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last words I came out in a passion, and flew at bias, and said." George, begone from my house, do you intend to commit murder?" He got up to go away. but she cried out, and he c +me back and bid her hold her tongue, and said he would have her shifted very soon. I said, " It you dare to hurt a hair of their beads, I will follow you both to York, and hang you both." The prisoner then went away, and never came to the house again. Anne was in my house a fortnight all but a day; she then went away with the children. They were then b - h well. Cross-examined by Mr. Serpent JONI'S .—I am a Catholic. The children were baptised by Mr. Ellis. He pronounced their names in English, the rest of the service was Latin. On the Monday night, at the time the prisoner and Anne were talking, Eleanor Thompson ,was in the room with them. She was a good bit from them ; she Will near the fireside. I listened in the next room. There are many holes that go quite through the wall where the bed stands. I was close to Anne's head. Anne was lying in bed when I ordered the prisoner ,away. I , was very angry with him. I was very cross with her after be was gone. I never left the children while they were in the house. I slept with the dear ;,babies every night. (The witness here burst into-tears). I told the neighbours what .1 overheard, and I sent Tommy Cleasby to tell the overseer that I wanted to see him, but he never came. I did not see Mr. Donald, the constable, until after the children were dead. I beg ged Anne not to go to the prisoner's house, but to go to a magistrate and take what would be allowed her, and then go to her mother's. There never was a tenderer mother over her children than Anne was whilst she was with me. Re-examiner.—The prisoner said he should have liked to have hid the younger child called " George," elifter himself. It was always called James, the other „child was called William. The latter part of the con • wersation i overheard was louder than the first part. I heard horn the first. The prisoner was kneeling near the bed. His head was close to the place where I stood.' By Mr. Baron HULLOCK.—The walls of the partition • are in the same state now as they were then. " Anne Hamilton, examined by Mr. STARICIL-4 WWI never married. I went to live with the prisoner ms, May-day, 1826 ; some time after that I was witlfehild by the prisoner; I continued with him until Martinmat last; I then went to my mother's, and stayed with het until after New-year's day, and then I went to the Oen. who placed me with Mrs. Sarah Robinson, at Lartingtons lavas pot to bed on the 19th of April, and delivered of two male children ; they were baptized by "?. Mr. Ellis in my presence; they were named William and James ; the younger was called James until the prisbner sent for me to his house ; the prisoner then gave him the name of George, and he was called George up to his death. The prisoner was at Mrs. Robinson's • the night I was confined ; he came to my bedside that night, and asked how 1 was, and' whispered to me, "Now make away with the younger boy." I made him no answer. He came to me the next Friday even ing, and asked me." Why I had not dense according to his words, and made away with the younger child ?" I told him I had not. He asked if I had riot had an op-I portunity of : doing it? I said , I hod not.; he then t me I must smother the younger child that everting ;.• could not give an answer so that. He came again tits next day,-Saturday, and brought me souse 'victuals. ai4 reproached me for not having made away with Jail* and said, " Make away with him to-night, and send one word to-morrow morning." He told meto lay upon -the child, and if I could not get rid of it that way, to • put its head under the pillow, and lie upon it. He 'tame again on •Sunday afternoon, but we were not much alone then. He did ask me then why I had not put away James? I said the woman had slept with me. lie then said, if 1 did not smother James that night, he would bring me no more victuals, but would le*ve me on the parish, and they might do what they liked with me. He came again on the Monday evening, with Eleanor Thompson. I was then up. He desired me to go back to bed, and I did so. He then came to me, and said, he had had his uncle from Bowes, and if I did not make away with the child he would sell his stock and go off to the Indies. 