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~; i 1, 1 If t i, 1 .11 14 ; 1 I. THE SUPPOSED PERPETRATOR QF THE MURDERS AT IVOUOVICIi At an early hour on Thursday morning, the inha bitints of Woolwich were on the alert, in the expec tation that the supposed murderer would soon arrive. Ee , reral i . :rsous went oa the road to meet him, and others took th..:ir station in those directions where they thought it was most probable they would have an opportunity of seeing him. Many false alarms were given, and much mortiticatian was in conse quence experienced. At last, about eleven o'clock, .Ridout; the High Conrtable, and the two Mr. Jacksons, came down by the first Woolwich coach. The former immediately proceeded to the Castle Tavern, at which the Bench of Magistrates were ex pected to be assembled. These Gentlemen had not -yet come, and Mr. Ridnut went to Dr. Watson's house, and reported that the prisoner would-not arrive before six in the evening. The secrecy which was observed with respect to this communication, had the effect of keeping a crowd assembled in front, of the Castle Tavern the whole of the-day, which, as . the evening approached, became still greater. The Justice-romo was crowded the whole morning. • At six o'clock, the Rev. Dr. WATSON and Mr.: V:EBB took their seats, and in a quarter of an hour afterwards, loud shouts announced the approach of the prisoner. In a few minutes the chaise was driven up to the door with great difficulty, and a passage was Made by the Constables. The prisoner now seemed sinking under the weight of his feelings, and it became almost necessary to carry him up stairs.— He was conducted into a back room, to afford him • an opportunity of collecting himself. He was scarcely able to hold up his head, until relieved by a . flood of tears. Ile said he could not bear the shouts of the' people. At his own ir luest, the handcuffs were then taken from his wrists, and he was furnished with a glass Rf rum and water. The wounds on his head, received at Portsmouth, were visible, and ap peared to have bcen carefully dressed. He is a man about thirty-e Wit }ears of age, about five feet eight inches in height, dark comrlexion and eves, and his features, although irregular, nut displeasing. He speaks with the Irish accent, being a native of Ar- ! snag)). IL.. said he had been fourteen years in . the King's service. • At a quarter before seven, the Magistrates directed that the ? risoner should be brought before them.— This order, hi consequence of the immense mass of spectators collected on the stairs, was with difficulty obeyed, and the prisoner was led to the bar by Mr. Hunt and Mr. Hill. His countenance was flushed, and he did not venture to look round. Dr. AV A'A'SO N.—Who is th!, nun? Mr. name i> Ja:nes Nisbet : and I bring him here 3mder the Authority of Mr. CARTER, a Magistrate of the Bo bough of Portsninuth, upon sJ;picion If having been concerned in the crimes of murder, arson, ar,dis,:rglary, in this County. Dr. W.cisotr.—Who are you ? Nr. ar:. jailor of the prison of the Borough of Portsmouth, and I atn the bearer of a letter to Mr. Stace, a ALgistrate of thi. town, explanatory of the circumstances under which appear before you. Dr. Warsox.—Mr. Stace is not present, but we are autho rised, in his absence, to open any later connected with his Ma gisterial duties. Produce the letter. Hrs r handed in the letter, and it was read by Dr. Wat son. It simply stated that the prisoner, James Nesbet, having jean apprehended in the Borough of Portsmouth, upon suspi cion of murdvr and 7 - irson, committed in the County of Kent, underwent several exami , :ztlons, and several depositions were taken, which confirmed the suspicion against him. Under these circumsta-tces, the Magistrate before whom be had been brought (Mr. Carter), felt it his duty to send him to the local Authorities where the crime bad been committed, to be dealt ♦rith as they might think fit : he bad also intrusted to his Offi cers, Messrs. Hunt and Hill, copies of the depositions which bad been taken before him. Dr. WATSO.—Have you sot the depositions to which this letter refers? Mr. HVIZT.