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Star. — 1813-09-02 (London, England)

THE ARMY. Stumm !—Called by the confidence of my King and of the Sovereigns his Allies, to lead you in the career which is about to open, I rely for the success of our arms on • the DIVINE protection, the justice of our cause, and on your valour and perseverance. Had it not been for the extraordinary concurrence of events which have given to the last twelve years a dreadful celebrity, you would not have ken assembled fin the soil of Germany but your Sovereigns :have felt that Europe is a great family, and that nose of the States of, which it is composed can remain in-different to the evils imposed upon any,one of its members by a conquering Power. They are also convinced that when such a Power threatens to attack and subjugate every miter, there ought to exist only one will among those nations that are determined to escape froth shame and slavery. From that moment you were called from the banks of the Wolga and the Don, from the shores of Britain, and the mountains of the North, to unite with the German warriors who defend the cause of Europe. This, then, is the moment when rivalry, national prejudices, and'antipathies, ought to disappear before the grand ob:sect of the independence of nations. . The Emperor Napoleon cannot live in peace with Europe, unless Europe be. his slave. His presump. • tion carried 400,000 brave men 709 miles * from their Country: misfortunes against which he did not deign to, provide fell upon their heads, and 300,000 Frenchmen perished on the territory of a great empire, the Sovereign of which had made every effort to preserve peace with France. It was to be expected that this terrible disaster, the effect of Divine vengeance, would have inclined the Emperor of-France to a less murderous system; and that, instructed at last by the example of the North rind of Spain, he would have renounced the idea of • subjugating the Continent, and have consented to let the world be at peace s but this hope has been disap. pointed; and that.peace which all Governments deafly, and which every Government has proposed, has been relicted by the Emperor Napoleon. . • Soldiers It is to arms then we must have recourse to coosiner repose and independence. The same sentiments which guided the French in 1792, and which - prompted them to assemble, and to combat the ar. mies which entered their territory, ought now to ani. mate your valour against those who, after having in•vaded the land which gave you birth, still hold in chains your heethren, your. wives, and your children. Soldiers ! What a suable prospect is opened to you! The liberty of Europe, the. re-establishment of its .equilibrium, the end of that convulsive state which bas bad twenty years' duration : finally, the peace of Ydie world, will be the result of your efforts. Render . y urselves worthy, by your union, your disciplines and vur courage, of the high destiny which awakes you.  cIuALES
Star. — 1813-06-09 (London, England)

BONAR. The wound was dressed, and nothing farther then took place. Yesterday morning at half past six o'clock, Nicholson voluntarily requested Mr. BRAMSTON, who had. been with him a short time, to bring Mr. BONAR to him immediately. Mr. BONAR went to him, when Nichol. son burst into tears, and begged pardon of M. 13osaiii, expressed his wish to make a full confession. Mr. WELLS, the Magistrate, who resides at Briskly• house, in the neighbourhood, was sent for ; and in, the presence of the Magistrate, and other Gentlemen, Nicholson made, and afterwards signed, a deposition, acknowledging himself to be the murderer. He states, that on Sunday night, after the groom left him, he fell asleep upon a form in the servants'hall, the room where he was accustomed to lie that he awoke at three o'clock by dropping from the form: tie jumped up, and was instantly seized with an idea, which he could not resist, that he would murder his master and mistress ; he was at this time half undressed ; he threw off his waistcoat, and pulled a sheet from his bed, with which he wry pped himself up : he then snatched a poker from the grate of the servants' hall, and rushed up stairs to his master's room : he made directly to his mistress's bed, and struck her two blows on the head ; she neither spoke nor moved : he then went round to his master's bed, and struck him once across the face: Mr. Bososit was roused, and from the confusion produced by the stunning violence of the blow, imagined that Mrs. BONAR was t len coming to bed, and spoke to that effect : dia. when he immediately repeated the blow, Mr. BONAR sprung nut of bed, and grappled with him for 15 minutes, and at one time was nearly getting the better of him ; but being exhausted by the loss of blood, lie was at length overpowered: Nicholson then left him groaning on the floor. He went down stairs, stript himself naked, and washed himself all over with a sponge, at the sink in the butler's pantry.— He next went and opened the windows of the drawing-room, that it might be supposed some person had entered the house that way : lie then took his shirt and stockings, which were covered with blood (the sheet he had left in his master's room), went out at the front door and concealed his bloody linen in a bush, covering it with leaves : the bush was opposite the door, and not many yards from it : he then returned without shutting the outer door, and went to the servants'-hall: he opened his window-shutters and went to bed (it was not yet four o'clock) : he did not sleep, though he appeared to be asleep when King came for the purpose of waking him at half-past six o'clock. He stated, in the most solemn manner, that no person whatever was concerned with him in this horrid deed ; and to a question put to him, whether he had any associate ? answered, 6 How could he, when he never in his life, before the moment cf his jumping up from the form, entertained the thought of murder ?' He can assign no motive for what he did :he had no enmity or ill-will of any kind against Mr. or Mrs.
