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OLD BAILL r. no with to deny, any More thah I have to avoid the ' dreadful puniffiment that awaits my guilt ; to that I am refigned ; nor was it my with, from the un fortunate moment of my crime, to evade jutlice.— But that I committed the deed malicioufly againtt my poor child, who was the vietim of my fatal pal (lnn, I fileninly deny, in the pretence of that Con, before whom I now make this declaration, and be fore whole awful tribunal I mutt thortly appear.— Intlead of bearing to her malice, Goo is my wi.nefs, I loved her molt tenderly : and to that love, Itrange and perverfe as it may fecm, is owing chiefly the fad cattle that brings me here this day. lam mar ried to a fecond wife, by whom this child was my only daughter. We had long known each other be fore our marriage, when I was in better days, and when the and I were the wife and the hufband of others; I thought I could be happy with her, but I found her temper incompatible with my happinefs, or her own ; I found the friends and family with which the was connetted, thought her marriage wi,h me degrading to her. Dilputes and altercations took place frequently between us, in which, unhappily, both were in faith. Thole difp n tes were often car ried to a pitch of fury ; and what tended Rill more • to exafperate me, and aggravate our ditentions, was, that thole the called her friends, always tided:. with her in every thing, whether right or wrong; and many of them, I am forty to fay, ftrento,us profefftrs of religions principles, were almolt more ready to lend a hand to the fomenting of milchief, than to the promotion of charity and peace. Our difputes, at 1.411, ended in a mutual agreement to fe parate, and the child I fu tenderly loved, WAS to go with her mother : this my unhappy temper and feel ing could not bear, and led me to the fatal refolution, that neither her nor I fhould have the child, by corn. mitring the horrid deed of putting an end to her life, in the manner I have done. I ter vently befeeclt Coo to forgive me, and guide you in your decition up at me this day; and I hope my unhappy fate will prove.. an atvful example to thole who form fecond mar• riages, with children on both fides, aad a warning to them againft giving way to intemperate difputes, that may lead them, as they have done me, to alts of defperation and vengeance beyond the controul of reafon or refleetion. If my wife was prefent, the could vouch and prove, that it was impoffible I could ever have deliberately executed loch an aft. She could vouch that my difpofition is not cruel ; and that my refolutions have always led me to the fide of virtue : but unfortunately under agitations of mind, or provocations of temper, I am not always the fame man: and my weakneffes, under loch cir cumtlances, have very frequently led me into exceites of frenzy, which in cool moments have aftuniffied me. Once, in particular, forced by dithefs to ap ply for relief at my parith workhoufe, 1 had come too late in the day : when wound up by dilappoint ment to madnels, I broke as many windows as colt the parith four pounds for the repair ; and yet the parith officers, though they might ponith me, did not, knowing that my aft was the refult of a mind de ranged. I have no more to fay, but I hope Goo of his infinite mercy will pardon my crime." The LORD CS. Isr BARON informed the Jury that the fall of a perfon's being overcome by any bidden paroxifm of paffion to commit a deed of fo flagiti , ou.s a nature, operated as no jollification of the crime. If GOD affikted any man with a temporary, or OCCA• Ilona' want of reafon, that was a different queflion. There, from the mere occafional tufpention of the reafoning faculties, the crime might have been com mitted ; but fuck could by no means be compared to the cafe where the dereliCtion of the reafoning facul ties had been occafioned, either by the contemplation of a circumftance by which alone the mind was af feCted, or by which, after its completion, the mind could be fuppofed capable of being agitated. Here a (trange mixture of AffeCtion was difcernabie amidll the cruelty which had prompted the perpetration of the deed ; but he could fee nothing in the cafe to in duce him to point out to the Jury any dillinetion be tween this cafe, and the various other cafes of a 11- milar kind which prefented themfelves. The Jury immediately found the