Star. — London, England, 1824-01-08 00:00:00

. 711 E GRUT flat!? tOn THE CHAMPIONSHIP or ENGLAND. Since the the memorable fight between Cribb and Molineaux, there • 111$ been no tontest for the Championship which excited more in terest than this. There the honour or the country was considered to be at stake, and here the attempt on the part of an unknown and 7.ntried Irishman to lead as master of the ring, has awakened na tional jealousy to a great extent. The very intense interest excited by this event, throughout Eng- Ir.nd anti the Sister Kingdoth, the termination of which was to de c'de to whom the eliviable distinction of " Champion of England," and of " Ireland," was to belong, took place yesterday, on Worces ...c Race Course, opposite the Grand Stand, which is Within less than . f a mile of that city. 'fie manner iu which this contest originated, and the epistolary correspondence of these literary professors of Pugilism, we have al ready laid before the Public. and very recently. Since Sir Daniel Donnelly went dead, Ireland has been in the 'dumps. With him her good luck vanished ; and her corn, her pigs, and her fat cattle have been without a market from the last day of her own Ootmelly and the abdication of Napoleon. These were the two great events on which her fate hung, and she lay on the flat of her back, without the power to rise, since Dan and Nap lett her, in the words of her own son," sad, silent, and sorrowful." She had no hero but Captain Rock, and he made a little too free with Ins neighbours to gain her much respect. When Sir Daniel was knighted, Dublin was lighted up for joy ; but when he relied away tram the punch of fifteen tumblers, Ireland was benighted, and her son and her sun set together. Donnelly was loch red, and the Muse was prodigal hi tributes to his memory. It was said of him—. " With whom a turn-up is no frolic— Its is bo White or cold liver, For he beat Oliver, Challenged Carter, and died of the chnlic !" Th u s di e d Daniel, and so mourned Erin ! From that day to this the best and fairest' poition of the globe, in the words of an Irish orator, was dismalited ; and it presents a remarkable and ominous feature in her history, that the very moment a new champion starts up for her honour, that prosperity should flow in upon her again. Provisions are rising—her exports increasing, taxes are taken off—the price of whiskey lowered—what can he more certain symp toms of returning good fortune? AU this bad certainly some con nexion with Langan's offer to fight Spring. John Bull says, it is sheer presumption of the Hirishman ; but John is jealous, and should nut be minded.--1 le has an Irish champion in the field—an Irish leader in the Ministry, and he cannot bear the rough-titling of }'at in the sing, where he had it all his own way hitherto, but John will nevertheless skew fair play, and if Paddy can win, he must only find a better man to whop him. If Langan has done so muck to retrieve the character of his country, and advance her best interests, should he not be welcomed by her children who are resident here, where he has come to risk his life and his fame? Ile is bade welcome in the language of a poet, who, a Pat by birth, had Irish feelings, and who has, with a prophetic spirit, burst forth into an address most suitable to this occasion. It ts adopted by the Patlanders from St. Giles's to Man e hest, r, and we may expect, if the victory be Langan's, to hear it en :all chorus and perfect accompaniment throughout the country : Hail to our Chief! who in triumph advances; Long life to the lad who has come to lick Spring; Strike up every bagpipe, he's the youth of our fancies, Anil joy to Pat Lanagane in full chorus sing. Crest of O'Lanagane-- That's a potatne Long may his fist every Englishman know; PACs have lung stuck to it— Long bid good luck to it; Whack, tor O'Lanagane—Pad, Our's is a pugilist lusty and lasting, No spooney or other weak babe of the ground, can lick every one of them, hungry and fasting, And beat the best of them, and not lose a round! :Mark the ground where he's flung! 'Mirk ! the sound, how it rung! Still daes . the tat of 0' lanagane grow, Shout foric, Leinster men, Till the bogs quake again, Whack, for O'Lanagane--Paddy Whack, oh! Drink, Paddies, drink, Mr the pride of your island, Stand to your champion for a broth of a boy, Tho' he crossed the wide ocean, he never will shy land, And he'll grind to the last for a mill in his joy ! While good punch elevates, 'While whiskey recreates. Drink deep to his health while the cups overflow; • Shake your shillelahs, boys, Screeching drunk, scream your joys; Whack, for O'Lanagane—Paddy Whack, oh! ly Whack, oh! . Langan is a man almost unknown to the London Ring; he sprung up like Donnelly, and like him, was to thresh every member of the rgilistic corps, till he got at the "top of the tree." Ile was brought ritt notice more by the number of his battles than from the goat uets of the men he vanquished :• he heat Pat Halton, without much ‘lifLulty, but he cannot he supposed to have obtained much repu taoon from achieving such a conquest, as Pat was " served out" by a seeord or third-rater of the London Bing, viz. &lase°, without a 4 very extraordinary punishment being dealt by him upon the Jew. 