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Star. — 1828-04-11 (London, England)

EXECUTION.  -... 011/•••-• CORK, Auu. S. This day, at about a quarter past one o'clock, the sentence of the law was carried into execution at the front &f the county prison, in John Uniacke and James Cody, frrund guilty on Thursday of the murder of Michael O'Neil. The relationship of the parties to each other made this a shocking and distressing case. The culprits had been brothers-in-law to the man they 'murdered; and the prosecutriz, on whose testimony they were convicted, was widow to the deceased, and sister iv Cody, and sister-in-law to Uniacke (sister to his wife.) Their rank was that of decent tatniers. At ten o'clock, their friends were admitted to them to take their leave, and this scene was a sad one, as regarded Uniacke. He had to bid farewell to his mother, brother, and sister, his wife and his infant child of five days old. This child was here baptized, :he brother and sister standing sponsors. When christened he took the babe and kissed it, and said, ,4 When you are able to speak, your mother will teach you to pray for your unit-imitate father:— The stile remained with him after the others bad re• tired, and her conduct was calculated to excite general admiration. She addressed him, and most edifyingly spoke with him, the while stifling her own sorrow. At length she bad to take her last leave, which she did, preserving herself until she left his presence. Uniacke made no declaration further than that he forgave the world. Cody declared that he was the cause of all. They now moved up stairs leading to the gallows, the Rev. Mr. O'Conner by the.,aide of Uniacke, and the Reverend Mr. Mitten with Cody. On coming in view of the au ful apparatus, Uniacke looked stedfastly op to it, but in no degree gave way. He ascended to the platform with a firm step,which firmness continued with him to the last. The silk ropes lately arrived to the City Sheriffs, were used with them; but in consequence of their being found short, a stool was obliged to be put under them, to give them something of a tall. Uniacke took hold of Cody's hand as soon as the cap was drawn over his fiee. and the Reverend Mr. O'Connor took Cody's other hand. Oa Mr. O.C. taking away his hand, when he was about to descend the ladder, the 'pcor creature called out for his hand again or he should 'fall; he was shaking terribly. Mr. O.C. again took him fai the hatid, Which he held until it dropped lions him. Vaiacke was a decent looking 'young fellow, 24 years 41 age. Cody was a boy, aged 17. There was a vast sinsbnir of sptctators.Southern Reporter. -- -I • ...Wednesday, an Inquest was held at the Thistle and Crown, Wapiti's& on dm body of William Matthews, asistar-MaSitref, and part owner of several trading yesseismic)r in mistake for other medicine, took a large dose of lecture of laudanum, which in a few mom entioccaaimed his death. A verdict'to that effect was recorded.
Star. — 1828-09-23 (London, England)

RXRCUTION AT MADRAS. " . The who's of the troop., European native horn: sad font. were under arms early on theimorning of Friday. be I lth i f April, to witness 'the execution of William !loss. private, Royal Regiment, for the murder of -st !oorporAl-ef thesaime Regiment (J skis Dermot), by shootitig I ins through :the• body„ as he lay asleep on him', we night of 16th of Feb. last. The corps paraded -en raider. foriniag• an oblong square. of which the Horse and Foot Artillery and theist Light Canby* !made the east and ivir,t,eods, and the Ist sad Sld bri• wades of Infantry the Borth and :oath seder, mpectilrelyit the gallows in the centre; General Pottier and bit stair mere potent. Soon after theshenies in various dinr. tions had struck six the appointed hoar. a sabaltseee guard from the ;loyal Regiment escdrting a dolly. which contained she prisoner; clothed in white, and. alloogs;de of whom walked the Rev. Mr. R. Missionary (who had constantly *needed bias since his impala:6a. meet), eateted the north side of the square in process sios towards the gibbet ; an Officer of the Comatissaliat. Dopmanent, in charge of the police, accompanying, mounted. The troops now 44 shouldered," and ' tlat Deputy Assistant Adjutant General beginning to road the crime, sentence. and general order to the prisoisak was the signal for Commanding Officers of corpread detachments to do the same to their men—the:quer* being much too large to admit of their hearing any. thing from the centre. This done, they again is ordered" and stood 'at . ease;" and now there was a pause of 10 or IS minutes, during which the unhappy man and his clerical omforter :sensed in earnest prayer and conversatlea together; at length the awful moment arrived, when., though weakly, and reduced in appearance. he mounted upon the drop with some activity (hut perfectly caw posed), and, as soon as the hangman, bad pulled dowel the black handkerchief over his face, and Slid the fatal noose, be gave the signal almost fustandy, by clan** his hands together ; and, the drop being struck away; be was launchedinto eternity. Not a kick, nor a steer: gle, was apparent; but the swingiag of the body for * minute or two, and the salltlasped hands, showed that life was not immediately extinct. A dark cloudy sky. Added to the.soleasnity of the scene, Dreadful as wet the crime for which this man hes thee stand there. 'ashy of the law, his case has excited cessiderible latest, not to say regret. It is another proof added tar the thousands that have gone before, of the appal. ling consequences of drinking. He had been piously. brought up, and was in the habit of advising antra.: proving his comrades for drinking or swearing...wee quite a favourite • with the Officers of the Regimenwho knew him, and among all of whom his fate sp.pears to have excited much commiseratiim. He 'was about SS-years of age.  • 16 it  FRENCH PAPER&  1 .71t011 TIM Gann% as fltinttrX.
