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He was place d: at the bar about half-past twelve o'clock, and, during a long examination, his countenance exhi bited a continual laugh, or rather a sneering grin—it was the most hardened it is possible to conceive. A great number of depositions were taken, the substance of which is already before the public. We subjoin only the folio*. isg,as communicating some new circumstances:— Mr. Ridley, the watch-maker at Woodford, proved that the watch belonged to the deceased. Mr Pattingale, a coach-master at Woodford, and -nester of the prisoner, stated the prisoner to have been in his employ during the last six weeks, as ostler, at 15e. a week : he alway► appeared to be a very fleet) , man ; he never let a week pass without bor rowing money. He m ver paid him a Bank note during the time, but always with silver; he paid him Gs. on the night of the murder. On Monday morning, when the murder was disco vered, he was very urgent to go to London, but his master re fused to let him: he asked him what he wanted to go for; he replied, to fetch his clothes. On the Wednes-lay following (the day he changed the deceased's watch) he went on the outside of his coach, and returned the same evening; but too much intoxi cated to attend to his work. He corroborated the account the prisoner gave of the way in which his breeches were marked with blood, by stating, that the prisoner had bled a horse a week ' or ten days previous to the murder: be caught the blood in a wooden bowl, rnd it tan through it on to his breeches. Ihs wife saw him washing the breeches in water without soap, and ex pressed her surprue at his attempting such a thing, and offered him some soap. Vickery, the officer, proilueed a jacket belonging to the pri• soner, which he had found since the first examination, one of the arms of which was marked with blood. Mrs. Davis, the wife of the landlord of the Sun public-house, stated, that when the prisoner first came into her house on the Wednesday, he bad on a new hat and blue coat: she observed to him, that she was glad times were better with him (as he was &eased in much better clothes than she had been in the habit of seeing him in when he lived in that neighbourhood), and hoped he would then pay off his old score of I 4s. td. He replied, that although he was dressed better he had no money, but showed her a watch, and said he had given £2. 1.55. for it (at another time he said £2. 10s.), and if she would give hint £2 for it, and clear off the score, she should have it ; which she not listening to, he proposed to let her have it for £l.: her husband and he at length exchanged watches. '1 he Ostler at the Axe and Gate Inn In Holbo rn , stated, that the prisoner called on him on the Wednesday morning, previous to his going to the Sun public-house, and paid hint a shilling that he owed him ; 'hewed also a watch, which he believed to be the same as had been Identified to be the deceased's. Prisoner told him he had given upwards of Xs for it, but did not say how much, and pressed him extremely to purchase it, or 'CO exchange it for bis watch; but be declined doing either. Mr. E. aville, , a shopkeeper at Wuodf ird, stated, that on the Sunday morning alter the murder, he sold the prisoner a hat and waistcoat for Ll. ls.: he paid him a Li Bank of England note and a shilling. Mx. Pattingale, the prisoner's master, In addition to the above, stated, that alter the prisoner returned from London, he ob served a visible difference in his behaviour, he frequently ap pearing very dejected. The prisoner, on being asked if be had any thing to say, re peated his account of his having found the watch near the pond. On his being asked, bow he came to give different accounts of hiving possession of It ? he shortly replied, he had swapped the watch; that was all he had to say, and they might hang him up, if they pleased. 1 he Churchwarden was bound over to prosecute him for the murder, in a recogninance of £100 ; and the witnesses were bound over to appear, in £5O each. EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGLe-011 Friday sennight one T. Standish, of Blackrod, assuming himself to be heir of the We Sir F. ST N visa, with numerous 161losters, astembled at lluxbury Hall, near Chorley ; took possession of the house, and turned out t'e servants, in defiance of the peac e officers, who exerted them selves on the occasion, and were personally insulted and abused. 