'hauls) , morning, and during the whole of the day till a late hour at sight, the city of Worcester filled with astonishing rapidity. Chais,s, coaches, gigs, barouches, carts, and vehicles of every de saiption gloried in succession, heavily loaded front every part of the country, 50 aild 100 miles round. From Liverpool and London, haireds of pet sons came to see the fight, and not a few from Ire land. (In 'Tuesday night, the London Corps Pugilistic, were nearly all in Worcester, and every tavern was crowded to excess. During the whole of Monday and Tuesday, carpenters were em ployed in erecting temporary hustings, and an outer ring of one hundred yards in diameter was formed. Under the direction of Mr. Share, the Clerk of the Course, an inner ring of 24 feet square was raised, about two feet front the level. It was found necessary to elevate the inner ring, in consequence of the flow of water over the it.e.s, which was raised upon posts covered with planks, an the yla.les were afterwards covered with turf six inches in thickness, upon whith sawdust was laid. The Grand St-and and the Hustings adjoining were crowded to eteets, at halt a guinea a-head, and the numbers who paid were com razed at not less than four or five thousand. The chief Nobility and Gentry of Worcestershire and the adjoining Counties were on the ground, and many Noblemen and Gentlenten front distant parts of the kiagclum came to view the trial of strength and science between these pugilistic champions. We observed Lord Deerhurst, Lord Anson, lion. Tbos. Coventry, Sir James Musgrave, Colonel Berke ley, Sir Anthony Lechnnoe, Bart. Sir G. Webster, Lord Moly k", Mr. C. Osbaldestone, Mr. E. Peel, Mr. John Mills, Mr. Compton, Mr. James Smith Barry, Ste. Two hours before the fight commenced, ahnost every seat was occupied, and the craft upon the Leer Severn, which oleanders by the side of the Race-course, were flkd with spectators, even to the top of the sails and rigging, and the ApprJr.uce altogether was remarkably effective and imposing, which was considerably heightened by the masts of the vessels being bang with flags, and the sails adorned with ribbons. At ten minutes berme one, Ned Painter arrived, attired in his tannel 'packet with tafigle round each knee,denoting his character as X"..i• de anal Cr,bli had engaged to pick up Toni Spring. At Eve minutes before one, Spring arrived at the ring in a carriage and pair, belonging to, atoi atteodeo by Captain Barrett, his chief backer, accompanied by ihh :old several sporting characters. Spt ing was attired in a blue Mess coat, over which he wore a brown_upper tog, with brown herseyniere smallclothes, and jockey boots. There was i.othing pt. f'stiottal about his cut, except a blue bird's-eye fogit so-old los .ti.e.ze. Spring expressed the utmost confidence in the malt of the contest, and his coolness was remarkable. At one o'clock, Josh Hudson took off his coat, and appeared in his white st.q, as Langan 's second. There were cries in every part of the ring for Langan. Where is Langan? was resounded front every p,tt of the arena. Why don't you go it, Spring? Spring replied, '' 1 can't light withoot him."—Viscount Deerhurst was umpire for Spring, ano Sir !Ivory Goodriche for Langan, and Colonel Berke• by referee. Ten minute, past one arrived, and Cribb and Ned Painter cried out most luNtily for I.4trzan, and Cribb said, " if you don't come, raddy, from Cork, the stakes will be given up to eribb." " lie's comilg," resounded from Langan's friends. At eighteen minutes pan one o'clock an eittensive hustings, erected on the right of the ()rand Stand, which contained not less, incur estimation, than 1.500 or u,OOO persons, cattle down with a tremendous crash. Every eye was directed towards the spot—a teicral shriek was heard, mid the greaten terror prevailed. Many i'mous were wounded aid lacerated, and several had broken limbs, but happily none of the injuries were likely to prole late. Sir T. wa, tin about the face and ad, and bled profusely, but 1 :•v ilury V.• 11 111C.111 4 idtrablt. J. N. Lavender was at the top of hustings at the time, and was thrown several yards, bet he es ':red with atr fling in j ury on nue Ivg. Hairpin one arev:d, and •:elgati not appearing, bets were offered that he slid not conic at ;.'• On reit:rims to the articles of the tight, drawn up at 31an -.'"Ater, it was loiveliVertlldiat 110 specific WWI of the day tor the ti g ht • ~a inienee hael.bera inheited therein. There was great ow : 'ring. At twenty dtinutw w two Langan arrived, and entered the ••• iat.itig arms of his seconds, thiamin and Reynolds. ~- . . . IM The combatants stilpped with alacrity. Springs person was In fine or‘ler, and gave increased confidence to his backers and friends ; nor wal that of his antagonist in inferior condition. They tossed for the. side, Langan gained it. The sun was shining very bril -1 Handy for the time of the year. • 7'llE GA tOn, THE CHAMPI' Since the memorable fight 13 • 110 been no tontest for the CI terest than this. There the ha to be at stake, and here the atte - antried Irishman to lead as Mal tional jealousy to a great extent. The very intense interest exe Ir.ntl and the Sister Kingdoth, ti cede to whom the' enviable disci and of " Ireland," was to belon sec Race Course, opposite the6r f a mile of that city. The manner in which this co corre spondence of these literary ready laid before the Public, an, Since Sir Daniel Donnelly we 'dumps. With him her rod luc and her fat cattle have been wi her own Doimelly and the abd the two great events on which h of her back, without the power in the words of her own son," no hero but Captain Rock, and neighbours to gain her much knighted, Dublin was lighted ul tram the punch of fifteen tumid son and her sun set together. I. was prodigal hi tributes to his in •• With whom a turn-up Its is bo white or cold li For he beat Oliver, Challenged Carter, and Thus died Daniel, and so won the best and fairest' poition of tl orator, was dismalited ; and it feature in her history, that th ,tarts up for her honour, that p again. Provisions are rising—bet off—the price of whiskey lowere toms of returning good fortunel !lesion with Langan's offer to h sheer presumption of the Hid should nut be minded.