ground. The jailer **proposed to untie him, adjust the rope, and turn the sufferer off again ; but one of the officers of the Sheriff called aloud for a spade, which could not be procured for some minutes, but it was at length brought, when the ground was dug frOm under his feet, which were held up by the executioner, during the Operation, and at this period the acute sufferings of the dying man were made manifest by a deep groan. The concourse of spectators upon the melancholy ociasiOn was unusually small, in number not more thp ahimsireii. consisting chiefly of boys and girls. _ . . ... Yesterday *ming, I yang man of the name of Wheeler, abOut 17. years Of age.. went tobadai is the! reservoir belonging to thg Capal; near MaiLtio-lixe,, Battle-bridge, when he hailscezeely'entered the wap ter before he slipped down, and; did not rise again It is lamentable to remark, that {Our lads have been. drowned in the same piece of water within' the last ri.ontli.
Star. — 1819-08-04 (London, England)

EXECUTION IN PRUSSIA.—The following is an extract of a private letter from Berlin, dated July 23 : " A murder. comrni!ted five months ago, under circumstances of all aggravated nature, was doomed this day to be expiated by the death of the offender. An old man engaged in jewellety 1 and watch-making, and residing in a populous horse (many fa.. milieu, as in Parise here inhabiting the sumo house) in Berlin, was musdered in the dead of the night by a man in whom be placed contitree, and whom he had formerly supported by hts bounty. The executions of the Prussian Capital take place about an English quarter of a mile from the gate of Oranienburg. A triangular gibbet is raised in the centre of an extensive plain commanding a view of the city ; attached to this gibs bet is a stone platform, lightly railed in with iron, so as to admit of all that takes place being distinctly viewed by the surrounding spectators. A large grave was dug in the front of it. The fetbund was kept by a detachment of Prussian Lancers, formed in hol'ow square, and enfiladed round the execution place by an haler square of the Infantry Guard. About half an hour before the aFpcnrtnce of the criminal, twelve persons, emceedont ts and police-officers, and two little boys as assistants, mounted the scaffold, and fixed the strangling cords. At length the buz of the surrounding mult:tude, the flourishing of naked sabres, and the gallop:ng of the Officers, announced the slow approach of the.crimim I t.pon a hurdle drawn by six horses. On his approach the word of eonimand flew through the ranks, the alms presented, the drums heat, and colours and lancers` flags were raised, until he had mounted the scaffold. Dsring the yet short moment that remained for him to make his last, his espiring peace with his effLeded Maker, no Ecclesiastic (as in England) appeared to gild the horrors f eternity—at those awful moments, when religion arrays herself in her brightest robes, and bids the expirirg criminal sink into her everlastitir arms, with hope, it nut with security—no dying and rervtaut prayer closed the quivering lips of the blood-stained murderer. Never shall I forget the one bitter look of imploring agony that he threw around hint, as almost immediately on stepping on dm scaffold his coat was rudely tern from off his shoulders:— He was then thrown down, the cords placed round his melt, which were drawn by the executioners until strangulation almost commenced, cr at least until the luxation of the neck was effected. Another executiener then approached, bearing in bis hands a heavy wheel, rimmed with iron, with which he first smashed his irg.bones, then bis stomach, then his arms and chest, and lastly, his head. 1 was, unfortunately, near enough to be witness of his mang'td and bleeding body being still convulsed, as it was carried down for interment, and In much less than ra minutes from the first beginning of his torture the corple was completely covered with earth ! Several large tonnes which ws firs: thrown upon him, to be sure, hastened his lastgavp, but he was at least a quarter cf an holm in being rnangledinto eternity:"
Star. — 1819-07-07 (London, England)