1 said, the woman slept with me again. He said, that was no reason why I should not have done it. I said, I would have done it, but I was afraid the woman would have caught me. Witness here protested that she never meant to harm the child ; she only said so to pacify the pri soner. She continued :—The prisoner then asked me to give up the elder child, and to shift with the younger as well as 1 could. Mrs. Robinson then came in, and asked me what I was crying about? The prisoner an swered, that I was afraid of being put in prison; but he would take care uf that, for he would take me to his own house and provide for me. Mrs. Robinson told the prisoner to ge from her house, for he made it mi serable. The prisoner did not come again while I was at Mrs. Robinson's, where I stayed 13 days after my confinement. The prisoner then sent Eleanor Thomp son, his housekeeper, with a cart for me and the chil dren, when we went to his house. That was on a Wed nesday. Nothing then ailed the children. George was buried that day fortnight. On the Sunday before he . seemed convulsed, and in the afternoon at eleven o'clock he was ill, but not much so. His mouth and finger nails turned blue; he was. very ill during the night. 1 had not mirk enough lot both; I fed them with boiled bread and milk. The prisoner, on the Monday morning, asked me hoW the child was? I said it was very ill. I then we, t with the prisoner a-milking, and when we came home, he said, " Poor little thing ; the bairn is worse." He then got some boily in a tea-cap, with some white stuff in it, but the child had none of it at that time. It was between six and seven when we went a-milking, and we might begone three quarters of an hour. When we returned, Eleanor had the child upon her knee; the prisoner poured the boily out of a tin mug into a tea-cup; there was some thing in it, parent which cleaved to the side of the cup, and part swam on the top of the boily ; Eleanor asked him " what that was that he was going to give the child?" He said, " Nothing that would hurt it; it was what they might all take; he should be sorry to hurt the child." He gave me a spoonful, and I swal lowed-it, and he put the cup to his mouth, but I could not tell whether be tasted it or not ; the prisoner then threw the contents of the cup behind the fire, and rinsed it out with warm water; what I took caused my mouth, tongue, and throat, to swell, so that I could scarcely swallow, and made me a little sick; the soieress con tinued a week; after the child was dead, 1 shewed my tongue to Anne Hammond ; the prisoner came in again from his work about ten o'clock that morning, and asked if the child was not better ? and he went and got a sup of gin •hnd water, and put some white powder in it; asked him what the pywder was? he said it was given hint by a doctor, for a pain in his own breast; he said, . " If it did good, GOD give we must say nothing about it." The pr ismer:had* the powder from out of the parlour, where I heard open and afterwards lock a boa, of which he all , kept the keys; when he came out of the parlour, brought the powder in a cup, and he give the gin and water to the child, who drank it, and he afterwards put the cup in the closet; about eleven o'clock the child grew convulsed and sick; it seemed in great pain, and was very much purged; it died about four o'clock; the prisoner went to thecow-house, and lay down; we had some talk about the child; he said it died of. the heart-heaves; it was buried°. tionWedisuley ; its body, legs, and hands, were black: ' • ,;•-• Cross-examined—The priest baptized• the two'chil dren. The ceremony was in Latin. I. am not quite certain that the prieSt mentioned the names" William" and " James." I had a child about a year before I lived with the prisoner. It is called Mary Jane: That child is now with my mother, at Kirby Thorn, and quite well. I have said that the prisoner was not the father of the thildren. I have sworn them to a man named Birkett, and a warrant was granted against him in Westmoreland. Birkett was then at Crooley. I left Westmoreland when I went to live with the prisoner. Birkett followed me as a sweetheart ; bat nothing: im proper ever passed between us. The prisoner wished me to swear that Birkett was the father of the child, and promised to marry me if I would do so. I never said to Donald that I did not know whether the prisoner was a man or woman; but I did tell