—lle has ; Irish leader in the Ministry, and }'at in the ring, where he had it will nevertheless skew fair play only find a better man to whop t • If Langan has done so time country, and advance her best in by her children who are resides Ins life and his fame ? He is ba poet, who, a Pat by birth, had prophetic spirit, burst forth into occasion. It t 4 adopted by the P hest, r, and we may expect, if t an fall chorus and perfect accomi Hail to our Chief! who in I Long life to the lad who Strike up every bagpipe, he' And joy to Pat Lanagana Crest of O'Lanagane— That's a potatoe Long may his fist every Eni PACs have lung stuck t Long bid good luck to Whack, for O'Lanaganc—l Ones is a pugilist lusty and No spooney or other wea can lick every one of the And beat the best of the! :I‘lark the ground whet 'Mirk ! the sound, how Still doesthetst of 0' I..inaE Shout tulle, Lthister r Till the bogs quake age 'Whack, for O'Lanagane—l Drink, Paddies, drink, Mr t Stand to your champion I Tbo' he crossed the wide And he'll grind to the lan' While good pooch des 'While whiskey recreate Drink deep to his health wl Shake your shillelahs, Screeching drunk, acre Whack, for O'Lanagane—] Langan is a man almost unkno up lake Donnelly, and like rgilistic corps, till he got at the no notice more by the nembei um or the men he vanquished lifLulty, but he cannot he supj tahun from achieving such a eon a Srcrot:d ur third-rater of the Le say very extraordinary punishme Mesa.) , morning, and during at night, the city of Worcester (lutists, coaches, gigs, barouche Ktiption varied in succession, the country, 50 and 100 miles ro hoary& of peewits came to see land. On Tuesday night, the Lee ail in Worcester, and every tavel During the whole of Monday played in erecting temporary bandied yards in diameter was I Skate, the Clerk of the Course, Lased, about two fret front the elevate the inner ring, in conseqt grass, which was raised upon plat.ks were afterwards covered upus whith sawdust was laid. The Grand Stand and the II mess, at halt a guinea a-head, an pieta at not lest than four or five Geary of Worcestershire and tl ground, and many Noblemen at the kingdom Came to view the t . these pugilistic champions. \V Anson, lion. Thos. Coventry, S ley, Sir Anthony Lechniete, II Lim, Mr. C'. Osbaldestone, N Compton, Mr. James Smith Bar commenced, ahnost ev6 . ) , seat u River &Vert', which oleanders II filled with spectators, even to, tl the appearance altogether was which was considerably heighten being with flags, told the sail, ad At ten minutes berme one, II flannel jacket, with Poole roun as szcsleit e and Cram had ei five minutes before one, Spring pair, belonging to, rod enemata I accompanied by Cril.l) sevel attired in a blue Mess colt, ovet with brown kerwymere smallch Luthing f'ssiottal about his SCrAld :611 !i.e.ze. Spring cape insult of the contest, and his t o'clock, Josh lludson took off stet, as Langan's second. The ring for Langan. Where is L pooi t , of the arena. Why don't '' I can't fight without hits Spring, at:a Sir !Ivory Goodrich by referee. Ten minutes past one arrived, eat most lustily for l ryan , one 'sir. Paddy, from Cork, the st " lie's comilg," resounded fror At eighteen minutes pan o erected on the right of the Cica inner estimetiou, than 1.500 or tremendous crash. Every eye tyletal shriek was heard, and t Isessons Were WOUtlticd Mid Lim but happily none of the injur.ts • 3.ilkbury was about the face • ▪ e 'wary V.'ll Ittc.ni4itlttablr. the hostiiogs at the time, mid e t:ped anti a tr ding in j ury on c • • •elgaii not appearing, bets w (ht retelling to the antic) ' . ! - 'ter, it wa. loivel , Vertil rbat In • 7, oinitnce had bre& inasite At twenty Agnates ••• I iraLing the arms of his t t F • act .; _ • Tlllt ROUNDS. I. At fourteen minutes to two they shook hands and set-to. Spring Oyed his man with cautions One minute and a half elapsed before a blow was struck, it was slight. Spring, with his left hand, touched Lattgan's mug. Spring drew first blood. Spring tried a feint with his left hand, and gave a well directed blow with his right on the side of the kit cheek [Bravo. Spring ]. Langan's guard was very gond, and excited the admiration of scientific men. Both bent on mischief ; Spring threw out his left hand and hit Lan gan on the right eye, which made it twinkle [Load shouts for Spring, and £9O to £5 offered in his favour], and eight minutes and three-quarters elapsed when a rally took place, it was entirely in favour of Spring, and he floored his opponent. This round lasted nine minutes, and at its termination Langan's face bore marks of punishment. 2. Langan gave a short right-handed blow at Spring's' " bread basket," it fell short, and Spa ing returned a good one on Langan's asfrontit with his left hand. Sparring cautious ; -Langan stopped a good left-handed hit, a second stop finally [Bravo, Langan]. These shouts stopped suddenly, by a tremendous blow on Langan's nasal organ. A rally, Langan grassed. This round lasted minutes. 