ALEXANDER LAMBE. which was the year after the Revolution, up to the that in that district there has been at least no increase the House will perhaps, therefore, pardon me if I n On tke motion of Mr. WYNN, Mr: Alex. Lambe year 1717 ; also from 1755 to 1784, and from 1785 of the crime of murder. For the last fifty years, state briefly its substance. It is the opinion of' Sir was brought to the Bar to be reprimanded for de- to 1814. But through the medium of this Gentle- the annual number of convictions for that crime in Archibald Macdonald that the infliction of capital • • stroying certain Papers, which it was probable the man's laudable industry we hope to have the chasms the Western Circuit has been pretty nearly the same. punishment on crimes, not of the most atrocious ne'l House would have required to be produced at the Bar, alluded to filled up, and we shall then be in posses- So that on the whole, Sir, it clearly appears, that tore, renders prosecutors reluctant to proceed, witI I • Mr. Lambe leaving been produced at the Bar, •• eon of a complete Return of the Administration of .however the people of England may leave been op- nesses reluctant to give evidence, and Juries reluctant e The SPEAKER proceeded to reprimand him, ob- the Criminal Law for ISO years. The Returns of pressed by -distress, and however they may have been to convict ; and, therefore, that the chance which a ' I serving, that under all the circumstances the House the Western Circuit have also been pretty full and driven by indigence to the commission of crimes of criminal has of escaping with impunity is greatly indid t the Papers was a wilful contempt, but that it arose yet required to complete the returns from the other character for humanity, for repugnance to shedding crimes. It is his opinion, that against treason, mute _ from an anxiety on the part of Mr. Lambe not to circuits. But it is remarkable, that we have as yet .blood, fur abhorrence of cruelty. To that charac- der, arson, and crimes of that description the punishcommit a breach of professional confidence. It was, received no information whatever from Ireland. No ter, untainted by any temptation which the circum- ment of death ought to be continued; but forty however, a high offence, and under other circum- notice, indeed, has yet been taken of the orders trans- stances of the times might have been supposed to years' experience convinces him, that with reference stances would have been severely visited. mined by the Committee to that part of the Empire, generate, they are now, as ever, entitleda-(iear, to crimes unattended with atrocious or violent cir, Mr.Lambe was then discharged, on the payment and this is seriously to be lamented, for it is much hear).—Sir, I could not omit the opportunity of cumstances, the existence of that punishment is inju, 4 his fees. more important to obtain such information from Ire- stating the gratifying truth, that whatever the popu- rious, rather than beneficial to the community. The , 1 '
The Statesman. — 1823-05-13 (London, England)

TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1823.  A Dutch Mail has arrived this morning, but it brings no intelligence of importance. At Berlin, it appears, disputes have broken out among the Jews there, respect ing the form of divine service, in consequence of which the new Temple was closed, and several law-suits have taken place. From Bale, we learn that Mr. Vaughan, Istely appointed Minister from England to the Helvetic Confederition, arrived at Berne on the 20th ult.  We Lave this morning received American papers to the 171 h of April, from which we extract the following; —Boyer, President of Hayti, has issued a Proclamation. dated 20Ih March, prohibiting from the Ist May next, all relations and intercourse by merchant ves.els belonging to individuals, between Hayti and the different islands of Archipelago, to the windward and the Leward.  LA OUlRA.—Captain Laurence, of the schooner Sub-1 lett•, informs us that all goods imported from Old Spain in 60 days after bis sailing, would be confiscated. Commadore Daniels arrived on the Ist March. Bolivar was on his way to Caraccas. From Vera Cruz, Feb. 22.—0 n the 21st ult. a fleet of 7 sail of barges, and a brig and schooner sailed from the Island of Sacrifice, for Tampisco, with about 300 troops, commanded by St. Anna in person. It is su, posed their object was to intercept the shipment of a large sum of money from Mexico. Captain Lee,from Trinidad, informs us that a piratical brig from Havanna, wi,ll 156 men, took possession of the Fort at Nenvitas, and burnt every thing it contained. They also cut two American schooners out of the harbour, and the crews were no doubt murdered. The Coast swarms with Pirates. The British sloop of war Thames, and an armed schooner had touched at Trinidad, and Railed to the leeward.  From the Baltimore Patriot, April 10th.—We have just received the following authentic end important intelligence : Max ico, Pen. 23.—0 n the 18th instant, an Express arrived here from the mountains, stating that Bravo had taken possession of Ouernaraca, with a force of 3,000 men. His Imperial Majesty summoned all his forces in this city and vicinity, amounting to about 1600 infantry and cavalry, and placed himself at their head. He, not eager to court a battle, has taken a position 10 leagues from this ; since which he has experienced a desertion of 200 men, with 14 pieces of cannon, and 70,000 cartridges. While I am writing, a friend has come to inform me, that the Fmperor having had his Council of State yester_ day, at his encampment, dehatinf on the necessary steps to be taken to secure to him his Throne, came to the de. termination of retiring until Congiess would re-assemble and decide on his fate. A new Secretary has been chosen, named Valle, and several new officers. Thus we are at present without a Government. All the prisoners were released last night by the soldiers.  Paris papers to the 11th instant have come to hand. The Monitcur announces the following