him that Birkett was the father of the two children. It was after the inquiries about them that I said the prisoner was their father. The prisoner spoke to me on the Ihronday.after the birth of Abe children at Mrs. Robioson's, in a whis per; Ellen etas there; she is my niece. She was talk. ing to two men who were in the room, all the time the prisoner was there. One wits John Maynard, the other was Cornelius Robinson; Robinson was old and deaf. The prisoner whispered that they sleight not bear hie]. I had told Mrs. Robinson that the prisoner wanted me to smother the children, and I begged of her to listen when he came. The prisoner, before he went away that night, told me not to harm the children, for they should be able to bring them up. Ile said this in the bearing of Mrs. Robinson; he wished them both good night. The powder was white, like-magnesia. Ellen is a mar ried woman, and is my niece. Alter tke children were buried, Donald, the overseer, removed me to Westmore land. He told me it was rumoured the children had been put away, and I then told him all about the white powder. I have had quarrels with tie prisoner since the death of the children, but not because I was jealous of Eleanor. I never threatened him that I would bring a charge against him it he would riot marry me. 1 would marry him now if he would have me. • Anne Hammond deposed, thht the prisoner came for her on the afternoon of the Monday when the child died. Its nails were black. She - saw it. die, and laid it out. She was at the burial, both of this and of the other child, at Bower. Anne Hamilton seemed me her tongue after the child was buried. it wassmuch swollen. Cross.examined,Wnoess was the mother of seven children. 'it if it did_ Wisest a child dics of con, ulbions, its nails and lips sonietiraes aura blacks Joshua Monkbouse, a grocer and druggist at Bar nard-castle, stated. that the prisoner came to his shop in the beginning of last May twice for some mercury, but witness would not let him base any. Cross-examined.—The prisoner said he wanted it for a warble on a horse's back. Witness recommended a mixture which would *Li as wall. and which the pri goner took. Jonathan A wdi was present when the prisoner's.house O H searched ou'tl►e day be was ,apprehended. A box was broken open in the parlour. At the touosn of it there was a sosisll white powder. Witness took s ime of iit upon the point of his knife, and tasted it. It blistered Isis tongue. Cross-examined.—Wittess knew the prisoassr Mild ever heard any ill of him. He holds a farm of dawn ivy acres. Thomas Donald, constable and overseer of Luting ton, apprehended the prisoner, and 'oak 'bins to wit ness's house. The prisoner said he wss clear, and did not fear. The next morning my wife asked hie what kind of a night he had? He said he had never passed such a night before; if the children were taken up, and poison found in them, it would be hard indeed that he' should suffer for %%hat Anne had given them. Witness gathered the powder together. and carefully put in a paper, which he delivered to Mr. Miles Lawson. Cross-examined.—The prisoner came to witness the day before he was apprehended, and complained of Anne Hamilton. He said she had first fathered the children upon another man, and now laid them to him. —The prisoner made no resistance when he was ap- prehended. Mr. Miles Lawson was present when the powder was taken out of the prisoner's box; he received the powder from Donald, and kept it carefully until the Coroner's Inquest was held, when he gave it to Mr. Kiplin; wit ness produced a bond from the prisoner, indemnifying the parish from the expense of maintaining the children; witness had examined the partition between the two rooms in Robinson's house; there were a great many holes in it; a person on one side might easily hear a person speaking on the other side; the head of the bed was close to the partition where the holes were; the partition was lath and plaster. Martha Sayer, sister to the sexton at Bowes, proved the situation of the place where the child was buried. William Walton was pre,ent when the graves were opened and the children taken up; the children were opened, and their bowels were given to him ; he put the bowels of one child in a basin, and of the other on a plate, and locked them up at Mr. Rudd's, where the Inquest was held. Mr. Thomas Kipling. surgeon, of Barnard Castle— Witness on the Bth of June opened the bodies of the children at Bowes ; he applied several tests to the con tents of the stomach ; he applied ammoniaco nitrite, which produced a yellow precipitate inclining to orange colour. It appeared to witness to detect arsenic . 