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Star. — 1830-01-01 (London, England)

APRIL.  1. The Mary& of Aylesbury, the Earl of Winchibea, Lord Braley, and Lord Rolle, had an audience of the King, at Windsor Castle, oo the subject of the Catholic Relief Bill. 2. The second reading of the Catholic Relief Bin in the House of Lords adjourned. His Serene Highness the Elector of Hesse Weisberg, husband to the Princess Elizabeth, died at Homberg. 3. Debate on the Catholic Relief BM resumed, and adjourned to Saturday morning. 4. Debate resumed at one o'clock in the afternoon ; at a quarter past eleven o'clock at night the House divided—For the second readies of the Bill, 217 ; Against, 112—Majority in favour of the second reading, 105. h. Mr. Secretary Peel's Act for the withdrawing of Small Notes from circulation came into operation. o. Debate on the second reading of the Bin for Disfranchising the Forty-Tilling Irish Freeholders in the House of Lords : House divided—For the second reading, 139 ; Against, 17—Majority for the Bill, 122. 10 and 11. Dreadful Inundation at Dantaic, city surrounded with water, houses swept sway, and a great number of human lives lost and cattle drowned.  e.iieTireedoan of the City of London was delivered this day, in a golden box, to Mr. Secretary Peel, with great ceremony, is Guildhall, by the Lord Mayor, in the presence of the Common Hall and a large assemblage of Ladles. Mr. Peel afterwards dined erhlt his Lordship at the Mansion-house. The Catholic Relief Bill passed through a Committee of the House of Lords. and was ordered to be reported. 10. Meeting at Hyde Park, for the purpose of agreeing to a petition to the King against the Catholic Relief Blll—it turned out to be a very silly business. it. At a quarter past one this morning the House divided on third reading of the Catholic Relief Bill—For the Bill. 2t3; Against it, 109—Majority for the Dill, tO4. The Dill wail then reed a third time and passed ; as also the Irbh Freeholders' Disfranchisement Bill.  Is. Royal Assent given to the Catholic Relief Bill and the Irish Freeholders' Disfranchisement Bill. Esther Hibner, aged di, executed it the Old Bailey, for the murder of her apprentice. Frances Colpitts. by cruel ill usage and starvation. The delinquent attempted to commit suicide in Newgate, and behaved in a most hardened manner. 10. This day observed u his Majesty's birth-day, with the meal delta:mantises of joy. The usual processions of the nuil-casdies discontinued. V. His Majesty arrived at St. James's Palace. from Windsor. - A Are oUvered about eleven o'clock at night in Westminster Abbey, which fortunate! was got coder without any damage of to have been the work of an baceadiary. IL The Doke of Norfolk. Lord Qifford, and Lord Donner, Catholic Peen, took their seats, ani the oaths, hi the House of Lords. The Nil held a Laves at St. James's Palace. W. His liagesty held a Drawing-room.   "7
Star. — 1830-10-15 (London, England)

INQUESTS.  Yesterday, an Inquest was held at the sign of the Blue Anchor. is Bermondsey, on the body of Mr. James Inwood, the landlord of that house, who committed suicide. It appeared that on Tuesday List th. inmates of the Blue Anchor were alarmed by hearing the report pistol in the house. One of the servants proceeded up stairs, and e: entering the deceased's bed-room, he was discovered lying dead acres» the bed, with a pistol firmly clenched in his right hand. It appearel' that the unfortunate man had placed the muzzle of the pistol to the under-part of his right jaw, which was shattered to pieces, and on examination the ball was found to have lodged in the brain. The de. ceased was in easy circumstances, and was very much respected by his neighbours. Evidence was adduced of his having exhibited decided symptoms of insanity some days previously to the fatal catastrophe. and a verdict to that effect was recorded. Another inquest was held at the same house, on the body of a tine little girl named Price, who was suffocated in a privy. The deceased and another little girl went into a public privy at Ber:noralsey, and began to play together ; the former got upon the seat, and the hole being of unusually large dimensions, the poor child fell backwards head foremost into the soil, and before assistance arrived she wis suffocated. A verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned.  - - - - THE Naw BEER BlLL.—Upwards of 3,000 applications have been made to the excise-office fur licences under the new act, and the number is daily increasing. It would appear, however, that public. house property is not so much deteriorated as has been stated. The lease for ten years and a half of the Crown and Cushion, 51arsh. gate, Lambeth, subject to 501. rent per annum, has been sold at Ciarraway's for 1,1101. A great number of informations have recently been laid against victuallers for adulterating their beer, and heavy penalties have been paid into the Exdse department. We have now got nearly to a close with the harvest; and the statements from all parts of the country are most satisfactory, as to oats being abundant, and tine. Barley will prove an average crop. both as regards quantity and quality; It is to be feared, however, that the wheat crop will be deficient in quantity; whilst from the samples fox ward. no very favourable opinion can be formed of the quality. The potato crop,l which is of considerable importance to us, will prove a fair aver. age if we have favourable weather for housing it.—Belfast Paper. Another of those disgraceful exhibitions, tending in an especial manner to bring the ordinances of religion into disrepute, took place on Sunday morning, in the Exe, near the lionhay---a river baptism. A great concourse of people were assembled, not only to intne.s, but many of them to add mirth to the occasion, by either baptising themselves or their neighbours, and at one time a group of 30 boys were seen, thus making converts and profiting by the pattern set them. I resters Luminary. •
Star. — 1824-04-06 (London, England)