—I have: they are here. The depositions were handed to Mr. Moore, the Clerk of the Magistrates, to be read. Mr. Moore immediately read them. They were in substance as fullows : - DEPOSITIONS TAKEN AT PORTSMOUTH, SITGAS LDWAILD CAIIITZT4 ISQ. Anne Kirby deposed,. that about the beginning of! the month of December last, she first became ac. quainted with James Nesbet; he introduced himself to her by the name of Watson, and stated, that he hal seduced a young Lady in London, and was obliged to leave that place on account of it, for she was in a very superior situation his own, and he was afraid to meet her friends. He continued with deponent, on that occasion, not more than half an hour; on taking his leave, he said he had lodgings at.Southsea. It was at that time about one o'clock in the afternoon. That about eight o'clock the same evening Nesbet came to her lodgings, aid asked her to take a glass of grog with him; she consented, and went with him to the Red Lion public-house for that purpose. He was accompanied by a young man, whom he called his nephew, and also by a girl about fourteen years of age. Nesbet afterwards asked her if he could stop with her till the packet for Havre de-grace sailed? to which she assented, and he re-, mained with her till the afternoon of the Monday, following, when he went away. She did not see him again till about seven weeks ago. His nephew, William Difley, called on him several times at wit ness's lodgings previous to his going to Havre-de- Grace; and he desired him to go to the packet-house and ask if there were any passengers who had come from London? as he was afraid of the friends of the young Lady whom he had seduced ; Diffey made the inqui: y, and there were no such passengers. Nesbet had no trunks at her lodgings, all the time he Was with her, and was very cautious lest he should be seen; he never went out in the day-time. About seven weeks ago, as she before stated, she ag,ain saw Nesbet; he was in the stage-box in Portsmouth Theatre, with a young Lady, whom he afterwards told witness he had brought from Havre-de-Grace. It was on Friday he appeared in the Theatre, but witness di:l no: speak to him that right. He called a: her lodgings next day, and then he told her about the young Lady, and furtir;:r said, he had promised h-r marriage. and that her name was Butler ; that she had two brr.i:ers, who were artornies S)utbanspton, and a sister, mar ried to a Mr. Booth, in Londe::. At this time, Nesbet was 6re;sed in nearly the same clsteme which ls..t wor e when he f-it saw her, having a close blue body coat and a blue great cast. Instead of the hat he wore before, however, he now wore a -ea:-skia cap, with a vld baud to it. He had a tuck suck 'with him, the same be had when she first saw him. He re mairild at Portsmouth, on this occasion, about three weeks, and oocPsionally ca` :A iu to s'.:e witness. He called on her about a 'fortnight after she bad first seen him at the Theatre, and told hr t. 13.. he 1113 s!nt his companion (the young Lady) to her Iri:ndrat 3wthaatir.o.z; a:ld ft-um his visit; to vo itLess she knew • i Iv? stopped in Portsmouth a week after that time. On several of his visits to her, he shewed her a brace of loaded pistols, which; he said, he always carried about with him. She recollected that the present King was proclaimed on the Thursday following the Friday on which she saw Nesbet. He said he expected a letter requiring him to go to London to receive some cash, and he went away from Portsmouth for that purpose. Witness believed he was absent at this time about three weeks. The next time she saw him was on Saturday, the 4th of - March, about eight o'clock in the. evening, having, as he said, arrived at Portsmouth by the coach, from London. Ile was dressed nearly the same as before, only wearing a hat instead of a cap.. She went to drink withl him, avid he th:n said he was going to see his nephew William. Ile joined her in half an hour afterwards, and they went together to the lied Lion public-house, where they slept. The neat morning an old barrow-m.en came, whom witness knew Neshet to have employed before. Nesbet took out a £lO note, and desired him to take it to Mr. Coles, on the Point, where he had before lodged, and pay him £4 15s. which Nesbet said he owed him; he also desired him to fetch his trunk from thence. The barrow.man went away accordingly. During his absence, Nesbet's nephew came. The barrow-man came back with the trunk, x , hich was a large hair one, and Nesbet desired him to l l carry it up to his room. This be did, and witness, Nesbet, and his