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SCOTCH CIRCUITS. GLASGOW, SEPTEMBER 19. This day the Court of Justiciary was opened here by the Hon. Lords Gtl.l.lEs and SUCCOTH. After prayers by the Rev. Dr. RANKEN, and the list of the Jury having been read, Ann Wilson alias Moore, indicted for passing two forged 30s. notes, of the Belfast Bdnk, one in the shop of - Messrs. William and Alexander Campbell, mer chants, Salt-market; and one in the shop of William Green, straw-hat-manufacturer, Nelson - street , on the 3d of May, pleaded Guilty of passing the notes, but declared she did not know they were bad, as she had got them for cloth. The declarations of the prisoner being proved, there was called, William Adam, salesman to Messrs. Campbell and Co. recollects the prisoner coming to their warehouse on the 3d of May, and purchasing somearticles which came to 12s. for which she tendered a 30s. note of the Belfast Bank. Shewed it to Mr. Campbell, and asked if he might take it? he said - he might ; pri soner asked witness if he took any Irish notes? he said sometimes, asked if it was good ? prisoner said it was; saw prisoner have another Irish note at the same time. After witness had taken the note, a wo man came the same day from Mr. Green's shop, in Nelson-street, with another Irish note, and asked change. Witness went with her and Mr. Campbell,' and saw the same person from whom he had taken the note, in Green's shop. Prisoner denied that wit ness had seen her before, and appeared surprised when he told her she had given him a bad note that day. , Prisoner said she got the note she gave in Green s shop from a sailor in Greenock. Witness went and got Police-officers, and when he returned saw Mr. Campbell have the note she had tendered in Green's shop all chewed and wet, as if it had been in a mouth. Witness put the note he took into the drawer among other notes, which were all Scotch. The note was taken to the Police Office the same evening, which he now identifies. (Here Lord GULLIES advised the woman to think seriously of her situation, and the plea she had put in, before the case went any farther. Mr. DICKSON, her Counsel, went and talked with her a few minutes; but she Fersisted in her plea, and the trial went on). Edward Langlands, clerk to Mr. Campbell.-1 wa s in Mr. Campbell's shop when I saw the prisoner come in upon the 3d of May. She bought some silk hand kerchiefs, and tendered an Irish note, which was shewn to Mr. Campbell, and afterwards put into the drawer. J am sure there were no other Kish note, in the drawer. Ile identified the note. Letitia Bond, shopkeeper to Mr. Green.—l recol lect the prisoner coming to the shop and looking at a straw bonnet. She said if I could give her change fur an Irish note she would buy it. She said she would take 255. for the 30s. as she must have the note changed. I said I felt for her losing so much, and would endeavour to get the note changed. I took it to Mr. Campbell's warehouse. He said he had got one of the same that day from a woman, and it was bad. Mr. Campbell and his warehouseman returned with witness, and asked prisoner if she knew him ? She said, no. He said she had been in Campbell's warehouse that day, and gave them a bad note. She was embarrassed for a moment, and then denied it. Mr. Campbell stopped in the shop. and .his ware houseman went for the Police. The prisoner then asked for the note she had given witness to change ; I laid it upon the counter, and the prisoner put it in her pocket ; she afterwards put it in her mouth ; Mr. Campbell said she had put the note in her mouth ; she denied it, and said it was a piece of biscuit she tad in her mouth ; she then went to a retired place of the shop, and stooped and said her foot was stare; Mr. Campbell took a candle and looked what she was about, and found the note, which she had put out of her mouth ; he then gave it into the hands of the police, who had just entered the shop ; it was wet, and all chewed like tow ; witness saw it afterwards in the Police-office ; bad observed the number when the note was first tendered, and when witness saw it in the office knew it. was the same note, as the num ber was still legible. Sarah Gardner, daughter of John Gardner, butcher, and servant to William Green.