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......, the 12 his N had s But i Judg luting :ince. . could rant I tude not e who La never L( verso from prese recol first 1 ject 1 Cour coun temp I . thing ough , . the / more The 1 e‘ the 2 moth' i still possi the with whic that i objet duce lege• ing I were Refe sary P ro e' hay, ;.. prof , I bein 1; . • for [ ; not Ili s I wh , of g Lor me: few i 4. ten; , esc: hea ren cit.( COL i '. l i to . i i ' asti an Jul I' . Bo W 2 a! Ca i i . La chi i . La la' W Isle ) to ha Oil de pe r ! CO W 2 ; i tiC DO . I ' ,f / ier tai ac 111 111 1 i ' 01 PC to ; ! • tic I I . - ID ! . in re 1 ' , T . , I in st ei n ti • I ' d tl I h r Ira t 1 1 , • I 1 • ‘ I , I . i 1 • ! 1 ij . ' . . I L I ‘ .., %.'• . ' " 4 • 1. t .... ~, the laws of Scotland. That he understood Was what Noble Friend (Castlereagh), not then in his place, kad stated'at the time alluded to by the Noble Lord. lt in point of fact, the Bill was never before the idges for their consideration. The old laws regu .ting the Royal Burghs in Scotland were in abey ance--(Hear, hear, from Sir John Newport.)—He auld excuse the Honourable Baronet for being igno rant that by the law - of Scotland Statutes from desue tude might cease to have operation. But he could not extend the same indulgence to the Noble Lord, 'who was a legislator for Scotland. Lord A. HAMILTON, in explanation, said he had never disputed it, he had only regretted it. LORD ADVOCATE.—As to the complaint that persons who felt themselves aggrieved were prevented from taking measures of redress by the delay of the present Bill, it was utterly unfounded. It was in the recollection of the :louse, that he had stated in the first week of the Session the limited nature of the ob ject he had in view. That object was to enable the Courts of Exchequer to take cognizance of the ac counts and expenditure of the Burghs, but not to at• tempt any more general regulations: There was no thing, therefore, in the nature of his pledge which ought to have prevented the persons alluded to, or the Noble Lord as their organ, from introducing a moreextended measure, if they thought it necessary. The Noble Lord was mistaken in attributing tb him the assertion, that the Royal Burghs of Scotland had nothing to complain of. What he had said he was still prepared to maintain, namely, that it was im possible to introduce any general measure to regulate the election bf Magistrates in the Royal Burghs, without abrogating the whole system of the laws by which they were at present affected. He thought that the Bill, though it might not embrace all the objects that were to be desired, would at least pro duce some good effects. It would- , remove many al. leged grounds of grievance, and take away the stalk ing horse, by which the Noble Lord, as well as others, were enabled to introduce the topic of Parliamentary Ileform upon occasions with which it had no neces sary connection. His intention with regard to the progress of the Bill was to bring it in that right, and have it read a first time immediately ; he would then propose that it should lie over for three weeks, after being printed ; but if the Noble Lord had any wish for its postponement to another Session, he would not press , it upon the House, as he saw no reason wh never for precipitating the question. Sir JOHN NEW PORT hoped. that after the charge of gross ignorance made against him by the Learned Lord, not for what he had said, but for what he meant to say, he would be excused in offering a few words to the House. The expression of his coun tenance (for that was the only expression that had escaped him) was excited to some astonishment at hearing it stated by the• Learned Lord that a Statute remaining on the Statute Book might, under certain circumstances, be coesidered as not a law of the country. Notwithstanding the decision of the Judges to which allusion had been made, he still felt that astonishment. He remembered having once heard an