Star. — 1828-08-30 (London, England)

COUST.BrfOre Mr. illitiCC BATLItY.  James lialdmin, a resiteerrde-kok,og man, aged 50. was placed at the bar, on the charrle • f having wilfully and maliciously, with a certrn knife, rt, uck, stabbed, and cut James Kenyon, with intent to murder him,' at Spotland. The pror•cotor, it appeared, was at the !rinse of an acquaintaiice, at Spotland. on the day in quer:inn. About twelve at night, however, some reason induced him to go out of the house into a field, situated near at hand. He there found the prisoner lying, apparently drunk, on his back. He spoke to him fir the purpose of rousing him. Immediately the prisoner slatted up. and told the prosecutor he had a knife in his hand, and if he spoke to him, he would kill him with it. The prosecutor, however. spoke to him again, and the prisoner instantly wounded him severely in the calf of the leg ; he then made the best of his way to the house, out of which he had just come, and shut the door. In a few minutes he was followed. by the prisoner, exclaiming that he would tut the throat of the man he had jest wounded. These were the facts proved on the put of the prosecution. _  Mr. l3aowN, on the part of the prisoner, called a woman named Scholes, who proved that in one account of the transaction which the prosecutor had given, be had said that he had taken the prisoner by the waist. band of his small-clothes, and thrown him into the dirt. hole near them ; that then a fight took place between them, and on that occasion the prisoner wounded him in the way above described. A number •f witnesses were called by the prosecutor's Counsel, who had been present at the time when it was alleged this different account had been given by the prosecutor, but they had nut heard any such variation.  Mr. Justice BATLIT left it for the Jury to say whether they believed the account given of the transaction 'by the prosecutor on the present occasion, nr whether, from the partial contradiction given by the witnesses last called, the witness Scholes might not have been mistaken. If they thought the account now given by the prosecutor was a true one, they would find the prisoner guilty ; if they had any reasonable doubt in their minds, they would of course give him the benefit of that doubt. The Jury having consulted a few minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty. - , Mr. Justice Baytav then remarked, in very strong terms, on the highly improper manner in which the prisoner bad conducted himself. He understood, however, that it was only while under the influence of liquor that his conduct was so violent. Although the law rendered him liable to be put to death, he should only direct death to be recorded against him. Further inquiries would be made with respect to his general habits of life, and their results would guide him in the representations proper to be made to his Mikity.  Oyu. Sum—Before Mr. Baron Hou.ocir.
