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Star. — 1811-08-28 (London, England)

IVIFE FOR MURDER. and Joseph King, for various robberies, and Thomas The prisoners were charged with the wilful mur- : Mann for forgery, were executed at the debtor's-door, tier of Joseph Fisher, a chimney-sweeper, at Wake. of Newgate, pursuant to their sentence. About eight field, by maliciously stirring up a fire, whereby the e'clOck they were brought out, and ascended the !oat in the adjoining chimney was set on fire, and the platform. They met their late with becoinii-Ig ferdeceased was so dreadfully burnt that he expired in a titude. Antonio and King were attended by a Cafew days. tholic Clergyman, and Mann by the Ordinary of George Eyre, one of the sweeps employed on this Newgate. Soon after they were tied up they were occasion, stated, that himself, the deceased, and a „•launehed into eternity. John Ft-Inel%, who was also boy of the name of* Watson, went on the morning of tried with Mann for forgery, received a respite the the 20th of April, at five o'clock, to sweep the chimney night previous to the execution. of Mr. Grace, the prisoner's neighbour. They knot-1 Crioxeos, (Sotrettemeros) AUc. 26.—The Annni ked with their brushes at the house of the prisoners versary of this Town was holden on Saturday, the for half an hour, calling out sweep ! but could get I 17th instant, on the King's Terrace, under the statue no answer ; but the witness said he was sure some' of our beloved,Sovereign, which was erected on the person in the house was up, as, he heard a noise.— day of the Jubilee. Tnastas CRoxroN, Eezn_ was in Witness said, that the last • time they swept the the Chair.—On this occasion an elegant dinner was chimney ef Mr. Grace (which was about foer months provided, of which twenty gentlemen partook. 'Fix before) Mrs. Byrom threatenedaf they did not bring ; King, Prince Rezent, and several other loyal and pea sleet and keep the soot from failing down into their Mimic toasts were given from the Chair. After which, house, she would set the chimney and the boy on fire. the company gave, Succor to Me Town, and may it Witness proceeded to state, that he put Joseph Fisher ! ever flourish and be defended ! with three times theee, in the chimney, and soon after be heard the tire stir- I The Chairman returned thanks, and gave A',s to Winred up. Witness went away, leavieg Watson to take ten Hospitel. The company then subscribed £5, as the bey out of the chimney when lie came down.— I-a further donation, and requested the Chairman would Witness was seat fur againin consequence of the ac- forward the 'same. It is a singular fact, that in 1737 cident, and again knocked at the doer of the prisoner; , this spot cost only £lOO, a.. 1 will now net the preon its being aliened, be found Benjamin Byrom tying sent Proprietor upwards of 417,000 up his stockiew, and Watson told him that the boy
Star. — 1811-09-25 (London, England)

HER MANSTADT, AUGUST 15.  A courier which arrived yesterday from Crajova brought a Bulletin from General Sass, announcing that a corps of 3000 Turks, having passed the Danube, wished to establish themselves between Lom and Widdin, and began to construct entrenchments; but the Russian troops marched against them and completely repulsed them. Te Drum was sung, and salvos of artillery announced this victory. ' , Letters worthy of credit state that Ismael, Bey of Seret, has advanced to the other side of the Danube with a considerable corps of troops and a great nwnher of Ay,:ns. The position he had taken near Widdin enables him to keep open a communication with the Grand Vizier, to whom he can, in case of need, send reinforcements, and threaten, at the same time, the Seivians. STOCKHOLM, AUGUiT 24.  The tribunal of justice has at length passed sentence upon the murderers of Count Fersen. One of them.is condemned to suffer death, another to run die puntlet and be confined for a year in a fortress ; others are to be kept in prison fur II or 23 days on bread and water, and pay a tine. It is thought that some of them will implore the clemency of his Majecy.  