advocate in Ireland contend before a Learned Judge, that a law which still existed in the Statute Book was become obsolete. The answer of the Judge was, that the thing was quite impossible—that where a Statute could be produced it was binding on the Court. The Judge to whom he alluded was the late Lord Kilwarden. It would certainly be a most mis chievous discretion entrusted to Judges or Courts of Law, if they were to be allowed to determiqe what laws were binding and what were not—( Hear, hear.) When the provisions of a Statute became objectiona ble or unnecessary, the Legislature alone had the right to annul them, and if it was the fact that any Judges had declared an existing statute not binding upon their determinations, it was a subject for the consi deration of Parliament. As to the Bill itself, it ap peared to him an attempt to establish the right of controul in the body itself over which the controul was to be exercised. It was on their own applica tion to Courts of Law, that their even abuses a ere now intended to be remedied. The LORD ADVOCATE disclaimed any idea of imputing . ignorance of the laws of England and Ire land against the Honourable Baronet, but he was not acquainted with the law of Scotland. It was ad. mined by the Legislature itself, that statutes in Scot land had fallen into abeyance. One of the objects of the Bill was, to give the Burgesses at large a power to compel the Magistrates, under a penalty, to lodge their accounts in the Exchequer. Mr. FINLAY congratulated the House on the mo tion of the Noble Lord. But when he learnt that the lbode of redress was proposed to be effected by lodg ing the returns in the Exchequer, it amounted to no remedy at all. The Bill was in effect a dead letter. The great point was to give publicity to the accounts. LORD ADVOCATh..—" I said so." Mr. FINLAY.--" I wish the publicity to be given in the Burghs where the accounts are understood, in stead of being laid up in the Exchequer. If a Scotch man is told he is to go to law upon such occasions as this, he will consider the remedy worse than the disease." LORD ADVOCATE.—" I stated, and it is cer tainly no fault of mine if I have been misappre hended, that not only did I wish the accounts to be reported to the Exchequer, but also to lay open for the inspection of the Burgesses of the place.' Leave was now moved and given to bring in a Bill to regulate the Expenditure of the Revenue of the Royal Burghs of Scotland ; soon after which a Bill was accordingly brought-in by the LORD ADVOCATE, which was then read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time this day three weeks. MISCELLANIES. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented three Petitions from the Watermen on the River, praying that the Bill for erecting an Iron Bridge over the Thames at Rotherhithe might not pass into a law ; and seven Petitions from Birmingham, well as seve ral others from Newcastle-ander-Lyme, &c. praying for Par liamentary Reform.—Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. PEEL presented a petition from the Royal College of Su eons in Ireland against the Surgery Regulation Bill. Mr.EGERTON presented a petition from a Lumber of Cotton Manufacturers in'the County of Cheater, in lemur of the Bill for regulating Labour in Cotton Factories.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. BARCLAY presented Petitions from the Parishes of St. Botoiph, St. Saviour's, and Christchurch, in the County of Sur rey, praying that the Puor Laws Bill might not pass into a law in Its present shape; and specifying as particularly objectionable the clause by which the owners, instead of the tenants of houses wider Use value ofyear, were to be subjected to the Poor's Baer ice d to be an the table. The Consmitile on the Steam Boat Bill, and the second read- ing of the Purchase of Garne Bal, were postponed to Monday, the 20th instant. On the Notion of Sir E BRYDGES, the second reading of the Copyright Bill was postponed