Star. — 1813-11-02 (London, England)

DIED.  Thursday sennight, at Shipton on Cherwell, Otford,hire, is the 61st year of his age, the Rev. John Ast.mole, tornwsly aI Cahn College, Oxford. October 17, aged 59, the Rev. John Jackson, rector of Chealle, Staffordshire.  Rev. S. Donnithorne rector of I lolme Pierre-Pont, Nottinghamshire, and in comn:ission of the peace for that county. At Cottrance Hill, on the 21st ult. Mr. Thames Sitortt, at de advanced age of 97 pars. For a long pekio.l he dischargid the duties of one of the Magistrates of Lochniaben. with Sdaity and integrity. •He was most honourable in all his dealings--a cheerful and face:ions companion. At Lanark, the lath Jilt. P. A. Aymard, Captain Adjctatit Major in the 17th regiment French light infantry, Knight of the ll:efich Empire, aged 33. Thursday, aged 16, Caroline, eldest daughter of the Rev. James Adams, rector of asastleton, Oxon.  '1 hursday, Thomas Davis, Esq. of Whitehall, formerly a ban. ker of Eti.tol, and brother to the present member for that city. October 18, suddenly, at Portsmouth, aged 7S, Mr. C. Higgins The deceased had retired to bed, on •Mothlay wght, in apparel* good health; but on being called, as usual, on the fulluwing morning, was found a corpse. On the 12th instant, in the Fre mnan's hospital, Newcaldr. aged 89, Mr. George Young.—He was the oldest burgess sof Newcastle, and had keen fur many years the ancient man of the Cordwainers 'Company.  Swan's Clow, Hig -street, Edinburgh. Saturday evening, the lower part of the house of . Mrs. Rayner, a widow, in Church-street, Bethnal- MenTearro"lfthean dui', at lii. flu:. • green, was forcibly entered, during the absence of the _,i soLli üb)i the sole PI up:artor, Thomas !'.lyot family, and robbed of wearing apparel and furniture, ' They are also sold by his appointment, at the Perfunser'►, Nci. SS, at. Alban's-street, Pall Mall ; the Toy-shop, No. 103, (31to the value of near twenty pounds, with which the ford-street ; Mr. Disborough's, N 0.7, Fish-street-hill, nearlyar thieves got clear ofE i N 9. 9, New Brixdayeo .i.arcolete.ge of Surgeon. in Lon dui', posite the Monument ; and by one person in every considtrable Saturday evening, about six o'clock, u a person town in England, &c. in boxes only 21.9 d. earls, sealed up with plain direction, whereby persons ofeither sea maY ollv named Frith, residing in Printing-house-lane, Black- themselves and friars, was passing by Vauxhall, he was accosted by n ___4nselblverseartrytßoh ease and Gsereczcpvita. two ruffians, who instantly knocked him down, rob- in wi!. ,It lavourof the Comtnissioners, is printed at the Stony bed him to a large amount, cut him on theneck, Otric ic • dig.. e " r. Taylor, No.o, New bridge-street:' Britain is sealed op with a sum located one of his fingers, and then threw him into a ditch, and it is supposed would have murdered him, had t. not been for a fishmonger going by at the time, who d stet bed them. Unfortunately, the villains escapee. as I have not since been heard of.
