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I EASTER TERM. l ~:_ Yesterday, being the first day of Easter Tetm, the LORD CNANORLLOR attended at Lincoln's Inn Hall, at his usual time. Shortly after, thaitrot-Cumacit.- LOR and seven of the Judgea v with the principal Counsel of the Chancery and other Courts, waited on, his Lordship, and took breakfast. They then ac companied his Lordship in prbcession to open the Courts at Westminster. The Chief Justices of the Ring's Bench and Common Pleas, with the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, together.with Mr. Justice Rtomapsos, were not of the party, they being en gaged on the trials at the Old Bailey. COURT OF KINO'S BENCH, APRIL 19. At the sitting of the Court, Mr. Justice - BAYLEY, addressing himself to Messrs. Fonblanque, Wetherell, and Jarvis, who sat behind . the Bar, said, that it having pleased his Majesty King • I ;eorge the Fourth to re-instate them in their rank of King s Counsel, they would accordingly take their scats within the Bar. - Mr. Justice BAYLET then addressed Mr. Casberd, who sat without the Bar, and said, that his Majesty Laving been graciou:ly pleased to appoint him as one (f his Counsei learned in the law, he would take his sett within the Bar in future. THE KING V. ROGERT HUGH. • The . defendant, against whom articles of the peace] had been exhibited by the Earl of Darnley, appeared in Court, and positively denied having ever -enter tained any intention to inflict bodily harm on the Earl of Darnley, or commit any breach of the peace towards his Lordship. He (the defendant) was much in the habit of taking morning walks in Berkeley square, for the benefit of his health. He met Lord Darnley in one of these walks, when he stopped to addresi him, for the purpose of removing all those apprehensions which his Lordship seemed to entertain fiorn the circumstance of his having exhibited arti cle the peace against him. He denied that he ad dressed his Lordship in any manner that could give him the slightest ground fur alarm, lie also denied that he ha.l aly design of going abroad. In fact, it was impossible he could carry into effect any such &sign, on a:count of his pecuniary embarrassments, which were incleased by his long confinement, in consequence of charges alleged against him, but' ss bath were not sapported by one tittle of evidence. 'With respect to the apprehensions entertained of him by the Earl of Darnley, he repeated they were wholly groundless. He regarded the abominable crime of assassination with the utmost abhorrence, and would b.! as slow to commit it as any individual in the cowl-, try. In conclusion, he represented 'his inability to - procure the bail to keep the peace which was now demanded of him, namely, two sureties in £lOOO • each, because the only means by which'he could ef fect this, would be - to deposit the several sums as a .security, 414 this, ft ow his pecuniary circumstances, he was wholly unable to do. Ile was quite ready to enter into any reasonaSle security, and therefore pro• po3rd two sureties-in £lO3 each. . The Junors having consulted together, Mr. Justice BATLEY said, under these circum stances, all that the Coart could do, was to pet mit the defendant to take a Rule to show cause why he should not be discharged from custody, upon his en tering into recognizances, himself in £2OOO, and two sureties in £lOO each: TUE LING V. CAMPISELL. Hug . h:Campbell was brought up to plead to an in formation filed against him by Captaia Mills, for an alleged libel. It will be remembered that Captain Mills underwent a trial at the Old Bailey for an al leged rape upon a young girl, which ended in his accquittal. This Gentleman afterwards indicted the pinks, who came forward to accuse him, for con spiring against hint, and he also obtaiued.a criminal 'information against the defendant, Campbell, for an alleged libel respecting the same affair. The defendant then requr.ted that their Lordships would name an early day for his trial, observing, that he had been. now detained in town more than nine months, iu consequence ofthese proceedings, at a heavy expense. - Mr. Justice BAXLEY said, k was impossible f .r the Court to appoint a day for the trial sooner than that upon which it would devolve in the regular progress, the public business.