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Star. — 1818-01-24 (London, England)

THE EVENING STAR.  LONDON.  SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1818. THE FUNDS. .• PRICE OF STOCKS TUTS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK : Reduced 80}-.-Cons. 80f.-Cons. for Feb. 8O •4 per Cent. 99 _Navy Annuities 105; ' India Bonds 107'108 pr.—Exch. Bills 18 28 pr.  On the 7th instant we laid before our Readers a Proclamation by the King of SPAtls, issued on the 18th ult. in consequence of a Treaty concluded between the Courts of Lonslon and Madrid, prohibiting all the subjects of the Spanish Monarchy from proceeding to any place north of the Line on the Coast of Africa, from the date of the Proclamation, for the purpose of buying slaves ; and from proceeding to any part on the said coast south of the Line after the tOth of May, 1820, when the Slave Trade is to be entirely abolished.  Our Readers will recollect—indeed their trouble in turning up their file of the Paper to read the Pro. clamation will be well repaid, if they will compare the reasoning and motives therein assigned for this measure with the real fact.  Among other reasons therein set forth for abolishing the Slave Trade, it was stated that in America " the number of indigenous Negroes had increased prodigiously ; and even that of free Negroes, under the fostering care of a mild Government and the Christian humanity of the Spanish proprietors ; the number of white inhabitants had likewise been much augmented, and the soil, being cleared of wood, had become less prejuditial."—That is, there was no want of fresh supplies of labourers.—Other reasons were also assigned, and the whole was summed up with a declaration, that having weighed all the circumstances the KING, in his wisdom, had " determined that the time for the abolition had arrived."  Who would presume to question the sincerity and frankness of the motives assigned by his Most Feat-id Majesty for any act? Who would believe that the receipt of a sum of money from another, Power had any place among the inducements which procured the publication of this Proclamation? We are not among the number who would presume to question the sincerity, the candour, and humanity of the beloved FERDINAND : but we should like to know how it should happen, if the real reasons for the abolition were, that there was no farther want of hands in South America ; that Africa had now a prospect of speedy civilization, and that of course the humanity of purchasing her war prisoners, to prevent their being murdered, ceased to operate as a motive; and that the time for abolishing the Slave Trade had arrived ! We should like, we say, to know, these being the real reasons of the• abolition, on what ground this Monarch, whom we so much revere and respect, should have demanded and obtained from this country the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling, as a price for the abolition ?  Our reason for putting this question will he seen from the following copy of the Third and Fourth Articles of the Treaty to which we have alluded:  " ARTICLE Britannic :Majesty engages to pay in London, en the 20th of February, 1819, the sum of four hundred thousand pounds sterling, to such person as his Catholic 141.4,-sty *ball appoint to receive the same.
Star. — 1818-03-09 (London, England)

PALMERSTON."  Wednesday landed at Donaghadee, from Portpatrick, Major General Sir SYDNEY BECKWITH ; and on Thursday, General CorawaN, and the Hon. Colonel O'Nai  Previous to MINA'S being killed by the Spaniards, he was compelled to sign an order to his companions, in fort Comanja, to deliver themselves up. The answer made was, that they regretted the misfortune of their General, but it would not materially affect their situation ; adding, however, that if the Royalists killed him, they would do the same with 6Q Spaniards then in their power.  Monday the brig Dolphin, PaowTlwG, in 34 days from St. Thomas's, laden with coffee and sugar, arrived at Portsmouth. The schooner Morgan Rattler, which sailed from that port with about 40 young men to join the cause of the Independents of South America, had arrived at that island, but they were not permitted to land, in consequence of the deplorable condition that many had been left in who had previously arrived, and who actually had become paupers on the inhabitants, from not finding there an agent to advance cash and furnish means for their proceeding to the Spanish Main, as they had fully expected and calculated on when they left England. The Morgan Rustler had sailed again, supposed direct for the Main.  The Game-keepers of the Earl of CARLISLE, at Castle Howard, going their rounds a few nights ago, observed a light traversing the fields in a very extraordinary manner, apparently moving of itself.— They watched it for some time with amazement, when, at length, it made a sudden stop, and they observed, for the first time, three men draw a net towards the light, which proved to be a setter-' dog with a lantern fixed upon his head, so that he could range the field, and on his stopping, the poachers knew where the game lay. The whole of the poachers 11 were apprehended, and committed for trial. EXT&AOISDINAILY Duatn.—About ten o'clock on Saturday night, the landlord of the Crooked Billet, Whitechapel, returned home after being out the whole of the day transacting some business, and sitting with his wile in the bar until the house was cleared of all the customers, she observed he WAS very melancholy and dejected. On a sudden he started up and exclaimed, " Wife, come get me the pistols, don't you hear thieves breaking into the house, they are coming to tab and murder us." Ilis wife did all she could to convince hint it was only imagination, and strove to compose him, but to no effect. On his wife refusing to get hint the pistols, he started up out of his chair, and getting the pistols himself, be ran up and down stairs with a loaded pistol in each hand, crying out " Robbers! Murder !" but fortunately met with no person ; he became quite exhausted, and returned into the parlour; he walked about in a state of frenzy for some time, when seating himself in a chair, he dropped down and expired ; a surgeon was called, who rendered every assistance, but to no effect.
