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1.411 V COURT OF KINO*N BENCH. OtT. 22. Tztursatutw tried neural cftnimon jut)! caysco. SAM) V. tIittLIPII. WAS an action on a bill of exchange for 431. ss. accepted by the It 1.1ia1.1. The bill was drawn by a pereon named (lark, or. the de. t.itant. It was an accommodation, bill, ard Clark got it discounted by ttitt Channot., who indorsed it to Fard. The bill having been disho. claret, t he plaintiff brought this action. 'fne defence was usury, Channon having taken no less than 131. ss. diet:mating the bill. The usury having been proved the Jury found a verdict tOr the de. fe! 11/111. DAWSON V. IIOWDEX. 'fins ration was brought to recover an account for shoeing the horses of the defendant, a coach and omnibus proprietor. A set off was pleaded, and money paid into Court. After the cause nail occupied several hours, the plaintiff obtained a verdict, with Is. damages. At the rising of the Court, a person among the auditory addressed the .1.1,1ge, expressing a desire to know why he was denied justice? Lord TENTERDEN, no doubt, suspecting the applicant to he pion tocti.ot:, said, " I do not sit here to answer questions." person then complained of injustice on the part of the Duke of Northumberland, relating to some estate in the cuuoty of Surrey, but •eased his appeal on observing his Lordship leaving the Court. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OcT. 22. vI.ARIK AND TAYLOR V. LIPSCOMB, COZENS, AND 'WIDEN. Mr. Sergeant rattily appeared as Counsel for the plaintiffs, and Mr. orge:int Wild !or Messrs. Lipscomb and Cozens, and Mr. Sergeant .tuner for Mrs. Fintlen. _ . _ This was a 3 action brought by the plaintiffs for the recovery of the won et 2011. from the defendant. , . being the value of a freight of coals shipped on board the Finden, by them, from North Shields. It ape 1 prated by the evidence produced, that a person of the name of Busher, who had induced the defendants and others to become copartners with him in the ship Findcn, that he was appointed acting partner, and in that capacity speculated in ci•als, and ultimately became a bank rupt. The Counsel the the plaintiff endeavoured to thew that the defendants were liable for the freight of coals in question. But as it could not be proved in evidence that the defendants had any cognizance whatever of the speculations of Busher ; and as it appeare in all probability, that the plaintiffs had entrusted him on his former credit, as a merchant, and that they (the plaintiffs) had no knowledge of the defembints as copartners in the transactions, it was laid down by his Lordship that, although the defendants had received their several shares of the profits of the vessels in question, they were not liable to the creditors of Busher, who had speculated without their know. ledge or authority. The Jury concurred with his Lordship, and found a verdict for the defendants. MAYOR'S COURT. rMt FMEN ♦NP VOM-FIIFE3IEN.-..711E CIIAMBiIiLAIS OF LOX DON V. RICKIRS. This action was set down to be tried on a former day, and when it was called on, Mr. Bu LTA:tett, on the part of the defendant, objected to tt•it jury as incompetent to try the issue, as a portion of the penalty sought to be recovered was for the benefit of the corporation of the city, aria the jury were freemen of London. and consequently Interested in the decision. He cited a case, " Hesketh r. Braddock," :Id Burrows, tvl7. as an authority to show that the view he took of the subject was correct. Under these circumstances, the trial was postponed, and the list sitting the Recorder directed that the point should be argued. The same objection that has been stated above was takes in the year fin. A case, " Richardson v. the Chamberlain of London," came on to be tried Mitre Sir J. W. Rose, the then Recorder, wherein Sir John Silvester, the then Common Serjeant, was counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. 3larryat was counsel for the defendant ; and on that occasion Mr. Marryat objected to the serjeant at mace as the summoning officer, and also to the jury, but the Recorder orer.ruled both objections; the jury jrcceedetl, and the plaintiff obtained a verdict, which was never at te.tiptcd to be disturbed. Mr. Br LLOCK pursued a similar course on the present occasion. He challenged the array upon the ground that the jury had been summoned by 4n officer who was a freeman, and he objected to the poll because racy were all freemen. He represented that the question of the eligi bility of freemen as jurors in a case in which their own interests were, however slightly, Ms olved, was becoming daily matter of greater interest, and ttfat the proof that individuals under other circumstances had the most remote interest in a question was an effectual bar to their testimony. Mr. MIREHOUST rose to argue in favour of the principle that free. teen were eligible as jurors, and that the participation in the produce of p.r alty, of which their share could not ?cub half a farthing a-piece, coal.: be no bar ; but The RECORDER said that if the objection raised could be deemed valid, it was not likely that those actions would have continued to be sustained under every successive recorder from the