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V" -- N /IUT IC/IL INTELL MBA PENZANCE, MARCH lE. This morning the l'utvsa !loop of war put in here from a crane, and remains with the COCKATRICE, and two Hamburgh veffels, which are wining a wind for Briftol. FAI.MOU'iI, MARCH 18. Put in here this day the biig , F.liza, Kt rept ER, with provifions from Cork, bound to London : the failed from thencq.the r6th inflant, and this morning car ried away her main mall, at Which time (he alfofpru►ig a leak. Arrived . alto the PICKLE fchnonercf to guns, Lieutenant FRITTI. 11, from a cruize ; his l‘fajefty's (hip SCORPION, of t 8 guns, Captain STANDPIELD, from t he weßward, with the lots of main top malt. Paired this day the American (hip Cotton Planter, Captain CHASE, from Charlelion, bound to the riftward, and called off this port for orders. The wind having fhifted yeflerday from the weßward, and which has continued this day, the Walfingham from Lilbon ; Diana, from America ; Princefs Augulta, from Gi braltar ;—and Psincefs 111 aly, from the Leeward lands, may be foon expelled. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 19. Came in the Hazard, Captain Ricaaati MRRRY, from Gibraltar, bound to Sunderland, in ballalt the failed under convoy of the RENOMMEI, of 40 guns, the 3d irritant, and parted company in a gale of wind. She fpoke the SIRIUS frigate, of 36 guns, all well, in lat. 49. ICI Irng. 8. 50. The NARCISSUS, of 28 guns, which arrived here yellcrday from a cruise, brought in ten Portugueze failors, which the picked up at fea nine days fence : they belonged to the Portugueze fchonner N. S. de Mifericordie, from St. Maloes, bound to Lifbon, which vac' foundered at fea. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20. Arrived his %jetty's flip HALCYON ' from Gib taltar, with part of the tranfports mentioned yeller day.—Sailed his Majelly% (hips NAIAD and STRE• 'woos on a cruize.—Dropt down to St. Helen'f, his Majefty's Chip C.CSAR;—Wind N.W. DEAL, MARCH to. Sailed the KITE ?loop of war for Leith ; ARCHER and liKvizeß gun brigs fo- Yarmouth. Arrived the SOLEHAY frigate, and the Harmony vietualler from Port fmouth ; Montague naval tranfport from Lord- Snouth ; MONKEY, and feveral other gun brigs from the French coati, and remain in the Downs with the tell of the (hips as per Wind S.W. YAR MOUTH, MARCH 20. This morning failed the Falcon floop of war with the Baltic convoy, confining of upwards of an hun dred fail, with a fair Wind.—Sailed on a cruize the Itusy ' 6 4 guns, Amaranthe and Cruizer (loops of war. The Forrener floop of war has retaken a large Danilh (hip, bound to England, and was left in chace of the French Privateer, when the Danith 'hip came away. Remain in our roads, the Majeflic, Roebuck, Stately, Dielator, Malabar, Flora, Qnebec, and Meleager. frigates; Havoc, Firm and Ferreter, gun brigs.—Wind S.W. EDINBURGH, MARCH 26. The Fancy, Capt. SINC LA IR, arrived on Friday in Leith Roads, from Gottenburgh, after the molt tern pennons paffage he ever nclured, in which he full his main yard, main top mail, and other damage.— Sailed the Hebe armed (hip, and Julia (loop of war, for Orkney. The Dutch frigate (trended at Orkney, is raid to have on board 420 men, 200 of which are foldiers. The whole of the people were laved, but thirty have !ince died from the feverity of the weather. GREENOCK, MARCH 13. The brig Samaritan's Hope, Captain CITRIST;AN, laden with falt and earthenware, from Liverpool, bound to Philadelphia, was driven on Bangor Bar s on Tuefday the 3d init. and shortly after filed with water : the crew and part of the cargo have been laved, but it is thought the veffel will not be got off. ARRIVED. Off Cowell, the Numa, Wilfisn , from St. Domingo—At Cork, William, Roller, from New York ; and the Magdalena, from Gottenburgb—At Jamaica, Elizabeth, Gorman, from Briftol Eleanor, Betts, from Africa ; Harry, Hunt, from New Brunfwick ; Lord Sheffield, ; Three Sifters, Clancy; Ann, Howard ; and the Hannah, Bevis,frcmx Halifax. The Nelly and Ann, Cline. from Peterfburgh for Dublin, is on pore in the Orkneys, and muff unload. The Telegraph, Watfon, from Lynn, is loft off the Humber. The Calliope, M'Donald, from New York to the Havatinah, is detained and fent into Bermuda. The Corcord, from Curaeoa for Baltimore; Betfey, Stephens, from St. Bartholomew's, for Alexandria; Minerva, Glum, front Cadiz, for Vera Cruz; Tactic, Rioters; Thomas, —; and the Argo, front Bourdeaux for New Orleans, arc detained and font into Jamaica. The Queen, Pearfon, from Demerara for London, is put Into Bermuda in diftrefs. The Ann, Longley, from Halifax for Ncvis, was deferred at fea in September lalt. The Borcas, Radelofty, from Dantzie for London, hag been taken, retaken, and is arrived at Yarmouth. Yeflerday, Mr. DURHAM was elated Secretary to the Otiginal Vaccine Pock Inflitution, Broad-beet, Golden.fquare, in the room of Mr. &scat), who re tigned. ORATOR 105....