—Saw the prisoner in Mr. Green's shop early in May ; Miss Bun.l had an Irish note in her kind ; witness offered to get the note changed ; lamer said the note was wm th 30s. but "she would give it ibr 275. witness offered only 265. arid prisoner came back to see if witness would take it ; she said I might, but it was robbing people and taking the money out of their pockets. Miss Bond then went and said she would get it changed. When Miss Bond was out, witness was sitting beside the prisoner. She said " I am very uneasy. I wish all may be right. I wonder if she has gone to Camp- I bell's warehouse." Miss Bond, Mr. Campbell, and his warehouseman, then came in, and Mr: Adam said she had given him a bad note to-day in Mr. Camp- bell's warehouse. She denied it, and said she had not been there that clay. When Mr. Cari4l,bell's warehouseman went out for the police, she asked the note from Miss Bond ; and when she got it she put her hand to her pocket and then to her mouth. Mr. Campbell asked for the ncte, she said she had not got it, and said witness had it ; witness said she had it not. She then went round the counter and stooped down and said she had a sore foot. Mr. Campbell said she had chewed the note, she denied it, and wit ness took the candle and went round the counter to look where she had been, and Mr. Campbell picked up the note, and said " I told you you had chewed it, see what a state it is in."—(This witness was about fourteen years of age, and Lord (iILLIES compli mented her for the distinct evidence she had given). Donald Frazer, criminal officer, apprehended the prisoner, and found on her person twenty-three shil lings and three half-crowns. Two clerks of the Belfast Bank proved the notes to be forgeries. The declarations of the prisoner were then read. . Mr. Hors raid the case was so clear that he would not take up the time of the Jury in going over the evidence. Whatever might be the consequence of their verdict, such was the present .prevalence of forged notes. in the country, that he could not take upon himself to restrict the libel ; mercy must come from a higher quarter. Mr. DICKSON, Counsel for the prisoner, followed the example of Mr. HOPE, and did not detain the Jury. Lord GILLIES summed up the case in a very few words.—The Jury retired for about an hour, and re turned with a unanimous verdict of Guilty, and by a plurality of voices recommended the prisoner to mercy. Lord Gttwits, in passing' sentence, observed that that was just such a verdict as the Court had to ex pect; and he must say, with sorrow, that, consistent with their public duty, they had no other alternative than to pass upon t!•e unhappy woman the last sen- . tence of the law. The multiplicity of the criminal cases would not allow him to enlarge upon the enor mity of the crime of which she had been convicted. He warned the prisoner to entertain no hopes of mercy from man, but rather to prepare for her ap pearance before that awful Tribunal where her fate would be fixed for eternity. She was then sentenced to be hanged on the 24th of October During the address the prisoner frequently cried, " 0 mercy, my Lord !" and at last walked down the stair with decent composure, saying something about having been decoyed into the crime. Michael Macintyre, William Paterson, or Kidston, and Margaret Macnair, were accused of entering the house of John Niven, journeyman tanner, Crawford's Dyke, Greenock, and stealing therefrom three women's shifts, a half sheet, a black coat, three waistcoats, a pair of black breeches, a pair of blue pantaloons, a bombazet gown, three printed cotton gowns, a cassi mere shawl, a cotton shawl, two women's caps, three children's caps, two frocks, and two children's aprons, and of being habit and repute thieves; they pleaded Not Guilty. Jenet Levingston, the wife of John Niven, had occasion to go out of her house and lock the door; on her return she found the house had been entered and robbed of the aitides detailed above; gave informa tion to her husband, and heard the robbers had gone to Port-Glasgow, whither she followed them, but 105 t her object ; on returning she was informed by a wo man of the house (Montgomery) where the robbers were ; went there and found some of the clothes, in particular the black breeches that was worn by Kid ston at that time—searched Macintyre's lodgings and found there the pantaloons, rolled up in straw, in a corner of the bed. John Niven corroborated the evidence given by his wile in every particular, and added, that Monto mery denied having the clothes, and afterwards gave them up by throwing them in a bundle, towards wit ness ; on searching the female prisoner, she wore " one of his wife's sarks!" George Orr, baker, saw the prisoners walking, previous to the robbery ; saw Kidston, with a bundle of-clothes pass the bake-house door, and. the others followed or walkeJ with him ; the bundle was en compassed in a shawl. Niven's wifr. came to the bake-house, and witness told her the persons having