Star. — 1813-04-27 (London, England)

RZADINO,APRIL 24.-Wheat 126 s Od to 1461 Od per Qr. Barley 45s Od to 661 I Beans 00$ Od to OM Od Oats sib Od to 56s I Peas 00s 04 to 00s Od Bread Ss od.  2 Cinders  The Leicestershire sheep are said to have suffered less by the late rot than any other breed. It is a well known fact, that Bakewell, the first founder of the new Leicesters, let his first tup to a Mr. Wilson, of lson on the Hill, for 16s. and a short time before his death hired out one of the same stock for 400 guineas ! Asparagus and all kinds of spring vegetables are now plenty in Edinburgh market, vegetation being three or four weeks earlier than it was last season at this period. The Commissioners for Roads and Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland have resolved on erecting a mound across the Little Ferry, in the County of Sutherland, and the work will speedily be commenced. This undertaking, in addition to the iron bridge at Bonar, will complete the communication by land from ' John o'Groat's to the Land's End of England.  Mr. W. FELFOR, of Aikton, near Wigtot has a Galloway Stot, that has had five calves within two years.  Sunday se'nnight, the body of Mr. George Graham, farmer, at Westlington, was found drowned in the river Line.  The Glasgow Circuit Court opened onWednesday, when James Ferguson, indicted for robbing '1 homas Inglis of £32 ; John White, miller at Inchinan, for firing, with murderous it,tent, a pistol loaded with ball at James Alexander, his wife's brother ; and Michael Harlin:, for shop-breaking—were found Guilty. The Circuit Court opened at Jedburgh on the 16th inst. The only business was a case of robbery, committed by an I: Warm, calling himself John Linni. then, otherwise Henry Afaegraw, on the person of John Macdonald, residing in Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire, a travelling merchant, aged 101 years, on the road leading from Hawick towards Rule-water. The Prisoner having pled guilty, the Advocate-Depute consented to restrict the pains of law to an arbitrary punishment ; and his Lordship sentenced him to transportation for life. The Court on Monday went from Jedburgh to Dumfries ; and was opened there on the 21st. The only person to stand trial was Jas. from Langhohn ; against whom the diet was deserted, and he is left for trial before the Sheriff.. There was not one prisoner for trial at the Cardigan Great Sessions ; which circumstance produced a well-merited eulogium from Judge HEY WOOD on the police of that county.  A Nobleman's Porter, at the West end of the town, has undertaken, for a wager of £5, to eat fortyeight sheep-tails, broiled, and of the largest size that can be procured, in twenty-four hours, at the rate of two every successive hour : he possesses a most uncommon appetite ; for after eating, apparently, a hearty dinner, he leaves off with as craving a zest for food as before he began ; and can, at any time after he dines, instantly sit down and eat three solid pounds of meat : he has, some time back, eat the whole of a goose, weighing nine pounds, after the giblets were ,taken from it.  /
Star. — 1813-11-29 (London, England)

OMNIPOTENT !" ••••  COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH. On Monday last came on the trial of Christian Sinclair, lately residing t.t St. 01A, county of Orkney, accused cif murdering, on the 23th of April, 1813, a female child; about nine months old, the daughter of Jane Petrie, and the reputed daughter of Thomas Sinclair, the brother of the prisoner, by forcing arsenic down the throat of the child in its mother':,. absence. Jane Petrie, the mother of the child, gave evidence in substance as follows :—The child was horn in • August, 1812; she told T. Sinclair he was thefathei , of it he wished her to " settle it on other men," • which she ref Used t gave her 'is. at one time, 4s. at another, and_ 2s. a month after tfie birth : she threatened, if he did not give her more, slie,would tell who was the .ather ;he then give her 4s. Witiiess wrote to Mr. Yule, minister,* to baptize the Child ; )11., enquired the name of the; father ? she told him. it was • Tlioa:as Sinclair ; this Arm Pit the week before the Child died ; Sinclair was displeased at his name being given ; he is a. married m:tn ; knows Christian Sinhis sister ; she came to her house in August, 13124 the child was then about a month old ;—was afraid to tell her who was the father ; did not see her again till the day of ;he child's death, about - liken o'clock at night; it was the Wednesday; -after the Monday on which T. Sinclair had. been there.