reign of James I. to the present retied ; and if it should now be held out that this action could not be tried, it must have the effect of preventing any other action from being brought upon this act of Common Council, as the Court had no power to award a jury of non-freemen. His Lordship then pro nounced the Jury of freemen to be a competent jury. WI STNIINSTER SESSIONS, OCT. 22. The Court sat at one o'clock for the purpose of disposing of the re mining business, and after a number of prisoners were discharged by proclamation. the gentlemen composing the Grand Jury were dismissed with the customary compliments. right of the gentlemen, on this intimation, handed up a statement, in which tney expressed themselves satisfied of the efficiency of the New Police, and lair. 2 .ed clearness with whi;•h they had given their evi dence. They also attributed the decrease of business to the unrelaxcd activity of the Police. The remaining gentlemen dissented from these opinions in the most unqualified manner. They deemed the New Police an unconstitutional body, as inefficient for the protection of the public as their maintenance was ex;pensive. They also censured the conduct of one or two consta bles, and expressed a hope that the system would be totally abolished, or seriously altered by Parliament. SURREY SESSIUNS-IINGSTON. °ciao. 21. John Carter, aged 22, a most tespectable.looking man, was indicted for stealing five live geese, the property of James Hannan. The prosecutor stated that he was a labouring man at Charlwood, and he had five geese, which usually lived on Charlwood Common. During the night of the 7th of September, or the morning of the Bth, they were stolen front off the Common, and he did not soo them again until the 2th, when he saw them under the care of a constable, at Mitcham. From the evidence of two constables, it appeared that they saw the prisoner driving a cart through Mitcham towards town, at six o'clock on the morning of the Bth of September. They stopped the cart, and found in it no less tnan fifty geese. eight of which were dead. The pri soner stated lie had purchased them, but he was detained, and uld mately committed for trial, a; owners were found for all the geese, which were stolen during the preceding night or early that morning. The prisoner, in his defence, declared that . he bought the geese. Several witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner a good character, and from their statements it appeared that he was a shopkeeper at 111 ertom The CHAIRMAN having summed up the evidence, the Jury instantly acquitted the prisoner. He was again placed at the bar, charged with stealing seventeen geese, the property of another person, but again acquitted. He was 'a third time put to the bar, charged with stealing sight geese, the property of John Worsfold. In this use the prosecutor was a labouring man, at Charlwood, and his geese, which were found in the prisoner's cart, were stolen from Chad wood during the night of the 7th of September, or on the morning of the Ath, snd that there were traces of cart wheels and horses' feet near his house which corresponded with the size of the prisoner's cart wheels and horses' feet ; one of the constables, named West, also stated In ad dition, that after the prisoner was committed, and while he was being conveyed to Horsemonger lane gaol, he said, if the Magistrates would admit him as a witness, he would tell who "the other two men" were. Mr. Bacon, who attended for the prisoner, cross-examined West at sonic length. Mr. Bacon.--.:Now, Mr. West, you have been a constable three years, and know the nature of oaths pretty well from being so frequently a witness at these sessions : you know you are sworn to speak the truth, and-the whole truth ?—West—Yes, and nothing but the truth. Mr. Bacon—Ah I but the whole truth will do at present : have you spoken that on the two other trials ?—West—Yes, I have, Sir. Mr. Bacon—Then how came you to say nothing until now of this coofession•made by the prisoner ?—West• —Because it did not belong to those caries._ _ Mr. Bacon—Did you ever tell the Magistrates of this conversa tion ?—tWest—No, Sir. ' • Mr. Bacon—Did you ever speak to any one of it until now 7—West-- No, I did not. • Mr. Bacon—Now I have done with you, and whenever I see your name on the back of an indictment which I may .have to defend, I shall have you out of Court while the other witnesses are under esa. urination. • The &Orman (to West) —.What character do you bear about hi helms Mr. Bacon—Oh dear, Sir, you may be sure he will not give himself a bad. chatactee. A Magistrate (we believe Sir R. Frederick) said, he knew that West was much respected in his situation, and bore a good cha. mete?. Mr. Bacon, with some warmth, thought it exceeding'' improper in any magierrate thus to volunteer his eit; in bolding up the character of a man who bod already mad. three attempts to obtain a conviction apinit this prisoner, and who nor. foe the . gat time, gave evidence to a conversation in the nature of an admission. He strongly deprecated any interference of magistrates in this way. unless they were sworn as witnesses. Vr — FR EDE RICK. lam quite ready to be sworn to the truth of my observation. The