Prifoner—Cuilty. His appearance was fqualid and wretched in the extreme. His hair was grey, and his head was co vered with an old miferable night-cap. The Ricorcnra, in a flyle tire mutt folemn, awful, and impreflive, then addreffed the wretched man— and after commenting on the horrid crime of murder, always in its naturedieadful,bin aggravated an hun dred fold in his cafe, as the murder of an innocent infant, vs hn hailed him with her firft efforts of fpecch, by the endearing name of Father, hot to whom he bad atted as a deflroyer ; warned him to ufe the fhort remainder of his unhappy exillence in making his peace with his offended Creator, and then fentenced him to the awful execution of the law Gn Monday next. _ _ Ycaertlay Sxnuel 111;ahell, alias Sa , rrfad Irride was inclined fur the wilful murder :if Sarah a girl of nine year; old, by cut her throat with a razor, on Tuelday, December 'BO4. at No. Wheeler-areet, Spitalfields. M. KNAPP,in a Ipecch replete with feeling, nat rai::d the prominent features of this melancholy tale to the Jury. The fillowing is a forcinn flatement of the cireuth e.oces as they appeared in evidence : The Aril incr is a lilk•weaver I,y trade, lived in a airet in the houfe above named ; and on the day, rreceding this (hocking catatfr , phe, his wife and he in conliquence of a lei les of &pines and bickeringc, lead rrtto.:lly agreed to feparate. On the night of I : i e day of frparation, the child, without the content f . her father, had flept with her mother. She had h••,:u accustomed to allid her father in that part of is batinefs of a weaver which is called quilling iier wheel had been heard on the morning of the day ~it which the murder was committed s on which day :tad alto gone to fchool, as usual. About half pall eleven o'clock the prifoner called down (lairs to !earn the hour. A perfon below informed him of it. —lie was (hotly afterwards heard to go out, and, about half pall twelve o'clock, the child was found liretched on the fluor, weltering in her blood, with her head almoll fevered from her body. —Within half an hour after, the prifoner went to the bottle of a friend named Dzlaforce, in Kenyon fired, Shoreditch, who was at his work. The pri loner told him fomething had happened to him that morning. of a nature that never happened to him before, and alked him to come out and he would tell him. Delaforce was, after tome time, induced to quit his biifinel', and go out with the prifoner, who, when they got about p yards from the door, laid to 2 - .itn, that he had murdered his child, by cutting her head nearly off: they went together to a public boufe, the Cock and Magpye, in ‘Vorfhip-areet, when the prifoner had lonic drink and fruuked a pipe ; and when they cane out again. Delaforee walked with him tome way, and afked him what he meant to do with himfalf ? He anfwered, he was now going down to Shadwell, to fame friends who were rope-makers, and who, lie fail, would give him a few shillings whle he ffiould be in prifon. He then afked Dela force when the Seffions would begin, and was told. He then Paid, he would give himself up to jullice, and added, 0 Well, Ned, I mull die, but what odds will it make to me, if I am cut into a thonfand pie ces 1 When I go, hundreds will go at the fame mo ment.' When told that he (hould nit have killed his child, the prifoner looked in the face of the perfon to whom he had divulged his guilt, and fsid. •' I know that;but do not yru retort on me, it is done." Delafcree being now r.bit:d to return to his wn s l e , ?book the i !Wooer by the hand, and law him no mo t e till he met him, the fame evening, at the office inWor !hip flreet, whither he had been brought front Spi ealfields watch bottle ; having been apprehended and ' lodged there by Grice, a watchman of llethnal.green arilh, who, with others had taken hint, in conic quence of the information they received from the priloner's landlord. Kennedy, an Officer belonging to Worfhip firm Office, went with fcveral of his bro themfficers to the horde where the prifoner lived, at one o'eloek, upon the 18th of December ; and, upon examining the pritcnet's room, they found the child lying dead on the floor, h.er throat cut quite to the 'One; the floor covered with her blood, yet warm ; a Trill wheel a little beyond her, the clock of which vas marked with blood, a:ld tracks of blond from that to where (he lay : beide the wheel, was a low (tool, and upon the flozu lay a razor open, and the tlade bloody. Finding, on enquiry, that there :vele nn petions amongll the number who crowded the room, that were of the prifoner's family, Kennedy cleared the room, and locked it tip to fecure what property was there ; and then went in search cf the prifoner, whom he found at one o'clock next morning at the watch houle, in Spitalfields parifh. The pri- Inner, up, n hearing bimfelf enquired for, tuirned about, and laid, " Kennedy, I have given you a great deal of trouble in fearching for me." Kennedy laid he had, and then talked him if he was aware he was charged with the murder of his daughter, as he 40 been in his room, and law her lying dead, and found the razor lying on the floor. The prifoner anfwered, " Then 7nu law the razor—with that razor I have many a time thaved myfelf, and with that fame razor I committed the bloody deed."_. Benjamin Mofer, Efq.one of theMagidrates of Wor fhip-firret Office, produced the written declaration of the minder, made voluntarily before him, and figned by the prifoner hinifelf. No inducement what ever was held out to him, and he was repeatedly warned of the coat quentes of his declaration fo to be made, and the utes to which if would be put pon his trial. &vet thelefs he Willed in making and tigning it. The Declaration was then recd by the Clerk of the Court, and was in tenor and purport a full and voluntary declatation ou the part of the prifoner; " that he had, fur tome time, altercations and dif putes with his wife, about a daughter of her's, whom the had by a former faifb end, which daughter sack,' in a fhametul man..er ; but her mother brought Ler home to lire in the family again(' his cc:trent, gave her indulgencies which he did nut like, which led to unhappy difputes, that ended in an agreement to feparate ; which they did on the very fay bcfpre this unhappy deed ; and it was agreed, ?':at the younger daughter fhould go with lser mo •her : but that the pritoner, who loved the child, not :ing able to bear the idea of her going with her ,n ).h-r, and teeing her only as a trifitor, was driven to audneis, and went to the clipboard and took out l.i; razor, determined to put an end to the child, fo that neither fhould have her. In a little while, re fl,ttion and horror (hook his purpofe; but his psffion ft•on overcame his teaftin, and he went behind the c:11.1 and cut he► throat ; the made neither noile nor retillance ; for the wocnd, and her death, were equally inilantancous." Here ended the proofs for the profecution, and the prifoner was called on by the Court for any thing he had to fay in his defence? when the wretched man addreffed hialfelf to the Court and Jury nearly in the jullowin7 words— " My Lord, and Gentlemen—l (land before you in this place to day, a writched and awful example ~f mifery, of gad:, and of difgraee. That I have . 7,mmitted the horrid deed laid to my chaise I have The 'Court was crowded in every part, and par ticularly with women ; and not only thole, but the Jury, the Connie!, and all prdcnt, were melted into mars. John new wai next put to the bar, and tried upon an indilmcnt for a burglary and robbery in the dwelling.houfe of Robert Shawe, Efq. Ncw Bridge ftrcet, near Blackfriars, on the sth of November laft, And (leafing therein a number of Bills of t.xchange, feverally, for furns of 3071. Bs. t id. ,5 001 . 434 1 . 3 5 . 5001. tool. 251. 3601. twenty guineas in gold, eleven half guineas, flatten (even Willing pieces, three crowns, four half crowns, three Bank notes of 51. two of al. three of tl. and one of aol. a miniature piaure fet in gold, a pocket compafs, and a number of foreign flyer coins. The cafe, as flabllantiated in evidence, was as fol lows : Robert Shawe, Efq., who lives at No. 15, New Bridgellreet, Bridewell Precin&, Blackfrian, is an eminent folicitor. There is a back entrance to Lis office frt,m Tudor.flreet ; firft through an exterior door, which is ufually faflened in the infide by a double fpring lock and a chain; fecondly, by a glafs door, and lafily, by an iron folding door. The Fri , Toner had lived formerly with him as a footman, but had fince left him, and taken a pablic•houfe in the Borough, at the fign of the King's Arms, the corner of Ditty-lane and SuffolkAreet. On the night of the robbery Mr. Shawe continued writing in his office till ten o'clock ; the doors between his office and the Ilreet were all