Star. — 1810-07-11 (London, England)

SWEDEN.  The following extract of a letter from Stockholm, dated June '24 gives some further particulars of the late commotion in that capital : " The funeral procession of the CROWN PRINCE arrived here yesterday. It was led by Count Axel Fersen, in a carriage drawn by six horses. An immense assemblage of people had collected. No symptoms of riot or outrage were observable until tile corpse had reached New-street (Nygatan), when the populace began to hiss and shout at the Count, who did not seem to suppose that the indignity was directed to him, but on a stone being thrown into the carriage, the Count Tout his head out of the window, and if I may judge from his gestures, which were too significant to be mistaken, set the mob at defiance. This exasperated them to such a degree, that they discharged a volley of stones at the coach,one of which struck the Count in the face. The Count immediately ordered the postillions to stop, jumped out of the coach, and with great difficulty reached the nearest house. At that moment Baron Silvesrsparre, the Adjutant-General, arrived, and on dem.inding the cause of the riot, the general exclamation Count Fersen has murdered the Crown Prince. Si. versparre then told them that the King had ordered him to declare that the Count should be arrested and tried. The moil then huzzaed, and began to disperse. The carriagehad in themean time advanced a little, and stopped in the square. In half an hour after the Count came out of the house, and in approaching the carriage, the mob suddenly rushed upon him, tore the star from his coat, pelted him with stones, and murdered him:! So ferocious were the assassins, that they tore the clothes off the body of the CGunt, and exposed his naked corpse in the street. The Life-guards came up ; the people were told to disperse—but in vain ; they pelted the officers, &c. used the most threatening and abusive language respecting the Queen anti Countess Piper, and became more and more outrageous. The soldiers fired, and a great many were shot. The Council of State assembled. Countess Piper, sister of Count Fersen, was arrested, as well as Mr. Rossi, Principal Physician of the deceased Crown Prince, and sent to the fortress of Waxholm. The insurgents on being informed of these proceedings, and that Count Fabean Fersen had resigned' his office as Lord Chamberlain, the public tranquillity was somewhat restored. In the night the, mob attack':d Count Ugglas's house and broke all the window, but did no further damage. To-day cannons are planted in the squares ; and orders have been issued for several regiments to march with all . possible eipedition to the capital. It is somewhat remarkable that Count Fersen, who had resided several years in France, and was, from the elegance of his rm.nners and etraordinary a great favourite at Court, Was the accomplishments, person who, in the habit of a coachman, drove the unfortunate. Louis
Star. — 1810-09-04 (London, England)

AUGUST 28.—This day came on before the Court the trial of James Inglis, private soldier in the Edinburgh Militia, charged with the wilful murder of Simon Simonson, a 'Danish prisoner at Greenlaw, by firing his musket, upon the 27th of July last. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty of murder, and that he shot Simonson in execution of his duty. It appeared by the evidence, that the prisoners at Greenlaw had been for some days, and particularly upon the day stated in the libel, very riotous and disorderly, and had frequently pelted the sentinels with stones, pieces of wood, bones, &c. from the window of the house—that several of the soldiers had been struck with these, and had not only complained to the officer and serjeant of the guard, but had threatened to fire into the house upon the prisoners, if the throwing was continued—that Inglis, upon the evening of the 27th, was posted upon the south-side of the house, without the pallisade, and the sentinels to the right and left of him heard him repeatedly call to the prisoners to keep back from the windows—that he complained to the keeper of the prison that he could not stand upon his post, for stones, bones, and sticks, thrown at him by the prisoners ; that the jailor went into the prison to challenge the prisoners, and put them upon their guard ; that when in the act of doing so Inglis fired in through the windows of the stair-case of the third flat, by which the deceased was mortally wounded. It was declared by the officers commanding the detachment, and the