— * C.Sibelair xat down, there being no othei.person' in the house ; desired witness to go and get a bottle of ale ; did not wish to go, but was afraid to refuse, she being a violent tempered woman ; the child WAS sitting in the cradle, playing with a spoon. Witness . , was cut about three or four minines ; when the re' turned, the child, was crying as. if in pain ; ran and took it up her arms, when it began to retch and vomit ; for some time neither spoke ; witness then said, surely you have hurt the child ; but drew in her words-again, being afraid of the prisoner ;—the child seemed also to be afraid of her. The prisoner put ashes on tvhat the child vomited ; her face seemed •hanged, and her. eyes looked wild After the prisoner went away, the child continuing to retch, Dr. Edgar was sent for ; be gave i it died about four or fiTe:in the mbrning. Believeg the child's death was occasioned by something given .cluftrig her ab,ence ; it wait 'a fine healthy child. Mr. John Edgar, and Drs. Andrew.'Monme and Loutit, gave in evidence, that the appiarance of the child's body on dissection, eihibited signs of its having died by arsenic. Margery Seater and William Petrie 4:1, posed, that the prisoner had desired them to purchase some arsenic to poison rats, which the latter had procured for ter.—The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. She was sentenced to be executed at Irdinburgh on the 29th of December, and her body to be dissected.  , .  • •---C7-""7"v' • -. . • f.l courro- Aroz4tA 8'• • .7 laffetritN,r 4,1 .10011 - • - :104.. • • • • .4 '
Star. — 1813-08-06 (London, England)

HATTON GARDEN. Mrs. Ames, with whom the widow of the murdered Clifford recently lodged, was yesterday in this Office, but on a business unconnected with that affair..-S'ome questions were,'however, asked her, relative to her lodger. She said, the lodgings were taken for Mts. Clifford, by some Ladies, on the day Mrs.'C. was sent to the Moose Of Correction. Two Gentlemen had called, and each left a 'pound note for her use. The children were provided with shoes, stock, ings, and several other necessaries. There are two men and Mrs. Clifford's sister almost constantly there, One of them is Healy, the young man who first recognised the body of the deceased, and who was a few days in confinement, on suspicion of being concerned, but who was afterwards liberated. The other young man's name is William Slattery, already mentioned, who lodged with Mrs. Clifford. Mrs. Clifford's box, &c. have been searched, and nothing has appeared to criminate her. Mr. TURTON, the Magistrate, contradicted the assertion in the papers, that he had ordered the confession of Leary to be read to Mrs. Clifford. The worthy Magistrate says, his only motive for sending the widow to a place of security, was his fear that as the confession was made piblic (contrary to his %it ish, and even without his knowledge) she might be alarmed, and be advised to abscond.  A hackney coachman, summoned a Mr. Collison, from Homerton, for his fare, which he stated to be '2ss. He charged by time, and not distance. He stated, that he was called to go to Vauxhall on the second I great night after the Grand Fete. He was hired just a quarter past seven o'clock in the evening ; he carried five, being one above the complement, and set them down at Vauxhall ; he was ordered to wait at the water gate, until they came to him ;—he told them his number, and they entered the Gardens ; he drova as near the gate as he possibly could, and waited until about ten minutes to six in the mining. Mr. Collison's defence was, that he and his company came out of the Gardens about half past twelve ; they forgot the number, but called for " the coach from Homerton, number forgot." He employed two persons to seek it, and after waiting half an hour in vain, he was obliged to go'without it. The coachman was ordered his tare, and 4s. costs. Ann Williams and Sarah William:, mother and daughter, were apprehended at a house in Little Queen-street, Soho, charged by a poor looking woman, of the name of Wood, with taking of insurance in what is termed the Lillie Go. She stated that, by allurement, she had followed up the game to that extent, as to be the utter ruin of herself and family ; and farther stated, the terms were paying fourpence, if first drawn number the defendants returned ss. 3d. and if the last drawn ',amber Is. 9d. but she had seldom any thing. The officers stated finding in a closet in the room where they apprehended the prisoners, a quantity of pieces of paper, with numbers marked thereon. They were fully committed for trial at the Sessions.
