Star. — 1804-07-30 (London, England)

BGTANT BAT.  The following is an extra& of a letter received from Sidney, New South Wales : " Some time after my arrival here, I was prefent 'at the trial of Ikey Bull and William Bladders (both of whom came from Newgate, in London), on an indiement charging them with murder. The general opinion was, that Bladders would be convifted, it appearing in evidence, that after the commiffion of the fag, blood was teen upon his legs ; but after a trial of feven hours, both the prifonms were acquitted. " At the fame Criminal Court, Jofeph Samuels and John Ruffel were put upon trial for a burglary; an accomplice, named Richard Jackfon, being admitted evidence for the Crown. Samuels pleaded guilty, and fully exonerated Ruffel from having any concern in the offence ; and immediately after Judgment of death had been pronounced upon him, on his own confeltion, he was ordered for execution, he being firongly furpetled of the murder above mentioned, which was perpetrated in confequence of the robbery, the decealed being a conilable, who loft his life while endeavouring to apprehend the parties guilty of the latter offence. On the Saturday pre-' ceding the Monday appointed for his execution, Samuels declared that Ikey Bull was the man who killed the cornitable. Hereupon, Bull was fent for from the Battery, a place of hard work to which he had been fent, and, together with the woman with whom he cohabited, was led to the gallows, each walking between two conflables, in order that they might hear the dying declaration of &minds, who, to the lilt, perfevered in Alerting, that lkry Bull told him that he himfelf was the man who killed the cOntlati:e, laving, at the fame time, that. he gave him a topper for hick." A concurrence of events now took place, unparalleled in that colony, or perhaps in any part of the world.—Upon Samuels being turned off, the halter broke, and he fell apparently lifelefs on the ground. He was then fupported on men's boulders, tied up, and again turned off, when the rope flipping, he again came to the ground. The halter was now taken from about the neck of another ionvi&, who had received a refpite tinder the gallows, for the put pee of banging Samuels a third time : he was accordingly eafed out of men's aunt, and, with. out receiving any jerk whatever, he was lett fufpended from the gibbet ; but notwithilanding this precaution, to the amazement of all the fpeßators, the rope (napped fhort in two, and the unfortunate man fell to the ground a third time !—Preparations were be-' Erin for a fourth attempt to carry the lenience of the law into final effeEt ; but the Provo!' Martial ordered them to be fufpended, and battened to communicate to the Governor the particulars of the extraordinary fcene he had witnetred ; the confequence of which was, that a refpite was granted to the man who luld fo repeatedly trembled on the very verge of eternity, and lor'the prefervation of whore life, fo many lignal event; may be almoft laid to have miraculoufly occurred. s. Ikey Bnll was fent to the Battery Gang, there being no evidence to juftify his being put on trial a fecond time. He has fince been teverely flogged, and will be fent to a new fettlement, called Van Diemen's Land, about 800 miles foutbward of this place."