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Star. — 1831-06-25 (London, England)

SECOND EDITION OF INC WEXFORD INDEPENDENT.; NrwTOWNEARRY, Monday Morning, Eight o'clock.—l arrived here at six o'clock yesterday morning. I nevci witnessed sue la a scene as presented itself, on my visitin the bun ego( the wounded and dead. The number wounded is about :,o, and killed about fifteen. As I passed the pound, where the bloc dy scene took place, the dykes weer actually filled with blood. This is not exaggerated. I.— N— is at the head of the Enniscorthy yeomanry ;his threats at the election were fully brought into execution, for Iv ".'pu pled the road with the people's blood." Capt. King ac:ed in the most humane manner—he not only !fired his own phtot in the air, but most positively ordered his men not te fire. The yeomanry Irons Myshall, Newtownbarry, Sca. eawal,h, and Einiscorthy, attended. James Ullon, a Newtownbarry policeman, states, in the most positive manner, that there was not any inclination on the part of the people to rescue the cattle, and that he actually s.,eal the lives of Richard Cosgrave, Terence O'Brien, Wm. Nicholson, and others whose names he cannot recollect. MaioLeine declared on Saturaity, that the Rev. Mr. Mllinterk was subject to a civil action if he sold the cattle on Sa. turday, being one day beyond the regular notice requir,d by law. There were three women mortally wound, oneof whom only survived till eight in tae evening, her name was tlary Mulroney, a pregnant woman, and mother V sr. small eltileirenbile lived at Alountfin. Observe, the tithe for w'heli the cattle were to be sold are not due till Ntheen bet ; but when the composition took place the Rev. .31r. M.Clinteck pleaded poverty, and requested the people to give him half a,yeat's tithe in advance. and ihat he would allow it to them, but which promise he never fulfilled. Whet. Captain King would not allow his men to tire, Graham at• cused him of not doing his duty. Tzar o'Ct.ocx —Before this, when Graham was about to call in the yeomanry, he was beard to say he would base blood before he returned. No resists, ce whatever was offered—no inclination on the part of the people to oppo'e the sole; but, on the contrary, the parties immeeiately un. connected with the seizure were most anxious the sale should go on. The yeomanry moved in the direction of the town, some few yards from the pound, when an order oval given by Captain Graham to fire upon the unoffending people, when instantly a murderous and destructive fire soak place ; and this Graham was heard to say to the yeomen ma, and the firing lasted several minutes, when, horrible to relate, fourteen persona were killed, and nearly thirty dangerously wounded, the meat of whom are not expected to survive. The yeomanry were not content to fire in line on the body of the people, but took sides of the road, right and left, and deliberately shot every man that apps gyred ftt the field. Tema o'Caocx.—At twelve o'clock the Magistrates, secompanied by It. Greene, Esq. from the Castle, entered into a private investigation at Ralph's hotel. Up to this moment all the evidence is in favour of the people.
Star. — 1820-11-28 (London, England)

THE XING V. ORZATHRAD LIWIS. . , they as mistaken in .directing the Jury, without that The Scuacrroa-GENERAL prayed the judgment of • -evidence, to presume the publication in Leicestershire. the Court on the defendant, convicted of publishing, • A Jury ought not to be asked to decide on conjec- a seditious libel, of and concerning the Manchester tune when they could have proof. The Jury ought Meeting, which appeared in the Coventry Paper, of never to invade the province of the Judge in decid- which the defendant is Editor. ing on the law ; neither ought the Judge ever to in- Mr. Justice BEST read the Report of the Trial, fringe on the privilege of tbp Jury to decide on which came on at the Summer Assizes for the county matter of fact; but the next question, allowing it to of Warwick. The libel was calculated to excite perhave been delivered in Leicestershire, would be, how sons to rebellion, by stating that the Manchester was it delivered, was it open or sealed ; if sealed it Yeomanry Cavalry: were murderers. It also reflected was a close delivery, and was that a publication ? grossly on the King for having approved their conduct. He did not mean now to say it was or was not; but The defendant put in an affidavit, complaining, he would say, that in that case the verdict should amongst other things, of the mode adopted in-striking  his Jury by the Sherif. The