3. Great confusion, from falling of hustings. Langan received a violent blow on the throat, and svent down. 4. Spring cool, and not scratched on the face. Langan received two facers, his eyes bleeding, and piping. A struggle and Spring threw his man. [Bravo, Spring.] 5. Spring gave a heavy hit on Langan's chest ; Langan tried to return-on the face, missed, they grappled each other, and Spring threw him again. 6. An exchangt of blows; wrestling again; they struggled for the fluor?, Langan got it. The ring broke in. 7. Spring received a slight tap on the chin ; a right-handed hit fell short on Spring ; Langan tried it on about his •pponent's throt tle, missed ; an exchange of blows, Spring weaker; Langan, in a struggle, finally threw Spring. [Bravo, Langan. It's not to cock sure Spring will win.] 8. Spring drove Langan up to one corner of the ropes ; he tried to get out a la Randall, and effected his object in a scientific man ner; Langan finely stopped a right handed hit, but received a left on the canister; both down. 9. Langan gave a push at Spring's pudding-bag with his right, the lunge failed; an irregular round, and Langan was thrown at the topes.. 10. Spring recovered second wind; his former weakness asap. peared ; Langan driven up in a corner, and received a left•handad nobber ;, he laughed, and tapped Spring over the left peeper. A struggle at the ropes—Spring thrown. 11. One blow gives by Spring; another struggle for the throw. Spring under. 12. Hit by Spring finely returned by Langan. A throw. Spring tripped his opponent, and tell under at the ropes. 13. Fine positions, offensive and defensive. Spring tapped his opponent's claret with a very fine and powerful hit in his smelling bottle, and closed Langan's right eye as close as.a, prison door. £lOO to £5 on Spring. 14. Langan's head displayed a most hideous appearance, blood issuing at every pore. 15. Spring tried to close his opponent's left eye; an exchange, and Langan gave his opponent a Munster throw. 16. A similar round; both men covered with blood: Langan beat to pieces;_ game as possible. Spring thrown. 17. Spring down. In. An exchange, a struggle, and Spring under again. " Spring will lose it !"—" Ten to one he don't 1"—" Bravo ! Langan!' 19. Both piping. They took wind. Spring, in attempting to give a beer, received a hit on the chest, and was floored. 20. Spring beat Langan to the ropes, and gave him right and left, and threw Langan finely, and in a most gallant manner avoided giving a hit when Langan fell. He tapped Langan on the shoulder, and smiled.—lmmense shouts for Spring. 21. Langan fought manfully. He proved himself worthy of the Land of praties. He favoured Spring at the ropes, and tapped his shoulder, as a return to Spring's former act of gallantry. 22: This round in favour of Spring; he sussed Langan again; a throw, and Spring under. 25. An exchange of hits, a close, and fall ; Spring under. 24. Like the last, a return, and Spring threw Langan. 25. An exchange, both down. The gameness of Langan beyond all question. 2d. In favour of Spring; he weak and Langan piping. 27. All in favour of Spring. He gave Langan a right-handed hit ou his olfactory promontory, and flowed him easily. Langau unsubdued. He made a telling hit, and both down. 29. " Spring ought to have done it before now." In exchange a rally furiously, and Langan shewed that he was not extinguished. 30. Hits weak. Both down. 31. Ditto, ditto ; " Langan's not so easily disposed of." sit. Langan beat to the ropes, and Spring gave a teller over Lan gan's left ear. Both down. 33. Spring received a body blow, and returned on the left eye. —Both down. 34. Langan stied to make his favourite body blow ; Spring stop ped finely. A rally; Spring thrown with eclat. 35. Spring gave a 'tight-handed hit, but not a very effective one, on Langao's face; he received a very tremendous return with Lan gan's left. Ruth down. 36. Missed blows, a struggle, and both abwli. 37. Light hits. Both down, Spring under. 38. Spring made a slight facer, and received one on his left jowl; a struggle at the ropes, Spring topmost. 39. No blows at all effective, weak, and both down. 40. Spring made a right-handed blow tell on Langan's canister ; a struggle ; Spring threw Langan. 41. A gay blow on Langan's head. 45:. 1r favour of Spring. 43. Langan received a hit on the ribs, and returned on Spring's neck a fine hit. Spring thrown. The gameness of Langan was beyond all praise. A Noble Lord said "He enacts more wonders than a man." 44. Langan appeared to be unvanquis • hable. ' Exchange of hits. Both down. Front the 45th to the 53d there was but little to notice. Langan had but one way of fighting, which he never altered. He fought altogether at Spring's wind, but so cautious was Spring, that he never did - the. job properly. Spring's return was always left and right at the head, which Langan generally stopped, then rushed in to tight, when a hugging mitch took place, and this is the brief his tory of every round. From the 53d to the 84th round, the battle went on in the same way. No chance for Langan until the 80th round, when he planted his right hand like a sledge hammer on Spring's head. The ring were loud in praise of his game, and it was admitted on all sides that he is the best big Irishman that ever peeled. Spring, though