By dr! Duke of Kent Packet, which has arrived at Falmouth, Halifax Papers have been received to the 3,1 inst. Boston to the 23d tilt. and N,:w York to the 7.oth. With respect to the discussions with Mr. FosTen, the only new information we can collect from i them, is, that the propositions upon which the nego-. ciatiou is suspended, came from the American Government, and not from our Minister. The nature, however, of these propositions is not hinted at. By a vessel from Monte Video, intelligence has been received that Era° had ordered off all American vessels, except a few laden with provisions. lie had also directed that the American merchants should appoint a Committee of five to take charge of their property, and that the rest should forthwith take theirdeparture.  An extract from the National Intolligencer contradicts the report stated in the _Aurora, of a personal quarrel between Mr. FOSTER, the British Minister, and Mr. Mosstox, the American Secretary of State. The following is an extract from a private letter obtained by the same opportunity : " Boston, August 19. " We now have a Court of Inquiry sitting at New York upon the affair which the President had with the Little Belt. I believe it will turn out that Capt. littionAsa was in the first instance wrong, and that it was not wise in itooseas to chas-, as he unless he were so ordered, which he will be puzzled to chew.— The ship Rapid, Capt. Doss., has been wrecked on the coast of New Holland:--L-the Captain and four men saved themselves in du jolly boat, and subsisted thirty-seven days on fourteen gallons of ss wer and forty pounds of biscuit. The 'Lip b.ul 215,090 deliFs ea board, which were to:aLly  NAPAL iNTY,
Star. — 1831-06-29 (London, England)

LECTURE ON MECHANICS, &C.—On Tuesday even. ing Mr. Adcock delivered the first of a course of lectures ~ on mechanics, steam engines, steam boats, and railways." The lecturer chiefly directed the attention of his auditory, whieb was both highly respectable and etinteroue, to the leading principles of" mechanics," and to ante!' a view of the various ramifications into which they branched as might render his future efforts the more intelligible. In illustration of the subjects to which he refened, a number of ingenious models were exhibited, without which even a literal report of the lecture would be entirely divested of its most interesting' points. Saturday an inquest was held at Darcy Lever, before Mr. Milne, on the body of Mary Hopkinson, who died on Fri. day last at Tonge-viith-Haulgh, from the effects of a gun. shot wound inflicted by a watchman, under circumstances which were detailed in our paper of last week. After the ' examination of several witnesses the inquest was adjourned to Wednesday, and on that day it was resumed accordingly of the Swan inn, Great Bolton, when evidence was ad. dined : Tile investigation occupied several hours, and the  Jury ultimately returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against John MacGowan, the watchman who shot the deceased, and he was consequently committed to Lancaster Castle, to take his trial for the offence at the next Assizes. —Meredith Trotter and William Howe, who were at first involved in the affair, were discharged from custody add bound over as witneues against the said John Maellowan. —Such was the excitement in the neighbourhood that many hundreds of people waited the event of the inquiry. INFERIOSITY OF ENGLISH MAxurAcTicrars.—ln Mr. Alcock's " Travels in Russia, Persia," due. a very unfavourable account is given of the state of English trade at Constantinople : • I was sorry (says Mr. A.) to find that our principal export from England to the Turkish market (manufactured cotton) was of very inferior description to that of Switzerland and of France. and was only able to procure demand at all from the inferiority of its price ; we are so completely surpassed by the Swiss in the beauty and texture of cotton prints, and by the French in the finest specimens of the manufacture, that Eng. fish has become another word for inferior, and the avidity with which our goods were formerly sought after, is sunk to the ignotninfous supply of those whose tastes are rather governed by frugality than by superior beauty and excellence. In cloth, so article of great demand in Turkey, we have never had any pretension to vie with Germany, and so long as corn is sixty-five to seventy shillings in England, and from twenty to thirty shillings in Saxony, the reason of our inabiMy to compete with them must be obvious. In hardware we are supplanted by the Prussians, and Belgium has had the principal supply of arms ; some American merchants, too, are making large Fortunes by the opium trade to Chins, whilst our less favoured countrymen are prevented sharing any of the profits, by the impolitic restrictions of our East India charter.