Chairman then summed up the evidence, :And the Jury, aft& tome consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty. The Chairman commented on the great cruelty practised by the pri soner in robbing poor people in this manner, of perhaps the only means they had of raising a pittance to discharge their rent. The sentence of the Court was, that he be transported for seven years. POLICE REPORTS. Stephen Bird was re-examined, charged with stealing two gold watches from the bed-mom of 3lrs. Goddard, of the Pewter Platter, in Wood-strms. The evidence which had already been taken was read over, to the effect that the prisoner, who ly..d lodged on the second floor some time, went out about eleven o'clock on the morning of the 16th, and did not return at night ; that on this night it was discovered the two watches had been stolen from Mrs. Goddard's room on the first floor, (although it was locked,) after she quitted it at seven o'clock in the morning; and that when the prisoner came home on the evening of the 19th, above 44 in gold and alive? was found on him, although he was known to have been in great distress before. lie accounted for the possession of the money, by saying he had borrowed it from a man named Wood, who had gone to Margate to get a ship to India. A shopman to Mr. Peachey. the pawnbroker, in Goswell street, de posed that a gold watch, which he produced, had been pledged with him by the prisoner on the 18th, for 61. 10s. ➢lr. Goddard identified this watch as one of those which had been stolen. _ _ I►lr. Whittaker, a pawnbroker, in Long-lane, now produced the other stolen watch, and as positively identified the prisoner as the person who pledged it with him for 41. Mr. Clamps, a pawnbroker, in Aldengate-street, then identified him as having Aired one of the swatches to him for 91. He stated that he had two gold watches, but one was all that he required. The pruoner said, eagerly, he did not tell him he had another watch. Well—(observed the Alderman), this is an admission that you offered him one. Where did you get that from ? The prisoner de clined answering. Thomas Herdsfield, the officer, produced, among other articles found on the prisoner, the meurning.ring he bad purchased at Mr. Whit. taker's. There was also a duplicate of a third gold watch, pledged on the 12th of August. The prisoner was committed for trial. Bow•sTatET.—lsaac Bet!..*, the driver of the Cambridge stage. coach, called the Times, appeared before Mr. MIN/HE'LL, to answer to a charge of furious and improper driving, contained in an information laid against him at the instance of Jeremiah Harman, Esq. the Bank Director. The Clerk having read the information to the defendant, he unhesi. tatingly declared that he was guilty. Mr. Al lIISHULL observed that, although the defendant had pleaded guilty, it would be necessary for him to have the circumstances de. tailed, in order to enable him to inflict a penalty adequate to the offence. Mr. Harman then proceeded to state that, about a week ago, as he was proceeding in his carriage between Snatesbrook and Woodford, in Essex. he observed the Times and a Walden coach racing in a most improper manner. They continued this furious speed for se. veral miles, and actually placed the lives of the passengers in im. minent peril. :Ruth coaches were crowded with passengers, and he (Mr. H.) never in his life saw so many persons so reckless of their own lives, and so indifferent about those of others. He expected every moment that one or other of the vehicles would upset, and he could only attribute their keeping their balance to the judicious manner hi which the luggage they carried was packed, for they wavered from side to side as they proceeded along in the most frightful manner. The defendant's coach upset a gig, and nearly occasioned a serious accident to the person driving it. It was not his (Mr. Herman's) wish to punish the defendant. He appeared there for the protection of his Majesty's subjects ; and if the defendant, whom he know to be a respectable man, would promise to drive with more caution in future, he would be satisfied. Mr. Mixsaim. said he hoped that the defendant had no wish to I persist in so dangerous a practice, and which might wad, perhaps, to a charge of manslaughter. The defendant said that he usually employed great care, but that, on the occasion referred to, his coach was heavily laden, and be was conse quently obliged to gallop his horses over a portion of the road that had been newly gravelled. Mr. 111trisauLL observed that the speed of stage coaches bad been increased to a most alarming and frightful degree ; but from what cause he could not conjecture. The system was highly dangerous, and therefore ought to be stopped ; and be knew of no other means of effecting that object short of the infliction of the full penalty, which he felt it his duty to enforce in the present instance. The defendant was then tined 10!. which, with the coats amounting to 10s. he paid on the sPw• Toww-HaLL.