-The Oratorios of this fen foniconclud. ed fall night, as they began, with the firti ad of the fublime Creation. The'two other Atts were mifcel lanetkus, and included the moll interefling Recitative and Song of HANDILL'S leph l / 1 4, in which Mr. BRA MAN'S talents were eminently difplayed. Mr. As tt y took his leave of us 1,111 night, wi►h a well-execut cd Concerto, in which he introduced the fimple air • t " Anna," in the moll delicate Qyle. The Houfe "as fo crowded, that feveral ladies fainted, and were carried out. A fire broke out on Wednefclay evening lafl, about feven o'clock, on board the Danifh galliot Edward, Captain HAILEOI, in Penzance Harbour, laden with brandy, and for two hours was very alarming, but it was providentially prevented communicating to the cargo by the tim e ly a id o f t h e eng i ne an d exertions of all ranks of people, otherwife all the veffels lying near the galliot mull have been deflroyed. Our Naval Heroes can fcarcely be more anxious for a Pi ize of the Enemy's, than they are for thole which one of ror own Countrymen will have the plealnte to fupply them with, on the 14th next month; we mean the fplendid Prizes in Bowyei's Lottery. And we are not impaled that this fcheme of adven ture fhould excite the attention of Naval Officers, as one fpecies of the embellifhments in the Grand Hif tory of England, confilts of Views, excluifitely en graved, of every important Naval Engagement, from the eallieft petind of the Engliflt hillory to the pre kut times. ASIZE2. KING.ITON, MARCH 2e. MURDER OF MRS. POOI.EY. .701: Pop: and :John Maycock were brorght to the bar on a charger f murder committed on Mrs. Anaa Maria Pooley, of St. lam's, Southwark. The Common SeRJEAN r, on behalf of the profecu• tion, fated, that the murder charged in this indict. Mem, was of the molt aggravated nature, and it was committed in the courfe of the perpetration of a rob bery. The deceafed was a perfon of the age of 68 years: —B 7e lived in a lionfe in Free Schootareet, in the Bo rough, and had Come pecttliarites which expofed her to the ridicule of the thoughtlefs paffenger. To avoid this fort of contempt, the fbut up her houfein the frcnt. She had likewife a habit of living her money with peculiar folicitude, and the report of this difpofitinn got abroad. This lady not having appeared for Come time, it was fuppofed that fume accident might have befallen her, and her filer was made acquainted with the circumftance. In confequence of this communi cation, Mrs. Sarah Pooley ordered that the premifes thould be entered and lurched, and the deceafed was difcovered in one of the apartments, lying. on her back, not only dead, but in a putrid nate. Her poc kets were turned inlide nut, and this led to the ful picion that the had been murdered with the view to plunder her property. A farther infpeelion of the premifes left no doubt that this was the ohje& ;—the drawers were in •confufion, aN the valuable property was removed, and by the evidence it would appear, in the clearelt manner, that the murder was commit ted by the prifoners, if the indruitions of the Learned Connfel were correFt. If it fhould be imagined that any doubt arofe in the cafe of Maycock, every potll. bilk) , of queflion was removed in the cafe of Pope, for he had confeffed the murder. It was true, that he did not fay that the life of Mrs. Poole' , was ex• tinguithed with his own hands, but on the contrary, that the fatal a6l was done by his companion. How. ever, as he was prefent, under the circumnances ailed, in the eye of the law, he was as much guilty of the murder as if he were the firle initrument of her death. Mrs. Sarei Pooley, filler of the deceafed, (fated. that her fitter lived by het fell at Horfleydown, aid in fo retired a manner that her windows, which looked into the Rreet, were conttantly kept !hut.