the clethes had gone towards Glasgow; witness went in pursuit of the robbers, seized one, and his brother took another, and they were sent to the Police Office. Bernard Montgomery, knows the prisoners ; the last time (month of May) they were in his house, they had a bundle of clothes with them ; Fraser, the Po, lice-officer, and another, came and asked for the bundle, which witness 4iewed him, it being lying on the bed in the room ; never deniid the bundle was there, , but rather told the officers that the bundle was there ; the party changed clothes in his house, but he was not present. Malcolm Fraser, town-officer of Port-Glasgow, proved the finding of the prisoners and of part of the clothes being on them ; Macintyre was in the 2,1 Bat talion of the 2tith Reg iment of Foot, with w itness, where he was punished for being a thief. Mr. Bremner, keeper of Madmen, .knew the pri soners to be in his charge, and considers them habit and repute thieves. Donald Fraser and Donald Cameron, Police-officers, said they were habit and repute thieves. The ADvocATE-DcPurE addressed the Jury, and rest! icted the libel against the prisoner 3lacnrir, and urged the propriety of returning a verdict of Guilty against all the other prisoners. Mr. %APIZR spoke in favour of the prisoners. The Jury was then addressed by Lord SUCCOTH. After being a considerable time absent they re turned into Court, finding the two men (or boys) Guilty ; and as to the female, Not Proven. Lord SUCCOTH addressed them in a most appro. priate speech, and they were afterwards sentenced to be hanged on the 24th of October. Kidston shed tears, and Alacintyre said he did not care a sl—n for his &citation. Lobelia IPGilvray, alias Mind, accused of utter ing a forged note of the Greenock Bank, on the 12th of April, and of having a number of others in her possession, knowing them to be forged, pleaded Not Guilty. Robert mnille, spirit-dealer, Great Hamilton• street, saw the prisoner in his house on the 12th of April ; a little girl, prisoner's daughter, came in before her, and asked for half a mutchkin f rum at a shilling, for which she offered a guinea note of the Greenock Bank ; it was folded when tendered ; he called for his wife to change it, who thought it was bad ; the young girl went away home, and in about fifteen or twenty minutes after tke prisoner came. to get the note his wife had retained ; prisoner asked what was wrong about the note? his wife replied; the note was bad; prisoner asked the note back ; witness's wife replied, that as the little girl said she got the note from a man, she had nothing to do with her; prisoner said she would not like to affront the man ; prisoner after wards said she got it from a man in payment for washing; prisoner said she did not know the man whom she got it from, having only worked for him a fortnight ; prisoner seemed very desirous to get back the note, and promised to give half a mutchkin for it ; witness went to the Polite Offict, and had her taken into custody. The prisoner, after the examination of the first witness, pleaded Guilty, and a number of witnesses were examined in exculpation, who all considered her an honest woman before the commission of the present crime. She had been deserted by her husband, and had two children to support by her industry. The Jury found her Guilty in terms of her own confession, but on account of her• former good chit teeter recommended her to the clemency of the seven years transportation. SEPTEMBER 22. _ _ Mr. William Les was charged with having per- I suaded J. Mitchell, carpet-weaver, in the employ ment of Robert Thomson and Son, to leave this king dom and go to New York, and enter into the service of John and Nicholas Haight, manufacturers. lie was called to the Bar. Mr. ROBINAION objected to the relevancy of the in dictment. The indictment went on to gate, that the specific kind of carpets were unknown in 4mericit, before the person alleged to be seduced went and taught them ; but they would be able to prove, that carpets of the same kind were manufactured in Ame rica long antecedent to this date. lie would also bring the person who was said to be seduced, and he would prove at the Bar that he was not seduced.