—Saruh Davie, 11 years old, was charged by her mother with robbing her of 3s. 6d. Tile parent of the girl, after cm:- merating several other petty acts of felony committed by the prisoner, said her main object in bringing her before a Magistrate, was to get her into some Penitentiary, where she might be secured from the utter destruction on which she seemed bent. Mr. Alderman ANSLIT sent her for 14 days to Brixton. LAMBETH•STREB to... Yesterday several respectable persons residing along the Commercial.road, attended before the Magistrates, Messrs. WYATT and Mazza, one of them to substantiate a charge against two females whom he had given in custody to a policeman on the pre ceding night, and the others to complain of the general and disgraceful state of disorder which was permitted to exist along that line of road, to the very great annoyance of the inhabitants, with the hope that the Ma gistrates would take some steps to its abolition. On learning that the policeman had taken the females before the Ma gistrates, and got them discharged, without having mentioned a syllable about the intention of the inhabitants of the road-side to appear against them, the parties expressed much surprise, and stated their suspicions that the policemen had lent themselves improperly to the case. The Magistrates said they recollected the females being brought be fore them, the first charge, they believed ; but the policeman had repre sented their ease to be of so slight a character, that they at once dig charged them. It would, however, have been very different, were they told that any portion of the inhabitants were about to appear against them. In that case they would have ordered their detention, and awaited the arrival of the parties making the charge. Drew, an inspector, admitted that the conduct of the policeman who had the charge was most reprehensible, and said he should repesent it to his superior officers. Several of the inhabitants complained of the disgraceful nuisance which was permitted to exist without the interference of the police, in the congregation of hundreds of women of the town along that line of road, to the very great annoyance of the inhabitants. One of the party said that, on his speaking to a policeman on the subject of the nuisance, he actually charged him with keeping a house of ill-fame. Indignant at such conduct, he went to the station-house to complain of it. He was then told, on his expressing his dislike to deprive the man of his situation, that the policeman should at once be removed to another beat ; but, notwitieunding this promise, he was still continued is the same place. The Magistrates recommended the parties to give every person who they saw offending in the slightest manner against public decency into custody, and when brought before them there, and the charge pro. pert y substantiated, they would punish them to the unmet extent of the law, and by this means they had no doubt the nuisance complained of would be shortly abated. The applicants promised to act on this suggestion, and having thanked the Magistrates for their attention, left the Office. AIARLDOROUGH•STEEET.SagIeId MOW, a policeman, C Division, No. 62, Burrews,_Mellows, and Rigleby, were charged with assault ing Mrs. Thurston, the wife of a publican, in B;oad-street, Camaby market. Mr. Henson, jun. of Bouverie-street, attended for the com plainant. It appeared by the evidence of Thomas Free and Thomas Bohn!, shopmen, and'hlrs. Thurston, that on Wednesday night, about a quarter before twelve, the three men, Burrows, Mellows, end Rigleby, came into the house of complainant, and desired to have a quartem of rum ; this was refused by reason of its being so late . • but, l after refusing to go unless they had it, it was drawn.— After they had drank it they refused to pay for it for some time ; they however, ultimately did so, but refused to quit the house : they were at length, however, got out of the house, when the police officer came up and forced his way into the house, and the men with him. Mr. Thurston, by this time, came down stairs ; and finding a disturbance, desired the policeman to take out the other three, to which he replied, " I'll be d—d if Ido ; I shall take you and your wife to the watchhouse," and immediately seised Mrs. Thurston on one side, and Burrows seized her on the Wier, dragged her to the door with an intention of taking her to the watchhouse, and tore her black silk dress. The men and policeman were, however, at length got out, when Mr. Thurston again desired Samuel Moss to take charge of the men, and he said, "You be d--d, and your charge too." Thurs ton afterwards, in proceeding to the station-house to lodge a complaint, siriej saw Moss and the other three men in Broad -street, and again !Woes to take charge, who again refused, saying, " He'd be ti- d if he would." The defendants severally denied the cluirge, and said they had been very ill-treated; but having no witnesses, Burrows and Mellows were fund 20s. Rigleby be. and Moss, the policeman, held to bail to appear at the Sesrions. ATTINPTZD BUNCILAIT.ThIIIiday two well.knowni characters, Maw Jordanand Thomas Watkins. were brought to this office by Sergeant Covington and two of his men, and charged with attempting to commit a burglary at the residence of the Earl of Chesterfield, in South Andlepstreet. A private watchman, named Bishop, stated that he was employed to watch the premises of the Bari of Chesterfield, and