Star. — 1828-02-29 (London, England)

PRICE SZVEMO2I4OI. - ' ~-, . ,—...— es, ,ble of this House, of convictions gird ondon and Middlesex: D ate namben were' s,rts 1 • . smo , r I . . 2,5112 3 . . 2,503 ur years, the House will observe that , rially varied. The numbers is * the . ared with 1820, exhibited a difference , there was a progressive increase, 14 6 to 2.621. The House will observe, .1 P , I g myself exclusively to crimes of a ' • [speak- net ofassaults, nor any species Y. y nature—in 1824, as I have already , rrs were 2,621 ; in 1825, they were ley increased so rapidly as to haye ..--1 ; in 1827, however, there was, corn. I )1: 'ceding year, a diminution of 76 / • . in the latter only 3 881; still the 1 • i : . i was so large, and the diminution in t this circumstance affords no ground ensing with the proposed inquiry— I ''' viewing this vast accuinnlation of tlil rnerically considered, it is estremsly P , &let that none of them are of an ter—that murder cases are not fee- t merally speaking, the aeons which i ( r ' :, ce are connected with property. In , retollected that the numbers were I.4s7—exhibiting a difference of 664. Fences denominated simple larcenies, bers were 1,3144—in 1826, 2,118-- 1. ence of 734. Now, between the total years there war a difference of only #;,+ rident that the crime of larceny not ri it difference, but went beyond it. It ted the whole of the inerea,e, but the other classes of offences mast t' 01' jelly diminished in that interval. took measures for obtaining intornia• .. F increase of crime in the large towns . I have obtained information respectVienna, Antwerp, and Hambargh. ' ,: f red returns connected with the state principal towns of the United Kingn—in Glasgow—in Liverpool—. inrgh, and other places. These re- I . . • tre in many cases more matters of , .'r r thing else. The comparisons that t , between the relative conditions of ' '-r-, sit regards the commission of criminal 4 1 t • always form grounds from which . safely and correctly drawn. Sisine h estimates of the state of crime in France, have been made by -Monwho has had excellent opportunit:es °nett information on the subj•ct, himself of them to no small ea-Retained these tables, and although likt :o the year 1825, yet they ate presented id perfect a form that they ate nel,l trd, and I shall therefore venture anionof the Hone to some of tare ts I . - they contain. They give a moie f 1 ct account than is in most cases ea he state of the administration of esti. r France.. The names and ages ofthe r rite of their crimes, and a vast deal of uctive details, are contained in them. I his, they comprehend accounts of-ti.e ne in each department, the proportion :. t ontra,ted with the. amount of pokrula- f 1. no . . between the number of-offences f
Star. — 1811-05-25 (London, England)

DICK. This was a case, which, from its peculiar nature, has excited a consid,•rable degree of interest. It was a proceeding at z.he instance of the wife, for a nullity of marriage, grounded upon a plea of personal imperfection in the hush.vid, by which the principal end "of marriage was defeated. Upon his denying the fact, the proof oblig.al to be resorted to was an inspection of both parties by medical men. Cases of this description being of .such rare occurrence, it became necessary to refer back to the first principles of the civil lsw, and consider their applica. tion to the present case. A long and ingenious ar; gnment took place in consequence; of the particulars of which, and the evidence adduced, the peculiar circumstances of the case prevent a detail. The Learned Judge (Sir innw Nictiott.) observed, that there could• be no doubt of the circumstance `complained of being a sufficient ground of nullity, but then the proof required by law was strong and conclusive t the rare occurrence of these cases demonstrated the difficulty of obtaining that proof, and. however parties might be affected by it,.he could not depart from the strict rule of law thus laid down.—ln the present case he was of opinion the proof required had not been afforded, and he could Mt therefore establish a precedent of thisnature uponlight grounds, the party having a remedy in an appeal to the collective wisdom of the Court of Delegates. He pm. nounced, therefore, for the Wine of proof on the part of the promoter of the suit. and dismissed her op, plication. 'lr I  Wednesday evening last, as Mr. Joseph Holland, of Gutter-lane, was walking his horse along the Green.lane near Kilburn, in company with Mr. Sampson, of Bread-street, apparently in perfect health at that moment, a vivid flash of lightning came, and he fell from his horse dead without a groan. A man has undergone two examinations at Marl-, borough-street, on the charge of having been concerned in poisoning the horses at Newmarket, and he has been remanded till next week. Lord Foley is said to have suffered a lose to the amount of £50,000, by the nefarioni'poiiOning.of hittlood horses, from the nomet mai...ft. satchel to which he had engaged thein. Munnetts.—Thursday night a murder was committed in Brick-lane, Spital-fields, attended with air. cumstances of brutality rarely heard of: a girl, stand-' ing opposite a butcher's shop, was annoyed by a boy, i who wished her to be gone. The girl resisted, and threw a handful of mud at him. This the woman belonging to the shop no sooner observed, than she knocked down the girl, and kicked her with such vior lcnce as to break th_. spinal bone, which u, fortunately caused her death. The woman instantly decamped. Mr. M'Gregor, of Stonyhurst College, near Blackburn, a respectable teacher of dancing and fencing occasionally in Lancaster, Manchester, &c. was robbed and murdered last week on the road betwetia the for. rater place ata4 Preston.  c.