MIGHTY. had expressly declared, that murder and suicide were two of the highest crimes that called for his vengeance; but such was the delusion this young woman had laboured under, that she first murdered her brother and then contemplated self-destruction, tonceiviog that by committing these high offences, she. should-be securing a way to Heaven. It appeared that this young female had been in the habit of attending religious meetings, as they were called, where. the wildest and most extravagant excitements were used that could possibly operate on the-minds of the weak, and lead them from a just sense of the importance and duties of religion. His Lordship knew nothing of the particular sectof persons that had been spoken Of, to-day, and Goo forbid that he should be conceived as wishing to restrain any person from following those religious cu-turns which Were most conformable to the conscience, but he did conceive that the general benefit of Iwnitclisluti coantsciadteerdththa et tphcre dzitoriasn society should be attended to, and .therefore he could es and mode of worship principles this young oman had acted upon were- injurious to society, and oujit to be suppressed. He therefore guarded the pastors of those congregations against continuing in those practices, as being derogatory to true religion, afid.dani.teroits to the safety of the community, His Lordship thought dive were many circumstances in the case which decidedly shewed the girl to have been of an irregular mind when she did the act. -Ijer mind, from mistaken impressions, produced by religious excitauoas, had conceived that she must commit a murder before, die could get to Heaven, .and at one time she had :narked out, he; ,own mottles as the object who was 'to  _  - ~  ~~,.--~...r  • c- . . , be devoted to her Orem; .at !Other time, children she bad never seen before, were to fail her victims; aua• lastly, her brother unhappily being in her power, she*. murdered-him in-the same absence of malice, a's wot!ldintee dent to any other individuA If the Jury were of opinion that the child lost his life while she was in a State of insamity, they would return a verdict of Not Guilty on'that fire and, and his Majesty's Govei inent would then protect her till she wAs found to be sufficiently re,tored to het reason to be rcturiied to her friends.—The Jury returned a verdict of Nutbelieiing her to be insane at the time.  The COURT ordered her to be detained in custody, but assured her friends she would not be kept lacy,.
Star. — 1824-09-17 (London, England)

CONANT."  On the prisoner arriving at the House of Correction, on Friday night last, orders were given that two persons should sit up with him night and day, to prevent his attempting his life, which order has been strictly complied with. The prisoner's partners have not been admitted to him without special orders from the Magis• trate, and then in the presence of an officevb No paper is allow ed to go to or from him without its first being submitted to the committing Justice, Mr. Conant. The prisoner is above forty years of age, a little bald, and his hair rather grey. He is said to bear a resemblance to the late Napoleon' Bonaparte. Yesterday, we understand, the Bank Directors made important discoveries. Last evening Sir Peter Laurie, and several other Gentlemen, sent to the House of Correction to inquire if the account was true, that the prisoner had committed suicide? which was currently reported in the City. The answer given was, that no such circumstance had taken place. At times the accused is in the most dejected state of mind, in short, in a state nearly approaching to despair; and at other times he appears rather cheerful, and expresses to the Governor, Mr. Vickery, his gratitude for his kind and humane attention to him in his unfortunate situation.  Mr. Samuel Bamford Hamer, and two other persons, came to Marlborough-street Police-office yesterday, and stated their object to be to obtain an order to visit Mr. Fauntleroy, who is at present in the House of Correction ; but as Mr. Conant, the Magistrate for whom their application was intended, was out of town, no answer could be given to them on the subject. In reference to this case, the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the Bank stated, yesterday, at the General Meeting of the Court of Proprietors (presumed to be in allusion to the charge now under investigation), that there were some circumstances peculiar to the case of ' forgery alluded to by an Honourable Member, in proposing more efficient means for the prevention of fc,igery of powers of attorney on the Bank, which had afforded greater facility for the offence than others ; but that he could assure the Court that the subject formed one of close and strict investigation now before the Court of Directors.  NEW LAW OF SETTLEstENT.Notwithstanding the new I.w regulating settlements, a person will gain a parish, though he should not occupy a house two months, and pay neither tent nor rates, provided he pay the public taxe'l and reside constantly for 40 days.  MEETING Or
Star. — 1824-08-06 (London, England)