Star. — 1831-06-17 (London, England)

BASIL—The predts of the Provincial Bank of Ireland for the year ending AprillB3l, amounted to 21,7971. Ihe dividend for the half year ending at Midsummer-day next, to be two and • half per cent. TRINITY COLLTOTA Blind Man obtaining first Sisarship. —The following seven gentlemen have obtained Sizarships :,—Hamilton, Weir, Leaghy, Wilson (Hugh,) M'Nulty, Wilson, (James,) Mann. The most singular feature on the present manioc is, that Mr. Hamilton who obtained the first place, has been blind from his birth. In what manner he acquired his extraordinary classical know. ledge we have not been able to ascertain; but the fact, as was natural, excited much astonishment in College. His Latin, we understand, was beautiful. Mr. Luby read the English (a translation (torn Livy) to him, and be dictated she Latin. The other examiners, in the same manner, read to Mm the various passages in which they wished to examine him; and some, to try his memory, read the text wrong, he detected the imposition at once, and corrected it. It has never become our painful duty to record the death of a public man, that alive us more than that of the venerable O'Conor Don. Combining all the elegance of the gentleman, all the suavity of manner of the enlightened Christian, all the unalloyed virtues of the patriot, be was as revered by his admiring countrymen; whose genuine friend he ever was, as he. was loved by all who had the honour and the pleasure of his personal acquaintances. In him there was no guile—no cold ihflorophy that would lead him to forget his own country in order to become a citizen of the world—no plodding selfishness that would mar his pa. triotism by bolding out prospects of personal aggrandizement, no plilegniatinn, no duplicity—no alloy, bit'all manner of candour, frankness of demeanour, openness of soul, generosity and liberality of mind, and a deep and ardent love of freedom ! He loved his country—for her rights he contended —in the maintenance of her privileges he poured out his last breath ! Such was the venerable patriot of Belanger. By friends cherished, and by political opponents—for an enemy he could not hive had, respected, he died on Sunday morning, of a complaint brought on by a too close and uniendt. ting attention, for one of his advanced age and previous regular habits, to the interests of the people In Parliament, and by the trouble attendant upon the late election tor Roscommon, in the 80th year of his lir. ENNIS, Jo ars 11.—Niurta. Donnelly, who was COOvieted at the late Commission, of the murder of Berjeant James Robinson, of the 6th Foot, was executed yesterday at Hailisacally in this county, pursuant to 'tattoos. The culprit denied kis guilt at the place of execution, and never did there attend so few *penmen to whines an exhibition of  At Si  this sort. None of the peasantry were to be obsereed near the fatal scene, and a group of women and children formed the only spectators, with the exception of the military guard.
Star. — 1831-01-21 (London, England)

CORNUBIAN, JAN. 14.  We uadentand that the High Sheriff has refused to accede toe re• quisition for a County Meeting to petition for Parliamentary Reform. and that in consequence the Magistrates who are favourable to this measure, have resolved upon convening a meeting at Bodurin, en Wednesday next» There can be no doubt of a full attendance. Fatasotrrn.—By the Alexander, Smith. from Trinidad which sr. rived here oa 'Tuesday, we learn that as the Ist of November the American brig Orbit, from the coast of Africa, bound to America laden with palm oil, elephants' teeth, gold dust, &c. was lost on ths: eastern coast of Trinidad where she had drifted, the crew having mutinied, murdered the Captain, and abandoned the vessel. Two of the crew had been apprehended and lodged in the prison at Trinidad. Quantity of Copper Ore sold last week at Itedruth, 2392 tons—Average Produce. 9i—Quantity of fine Copper, 426 tons. 16 cwt.—. Amount of 5a1e.14,5161. ths.--Average Standard, 971. 141. An election for the borough of Beeralston took place on Tuesday the 11th Inst. of one member in the room of Lord Lovaine, now Earl of Bevetly. An opposition was expected, and the patron's agents mustered all their force. Mr. Toll proposed John Attwood, Esq. and was seconded by Mr. Northay in opposition to the patron's interest. A Mr. Penrease of London was then proposed sad seconded ; and Mr. Foot, of Devonport, next proposed David Lyoo, Esq. as a candidate, in the interest of the patron, and was seconded by General Adams of Tames. A show of bands was then called for by the partnere. which was declared to be in favour of Mr. Attwood, a poll suss consequently demanded by the friends of Mr. Lyon. Thus far the proceedings bad been carried on under a tree in the centre of the borough. An adjournment was proposed to the Inn, to which all parties immediately repaired. The voters polled for David Lyon, Esq. were Mr. W. Foot. of Devonport ; General Adams, of Totness ; Mr. Bastard, M.P. for Dartmouth ; Rev. C. Luamoro, of &Ids:stews I Mr. Harris, of Plymouth ; Mr. Dawn, of Rockland Monschorans ; and Mr. Luxmore, of Plymouth, who claimed a right to vote as the owners of certain freehold property within the borough; but on being interrogated by Mr. Snell, of Callington, who appeared on behalf of Mr. Attwood, they declined answering any questions. One of the gentlemen thought his deed was in the hand of Lord B.'s agents, who produced them to the Portreeve, and in taking them from his bag, the deeds belonging to the other gentlemen were observed, but they created no surprise, as it Is usual for the agents to be in possession of those documents. Notwithstanding the arguments of Mr. Sae% they were all allowed to be good votes. For Mr. Attwood, SI tendered their votes as free burgesses. freeholders, and inhabitant householders, but were all rejected ; and D. Lyon, Esq. was declared duly elected. by his seven voters. The return was protested against by Mr. Snell, who stated that the whole of the proceedings should be brought before the House of Commons.