Star. — 1811-09-12 (London, England)

PROM A BALTIMORE PAPBR, JULY 23.) murder being perpetrated within the sound of the The gross and degrading abuse of our neutral drum of Belle Fountaine. character, by the comfort, protection, and encourage- As a Mr. Price and another man were ploughing ment afforded to the privateers of France in Amen- on his farm, a little distance above the mouth of the can ports, cannot be overlooked by England, unless, . Missouri, on the east-side of the Mississippi, they observed three or four Indians enter the field. Not inked, as Jefferson and his tool have so long and so often .predicted, she is on her last legs, and must, liking their appearance they prepared to return to shortly bend beneath the power of the enemy. yr their family—in this Price was prevented by one we are not misled by erroneous assurances, the Bri- of the Indians getting between him and his horse, tish Ambassador has already remonstrated, in the who came up, crying "Bonjour, Bonjour." The sastrongest terms, against an abuse which must be dis- I vage stretched out his hand, and Price gave him his, avowed and corrected, or retaliation will be inevita- who grasped it fast, whilst, with the other, he seized bly resorted to. Nor is this the only preliminary his gun. Price, at this moment, stood gazing at the point of adjustment to which the attention of the ghastly savage in stupitied herror, without. attempting Executive has been called. The secret proceedings to recover his gun, but was relieved from further of Congress have constituted another distinct and anxiety, by another Indian shooting him through the difficult point of negociatien, What representations! heart. His companion, being unarmed, mounted Mr. Foster has been enabled to make to his Govern- i his horse and fled, nut without receiving a severe ment, will be seasonably known. Positive we are,i wound by a shot from one of these infernal, banditti. that both those subjects have been pressed upon the The party which was collected to protect the neigh, coesideration of Mr. Madison, but with what pro-' bourhood, found Price's body much mangled, with sp:cts of a successful issue, all are competent to de- i three scalps taken from his head. termine, who .are not ignorant of the uniform and I Yesterday another account reached town, of there systematic partiality to France, and hostility to Eng- i being found in the lower extremity of Clinton-hill, the land, evinced by every act of the American Govern-ibody of a white man cut in pieced, and a number of menr. horses stolen from that quarter. i EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS•.—It is no longer clues- Surely these transactions should impel the Covertionahle, flat Mr. Rodney is to be raised to the nors of, these territories to provide against the intpenBench of the United States ; and Mr. Pinkney is to ding, storm. Block-houses are erecting on the frontier succeed him as Attorney General of the United States. settlements of Illinois, and the people have eh= tained the loan of fifty muskets from this town. We
Star. — 1811-09-12 (London, England)

HATTON-GAltDem.----,-Nesterday, a Mr. Dixon; was put to the bar, before Mr. Justice Leach, under I a charge of having on Tuesday night last, between the I Instils of nine and ten o'clock, timed a pistol shot, and I driven a bullet through the wind" of his opposite neighbour, one Henry Earl, a coachman, whose wife was at the time washing,. with her head within the 1. distance of one foot from the hole made by the bul-1 let, which passed close over her head, Mrs. Earl fainted at the shock, and, upon recovering herself, went into an adjoining house, where she sornained till Wood, the Officer, who lives-in the same place, i called Garden's Walk, Clerkenwell, had an ived.— , The prisoner refused to admit the Officer, and three: tested to shoot him if he entered forcibly; but Wood, regardless of menaces, broke in the &or, and secured ' him. A Mrs. Smith, of the same place, stated, that her window was some nights ago broken by a similar firing, and herself thrown into tits, to Which she is subject. —The prisoner appeared so composed and indifferent to the charge, that the Magistrate asked the motivt { of such indifference—whereupon ,the prisoner stated his great pleasure at the happy event of Mrs. Earl's  escape, who well knew that it was a mere orcidenr, since neither she nor any one living ever could or did in his '.ife time impute an idea of malice or on his pint towards any one. The cause of the firiii3 was the annoyance he suffered from an erttaordiriarr great coPKe of cats that surrounded his c ttage .ipon the roofs of the neighbourir.g houses, and which ho endeavoured to disperse by the filing; but lie p.rceived his error in firing to disperse them. and most sin. cerely exulted in the merciful Interposition of 9aove. DENCE, which prevented an evil that would la. 