SCROFULOUS COMPLAINTS. Dr. Henning has administered this remedy in eight cases. The youngest patient was a child of two years old only, to whom the tincture was given in doses of five drops, three times a day; and it was administered to an old asthmatic person, who was subject to enlargements in the lymphatic organs about the neck, by which respiration was rendeied still more difficult. He took the tincture also in quantity from eight to ten drops, four times a day. At thv end of a week a critical sweat came on, which lasted several days; and by still continuing the use of iodine, his complaints were much relieved. Ih all the other cases, which were chiefly of young females, the best effects were derived from the remedy, without any sinister consequences.—Medical Repository. . , sosssisil  The celebrated Mrs. MARY ANN CLARKE, who has been residing in Brighton for the last two or three months, has just left. While there, the occupied a house on the Grand Parade. Irtntlitmi, the ex -Emperor of Mexico, sailed from Southampton on the 11th of May, on his expedition to regain the sovereignty of that country. It was understooi to be his intention, when he left England, to touch first at Jamaica, for the purpose of ascertaining from that island the situation of affairs in Mexico; but the mail which was delivered yesterday brought no Intel' ligence of his arrival there, although by the 18th of June, the date of the sailing of the Jamaica packet, he -Itad been out 38 days. Others suppose it was his intention to proceed first to New Orleans, and to enter Mexico by land, through the province of Texas, and the delay that has occutred leads to the belief that this latter plan has been carried into effect. The Director of the Police at Cassel, MANGER, noted for fabricating reports of plots against the Elector of IlEsse, has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment in Spangenberg. He had for *vend years been the instigator of most arbitrary and cruel acts, under the pretext that the Elector's life was menaced. Many innocent persons had been prosecuted ia consequeke of MANGER'S false charges, and some of those persons comMitted suicide in their dungeons, from despair of ever being able to vindicate themselves, this Director of the Police having obtained such an ascendancy over the Elector, as to render access to him impossible. Friday last,Abost three o'clock in the morning, an old man, a porter, fell over a window five stories high, it.. Jackson's-close, High-street, Edinburgh, and was killed upon the spot. Yesterday evei:ing, an Inquisition was taken at the :iddiesex Hospital, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. the Coroner, on the body of William ilarkilant, who received a violent kick on dic head by a horse. Verdict —llKidental Dcuth.  EN04.11 MA,
Star. — 1828-02-11 (London, England)

PETRRSBURGII, JAN. An interesting Table has been published, containing a statement of various events and accidents, that have occurred during the last five years, from which the following is an extract :  Murders Suicides Robberies  1823 1824 1825 1828 1827 . 1099 1287 1110 1095 1226 . 986 1069 1066 966 1166 . 210 195 154 107 189 DINTILOYELIAT ?LKL Churches and Convents . 51 41 53 50 46 tiOtleft In TOWNS . 1324 804 1142 1240 1976 Farm Houses . . 27,681 17.555 15406 2560! 24573 • REVEL, Dkc. 9.  On the 4th of this month, Privy Counsellor Baron& BuJberg, Civil Governor of Esthonia, delivered to the corps of Merchants of Revel, a valuable Tablet of silver gilt of antique form, containing the sum of 4,000 rubles as a present from his Majesty the Emperor ; the sum of money being designed for members of the corps aho have fallen into indigence.—Petersburg Jouinals ,Jan. 24 FROM THE LOW ER II DIN E, JANuAar 28.  Very gloomy accounti have been received by the woollen cloth manufacturers in Rhenish Prussia and:the Netherlands, respecting the situation of the 'European houses dealing in those manufactures in Smyrna, and other cities of the Levant. These houses carry on their business in part, as Commissioners for the manufac curers, who consequently are very great sufferer: by the losses of those hou es. An idea may be formed of :he eatfort of these losse►, when we know that one (,1 'these houses has a claim or 360,000 piastres on the Turkish Goveromeni, for cloth delivered three years ako.—A at mbar; Correspondeat, Feb. S.  VIENNA, J*x. 30.  The Als,emeine Zeitung of the 286 December last contains ao article from Warsaw, dated the 11th ot the same month, which says, " that unpleAsant disputes had arisen at Brody, on the payment of the duties on some foreign met chandi ze, so that the authorities of the frontier provinces of the two enlpires had been obliged to interfere: We are authorized to declare the statement to be totally unfounded.—Alg. Zeitung, Feb 4.
Star. — 1828-01-11 (London, England)