between ll and 12 o'clock on Wednesday night, as he was proceeding round the grounds, he beard something move. llis suspicions were awakened, and after leaving his lantern in his watch-box, he placed himself in a corner of one of the walks, but had remained in that situation only a few minutes, when he perceived two men, whc were advancing towards the spot where he stood. On their approaching him he exclaimed, " Who goes there ?" when one of the burglars replied, " A friend;" — but they instantly caught hold of him, knocked him down, and en deavoured to strangle him, both of the men leaning the whole of their weight on his body, and placing their hands round his neck and on his mouth. The witness struggled desperately, which obliged them for a moment to release his mouth, and taking advantage of the opportunity he called out, " Murder" as loud as his strength would allow him. The burglars then made off, and were nearly over the wall before he could recover himself and obtain assistance. From the fact of the men having their lingers down the throat of the witness, had he not called murder at the instant the opportunity for doing so presented itself, it was his opinion that they would have effected their purpose, as he was nearly suffocated. Mr. Roe inquired if the prisoners were the men that the witness saw in the grounds ? The watchman replied that he could not swear to the prisoners being the men, but he thought that Watkins in appearance bore some resent blance to one of the individuals who attempted his life. - - A policeman of the name of Potter was next sworn.—He stated that while on duty, between eleven and twelve on Wednesday night, he heard some one cry 1 , Murder." He immediately proceeded to the garden of the Earl of Chesterfield, and ascended the wall and called out but no one answered. On his jumping into the garden he per. ceived a man getting over the wall. He instantly pursued him, and, having come up to him in Curson.street, succeeded in securing him, when he discovered that his prisoner had neither hat nor shoes on. The other prisoner was secured wear the spot by another policeman, who, with Sergeant Covington, was proraptly in attendance on the cry of the watchman. The prisoners were searched by Inspector Clements, and on Jordan were found a phosphorus box and some pieces of wax candle. A dark lantern, a pair of shoes and a hat, were also found on the grounds of Ches terfield-house. The inspector made Watkins try on the shoes and hat, and they appeared, from the exactness of the fit, to belong to him. The worthy magistrate interrogated the prisoners very closely, but the account they gave of themselves was exceedingly unsatisfactory. neither of them being enabled to state precisely where he had resided for the last month. They were then remanded till Monday next. Woasnut-irazxx.—A person named Lefler, whose dress and Lenard appearance indicated great distress, was brought before Mr. TwirroaD. Some constables of the Pollee Division N. had observed him passing from house to house on Thursday evening in a way which appeared to them to be suspicious ; they detained him at their station for further inquiry. A gentleman informed the Magistrate that the individual before him was a man of talent, a musician, and formerly attached to the band of the Italian Opera; but his appearance was now socompletely changed, that it was difficult to know him. Mr. Leffler mentioned Rose-lane as his present place of abode, a place in which there were a number of lodging.houses, where multitudes of poor people are huddled together at the tate of a few pence per night; and having answered some questions put to him by the Magistrate, he was dis charged. TILE FIRES IN KENT AND SURREY. About ten days ago a man, named John Blakey, was apprehended at Oxted, in the county of Surrey, by a constable of that parish, on sus picion of being concerned in the fires which have lately taken place in the neighbourhood, and underwent an examination before the Magis tr.ttes in that district; at the conclusion of which he was remanded. Yesterday he was brought up for re-examination at Union Hall. In addition to Mr. Hone, there were present on the Bench Mr. Wilke, Mr. Master, and Mr. Wettbank, three Country Magistrates, who have been actively engaged in the investigation of evidence as respects the psi. toner. Several farmers residing in Kent, who have suffered by the recent acts of the incendiaries infestino that county. having heard that a man was in custody on subpieitm (lemon, attended, with a view of ascertaining whether they could identify him ns belonging to the gang; but they, one and all, declared, on seeing him, that his person was entirely un. known to them. The prisoner, it appears, was apprehended, having in his possession a bow and sonic arrows, or hollow brass tubes, which were believed capable of containing combustible materials, receipts for making which he also possessed, and by which, he said, stacks might be tired at some distance. He had likewise prophetic political pamphlets, and manu script papers of an inflammatory description, calculated, if circulated among the unthinking population, to produce dissatisfaction. On being interrogated as to his