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1143 SURREY LENT aSSIZES. KINGSTON. Area. t. CROWN SIDE—NI ULMER. Rohert I),•ati was pot to the liar this oyiritity;, cliart:rd Mich the wilful thortlet of glary Anti Albert, a. little girl, between four and lire yeats old, oh the !hilt eat sober lasi, in St. George's-firtik, lay Calltillg nil. throat with a case.kitie. The trial of this ease excited twit-cr. sal interest, and attracted ittonetwe crowd.; at an early hour of the morning to gain adotitt nee to the Cones, but not tow-twentieth of the anxious throng could find atco.nuuulauon. The eirctons.aitees of this singular transaction having been fully lam befine the public in th., puulication of the Coroner's Inquest, it is not now n e e, to enter into much detail. fidlowing, tio,vever, are the leadusg cireullislaile3 of the case :-0., Friday evening, the I 6in day of (knitter last, in-toren 6 and o'clock, the prisoner, who was a watch•engraver, went, as lie had been in the habit of doing, to visit the mother of the child, who lives near th e Elephant and Castle, St. George's-fields, and site asked hint to take tea ; whit • he seas there he nursed and played with the child until about :Ix or Seven, Wh: II he went away with Mrs. Albert's brother, Williams, with whoin he was inti mately acquainted, and had been Id low apprentices.— They ',weeded as fir as the Obe'isk when they sepa rited,and he inisoner returmll and took tut' multi :no in into his lap, and pot his hand in his pocket to get some halfpence,. rid sand he would I tti and buy some apples for hit little Mary ; he then took the could up in his arms, and asked her if she would have an apple, and many (V tier trillithi questions, such as, tin you lose me? du you know who lam t &c. Ile then went not with the child, but neing absent rather long, and the her iodingalarni,d, went out wave after went, and on going into a court near the horse, she met the child, who reeled towards her, and on her taking her in her arms the blood gushed from her throat, and the child ap peared as in she was expitin2 ; a surgeon was sent for, but hu tiorli were fruitless, and in about an hour it died. flue prisoner wandered about for three or (oar tills, and altlintegh every diligence was used to find hint, it was illiSliCte•si'ol. At length on the morning of Tuesday billowing, at about five o'clock, he rapped at the door of the watch-house of Si. Andrew, Holborn, and said his haute was Dean, and idiot he was the mur derer, and he was of course detained, and taken to Giltsput-atreet Compter. Mrs. Mary Albeit, the mother of the little girl, was examined iu support of the above statement. When she beheld the prisoner at the bar, she (mist into an hysteric scream of horror, and was for a time incapable of giving her et 'deuce, until she was relieved by a flood of tears. The prisoner seemed es idently affected by the agony in which she appeared to be. On her cross-ex amination she gave a very favourable representation of the temper and disposition of the prisoner, and that he was extremely find of children, and partiendirly of the unfortunate infant who had lost her life by his act. On the evening in question, she observed the prisoner to he very uneasy in his mind, on account of the want of chi ' ployment, but he spoke in a rational and collected . 1 wanner. 111 rs. Sarah Williams, the mother of the last witness, on her cross-examination described the conduct of the - prisoner, on the evening in question, as indicative of an uneasy mind, arising from his distressed circumstances. She gave the prisoner the highest character for kindness tmher grand-daughter, and said that he had always been on the most friendly terms with her family. Joseph %Valiant', the brother of Mrs. Albert, deposed to the circumstances connected scith the -dinve outline of site case. ()it his cross-examination, he said he had bcca fellow-apprentice with the prisoner, who had al ays conducted himself its 0 most filendly Manner t,•%vartis him and his family. ores and the prisoner had lodged together for a long time; he knew the pri cuter was unhappy in his mind on acemint of a young woman with whom lie kepi company, whose father had forbidden any further intercourse. Jospeh Myatt, the watch-house peeper of the parish or St. Holborn, proved, that early on the I.orising of the 20thi October, the prisoner surrendered himself to justice at the watch-himse. Ile appe.ared in It state of great agitation, meting that he hail been in- Alt;ced to surrender himself, iu consequence of his hating heard a sermon at the Tabernacle, in Nloortields ; that he had wandered about ever since he committed the horrid deed. and was finable in hold out any longer.