—The defendant pleaded Not Guilty to the information. • MOH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, APRIL is. Tilt SUM ELIZA. Thts was an ordinary caie of salvage, promoted by the masters of the Robert and 'Mary, and the Nader and Owners of the four other smacks follow ing. viz. the lugger Foz, the Ocean, the Union, and the Endeavour. The vessel was found on the 4th of August, IEIB, derelict, at sea ; her cargo, which was of timber, nearly all floated out of her, and she was in so complete a state of wreck, that her hull was • obliged to be bound over with curds and rope-ends, before she could be carried into Margate. A great deal of her Will was picked up by some other boats, and the wnole being sold with all possible speed, yielded the sum of £1576 net proccecb, " ez elusive of duties," as expressly stated in the account. 'lle business of the salvage, having occurred in the immediate vicinity of the Cinque-ports, was referred to to Admiralty Court of the Lord Warden, %;hen the Commissioners awarded a moiety of the value salved, viz. (deduction being made of the expenses of the salvors) £775.45. net. The Owners being dis satisfied with this decision, pioccedings w.re had against them, and a monition prayed by the salvors but die period during which that monition could by . law be granted having lapsed, the Masters and Owners of the several smacks had no other remedy but to appeal the matter to this Court, t 6 which no opposition was offered by the other parties, they making the cffer of EVX) for salvage. The argument on the case brought out the curious fact, that the- Owners of the Eliza were still liable to the payment of duties (many of which were actually paid) that would reduce 'their moiety to 1.:13 only; and al though (as it was contended by the Learned Counsel for these Gentlemen), there could be little doubt that the Commissioners of the Customs would refund a large portion of them, especially those to be paid on the property salved, yet they submitted that it would be most hard upon them if they; instead of retaining one moiety, were to be allotted, in fact, only one fourth of the proceeds, while the other moiety se mined to the salvors entire. The salvors owe' statement had made it appear that the balance of the net proceeds, due to the Owners, after the deduction of all expenses, would •be no snore than £320. The Learned Counsel having proceeded to shew that this amount, after the discharge of the remaining duties •ictually due, Would be reduced to abOut 1.13, con tended that the fair principle would be, either that the moiety of the salvors shoultbe divided as upon the, net proceeds, after the duties had been paid upon the ,, 'whole of them, or.that a reference should be made' to the Commissioners of theCu.stoms, in• order to as certain what proportion - of dutiei they might be dis posed to remit, and then that the award of the Court .should issue, subject to the result of that reference. The Learner/ Counsel for the salvors, on the other hand, maintained that there could hardly be any doubt as to the construction of the Att of the sth George I. cap. 2. sec. 13. from which - it very clearly appeared that goods salved or sold, for the purpose of raising a fund for payment of salvage, were not subject to payment of duties; that this was evident from the very title of that Act, which was to the ef fect, that from and after the 28th of March, 1719, foreign liquors and tobaccos foUnd as wreck of ves sels stranded or driven on shore, or-whether as jetti zons, totsams, lagons, or wreck, should be liable to the usual duties. Now this was a recognition of the former exemption which had been made in favour of all goods salved; and out of these two articles alone were to be excepted. Ihrt, supposing the hardship to lie upon the owners, to the full extent mentioned by the Learned Counsel, as respected the deficiency in the moiety of the owners, );et it was well known that cases had come before that Ceuit where the. Court had awarded salvage, even where there were no proceeds. Sir WILLIAM Score, after the arguments of the Learned Counsel were concluded, minutely reviewed the circumstances of this case. He was dearly dis posed to confirm the decree made by the Commis sioners of the Lord Warden of the Cinque-ports, which allotted a salvage of £775 4s. To this amount he should certainly direct salvage to be paid, if it should appear that the practice was, as he conceived it to be, that duties were not levied upon property sold to defray the expenses of salvage. cut, if