bolted and fattened in the ufual mane net before that hour. He went to bed at half pall ten, and role in the morning at half pall feven, when Ibis fa rant came to him in his dreffing-tooro, and in from tranfportation, previous to the ez +i-riots of his fen•rrce. tinned him his office was broken open, and hii defk robbed. He went immediately and examined the premifes; the doors to the greet were found Open, the fire-irons in the office were found removed from their ufital place, and lying on the floor, near the deli, jn the forcing of which it teemed as if the po ker had been ufed. The drawer in the defk,(andthat drawer only), in which Mr. Shawe ufually kept mo ney, and in which was all the property already men tioned, on the preceding night, was broken open, and all the property gone. The prifoner had been in the fcrvice of Mr. Shawe, it was his bufinefs to attend sad (weep out the office, and he had frequent oppor tunities of Geeing and knowing the drawer in which Mr. Shawe kept his money. The whole of the pro perty in the defk was exclufively Mr. R. Shawe's, except a :01. note, a 11. note, and five (billings, the property of Richard and Robett Shawe, paid to him that morning by a client ; and the bills of exchange were the property of John Chand, drawn in his fa vour, and endorfed by him to Mr. Shawe, as part of the Mate of a Mr. Craig, deceafed, and for the purpofe of being paid to a Mr. Loofely. No fufpi cion fell upon the prifoner ; but in confequence of fome information afterwards received by Mr. Shawe, about a Bank -note, he obtained a fearch-warrant from the Lord Mayor, and went with the City Martha], and Come other peace officers, to the pi ifoner's hotel —they first fecured him, and went up Oaks to his bott room, where they found a (mall trunk, in which nearly the whole of the property was found; k was fealed up in the prefence of the Officers, opened again in the prefence of the Lord. Mayor, and the property being identified, it was again fettled, and remained in his cutlody ever since. The box silo contained a book, in which appeared a receipt from the prifoner's brewer, dated the 6th of November, for 341. 4s. Mr. Shawe's cook, immediately after the robbery, put an end to her existence by cutting her throat. Mr. Shawe had ufed no threats whatever towards her ; he had taken Ann Steers, his houfe.maid, into cußody on fufpicion. There was no dire& proof to thew that any burglary had been effelled by force from the confide of the premifes, in Tudor-greet; nor did the keyhole, in the outer-door, perforate to the outfide ; nor yet was there any proof how it was that the prifoner could have got in ; but it was con jeCtured by the Counfel for the Profecution, that there mull have been a confederate, though it did not politively appear who the confederate was. The indiament laid the burglary, in one of the counts, as from the infide. From the evidence of William Harris, the groom, it appeared that he had accompanied the cook, fince deceafed, on the Sunday evening after the robbery. to Tenant's houfe, in the Borough, for the purpo'e of obtaining from him a note of hand, for Come mo ney (he had lent him towards opening his public houfe; and that Tenant accompanied him back t" his mailer's houfe, and was (hewn by him int. , the office, where he examined the defk, and laid none but horrid villains could do fuch an acts. Harris re turned with him again, and the prifoner, on reading the account of the robbery, feemed much agitated, and frequently went in and out of the room, in con• Infirm, laying there was a thief in his houfe. John Jarrat, a Serjeant in the toth Regiment, who lodged in the painter's houfe, Paid, that on the sth of November the prifoner was at home in his own houfe till twelve o'clock, and then went out, and d d DRAMATIS reasoag. Norval Carain R A DIM. V., COldrtrtairl GAM& not return again until near fi ve in the morning. Jar- Lord Randolph, Mr. GROWL. Royal marines. rat was kept awake in his bed from one o'clock tll co..ne 0-1. Mr. Do v LE, Cohlftrant Uuarda the prifooer's return, by the noife made by the p Nona' Dr. SO/ARMS. Staff. toner's mother and wife, who were crying and It- Lady Randolph, Mrs. I.iTCIUI LU. of the Theatre Royal menting at his (laying out, and expreffed their fears Covoit Giirarn. A na, Mr. Lowe° NI. that he was taken or raked. He next morning told Ths: Farce was T Prize; t he tharaCtersits follow the prifoner of this circumstance ; but he answered l.rriofvr , Cdplatn 1311ADDYLL, Coldftrearn Guards, they were apt to be alarmed without route, and that Lahti, Mr. 07Y LI. Cold ftream Gear& he had only met with a young man who had taken cedie• Pr : , 011/.4kas,titaff. him to a dance, which kept him out. Jarratt con- I . l 'r b t a "‘ ll ' 1 4 .1 r. FARMER, ItoyAlMarincr. Mr.. AI CO r. tinned in the bode until the pi ifoner was taken up ; M b r.. C.ohlr, 1... W : on. and about two days after, he remembered the wife And Caroline, Mr.. Dowrov. to be abfent from home two days; the laid, nn her TUN/MIDGE W1 , L1.3.