course of life by the Magistrates, before whom he was conveyed, he gave a long narration, and from which it was manifest he had for some years led a vagabond kind of life. From his represen tation, he is respectably connected, his father having been a substantial farmer, residing in the vicinity of Hawes, in Yorkshire. He has a brother, a Clergyman of the Church of England, and another brother in affluent circumstances, in the West Indies. He left his na tive village early in life, and went to live with an aunt at Lancaster, by whom he was apprenticed to a watchmaker of that town, named Dick enson. Having quarrelled with his master he ran away and entered the navy, serving from 1809 to 1812, on board a bomb-vessel, which he quitted at Cadiz, and returned to Liverpool, on board L'Orient. an American merchant ship. From that period up to the present time he seems to have been in no respectable way of getting a livelihood. With a smattering of chemistry and mechanics be has compiled some short publications, and, as before intimated, he appears to be a radical poli tician of the worst description, by the works which were found in his pocket, some of which, however, he had not sufficient funds to enable him to print. He claims the invention of a new mode of harpooning a whale, but, on his explaining la what manner this was to be effected, Mr. Wellbank immediately recognised it as being the invention of Cap tain Scoresby. The prisoner said that he had slept in a barn not far from Woolwich the night before he was taken into custody, but he did not know the name of the person to whom it belonged. He said, moreover, that he had left some brass tubes at a public-house at or near Deptford, where he lodged one night. Hall found these tubes and now produced them, which the prisoner admitted to belong to him. Hall now added, that the landlord in formed him some person bad applied for the tubes since the prisoner's apprehension. The prisoner said that he had not sent any one, but probably two men who had slept in the barn with him, to whom he had communi cated the fact of the property having been left as described, had taken advantage of the information and gone to the landlord. The blagistrates considered this a suspicious circumstance, and were inclined to believe he might be connected with,others. The prisoner said he was a perfect stranger in that part of the coun try, and he doubted not, when the whole affair was fully investigated, that he should clearly establish his innocence. Mr. Hoxa inquired whether he could produce any friends to become his surety for his appearance on a future day, to which the prisoner re plied he could not. On being questioned as to the practiboaility of setting stacks on fire by means of apparatus such as he possessed or could make, he, without the least hesitation, admitted it was easy to acsompliah. One of the hol low braes tubes. he said, when complete, would fire a small shell from the holster of a saddle when the horse was trotting. Ile said one of the tubes he purchased at a shop in Barbican, and the other. he brought with him from Liverpool. On being told that he would remain in custody for some days longer, until futther inquiry was made, he said, " I have no objection to be in prison for I have no money." He was then remanded to Tuesday se'nnight. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday, an inquest was hold at the Marquis of Wel lington, South-street, Lambeth, to enquire into the death of Mr. R. Bolam, tailor, residing in the same street. The deceased. accompanied by a friend, was proceeding down the river in a lighter ; when near Southwark-bridge, the deceased, in stepping from one end of the vessel to the other, staggered and fell overboard. Ile was promptly rescued from his perilous situation, and taken to Ow nearest public-house, where the necessary assistance was afforded him. and he was on Sunday re moved to his residence, where he expired on 31onday morning. The jury returned a verdict of Died by the visitation of Bon. An inquest was on Saturday last held at .harden, Wilt shire, before W. ADYL, Esq. on the body of 3lary Evens. The deceased was a widow, about 43 years of age her husband haying died a few years since ' leaving her with four children. Since his death, however, she has had one illegitimate child, and within a short time was expeaed to give birth to a second : feelings of remorse at her immoral conduct, it is supposed, urged her to the com. minion of the crime of self-destruction. The woman with whom she lived deposed in substance as follows :—The deceased called me from my bed on Wednesday night, and told me that she was seriously W, and repeatedly said " that she was sure she should die." 1 asked her if she had taken any thing, and after a little hesitation, she acknowledged that she had swallowed poison. She vomited violently for some time, and died in the greatest agony. She had eaten a hearty supper, and went to bed in perfect health. Before going to bed, she caressed her youngest child in a very unusual manner, and wished me " good night," which she was not in the habit of doing. A respectable surgeon examined the stomach, the coats of which were entirely destroyed by arsenic; and a quantity of pills containing arsenic were found under the pillow of the deceased, with the word " patio" written upon it. It appeared that she had never exhibited the slightest indication of insanity, or of mental aberration. The Jury, in muse quence, renamed a verdict of " Felo de se," and the Carotin issued his warrant to the clergyman, to cause the body to be interred at ten o'clock at night, without the usual burial service. SCIINTILLE. A FEW Wol‘ .