serjeants, that frequent complaints had been made to them by the men, of being annoyed by the prisoners, and that they took every step in their power to prevent it, and find out the persons offending, but that strict orders were given not to fire upon such occasions, but to call the serjeant of the guard—(it did not appear that the prisoner had been informed of this order) and that by the general orders read to the detachment, a sentinel was entitled to fire when the prisoners were escaping, or attempting to escape. It was sworn by one of the prisoners, that he and the deceased were standing quietly together, conversing at the window, and that they neither spoke nor threw at the sentinels. Inglis, in his declaration, admitted he had not called the serjeant of the guard, nor received orders to fire, but that he was severely pelted by the prisoners from the stair-case window of the third flat ; that he repeatedly called to them to keep back from the window ; that they laughed at him, and said he had no ball in his piece ; that he cocked and presented, but not wishing to fire, recovered his arms; and that it was not till after repeated insults that he at last fired, and that ha considered himself entitled to do so, being insulted on his post. Inglis is a young man,- about 20 years of age, and had not been full twelve months a soldier ; and his Captain gave him the character of a steady quiet man. The Jury found a verdict of culpable homicide, and he was sentenced to be transported beyond seas for 14 years.
Star. — 1815-12-15 (London, England)

LIMERICK, DECF.MBER 2.—On the 233 ult. John and Bryan Gorlick were way-laid near Roscrea, and dreadfully beat. Bryan Gorlick's skull was so shockingly fractured, that he died on the 26th ; and the inquest held on the body found a verdict of wilful murder against Malachy Quinlan and. Daniel Gaynan. John Gorlick is in a fair way of recovering. TULLAMORE, DECEMBER 2 —The Proclamations for the Insurrection Act have been posted throughout this neighbourhood ; and yesterday Mr. Jebb, has been appointed by Government to preside at the Sessions opened • for the King's County proclaimed districts, at Clara, where about fifteen Magistrates attended, and in a most clear and comprehensive manner pointed out to them their powers and duties under the Act. He said it was from their exertions alone the peace of the county was to he restored, and the people brought to know that the laws should be respected.—Mr. Parsons, the Assistant Barrister, and Mr. Harding', the Clerk of the Peace, were present. Mr. Jebb farther stated, that should other pares of the county become disturbed, it would be wise and prudent for the Magistrates to call for the eaten iion of the Act to them at once, and not, by a paltry saving of expense, put to risk the security of W.., liberty, and property. The Sessions have been adjourned to Tullamore for next Tuesday.—A person of the name of Long, from Spike Island, was attacked hear Lapp's Island, on the night of Thursday, by a m.m who !Wick him a violent blow on the face which knocked him down, and he was then robbed of £17.). A man of the nano of Won. Callaghan, applitcntly a sailor, who states that he is from the neighbourhood of Mallow, has been committed to Bridewell on suspicion of the robbery. On being taken, he denied having any money about him, hut, on being searched, ea were found on him, and Long has sworn to one of the notes for ar.s as his property. k orn the exertions making, there is every probability of the remainder of the property being recovered.  Nrcnot.soN's New Price Current, from which we extract frequently the state of the Landon Market 4, had the following notice last Tuesday : In reply to the numerous enquiries at our Office, we fully expect the Supplement will be ready for delivery early in January ; it will, as usual, contain in detait the prin• cipat events of 1815, interesting tables of the fluctuations in commerce ; the alter.ittons in the rates s f 10• reign exchange ; the extent of our col ,nial trade ; the expos ts and imports; with general remarks on the present political and commercial situation of Grem 1 Britain. It will go tree of postage to our Country Subscribers. In compliance with the earnest solicitation of many eminent houses in the City and the Outports, a New Price Current is published at our Office every Friday, arranged in alphabetical order, with remarks on the state of the Markets up to the evening of that day.—Price three guineas per annum, half-year Sta. Gd. payable.in advance.