'e at. flitted him sorely. The Magistrate laid down the law to be, tl:at, if the party were killed, it would be mar,slangtpet ; mad had any kind of quartet or dispute ever beim: fettered betwe^n the prisoner cr his wife and Mrs. in cese uf her death by rite shot it v.ould be murder. The prisoner was mistaken in his nf, malice, as such carel..,s firinp impsied malice ; he ordered him to find sumacs ut the peace, or start committed.  , A forgery to a cci, iderable went has been die. covered in one of the first houses in the vicinity of Bond street. Upwards c.f iIiGUOD has been obtaiutd, and one of the first Jerks has ansented himself. A Gertleman was st ,ppe I and robbed of hi. watch and AI on Sunday night, by four ruffians, in Fti.hamfields. An attack was Asa made tn a lady and gen. tleman in a chaise, laaween Clapham and Battersea, on Thursday last, but they escaped in great danger. Monday !light, Mr. C. Davidson, of Totterh,rncourt-road, on returning home ahntg Holloway-1 ne, Islington, in a cur rich:, was attacked by two footpads, dressed as sailors, and masked, who proareted and robbed him of wh it cash he had about him. Monday night, Mr. Wardley, of Mounc.aueet. Grosvenor-square, was hustled at the corner of Fleet. Mat ket, and robbed of his watch and pocket-book, containing bank notes to the amount of A/. .A
Star. — 1811-09-06 (London, England)

BOO.  up, and proclaims himself the principal delinquent in the depredation—a confession which was made to Mr. Ricketts when all suspicion of his (Mr. Law's) guilt was absent from his mind. He tells Mr. Ricketts he is ruined, and expresses deep contrition, and proposed, if his guilt is not disclosed, to make every reparation in his power, to quit the salt line, and to accept of an inferior situation in any other department of thee service. Mr. Ricketts, with impressions natural in such a case to every humane mind, and with feelings of compassion for Mr. Law, tells him, that he will not take advantage of the confession that he had made ; that he should go on with the enquiry as before ; but that Mr. Law had deceived himself it he thought that Mr. Ricketts ever %%mild wink at any circumstance which might publicly be brought before him ; and that, if any thing came out in the course of the investigation to criminate Mr. Law, lie should immediately, in obedience to his duty, lay it before the Board of Trade ; at the same time, that shosild nothing appelt publicly against him, he could not even in that case admit of his continuing in the Salt Department ; and that he should require of him to quit that branch of the service, as he had himself pro- - had  ;Ling _ Milner Ricketts, with an intent to provoke him to fight a duel. Some merit has been claimed for you for pleading guilty. I am at a loss to discover that merit ; for you knew that the charge could be easily proved against you, and you knew, also, that you had nothing to say in your defence. This, I presume, was the reason for your pleading guilty. I fear it did not arise from contrition and repentance of your crime. The plea of guilty, therefore, under such circumstances, leaves you, I think, in the same predicament as you would have been in, had the Jury totted you guilty. By the law of England, a man who kills another in a duel, is guilty of murder ; and therefore, the provoking a man to an act which may involve him in a capital crime, is properly held by the same law to be a high misdemeanour. In answer to this, I know it may be said, that, although this be the law of England, there is another law—the law of honour, which often compels a gentleman to give, and oftener to accept, a challenge. As Judges, we cannot allow of this excuse ; and yet, as risen, we are often obliged, to lament the delicate and distressing situation in which the best of men are sometimes placed by this unbending law of honour : when that is the  A pitched battle was fought on Tuesday afternoon, at Leighton Buzz*, Bedfordshire, between a sailor and a gentleman's servant, for two guineas a-side. The cause of quarrel was a lady, she being loved by each of • these tender swains ; and the hizh value in which she was held by these gallants may be interred from the amount of the ttaier. They evinced much courage and some science ; and after fighting for 51, minutes,• the tailor was declared the victor, he having literally sewed up the eyes of his rival. PfiDESTRIAN