— The la it time (he taw her was on the 26:h of July lA, when the called to p..y her tome money, and in coo fequence of information the received of her fitter not having been feen for tome time, (teps were taken which led to the difcovery of the murder. Witnefs limed, that her fitter always kept money in her houfe. John Mackwell Garret for ctd his way into the houfe of the deceafed, by defire of her tiller, on the 2eth Augutl. Having done fo, he found the deceafed dead in the wail) hook, lying on her back, and the body in a cutrified hate, infomuch that it was impot fible to afcertain whether there were marks of vio lence about her. Her pockets were turned infide out, and Tome tliAing articles were lying by her, and on whiles going over the houfe he found that the drawers, &c. had been ranfacked. Witnefs opened the door, and let in a Mr. and Mrs. Humphries, and it was difcovered that Come bricks had been taken out of the watts houfe, by which a perfon might unbolt the window (hatters, which he found fattened. Mr. Thomas Brickington, furgeon, faid, that he examined the body of the deceafed on the day the Coroner's Inqueft was taken. He could not afcertain what was the caufe of the death of Mrs. Pooley, as the body was much putrified, to fuch a degree in deed, that the fealp was feparated from the &till. Thomas Griffin, a corn porter, is acquainted with the paw= Maycock met him about two months previous to the murder; when the prifoner laid— ., T o m, I'll put you into a grad job." The Witnefs atked, " What it was ?" When the prifoner replied know an elderly lady, who lives in a houfe by hetfelf, which is (hut up, and (he is worth a deal of money ; you and I, and a flout young fellow who works with Mr. Burges, will do her out of it."— The prifoner did not tell the witnefs where the lady lived. He laid leis companion was formerly a barge man at Wart. The witnefs refuted to have any con• cern in the robbery ; and when he heard of the mur der, communicated the circumttance to his brother, who brought Mr. GRAHAM to his houfe (the witnefs being ill) to take his depolition. Previous to this communication, and fublequent to the murder, he had feen the prifoner, who told him that he had plenty of money. At his Crofs-examination, he laid, that he did not mention to any perfon the propolition which the pri foner had made to him, becaufe he did not think it neceffary ; but when he heard of the murder, it (truck him it was the fame houfe which the prifoner had hinted at. Thomas Cockburn, foreman of the corn porters at Mr. Burgefs's, hated, that the prifoner, Maycock, worked at his Mailer's at the time of the murder ; and that on Saturday the 9th of Auguft, he was paid in common with the other men, at Mr. Davis's, the Barley Mow, in Freefchnol.ltreet. He came to finilh his job on the Monday following ; hut he did not fee him again until he was apprehended. This witnefs proved that the wages which corn potters earn are not very great ; the labour being fo fluctuating. The next witnefs was John Gray, the landlord of the puslic.biasfe in which Maycock and his wife lodged. This witnefs proved the intimacy between Pope and Maycock, and that the latter was abfent all one Saturday night, :a bnot the time of the mur , der, and that he did not return home till lafe on the' Sunday; ; that he told the witnefs he had been on the water with Pope, and had not cat a model all the day. Pope's wife was with the wife of Maycock ;' and in a few minutes Pope came in. Maycock afked if any one had inquired after him ? and dile& ed the witnefs to fay that he was ill, and gone into the country. TWO .Ither witne!Tes were called to prove, that Maycock had ordered and paid for tome new clothes, purchafed a watch, &c. ; from which it was inferred, that the money with which he made the purchales was dilhonefily obtained. A. Graham, Efq. identified the prifoners, and de poled to the accuracy of in examination taken before him of the witnefs Thomas Griffin, to whole place of abode in Bermondtey lie weal, Giffin being confined to his bcd. A paper was then produced, addreffed to A. Gra. ham, Efq. espreffed in thefe terms joln Pope, do buintly beg hi, NT•ylly‘k Mat grrintif par. don for th: mierder of Anna Maria P,..)1,y. TII udirdrr was =mitred by John Maycock, on Sunday naming. " Witnefs, " JOHN POPE." _ _ _ Mr. Gunner, Conde] for Join Pope, interpofed— " I meals to (hew, that there were tho'e hopes held out to this prifoner, which would make it the moll {hocking violation of the ellablifited rules in the ad rninillration o f juflice, to make at of Pope's con fefrion. The King's Proclamation was proffered to him, which declared, that any one not manually oc pied in the murder, (hould receive Isis Majelly's par don, if he would give evidence againll the murderer. With this Pope had complied,, and he had a sight to the benefit of tie Proclamation." After fome obfer varions in reply, by the Common Serjeant, the Proclamation was read, and the offer of a reward of tool. by Sarah Pooley, to be paid upon conviaiun to fuch per fun or perfons as lhould dilcover the murderer. A long conteft enfued between the Learned Coon fel on both fides, on the claim of the prifoner Pope to the benefit of the King's pardon; after wl.ich, under the dire lion of the Chief Baron, the Jut y ac quitted John Pope. A queftion now arore, whether under the peculiar circumftances, John Pope having not only been in• dided but arraigned, he could be admitted into the witnefs box, to depofe againft Maycock. Mr. Morris contended, on the authority of Mr. Seijeant Haw kins, that his evidence was inadmiffible. TL e Corn. mon Serjeant, on the contrary, argued, that Pope was acquitted of the offence charged ; that he was reaored to his full credit, and ought to he faltered to give his teflimonr; with which the Learned Judge concurring, John Pope was called—He raid, that he had been a corn-porter ; he had known the prifoner a year and a half ; he was acquainted with the houfe of Mrs. Pooley, and with the time and circumflances of her murder. Maycock afked him to go with him about fix weeks before it happened. He ofked the witnefs to go with him to rob an old woman, who lived in a huggermugger way at a (hut up houfe. So it went on till Saturday, 9th of Aqua ; he then afkeil the wit nefs to go with him, to which he agreed. They raw each other at Davis's, at the Barley mow. Inftead of going home, after drinking till ten o'clock, they went into the back premifes of the Barley-mow, and got through a loop-hole, and In into the yard of Mrs. Pooley. There they waited till one in the morning, and then they took fume bricks out, and undid the (hotter. The witnefs pot his hand through, and un did the bolt. The door was barred, which went into the pottage, and having no tools they could not get further. There they remained till daylight ; and when day light came, the witnefs went twice into the public houfe, being alarmed, but Maycock per fuaded him to return. They went down into the cellar, and there flopped until the Old Lady came down (lairs. It was eight o'clock when the murder was committed by his watch. Maycock went to the top of the (lairs, as loon as he heard the door open, the witnefs raw Maycock ru(h out, and the old Lady cried Oh !" or fame fuch thing. He caught hold of her, and threw her down. Then the witnefs went tip, and law her down upon her back. Maycock had his arm upon her neck, and he held her till fhe was dead. He held her for a quarter of an hour. He faid, " She is dead." The witnefs and Maycock then went up (Lairs, and to the bell of his recolledion, found 901. in halfpence, hives, gold, and notes.— They found a bottle of brandy, which they drank. There was a piece of cloth whichMaycock kept laying it would not make hvo thins. They (topped in the houfe till the watchman went pall ten o'clock on Sunday night. They took the ke; s out of her pockets to unlock the drawers. On his crofs examination by Mr. MORRIS., he faid, that he never knew he was charged with Healing corn before he came today. He now underftood that he was inditied for it. He could not help people hatch ing things up to do him an injury, becaufe he Hated the truth. He did not charge Maycock until he was accufed himielf. He charged Maycock according to the Proclamation, and to cafe his mind. The prifoner Maycock was now informed by the CHIEF BARON, that if he had any thing to fay in his defence, he thould now be heard. The Prifonet --a , I am, my Lord, quite innocent of the charge." The CHIEF BARON raid, that the principal witnefi flood in the fituation of an accomplice, and it would be the duty of the Jury not to admit his evidence to have weight on their minds furth* than to the extent