— The prisoner was after.v..rds taken to Giltsptir-street Cotorer, where tie begged tie initiht be a ll owed a Bible. Tlse witne4s's description of the prisoner's deineannor :at watch-lioase was strongly indicative of remorse, Lut of amnia Intellect. John May, a . I.olite officer of Union-hall, proved that removed the prisoner Irmo Gil:spur-street Coniuter, at:d, lsy• the direcsion•of the magistrate of Union-hall, took him on the 20th of October before tile corona's Liven, which was then s:ltisig on the body of the de ceased Chad. When the of in the place of sitting, the .prisoner requested to sprat; with the witness 111 private ; and being left itness, at the prisoner's request, toil down the following statement in writing, as he ~pre it in his awn w(:riis:— •-" On !Mtiy tseinnit last I.me‘ a young Mdu.named Joseph Williams, with whoial had long been intiiiiate, ar.3lts. Alb:rt's house, in Jacques-court, Thomas-street. I had long been acquainted with a young woman - named Ninth Longman, daughter of Mr. L. at th e G ra p es , Church-row. Aidgate; my affection for her was ex. (remedy great ; I had for soma title corresponded with her. A dispute unhappily anise ; 1 wrote to her upon 'dm so, jrci, exinebsing my rivet at the uulirtuitate • TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER r..pttue, ilaserilwil It very gnat regard which I enter ta,lied tor her, oriplmed lies it, eimseitt to a reconcilia tion, and begged s.le would wine isle an eatly answer. Site serer replied to my letter. tier fatherralled upon me, and wished that the connexion might be discon• ''heat ciremnstances had an iniksertliable effect "I" , n toy mind ; I ssas miserably titiliaup, was incapa ble of attending In any business, and ;;at t tilysef entirely up to despair. 1 endeavoturel to prevail upon her to re. new the correspondence. I I, It that I could out be happy it) this wutld without her, and determined to leave it. Thoughts of a dreadful deseriptiou entered sr) mind, and most have ',nice( ied from the Devil. I felt that should leave the world in a state of happiness. at I could murder her, and determined to perpetrate the deed. I had been from hunts three clay's, business not beim( very br sk, and um Friday et ettiog 1 called to see ‘V111.111116, at Mrs. Albert's anti. we Lout cattle out together and walked in ciMipativ as far as the Surrey Theatre. We did not t 2.0 nt ; I iidel IVtlliains that I wanted to see a gentleman in the Borou,lls, am! should A . that way. %Vr parted, and I returned to Mrs. Albert's. After talking in a very friendly manner with the (wilily, 1 asked far a Ignite, and they suppositig that 1 wanted to cut some bread. gave me a case knife. 1 took an opportunity of concealing it miperceived in nty pocket. I shortly after went out with the child to buy her some apples, which having dime, I returned to the court. A sudden thought came over thy mind, that if I 'wintered the child who War. itinocent, I should not commit so great a crime as murdering Sarah Longtitaii, who was older, and as 1 imagined had sins to ausuer for. lit a moment 1 polled the kitife out of any pocket, put the child down out of my arms, held her head back, and cut her little throat. In an instant 1 imagined that I was in toe midst of flausiog tire, and the court appeared to me like ihe cu trance of nell. 1 ran away, not knowing when. I went, or what I dal ; 1 wandeted about in a state of distrae tion until 1 surrendered myself twat the watch-house." Toe risotto., who, eluting the course of the evidence above-mentioned, appeared to be at. a kind of idiotic stupor, tieing called upon to make his defence, merely laid, in a wild manner, that he was 1101 Guilty. A great many wittiessts were Well exami ned on his behalf to prove a case of insanity, Among others were, James LOllgtllloll, the father of the voting woman to whom the prisoner had been attached ; Gorge a watch-motion maker; 'Ann Keys, Eliza Camp-, bell, and Maria Iyrrell, !rearms with whom the pris oner had lodged ; and 'the tendency of their evidence was to show that the prisoner, a few weeks recently to the unfortunate transaction in question, had been flighty and low-spirited, in consequence of his want of employ ment, and having been forbid the continuance of his addresses to the young woman, Miss Longman. The case went to the Jury tinder the learned Judge's direction, and the prisoner was found Guilty. Mr. Justice PARK pronounced sentence of death in a most impressive and pathetic manner, and the prisoner was ordered for execution on Monday next. During this last awful stage of the proceedings, the prisoner exhibited a maniac apathy to the doom that awaited Itim, and lie was removed front the bar in a state of mental abstraction. Kingston, Saturday April 3. CROWN Mg. This morning the Court was crowded to excess, in the expectation of the trial of Thomas Osborne taking place, for the murder of Ely Cox, gamekeeper to Mr. Tessier, near Epsom, in the month of August last, but it was postponed, and ordered the first on Monday morning; 31 witnesses were in attendance. At eight o clock Mr. Justice Park took his seat, and . 