'llle stomach was inflamed enough to cause death ; he attri buted the inflammati-:n to arsenic. He placed the con tents of the stomach between two plates of heated steel. White powder came upon the plates. He also tried a solution of the sulphur of copper. bat that did not produce any arsenic. Witness received the powder from Lawson on the 9th of June. He made the same experinapis wi:h it as he had done with the contents of the stomach, and with the same effect. He saved part of the contents of the stomach, and sealed it in a bottle, which he gave to Mr. Davies of Manchester, with the remainder of the powder he received from Lawson. If a child were to take arsenic, it would produce paln,leat, vomiting, and thirst ; it would also turn the body black. Cross-elamined-2Atsenie is volatile; if put Into gin and water the great blubta tikinfd sink, and di finer particles only remain on the top; there would not be mud* adtissiou to the sides uT the Mr. Davies, chemist, of blanchestat,.•inaJe severa eiperiments.on the contents of the stomach, lid in the' powder which he received from Kipling, and disco vered arsenic each time; arsenic is rather of au adhesive • quality. Mr. SWARBRICK, solicitor for the prosecution, de• scribed the situation of the rooms in Mrs. Robinson's ' house. Mrs. kobinFon spoke to hint from the tOO,ll, where Anne Hamilton was whilst he was in the other Iroom, and he heard every word said. Witness was of 'opinion that a conversation in one room might be heard clearly in the other room. Donald whispered when he was on the other side of the partition; and he heard every word distinctly. He went •to the fire. place, and could nbt hear what Donald whispered whilst be was at the bed•head. The prisoner said he was innocent, and left his de• fence to his Counsel. No witnesses were called for hqn. Mr. Baron HULL'OCIC minutely summed up the evi-, dente, and observed, that the case depended principally 'upon the degree of credit the. Jury give to Anne Ha milton. They would consider that she had not given her information until after she had quarrelled with the! prisoner, and that she had perjured herself when she' swore the children to Bitlett at the instigation 9f the prisoner. The evidence of Mrs. Robinson was very important: it confirmed a great part of the evidence of Hamilton, and 'hewed that the prisoner had a mur derous intention towards the children. They would consider the case seriously before they convicted the prisoner, and consigned him to that punishment which a conviction must carry along with it i but it they were satisfied he was guilty, they would do 'their duty, and let the law take its course. . The Jury retired for about an hour And three quip ten, and then brought in a verdict of-t-Not tiritty. The pt isonerwris put rutin baron another indictment, for the wilful murder of Willi.an, the other chat.' ; and as no evidence was offered, Mr. Baron Hut.t.ocic directed an acquittal. His Lordship observed, that in this case there was not , sullE cient evidence of the manner in which the chid came by his death to warrant the prosecutors pressing the indictment. John Garth, of Barnard Castle, Durham, apothecary, was indicted for administeiing drugs to the same Anne Hamilton to procure her miscarriage. Mr. STAMM said that the only witness he had to produce against the pi isoner was Anne Hamilton, and AS she waSherself the applicant fur the medicine, she was, in point of law,- as much giiilty as the primaci was. It was true that persons had been convicted on the evidence of accomplices, but then their testimony had always been corroborated; but in this case, as the evidence of the accomplice would be entirely without confirmation, his Lordship would probably direct the prisoner to be acquitted ; and if so, it was useless to occupy the time of the Court about this case. . . Mr. Baron Hutt.ocK said, that Juries were not in the habit of giving credit to the unconfirmed statement of .accomplices; and as no other evidence could be offered, it was very right in the Counsel for the prosecution to make the statement he had done. The pris.ner was accordingly acqmilled. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M A NS lON- HOUSE. Demo &snit's Cecentits.—Saturday ,Irsis. Sstatwte►', an old ' clothe's man, residing in Itig-fair, veasktrought up on the lcillowing charge; One of the Olken of the 69th Regiment, at present sm. tinted in the Tower, stated t►at two of the privates, named Wm. Blackburn and Wm. Willis, had a few days since deserted from the Regiment; one of thentlWUlis) returned to his duty on Thursday, and stated that he had sold his regimental( in Rarialr, and received coloured clothes in exchange. The Serjaant accompanied ldne there, when he pointed out the prisoner as the person to whom he sold them. William Willis was then examined. He anted that he Was in duced to desert by Blackburn, on Wednesday evening—he accom panied him to the prisoner's shop, where they exchanged their regi• mental. (or coloured clothes. The prisoner purchased their belts of them, and said he could melt the brass ornaments. He then parted company With .Blackburn, but afterwards regretted what he had done, and returned to his duty. John Kerr, the serjeant, stated, that he accompanied the lart wit ness to the prisoner's house. He denied having purchased any thing of either bim or Blackburn, but, on searching theplace, he found the belts of both men—the marks had been partly obliterated, but the initials of the men remained. The LAID klayoz, on referring to the Mutiny Act, stated, that the offence of the ptiaoner was punishable with either a fine of ten pounds, or, in the event of that not being paid, with three months' imprisoment ; and he should therefore send him to Newgate for three months; at the expiration of that time he would publicly state, that the Act of Parliament gave the Magistrate the power to order ►uch offenders, to be publicly or privately whipped, and the next time that a similar offence was proved before him, he would take care that such punishment should be indicted in the most ex emplary manner. HEBDOMADARY. Tuts Day—Transfiguratias; a festival instituted A.D. 700, h commemoration of the miraculous change in our Saviour's appear ance, when he was seen talking with Moses and Sias; TO•MORROW—Name of Jesus; a festival to commemorate the sp parance of an Angel to Joseph announcing that the Virgin Mary am pregnant, and was conceived of the Holy Ghost. Fall Moon 40 min. past 5 in the morning. WIDNESPAT-Ceres souths 29 min. past 3 in the morning.—The festival of the wood offring with the Jews. On this day the sari. 0111 families made their volantary offer of wood, besides their ap pointed portion, delivered on a set day previously. Tutrasette—A remarkably high tide may be expected on this day. Sun rises 30 min. after 4—sets 30 min. after 7. FLIDATSC. Lawrence ; a Spaniard, who, in the third century, I was broiled to death upon a gridiron, for professing the Christ's') Faith. SATORDAY—Dog-days end—Eighteenth of Ab with the Jews. Aka:, one of their Kings, on this day shut up the doors of the Temple, which continued dosed throughout his reign, whereby the Priests were prevented frum burning the lamp at morn and eve, to keep it burning continually before the Loan. Thereupon a fast was ordered. GUILDHALL. Thomas Gill, one of the porters who wait about the avenues to Doctors' Commons, was brought before Mr. Alderman Tuomeson en Saturday, charged under the City Sewers Act, with obstructing the tree passage upon the highway, and incommoding and annoying the passengers thereon, whereby be bad forfeited a sum not exceed ing XS, in the discretion of the Magistrate. Mr. Wilson, the book seller, at the corner of Dean's -court, in St. Paul's Church-yard, said, the defendant was parading op and down Dean's-court, from t t till 4 o'clock, on Friday. He was inebriated, and in the course of the day quarrelled with another porter as to which of them had a right to the job of shewjug some Lady into the Commons. When they came up to bra door, be desired them to move away, and Gill replied be would not move until he chose. Having repeated his request many times, and the the defendant refusing to attend to him, he gave him into custody. Mr. Alderman Tuostesow said persons could not be suffered to get drunk and make a row in a narrow avenue. Such disturbances were sometimes made to enable pickpockets to commit their depre dation*. If, however, the defendant thought fit to promise to dis. continue the system of annoyance, he would confides the imprison ment he had suffered since the previous afternoon, a sufficient punishment.