nephew, followed him. After the barrow-man had gone down, Nesbet desired witness to follow him, and bring up two' glasses of grog for him and his nephew, and to fetch also a pen and ink. She complied with this request, and, by Nesbet's de sire, she left him and his nephew alone. In half an hour Nea bet and his nephew came down, and she saw the latter put a letter in the crown of his hat, which Nesbet desired him to make baste and put into the Post Office; witness slept with Nesbet the three following nights, but did net continue with him in the day-time. Ile did not appear to be so apprehensive of being seen as he did on the former occasions to which she alluded. During the four nights she had slept with him at the Red Lion public-house, he appeared restless, and was scarcely able to sleep. When he did go off to sleep, he appeared to be moth alarmed by dreams, and several times soddenly awoke, and has tily rising in the bed, caught hold of her, crying out—" What's that? what's that ?" as if something dreadful appeared to him., In consequence of this behaviour of Nesbet, she declined sleep ing with him any more, and left him for three or four nights. He, however, afterwards prevailed on her to sleep with him again ; he entreated her to comply with his request, for he could not sleep alone, and made her several presents by way of induce ment. She at length complied, and slept with him several nights afterwards, but not every night. Ills conduct and alarms were just the sante as before described ; and on one occasion, he said he could tell her a secret, but he did not dare, for that he had trusted her with too much already. She was therefore in quisitive, and desired to know the secret he alluded to; upon which, after making her promise not to divulge it, he stated that he had killed two men and a woman, but that the met he had killed in duels. Witness asked Edna how ire had killed the wo man? hut he refused to tell the particulars, observing only, that he struckler, and enjoined witness not to ask any more about her. When dreaming, he often called out some woman's name, either Betsy or Sally. In the course of conversation, in his last visit to Portsmouth, Nesbet told her, that the Friday night he came away from a place 15 miles the other side of London to come to Portsmouth, he sat up all the night with a lot of his ac quaintance, drinking and carousing at some public-house there. That in the morning, when he looked at his watch, he found it was six o'clock, when he and another man took a horse each, and rode to Mousehill, where they took coach, and came down to Portsmouth. Ile denied to witness that be had a wife, but said he kept a woman at Woolwich, by whom he had six children. Edward Hunt, the Keeper of his Majesty's Jail of Portsmouth, deposed, that having some suspicion that the prisoner Nesbet had murdered Mr. Parker and his servant, he, accompanied by Thomas Hill, one of the Constables of the Borough (by order of Edward Carter, Esq.) about eleven o'clock on the night of the 23d of March, went to the Red Lion public-house, with the intention of apprehending him. Ile had seen him re peatedly before, and knew that he went by the name of Wat son. On going into the public-house, Hill followed him. He found the prisoner in a parlour adjoining the bar, and, on enter tering the room, he was sitting on a seat opposite the door. The moment witness made his appearance, the prisoner took a pistol from one of his waistcoat pockets, and, on presenting it towards witness, he sprang upon him, and seized the pistol. A struggle followed, and Hill immediately afforded his assistance towards securing the prisoner. Whilst struggling, the prisoner let go the pistol which witness held, when witness was thrown some distance, but Hill continued to hold the prisoner. Witness im mediately got up, and observed that the prisoner had got ano ther pistol in his hand. Witness joined Hill forthwith, and with the assistance of Heath, the landlord, the prisoner was finally ,secured. The pistols were afterwards examined, and found loaded to the muzzles. After they had overcome the prisoner, he was handcuffed and searched. Hill took some keys out of his pocket, and handed them over to witness ; there were three in number, small keys • witness afterwards went to the pri soner's room, and found there a large hair trunk, which he