in which it was confirmed by the teflimony of others. The witnefs admitted himfdf to be as iniquitous as the prifoner. His Lordfhip then went through the particularsof the evidence feriatior ; and the Jury, after a (port deliberation, found the prifoner Guilty of the murder of Anna Maria Pooley. In pronouncing the awful fentence of the law, his Lnrdthip laid, that the experience of no man fur nithed an inaance of a murder fo atrocious. Not the fmalleft apology oould be made—it was cold, deliberate murder, for the purpofe of plunder, ac companied with a degree of infenfibility the itu a remarkable. He defired the prifoner not to deceive hirnfelf, as there was not the leaft chaLce of his ob taining mercy. The prifoner continued unmoved during the whole proceedings, unlefs, perhaps, exhibiting an increale of audacity as they approached their termination ; and when he retired from the Bar, at the moment the Learned Judge pronounced 4 4 The Lord have mercy on your foul," he Paid, in a manner fuffici ently audible to be heard by feveral per lons in Court " 1 thank you for that ; a'm done frog enough." MURDER OF WILLIAM DHIVERS, ER.. Duntars was ineliFted on a charge of the Murder of WlL.Ltard CH IVIRS. Efq. in the parifh of Batterfea. _ _ Mr. Pormy, for the profecution, Rated, that the prifoner was gardener to Mr. Chivers, a gentleman, feeble and infirm in his body, and in the Sad year of his age. Duncan had been only ten days in the fer vice of Mr. Chivers, at the time the murder charged in the indiament was committed, which vral on the 24th of January fall. The Learned Counfel Rated the fats of the cafe, and then called the uitneffes. Henry Gr oombt idge laid he was fel vant to Mr. Chi vers. The prifoner was gardener in the fame fami ly. Witnefs law his matter alive at a quaver before twelve on the da y of his death. lie went down to walk in the garden at the back part of the houfe, and the prifoner followed ahlut ten minutes afterwards. Duncan prefently came in again, and raid, " My dear Hairy, mafler is .lowri." The witnefs Rifted, " Where, where ?" and the prifoner in great cnnt• . lion pointed towards the fpot. The witnefs went there, and law Mr. Chivers lying on his back. The witnefs, in dcpofing to the particulars , tt the fitua lion of the decealed, was extremely agitated. Thomas Bowes produced the fpade with which the fatal blow was think : the blood was yet remaining upon it. The whangee, or flick of the deceafed, w,.s alto exhibited, with which it tva% alledged Mr. Chi vers either Bruck or threatened the prifoner. Henry Groombridge being again called, raid, that cis feeing Duncan pals the flout of the bottle, lie called out to him, ‘. You villain, you have murder. ed my mailer." The witnefs then went to Mr. Railton, a next door neighbour, for aflitlance. John Drinkwater, one of Mr. Railton's fetvants, came to help them, while another of the family went for Mr. Buckland, a furgeon at Clapham. The witnefs had lived with Mr. Chivers 15 years. Mr. William Buckland laid, that he examined the body of Mr. Chivers on Saturday the 2.1. th of Janu• ary laft. There appeared to have been two dittinft wounds, which were bleeding very profufely The one was flight, and on the lower jaw : the other ap pc, red very extenfive, commencing about mid-way in the nofe, paffing through the centre of the fact, and meeting at the angle of the jaws ; its length was abou: eight inches, and it was three and a half inches deep. The wounds were the occafion of the death of Mr. Chivers. WilliamWhitemore,baker at Batterfea, went to the houfe of Mr. Chivers, on hearing of the death of that gentleman. It was at one o'clock in the afternoon. He law the prifoner there. " I asked him (laid the witnel,) how came you to do this ?" The prifoner Paid, " Is he dead?" A man (landing by laid he was. The prifoner then laid, " I mull die for it." " I and the prifoner (laid the witnefs) walked up and down the room while the minims was making nut. I then Aced, how he came to commit fuel; a hor rid ael ? He anfwered, . On Wednefday Mr. Chivers came to me and made ufe of fome bad words, and raid I had fpoilt his vine and that I did not know my Winer's. He added, that I mutt get myfelf a place on Saturday night, as he would not let me be there any longer. I immediately replied, , You old rat - - cal, how could you take me away from fo good a place