it should appear otherwise, he would consider the case at large Le.eafter. in the meanwhile, the Registrar was directed to make the necessary reference to the honourable Commissioners of the Customs. CCURT OF COM NION PLEAS, ARRIL IS. BURNETT V. MINNETT. • This was a' case in which the plaintiff sued for the moiety of the payment t - a freight, which be and the defendant had conjointly promised to procure for a person of the name of Faith, who had chartered to them a ship to the West Indies, upon the condition of their having obtained a freight back, but which con dition, their agents, in that part of the world, failed to fulfil. The matter was left to arbitration, as be tween Faith and Burnett, and the. arbitrators agreeing that Faith was entitled to p:tyment for the homeward freight, Burnett paid the whole sum of 111051. - and now demanded the moiety of that sum from Minnett, with whom he was combined in the charter of the ship. The defendant pleaded that he had not been acces sary to the reference to arbitration, and that, there fore, he was not bound by their award. The Learned Judge, however, was of a contrary opinion, and, by his direction, the Jury found a ver dict for the plaintiff, in the amount of the moiety of what he paid for the homeward freight to Faith. PETTY TREASON AND MURDER. wAitricig ASSIZES, APRIL te. this day Ant Heyrr . 9, whose crime has excited such sensation in the public mind in this quarter, was put to the bar, awl 'arraigned before Mr. Justice UST, who was appoited to the Bench, in conse quence of his indisposition. She was a middle-sized young wbman, and stoutly made ; she preserved an undaunted . firmness, was dressed in a black gown; a grey shawl v..a: thrown loosely over I:er shoulders, , and s!le had o;1 a fine muslin mob cap. The eldest of the !H iss Dormers was the first wit ness examined , and o n coming forth to give her evi dence, attracted the sympathy of the crowded Court. Three young ladies, tile eldest apparently not 18 years of age, callftd upon in a Court of Justice to xppear as witr.eses on the prosecution of the mur derer of their mother, could not but excite a feeling of sympathy in the bosoms of all who possess the better sensibilities of our nature. After they had answered all :Le questions thought necessary, they were permitted to leave. a scene which at least must have been deemed a severe trial to their feelings. Miss Dormer stated, that she was the daughter of the prosecutor, and lived at Ashow, in this county, in the month of August last. She has three brothers and two sisters, who were all at home on the 29th of August: the prisoner was in the service of the family; there were also three men servants. She remem bered prisoner being charged with taking away some notes.—[Here the Judge interfered to prevent going into evidence on this point].—Tire witness proceeded:, ' They had some friends to dine with them on that day, being Sunday the 29th of August—Mr. W. Hinde; and Mr. T. Harris. The two Mr. Brays came after dinner. Her sisters Harriet and Mary, Mr. Joseph Dormer her brother, Mr. William Hinde, and herself walked alter-tea to Mr. Aldridge's, and returned a few minutes after seven o'clock. Her mother made the tea, and the prisonei waited sin them : she left her father, the two Mr. Brays, Mr. 'l'. Harris and the prisoner, with . her mother, when She went out. There was nothing particular in her mother's manner that day; she returned about ten minutes past seven o'clock ; she saw the prisoner in. the passage as she came in, who appeared much agi tated, and perspired much. Witness asked her if any one had been there ? she replied, " No, nobody.* She then went into the wood-yard and retarned im mediately, but appeared to be still very much con., fused: witness observed blood on the floor of the' passage, the spots of which appeared smeared, as if there had been an attempt to wipe them up, and she pointed out the blood to the prisoner, asking what she had been doing ? in reply, she said, 44 0, no thing." Witness told her to get a mop and wipe it up, and then asked her where her mother was? the prisoner said, " She is gone towards Ashow." Miss Harriet Dormer soon after called out "Mother, mo ther," and. agted where her mother was and the prisoner said, " She was gone into the garden about ten mintues before,' to gather cucumbers." Witnessl then said, " I went up stairs to my own room; and saw my mother's room-door-shut as I pasied. by; my sister-Mary followed me up stairs. When in 'my room, I heard my fluter scream Violently ; found my mother dead, and there were drops of blood in the passage, which had the appearance of being wiped." In answer to a question from the Judge, Miss Dor mer replied, " She was sure the spbts had been wiped; they seemed to be smeared along." y. the Jtioas.