—.' lrs3 CROWS. '• We'll pluck a crow together."-3eaHPEAIE. It seems that England Is a more favourite residence for crows tha t . some other countries, as Linnaeus mentions that he never knew .1,,, fc than one crow to be shot in Sweden. During the reign of Henry VIII. crows were so numerous, 1.11; thought to do so much mischief to the farmer, that an act was pa 55,. , ,,, by Which every village was sompelled to furnish crow-nets for ten yen', and the villagers to assemble at stated periods for the purpose of d( itr Ze t t in froM PLUTARCH (p. 1079 of HOLLAND'S tramilatioh„ that ft was the opinion of Hesiod, that " the prating crow lives as l o a,; as nine men ;" and If we take the life of a man at ninety.six, which is the term specified by Awning, the translator of Hesiod, we shall tine. according to this account, that the crow lives eight hundred and aim. four years ! Even PLixtr, b. 7. c. 48, considered this statement fabulous. While the Greeks were celebrating the Isthmian games, a herAi, announced that T. Q. Flamininus had vanquished the 31;cedonisr. whereupon the people set up so great a shout that crows, which ha pened at that time to be eying over their beads, fell down into theatre. PLUTARCH', Lirce, vol. 3. p. 44. VAL. MAXIMUS, iv. 1 relates the same fact; and a similar instance is recorded by Plutarch r his life of Pompey, vol. 4. p. 15e. Both Laxnr in his Description of the Feroe Islam*, and Le . =creature in his View of the Zeeland Islands, mention those singuh• assemblies, known by the name of crow-courts. As soon as they ar all arrived, which sometimes is not the use before the expiration of couple of days, a very general noise ensues, and shortly after the whol fall upon one or two individuals, and put them to datth : when tip execution has been performed, they quietly disperse. Sec the 4th vol. of the New Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Se , . emcee of Berlin, for some learned and curious observations on • rip:- crow that was killed at Potsdam, in 1773. _ _ WILLUORBY, in his Or nifittiogiar, b. 3, says the crow can be tangs • to speak very distinctly. J. J. IV. A FEW WORDS ON DEVILS. " The black Prince, Sir, alias the prince of darkness, alim the Devil. SHAESPEAIRE. Why painted Mack. " The devils used often to appear to the monk- In the figure of iEthioplan boys or men, and thence probably the paint. ere learned to make the devil black."—Jonwtw's Remarks on Rules:- astkal flirt. pot. 3, p. 20. His names. The Editor of Bourne says, he has heard the name of old Harry given to the devil, perhaps from the verb to harrie, to la) waste, destroy, &c." The defter take you : this expression, according to St. Augustin, is derived from Dusius, a kind of demon or devil among the Gault, a very perpetrator of all that was unchaste Called Satan first in the book of Job. It is a Persian word, and n'rr' critics have asserted that Job himself was of that country. Not dumb. This singular fact we derive from Captain Knox, wir• published an account of Ceylon in 1681. At p. 78 he has the sensible passage : " This for certain 1 can affirm that oftentimes tb devil doth cry with an audible voice in the night : it is very almost like the barking of a dog. This I have often heard myself, he never heard that he did any harm." /Flay and when he possessed a tail. Vicyra, in his sermons, say that it grew at his fall, as an outward and visible sign that he had his: the rank of an angel, and was fallen to the level of a brute. Consulted as to a Greek word. " ilerniolaus is said to have raists: the devil, in order to learn the true meaning of the word Entekehie employed by Aristotle in his treatise on the soul. Had he read thi commentary of Simplicius on that treatise, he would have known tit, real meaning of that word much better than he did by the devil that it raised." TAYLOI ., Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, p. 418,a work in which the physical and metaphysical dogmas of Aristotl• are most luminously unfolded. PLINY also informs us, b. 2, c. that Appian the Grammarian raised the devil for the purpose of save. tamping the birth place of Homer. A marplot.—That the devil is a marplot, we discover by Guy Fawkes, of gunpowder memory, who gave the devil his due, at least ; for he says "that GOD would have concealed the plot, but the dol.' discovered it." Teaches the Sciences.—Platina. the papal biographer, asserts that Pope Sylvester 11. a very learned man, on his death-be d owned whit frankness, that his great progress in the sciences had been brought about by the interference of Satan. On this account, by way of penance, be ordered his own body to be quartered, and put Into a cart, drawn by two horses, without a driver, and that where they should stop shoald be his place of burial. The horses fortunately stayed their course at St. John de Lateran, and there his remains were Interred. A Poet.