opened with one of the keys found in the prisoner's pocket; in the hair trunk he found a small red box, which he opened with the smallest of the keys found in the prisoner's pocket. After having viewed the contents, witness shut and locked these boxes, and carried them away with him. The prisoner was afterwards taken before Mr. Car ter, and was committed, and had since de clared the hair trunk, the red box, and their contents, to be his (without threat or promise). He also requested to be furnished I with an inventory of the same. On examining the trunk and J red box, the contents of the latter were found to be one pair of old fashioned silver sugar-tongs, marked M. H. one silver sauce ladle; two table, and six tea-spoons, which appeared to be plated and new; a gold watch, with a tortoiseshell case (maker's name, James Vick, London), and various gold rings, neck laces, ear-r.np, brooches, pins, and ornaments of different de scriptions, and several knee-buckles. In the hair trunk there was a child's silver coral, with the mark filed out; a small file, which appeared to have been used in filing silv.2r, and cor• responding with the marks made with the file on the coral; se veral pairs of boots, and other articles of wearing apparel. The prisoner said he bought the red box in High4treet, Portsmouth. Teomas Hill corroborated the testimony of the last witness, and added, that he had taken from the prisoner's person one metal watch, maker's name " Jno. Sampson, I.ondon, No. 538; with a gold chain, a gold seal, and a metal key attached to it.— One gold seal, with T. P. engraved on it; one gold ring, with a diamond in the centre; one gold breast-pin • and two plain rings, one of which appears to be gold, the o ther metal; one pair of silver spectacles, one silk purse, with steel springs, one powder flask, containing gunpowder and leaden bullets, seven Bank of England notes for one pound each, and nine banker's notes for one pound each, of the firm of Grabt and Co. Puts mouth. Witness further said, that on the evening of the pri soner's apprehension, he charged him with being concerned in the murder of Mr. Parker, of Woolwich, and his house keeper, to which he replied, " Sir, you know but little about that yet, but . you will know a great deal more." Witness was also present when the prisoner claimed the property in the trunk and red box as his. Joseph /risk of POrtsmoutb, watchmaker, deposed that he knew the person of the prisoner; he saw him on the loth. of March, when be left with him a repeating watch, having an embossed outside case, to be cleaned and repaired. The priso ner said, " I am going to France, and must have it.on Sunday ;" witness cleaned the watch, but did not repair it. The prisoner called on the Itlontlay morning, and received the watch back, and paid witness for cleaning it. He then asked witness the value of it, witness told bins he considered it not worth more than five pounds in its then state. The prisoner expressed his surprise, and said, " Is it not gold then?" Witness answered, " No; I thought it was gold when you first left it with mc." The prisoner replied, " I thought it was gold : it has been in my family upwards of 100 years ;" and he added, " it was given to me by my uncle, or left me by my uncle." 1111 then left the shop. He called again the same day, and said the watch had stopped, and he would leave it with witness three or Mut days. He left it, but called again and received it. Witness had since seen in the possession of Barnard Solomon, of St. Mary-street, Portsmouth, the vine witch. Barnard Solomon deposed that be also knew the prisoner. Ou Wednesday, the 91 0 . d of March, he called at his shop, and ' produced a repeating watch, which he said was a gold one, and he wished to sell it. Witness examined the watch, .and found I the outiide case to be silver gilt, and the inside box he con. sidered to be gold. The prisoner asked ten guineas for it, but witness said be would not give more than ,65, which he con-- sidered the utmost value of it. The prisoner persisted it was gold, and said it bclongrd to its deceased father. and had been a great many years in the family, and that his father was $4 ' years old whta h.: died ; that he himself lived at Paris, and had' to use for it, and tbe:afore should stli it.