Star. — 1820-07-26 (London, England)

STEDMAN V. GOT AND OTHERS. Mr. HART, on the part of the plaintiff, moved for an injunction to restrain the defendants from publishing any more copies of a work called " Guy's Elements of Astronomy," which was in part pirated from a work of the plaintiff, entitled " Siedwan's Study of Astronomy." The plaintiff's work had been first published in 1793, and, between that period and the year 1807, had gone through four Editions. In the year 1819, Mr. Joseph Guy, formerly Profesior of Astronomy in the Royal Military College at Great Marlow, and the other defendants, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, printed and published the work now complained of, and of which the greater part of the text was copied from Mr. Stedman's book, with little alteration. The books themielves were in Court, and ready for his Lordship's inspection. Mr. SITADWELL, Counsel for the defendants, said, it was not denied that there was a similarity in the contents of the two books, but the Court of Chancery never interfered by injunction in any case where due diligence had not been used. He would shew that it had not been used here. The book of the defendants was published in February, 1819. The plaintiff did not file his Bill until April, 1820, and on this day, the 25th of July, for the first time, moved for an injunction. He held in his hand an affidavit of the defendant Baldwin, which proved the manner in which these Gentlemen, the defendants, treated the case in the first instance, stating, that Mr. Mawman, the agent of the plaintiff, waited on the deponent in February last, and informed him, for the first time, that the defendants book was pirated, in part, from that of the plaintiff. On this information, deponent immediately wrote to the plaintiff, expressing his sorrow that such a circumstance should have taken place, that it was without his knowledge, and contrary to the manner in which.he and his partners did business. Deponent informed the plaintiff that there were but twenty-five Numbers of the defendant Guy's book unsoldeand that he, the deponent, would take care, if there was another edition published, that the part charged to be pirated should be omitted.— The Learned Counsel then said, that in his opinion the question now before the Court, was not whether the defendant Guy's book was a piracy or not, or Whether he and the plaintiff had both copied frotn another; but the question was, as the piracy had lasted so long as from February, 1819, whether his Lordship would now grant an injunction on an ex-parte application? The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that the fair thing to be done in this case wasi to allow the defendants to sell the books they had already.printed, and to restrain them by injunction from printing and selling any other edition containing any part of the plaintiff's book. An Injunction to that effect was granted, without prejudice to any question in the cause.  William Of fifleil, convicted at the York Assizes of murder, halybeen Teprieved. It appears that the legality ot the conviction, according to the actual evidence before the Jury, is much doubted.  Gray's DIVIDENDS to be made at
Star. — 1820-02-04 (London, England)

PHILIP A-LDEVEL, Esq. called Somerton Lodge, Herts. It was occasioned by the negligence of a maid-servant, in sulker ing the candle to set fire to a bed-room on the second door. Instead of endeavouring to extinguish the flames, stre .ran down stairs and alarmed the house: in the interval, the room Was CM tire in all parts. The southern Wing of the hiuse, consisting of eight rooms, totcthey with the valuable furniture, v, hich was hot in• sured, was all destroyed in less than two hours. A strong-wall confined the Ranieri to this wing of the house. The damage is estimated at £3,000. Another fire broke out, on Wednesday night, at a brazier's, the miler of Swallow-court, Oxford-street, but it was promptly extinguished by firemen. Some beddins was on fire, and as no person was in the house; it Wi'S supposed to have originated by the act of an incendiary, Au atrocious murder has been committed on the person of, labourer, a short distance from St. Asaph. The deceased and a young man were threshing in a when the former discovered a sack concealed in a corner of the building, and•suspected it was placed there by some person, with the intention of carrying of corn in it. He communicated his suspicion to his employer, when it was agreed to lie in wait fcr the parties who