affidavit 134 reasf,.the defendant proceeded to addressHe declared, he did not consider he had been of any crime against society, in ;the expression oft, his political opinions. He had been made-the victim of a foul conspiracy, in the manner in which his Jury had been struck ; and as to the libel for which he was now to receive judgment, he must submit to • their Lordships he was not the author; and, indeed, that the original author had not been punished at all. He did not now stand before their Lordships to recant his political opinions, but to avow them. The defendant then proceeded to defend the principles which he bad avowed, and declared, had he to live his time over again, he should again act as he had done. Even in his dungeon he should be supported by the reflection that he had done his duty; and, deprived of the society of those whom he loved and by whom he was beloved in return, should seek for consolation in the doctrines of Christianity, being well aware that— " Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt; Surpris'd by unjust force, but not enthrail'd; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall, in the happy trial, prove most glory But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness ; when, at last, Gather'd like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change, Self-fed and self-consumed if this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble !" He would not detain their Lordships longer by observation, but stood to receive their judgment. The
Star. — 1820-09-16 (London, England)

OLD BAYLEY.  • CHARGE OF BSI/EDER.  Yesterday, Fikiort Cafachan,- Mary Donovan, William Donovan, and panel Donovan. were indicted for the wilful murder of Jeremiah Carthy, on the 20th of July last. Mr. Jess°, sdressed the Jury on behalf of the prosecution. Sarah 'Williams was the first witness called. From her evidence it appeared, that on the night when the murder was alleged to have been committed, the deceased was sitting in the George public-house, Whitechapel, with two Englishmen, smoking a piper the prisoners, who are natives of Ireland, were alsopresent : the whole were engaged in dancing, and one of them asked the deceased if he would get titP ind-dance ? The deceased rose for that purpose, when he was immediately struck by the prisoner Callaghan; some persons present persuaded the deceased to sit down again, and he held out his hand to Callaghan; whilst doing this, he received another blow from a man named Garvey, who is not yet in' custody ; the prisoner Mary Donovan then came up, .and intimated to the deceased that she considered hint as the bully of the Englishmen. The whole of the prisoners then, assisted by Garvey, laid hold of the deceased and dragged him into the yard in George-court. Witness saw William Garvey attempt to jump upon the head of the deceased, all the prisoners standing by at the time. Witness then went into her own house, and whilst sitting by the fireside her door was broken open by Garvey. Garvey seized the poker. Witness then observed another person, of the name of Sylvester Mardyn, kick the deceased violently; at the same time Garvey struck him withtthe poker three times. When the deceased bad got up,. Mary Donovan threw a brick at him.— Witness did not observe Whether. the brick struck the deceased, but the last words which he uttered were, " You have cut me with a brick-bat!" During the. struggle Mary Donovan procured strong sticks which she distributed amongst the men, some of whom beat the deceased with them. The deceased was at length rescued from his dreadful situation by some Englishmen, whom his cries called to the s The prisoners and the rest of their companions t went away ; witness swore positively that when Garvey struck the deceased with the poker, Edward Callaghan, Daniel Donovan, and Mary Donovan were present; she was not certain whether William Donovan was present; the deceased then went to a surgeon's shop in the neighbourhood. Some conversation took place respecting the necessity of producing this surgeon. He could not be found, and Mr.JESSOP could not account for his absence. It was at length agreed to call Partridge, the Parish Constable. Se statedthat he knew there was a small shop in the neigh: bourhood of the George, but that he had never been able to find the surgeon. William Sell, a surgeon in thehospital to which the deceased was taken on the 28th July, stated, that it was evident, from the state of the wound, that it had been inflicted some days before he saw it. Sarah Williams was called back and cross-examined by Mr.