- He Oldie had also: soniebld elite and silver spoons at home' (the Ceoree Inn), and then took the watch, and went away with it. Lie returned the next day, and brought the watch, together with six or seven silver table-spoons, and about as many silver tea-spoons,, several having marks upon them; witness purchased the wisole far ,eft. 6s e Gd. : witness sold the spoons to one Ezikiel Emanuel, but he got back three of the table-spoons, two of tlwm marked W. M. P. anii the other T. P. M. and alio four of the tea-spoons each of them marked 'l'. P. M. which were then in witness's possession. The prisoner afterwards acknowledged in witness's presence that he had sold the articles in question ; witness also had the watch in his possession. The prisoner said, when he sold the spoons and Watch, that his father's name was James Page, which induced the witness to believe the plate was fa mily plate. Thomas Jackson, of Walthamstow, in the county of Essex, watch-maker, deposed, that about 26 years ago he intermarried with his present wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Parker, jewel ler, who then lived in Wilderness-row, Goswell street, London. Lre had then been acquainted with Mr. Parker about nine months, and from that time till his death in March last, he had been on intimate and friendly terms with him. That about 24 years ago the said Thomas Park er retired from business, and went to Woolwich, and took up his residence in a house situate in Mulgrave-place, in which he continued to reside up to the time of his death ; that witness and his family were in the habit of visiting Mr. Parker at Woolwich, three or four times a-year; the last visit witness paid to him was at Christmas last ; that about seven years previous to his death Mr. Parker kept a ser vant, named Sarah Brown, and she was the only person v±ho inhabited the house besides Mr. Parker; that from frequent visits, anchhabits of confidence, witness became acquainted with some of the articles which helot:gal to him ; that Mr. Parker more than once had intrusted hint to repair a metal watch, maker's name Sampson; That witnessehet day had seen the same watch in the.possession of Thomas Hill, the constable, and that le was positive it was the same he had so repaired, and that the same was the property of the deceased. Witness had also seen Li the possession of the said Thomas Hill, a pair of sliver mounted spectacles, in s. red ease, which be had no doubt was also the property of Mr. Parker. That witness had also seen, in the possession of Edward Hunt, a pair of silver tongs, marked M.H. a silver sauce-ladle, and a quantity of jewellery ; that he can speak positively to the sugar-tongs, whicn he had repeatedly seen, and which was remarkable lions its old fashioned form, and that he verily believed the other articles were also the pro perty of Mr. Parker. He had also seen, in the possession of Barnard Solomon, throe table-spoons, marked T. M.P. which he was likewise quite sure were the property of Mr. Parker. Ile knew them as well by using them, as by the marks. That on the morning of the 4th.of March he was apprized, by a messen ger, that Mr. Parker and his housekeeper were murdered at Woolwich, and he immediately proceeded to that place. On entering Mr. Parker's house he found that the same had been set on fire in three different plates ; that the drawers had been drawn out and searched, and the remains of Mr. Parker and his servant were laid on a table, and covered with a sheet, whiCh circumstances4led witness to believe that they had been mur dered, and that the house had beets robbed and set fire to liy the perpetrator or perpetrators of such murder and robbery. John Jackson, the son of the last witness, deposed that he had frequently been at his grandfather's, and that day saw in the possession of Barnard Solomon, a gAd repeating watch and four silver tea spoons, the latter marked T. M. P. that he had also seen in the possession of T. Hill a metal watch, maker's name Sampson ; and -had likewise seen in the possession of •E. Hunt a pair of silver sugar tongs, marked M. H. which several arti cles were the property of his said deceased grandfather. He had often had the said articles in his possessidn in the lifetime of his grandfather, and from their peculiarity, and the attention he had paid to their make and the marks 'on them, he was enabled positively-to identify them. It further appears, and evidence to that effect is ready to be produced, that on the 19th of February the prisoner borrowed of Cole, his landlord, the means of carrying him to London, and that on the sth of March he returned with plenty of money. The nephew of the prisoner will also prove, that his uncle told him on the S;h of March, that hehad just come from Wool wich, although, when apprehended, he told Hill, the officer, he had not been there for four months. Dr. WsrsoN.