Star. — 1815-03-25 (London, England)

STEPHENS V. STEPHENS. This was an action by the plaintiff Stephens and another, against the defendant and others. The following is the whole of the case. The plaintiff keeps a library at Brighton, and the defendant Stephens.had furnished the plaintiff with certain articles of toys and jewellery to :ell upon commission ; but shortly after• wards, not liking to give credit to the plaintiff, he wished t 9 take his goods away again. The plaintiff did nor give them •up ; upon which the defendant, Stephens, accompanied by the others, went to the 'shop a:id took away the glass case which held them, by force. The plaintiff made some resistance, and, as lie alleged, he was assaulted in the scuffle. The witnesses fur the defendant, however, proved that nothing more was done than taking the glass case away.—Verdict for the defendant.  At Cork. on Saturday, an inpest was held nn the body of Dennis Coffee, who was stabbeti the before by a watchman of the name of Cornelia: Hurry, in Mallow-lane, and who instantly died in consequence. It did not appear that :try person e 35 near when the watchman stabbed the deceased, hut some persons came immediately afterwards, when he confessed that he stabbeA the mail, and aile.iged that he was wantonly attacked and did it in his own defence. The Jury wit having any positive evidence as to the homicide, brought in a verdict, that his death was caused by a wound in the breast from a bayonet found in the hands of Hurly A German Paper gives the following story ac a reason for Bonaparte 's seclusion during the lattet period of his residence on the Isle of Elba: a After be had attained to the supreme authority in France, he was particularly solicitous to erase all traces of the civil wars in La Vendee and the other northwestern provinces of France. Hi therefore en. tered into negotiations with the lie..ds of the royalists, and was so successful as to gain over the most of them, and to form arrangements with each indivisitially. All of them obtained considerable pensions, on certain conditions : one, for instance, engaged to ezile himself from France for ever " another was not to leave La Vendee ; a third was to reside constantly at Paris—according as the circumstances of each led Bonaparte to consider it to be most advantageous.... 'Among tpase who were confined to Paris, was Bru: fart, a zealous royalist and a good soldier. A considerable time after the complete pacification of La Vendee, Brulart solicited for a friend, who had stipulated not to quit La Vendee, permission to Visit Paris • and Bonaparte, with apparent kindness, replied that he needed only to invite his friend to cumo, as every thing was now settled, and all appreheimin was unnecessary. Upon this Brtilart's friend came to Fatil, but no sooner had he arrived than he was • . seized and shot, by the express command of Napo. leon Brulart, being apprized of this circumstance, fled, horror-struck, to England. From that country he wrote.to Bonaparte, sayiug that he had made i•itn the innocent cause of the death. of his friend, 4io had•come upon the faith of the assurances he had given him; that the shade of the murdered victim hovered.incessantly before his eyes, demanding vengeance ; that he was determined to devote himself to this duty, and had sworn to the shade of his friend that Napoleon should die by his hand. 0: this letter Brulart fetd,a few copies printed, and sent them by diff!reot channels to France, so that at last it was handed by the Police to Napoleon. He laughed at the menaces of the chivalrous enthusiast, and forgot them in the brilliant career of his prosperity. But when Louis returned to Paris, Brulart also was in his retinue, and by a singular accident was soon after*ardi appointed Governor of Corsica, with directio: to watch the Isle of Elba. For this purpose Brulart removed his residence from Ajaccio to Bastia, opposite to Elba, from which, with a favourable wind, the passage might be made in a few hours. No sooner had Napoleon received intelligence of this circumstanch than he again recollected the letter, and became apprehensive lest &Wart might abuse the authority entrused to him by the King, and, mindful 'of his oath, should, in spite of the law of nations, only to the dictates of personal revenge. From this time he an to seclude himself with the greatest 'CltUtila from almost all-society.';  4 ‘i