Star. — 1820-11-29 (London, England)

SQUARE.—Yesterday, Elizabeth Letter was brought before the Sitting Magistrates, charged on suspicion of being accessary to the robbery and attempted murder of Mr. and Mrs. Culy, of Whooplane Fens, Lincolnshire, on the evening of the 21 st ( f August last. It appeared that about seven o'clock in the evening, four men, dressed in smock frocks, and with masks on their faces, knocked at the door of Mr. Culy, who is a farmer, and was suspected to possess great wealth. Mr. Culyi and his wife were the only persons at home at the time, and Are both considerably advanced in years. They inquired who was there? The answer was, that it was a man who had a letter fur Mr. Culy. The door was then opened, and instantly the four robbers rushed in, all armed, and commenced their attack upon the defenceless inmates. Mr. Culy resisted, and saved his wife for a longtime; but being at length overpowered, the robbers, in the most brutal manner, beat himself and his wife till they were no longer able to resist, and then, with dreadful threats, compelled them to tell where all their treasure was deposited. Not content with this, the villains continued their cruelty, till they imagined their victims were dead, and then plundered the house of every thing valuable.— Amongst other property was a hoard of guineas, kept by Mrs. Culy, privately. There was also a great quantity of notes, in £2O, £5O, and of a larger amount, in the house, altogether amounting to £9OO, or £lOOO. Mr. and Mrs. Culy were discovered in this dreadful situation, and, with proper medical attention, were happily recovered. A reward of £5OO had been offered for the apprehension of the gang. At that time several suspicious, and some notorious characters in the neighbourhood, absconded, amongst whom were prisoner's two brothers, also two men named .11enly, and a man named How, who were afterwards apprehended by William Campion, Constable. of Spalding; two of them are in Manchester Jail, and the other in Spalding Jail ; they confessed the robbery, and implicated the prisoner's brothers, who are still at large. Campion came to London in pun. suit of them, and applied to Pace for assistance ; the latter traced out the prisoner to keep two garrets, at the Fortune of War, in East-street, Manchestersquare, where she lodged four of the Life Guards, to one of Whom she was to have been married yesterday. The Officers went to her lodging yesterday, at an early hour, and found the shoes and part of her brothers clothes. She admitted they came to visit four weeks ago, when they left the things behind, aid purchased new clothes; but she denied any knowledge of their retreat or the robbery. The Officer said, he received information that the gang had shared the plunder at the prisoner's lodging ; that they divided the gold In heaps, and the small notes; but the large notes the prisoner's brothers kept, because the rest could neither read nor write. The de-. positions of Pace and the country Constable being taken, the prisoner was committed for re-examination.
Star. — 1823-08-01 (London, England)

SUSSEX ASSIZES.  LEWES, JULY n.  Sarah Baron was charged with the wilful murder of a new-born male bastard child, at .the parish of Sithdeanery of Chichester. The prisoner, who appeared to be about thirty years of age, seemed to be labourng under extreme anguish. She was dressed in black, and the Learned Judge permitted her to have a chair during the investigation of the case.  Tlie details of the case would be merely disagreeable without presenting any peculiarity of circumstances. It was supposed, from the appearances in 'the body of the child, that it was strangled, but the surgeon was of opinion, that this might probably ' have happened by accident. The prisoner, when called on For her defence. only said, the child was not born alive. The Learned BARON informed the Jury, that by a late Statute, it was provided, that if the Jury were of opinion the prisoner was innocent of the crime of murder, they were to say if she was guilty of concealing the birth. The Jury consulted for about a quarter of an hour, when they found the prisoner Not Guilty of Murder, but Guilty of concealing the birth. Mr. Baron GRAHAM then addressed the prisoner as follows:—" Sarah Bacon, you stand convicted by a verdict pronounced by a Jury of your country, not indeed of the heavy charge which this indictment prefers against you, and which the humanity of the Jury has prevented them from finding against you, but they find you guilty of having endeavoured to conceal the birth of the child of which you were delivered. You cannot but be aware, and perhaps you may be con.cious yourself of the great extent of mischief that has ensued from that unpardonable indiscretion, at least—to call it by no harder name. When I look to the circumstances of your case, and look to its consequences, I cannot but consider your offence as a grave and serious one, even in the mitigated character in which it is now brought forwai d against yott. I feel it my duty, the, efore, to sentence you to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for the space of-twelve calendar months." _  Jolt:: Jones stood capitally indicted for committing a certain assault upon Sarah Hampton, a young girl thirteen years of age. The unfortunate girl was the daughter of a small farmer, who was in the employ of the Earl of Chichester. The prisoner was employed to milk cows in company with the girl, and on one of these occasions, viz. the 27th of May last, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, the prisoner succeeded in effecting his base intentions. From the simplicity and backwardness of the girl in deposing to the fact to an extent sufficient to authorize the Jury in finding a verdict, the effect of which would have been to take away the life of the prisoner, the Learned Baron di• rected the Jury to find a verdict of Acquittal. His-LORDSHIP reprimanded the prisoner in very strong terms before he left the bar.