1 bey continued in the bottle till Saturday, when the Magistrates,. R. FLCTCHER and J. WATKINS, Esqrs. bring informed of these procee.lings, at the head of a party of light horse, proceeded to the scene of action. On the appearance of the military the &pru dent.' began to make off in every direction. By a proper ar ratigrutenr, however, the military surrounded the Hall, and the Magistrates demanded admission; which, not being cqmplied with, the doer was forced, and a crowd of men, with several wo men, arppeared.' Being warned Of the consequence of res!stance, they submitted and alter a proper hearing betore the klagie •rates,Thomas Standish, the assumed heir, Thomas Proust, John Dike, IViWam Gattiaaa i and Thoma s Aspiaall, were cOmmitt e d to 11.ancaster Cas t l e; and sixty other persons were hound over to answer leer their conduct at the next Quarter Session/ At P.IRLUMENT4RT PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE IT. Controverud Eleetkos BTU was read . a third time and palmed. The Dish Eraise Duties 11111 was eouunitted; and the Irish. Roads BM Testi a second time. Lord CALTHORPE presented :even' Petitions In favour of the Propagation of Christianity In India.—Laid on the table. Mr. KINGSTON presented papers from the East lodta tors, which were laid on the table. RANT INDIA AFFAIRS. Mr. RostNewt and others, from the House of Commons, came on the part of the Commons to request a conference with the Lamle on matters of the highest importance, connected wish East India Affairs. The Messengers were informed that the.Honse agreed to the conference, and appointed the same to take place immediately in the Painted Chamber. Lords LITRITOO. RADNOR, CLAN. CARTT, WALSINGNAN, and the Bishop of CIIZST RR, were ap pointed Managers on the part of the Lords. These having pro ceeded to the Painted Chamber, returned again in a few ininuLes with the Resolutions on East India affairs, which had been Agt to by the Commons. 'lke Resolutions having been read—. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE moved, that the same be taken into consideration on Monday, with a view to go into a Committee upon .hem on that day, and that the Lords be stunmouecL—Ordered.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Auction Bill and the LOttery Bill went through a Cum- The Naval Passions, the Irish Militia, the Militia Adjutants , and the Militia Sobel. erns Bills , were read a second time. The Irish Bridges Bill was read a third rinse and passed. The Curates' Bill was ordered to be teed a second time to morrow. The Report of the Cora Laws Committee was ordered to Le received next Monday. The Irish Distilleries, and Tobacco Bills, were committed, and the reports ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. WHITBREAD, alluding to his notice, which stood for the 29th, on the subject of Peace, said, that since be had given that intimation to the House, intelligence of an extraordinary, and he believed authentic kind, had been received, stating that an Armistice, to continue in force froM the 4th of June to the 20th of July, had been concluded between the hostile Powers in Silesia. Presuming that it was impossible this measure could have taken place without General Stewart and Lord Cathcart. who were officially resident with the Allies on behalf of this country, being consulted, and not wishing to throw any eleaacle in the way of the great and good work ; presuming that this was the case, a:id fearing to embarrass oriitjure the prospect of peace, he would waive, fur the present, the motion which he Lad in tended to bring forward. Mr. Alderman ATKINS postponed his motion on the subject of American Cotton, till this day se'nuiglit. Mr. BR AND rose to move, that Crti:chley's petition, presented some time ago, complaining of certain abuses in this Court, be referred to the consideration of a Select Committee. 'I he petitio- ner's complaint was twofold-4. •Fhat the fees of the' Marshalsea Court had been illegally raised by the Judge, which as its jurisdic-1 tion in various causes waded over about a million of people, might prove a very serious abuse; and 2dly, that when the Pe -1 tit•oner, as Prothonotary of the Court. remonstrated against the' abuse, he was suspended front his office. The Hon. Member professed himself ignorant of Ilse truth of the allegations in the petition, but thought •laem deserving of investigation. With that view he moved for the appointment of a Committee. Mr. WHARTON observed, that he thought the charges in the Petition were not at present a fit matter for the consideration of the House. If any of the Litigants in the Marshalsea Court thought theme:lves aggrieved by the exaction of illegal fees, they had their remedy in the Courts below. But he particularly cb jetted to the present motion, because serious charges we re prod ' ing at present against the Mtn:osier hninsell. The Hon. Measlier entered ;tito a detail of their nature, the substance of which was, that the Treasury had made an agreement with the Petitioner, Crutchlcy, as Clerk of the Marshalsea Court, that if the fees did ran amount ta .FLOCI per annum, the difference should be made good to him by the Treasury. 