had placed-it there. The agreement, it seems, was made in the hearing of the young man, who, conscious of having concealed the sack, availed himself of an opportunity oftaking it away, before the time fixed upon for the watch. In this intention he was unexpectedly foiled, by the ap-, pearance of the old man, whom he immediately attacked and killed, and the owner of the barn entering at the same time, became a witness of the horrid , scene. The offender is in. custody, and has made a full confession of the, leading facts. Sunday night, aboyt. eleven o'clock; the house door of the Cancer hstitution, Gerrard-street, Soho, was entered by two villains, by means of a skeleton key (the key of the lock not being inside), but who were disturbed in committing further depredation, by a ring at the house bell, which they had the presence of mind coolly to answer, and by this manoeuvre, being taken for people coming out after transacting business within, made their escape. The mistake, however, was almost instantly discovered, and an active pursuit was made, though it did not end in their detection. Their persons are well known, and had they remained but a few minutes later, they must have been taken, as the family returned with the domestic who had unthinkingly taken the key of the door along with him; though a female was left 'in ' the kitchen, who heard the street door Opened, avid at first supposed it was her husband that bad retertA, who, as before stated, had taken the street-door key. Phosphorus matches .weve found lying upon the parlour carpet, two of which had been righted: •
Star. — 1820-12-06 (London, England)

ATTORN EY-GENERA L said, the fact of part the money received for those years having beenic,itd by extent,. proved that the bonds were forfe're.i: be.ide, -Mr. Eyton might have had the Money that he was in arrear in his hands at the time these belles ' were entered into, and might have misapplied chat he received during those years. Serjeant PP,LL said, he would be able to skew that the money paid during the three years for which the bonds were given, had been received during the sarre years, on which evidence the Jury, he trusted, Would find for the defendants. The CHIEF BARON said, it was in evidence, that part of the money received for those years had been levied by extent, which was proof that he had net paid ; and, in his opinion, the defendants were liable, but their Counsel would have an opportunity of arguing the law 9f the question on a motion for a new trial ; and he most sincerely wished them success, as he had the pleasure of being acquainted with the defendants, and knew they were as honourable men as any in England. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the full penalty of £300,000. • •  A few days ago, an accident occurred at Bonhard, near Perth, to the son of Mr. ALEXANDER BLAIR farmer at F.andowie, a fine young boy, about nine years of age. As the unfortunate youth was galloping his pony along the road, the animal made a sudden spring to one side, in- consequence of which, the boy's head came in contact w ith a large tree, which, occasioning a severe fracture, caused his death a few hours thereafter:  Tuesday se'nnight the Police of Glasgow apprehenled an Irishman, named Connell, on a charge of having committed, or been present in-the commi sion of,-`a murder in Ireland! After -being ezmined he was sent off with a proper escort to Bei. fast on Wednesday morning. A dreadful assassination was committed onWednesday in the street. of the Seine, in, the Fauxbourg of St. Germain, on Louise Leroux, an uncommonly fine young woman, aged 18. She was the mistress of the assassin, a solaier, named Montreuil, aged aB, who stabbed her to the heart in-a fit of jealousy.. IA person named-Laporte, who was dining in the publichouse where the horrid deed was perpetrated, seized the murderer by the throat; but an Officer, who was also an. eye-witness of the transaction, having drawn his sword to prevent the assassin from committing further atrocities, Laporte unfortunately quitted Montreuil to gUard himself against the officer, whom he took to be an associate of the murderer. During this strange mistake the villain made his escape:,having first snapped his pistol at Laporte, which fortunately did not go off. He was expected to be soon taken into custody. Mr. Lewis GRUMMITT, formerly an eminent grazier in Lincolnshire, died a few days ago. in that county, at a very advanced age. It was from an hospitable joke of this worthy man's thett Dr.