Star. — 1823-11-10 (London, England)

WOODS' STATEMENT.  It is well-known ro the Public, that an attempt was some time ago made to decoy a Mr. Woods into an unfinished house in Manchester-buildings, Westminster, by John Thurtell, for the supposed purpose of murdering him. The following account of this singular business is given by Mr. Woods himself: On the morning of Monday, October 7, about a quarter before seven o'clock, a man, habited as a journeynun carpenter, about five feet eight or nine inches high, of dark completion, and with large black whiskers, called at Mr. Woods' residence, and stated, that a lady of the name of Brew, with whom Mr. Woods was well acquainted, was desirous of seeing him upon some important business, at a house in a street at Westminster, the name of which he did not know, but it was a street just beyond the Horse-Guards. Mr. Woods was not satisfied with the account, and questioned him as to the cause of Mrs. Brew being in Westminster, she residing at Kensington. His answer was, that she was stopping at a friend's house, and wished to see Mr. Woods that morning, as she was going out of town. Upon this Mr. Woods accompanied him to Manchesterbuildings, where he stopped at No.IO, which Mr. Woods immediately saw was not inhabited. The door being ajar, his suspicions were awakened that all was not correct, and he desired the man to step in and tell Mrs. Brew, that he (Mr. Woods) was these. The man entered, and having proceeded along the hall or passage as far as the back parlour door, Mr. Woods saw John Thurtell spring from the back parlour and strike the man a heavy blow, which knocked hint with great violence against the opposite wall. The man hallooed out something which Mr. Woods did not distinctly understand, but to the effect that Thurtell had mistaken his man. Mr. Woods immediately retired, not running, nor pursued by John Thurtell, as is stated by some of the newspapers, but walking at an ordinary pace ; and, on looking back from the end of the street, he saw the mes, senger at the door of the house gazing after him, but not attempting any pursuit. Upon this Mr. Woods waited on the son of Mrs. Brew, and was intormed by him that that Lady had been for three weeks in the Isle of Man. What follows is very mysterious. On his return house he found the following letter, which had been left for him by a man of shabby appearance, immediately on his quitting the house with the messenger : " Dean tint—An unknown friend informs you that Mare is a writ out against you for 161. keep out ache way till after Friday nest." In the evening of the same day he received the fol Owing letter also :  " Monday Afternoon, 4 &Meta " Stn—l am happy to inform you, that an unknown friend of yours as settled tlhe action which you where about to be arrested for this morning fsr la and costs; therefore you have no emotion to make yourself uneasy about it. I understand you are indebted to a Mr. Cozegs for his inSerfrance in this ungentlemanly act. " I am, Sir, yours, "
Star. — 1823-08-12 (London, England)

DON MAN.-CANTOS IX. X. XI.  In the Tenth Canto, the Noble Poet thus pleasantly alludes to his old quarrel with the Edinburgh Review : And all our little feuds, at least all 'nine, Dear Jeffery, once my most redouhted foe, (As far as rhyme and criticism combine To make such puppets of us tbinp below) Are over. Here's a health to " Auld Lang Syne!" I do not know you, and may never know Your face,—but you have acted on the whole Most nobly, and I own it from my soul ! And when I use the phrase of" Auld Lang Syne !" 'Tie not addressed to you—the more's the pity For me, for I would rather take my wine With you, than aught (save Scott) in your proud city. But somehow,--it may seem a schoolboy's whine, And yet I seek not to be grand or witty, But I am half a Scot by birth, and bred A whole one, and my heart flies to my head,— As " Auld Lang Syne !" brings Scotland, one and all, Scotch plaids, Scotch moods, the blue hills, and clear • streams; The Dee, the an, Balgounie's Brig's black wall,* All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall, Like 13anquo's offspringt—floating past me seems My childhood in this childlessness of mines I care not—'tis a glimpse of " Auld Lang Syne." And though, as you remember, in a fit Of wrath and rhyme, when juvenile and curly, I railed at Scots to shew my wrath and wit, Which must be owned was sensitive and surly, Yet 'tis in vain such sallies to permit, They cannot quench young feelings fresh and early : I “ awaited, not killed," the Scotchman in my blood, And love the land of "mountain and of flood."  