THE MORNING POST. It Is with the most joyful and triempbant that we congratulate the. Canna,y on the complt • dissolution of an Administtalion, which, during t, brief career, has'teen productive of nothing but • In chief, and which threatened to indict upon.the Na a fatal succession of diagt4ei -and calamities.. Amid the sneer of blinds, the pity _seen of enem • and the derision of ...1"; the bste;poverament 'has pired. escape the, Exeistiiniet, it biecOmmit, Suicide. Peace to its• tubes- , The reasons assigned fear this eetastrophe are yari Mr. Huskisson and Finance, says one ; Lord Alter, and the Finance Comthittee, says another ; Mr. Tier, . • 'end Ihtliguo, says a third. • The statement in the leading Jaurnal of the defu Ministry., in regard to Mr. HuskissOn's financial pl • is palpably untrue, and cart acs absurdly en the face it. *lt may be true, and doubtles Vile, that L Althorn; Was spoken to by Mr.Timarremtddift.Hvskt •, unkdown to Mr. Hetries,. and consichned by them the fittue Chairman of the Finance COmruitiee. It be ttur. that .Mr.'Hesrien, *ids his Vitiated energy • deciiion of clterecter, ,refesed to acquiesce in that non natiON utintS %hand public principles. It may be tea ghat Lord Godetich was es weak and it resolute 'as writer in windier Paper (7he. (Ahronide) says Los Lensdovin is, acrd tossed about like a Ship in .a goo amid conflicting elements,' • Withctut dwillinz upon these Windily :awes, el' know that reasons misted of a far more influential pressing chat ectet—iiresonS which must baei broken the Ministry, had the inance Committee- never • •• thought or spoken of. The great question of tier or Peace decided-the bluets; -acid the time had more s'when a'sseak inefficiet . Minister could no longei'auld the:balance betwer contending principles. Thii,t_l.* had war to be decided come, when viberher Wsig influence should pr, dtuninate, by Lord I,*lnnti's adasis,ion two- theta binet, or whether the hig. Party should be theratein ejected in -disgrace? Day after Oky, W week after the Ministry tottered on, unfit its wi„knew and amr disorganization became such, at it crumbled to trim' almost of its own accord. lf causes so trifling as those In., ught surviving frkads could make it talle trabundation have beep, if possible, still weaker the, its mibled he Thinks to the wisdom of our graciou Moaatch, sr to his.firmaess in the maintenance of pi which seated his Illusttiour family on th Throne( these Beeline, the triumph of true Tory lfla now complete. The Duke of Wellington has been commist:ohAi foray en Administration, round which the towels: Comitutional Principles may salty with confidence. him ail hopes are now concentrated; and ere long ‘• shall hays to announce the the formation of a Nlinisti,V not less strong in the esteem of the Monarch and t, affections of his people, than worthy of Uinta Pasha:nen. taty support. PROM THs
Star. — 1811-10-28 (London, England)