piping, kept his judgment, and fought irately to the 84th round, when he went in and gave a few finishing touches to his painting. Langan went down so weak that the cry became general to take him away. Iteynolds was recommended to do so, but Langan would not consent. " Clear the ring, and let me fight," said the poor fellow, all drnp ping in gore. " I have not given in, and I can fight for an hour." Reynolds and Hudson gave in for him out of compassion ; and the battle was decreed to Spring by the umpire: but it was several minutes before Langan could be persuaded to leave'the ring. The' battle lasted from half-past one to a quarter after four—t*ti hours and three-quarters. Thunders of applause for Spring, who was taken away in Lord Deetkurst's carriage. OBSERVATIONS. Spring has sustained his fame, and secured the Championship. He is the safest man, after Randall, for he never gives w chance away ; but be is too tardy in dealing out punishment, and his blows do not tell as a heavy man's like him should. There was not one real good bit in the fight—nut one clean knock-down blow. Langan has proved himself a truly game man, and the wonder is, how u novice like him could make such a stand against the best man in the rmg, his superior by nearly halt' a stone in weight. He is a prime article, and deserves encouragement. We heard a countryman on the road from Warwick say, that if Langan lay ou the ground for half an hour, and Spring beat liar all the titneN he could not make him give in. Such is the man. Neale and 6elascu were to have fought in the same ring, but it was too dark t• begin fighting atter the lint battle. We suppose they can kee l for another day. The fighting" ring was so tar from the Stand where the sporting characters were assembled, we are unable to give particulars sif the betting, further than it began at 3 to 1, and never Duce was brought even, Or went over. • -- • • The Sessions of the Peace for the Count; of Middle sex will begin oh Monday lieu, the 12ilk instant, when the tiials.f traverser% and others, out on bail,on matte's of assau.t, ituisauce, and misdemeanour, Mil 4 In pig• ceeded on.• t THE ARMY. .••••1.11.1. The recruiting of the Royal Artillery in Belfast is conducted by the 7th Battalion, or late Royal Irish Artillery, which has been re cruited in that neighbourhood for more than a century. Monday and Tuesday se'nnight the first and second divisions of the 73d Regiment marched into Sligo, on their route to Castlebar, where the head-quarters of the Regiment are to be established,and where they replace the 88th Regiment, which commenced its march on the Saturday preceding, destined for the West Indies. Detach ments of the 73d will he stationed at Naas, Dundalk, Wicklow, &c. The undermentioned Non-commissioned Officers in the garrison of Limerick, have lately been discharged, previous to entering on their new duties as Assistant Barrack-Masters:—Serjeant 11E1 , 1711- MAX, 39th, Kinsale; Serjeant Macome, liifles, Tralee ; and Ser jeant Rpearouv, Rifles, Templemore. HERTFORD ASSIZES. (BY ADJO IT R A MEN T. ) TRIAL OF THURTELL AND HUNT. (Concluded from the STAR of yesterday.) By means ofa succession of Expresses, we were yes terday enabled, in a part of our impression, to commu nicate the result of the trial at Hertford to the Public , and we now resume such part of the proceedings as did not appear in the whole of our Journal, as well as the further particulars which have transpired. We stated that the prisoner TrtuavaLL read several cases of circumstantial evidence from the Percy Alm dotes ; the following are the most remarkahle cases he quoted from that work : The first was the case of a person who was arraigned before Sir James Dyer, Lord Chief Justice of the Coninuan Pleas, upon an in_ dictment for the murder of a man who lived in the same parish with the prisoner. The first witness against him deposed, that on a cer tain tray, mentioned by the witness, in the morning, as he was going thmugh a close, which he particularly described, at some distance from the path, he saw a person lying dead ; and that two wounds appeared in his breast, and his shirt and clothes were much stained with blood ; that the wounds appeared to the witness to have been made by the puncture of a fork or some such instrument, and look ing about he discoitered a fork lying near the corpse, which betook up, and observed it to be marked with initials of the prisoner's name; here the witness produced the fork in Court, which the pri soner owned to be his., A second witness deposed, that on the morning of tic dry no which the deceased was killed, the witness had risen very rally, with the intention of going to a neighbouring market -town, which he mentioned; that as he was standing in the entry of his own dwelling-house, ;he street-door being open, he -saw the prisoner • come by, dressed in a suit of clothes, the colour and fashion of which he described ; that he (the witness) was prevented from going to market, and that afterwards the first witness brought notice to the town of the death and wounds or the deceased, and of the pri soner's fork being found near the corpse. That upon this report the prisoner was apprehended, and carried before a Justice of Peace ; that he (this witness) followed the prisoner to the Jostice's house, and attended his examination, during which.he observed the exchange of clothes the prisoner had made since the time he had seen him ih the morning; that