as that I had, and now to difeharge me at a day's notice ?' There was nothing further paired that day, but on Thurfday I law the maid, and afk ed what was the reafon I had not teen my mailer ? I did the fame on Friday. On Saturday my mailer came down the garden to sue, and ufed a very bad word. My matter (hook, at the fame time, his whangee over me. He did this feverai times. I then (topped back with my fpade—l ru(hed it upon him, and took him upon the upper lip. The fecond blow took him at the top of the note, and down he fell." The witnefs again asked how he came to com mit In horrid an a& ? and the prifoner replied, that he had it in his mind from four o'clock on Wednefday. The evidence of James Collingworth and James Dixon, gardener to Mr. Thornton, doting the cafe on the part of the profecution, the CHIRP BARON en -1 quired of the prifoner, if he had any thing to fay in his defence? when he expreffed himfelf in the follow ing terms, in a firm and dirtinel manner : The Prifoner—" I beg leave to affure your Lord fhip, that I never bore Mr. Chivers any malice what ever. On Saturday morning I had been employed in digging fume ground, and with my fpade in my hand I went to the green houfe to give it from air, and there I left my fpade. I then went for fome m fr.:fitment, at eleven o'clock in the morning, as was ufual, and on going into the kitchen I law the foot man, of whom I Aced how long it was fince Mr. Chivers wer.t out ? I then went into the garden, and to the green•houfs, into which I let a little more air. I then went with my fpade in my hand and looked at a vine. I law Mr. Chivers, told him that I had finifhed my digging, and Paid, I was lorry to have left Co good a place, and now to be turn. ed off. A few words paired between Mr. Chivers and we ; and the lag expreffion he ufed when I had the fpa.le in my hand was, 44 You fcoundrel, I will break your flcull." He (hook his cane over me—he made an attempt to ftrike at me, when I, turning afide, efcaped ; he again endeavoured to ftrike, and I avoided the blow. After this, he followed me up with his cane, and I then had, as I befo , e Paid, a fpade in my hand. I railed the fpade, and to my furprife it (truck him. Immediately afterwards, I went into the green houfe, with the full intention of taking away my own life, but I had not fufficient courage to do it. I then went into the kitchen, and called Henry, who Paid " what is the matter ?" and I re plied, " Good Lord, I have (truck my mailer, and he fell." I then went out towards Clapham, and the fit It perfons I raw were a butler and a gardener. I went to the garden of Mr. Robert Thornton, and afked for Mr. Dixon, who is one of the gardeners.- I'hey laid he was cutting a vine, but they went to him, and Mr. Dixon Cent me word that 1 might come to him. I asked if any body was with him, and they laid, " Yes." I then defired to !peak to him alone, and Mr. Dixon inquired if I had any thing particular to mention, and I told him " yes." The firft words I raid were, 44 I have ruined myfelf." He inquired 44 What is the matter i" I Paid, 44 lam afraid I have killed my mailer." He then raid it was a dreadful thing, and that I had better go back and refign myfelf into the hands of Juitice. Upon this I obferved to him that if I timid be executed, I (hould be glad if he would write to Scotland, and in form my friends there that I had died fuddenly. He laid that he would, and I then came back towards Mr. Chivers' houfe, and my heart failed me. I turned again, but I had not gone far before I met a man, , who laid to me, " Are you Mr. Chivers' gardener ?" He then told me I mull go with him ; and I replied with all my heart. He laid that this was a very dreadful thing, and added that he was very forry for me ;• to which I anfwered, " I am forry alto, but I am afraid that it is too late." After this I was taken to Wandfworth, where I underwent an examination. I was then committed to Horfemongez-lane ; and from thence I have been brotight here to take my 1 trial." The witnerres fur the prifoner were then called. Chat les Graham, gardener to Mrs. Davenport, de, poled that he knew the pt ifoßer tince May laft ; that after Mr. Chivers had hired Duncan he fent to the witnefs to enquire how the prifoner had behaved him fell. The witnefs never law any thing but that he was a Eb:r, qttiet, excellent young man.--ETurz over.