— The Public Prosecutor had laid his indictment in such a manner, that Mr. Lee must bring all his evi dence from a foreign country. He hoped, as their Lordships had a discretionary power, they would allow time to the prisoner to make preparations for his trial. He had only been served with his indict ment on the first September, scarcely three weeks ago. The Public Prosecutor replied ; and Mr. Cocic- BURN said, that as the libel stated that the manufac ture was unknown in America till Mitchell was sent thither, the prisoner had a right to glove that that manufacture was known just as well as the manufac ture of spades or ploughs, or anything else. The prisoner had a right to prove,_ that John and Nicho las Haight did not set up that manufactory. He found, as a matter of antiquarian research, that this statute was passed seventy years ago, and only one matthad been tried upon it, and that was at the in stance of a private prosecutor. It was notorious that the manufactures of this country had gone on flou rishing without the aid of this statute, and surely no resurrection of it could be of any benefit now. Lord SUCCOTH proposed, that the case should be brought before the High Court of Justiciary. Lord GILLIES concurred, and the case is to be cer tified to the High Court of Justiciary. Time all to the prisoner to prepare for his defence on the 19th of November. After a few words respecting the amount of bail necessary, Mr. Lee left .the Cuurt, which WAS very respectably filled. INVERARY, SEPTEMBER n. The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here yesterday by the Hight Hon. Lord SUCCOTH. Joky: .Done 1, riding officer of Excise, was then put to the bar, charged with an assault upon the per son of. Alexander Faskin, another officer of Excise. A plea of justification, on the ground of provocation, was put in by the prisoner, and several witnesses con cuired in giving him an excellent character. The Jury found the prisoner guilty of the assault, but not to the danger of Faskin s life, as libelled, and they recommended the prisoner strongly to the mercy of the Court, in consequence of the verbal provocation given, and of his good character. Mr. NM/win/v.4 his Counsel, read to the Court several most respect. able teltimonials to character, when the ADVOCATE DEPUTE stated to the Court, that in consequence of the recommendation of the Jury, and the very strong certificate: of character, he felt himself at liberty, in the due discharge of his duty, not to press the Court for any judgment against the prisoner, who was there upon dismissed, after a suitable admonition from the l lon. Judge. sr.rTr.NtnFAt 12. The trial of Donald Rankin extended to a very unusual length, having occupied the time of the Court yesterday from eleven o'clock in the forenoon till midnight. The Jury, after being addressed by his Majesty's ADVOCATE-DEPUTE on the part of the Crown, and by Mr. FI.F.TCDF.R on behalf of the pri soner, the former in a speech of great length, re• markable throughout for ability and the soundest reasoning, and the latter in an exceedingly neat and judicious appeal to their judgment and feelings, were charged by Lord Succorn with the greatest precision and attention to the evidence. They were then en closed, and ordered to return their verdict this fore noon. ►'hen the Court met the Jury gave in their verdict, finding, by a plurality of voices, the prisoner Guilty, bat strongly recommending him to mercy. Mr. FLETEDIER, as Counsel for the prisoner, objected, in arrest of judgment, that the date affixed to the verdict was the 11th of September, whereas it was notot ions to the Court that the Juty had not been enclosed till past twelve o'clock at night of the 11th, and that the date of the verdict being thus a false date, no sentence could pass upon it. • After some discussion, Lord SuceoTit certified the case to the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh. PERTH ASSIZES. The Circuit Conrt of Justiciary was opened at Perth on Wednesday se'nnight by the LORD JUSTICE CLERK and Lord PITDIILLY• Margaret Tindell, or Shutt!motile, from Mon trose, indicted for the murder of her'husband Henry Shuttleworth, on the 27th of April last, pleaded Not Guilty. Two witnesses proved the finding of a poker in Shuttleworth's house; it was bent at the one end ; there was blond on it, and some hair. Catherine Macleod was a servant to Mr. Shuttle worth ; deceased and his wife were very happy when he was sober, but she very often got drunk, and was very outrageous, cursing and swearing. On the night Shuttleworth died, the prisoner was completely intoxicated, and was quarrelling with her master; in a passion she drove her hand through the kitchen window. Witness having obtained leave to go to a wake, put her mistress, who was lying on the floor, to bed. When she came back, saw the deceased lying at the foot of the stair, and much blood lying: her mistress said he had fallen down stairs, and said if she had heard him fall, she might have saved his life ; prisoner expressed no wish to send for a