on the witness charging him with having changed his clothes, he gave several !burning ai:,-.vers, and would have denied it; that upon witness mentioning this circum stance of change of dress, the Justice granted a warrant to search theyrisoner's house, when the very clothes the witurss had de scribed- were discovered concealed in a straw bed. He then pro duced the bloody clothes in Court, which the prisoner owned to be his clothes, and to have been thrust in the straw lied with the inten tion to conceal them, on account of their being bloody. A third witness deposed to his having heard the prisoner deliver certain menaces against the deceased, whence the prosecutor in tended to infer a proof of malice , pnpoile. The prisoner being called upon fur his defence, addressed the following narration to the Court:—That he rented a close in the same parish with the deceased, and that the deceased rented another close adjoibing to it ; that the only way to his own close was through that of the deceased ; and that on the day the murder in the indiCt. went was said to be committed, he rose early in the morning, in order to go to work in his close, with his fork in his hand, and passing through the deceased's ground, he observed a man at some distance from the path lying down as if dead, or drunk ; that he thought himself bound to see.what condition the person was in; and on getting up to him he found him at the last extremity, with two wounds in his breast, from which much blood had issued. In order to relieve him, he raised him up, and with great difficulty set hint on his lap ; he told the deceased he was greatly concerned at his un happy fate, and the more so as there appeared reason to think he had been murdered. Ile entreated the deceased to discover, if possible, who it was, assuring hint he would do his best endeavours to bring him to justice. The deceased seemed to be sensible of what he said, and in the midst of his agonies attempted to speak to hint, but was wired with a rattling in his throat, gave a hard struggle, then a dreadful groan, and vomiting a good deal of blood, some cat which fell on his (the prisoner's) clothes, he expired in hie arms. —The shock he felt on account of this accident was not to be ex pressed, and the rather as it was well known that there bad been a difference between the deceased and himself, on which account he might possibly be suspected. lie therefOre thought it advisable to leave the deceased in the condition he wan, and take nu further no tice of the matter; in the confusion he was in when he lett the place, he took the deceased's fork away instead of his own, which -was by the side of the corpse. Being °hazed to go to his work, he thought it best to shift his clothes, and that they might not be seen, he confessed that he had hid them in the place where they were found. It was true he had denied before the Justice that be had changed his clothes, being conscious this was an ugly circumstance that might be urged against him, and unwilling to be brought into trouble if he could help it. Ile concluded his story with a most so. lemn declaration, that he bad related nothing but the exact truth, without adding or diminishing one tittle, as he should answer for it to GOD ALMIGHTY. Being then called upon to produce his witnesses, the prisoner answered, with a steady composed countenance and resolution of voice—" He had no witnesses but Gun and his own conscience." The Judge, DYER, in his charge to the Jury, enlarged on the force of the circumstantial evidence, which, he said, was so strong, that the Jury ought not to hesitate a moment about finding the pt.- soner guilty. The Foreman of the Jury begged that the Jury might withdraw, which was allowed by the Judge, who, after waiting several hours, sent to know their decision. The Jury returned for answer that elevetrof them were agreed, but that the Foreman had taken a different opinion, and was unalterably fixed in it. They at length returned a verdict of Not Guilty, which the Judge re fused to record. The Jury were locked up al( night, but the Fore man was stiU inflexible, and the next morning they again returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Judge reproached them severely, and said, " The blood of the deceased lay at their doors." The prisoner fell down on his knees, and cried out to the Judge " You see, my Lord, that Goo and a good conscience were the best witnesses." The Judge was astonished, particularly as the Foreman was a man of must respectable character. At lengtil .he determined on having an interview with the Foreman, who, having made his Lord ship promise never to reveal what he told him, then gave the llollowittg account :—The deceased being the Tythefitan where he (the Juryman) lived, he had the Intoning of his decease been in his (the Juryman s) grounds, amongst his corn, and had cone him great injustice, by taking more than his due, and acting otherwise in a , most arbitrary manner. When he coniplainesl of this treatmeut, hr had riot only been abused with scurrilous language, but the de ceased had struck at hint several times with his fork, and had actu ally wounded him in two places, the scars of which wounds be then shewed his Lordship. The deceased seemed bent on mischief, and the farmer having no weapon to defend himself, had Ito other way to preset ve his own life, but by closing in with the deceased, and wtenchlug the fork out of his hands; which having