25 prisoners were arraigned, they were howeter, most of them !Or trivial offences, and the only trial itcier% tug attention, this day, was that ofJoseph lvison and John Owen, mu notorious characters, who were tried for burglariously entering the dwelling house of Mr. William Hoare, in Newington, and stealing therefrom sundry articles of wearing apparel, his property ; but of this charge they were acquitted. They were then again arraigned on another indictment, rhar.ting them with burglarious!) , breaking into the ilsverling house of Mr. Philip de Iloogh, in Wel worth, and stealing therefrom a tea caddy, sonic silk shawls, and other articles of wearing apparel his property. The lams being clearly proved against the two prisoners, they were found Guilty, and sentenced to transportation for she t e rm of seven years. .Mary Wells, who was tried yesterday on a charge of murdering her illegitimate infant, and found not guilty of the murder, there being no evidence that the child was born alive, was this morning brought tip, and sentenced for the said concealment to three months imprisonment in the House of Correction. CIVIL SIDE. No trial of the least importance occurred this day in this Court. OXMIID CIRCUIT. HERESORD. MARCH 25. TUYNNE 110WF. Gwxxxr, LSQ. V. SACKVILLE PRE- DEEMS GWYNNE, PSQ. This case has escitcd an exiraordinaryilegree of interest thronah,,tit the county at Hereford, among persons of the highest tank t end [rasing been fixed for trial this morning, the Couit WAS crowded in every part at ail early hour.— The Jmv , which consisted of ten special and two common 4tsrpnrii, having been sworn, Mr. PubbEit opened the declarfition, which imputed that lb, defendant had had criminal ronversatifin with the plaintiff's wife. The defendant pleaded teat lie was Nut Guilty. and this was the issue to be !lied. 'llse damages were laid at Twenty Thousand Pounds. Mr. JIIRVIS addressed die Jury in explanation of the eir common( es guider which the action had been brought.— The plaintilfmarried his present wife iii the month of June, APftir. b. 1809, • period of about ten year. From the ple.iit ti ter. He was then this ty. His Lady NaM twenty Hire,. She %I a., ylllllll4, bl' 4111610 , arcoutplirlied, and of a 'biotite rondo , She w an Its, danghter of the late Lind lieselbeil. moil to the pi event Lot 4. ill %TA , . a 'boatel' lotiuded it sfrectinie The plaintiff look hi r almost without a pusti„,. Hit (intone was only 13001. in I evert to iv hull hr s, 111, .1 newt bei 500/. a year. But Int the mule of lie di feu _ dent, she would Lave been the happiest of rouse w knot . Du euetretpirfce of the pine - base at hit DL, To ym , Owymie hail made, he f lit necessary to niake fi roper t hies to Loudon, in order to 4 - range the cools am_ It was vi:coed doting these absences, 0 nil pat Itiellarly at the latter end of the year 1816, that the d, feneabit was a little mote fiequr lit in his visits at the plaintitl's house 11m$, he had before been; but, as on most of these 0 ce ,,,, 10 ,„ .1 ,, wan ant pained by his wife, the suspicion of the plaintiff was tit re' eveiled. It happened in the 11.01111, of April, 1816, on sine of the oceasitrei when Ali. Thynne G wyntie Wan ut loan, and a hen hi. lady was upon u visit at the house of the detrodritt, Ikit all oi concoct. look pl ace flinch excited tom 11 of painful feeling. 11los. Thytine Gay bible hail be. us Ito se to company wills many oilier Vintiols. Stir I rooliot•41 for a cousider;:ble time longer that so y of the olive worsts, having been iolsongly stuicited by Mt. Sacksule Ga.un to defer her delta' tore. It was at 4410' settled that Ate should triton home on the 3,1 o f 51ay. On itie tuoroing previous to he. liepal lure limn the house of the deft Intent, the detendrzst wan olisee bed to come 11110 the roam where the ladies were together, and to hand Mrs . l'hysine °urine a newspaper. Mrs, ssekville °alone vane" raw, or t;illeit•tl she saw a note delivered with the newspaper 10 Gwynn,. she 'madly demanded the paper, which -Nan amino - that ely delivered 'too her hand. She then demanded the nolo which olie anvil tell hail been delivered by hit husband; but he (Me. Jai via) believed tint:Ansi:kiwi s as imfmoided ; however, such was its effect it toe moment. and it war with deep trivet lir Win under the paitiful liert N•ily at Slating the fact. Mal upon Ili*. 