—Are there arty other witnesses present to give oral testimony with respect to the charge preferred against the prisoner, in addition to the depositienswhich have been just read? It may be necessary here to state, that the Magistrates were already in possession of a great volume of evidence taken by them immediately after the discovery of the murder. This went to explain all the circumstances connected with the first discovery of the fire in Mr. Parker's house—the subsequent discovery of the half-consumed bodies of' Mr. Parker and his housekeeper—the state of the premises, and a description of the property lest. There was also the testimony of some persons who had seen •Nesbet in Woolwich just before the murder—it was suspected on the day on which he arrived from Portsmouth. —These persons accounted for their not stating this fact before, from their disinclination to be considered informers against a man whose life they might, by such means, be instrumental in sacrificing.—No person ha ving answered Dr. Watson's inquiry, he immediately addressed the prisoner, who had been permitted to sit while the Portsmouth depositions Were read, and who had kept his head reclined against the bar, and said, the next step would be for the prisoner to say anything which he pleased, and which the clerk would write down. There was no compulsion, however—he was it s liberty to speak or not, as he thought pro per. Let the prisoner say anything he wishes to inform us of. Nesbet now stood up, and, with his eyes cast towards the ground, said, " The depositions are all right, except that of the girl, and she has sworn false ; sht knows. that it was a £5, and not a £lO note I gave to pay Mr. Cole. I have nothing to -say about anything else; but I can bring plenty of people to snake their affidavit that what she has sworn is false." Dr.WArsor4.-If yen are able to do this, it will be very valu able testimony on your triad. The worthy Magistrate then consulted with Mr. Wm, and it was resolved to commit the prisoner forthwith, upon the de positions which bad been takes, to 11aidstone gaol. Mr. Jackson was then called, and having answered, he ac knowledged that he had signed the deposition bearing his name, at Portsmouth. Dr. Wserson.—lt will be recessary that we have Messrs. Diffey and Crawford. Nesbet now again stood up, and in some agitation said, you need not send for any person ; nobody in Woolwich knows any thing at all about my doings. Dr. WATSON.—'!'here are persons 41 Woolwich who know something of your transactions lately. Nesbet.—You have no reason to call for them, for they know nothing of me since I ran away from Bampton (the Constable from whom he escaped in - Ashall's cue). Nobody knows any thing of•my doings but myself; and it is hard they should suffer for me. Neither my own fimily nor anybody else know any thing of what I have done; anything I did myself I'll stand by it. Dr. Watson, was then proceeding to make some farther ob servations, when Nesbet said—May I speak again ? Dr. WATSON.—Certainly. Nesbet.—The.woman that swore against me at Portsmouth is a common prostitute, and it is bard her affidavit should be taken against me ; it was all through vezanon,becattse she lost a fancy man through mo. Dr. Wsrsox.—To all these facts it will be important for you to produce witnesses on your triaL Mr. Jackson was then bounti over in a recognizance of £5O, to prosecute the prisoner for the treble crime of murder, an"on, and burglary; and in another sum of vCSO, to arniwcr for the amt.:trance bf his son, who is a minor, to attend and give dente on the trial. _ _ Nesbet begged to know if he might have the money and wearing apparel which had been taken from him? Dr. WA4.OON said, that whatever was riot necessary to be pro ducej in evidence should be given to him. In the interim he should he provided with everything necessary. NeAnt said, he was only anxious, if anything should happen to