—Prisoner, will you ask this wit ness any questions ?—No, my Lord. Mary Dormer was next sworn : she said she was fourteen years old, and that she went with her bro thers and sisters to Mr. Aldridge's, and returned to gether; on entering the house she saw the prisoner in the passage, . who seemed to be very warm and confused; she heard her sister ask her where her mother was ? and the prisoner replied, " gone to wards Ashow:" She did not ask the prisoner any questions, but witness's sister Harriet called out— " Mother, mother." The prisoner said, " she was gone into the garden." Witness saw marks of blood on the floor ; she then went up stairs, and opened the door of her mother's room, and saw her lying on her back on the floor: saw just her feet, but did not see blood ; and screamed out, being frightened. By the RDCE.—Prisoner, would you ask this wit ness any questions ?—No, my Lord. Mr. Thomas Harris deposed, that he was on a visit at Mr. Dormer's on the day in question, and remembered the Miss Dorniers and . their friends go-, ing to Mr. Aldridge's. The elder Mr. Dormer, the two Mr. Drays, and witness, went to Ashow toge ther. Witness left Mrs. Dormer and the prisoner only in the house, as far as he knew : Mrs. Dormer came out at the garden gate with them when they .set off to Ashow. - The prisoner, on being asked, said she had nothing to say to the witness. Maria Dormer called.—She said she was eleven years old (but appeared a very intelligent girl) ; the Judge questioned hec as to the nature_of an oath, and cautioned her to tell the truth. She said she knew Mrs. Dormer of Ashow—remembered when she was said to have been killed; went to see her about half-past sir o'clock that day, with her little brother. Mrs. Dormer gave them a glass of wine and some cucumbers. .Saw the prisoner there, but nobody else. The prisoner had no question to ask the last witness. Miss E. Jaggard was at the house called the Forge, on the day of the murder, with Miss Russell, who lives there: she rode to Ashow, and passed the house of Mr. Dormer nearly at the hour of seven. Wit ness saw Mrs. Dormer sitting at the second window, apparently reading ; she had her spectacles on. Just at the same time the witness saw a woman come into the road and look towards Ashow ; she was dressed in a dark red gown, and had on a coarse apron and a cap ; she went away almost immedi ately. Witness thinks she did not see her party. Saw the prisoner going to prison, and then sl.:. had on the same gown as when seen by witness in the road. John Dormer the younger said, on the 29th. of , August be returned with his sisters from Mr. Al dridge's a little after seven o'clock ; when he re turned, and his sister opened the door, she was very much struck with the appearance of the prisoner, who was greatly agitated. Witness was near the court-paling when he heard a screaming, and imme diately went up stairs, the prisoner following him. Witness took hold of her, and led her into the mid dle of the road, and said, " You have murdered my mother." She gave no reply. He was much en raged, and pulled her along, on which she said, " I will' go where you choose to take me ; you need not pull me." Witness cannot say if he charged her with his mother's murder more than once. The prisoner had no question to ask the witness. Henry Beesely deposed that he came into Mr. Dormer's house after Mrs. Dormer bad been found dead : that after getting a light, he traced the blood to the pantry, and saw a book lying en the table, and some spectacles on the floor in the kitchen. William Pope was led into Mr. Dormer's house by a scream which he heard there, afid he also beard Mr. J. Dormer say a girl had murdered his mother. The girl said, " She had not." At that time he struck her on her cheek. I asked her if she had seen anyone about the house? She said, " No." I asked her if she had been out of the house:' She said, " Yes; to the wood-pile," which is about 20 yards from the house. William Bodington, a surgeon, stated, that the wounds had occasioned the death of