111)11oe (iwy one deuy tog that she bad seen any note, Mr.. Sack silk Gwynn.• struck her a tuba and called her an aonlieress ! ire inv esti getiOis which took place on that On asiOta let/inflated by Mrs. Sack v tile Gwynne %nailing the lohiN nix arelitrittiOn: " 1, Mary Alin nay the Mire Of Col. Sack Ville Gwynn... ut Gialibian Park, in the comity of Carnuartht 11, du lieseby declare, that my late enteduct town' (Is Mos. Owynae, of Langan, was mom nnworeaotable, invoniuch as that 1 had never any just cause fin the ofreclinairtZ 111 t 1:71.1 upon her char - icier; and I Mot i think her perft s ily innocent ado. iinpicipilety of conduct whirl' I imputed to her, and that I lived no foundation whatever for the charges I made against In r. MARY ANN °WYNNE. " Dated May 11,1817. (Witness) " 'lunar/ SI ANSEL!, Capt. Royal Navy. " J. R. CHESTON," Captain Mansell happened to be accidentally present.-- After this tip: Jury would nut wonder at th.• pl,,i n tor g receiving her into his arms, and remuring her to los noire affection.—The• Learned Counsel then proeerded to .rate a great variety of facts. He K1111(11'11 to an awes cepted letter of a suspicious nature, and a report made un the subject. 'the report was communicated to the plaintiff, accom panied by the following solemn declaration of hi. wife : HRS. GWYNNE'II DtCLAHATION. " I Geot giana Gwyanie, do most rol tnnly promise before God, never to have any cominsinication with Colonel Gwynn', directly or indirectly. 1 do further promile before God, if any letter should be addressed by Col. Gwynne to me, that I will foi thwitli deliver the same to my husband unopened. Should, however, the letter be directed in a disguised hand, by u hich means I might be induced, unstisprctingly, to open it, I will in that case, upon the first discovery of the author, close the letter and deliver the same to my husband unread, " GEORGIA:4A GWYNNE." Signed in the presence of Heft ►:PoKD, Nov. 17th, 1817, Hay-Castle. In consequence of this declaration, added to the opin i on of those to whom he h&j referred a subject involving so much of his per,anal happiness and character, the plaititiff received his wife into his arms, and she was once entire restored to the confidence of all the members of her famil l . From this time until the month of January fol lowing they lived together with uninterrupted happinew. The Learned Counsel, after alluding to various other cir cumstances to show the infidelity of the Lady, proceeded to cell witnesses to price the adultery. The Rev. James Cheston, of Gloucester, proved that, he was brother in-law to the plaintiff. He married hint to his present wife in 1809. He was in habits of frequent intercourse with them, and always thought their union most happy, until the circumstances which led to the present enquiry. lie knew Ike defendant, and knew that he was possessed of a considerable estate. He knew that the plaintiff and defendant had been brought up together, and that a great degree of iutitnacy subsisted between them. The defendant had eight or nine children. In the year 1817 witness was summoned to Glanbran in consequence. of something which had taken place. The good understanding between Inc plaintiff mini his wife, in consequence of what then passed was restored.• A decla ration was made by Mrs. Saukville Gwynn,. James Weller, Esq. lived in the neighbourhood of Ghanbran. He was supernuntery adjutant to the Om. marthen local militia. He was in the habit of visiting at the houses of the plaintiff and defendant. The plaintiff and his wife appeared to live on terms of great affection. Ile met the plaintiff win n he bad an interview with il.e defendant at the house of Mr. Harris.—[The inlet cepted letter was put into the witnesses hand.]—Thal !utter was the defendant's writing. The plaintiff prodneed the letter to the defendant, and asked him if it was his hand a rilir,;:? The defendant declined answering. The del'ilidantm wile at that period had,sitice died. He believed she died in May last. Elizabeth Pritchard, t to the plaintiff, proved the eiretimstrnces aitenclitig the detection of the wyste rluus messenger described by Mr. Jarvis Mr. Jervis now culled for the production of the letter, sent by the plaintiff to the deteudaut on the subject of the mysterious mcs.rngr r. They mete sot produced. The notice Jared on the