Star. — 1821-06-02 (London, England)

CHARGE OF MURDER.  Yesterday, an Inquisition was taken in ChapeLotreet..West. minsterl on the body of Margaret Macdonald, whose dgath was caused by a wound in her head, inflicted by her husband. As we yesterday stated, the husband bad been an Officer in the Army, from which be had been discharged, and had eight cM). dren. He was addicted to liquor, which cawed him to be very passionate. It appeared by the e;idence, that on Saturday last he went to the George and Bull public-house, in Sc. Anno.street, and having called for a quart of ale, sent for his wife to partake of it. The deceased accordingly came, and some conversation ensued between them. relative to theirdaughten, one of whom is seventeen and the other lifteen.yean old. There were &no. ther man and woman in company, to whom the deceased said, a Mr. Macdonald don't mind bow my daughters get money, so as they get it." This enraged the husband, and be instantly ' threw a glass of ale at bee ; after which they departed. One of the daighters had previously arrived at the public-house,— in her examination she stated, that she went there for the purpose of bringing her mother away, and she also asked her father to come home; on which one of the persons present said that if his daughter attempted to come after him to a public-house he would kill her. Witness added that her father and mother had then a Violent altercation respecting the children, when her father threw the glass in her mother's face, which cut her, and of which wound it appeared she died three days after. Ott the preceding Sunday, while in a state of *intoxication, he beat her, and they very frequently quarrelled. She considered that liquor produced the effect of derangement upon her father. He was apprehended on Sunday, but liberated on Monday, as the wound was not then considered dangerous. She saw him in the Park on Wednesday, and informed him of her mother's death, on which he said that she should never see kis face again. She had not heard of him since. He always carried his razors about him. Some years since he killed a man in a duel, which circumstance he deeply regretted.—Mary Brown, who with her husband formed part of the company at the public.house' deposed that the deceased complained of the conduct of her husband towards his daughters, and believed that the words uttered by the deceased, which had provoked the husband to throw the glass at her wen:—" You don't care where my lasses get money, if they bring it to you to drink."—.lchn Macdonald, who was also in company, deposed that the husband threw the glass with all his force.—The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Wei I.'erire against the husband.  DEATH OP THE EARL 01 Srsia.—His Lordship, we regret to state, diet yesterday at his house to Spring-gardens. He was the sixth Ravi, and succeeded his father John, in 1729. His Lordship's titles were, Earl and Viscount of Stair, Viscount Dalrymple, Baron of Newlisten, Meiluce, and Stranraer, and a Baronet—all Scotch titles. II is Lordship, dying without issue, is succeeded by his nephew, John W. H. Dalrymple, now Earl of Stair.  After sentence was, yesterday, pronounced on Major CARTWIII4:IT, ordering him to pay a fine of One Hundred Pounds to the King, and be discharged, the venerable Major produced a general smile in the Court, by the grave manner in which he slowly pulled, from one of the pouches of his immense waistcoat, a bag filled with sovereigns, to a much greater amount than the fine imposed, and formally counted out the nett hunched, observing-" They are all right; and, I believe, full weight." The Major and his friends are said to have anticipated a much larger call on his purse. .Messrs. WuoLaa, ED34OXDB, and AlAnox left the Conn in custody,of three tipstaffs, and were conveyed in a hackney coach to the King's Bench Prison. —Numbers of persons took leave of them on their getting into the coach, which drove at a great rate along Westminster-bridge. They arrived at the Prison about a quarter-past four, and will be removed on Monday to Warwick. In the course of it evening they were visited by many of their frie,,,;l.