NIA R IK-LAN it. —TO-da y the fresh strivals of Wheat of the shock he received at being Last week, a detachment Court-Martial stras held. Herald ; andat Gibraltar, on the 6th inst. the Fame, make a tuletable suppty, and .sample's of fine at' std trunttakert up at Portsmouth for in Leeds, on a Serjeant and Corporal of the fild Re: Aisle, -Circe, Men_ope; and Dart.' The Cambrian, advance of about Is. and 2s. per quartet; sortie kiiitint attempted to commit suicide, is giment, for bringing a boy recruit to the Inspecting Captain Buu.zw, will bring home the neat convoy. old Dantmic. 1826-.4--RrYes.with Barley and Malt, us ; reccivering his mental faculties, ricid.officerts mice with padded stockings} ':its wider The Venerable, 74, Sir 0t4.1 PoPHate; Vengeur, each named rather higher—White Peas,-4s. and $l4 list truly or three days, been more: to bring him up to the proper standard ;AIM how- 74, Captaih /Snows; Medusa, -Hon. Captain &U. lower-"-Beariti'er 'both sorts, in full AL-Aland, 1116. ever, it appeariog on the trial, that the boy' had re. veers ; Theban, Iliptain.S. Minty, and Partridge, much higher-1., '4qt are. several fresh al-rip-skis ;If A meeting took place neat eoutse to this stratagem whhout the adetewtiraven Captain Am, arrived on. Satuiday at Portsmouth, Oats, and this trade ready sale, nearly at.Tuesdisfi •'. tent? .knowledge of the soldiers;, and*.belf at she from Cherbujgh,,baiing been.blown off that station quotntion—FLOwifully at letpeiceest: .- . r Galway, between tke wee mites from ,_...., -- ...•. ..-. --'. test artifice imposed on the •• Odor • euegiusuint by foul Aviindi OtsrullA L culaatininio-as alma i viol: S.:, and J. BLAKE, of French. pea fell the re' leper • . , • --• • • ' - ' wit,' see roe .fa,... -.• ;-I.llsaas doe. se actin - ~. , - We ark *Mired, from good authnrity, that the pae cat • 16 A former Gentleman firedi when ,ows, ywe 0 - :• SP . a§. Ts . ittr. d his pistol in.the air—upon which Ile outward niii convoys are .still .datethetil.il Othannellieenwili set rendeestous at Spit' during eys:cs. As. •-',.- .• ' Fe tstri , • its Ista Ifs. .11 Portsmouth by cemperyierindes The AT, d the matter was amicably it :be :thevluentt .ink ilret a %I:4 of observation is tn. ~/_,4'.#tel a".' s'/' " .: ' ' • 1 •. pits* t - liklet• ed, an Wends Of ° attionntto Si iu siansbeempprisrasavor she Naas tdriS : 114014,a- a. •"*ta- 1. o o ' ,j.t"., at al lel' ••".- ' • . ' Tidied 4is, • tire- IMOSIACC•6I of 1131 7-7- -.. „. , , .4., . : . , ~„ .: „, ~? ‘k .....a .., ... 'kr. • Pik '.‘ AS Po any, .% late Pees (Bns, sal. ft, -:- a , 4 - - mete. - ' • 01 tbas mir aiist ~ . 0 Grey Let fit. It* Seed ii 450. , -.- , . • • - . . • . . . • •.... . , .. . . " - • .._• . , , - • .....' ' . -.- . , _ . • - . . .  t
Star. — 1811-12-28 (London, England)

WILLIAM HASSALL." JOSEPH BECKETT swore!.—" lam turnkey Here ; t locked the deceased up. about ten minutes lt:fce e four yesterd ty afternoon ; he was then alive ani wcli—l asked him, if he wanted any tiling— he Said no : he has said during his confinement, he !lisped the inno:cent would MI suffer, and that the sadd'e might be placed on the right horse. Between seven and eight o'clock 6is morning I unlocked the door of his eel! I discrotered him hanging to the rail in his tell, wilt his feet nearly or quite touching the gmtind; with a white handkerchief round his neck, which hendkei4 chief I had seen him wear—l called Knott and Harris, mid saw hiM cut down. " JOil.:Pfl ncarree" : Mr. Uswie, the Coroner, then addressed the Jury. a The misearble wretch, the object of tild prefflitt enquiry, was committed here on auspic. • being one of the perpetrators of the late Marin d most inhuman merdere, and that suspicion is seedy in. creased by the result which hes taken plate; for hew much ateomented is the suspicion of guilt against a man,. who, to escape jteeice, has recottrse to self-destruction I All homici,:e is murder till the contrary Jutllte shown. The, law ranks the suicide hi thE worst class of murderers, and this is a case of most unqualified telf-mearder; a I have applied my attention In. tote conduct of 4 _Lk. .f,  of this wrothe4 rilrbriEe*FTGlTc"'Misid. ansi I leave it with you ; I think there is no culpability attaching itself to them. It only therefore remains that we consign the body of this silt:murderer to that famy and disgrace which the law In q prescril,ad ; anti to leave the pithishment of his crimes to HIM that has said " vengeance is su ne. and f will tepdy."—: Verdict—.polo de a. Mr. CAPPER and Mr. I§4ARkLAXT). Magistrates of Shativrell Office; attended the inquest. Mr. ATMs. the keeper of the prison, wa.i so indis posed, that he was linable to attend the inqUest His evidence WAS not essentially necessary. Nothing appeared to affect his conduct, by any charge of inattati: tion o the cafe of the prisoner. - The Coroner, Mr. Uswra; has IsMi particularly sedition in the discharge of the melancholy dutiet• which he has of late had so repeatedly to preform.  Poises OFFICE, Quails