effected, the deceased ottemesd to recover the f irk Irons hum, and -in the scuffle received the two wounds which had occasioned his death. —The farmer was inexpressibly concerned at the accident which occasioned the man's deism, and especially when the prisoner was taken up on suspicion of the inursier. But the Aseises being just over, he was unwilling to suricahl.r himself a;:c1 to confess the mat- .. , r , . ~~~ yam_: • ter, because his farm and affairs would have b een ruined by hit !yin& so long in jail. lie was sure to have been acquitted on his trial fur h bad consulted the ablest lawyers upon the cue, who all agreed, that as the deceased had been the aggressor, he could only have been • guilty of manslaughter at most. It was true he had suf f ered greatly in his own mind on the prisoner's account; but being well assured that imprisonment would be of less consequence to the prisoner than to himself, he had suffered th► law to take its course. . In - order, however, to save hint, which he was deteimined to do, he got himself appointed foreman, and acted in the manner he had done." The next case quoted by the prisoner Thurtell was that of ril ham Shaw, an upholsterer, who, in 1721, was hung in ch ins at Leith, for the murder of his daughter. The father had wished to induce the girl to marry contrary to her wishes. They :vere heard to quarrel, and the father went out, locking the door after hiM.— A neighbour, whose room was only separated by a thin partition. soon after,wards heard groans, and the daughter faintly exclaim, " Cruel father, thou art the caw;e,of my death." A constable was fetched, the d,sor forced, and the girl found, not dead, but unable to speak. The father was taken up, tried, and executed. His last words were, " I ant innocent of my daughter's murder." There was scarcely a person in Edinburgh who thought the father innocent; hut in the following year a man who had become the oc cupant of Shaw's apartment, accidentally discovered a paper which had fallen into a cavity on one side of the chimney. It was folded as a letter, and on opening it, was found to contain as follows : " Barbarous lather! your cruelty in having put it out of my power ever to join my fate to that of the only man I could lost, and tyrannically itt-iiting upon my marrying one whom I always hated, has made me forra a resolution to put an end to an existence which is become a burthen to me." This letter was signed " Catharine Shaw," and on being shewn to her relations and friends, it was recogeis:d as her writing. The Magistracy of Falinburgh examined it, and on being sa hard of its authenticity, they ordered the body of William Shaw to be taken front the gibbet, and given to hia family for interment ; 4nd as the Only reparation to his memory, and the honour of his virvieirg re lations, they caused a pair of colutsis to be waved uver Lis grave, is taken of hip innocence. In addition to the Address, the prisoner Hunt read a paper, the substance of which we gave yesterday, Mr. Knapp read a paper, in which he endeavoured to shew that certain parts of Proberes state ment was false, and that be intended to shield himself: eineopart was obviously so. He states in one part, that Hutt, in travelling down to Gill's-hill, on coming to the part of the road ~ v!'cre 'texas to have joined Thurtell, observed," This is the place at which I was to have met him." Such a thing he never could have said, inas much as he was ignorant of the road, and did not know one spot from another. The defence of the prisoners having conc:nded here, his Lordship retied for a few moments, and. on his ' return, asked it any Hertfordshire constable was pre sent who could prove that Gill's-hill-lane was in the County of Hertford?—lt having been suggested that the Coroner WAS preent, he was. sworn. Mr. Justice PARK.—DO you know if Gill's hill-lane, the spot where the murder was committed, is in the County of Hertford ? CORONER.—It is in the parish of St. Alban's, in the County of Hertford. THE CHARGE. The LEARNED Janos' then proceeded to sum up the evidence to the Jury, and to describe the nature of the indictment. 'Cols, like all inquiries of a similar nature, was highly important, inasmuch as t relates' to thr life of a man, and therefore the time employed in the investigation had been well employed ; and haZring said this much, he would next proceed to point out the difference in the several ofrences with which the two prisoners were charged.— The Learned Judge then proceeded to describe the difference be tween the accessary and the principal in cases of murder, and re minded the Jury, that if they should once think there was not evidence to convict Thurtell, the principal, then they - would have no inquiry to make with regard to Hum The Jury had heard the ad dress of the prisoner, Thurtell, and he frit himself boutid in justice to say he considered that defence, especially the latter past of it, as doing him infinite honour, which was eloquent and manly. Ile could not so much approve of chit other portion of the defence which related to circumstantial evidence. It circumstantial evidence was to be rejected, there would he an end. in the most atrocious cases, et all earthly justice ; he fully agreed in what had been said by Thurtell of the character of Probert, the principal witness; no man could have a worse character. The wittiets who had been esandned on oath and declared be would not believe Probert on his oath unless