Star. — 1815-12-09 (London, England)

ADYERTNER, NOV. 3.  By the following article, which we copy from The .Raleigh (North Carolina) Star. it appears that Joke R. Code, wh., was lately convicted in the Superior Court of North Carolina, of murdering a negro, has been pafcloned by the Governor of that State. To this paragraph we subjoin a report of the trial of Cooke. By the trial it viill.be seen, that the murder was one of the most atrocious ever committed. It is also the first instance of the murder of a person, of colour since the recent enactment of a law in that. State, affixing to this crime the punishment of death. The Governor, by pardoning this.firii offender, whose crime ton was accompanied with the must aggravated and barbarous cruelty, has completely disarmed the law of its terror. He has rendered the law 4, a dead letter ;" and the old opinion that it is less criminal, and deserving a milder punishment, to murder a coloured than a white man (an opinion supported by no shadow of moral principle), will again at least practically prevail throughout that State. Indeed, this opinion, as will be seen in the paragraph from the Raleigh Paper, is already urged by some of the deluded people in justification of the Governor's conduct 'n this occasion :  John R. Cooke, one of the murderers of the negro ' Stephen, who was, pursuant to his sentence, to have been banged in this city on Friday last, was pardon-eel at the gallows by his Excellency the Governor. On that day he was biought nut of gaol, seated on his coffin in a cart, and carried to the gallows: after remaining some time, and hearing the discourse of some pious men who attended him, a noose was put round his neck, and the cap drawn over his eyes. He now began seriously to'think it was really intended to hang hint, which he had nut believed before. He asked the Sheriff if he had not a pardon for him ; the Sheriff said net, and ordered the carter to drive off. The criminal tlim moaned bitterly, when Mr. S. T. Sanders, the Governor's Secretary, stepped up and handed the Sheriff a pardon, and Cooke was immediately turned loose."  Numerous petitions were presented to the Gutter. nor in his iavour. Many thought it hard to being Cooke, when it was believed Davis and Heflin were equally guilty, and his brother Joe Cooke almost equally so. Some thought', as this was the first in*ranee in which a white man had ever been convicted for killing a negro, it would be impolitic to hanghiin si liner oectedly ; and others. believe that it would be wrong in all respects to hang a white man for killing a negrik; but, whatever might have been the motives of his Excellency, we hear no dissatisfac it:a expressed by any at this act of clemency. Yet we think it may be well to widen .the unwary against a repetition of the too common practico of whipping negroes to death, as the Court have shown a disposition to bring offenders to account, and executive interposition may not be expected in all cases : 1
Star. — 1822-03-12 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST. A respectable Jury sat at the Workhouse, in Gray's Inn-lane, at three o'clock, and having, with the Coroner, Mr. Svnitisc. viewed the body, which lay at the house in Robert-street, they returned to the Jury-room, and examined witnesses. Mr. Lewis Hensley, Surgeon, deposed as to the nature of tLe wounds. lie found a deep wound on the left side of the neck, passing from the jugular vein in a slanting direction towards the vertebra, the instrument having divided both the internal and external jugular vein and carotid artery. 'There was another wound on the right side of the neck, near the back part, probably inflicted with the same instrument as the former wound. He should think it must have been a pointed double-edged knife, or some instrument of that kind, probably about half an inch across the blade, that was used in the perpetration of the horrid deed. The other injuries he observed were a few slight bruises on the legs and arms, and the forcible removal of the ring finger of the left hand: it was cut off at the second joint, and probably by the same instrument with which the other wounds were inflicted. It might be as well to mention, that both the wounds were stabs, and not cuts; the instrument, therefore, must have been sharp pointed. The bruises that he had referred to were in all probability produced by the struggling of the deceased, either prior to her receiving the wounds, or at the time she fell. 