i  • The brig of Don, near the " auld toun" of Aberdeen, with its one arch and its black deep salmon stream below, is in my memory as yesterday. I still remember, though perhaps .1 may misquote the awful proverb, which made me pause to cross it, and yet lean over it with a childish delight, being an only son, at least by the mother's side. The saying, as recollected by me, was this; but I have never heard or seen it since I was nine years of age: " Brig of Balgeunie, black's your we', Wi' a wife's aeons, and a meat's aefool, DOllll ye shall fa !"--.  Nire are happy to learn, from our Preston Cortespondent, that Mr. HORROCKS is recovering from the effects of the murderous attack made upon bin in the streets of that town on Sunday week. Our Correspondent informs us, that on Wednesday last Mr. HoeROCKS received a long incoherent letter from the wretch who assailed him, expressing a hope that he had recovered, and stating that he has engaged a great Counsellor to defend ham at the ensuing Assizes, and has not the least doubt that he will be acquitted ; but, at the same time appealing to Mr. HORROCIIM'S benevolence not so appear against him, which he will take as a particular favour. This letter tends to confirm our original impression, that the unfortunate man is labouring under mental disease.—Leeds Mercury.  AN
Star. — 1823-07-14 (London, England)

CIRCUIT.—ABINGDON, JULY 9. James Hawkins, a lad 16 years of age, was indicted • for the wilful murder of William Smith, a boy of 13, by striking him on the head with a prong. The prisoner, thought apparently very robust in person, had a remarkably vacant countenance, and did not manifest the slightest emotion. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner, with one of his brothers, and a girl, named Mary Whiting, were, on the 26th of February last, beating dung with prongs in a field belonging to Mr. Trinder, in the parish of Letcomb Regis. The prisoner observed. that his feet were colc; the deceased said, " his were cold too ;" the prisoner added, " he would go and bring some hay to put in his shoes ;" on which the deceased replied, " that if he did, he would tell, James," meaning James Mortimer, Mr. Trinder's foreman. Upon this the prisoner raised his prong, and struck the deceased on the temple with such violence as to drive in part of the skull. The poor boy fell, and was taken up bleeding and insensible, but languished till the 2d of March, when he died. The prisoner displayed no marks of sensibility or of fear. When asked why he struck the blow ? he replied— " He_need not have been saucy to I," and went to work again in another part of the field, where be con= tip beating dung for several hours. The witnesses for the prosecution, on their cross-examination, declared that the prisoner had always been regarded as an idiot, and that he had three brothers in the same melancholy situation.—The evidence being closed, Mr. Baron Houma asked the prisoner if he had anything to say ? and, receiving no answer, inquired of him if he knew what he was brought there for ? The prisoner raised his head, and, with a vacant stare, replied—" For killing a boy." The Learned Judge asked whether he had any reason to give for his conduct ? The prisoner, with the same apathy, replied, " No." His Lordship then asked him if he was -not sorry for what he had done? The prisoner said,,in a gruff voice--" I am sorry—very." On behalf of the prisoner, his father and mother were called, who deposed that he hid been an idiot from the cradle—that when sent to school he forgot one letter as fast as he learned another—and that he could not reckon above three or four in figures, or count money. They had two other sons nearly as bad, Who were subject to frequent fits, and whom they were still obliged to tend as if they were children. The Learned JUDGE recapitulated the evidence, directing the attention of the Jury to the only question in doubt—whether the prisoner, at the time he committed the act, was insane by the visitation of Pnovi DENCE?-The Jury immediately acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity ; and he was ordered to be detained in custody till his Majesty's pleasure should be known.