to thi; day se'nnight. On the Motion of Sir R. PEEL, the further consideration of the Report of the Cotton' Manufactories Bill was postponed to I this day sennight. Mr. JOI-IN SMITH presented a Petition from the Printers of the City of London, against that Muse of the Copyright Act, by which publishers are compelled to deposit eleven copies of every woik in the libraries of the Uuiyershies and other pub lic Institutions. Mr. LITTLETON presented a Petition from the High She riff and Grand Jury of the County of Stafford, praying that the House would take into consideration the inexpediency of the pre sent system of granting rewards on the conviction of offenders, and would abolish the same. Ordered to be primed. Mr. S. BOURNE, in moving the order of the day for taking into further consideration the Report of the Poor Laws Bill, ob served, that he was desirous of introducing several very impor tant alterations.—The Bill, as amended, was ordered to bepria ted.--Adjourned. SURREY ASSIZES. KINGSTON, APRIL to. The cause list haying been gone through in the Nisi Prins Court, by Wednesday evening, Mr. Baron GRAHAM proceeded yesterday to try criminals in that Court. This morning, at nine o'clock, John Fawcet, baker, aged 47, was brought into Court, and arraigned, for the murder of his son, John Fawcet, by shooting at him with a pistol, on the 13th of March last, in St. Olave's, Southwark. The prisoner is an uncommonly grave and thoughtful-looking man. He was respectably dressed in black. As soon as he took his seat in Court, he applied his hat to his fore head, and seemed to be occupied for a few minutes in deep devotion. He pleaded Not Guilty with firm ness, and then withdrew to his seat till a case of as sault should be tried. As soon as this case was dis posed of Faucet was put to the bar. There was no Counsel for the prosecution. Mr. ADOLPHUS was Counsel for the prisoner. The circumstances of this case have been already detailed at great length in the Police Reports. The prisoner went to the house of a person of the name of Bush, where his wife and son were living, and dis charged a pistol, supposed to be intended for Bush ; but which caused the death of his own son. These facts were detailed by the witnesses for the prosecution. William Bush was called by the Court, and exa mined by Mr. Anommus.—He was at home on the night of the 13th of March, when the deceased was shot. He knew the prisoner those or four years. He did not know that the prisoner was married av i d had 15 children, nor was he certain that Mrs. Fawcet was married to him, as he heard he had a wife in Yorkshire. Witness went into prison for debt in May last, and came out in September. During that time, he had neither the goods nor effects of the prisonet through the medium of Mrs. Fawcet There were some things he received, but they. came from a Mrs. Holgate.— Mrs. Fawcet lived in his house about five months as housekeeper. (Here the witness was asked whether he had not slept with her, but he refused for a consi derable time to answer, until severely reprimanded and threatened by the Court, when he complied.)— He had not slept with her at first, but he did after wards. There were, beside the young man shot, two more of the prisoner's children lirng with witness.— When the prisoner came on the 15th of March, the child called out—" Father 1 father 1" and witness rose up to go down stairs, but the deceased said he would go; and soon after he heard the report of a pistol. Witness and Mrs. Fasicet went in the even ing to visit the deceased in the Hospital, but said nothing to him as to the conduct he should pursue if he recovered. The prisoner, called upon for his defence, gave in a written explanation of his conduct. He had been married twenty years to Mrs. Fawcet, and had had fifteen children by her. He had kept a baker's shop in the Mile-end-road, and had been happy till his wife's misconduct ruined him. She took away his goods and gave them to Bush, with whom she