'I be Petitioner had for some tune represented that tl e tees did not amount to that sum, and had accordingly received the difference irom the Treasury. On his suspension from office, however, it was discovered that this was a misrepresentation, and the :elicitor to the Treasury had been ordered to institute proceedings against bun cur the recovery of the money so fraudulently obtained. The proceedings were not yet commenced, bet they would be, and in the mean time it would be wren;; to bring this, with other matters, before a Committee of tke House. The Hun. Member said, it we. at one inne in contemplat on to prosecute this for perjury in his conduct in this business, but the Law Officers of the Crown on being consulted, gave it as their opinion, that from some informality, it could not be maintained. Mr. BRAND consented to withdraw Lis motion for the present. On the motion of Mr.WIIITIR LAD, the Petition of Diana Hargrave, presented the other day, was referred to the cunsi dcratien of a Select Committee. Mr. WHITBREAD rose to pat a question to the Honourable Secretary of the Treasury. The inhabitants, he said, in the vici nity of Windsor Park, were alarmed by a report which had got. abroad, that the timber which decorated those five grounds was to be cot down and sold; and that a Palace was to be built with the produce of the sale What strengthened thC report was, that the finest trees had been all marked, as if to be cut down. He hoped that no design was in agitation which would deface those fine grounds? Mr. WHARTON said, it was true that many trees had lately been cut down in the Park, hut they had been stolen for fire wood. The depredations of this kind lately oommitted were really shocking ; and the only season why the nee& were marked was that their value might be ascertained. There was not the slightest 4 ntention to cut down any of the ornamental timber; and it was not a Palace that was intended to be built, but a Lodge. Mr. FREDERICK ROBINSON acquainted the House at the Bar, that the Lords had agreed to the conference requested by the Commons, respecting the India Reseautions. A Committee was then appointed tea conduct the conference, and to communicate to their Lordships the India Reaolutions adopted by the House. On the return of the Committee, Mr. ROBINSON acquainted the House, that the conference was conducted, on the part of tbe Peers, by the Earl of ituce- INOUAMiIItIIt, and that the said Resolutions had been commu nicated. fir G. HILL moved the second reading of the Bill for pre. venting illicit distillation in Ireland. He enlarged upon the growing . mischiefs which resulted from Its prevalence, and declared it to be the almost universal opinion among the Gentlemen of Ireland, that were the districts made respoesible by fines, on the disco very of illicit stills, the abominable practice wou ld in no long time be abolished. Mr. WELLESLEY POLE declared, it gave him pain to op. pose a measure which he knew to be sanctioned by must of the Members front Ireland, but to him it appeared most unjust in its principle and pernicious in its effects. It had already been the law in Ireland, but had been suspended in 1009, and afterwards abolished. On trial it was found abominably unjust in its effects, and would not have beets tolerated for a moment in any other part of the United Kingdom. The principle of the Bill was, that where any still, portion of a stiU, wash, &c. was found, the whole of the parish or town lands where it was found should be re ii dered liable to the fine. Was it just that so many • Mein MU,- viduals should suffer for a crime of which they were tilt .rely ig norant ? The penalties under the old Act were so great, that in the county of Cavan alone, they amounted to 5830,000 whets he I came into office. If this sum had been rigorously levied, the effect would have been to depopulate a great part of that county. After a few observations from Mr. Haw r Hoe se and Mr. Cute cues - reit, Sir JOHN NEWPORT supported the Bill. The justice and necessity of this measure was so evident, that be believed of the 100 Representatives of Ireland, there were not more than three who were not friends to this Bill. In fact, besides the injury to the revenue, this practice of illicit distillation wa the destruction of the morals of the country, Injurious to agriculture, and all the sources of its prosperity. In the districts where it prevailed, the .attention of the people was in a great measure taken away from agriculture, holiest industry, and peaceful habits. Mr. PEELE concurred entirely in what had fallen from the Hon. Baronet. It was to him almost a sufficient argument for its necessity, to find that it was supported by almost the whole uf • he Representatives of Ireland. Ale. W. FITZGERALD observed, that as this Bill was sup , ported by all the Repreatentation uf Ireland, by du great !mitten iii that binntry, by ill the poaro of the Conuriiiktii, of Excise, be hoped die Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pule) wntikp withdraw that pertinacious opposition which he bad threatened Mr. Vina.astsv Pott Mr. HAWTIIOI/N, Sir H. Auer COMIRT, Lord DZIART, Mr. O'HARA said each a few word. in favour of the Ball.l The