—Gill made the required promise, and was dismissed. HATTON-GARDEN. Elizabeth Darby, a matronly looking female, was committed for stealing a gold watch and appendages from Chas. V. ILopelanges, a Spanish Gentleman, who was robbed in a brothel at St. Gii.es _ - on ibe night of the 17th of July. He did not identify the prhoner, but she was stopped on the 20th, offering the property for sale to a broker at Somers Town, for whom she wu in the habit of washing: The prisoner offered no defence. Saturday, Johnson the informer, appeared at this Office, to sus tain remits charges of violations of the law under the Licensed Vic tuallers Act. Mr. Marks, the proprietor of the Old Red Lion, Wild street, Drury-lane, was summoned for having his house open at balf•put 12 o'clock on Saturday night, t►e 28th of last month. lint the case being clearly and strongly met by the defendant, the Magistrates, without hesitation, pronounced a dismissal. 31r. Newey, the proprietor of the Grapes, Drury-lane, was sum moned for keeping open his house 50 minutes after 11 o'clock, on Tuesday night, the 31st Of July. The summons was dismissed upon the mere payment of costs, in consequence of Mr. Newey having but just entered the house, and never being is the business before. IdARLBOROUGH.STREET. Jails Brows, the driver of the chariot No. 833, was charged be- fore tie Hey. Ddr. Thisby with assaulting H. C. Wade, Esq. The complainant hired the chariot to go to Sluane•street, but alighted in Piccadilly, in consequence of the furious pace the defendant pru. ceedeil at. lie offertd the defendant hit fate, nhich he at fug re. MA RRIED. Rev. A. Burn, M.A. of Kinnerdey, Salop, to tliu Francisca Octavio Harris. Browne, Vicar of Hinckley, Leicestershire, to Mid Lapwortb. Rev. Mr. Bryan, to Elisabeth, daughter of J. Chadwick, Et+ of Ba hired, hot ht e taf 4eve terw n a ed rkl i s y e ar:H ere:4 la : wicefi xir r . . t c v a . l l c e a d ned the : ..t, t w i a l ,; (lea isikir: t ;pain t-e yed ton of a --.—, end did his best to pruvnh,• te write a blow; but failing, be turned assaoant, end pursuing him, hit M levant, Do take notice nt the assault, and Colcbee then he:putrid him all over with mud. The defendant now pleaded, that the who, of the awash was " accidental," and that hr Wit very sorry ; 44 ,1 he produced a witness, who had the hardihood to swear the c ock wan did ow strike a blow, nor threw any niud.—The dftly." was as dared to find ►ail, and give 4e hour.' notice thereof. 111AILY-LA.LKINNE. I r. Aetna= was remanded, on a charge of stealing spoons mew the premises of Mr. Woolnoth, of AgnesVillu, which he entered, tinder pretence of baying some sealing wax for sale. QUEEN-SQUARE. Saturday juseph friddisou was brunght up for final examinati on charged with stealing a trunk, con ta i n i ng wearing apparel, from di: passage of the. dwelling•house of John King, E l . No. 20, Gros. Tenor-place, apppeared from the st.tement of Mr. King's butler, that the trunk bad been left in the pelage for ahnin three weeks. About eleven o'clock is the morning, .%•Ir. Dorman. the iaodlnrd of the Sun in Chapel-street, calied at the h and' inquired if the trunk was missing, as a swpicious i„ d i a „ passed the doer with • trunk on his stioulderi. The trunk via. gone , an d they instantly set off in pursuit, and overtook the goner, in Belgrave-Street, carrying the trunk. air. Henry Dvrinan, landlord of the Sun, stated, that Irvin serving Mr. King's house with beer, he bad freqvendy seen th Itrunk in the passage, which he knew, when he Wel the prit‘tOge carrying it, and thinking something was wrong, induced him to es, Information of the circumstance. The prisoner, hr his defence, aid, a man gave him the trank to carry to ,a coat ti•office. In answer to name questions by the Magistrate, the prime t said he did Mt know the man, neither did he know to what 04 Mice he was to carry It. Tbe Magistrate, not giving much credit to this story, the prm was (Ay committed for trial. WORSHIP-STREET Groans apparently bor eCwAZinstierntyNallnd"sevkleunßatyriLye—arsSaofturdagaey,,wjaasistichllll4arged with a desperate assault and attempt to Aid hlargaret Horny with wheat he cohabited. The poor Woman, although maimed for life, being now considered oat of danger, the present tuna. nation was final. It appeared from the unfortunate woman's deposition, taken he ' fore