-..- . 11119 romantic and healthy return, the had been to fee fo:ne friends at Want . - (pot has been this year as much favoured by lifbion, as by nature ; the feats was uncommonly brilli ant , worth, but the appeared to have been a greater dif tance, for the was much fatigued, wet, and feemed and (till retains lustre in that refpea, as many eople to have travelled all night. of fafhion have (pent their Chrittmas there. P. A Bill of Exchange for 3601. ore of thole Rosen, and flippers for the young and gay have been varions, was now produced, and a Mr. Hadieigh, who is a and the pleafant dinners and patties given by the el.g int Mrs. CHArLIN, are much liked, who h as bookfeller, flationer, and filverdealer, at Farnham, in Surrey, proved that this note had been tendered ft Cot much time there, her hand is open to the poor, to him in negotiation, on the 13th of November, by and her table to the fenfible. Mrs. BYNO'S parties the prifoner's wife, who at the lame time, purchafed are the ton, and her dinners numerous: in (port fa. from him fome falt-fpoons, which falt-fpoons had been ciabilny and fociety, are to be found at the Wells, found in the trunk before-mentioned, and being now the libraries are the lounge of a morning, where produced, were identified by Mr. Hadleigh• good fifes, the newfpapers daily, and recent publica. A Bank-note of tot. was next produced, and proved tions, are to be found. by David Thomas, Clerk to a Mr. Tavel, linen-dra- On Tuefday, as a chariot, with two ladi es i n i t , w a s per, in the Borough, to have been puffed to him, on driving down Holborn, the foot•bo ar d gyve way, the 6th of November, by the prifoner's wife. This and_ the coachman was precipitated acrol s s h e p o l e . note was afterwards traced thi ought above a dozen Tire poor fellow was In extremely frightened, that other hands, into the Bank, where it was flopped, as he could not curb the !tortes, though he held the the number had been given in by Mr. Shawe. reins in his hand, in confequence of which they ran The next material evidence produced was two let- off full f P eed, the uttering ladies the molt piteous tars, fucceffively written by the prifoner lance his ap (bricks, until the horfes were fortunately fir pp d a t prehenfion and commitment, and dated from New- the bottom of Holborn hill. The 11:v1:it behind e the gate, addreffed to Mr. Benjamin Samuel, in Spiral. carriage, in attempting to get off, had one of his legs lace . rssted in a molt dreadful manner, hut the ladies fields, one of which was on 'l'hurfday given op to Mr. Nalder, the City Mar (bal. There letters were to de and the coachman received no perfonal injury. fire Samuel to attend as a witnefs for the prifoner : An old oracular .12yi,Inun., who has got t h e appel &it before the LORD MAYOR, and afterwards upon lation of " Tadee L'OTTI the frequent uf e o f his trial, and to fwear that he Samuel, was in the houfe of the prifoner about eight at night on the 6th the term in his ordinary eserverfation, wa s h ear d to addrefs, the t;.er even:llg, a large comp an y o f hi s Take no t i ce , of November, and law two men come into the room acquaintance in the following ilile :—r 'where he was, and give the prifoner a canvas bag, like a (mall (hot bag, which they defireslhim to keep, Geatlem.n, that BONAPAR rE will link as rapidly as and they would call for it when they wanted it : that he role. Take no:tee, that Ile cks will be very little one of thole men was a groom, whom he heard th e affected by a Spanifir var ; but above all, take no prifoner call William Haiti., and tile other a font- tire, my friends, that on the 2Foli infant commences man, who wore his hair powdered, whom he called one of the richelt, moll attraltive, and heft confirat. h William, but did not remember his fecond name (tx- ed