'Mrs. Sarah Cheney, Mrs. Mary Earle, Mr. Monk, the colstable of the night, William Walton, the watchman, and Win. Bobon, the patrol, gave evidence, the substance of which adds nothing to the information on the subject we gave yesterday. Mary Ann Young, the young woman who, with her step-father, had been in custody on suspicion of the murder, deposed as follows:-She lives at 16, Baker's-row, Clerkenwal. She had attended on the deceased occasionally nearly two years ; they agreed very well together, but sometimes there might be a t; !fling difference about something. Witness lived with her mother. but went sometimes in the middle of theday to do jobs or go of messages for the deceased ; hut slept there every night. She sometimes went there at eight o'clock, and sometimes not till past eleven or twelve. On Saturday last witness left the deceased at half-past seven in the morning, and after leaving her a loaf of bread, did not return until half-past ten at night, when site found a crowd collected before the door, and then heard of the murder. Witness bad no sweetheart or other person come to visit her at the deceased's, neither did she ever describe the situation of the house to any person, nor had she any suspicion by whom the murder was committed. The back door was always bolted, both day and night. Harriot Perceval and Elizabeth Ryans were examined, but tie new fact was elicited. The Jury, at ten o'clock, returned a verdict of--44 WiUaL Murder, against some person or persons unkuown."  LONDON ; hinted and published by Lava. Kcal, l'iacti Place, Tentes-Bu.  a
Star. — 1822-04-04 (London, England)

DOVER, APRIL 3.  His Excellency the Dutch Ambassador (Baron ben) and suite, arrived here about eight o'clock yesterday evening, and alighted at Wittones Ship Inn. About three o'clock this afternoon his Excellency was conveyed on board his Majesty's steampacket Dasher, then lying in the Roads, under a salute from the guns of the Citadel. The wind being fair, his Excellency had, no doubt, a short and delightful passage to Calais.  - The Duchess of CLARENCE is again in "that state in which Ladies wish to be, who love their Lords I" Mr. BOLLAND has sent round a Circular to the Members of the Common Council, announcing his intention to offer himself as a Candidate for the office of Common-Serjeant. Mr. DRAKE, Midshipman of the Sisrzaw, has been recently presented with is rich gold medal, by the KING of the NETHERLANDS, for his humane and successful exertions, in saving from a watery grave, a Dutch sailor, one of the et ew of a vessel lately wrecked on the Sussex coast, off Winchelsea. The Planet Venus which, a few weeks since, was an admired crescent to the eastward of the Sun, in the evening, is now a beautiful crescent to the westward of him, in the morning, and may be seen by the naked eye from five till sun-rise. The spots on the Sun are at this time very interesting, there being one which is perceptible to the naked eye; it is about three times the size of our earth. An advertisement appeared in our last paper, signed a " Prudent Man, and directed against the Norwich Union Insurance Society, for which we take the earliest*opportunity of expressing our unfeigned regret. •NN e have always held it to be a sacred principle, in the management of our paper, in no case to insert anything that can either wound the feelings or hurt the interest of any individual, and it has been accordingly a standing rule, often and anxiously enforced, that all advertisements, which contained matter in the least degree doubtfnl in its tendency, 'should be submitted to the Editor; as it is impossible that he can read over all the matter previous to its appearance in the Paper. By some unaccountable neglect this rule was not, in the present instance, complied with, and the Advertisement in question having got insertion unawares, was not observed until itovas too late to remedy the evil. We can only repeat, that this mistake has occasioned the most unspeakable vexation, and that we are anxious to make any reparation that may still be in our power.—Caledonian Mercury, March 28, 1822. It is not true, as stated in some of the Newspapers, that no fatal duel has taken place in Scotland since Sir George Ramsay's in 1790. Mr. Livingston shot Mr. Booth in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, about 1604. In 1810, Surgeon Cahill, 25th Foot, shot Captain Rutherford, at Iladdington; and was afterwards tried for murder before the High Court of Justiciary, when th.: Jury, by a plurality of voices, found Mr. Cahill " Not Guilty." PUNISHMENT OF DUELLING BY TILE LAW OF