Sr Prins LAURIN, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the 14th Id June, when she believed herself to be dying, that she and the prisoner had lived together far Sone years, but were never ma rred; and during the time they had hied together ' he sometim es behaved kindly to her, but at othei times he used her very ill. Inn Christmas they lived in the neighbourhood of Blackfriars, and his conduct was then so 'putt:eons, that his mascs closed him to be confined in a mad-house. On Saturday, May she gave bins a sovereign to go to market with, out of which he returned her 14s. and on Sunday they dined together. She was in ill health, and after dinner lay down on the bed, and left bins 'sitting by the fire. Shortly afterwards she awoke, and saw the prikiner advancing towards her with a poker, with whiCh be struck her adio9 eyes, sod she afterwards felt several blows on the head. When ske recovered, she heard footsteps down the stairs, and presently after wards the neighbours came to her assistance. A surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital stated, that there were two wounds on the back of the head, and two on the left temple, which had every appearance of excised wounds; and if he had no been told they were inflicted with a poker, he should have thou* they were inflicted with a sharp cutting instrument. There wats wound across the nose, which had ruptured the vessels of the eye', and completely destroyed the sight of both eyes; and two finger's; the left hand were broken. Until the last fortnight, the patient as in a most dangerous state. S . The poker, bent double, and with marks of blood and hair upao it, was produced at the office. kIr.BILGOONTOIO told the prisoner hemust take his trial on slis capital charge, and the consequences would be the same as if the woman had died. He was then fully committed to Newgate. UNION-HALL • Contras.—Saturday, a man named Giles, and a female with whom he cohabited, named Mary Amer. were charged wth cuininl. Myers, and several other constables, haying received infortnatios that the prisoners were engaged in the illegal trade of coining. en. tered their aparments, No. 5, in Cross -street. Newington, en Fridq after, oon, and found the prisoners busily engaged in coining cow. terfeit shillings. On the entrance of the emcees, Giles, who wale the act of pouring melted metal into a mould; placed the mould, which is made of Piaster of Paris, between his knees, and crushedi: together. The pieces, however, were collected together, and amongst them was found a counterfeit shilling.—The prisonsts were committed for trial. CoNSISTORT COURT, GLOCESTER, AUGUST 2.—Hs• uterus, Rae. o. HAMMTOII.—This vim a suit instirut;cl by i Ilamerton against his wife, by reason: Of adultery alleged to bare been committed with John &War. Es 4 Mr: Cooke, is Proctor for Major Ilamertua, prayed that the libel pled might be admi:ted. Mr. Small/Mgr, &Jae Proctor of Mrs. Hamerton, prayed time vs consult thereon, and applied on her behalf for an allowance for alimony. The Jadge of the Court, the Rev. Dr. TimbrOb.aliond at the rate of WOE per annum pending the suit. SWERI/11 COURT, GLASGOw„—High M.Lept, some• time publican in Iligh.street, was last week tried before the Sheriff and a Jury, for an assault on a girl aged about 14 years. with in tent to commit a rape in High-street, in September last. VaricAts witnesses were adduced, who dearly established the ptisooes s guilt, and he was adjudged to be imprisoned in Bridewell for Is months, and to be banished the county for three years, ander Uni fication, that if found in the county during that period, to be im prisoned for another twelve months. The girl ammeited was a ser vant of pannel's, and fie has been in jail for Deady ten months. He was indicted at last Circuit, but in consequegce anomie flaw intim indictment, the trial was not proceeded in. DIED. 'Monday, th e Rev. Dr. Duncan, of Ratho, principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. Rev. T. Roe, of Kirby-upon-Rain, Lincolnshire, an active Ms. gistrate for Homcastle, aged 55. At Yardley Vicarage, Hens, the Rev. Wm. Parslow, aged 61 • and 55 years Vicar of that parish. At St. Lucia, on the 25th of May, Lieut. and Adjutant Macs, of the 35th Regiment, in the 28th year of his age. HI G H- W ATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORROW. 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