him, that his wife should have his property. The prisoner was then reconducted to the rootit fromwltence he had been brought. lie was much agitateti. He said to a Gentleman who entered into conversation with him, that he knew the property to be Squire Parker's ; but he bought it from three felluws. He had nothing to do with what was alleged against him. The Gentleman said, that it would be most fortunate for him if he could prove the truth of this statement. Some of the other witnesses who were present in the Justice:- room wcre subsequently bound over to give, evidence on Mr Among those was Mr. Patten, the surgeon, who declares the wounds visible. on the persons Of Mc. Parker and his housn keeper might have been inflicted by one mid the saute instru ment, and by one and the sane . hand. Duriug all these preocectliep d . in -front.of • continued to increase, and at kngth became Se Oppressive ' m 1... a guard of artillery so:diers was called out to preserve ord e r. hlr. iiidout finding there was no cli..nce of the populace di .. persing while the prisoner remained, he resolved to remove st once to the watch-house., whole every necessary accommod... tion was provided for him. The handcuffs were then put ape• his wrists, and he was conducted on foot to his place of confine. 'meat he was guarded both by a civil and eniatary force, was followed by the crowd it an overwheltniug mass, seal w e s with great diaculty safely lodged iu prison. It WU a L . ... , hour before "the throng •clispersed. Then all 11 , as quiet, Mr. Moore, the Clerk of the Magistrates, called a! the warch-houst, to see that every necessary precaution had been adepted. 11.• prisoner recognized him, and a:id he was innocent of what wa. laid to histharge. Mr. Moore said he should be most happy if he was able to prove his words. Nesbet then said, that he should not' be in llsidstor.e three weeks. Mr. Moore asked what be meant ? and remitded him ft..; the offence imputed to him was not bailable. Nesbet said, he knew that, but he would write to Mr. Moore within three weeks, and make some disclosures which wool'. astonish hint; and at the same time prove his own hinocenoc. Mr. Moore sincerely hoped this might be case, and left him, During thenight Mr. Itidout, Campion,and Bampton, remairw,: with the prlsoner. affording him every refreshment he required . Having expressed a strong desire to see his family btfure went to prison, Dr. Watson humanely deterinintd to gratffy ;um : and as he was to set off for Maidstone on the ensuing morning, at seven o'clock, he desired that his family might at tend at his Louse at that hour, fur the purpose of haviaig an interview. • They all attended at the time apro:nted. Mrs. Nesbct, vOlo Is a food-looking woman, bearing an eacdlent character ' did 7.et seem so sensibly affected by the situation of her husband as miiht have beer. anticipated. The children were all dissolved in an ager y of grief, and the prisocer I.. 4 insslf was gre.aily affected. Soon after this tneetir.g he set of in a pcst-chnise, accompa nied by the High Constaltle, Carakisn aid Hampton, fbr "vtaid stone, where he safely arrived i.i the middle of th. day, and was dehvered, with proper precautakm, to the gaoler. In takirs lecre of Mr. Ridout he wa: mud:if 4itated, and prorui.ed to write to him at Weawiel. Unremitting zeal ihts been displayed by Dr. 'Watson, &ace, and Mr. Webb, throughout the whole of their pa'nful duties. The property which h.:a devolved upon lir. Jackson, it is said, exceeds sEIS,CGO. CLERICAL INTELLIGRACE. OXFORD, APRIL 2. In a full Convocation holden on Thursday, it tens d -creed, for the purpose of recording the Eratelul sense enler:l_Lied by the University of the many acts o: favour and mu ifice.: vhich his Majesty has biten gzaciously pleased to confer upt i!, that a Term should be granted, to be considered and cu,.. :r .a sta tutably kept fur any one Degree for which the Cand.d,[e may wish to claim it, to all those who were actual Member of the University on the 2!lth of Jativary, being the day of kis Ma jesty's Accession to the Throne. The Rev. Joseph Bardgett, M.A. of Merton College, is al pointed Proctor in the Vice. Chancellor's Coutt. March 22, the Rev. T. Loveday; M.A. Veneer, of Magda'...