Star. — 1820-04-24 (London, England)

PARK.  CHESTER, APRIL 21.—Mary Jones, the woman mentioned in M4lnnis letter, which we gave last week, is not his sweetheart but his aunt. M.lnnis several times confessed that he was a great enemy to the Constitution of the Country, andhad a perfect hatred to all its Great Officers of State. The reason he assigned for not communicating to the Reformers his design of shooting Birch was, that he despised them, and thought them too contemptible to entrust with the secret. There is little doubt but that the sentence on Bruce will have a favourable commutation. It is but fair to state, that his conduct in jail has been exemplary ; and there is no doubt of his innocence' as concetd with the crime of M'lnnis. Ntwoact.—Considerable alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Newgate on Friday night, in consequence of shouts and screams which proceeded from within the prison, and which, at first, led to a belief that an attempt was making by some means to rescue the State Prisoners from confinement. Crowds collected in front of the Jail, and for some time the utmost anxiety prevailed. At length, however, the tumult subsided, and it turned out that it proceeded, not from the State Prisoners, but front the female convicts, who, from no assignable reason, commenced breaking the windows and uttering the most dreadful exclamations. Mr. Brown, with the utmost promptitude, took measures to allay the riot, which he was only able to effect by handcuffing some of the meat refractory, and removing others to a different part of the Jail. Saturday morning, forty of these women, who were under sentence of transportation, wete sent off to the hulks. Fessous Daivaise.—About halt-past seven o'clock on Satur. day se'nnight, an interesting young woman far affranced in pregnancy, was crossing High-street, in the Borough, opposite the front gates of St. Thomas's Hospital, with a bundle in her hand, when an extra-coach, from Chatham, drove furiously for the . City, with twelve sailors on the top, and the off-leader knocked down the ill-fated female, after which the fore-wheel at once passed over her, the hinder wheel resting on her body. The coachman now lashed the horses,- aud, dreadful to relate, the woman was killed en the spot ! Hereupon the body was conveyed to the Hospital, when the Surgeons opened it, to preserve the unborn offspring, and actually found the infant to be alive! The babe was given in charge of a nurse, but it lived no longer than till Tuesday morning last.—On the same day, an Inquest was held; but, owing to the want of sufficient evidence, the Coroner adjourned the Court till the Thursday following, when it was accordingly held in the said Hospital. One of the witnesses now stated, that she was crossing the street at the same time with the deceased, and saw her knocked down; the coach was driving at a furious rate, whereby the life of the witness was exposed to imminent peril. Another witness gave in evidence, that, on the evening of the accident, he was waiting at the corner of York-street, in the Borough, when the coachman was driving at a forious rate, which induced him to express _ _  his fears to a person with him, that some mischief would be done; witness had hardly uttered the words, when he saw the coach suddenly stop; he instantly ran to the spot, and saw the poor woman extricated from under the wheel; after the deceased was carried away, witness ran up to the coachman, and remonstrated with him, when he used abusive language, and endeavoured to flog en his horses; the coachman had never left his seat, but evinced the greatest indifference. On this witness being questioned how be ascertained that the coach was driving at a furious rate? be answered, he had been a coachman seven years, and was convinced that the coach was running at the rate of twelve miles an hour at the time of the accident. Other witnesseridentified the coach and coachman which caused the fatal accident, and confirmed the evidence as to the wanton conduct of the offending parties. The Coroner summed up the whole to the Jury, who returned a verdict of Wi/ful Murder spina the coachman, and fixed a deodand of M. on the coach:  :