Amendment Ras then negaihcd; the Bill waa read ati time, and ordered to be committed to-naorrow. Lord MILTCN rose to make his motion respecting the pri• t. lag el Morey Bills. According to the present .practice, the Members nor any person in the country had an oppuctuni l of knowing what lases were imposed, what grants were madr. It was a standing order that Private Bills should be printed ; +tartly if Road or Inclosme Bills were deemed worthy of publ; cation, .t was more important that the people should be acquaint. ed with what was the concern of aIL He was sure that, from 'i.e present method, natty clauses sr i:re passed which were tut,* unknown to the great bulk of the House. Ho would instan t , , clause in a late Aet, for granting additional duties on goods ported and exported; this clause contained a proviso, that hat Majesty might, during the vacation of Parliament, by his (kJ, in Council, suspend all or ony of these - duties. He would oak, d 4 any i•Airpetident Gentleman koow oft is clause ?—( Hear, fi sa the Chan:eller tk: Itierkelper.)--Al. the Gentlemen of the Ire.. sury might know it ; but was any independent Gentiernao of it He concluded by moving that all bills, by a gra.% of money was made to the Crows, abirukl be printed, sad Km. ed copies be distributed to the Members before the sd reathag. '1 he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, thea sat a good reason for not printiug those Bills : in general they were mere repetitions of former nets of regslatitut, which had somesef them for neatly a century, and of which it would ;,: mere waste of paper to anthiply copies. When auy were made, they became the subject of distinct resolution., au i t were discussed and printed. in general, if Bids of this ti. :t wee: to be printed in the stage mentioned by the Noble Lord, Lit own purpose would be defeated; for d.l trey came mot of the they were mere blanks as to new matter. As to I chusi mentioned by the Noble Lord, k had be-a discussed loth- House; nor was it stew, for an Act, 4d Geo.III. c. 24, give errs larger powers of suspension to his Majesty. Sir I.Ni. Wt OK r supported the motion, and also Mr ItituV4. Mr. HUSKISSON oppnsAl it. Lord MILTON agreed to vri:lidt:.w it, asd said, he m. 4: perhaps bring it forward hertafi er In a shape more !itself to men , his übject.—lt was then withdrawn. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Sir W. SCOTT brought up the report of thy Bill for the ty; lotion of Ecclesiastical Courts Mr. WESTERN doubt:al whether the Bill would accontpli.k the abject which it professed to have in view. The country was deeply indebted to a Noble Lord (I.ord Fo!ketone) who bad brit come forward to relieve the subject from the oppressive weight ut the Ecclesiastical Law. Hu had been iuduced to do so on the petition of a poor female who had been most severely punished, while her only fault had been inexperience and ignorance. Its hail intended to propose a measure winch should prevent the re currence of such injuries: but there was nothing in the preaest Bill of the Right Hon. Gentlemar, evert if it should pass auto a law, which would prevent such a recurrence. He should state another case to the House, in addition to those already before them, which would shew the arbitrary stature of these Ecele.iaiii. cal Courts, and the almost impossibility of escaping their power. It was a case of defamation. The person accused was a most re spectable gentleman, engaged in a large way of hudness ; be had been appointed assignee to the estate of a bankrupt, and was alui a creditor to a considerable amount. At a meeting of the assignee s , when the accounts of the bankrupt came to be invessigted i itiels found, tat a large sum, amnubting to nearly two thirds of the whole effect., had been paid to a person whose initials only (J. C.) were put down. The assignees were surprised, and enquired who was intended by these initials. They discovered that it *a a lady with whom the bankrupt had been acquainted: upon which one of them called her by that name Which from circum stances appeared to belong to her, nnd which could not fail to suggest itself on such an ecca-ion. For this he was proceedei agaii.t in a libel for defarnwion in the Costs story Court of Surrey, and was acquitted, the prosecutrix being condemned In cats— But the matter did not end here: he was again prosecuted in the superior Court of Arches before the Right Hon. Gentleman, and as foutd guilty on the very same evidence on wkich he had been before acquitted. He was c.odensued to do penancee.that is, to ask pardon in the public church, and before his Goo total hitoselt guilty of that offence of which he felt that he was baste c.ent. Surely it was a profanation of rel.glon to allow that such a punishment should be inflicted on any man. 