lived when his son was unfortunately killed. She had often got him arrested on false pretences. She had got him into Whitecross-street prison, where Bush was impri soned, and there supplied Bush with every thing, while she never came near him, or paid him any at tention. She at last enabled Bush to obtain his re lease, and from that moment she lived in his house. He obtained his discharge notwithstanding the plun der and the defamation he had sustained by his wife, his creditors well knowing that she had been the author of all his misfortunes. When he went to in sist upon her return to him, she told.him that she had a sharp knife, and that if he ever came near her again, she would stab him to death. His son was unfortu nately led to live with his mother and Bush. He was very anxious to get him out of their hands ; and, going with that intention, he felt it necessary to arm himself with a pistol, in consequence of his wife's threat. The pistol unfortunately went off ; and the consequence was she death of his son ; which none could lament more bitterly than he did. As to Bush, he had had the effrontery to appear that day in his clothes ; and his child, Mary Ann Bush, was dressed in the clothes of his children. With this explanation he left his case in the hands of GOD, and of the Court and Jury. Joseph Lemon, a master baker ; John Ellem, a rope-maker ; John Lodge, a victualler ; R. Brown, a carpenter • John Falkner and his wife, all from Mile-end-road ; and Henry Newton, clerk to the Lon don Flour Company, had known the prisoner for many years, and gave him the best possible character as a husband, a father, and a neighbour. Hannah Richmond, daughter of Mrs. Fawcet by ' a former marriage, said she was a little child when her mother was married, twenty years ago, to he prisoner. He took her into his house and treated her as his own child, with the utmost tenderness. She was now married. It was six years since she ceased to live in the prisoner's house. He always behaved towards the deceased with affectionate tenderness.— He was an affectionate good man to all his children. Henry Thorngate, a victualler, saw Mrs. Fawcet bringing tea, sugar, and money to Bush, in prison, while she never visited her husband. Witness went to her to ask her to pay more attention to her hus band. She said—" I'll never go near him ; and if he comes near me, I have got a good sharp knife, I and I'll stick it in him." Sarah Freeman had been twice sent by Mrs. Faw cet to Bush, in prison ; on ene occasion with two ounces of tea, a pound of sugar, a 11. note, and two shirts ; on another occasion, with two pounds of sal mon, and a 1/. note. Fawcet was thea in the same prison, but she never carried any thing to him. .ine in ansi state Lordsht, no farther his Lorcish THIA" SHIRE, &C. & Th , High A ME Saxe-i Serene 1792, ther th of the to accoml The yo Ullf is sai, preset It ENCIe, 22,0001 riage (, an ada 12,0001, a -year high pea r mud_ amateur " If Watt character excel' - prom and ,great first LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1818. THE FUNDS. MICE or STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O ' CLOCK : Reduced 791 ex. div.—Consols 79i 80 Cons. for Acc. 801-4 per Cent. 9714 Navy Anns.lo7i4—lndia Bonds 92 91 pr. Exchequer Bills 18 22 pr. It will be seen from our Parliamentary Report, that in answer to a question put by Mr. IIoNKORTH, Mr. CANNING stated, that although the accounts hitherto received from India, of the progress of the war with the Native Powers, were not official, no doubt of their accuracy is enterained by Government. The Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday ar. rived this morning. . The Chamber of Deputies are proceeding with the discussion of the particular details of the Budget. A smart debate took place on a proposition to include in the section relative to arrears the old creditors an terior to 1810. It was finally rejected by a large majority. A report prevails that the present Sessic.. , of