-1 College, was admitted Bachelur in Divinity. March 27, the last day of Lent Term, the following Degrees were conferred: MASTERS OT ARTS. Rev. Archibald Charles Henry Morrison, Wails= Colley. Augustus Astill Colville, Student of Christ Church. Frederick Dawson, of Oriel College. The whole number of Degrees in Lent Term was--DD. three ; D. Med. three ; li. D. ten ; M.A. incorp. one; Y.. 1. twenty; B.A. thirty-four. Ihterminers, one hundred ant ninety-nine. Matricula ions, one hundred and sirteeu. ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. The Rev. Samuel D'Oyky Peshall is presented to the Livint of Morton Bagot, Warwickshire._ The Rev..*. Bloomy, RA. of Catherine Hall, and the Rev. R. Bulrncr, of St. John's College, Cambridge, are elected Vitali Choral of Hereford Cathedral. The Rev. William Nelson, Curate of Over Keller, has been instituted and licensed to the perpetual Curacy of Gresoingham.. in the parish and county of Lancaster, on the ReadaidOS of the Rev. John Manby, LI. A. Vicar of Lancaster. The floating Chapel on the River Thames appears to grow in the affections of the sailors. The novelty of a floating Chapel having subsided, the people from the shore do not appear on board as formerly ; but the number of sailers, for whom the Chapel was in• tended, increases to replace them. At a village in Essex, lately, two traslesmen'e wives, who had quarrelled about precedency in the pew which they occupied, having met during Divine Service, attempted to annoy each other by directing the child of one to push and tread on the feet of the other. Patience would extend to but certain bounds: at length, as the test was announced, all feelings of religion, and respect to a place of worship, gave way to insulted pride, and a regular combat ensued•; cape were displaced, and farther violence would have oc• tuned, if the Church Clerk had not ii.terfered. This breach of decency was very properly made the subject of judicial proceedings the following morning. • BIRTHS. At Liskeatd, the wife of the Rev. E. Hoblyn, of male twins, who are NOW A.. youngest of nine children, of whom the eldest Is only ten years old ! At Cantelford, the wife of the Rev. 8. Robinson, IL•thod!st Minister, of a soo. MARRIED. Tuesday, at Braughin ' Hertfordshire, the Right lUD. Lord Kirkcudbright, to bliss Caine.. The Rev . .' F. I'. Cookson, M.A. Curate of &. Jaw's, to MIN Mary Ellen, eldest daughter of the Rev . R. Fawcett, M.. 8., Vicar of Le:rds. Thursday, Valentine a Maids, Esq. of the 78th Higblaxi Regiment to Elizabeth, seeoad daughter of 'Thomas Edward,, Esq. of Bishop's Lavingtoo. : MED. Oti the evening of Good Friday, at Hampstead Heath, is thi prime of life, the Right lion. Frances, Countess of Hantingdor : her Ladyship laid In the preceding Sunday of her teach child. . At sea, on the 6th of September last, on board•the ship Pile..., of London, bound for the Island of Ccyloo, lieutenant Robert lltint, of the Royal Engineers. Sunday se'nnight, at Sutton in Ashfield, lathe 60th leer of his age, the Rev. Thomas flurt. Wednesday, in his 80th year, rt Great Bookhatn, Suiret, iftet a residence and faithful discharge of his pastoral duties for eft, years, the Rev. Samuel Cooke, Vicar of Great Rooth:An, Rector of Cetsford, and formerly Fellow of Balliol C.4dlege, Oxford. Sunday se'nnil;itt, was found dead In his house, in Hereford, wLzre he resided :dune, aged 74, the Rev. W. Hollings. • At Setcansea, the Rev. Mr. Artderson, Master of the Frew Grammar. School in that town.. - At . Ik.l, Mrs. Elizabeth Fleetwood, relict of Keating nnt r N ; oo d. E sq . formerly Seerctary to Sir Piercy Brett, when Com— matulersitt Chief on the Mediterranean nation.. March 427, at Ilampton Court, aged 86, Mia. Phillips. itnE Vara 8, at the same place, aged 83, Mrs. Joyce Phillirs, ti s . only surviving siiters of Lord Milford. ~ Monday, at Reccles, in his 66th pas, Wililana Crowfoot, L. surgeon. . F . Monday, la London, Jane, wife of the Rev. T. liartcup. March 2, siuttlenly; of a paralytic stroke, Mr. Collin Perry, of Epping Green Farm, in Epping, aged 60 ; sad, on the i3tk [Marc" after rising apparently in pet fect health, in her e2d year; Miss Sfirah Petty, own sitter to the above. HIGH.WSTEII at LONDON BM DefirTO- Mt , i? Vt(AV7 Attain 1 • . L S 4 trtrattes after S ASlzzaPin - - - sit -- lir _ LONDO:l: Printed and published by Lid*Zastr.,Tkkitto race, Temple -Ike •-• • -• . 2 . • .• I • Li. it , 7t- 1, •,. a t— • ti IL s e a 1, h it it L- L r t 1 r. a T • e f