Star. — 1825-03-19 (London, England)

NOTTINGHAM, MARCH 17. Mary Keay, aged 2S, stood charged with the wilful murder of her newly-born utak child, at the borough of Newark, on the 81st of July, 1824,---Not Guilty. .  Government, it is said, have it in contemplation to abolish the office of Parish Surveyor of Roads, and to appoint a competent person to each hundred, to be paid out of the county rate; a plan which has been adopted in Ireland with great success. &cunt or FRIENDS or Fonzromens rrr Dtirratzt.— Thursday the Annual Meeting of this Society took place at the Citrof London Tavern. SAMORL Warr, ssq. in the Chair. The Chairman congratulated the Meeting upon the great encouragement and support which the Society met with from the liberality of British and foreign contributors, who had enabled the Institution to extend its benefits. The Report was then read. It gave a most gratifying account of the state and operations of the Institution. The collection. last year amounted to 1,1881. 12s. and in consequence of the liberality of the contributions, the Board, instead of encroaching. as in former years, upon the permanent fond, was enabled to assist the Charity, by purchasing 2204 stock in the 'Three per Cent. Consols ; and the Committee had been administering relief without being compelled to have recourse to former measures. After enumerating some legacies left by three Gentlemen lately deceased, the Report stated, that during the year, fifty pensioners, whose characters were unexceptionable, azd poverty was extreme, were supported. A waterman, who plies in Mutton Cove, Devonport, received last week from the Admiralty a reward of ten guineas, given to him for his intrepid conduct in saving three sailors from drowning during one of the late gales At the Limerick Assizes, on the 11th instant, two men, named Ryan and Dugan, were sentenced to death for the mutter of Daniel Connell, at Coneen, near' Bilbao, in December last. They were to be executed on Saturday.  DEATH saws Excessive Dasxxsaa.—An laquisim tion was taken on Thursday night before Mr. Sueirost, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Dennis M•Carthy, who, it appeared, was brought into that. Hospital, on Monday evening, by sonic persons who found him in the street in a state of stupefaction from liquor. He was immediately pat to bed, and the newly invented stomach syringe put in requisition, by means of which upwards of a quart of ardent spirits were extracted from his stomach. The next day he recovered so far as to tell who he was, and where he lived. He died in the course of the day, frees the effects of what' he had taken. No direct evidence was obtained, as to where he had been drinking; but there appeared reason to believe that he had been engaged unloading a vessel at the West India Docks, and that he had drank immoderately of the row to which he thereby obtained access. Three other men, who were engaged with him in this debauch, were said to have since died. Verdict. Died from Excessive Drinking. Scteurinc
Star. — 1825-07-22 (London, England)

ASSIZES. '  CHELMSFORD, JULY 20. ?n ;imminence of the temporary indisposition of Lard Chief Justice Best, who became ill yesterday from the intense heat of the weather, Mc. Serjeant CIeiSLOW sit for his Lordship today on the Crown side. William Richard HatailtonNjoung man of te'pectable Appearance, was in itcted rofstealtlig, et Colch stet-, on the Ist inst.a horse, the property of Ephraim Giles. The defence set up fur the prisoner nes two-fold— first, an alibi j and, second, Mot he had purchased the horse in the City-road, on the 28th of June last. Mr. Serjeant ()macaw sufnored up the evidence for the Jury, and left them to sup whether, under all the circumstances, the defence tet up as probable or coosivent with the pris ,ner's conduct ? The Jury. found the prisoner Gado. The prisoner being called upon, whether he had any thing to say why sentence of Death should not be pasted upon him ? declared in the most vehement manner that he was entirely innocent of the robbery, and that he hecame pos.,essed of the horse in a fair course of dealing. Mr. Serjeaut OuszAor passed sentence of Death upon him. The prisoner left the dock declaring, a paroxysm of grief, that if he were executed he should be murdered. A strong sensation favou'rable to the prisoner was excited by the testimony given in his favour, as well as from his deportment throughout the trial, which was perfectly decorous and respec ful. Sansud Bugg and Joseph Constable were convicted, upon the c!earest evidence, of stealing a sheep at Great Horksley, on the 29th of June, the property of William Partridge, an « xte..sive farmer. _ _  The prisoners were notorious characters, and had been long suspected of plundering the neighbouring flocks. Sentence of Death was recorded. John Payne was indicted fur feloniously killing and slaying Benjamin Gooday, in a cembato at Witham, t4n the 10th of May. The Surgeon was inclined to think that the rupture of the blo vessel might have been occasioned by the excitement of anger, especially as at the time of the conflict the deceased was in a state of inebriety. Mr. Series= ()snow summed up the ease for the Jury, and Om prisoner was found Net Guilty. Silliant zpeller and Jame: Wood were indicted for killing and slaying R:chard Webb, at Razing, on the 16th of May last. It appeared that at last Hazing Fair, a fight had beets as gotten up," to terminate the sports of the day. During the fight, the deceased quarrelled with the father of the prisoner Speller, and struck him. The father being an old man, Speller told the deceased that he would fight him, he being a better match for him than his father. A ring was accordingly fotteed ; three rounds were fought, and in the third the deceased was knocked to the ground, and never rose again, There were no external marks of violence on bead; and the Surgeon giving it as his opinion that the deceased, who was nf very plethoric habit, might have died of a common aphplexy, induced either by his own violence towards the prisoner. or by mere passion, The Learned Serjeant interposed, and directed the Jay to ,aelpit the prisoners. Verdict—Not God*  SALISBURY, JULY w.