doctor; her master, before his death, talked often of leaving Montrose, and her mistress was angry at this ; saw some foot-marks on the stair leading to the bed-room ; saw the officers find the poker ; has seen the prisoner throw the poker after her husband in the passage. Mr. Farquharson, brewer, Montrose, has his house opposite where deceased lived, he was on very bad terms with his wife; deceased, the night before his death, told him he was going to give up his premises on account of his wife's behaviour ; heard no person enter the house after he left him, and no noise or dis turbance whatever; about four o'clock prisoner came to his house and said, " rise, Farquharson, for Shut tleworth is lying in the entry ; he got up ; found deceased lying in the passage, he was dead and cold; said to prisoner he would go for a doctor ; she made no objections ; brought Dr. Hoil ; when he came back observed the marks on the stair; there were finger marks of blood on the kitchen door about three feet from the fvound ; does not think that by Shut tlewordet falhag down stairs he could have been in the position be saw him; prisoner did not ap pelt sober when witness fit st saw her. Dr. Hoil examined the ho.! y of Shuttlewnrt3l; found a wound on the back part of the head ; t h e skull fractured. It could not have been f rom a f A I 1 it must have been occasioned by ses e re blows; dile, blows he could distinctly count, from th e excavatiois, and blood from the wounds. The wounds appeared to have been occasioned by some p on d erous hndy having struck the head ; appeared to b e i n fli cted by some blunt weapon. The prisoner ap peared muck agitated ; her hands had the mark of bl oo d , particd larly the fore fingers ; did not ask her t o account for these appearances; she seemed to be co n f used and ashamed of being intoxicated ; saw spots of mooit on her blue check apron lying on a chair. wi tness distinctly states that the fractures could not possible have arisen Jrom a fall down stairs; thinks that the poker used broad-ways might have occasioned Ike wounds on the head ; where the wounds were, tae hair seemed to be off. .Drs. Crarnb and Gibson also examined the body, and confirmed Dr. Iloil. -. E. Craw on the Friday heard a pane of glass beak ; the deceased called svhness to see what she had do ie; she said if she had the big poker she would lay his brains on the floor, and let him look at that; dal& sire was the.worse of liquor. The Jury return.!a verdict of—Ggilty of 3E - rder. The LORD JUSTICE CLERIC then pro cee d e d to pail the dreadful sentence of the law, urgn g upon th e prisoner the heinoatness of her crime, aggravated at it had been,, instead of mitig:tted, by the state 4 in. toxication in which she api.eared to have been at tle time. She was sentenced. to be executed at Nino. iro:e on the second of November, and her body is be delivered to the surgeons. ATTEIirT AT Moaner_—.lt an early herr yesterday mornizs the watchmen on duty in Charles -street, Drary-Lne, damned by the most piercing shrieks, end cries of Matda` which were shortly followed by a lout raise, apparesely is if heavy substakce had fallen into the street. Oa reeeeliag 3 the spot, they found a decent Molting man lying on the gars; in a state of insensibility, and bleeding most colsiotely fruma s ears, rose, and mouth. The first object of the watchmen wa to convey him to the Middlesex Hospital, whet- loving medical assistance, he recovered a little, and was then able relate what hid happened to him, which was in sub:slue follows:—Ile had been enticed into a house of ill f;•mr. Charles-street, by a female, veho, efter robbing him of aka £‘2o in money, railed in several rufhans, who bet him met unmercifully with bludgeons, and afterwards threw hiaload the second Boor window into the street! The Surgeens hard his skull dreadfully fractuted. The Officers imincdiet,ly toted an inquiry into the matter, and five women, in.:ludingtha landlady at the house, on whom great suspicion rests. were prehended, and lodged in the watelihouic ; but the landlordoss some men who lodged iu the house, have absconded. In de course of the day, Sarah Pollack, Martha Agg.