Star. — 1811-09-13 (London, England)

CORK, SEPTEMBER 4.  Yesterday our Assizes for the county closed with the trial of a record before a special Jury, wherein Ellen 'reap, the daughter of a respectable farmer at Curriglass, was plaintiff, and John Boyce, of Tallow, Esq. defendant'. This was an action for recovery of damages against the defendant for defamation, having published that he had criminal connection with the plaintiff ; whereby she lost the advantage of being married to a young gentleman, who had been paying his addresses to her. This being an action which excited much curiosity, the Court was extremely crowded at a very early hour; but to their disappointment, after the Jury was sworn, the defendant, to escape a public discussion of the defamation, signed a consent to withdraw his plea of (tot guilty, confessed the cause of action, and submitted the assessment of damages to five of the Jury, who after a full investigation of the charges, without hesitation, assessed the damages at A;00, with costs.  The several persons who are confined in the minor prisons of the metropolis were removed yesterday to Nevegate, preparatory to their respective trials at the Commission of Oyer and Termidr, and General Gaol Delivery, which will commence at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, on Wednesday next. Monday morning, about five o'clock, as some labourers were going to work in a brick-field near the Hampstead-road, their attention was attracted by the faint cries of an infant, a female apparently about three months old. A genteel-dressed woman was seen leaving the field about a quarter of an hour before the child was discovered, and is supposed to be the person who left it there. The child was taken to St. Pancras work-house. Friday evening, a man was stopped at Colchester, under very, suspicions circumstances, having two hones in his possession, supposed to have been stolen : he is a gipsey, and was offering them for sale, and called himself a horse-dealer ; but his appearance not corresponding, he was detained till he could give a satisfactory account how he became possessed oldie horses. He says he has been buying and selling horses within these two or three weeks, at Canterbury, Dover, Deal, and also at Egham ; but he is supposed to belong to a gang of gipsies who have, for some time past, been about the country, committing various depredations, particularly in stealing horses. Two men were in his company on the day he was t iken. SHOCKING Mertnee.—The following is an extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Greensborough, Guildford, to his friends in Raleigh, North Carolina, dated May 23, 1811 :••-.44 A cruel murder has just been committed in the neighbourhood of this place. —A negro fellow belonging to Mr. Wetborn, of Bowman, knowing that a Mr. Wheeler of this country, living on Deepriver, on the Salisbury road, had ' a little money, formed the plan of killing Wheeler, ' and all the grown persons in his house. Wheeler kept a grog-shop, and the negro being known in the home asked and obtained permission to stay all night. At late huur of the night be prepared for his enterprize by setting open the doors of the house and placing the chairs close to the wall ; and then took down part of an iron pot-rack, and went to Wheeler's bed. Wheeler's wife first discovered him ; she awoke her husband, who, in attempting to rise from the bed, was struck down. The blow, though severe, was not mortal ; he leaped front the bed and seized the negro, who continued his blows. Wheeler, by an act of desperate exertion, after having torn a spinning-wheel to pieces to get a defensive weapon, succeeded in throwing the negro out of the door, which he instantly shut, and called to a Mr. Frazier, who was lying in the same room asleep, to jump up and get his gun, which was suspended over the door. The negro ran round the house, and entered this door just at the moment that Frazier was approaching it to get his gun ; he struck Frazier down, and rushed forward across the room to Wheeler, who opened the door and ran ; the negro pursued him, and in about 100 yards he overtook him. Wheeler threw him down, and had the better of the combat for some time, but