the Chamber will close about the end of this month. The foreign claims appear to be still a subject of ac tive negpciation between the Duke of WEttixorox, the Members of the Foreign Diplomacy at Paris, and the French Ministers. On Monday his GRACE had another long conference with the Duke of RICHELIEU, the Ambassadors of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, and Baron MOUNIER, the President of the Commis- sion for the Liquidation of Foreign Claims. The new QUEEN of SWEDEN, who still resides at Paris, under the title of the Countess of GOTHLAND, had on Monday a private audience of the KING. The Diet of Norway is stated to have solicited from CHARLES JOHN the creation of a new Order of Knighthood for the Kingdom of Norway, which Iris hitherto only participated in the Orders of Denmark and Sweden. The new DEN of ALGIFRS, COGGTA-CAVALLI, who l has assumed thL name of IsisAitisi-PAciiA, is stated to have signalized his accession to the Regency by an act of justice, in setting at liberty the young Chris tians and Jews whom his predecessor had seized and immured in his Seraglio. French 5 per Cents, Tuesday, 66 fr. .55 c. A Mail arrived this morning from Hamburgh with papers to the 3d instant. mgt. to the of Pict finished hour Brit Meat atteni The ilantitogh Correspondent contains an extract of a letter from Copenhagen of t he 31st March, which states, that an idle report is in circulation there, said to have been received from hussia, of the English having taken possession of the great and important commercial City of Canton, in China. The Shares of the Danish Asiatic Company had ir. consequence immediately fallen upon this report, which had also had an influence on the prices of Tea. lsk an ..._ shouli A Mail from Holland also arrived this morning, but its contents are unimportant. The Sittings of the Assembly of the States of Hanover, were to terminate, it is said, on the sth inst. and then to adjourn till the Ist of September. The Duke of WiLLINGTON has postponed his de parture from Paris for London until the 26th instant. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE ar. rived at Cassel on the 27th ult. Jamaica Papers to the 9th Pebivary have been re ceived by the Salisbury, which brings a large snm of money on account of merchants. Letters from the Havannals state, that the pork was completely block aded by Independent privateers, which do not allow a bko t ishL w apee&r sa the ueighbousiug sats. <a)i of jai btr Di emi C: so) Am. BENTVI by the. of Commons, lished for 11 June. be. Saturda near farmer, very ing, in nwehyicihnlheasr 26heantheh‘leYDy:i.:e:-:loinzr-:::14;.; pleapAsuLrelkitweltS:a7to' state i re t •-•-• •• . . _ is with much pleasure --......-. swer to the enquiries made this day after ; ''' ./41 181$ 1 of Lord Viscount Pataleasrox's heap; i [t. • , a Sri ... ship is stated to be now co far ree ovee ; . : aoteol74lla ,:iii' itiv• ...--------- tether bulletins will be issued. A ..the r i„ Amor,. N I T OBER lity and Gentry who this mornin g ''''' 7 r w, dsh Ear il l s of resd u en arr ce es: . lll ere ßT, a3learq:l"lorci4dirtincli'Llit "....-..........-...-. a, Lord HOLLAND, Lieutenant - Genes . .P.stat treated 1112 trelfe the P al lee. &c. • and their RA --,-------- &own, Cap he late ofer of marriage made by i. it O N THI aness the Duke of Caw Reace is tof: e li p. rica. 7 " ..forneedi ILIA ADELAIDE LOUISA THERESE C . 1,,,,,:,,. - _, A GRA , 01 VC ne Highness was borrion the 13 th of Tar o:airser e l s ge ac n c ' o an rd d i E - , M an ci d ni the Mike is a minor, and her mother holds te e ii . c le Duchy as his guardian. The 441; 1 - ,:_,.. . Principal 1 1 ccompany the Princess to England. .