the deceased. Thomas Bellerby, a constable of Kenilworth, de posed, that on Sunday night, 29th of August last, he heard that Ms. Dormer's servant had murdered her mistress, and was desired to 4o and take the prisoner into custody. Witness met Samuel Turner with the prisoner. Witness asked her, if she was the young wo man who was charged with the murder of Mrs. Dor mer ? She replied, " They say so ; but I am not? The prisoner had on a red gown, and a sort of a burden apron. It was about half-past eight o'clock. Witness took the prisoner into custody ; her hands were bloody, and there was blood under her nails ; her harids looked as if they had been wiped, and her face was much swelled on the left side. Witness asked her, if the apron she then had on was the apron she had on in the former part of the afternoon ? She said, " It was not, she had another on—that she had pulled it off and had hung it upon the back door. On Monday morning, the 30th day of August last, witness went to the prosecutor's house and looked for the other apron, which he found in the shed near the back door, at the end of the prosecutor's house to wards Warwi:k, at the corner of the back kitchen ; it was wrapped up upon the ground ; it had some blood upon it when witness found it. The apron she had on was free from blood. At the bottom of a large nib in the yard near the garden-gate, which had soap-suds in it, witness found & hand•cloth and another apron by him now produced. These spots had then snore the appearance of blood thau now—both of them were wet ; none of the other towels in the tub appeared bloody. Witness went into the chamber where the deceased lay, and found a black cap which had been apparently worn under another; it was lying under the shoulder of the de ceased; the white cap produced was on the head of the deceased, and the knife was under her right hand, between her wrist and her right side. On kite same day witness apprehended the prisoner's brother, on kuspicionp(being concerned in the murder. Witnev told her her brother was taken up about It, and served what a thing it was to bring her fiiends 'trouble. She said, " Neither her brother nor ether man had to do with the murder." (Wi never made her any promise whatever in case 'would confess.) Witness said," If you say that, know who did it." Prisoner almost immediate) plied, " the did it, and no one helped her." Bess asked pri-over what had become of the pro! ,tor and his family? she said, Joseph Dormer, his three sisters, and somebody else she did know, went to Mr. Aldridge's, of Thickthorn. tress asked her what had become of the rest of prosecutor's family ? she said that the pi oscc , two Mr. Brays of Coventry, and Mr. Harris of ' ton, went out towards Ashow, and that hersell mistress remained in the house. A little time of wards, two children of Mr. Dormer's, of W,,or came to the prosecator's house ; they came in al back door, and the deceased gave them a el.! , wine each, and some cucumbers; they stopped a few minutes, and went out of the front door. ' the -deceased and the prisoner wert into the L , ,z , and got some cucumbers; that they returned the garden to the house ; then the deceased wen the best kitchen ; she put her spectacles on, and gan reading. The prisoner went into the phia cut up some cucumbers and onions fir su i whilst the prisoner was cutting these cuctunhei s said a thought came in her head that she vanll 'and murder her mistress. She then left off euttin . cumbers, and went into the prosecuoir's hack kit e, 'which she generally did when shefetched wood. returned and put her burden apron on ; from thence she wenti to the wood-yard and into the lane, returned immediately into the house to the kitchen, where her mistress sat reading ; that knocked her out of the chair ; that as she fe, gave a shriek, and lay about a minute on the The prisoner stood looking at her, and then tfu teased gpt up and ran along the passage and u ; stairs. The prisoner then said she foliowed lie of the kitchen, and went t ersell into the dairy , prisoner took the carving:knife, znd went up ' 4 , the. deceased into her bed-room ; n hen the got there, the deceased was lying On the fluor , said she did not knock her down ; the prisoner thoiii the deceased had tripped . up. with the carpet nt t door, or was fainting. The pri t sofier theh,said, t. , hnt si leaned down, and began cutting the deceased with rb carving-knife: The