Star. — 1821-01-18 (London, England)

HASTINGS." REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER  IN CHIEF.  " The Commander in Chief entirely disapproves the sentence. The prisoner, Emaum Buksh Khan, was charged on circumstances furnishing strong suspicion, with having deliberately murdered the woman who lived with him.  " The inference from those circumstances was, that be killed her to prevent her surviving when he had determined to put himself to death, though his heart failed him as to the latter pur• pose, and he did not carry it effectually into execution.  " Against those particulars, which seemed to fix the crime directly on the prisoner, there is not a tittle of evidence adduced beyond his own assertion. He states, that, having resolved to put an end to himself, he went to the bed of the river for that object ; that the woman, suspecting his intention, followed him silently ar.d unperceived; lastly, that on his preparing to use the pistol against himself, she suddenly seized It, which turned the muzzle towards her, and by the pistol's going off in the struggle, she was accidentally killed. " The points of the defence are thus rebutted :—By the pregnant fact of the prisoner's having taken two ball cartridges with him : by the testimony of Peer Khan, first witness for the prosecution, who swears that he saw the deceased walking towards the river about forty paces in front of the prisoner, and of course in his view : by the testimony of Shaick Ainodeen, the second witness fox the prosecution, who deposes that he heard Jamadar Mahommed Khan (since dead) ask the prisoner where his woman was? to which question Einaum Buksh answered, that he had shot her, and that she was lying in the bed of the I river. The Commander in Chief is utterly at a loss how to reconcile to such evidence the finding of the Court, that the prisoner had not wilfully and maliciously shot the deceased. " Supposing the above conclusion of the Court to have been borne out by what appears on the proceedings, then the sentence would be altogether inapposite. Six years' imprisonment for an unintentional homicide Ise punishment too extravagant to admit' a moment's countenance. " The finding on the charge of murder kin; an acquittal, the Commander in Chief will net direct the Court to revise its opinion. In other respects be must consider the proceedings is too incorrect to have any validity attached to than ; therefore the Commander in Chief orders the prisoner, B naum Buksh, to be liberated, bat forbids his being retained is the service, or being . re-admitted on any future occasion" JAMES NICOL, Adjt. Gen. of the Army."  Lady FRANCES ANN VANE STEWART attained het 21st year yesterday. Great rejoicings took place at Sunderland to celebrate the eventd  :6•HiSith  The following is a copy of a litoteit ag:ilinst the proceedings at the County Meeting, bearing the sig= hattlies attached  • "To TRP ULM! .tHiniti-P. . "In Pattietioente of the arbitrary character or your decisioni at the County Meeting, held on the 11th inst. of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of Cheshire, who had repaired to Northwich, in obedience to your call, and in reliance upon your importiality, eve do hereby protest against the titrnidtuary proitedi nits or that air as well as atainst yrnit odndritt in the Chair. " Ist, In. declaring that Lord Grosvenor's Amendment was irrelevant; without stating your reasons for the assertion ; and in refusing to fake the sense of the Meeting, either upon the Amendment itself, Ct upon the question o!' its retev.ncy. " 2d, In refusint to grant a division; repeatedly demanded, against the Address proposed by Mr. T. ChohnOndeley, when there was reason to doubt the correctness of your decision upon the shew of hands. governing the Ccanty Meeting 67 your own ciin:o's alone, upon a disputed point, of which you Levi the obvious denionstrotion within your reach. (Signed) " GEORGE WILBRAHAM, " JOUR THOMAS STAYLEY, " Carwr, " JAmr.s Tommsos, "