- IS branches uowance ooffthloBoßoowyAl. to F Anew Mks he proposed arrangement of a provision f a ii, Destorsta.t.te Ansiciacres, In iht cool e ng Ht er a lid to be-22 ,0 001. per annum, i n a aa4 s , tr 7" Asa Preach I certa on the ca, with an outfit of one year's allowance -a. koHman), he 1001. ;to each of the other Pat • - Furth' acas on l ug nc Th e Choir' e (with a retrospect to the Duke of Cul • elf the Ancie Mar addition of 12,0001. a-year, wish an o ut fi t ,; 1.13}y, t )00/. To the PRINCESSES all Litkiog of 6,i Abbey, .11:d ea ,lire. ear, with an outfit of 6,000/. IL. Instri k new debutante, of whom report speaks lei C•hrert of .1 s hly, is, we understand, shortly to m a k e h er r; The De' kit to oors ranee at Drury-lane. She h a s l a:e l y a . ' at Eight o'C ch notice as the Melpomene of a corps o f 70 ... 4 StalaCl ipti ateurs, who have been performing at W. • lialunaerliky F chastity of performance," says a critic • (em ti hi surer's, Mr. terford Chronicle, speaking of this Lad, 12 :2 f it i r..t at aU dr racier of Queen Margaret, " Mattre ;:' N.ll. 11 -413 a., client education, eloquence of accent, ace, ;ra h,' emit, he b r nunciation-if looking completely 1: - .ecl: 131:-.uediately of I feeling [ every motion it elicited, cal cr.e a be may be had at actress, I pronounce Miss ItlsAo-rT' • he . __. a oral --- t order." PAMPHLETEER.-The PAMPHLET Of t:-.t 'ate',;,. OF THE IRROSE WESTERN upon the suh;ect ci ;mitt Da • at 4TURES, and other matters of finance, ail led a HIS RoTal : the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in the MCA The Doke I Commons, in the Debate of the 9th 'want, isLi. 'lac Marge ted EXCLUSIVELY in the PAMPHLETEER, Ne. la admast La . January, 1818. • His GRACE THE DUKE OF WEILINOTCB re 2 , ionic guested by Mr. Bowmen , to inform the Si:beaks 1,1 NUA the splendid whole-length Engraving 4 '.e Dee wal be lick WELLINGTON, from Sir THOMAS LATIUM tavern.-- cture, that the Plate is now completed: lair g• ished Proof may now be seen at Mr. hornet use, in Marlborough-place, Pall-Mall, opposite a The Duke itish Gallery.-Mr. 13owyea deems it mewl) Lord S mu ention that, on account of the extreme cue Ell Sir Line, tention which is requisite in printing a Platen/tins sir Decal George W tportance, it will be a few weeks before the Prod John Ilirn Ipressions will be ready to delivery, and thecer John Frai ,prcssions cannot be reacy till about the er,i,iiie if Tickrts, Ine. On the first day of publishing, the price sal fiat is it, Bar of th considerably raised to Non-Subscnbers. Saturday morning a fire was discovered in alodye !lard l-t ar the dwelling-house of Mr. Tanis.* ennatta bag rmer, of Higham Lower Green, near Bury. la a coolie Piano w ry short time it communicated to a cottage alai , A Gr and In g, from thence to a barn and stable. all of Irbil light, at a few hours were destroyed, together with aOVI leen kis i even score of barley in the barn. mired by change, II In the Court of King's loch. yesterday, Mr. Ca. _ k (held to bail for publishing Hone's Parodies) psi Air 0 IEI hi 1 affidavit, stating the reasons why his recognizance' ould be discharged. The perms who Wit lOW end, or ted ] r him not being in a ttendance, the case sad rra. U be ni given IRELAND-At the Louth adjourned Sessieas, aY:ll &went( ok place on the lat instant, Thome. , M'C'aZa 30' Livings, chase of ier of the party concei ned in the buraing et ne Suite pre ynch family, was found guilty, and orclerc.! fatal- APO,' P ition. The prisoner was a respectable !::,inag pe• Threat* Gokies ra. and is described as being p oss e ss ed et :-.-sue le property. When he hea r d his awful sen.•:• ie tddenly plunged his hand in his can:a:air, al A. A 7 ; fling for a pistol. The Court was iriZi.. , 12 1 7 i... 2 High ( !arm. The Judge and lawyers we:e i....:17 4- o u r, h.- Police gathered round the convict w:3 dais wards. rcords-reiterated cries of" seize him! seize! : a linen,- istol ! a pistol! a rescue! a rescue!" resounaelfra Held, 11 qearters. M'Culla, who is a strong mac. Irak tilurci Co. N, nne resistance, and his resista n ce kept .:2. tr U ric . IL ito I the scene. At last he was c:erpiwrced. tut ar fl a x, iilor drew from his pocket the cbcct ci r.lt the Dower • . . , ... .... ustle and terror-a Ode book !on wn:c.: n.....i ~. airs; ended to swear that he was inc.isce...t et'lllit C1'.71 Count, .;.... - ar which he had been sentenced :o d.2-Tac ?' ,er was then led peaceably to jai'..