deee.aied made little Or no resist, ance till she had cut her two orithree times; the teased did not speak, but she.made a kind.of rust) noise, - and caught at the knife with her hand . When the prisoner ha,' so cut her mistress, she' her down till she Was dead , and put the white on her head, 'which had coin* off in the struggl Witness asked the prisoner why the did net put black cap on ? The prisoner said—" She did think of it." Witness asked - the prisoner, why she the knife under the arm of the deceased ? She " she lifted the arm of the deceased, and put it L... to make persons believe drat the deceased had done it herself s" she said she put the-bloody tosicel in the tub, and that she meant to wash it oat the nears morning, when she washed the towels. Witness next asked the prisoner where • she got the towel fiom ? She said she took it off the banisters leading front Mrs. Dormer's room ; as soon as she came from it, she took this cloth and wiped her hands with it. Witness asked the prisoner if she knew anything of a piece of flannel which lay under the shoulders of the deceased ? She said she took it to wipe her hands, and threw it down and forgot it. Witness asked the prisoner how blood came on the burden-apron ? She said she could not tell. The prisoner, on being called upon for her de fence, and asked if she had any witnesses to call ? replied, in a firm tone, that she bad none. The Jury, after consulting together for a few mi nutes, brought in their verdict—Guilty, both of the petty treason and murder. On the question being put to the prisoner, by the Officer of the Omit, " it she had anything to say why execution should be stayed ?" she replied, in a firm voice, " No, I have not." Jones.—" Then may GOD have mercy on your guilty soul!" Sentence was then pronounced in the usual way, and her body was ordered to be given for dissection. Execurtes.—Wednesday morning, at half-past eleven o'cicck, the wretched criminal was conducted to the place of executida in the front Of the jail. She died with every mark of repentance for her horrid crime. Prior to the falling of the drop, she again said, that she had no reason for killiog her mistress, but that she thought she must murder her. She made a confession of her guilt similar to that given in evidence by &Derby. On die scaffold, she said—she had strong hopes that Gun Ar.mseiniv would forgive her—she truly repented of the horrid crime she had committed, and of all the sins or her life. She wished Mr. Dormer and his family health and•haPpiness, and she hoped the people round, and every person, would take warning from her fate ! BIRTHS. _ Friday, to 'Wimp°teat' -nat,„the lion. Mrs. Bagot, of a am Sunday, Lady Jane Peer - a a son. At Quiton, on the sth September, the Lady ,f Captain EL phinstona, ef a daughter. At Madras, the 6th October, the Lady of Joint Shaw, Esq. Register of the Supreme Cwt of Judicature, of a son. At Moncreiffe House, the lith instant, Lady Momenta, of a daughter. MARRIED. Tuesday se'nuight, at St. George's, Fbmover-agnore, Captain Garth, R.N. to Charlotte, eldest dug** of Lieutestant-Geue ral Frederick Maitland. Saturday, at Painswick, Gloucestershire, Thomas Jeffery Bumpsted, Esq. B.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, to Fanny, second daughter of the late Roger Smith, Esq. Walworth. March $, at South Salem (Connecticut), Mr. Hezekiab Pod, to Miss Sally Bean. Here Pod and Bean united are, In the cold clink of winter— • A tender vine, that grows so rare Since frost and hail can't hinder! " May they base a plentiful harvest, and may their fruits he • all beans of the same pod !" says the American Paper from which we copy the above article. On the 16th instant, at Bath, in the hith year of his age, Lien tenant-General Elliot, late Commandant of Royal Marines. Thursday, at bole Lodge, the Rev. James Ilasnihen, A. M. second son ef the late Rev. PeploeWard, D.D. Prebendary of At Malpas, the 11th inst. Edward, the youngest son of the Rev. W. W. Drake. Tuesday, suddenly, the Lady of Major Deshon, a Chester. Tuesday, in Park-place, St. Jansees, - aged 64, John Wray, Esq. Lieut.-Colonel Commandant 4th East York Local Militia. At St. Petersburgh, the 15th ult. Louis Duncan Casaanujar, Esq. Secretary tethe British Embassy at the Court of Russo. Sunday, in Conduit-street,"Hanover-upiare, William Macna mara, Esq. late Captain in the Hon. 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