fe emes of a Lottery, ever known i n t h e anna l s atlly refembling the groom and footman who then of Fortune's Wheel." , lived with Mr. Shawe, and who appeared this day No. z 6, COINHILL. — HORNSBY and Co. beg leave as witnelfcs) ; and for fwcaring this, hE ptomiled Sa- to app: ize thc;r numerous Friends and the P re nli c , mud any reward he requited. Samuel proved h;s that me fate of Tickets and Shares in the efevit Lot.. having had fome conversation with the prifoner(ince tery, which begins drawing the 28th irritant is fu very his apprehention, and previoufly to his receiving great that is there little doubt but that, d ie 25,0 , 0 thofe letters ; and they were not denied to be the per- ricketa will be finally difpofed of. Ho:case? and Co. Toner's handwriting. therefore, recommend an early purcleale to thofe who This was4he firm of the evidence upon the cafe ; purpofe adventuring, lett by d•la..y they may b e dip the prifoner 'made no defence ; and the Court, after appointed of obtaining a chance, f or the grand Prizes recapitulating the tellimony, left the Jury to their which the Scheme contain .--N. B. Orders by letter conclusions, who, after retiring tome contiderable 91 carrier executed exa(tly cn the lame terms as if time, returned a verdia of—Guilty. Death. prefent. Ali Prix s wlealb ee o f 20L or 2500,21. paid Pin Hollis was capitally indif:ed for, returning , on demand. It appeared that the prifoner had been conviEtzd of felony on the 26th Oetober, 1803. and fontenred to feven years tracfportati•m. In M reit, 1804. he was put on board the hulk at Woolwich, and then received his Majelly's pardon, on condition of frrv ing in the nary until duly difcharged. In the month of November iall, he was ken at large in the neigh bourhood cf Ilolborn, by one of the police of f icers, who, immedia:ely recolleding him, took him into cußody. At the time he was apprehended, he was in the company of a woman of the town, who had been Once cnnvided of a felony and tranfported. The nrifoner, when called upon for his defence, Rated, that he had been permitted to go on (bore by his officers, and he did not know be was guilty of any thing improper in In doing. The Jury found him—Guilty. jobs Silk was capitally convilled of burglarioufly breaking into the houfe of Charles Taylor, and Peal ing thereout fourteen pounds of tea and other ar ticles. This man was capitally convided of a felony on a Former feffions. Mary yealinr, indi.ted for having a two pound Bank of England note in l her poffefflon, knowing the fame to be forged, moved the Court, by Mr. Az.isv, her Coonfel, that her trial f h ould be put off until the next Setrions ; the motion was grounded on the ab. fence of three material witneffes, and becaufe flu was not allowed to communicate with her friends until Saturday Intl, and had not got poffellion of her books until Thurfiay. Ordered by the Court to (Landover till the firlt day of next Seflions. Five were convißed of felonies, viz. J. \Valor!, for itealing a pair of breeches, the pro perty of W. Page ; T. Kearney, for healing peWter poi, the property of A. Miller, &c. ; Martha Need ham, for tie.liing a piece of calico, the property of J. Teafdale ; Margmet Sullivan, for healing a grid. iron, the property of Mary Jones ; T. Young, for healing an ox's head, the property of T. Ovington ; and three were acquitted. The Earl of St. VINCENT was fo much indifpored with the gout, yeflerday, AS to keep the bottle.— The Conntefs, we are happy to inform her friends, has arrived in town in perfect health, with the inten tion of paying her compliments to the Qtssw, on her MAJISTY'S birth-day. The remains of the late Earl of Rosssyw were ytc itrday removed from Slough to the Foundling, for interment this evening, in the vault of St. Paul's Cathedral. They will he depofited between the re mains of Sir Jos tt us REYNOLDS and the philanthro pic Mr. HOWARD. The Amateur Theatrical Performances at Ro. the lad Wednefday, were attended by a very :"plendid, elegant, and numerous audience. Epee ,ation was fo firongly excited, that aU the places in the Theatre were let at double price, and even the gallery was Cs. The whole of the performers acquitted themfelvei very ably in the play and farce, but particularly Capt. BRADDYLL and Mr. DOYLE. The performance was for the benefit of the Poor, and the Play was Dowg.w. For the gratification of our theatrical readers, we fubjoin the