Star. — 1824-04-08 (London, England)

NOBLE •EXPLOIT.—In the disasters which have arisen fto.ti the late tremendous storms, we have pleasure In recording an aot of gallantry and humanity of the Officer commanding the Preventive Service on the Hampshire coast, a son of the late Admiral Sir T. Freenvantle : on the Bth inst. a brig was wrecked off the coast to the westward of Christchurch ; the circumstance being reported to Captain Freemantle, he posted immediately to the spot; a concourse of people were assembled to witness the ship then on shore, the wind blowing tremendously, and no prospect whatever of saving the crew : in this sitUation one single chance existed, which was that of attaching a rope to the ship, but no boat was at hand and no individual willing to undertake the hazardous task of reaching the vessel ; without a moment's hesitation Capt. Freemantle stripped, and fastening a small line to his body, plunged into the sea, where, after buffeting with the waves, then running mountains high, to the astonishment and anxious dread of the beholders, be finally reached the ship: all hope of saving her was now gone by, the sea had nearly broken her to pieces, and In a few moments after he had so bravely reached her, the crew were all washed overboard. Captain Freemantle was dragged to the shore senseless, but, after a long interval (by the application of the usualremedies), hewn restored to his recollection: we are ntost happy to state also that the crew of the vessel were afterwards picked up on the shore, and we believe were ultimately all saved. Siinday, the 28th ultimo, the obsequies of the late. Count do Stacpoole, were solemnized at Paris, in the Chuteh of St. Philippe du Rollie. The funeral was attemkd by his son, the present Count de Stacpoole, his relatives and friends. He died after a long and painful illness, which he endured with fortitude. He has left his son a noble inheritance.  George Thomas, a shoemaker at Leeds, whom we lately stated to have been committed to prison for hayi:ig drowned his infant son in a fit of insanity, was tried at 11:e Yolk Assizes on the 3d inst. and acquitted, hip insanity being clearly proved. The following particulars, concerning a man who v..as reported to have lately acknowledged on his deathbed that he had • been guilty of murder, are given on the testimony of persons from the village in which he lived. He confessed that he had murdered a woman in England, whom, after robbing of her harvest fee, he threw into a pit; and that he had killed a man in the nti,libourhood of Markinch, for the sake of a few pounds that he had, and thrown.his body into the water that supplies the machinery of Dalgonie furnace. That the body of the man said to have been murdered was actually found, a number of years since, in the water aliwied to, is a fact, of which, as it can be attested by many living witnesses, there can exist no doubt. When his end drew near, lie was so horrified by the consciousne.,s of his guilt; , that he told the neighbours who came ti at the apparitions of the two persons whose lives he had taken were waiting for him at the foot of- the bed.— Dundee Advertiser. Tagor'alia's Murky—, who was convicted at York, for metamorphosing a Sheffield and Rotheram note, from the sum of one to five guineas, was requested, after conviction, to ciulge the secret. On assenting, he retired into a room, and taking a note, with a fine piece of sandpaper, he erased the word "one," and after rubbing the part wiles() the erasure had been made, with some cream of tartar, be substituted the word "five" with a ' finely po:nted pen, in 'welt a manner as to deceive the keenest _eye.