—Mathew Paris tells us of one:Gilbert Follot, afterwards bishop of London, celebrated for his rhyming contest with the prince ot darkness • who onenight, while the prelate was revolving matters rath , . - political lan religious, roared in his ears : 0 Oilberte Foliot ! Dum revolvis tot et tot Deus tuns est =tarot. To whom the intrepid pries; answered, with more truth the:: civility : Mentirls Demon ! Qui at Deus Sabbaoth ; est file meus. The lairrer's patron. Saint Hymns, a lawyer of Britain, went % Rome to entreat the Pope to gibe the lawyers a patron ; the Pope %- plied, that he knew of no saint not disposed of to some other profession. His Holiness proposed, however, to Saint Evora, that he should go round the church of.r.t. Giovanni de Laterano, blindfold, and after say ing a certain number of atve-marias, the first saint he laid his band on should be his patron. This the good old lawyer readily un dertook, and at the end of his ave-maria, stopped at the altar of St- Michael, where he laid hold, not of the saint, but unfortunately - of the devil, under the saint's feet, crying out, this is our saint, let himebe our patron ! Causes expectoration. Mr. Pennant, speaking of the ancient reli gious customs of the Welch, adds that, " iu church, at the name of th, devil, an universal spitting seized the congregation, as if in cmtempt c' the evil spirit." A Whig. According to Dr. Johnson the devil was the first whig. It is well for the tory doctor that he did not live E. the days of a whig attorney general! A great and diligent preacher. "There is one who is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you. It is the Devil. He is newts out of his benefice, he is never out of his parish • call on him, and you will always find him at home : he Is never from his plough. The Devil bath also caused patrons t.. sell their benifices; yea more, he gets himself to the University, and causeth great men and esquires to send their sons thither, and put out poor scholars that should be divines; for their parents intend not that they should be preachers, but have a showof learning." Bishop L. TIMER'S &MON of the Plough, IMB. Royal dinner for thelDevil.—King James professed, that were he t; invite the devil to dinner, he should have these three dishes ; 1, a pig , 2, a poll of ling and mustard ; 3, a pipe of tobacco for digestion.- -ripothevou of James, 1608. A surname.—lt is noted in the Menai/arta, that the sturran. c: Devil has bees borne by several persons. I His many and power. One of the most singsLir chapt.rs in that most singular work, BERTON'S Anatomy of iielaitehtriy, is enti:led the nature of devils, see vol. 1, p. 65-77. Dethroned, and by whons.—" Never has there been a more univass' empire than that of the devil. What has dethroned him ?—liesson." • VOLTAIRE'S Philosophical Dictionary, vol. 4, p. 144. J. J. W. The London brewers, it is said, are now for the first time about to brew strong beer. It is high time ; fur much of the' , trash has, as far as malt and hops are concerned, hitherto Iwo! weak enough. MARCH or POLITENESS IN AMERICA.—The proprietor of a tea-garden in Philadelphia, after enumerating varioas attractior• which they possess, says " The public may rely upon being served to polite waiters, and the ladies can at all times be furnished with r.ost gays of the rarest kinds and the richest hues." - - ------- SAGACITY OF A HORSE.—A correspondent informs u` that on K'ednesday last, as a horse kept for drawing stones, &c. to t h' works at the Sunderl a nd Pi e r, was p ass i ng a l ong t h e ra il- wa y, a child not more than four or five years of age got directly in the way of the horse, when the animal took it up in its mouth, and lifted it off ti t road !—Typie Mercury. A PROPHETIC TERHiNATIoR.—A canal proprietor, attended by three cr four friends, was inspecting the work, then ne3l4 completed, and giving his orders on horseback, at the same time com plaining what a ruinous spec it was likely to prove. On a sudden horse plunges, rears up on end, and the inspector is flung into t h e stream. All this in a " twinkling," felon lo Arise. As they dreg him to land, one of the friends wished him joy an the change his 511 3 1 P had so happily taken; " for," said he, " I Mkt you the WWI would one day jilt your pockets !" BlK'fH. The 20th inst. at his house in Clarges4tteet, the lady of A. i f Spearman. Eaq. at a daughter. MARKIEU. The 20th inst. at Congersbury, W. Long, Esq. son of the late B. Long, Esq. of Coombe, Surrey, and nephew of Lord Farnborough, It' Chatlowe Eleanore M. Poore, daughter of the late E. Poore. Tut.+ 3 sister of Sir E. Poore, Bart. Anshan, Wilts.—The 16th inst. at Bur ton-upon-Trent, J. Oreatorex, Esq. Royal Engineers. to Marl , t Irl Y daughter of the late W. Wilders. Esq. of that place. DIED. The 21st inst. aged 9 years, Adolph Henry, youngest son of A. la• Pfeil, k./11 of Dulwieh.aimmon.—Th 16th inst. at Woolwich, Elisa Wilson Louis, daughter of the late N. Hornsby, resident serste/4 Or dinance Medical Department. Lawmou : Primed mod Published by AMU MATNZI It for Sills• °Pries, Ne. 1, Piekett.plam, Temple Bar.