-1, and Mary Ho. ? gerty, were brought from St. Giles's watch-house to Mules rough-street Police Office, charged with throwing the teems nate man, James Thayer, out of the window. The ;nista; Pethick, said she met the man in I lolhoru, and, after aerial her with gin, he went home with her: he gave her money purchase beef-steaks, which she did ; and then he gave bean!: a-crown to buy bread, wi.ich she gave to a young man, battle Letter kept the change:. This caused him to get into a passin, and she kft him, when the occupier of the rocas came up tom him out; but he knocked her down, and this caused the au. rib She could nut say how he gut out of the window. Mania A,igel was then put to the bar, and she gave the same oast of the affair as Pethick did. Ms. lag:erty was the LSI pew the bar; she admitted she was the owner of the house; , he suf she was in bed when they were informed Thayer was knocking down every one; they called the watchman, upon sykkh be raa up to the second floor. Here she endeavoured to ihSillUlttai he had thrown himself out of the window. A woman, wind Price, distinctly swore to Pethick, as being the person* threw the unfortunate man out of the window. The (doer; ' certificate was then handed to the 31agistrate, from the Hoax Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital: " Sta—This is to certify that James Thayer, brought inlet with an extensive wound upon his head, is now sensible. lb states that he was stunned by a blow of a stick, by some min he does not recollect bow he was thrown out, or by whom. i. decided opinion can as yet be given, but it is hoped the wool will not prove fataL" Signed, &c. The Magistrate ordered the prisoners to be remanded fora week, and kept separate. In the meartirte, Purzeman and tk other Constables are in search of Haggerty and Burrell, tk men who were seen in the house when the occurrence took phi PREIVOKIMO Poe ITENES%--Williain Jones, a manufacturer d weather-glasses, was charged at Guildhall, by the Officers of St. Andrew's, Holborn, with riotous and disorderly conduct. Its the practice, at Messrs. Thompson's wine-vaults, on Holborn hill, not to serve any persons who are intoxicated with liquor; and the prisoner, while in that state, went to the shop and askd for a glass of gin, which was positively refused to be served la m Ile then insisted on knowing the reason, itt so loud a tone a voice as to call forth Mr. Fearon (Mr. Thompson's son-in-hr) from the back room, who addressed Jones very mildly, sat*, " Come, come, my good man, you must go away, or I slunk obliged to find you a lodging for the night."—" Sir," repfei Jones, with the most provoking coolness, " I am much oblietl to you, hut I am already provided with a very good lodekea Belton -street, end therefore have no occasion for another.'- " My good fellow," said Mr. Fearon," you must go out oftk shop, or 1 shall be forced to help you out."—" Sir," unwell Jones, " I am, I thank you, in very good health; and whet want to go out, I shall be able to do so very wel, MAIO troubling you for your help." This coolness overturned Jfc Fearon's philosophy, and, finding himself foiled at his awn ten . pan, he diverged from admonition to physical force, and sled the fellow by the collar to kelp him out; but no sooner subs person touched, than the mercury in the weather-glassangd! , barometer rose instantly to " blood heat ;" he became ter ous, and, when forced out of the shop, continued his flel° vociferations at the doer, by which a great mob was tolke . dr and which was at length dispersed only by the Men nag the enraged philosopher to the Compter. When ?bet a *de •" k bar yesterday, his spirits were again down to "worra not expressed sorrow for his conduct, and stated, that if he lea d lead ' been in liquor, he should not so soon have taken Cut not done any damage, nor committed any asnly . k/ t • Fearon not appearing to prefer any complaint Spot Imsh , Alderman directed him to be discharged. BIRTHS. Friday, in Waterloo-place, the Lady of Francis Dc Conic* Esq. of a son. At Edinburgh, on the iSth inst. the Lady of Sir Willists 3 11 ' liken Napier, Dart. of a son. MARRIED. Monday, at Mary4a-Bonne Church, by the B. WI SO% A. M. James 11. Markland, 'Esq. of the Inner Terilli 4 Z Charlotte, eldest daughter of Francis Freeling, Eq. atbew neral Post-Office. t. On the 18th instant, at Edinburgh, Charles Doyle Esq : to Miss Catherine Cornelia Story, daughter o f the haw Min George Story, of the Bth Light Dragoons. Sept. 20, Joseph Brisset, Esq. to Mary, daughter of de Dr. Scarlett. DIED. On the 16th Instant, at Cromer, Norfolk, Charlet g e l Lloyd, Esq. many years bledisal Practitione r in tbe C 4031 Demerara, aged IL Friday, at Hampstead, after bat a few minutes Woe* cy therine, the wife of Charles &mood Lincoln's Inn,Fit MAILS /nu Dar•—anst.sas. 0 06 ° Dublin 1 0 Lisbon I Waterford 2 0 I France o i o Guernsey and Jersey- 0 0 Hamburgb I I Holland • 0 0 Gottest'aurgh 1 1 Flanders• 0 0 I L ee ward islands 0 0 i Is!aka 0 0 I Jamaica —______ LONIPJ:i Printed anu p . ubii.the,s n) i . 1% st. ht.:4, NO ' L'las.s:-, •1::111c• rat.