'the Court, deed, afterwards granted him a dispensation : i.e. be was allow ed to purchase an exemption f.ont a declaration of guilt fer £95 he had ask .d fur what purpose this nuiney Was to be paid, and could not obtain any loformation. Tile, and cases like this,wete evils far which some remedy should he appropriated ; end be could see no protection in the ere-ent Bill against a like pievacte happening any day to any haute dual. The consequence of tits law in these Courts being such as it now la—two persons had been imprisoned in the gaol of Nottingham for some years, be cause they would not perjure themselves. He would only beg leave to ask, if It was right these people should have been im prisoned for such a length of time, because they would sot take oaths which their conscience told them they ought not to take. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT said he would allow, that in marl innauces, in this Court, there seemed to be an appearance at hardslep ; but if parties would suffer judgment to go by default, it was not the act of the Court, but of the party Moue. These parties had been cited to appear and to put in their plea over NA over again ; and if they would be obstinate and refuse to pinul— if they would suffer judgment to go by default—the Court bat but one rule to go by—it mutt pass judgment oo the party ac cused; and after having pa.sed that judgment, it could not after wards Mind relief. It had no power whatever to exonerate the party, either from the whole or any part of the punishment, which it had been compelled to inflict on them. If parties in such cases would not do that whiciothe law required of them, it was their own fault, and the Overt could give no redress. In this case, the Magistrate of the County has insisted that the mans liege should be proved, and its valrdsty estabilshed. The parties bad refused Lo do this, and he could see no oppression whatever in the case— because the parties ttrullti not do any thing by way of relieving themselves. This was an affair which he th night should not pass without notice, and it was to remedy there ea ring inconsistencies that he had brought in the present Bill. Sir JOHN NICOL entered into the particul .rs of •he case mentioned by Mr. Weston, and said the £95 expense incur.:) by the defendant were mere oasts, and that no such thing as die pensation existed. Sir SAMUEL ROMII.I.Y expressed the satisfaction he felt at the present Bill, although, in his opinion, it did not go far enough. The judgment of the Court, in the ease mentioned by his Hon. Friend, was, he believed, correct and unavoidable, but at the same time afforded a d e ci s i v e con d emnat i on o f the conste _ tution of the Court. lie thought it, however, a most cruel It.- justice, that k creell . nr, who found his property bad been wasted on the vicious indulgencies of a bankrupt, should be prosecuted for appiying terms, the truth of which he was nut allowed le gally to justify—[Hear ! hear '1 he second trial was said to he an appeal; but no second trial for a criminal offence could srkle place in any other Court. He could not see why such offences should not be transferred to Courts of Common Law. The great evil of Spiritual Courts was their expense and impalect mode of receiving evi.!ence, which ought, he conceived, to be assimilated to the practice of Courts of Equity. It was his inten tion to move two clauses in the Committee—one for requiring due qualifications in the Judges of the Cunsistory Court, and t:ie other for limiting the period within whisk suits might be brought for the receiving of tithes to six years. Mr. W. SMII . II vindicated the persons described by Sir ic.et, as fanatics, who had sufficiently shewn that they were not proiligantly suffering an imprisonment of eleven years in Notting hank gaol. Cases of considerable hardship might easily be ia• maimed, under the jurisdiction of the Court. Two women con sented to suffer twelve years imprisonment in Lincoln gaol, rather than plead to their maiden names, which they considered eqi•- 1 to en acknowledgment that they had lived in an illicit ovular with the permit's they claimed for their husbands. He woald not say that they were not tanatical or fou!ish ; but he would rot say they were not 'profligate, and he conceived that they had K l -ft hardly dealt with. It was ix-rtes..' ly childish to cause a man to make a confession of the justice s.f Lis sentence, when perhar he did nut believe .t—it resem:ded the mode so very prevalent well known at the inquisitorial tribunals; to call upon a m ie therefore to confess his guilt, which must be establist.ed by other evidence to be satisfactory, was a species of Injustice known let where else. These things, though they left no stain on the Judze himself, were improper and ought to be abolished. Mr. STEPHEN maintained, that in the sentences alluded ro the ledges had conducted themselves with the strictest proprietY ; but he candidly admitted, that certain alterations, attended wash happy effects, might be made in the law. air S. itOMILLY moved the resouunitment of tile lii amt