-Tw c:her Fo • oners were also found Guilty cf being cencernsa 5 he above murder, and received sentence of i.e.•.:i. NV As USUAL..-Thurs,Ley the State Lottery faitri The et drawing, when (as usual) Besn's Offices rime ? I :. 1 w .minent for th e Sale of ('.•:::::! Pares, harS4 to - 1 Bat I ••• ...hose Ana :a far exceeding in Is.e.r.be: and A,• rz.•-• A toy old by all the other Oliiie- keepers pet togrzillu At 0. 4,706 .. aC3I,OIX in Stxteta 5...-3 , , A .. a ce 17,595 .. £"30,5C0 in Twchotiani. - A 9:0 i 1,571 - £5,000 7,143 -- 4'.'..1 lllol'2. - ::: But, 3,107 - 5 , 001 •11,145 ••-• 40C 911:5 lic 1,018 - 1,000 1,443 --- SCO IJ• 850 -. 7. c . tun :1,138 - 1,000 7,773 3,.0 1..-$ : - A! 1,771 - 1,006 11,778 ...... I'l'o 1...7:: :,,, Ear, 11,836 - 1,000 14,494 - 31 0 i ti.M 4 .... ' 9 ,p El 9,513 - 500 3,00 i 3tX. 1.75 d - ~. 15,746 500 5,063 •-• 300 14 tr tre 9 ..-• i to 1E . 17,595 - 500 5,1,75 % 300 :" •' 3 t 3,817 -. 500 6,812 - 300 3:11* - 19,070 SOO 11,191 - 300 :4' 95 .... "... V P . to I 9,663 •••,. 410 11,605 ..- 300 " 54 le 11,368 -. 46.1 iti,.3.9 - 3 4 10 13," N' 15,340 -- 4tiO 1: - .,Laa - atm 14,1 411. •••...... sl 1,581 400 5,318 - 9CO IV." r ,,.., • Also, Nos. 6,963 and 7, 958 , each entitled le r." ' Pipes of Vi ine. Almost every one of the all , splendid List of Capitals are Sold in Shares, all&C, ( 7 s to all parts of the United KinFlom.- l' a lett,Ql, T. Beset will be able to publis h a list of the P. 5 .` and the fortunate holders may receive their Dim' An on demand. DIED. DS.° Apr! 4, Mary Anne, chi, wife 4 Sackvelle 6wieee , Glanbrao Park, in the 44th y‘ar of her age L _____ -- - - . •-- PAC 1.414b0N- bilked and pzghtieie. , .. b y Leek Kali - 'lkea, lei. f er-Ser. • • .-- had told 11r. Bush that she was sent by Mrs. Fawcet. —John George, while making a distress on Bush's goods, heard Mrs. Fawcet say to her son— John, I think I have seen Fawcet pass, I have got a knife in readiness for him, and the moment he comes in I'll certainly plunge it into his heart." He saw her at the samelime shewing the knife. Mr. ADOLPIIUS proposed to put in a letter, which had been written by the prisoner to his son. before his death, imploring him to come home to his residence, and declaring his affection for him. Mr. Baron GRAHAM objected to this being put in as evidence, but allowed the prisoner to adopt it in substance as part of his defence. His Lordship then proceeded to charge the Jury, and said all that Bush had given in evidence, and indeed the whole of the evidence for the prisoner, was extraneous. That the prisoner killed his son, was beyond all doubt. If he did so wilfully, it was murder ; if he did so unin tionally, but meaning to kill Cush or any other per son, it was murder. He deplored, much as any individual, the evils, and wrongs, and cruelties which had been heaped upon the defendant. They came home to every heart who had heard them. but there was a rule and guide of law to he strictly adhered to, from which himself and the Jury were not to depart. He felt it extremely difficult to extend the benefit of this construction of law to the prisoner ; but it was for the Jury to judge for themselves. The Jury continued in anxious and earnest consul tation for nearly half an hour. Some of them occa sionally exhibited symptoms of vehement agitation. The Court was excessively crowded, and continued all this time in profound expectation. At length the Jury turned round, and assumed their places. Their Foreman pronounced the verdict—Not Guilty. Marks of satisfaction were evident within the Ear. The multitude without could not be restrained from expressing their joy and approbation aloud. The prisoner, who had been deeply affected during the whole of the trial, was now completely overpowered He was immediately discharged from the Bar. THE EVENING STAR.