corroborated by other testimony, had not painted that character in colours at all tod high ; it fell short, indeed, in some respects of that which Probert deserved, but still Probert was corroborated by so many independent, impartial, unbiassed witnesses, that it was impossible nut to give all due weight to his testimony. It would be unreasonable to imagine that all these 55 witnesses were in a con spiracy to give credit to Probert's story, and here he must again advert to what he had, on former occasions, said on the siljeet of the publications which had taken place in the public prints. It was a shocking thing to think that in a case like the present, it should be necessary for a prisoner to caution, and not only to caution, but even to entreat, that the Jury would not suffer their minds to be prejudiced by these improper, and he would say wicked state ments. Ile trusted he should never fear co utter his thoughts or neinions on this subject, before any power, however high, or how ever low; and in the face of all the Public Press, and all the libels which might be hurled at his head, he would repeat what he had formerly said ; and he would add, that if such a prac tice was to be persisted in and tuierated, he trembled fur the existence of all our boasted liberty, and equality of administration of justice in this country. This much he had again considered it necessary to say on this important subject; and now he must ad vert to another part of the care, which applied more particularly to I lent, and to the defence which he had put in, and which was, in tact, but a repetition of the application put in yesterday.— On this part of the case, he must say, his opinion was decidedly against the claim of Hunt to be admitted an evidence. The con fession of Hunt, as it was called, he should not have suffered to have been given in evidence; but it had already been published over and over in the Newspapers, and thus had get abroad that which never ought to have been published, and which the presidiug Magistrate would not have suffered to be rltceived as evidence. This was another proof of the evil tendency of Newspaper publicatioos —The Learned Judie proceeded to mako further observations on the evidence of accomplices, and observed, that if this system was once put an end to or discredited, it would be utterly impossible to bring to light many of the most atrocious offences which marked occasionally our criminal proceedings; the evidence was most im portant and material, a.. 1 he should go minutely through it. The Learr.ed Judge first took that branch of evidence which went to shew the identity of the body, for be had no hesitation in again repeating, that the evidence of Richard Weare and Rex wartLy sufficiently established that fact ; and the evidence of the surgeon Cully established another, namely, that the wounds given to the body of the deceased were the evident cause of h;s death. The next question, the great and important one, was, whose Was the band which committed the act of violence? That was a fact to be ascertained only by the evidence; and here lie would point out particularly the parts of the evidence which corroborated each other ; and amongst these would be the circumstance of Thurtell's having in his possession the fellow pistol to that found in the latif; the conduct of the parties whilst at Gill's-bill Cosa rage, and in town ; and the articles of wearing apparel, the gun, the nag, the backgammon-board, &c. found in the positessime of Thum lI,aU tending to confirm and support the teatiemoy of Probed. Probertai testimony covered almost mot event connected with this transaction. As regards conversations at and other places, amongst them was that regarding the chain given to Mrs. Probert, which it was pl • Otly proved was the property of Weary, aad had been seen on Weare's person just before he left I o ,em. Then, as regarded Weare's watch, Probert says, that Thurtell told Min, :too when he killed Weare, he took his watch arming other things: and, according to the evidence of Forster, the officer, Morten Moos self corroborated this statement; for be told the officer, that he threw the watch away a mile and a half from Watford, man be high grass; and "In. Probert further corrooorat:s that part of his statement which regards his having the watch, for she prodoied the geld chain which was given to her by Muriel'. So also as regards the manner of kitbag, Weare ; Thurtell in a conversation v bit Heat soul Probert, gives an account of the manner in which the murder was effected. Now, to this there could be no corroboratiali s be cause no one was present but Probert, Hunt, sad Thurtell; but let the Jury recollect what Thurtell said when describing she man nee iu whi,!. be accomplished that object; he describes cutting the throat and the jamming the pistol into Vicare's head, and the na ture of the injury inflicted ; and the surgeon, when 'Rambled, de scribes the woundsva bearing a close resemblance to those which John Thurtell had told Probert be had inflicted. The, maid at Probert's also coofinus her master as to Portieres story of .1 bar tell** wearing a ? white hat on the morning he went to Gill** MI- L:me to search, as it was said, fur the pistol and half,. Probert said Thurtell had a white bat on, so said the labourer 11.•rtitig oes said•he bad no white bat, but the servant of Probeit sot costae o seeing Thu: td• lying tra the sofa that looming sell rg", ~~ n. *•• ~-~' • at .