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,- ' p 7 "7"' I t OLD imILEr. TIBRUAnY IS. al - ore S;r BrAvvicyßi liornAm, Knt. &it-SIMON Ls BLANC, and Sr ALAN CH Asinr.r. yoke f'r'ee and lan= Nowland mere indi6ted on , the Coventry or fl kek A&, for malicivasly lying in wait, cutting, wounding. and violently assaulting Rebel t Pigeon. Robert Pigeon, the prosecutor, stated that, on the 27th of January, be was at the sign of the White Hart public:horse, Hammersmith, where be saw a boy, who attends the Chiswick errand-cart, come in, and complain that the cart had been robbed by two men, in Black-Lion-lane. In consequence of which, he went Out to assist in taking the offenders into custody. Very soon after he had been away from the House, he met the prisoners, and by acci dent jostled against Price, who immediately asked Lim why he did so ? The witness replied, "I believe you are one of the thieves that robbed the cart." A scuffle then took place between them. Shortly after, at person named Brooks came up, andtook hold of Price, who, all of a 'sadden, wasnnssed by the wit ness. Soon afters*ards, he heard Price cry, " D—n you, Jack, come here, we will do them both." Ano ther person then came, who proved to be Nowland; he laid bold of the witness, and exclaimed, .4 What do you want with that man (meaning Price) ? cut your is--y heart out." He then struck him on the left eye, with a knife, which he had in his hand. The witness struck him again somewhere about the breast, and the prisoner cried out, " You have alone me." On this the witness took him by the collar, when the prisoner cut him across the back 'of his hand; notwithstanding which, he held him with his left hand, and attempted to strike with his right, hot could not clench his 'fist, from the cut he had received, whith had separated the sinews. 'The prisoner then appeared aCtuated by a full determi nation to commit murder. He infligted 'several se vere wounds about the head, neck, and - face of the witness, who said to hint, " Yon villain, you have cot a knife'!" he answered, " Yes, I have ; and will cut your liver out with it." The prosecutor then exerted himself to throw the prisoner down, dnring vt.ich the blood occasione i :l24 the wounds he had received in his mouth, chocked him ; he, however, by an extraordinary endeavour, called nut Murder," on which the prosecutor heard a • rattle go, and shortly after, a person named Haines, came to his assistance, who exclaimed. " Who are yOu ?" The prosecutor said, 44 I am Mr. Lock's man—this villain has been robbing the errand-cart, and has been trying to murder me." Haines then laid hold ofthe prisoner, and threw him down, and soon after had him taken into custody. William Brooks said, be was at the White Hart, cn the 27th of January last. About eight in the evening he heard a boy say, that two men had rob bed the errand-cart ; he went down Black-Lion lane, and met the prisoners with a box ; he asked them where they got it.; they told him they bad found it in the road, and they supposed it had been taken from some tart. The witness opened the box, to ascertain what was in it. While he was so employed, they ran away. The boy who belonged to the cart ran after them, and cried out "stop thief;" the witness also followed them towards -Hammer smith. When he got to the four-mile stone, he saw them again, with another man, who proved to be Pigeon, the Prosecutor. He laid hold of the -pri soner, Price, who struck him ; he then observed Nowland jump out of a ditch, by the road, and beard him exclaim, .4 I'll do you both." By this time the witness was 'thrown down by Price, who was a much stronger man than himself. As soon us he was on the ground, Price left him, to go to Pigeon. It was moon-light, and the witness saw the prisoners, so as to be positive of their faces.— "They were shortly after taken into custody. "'mews Abraham Smith said, he worked with the Chiswick carrier ; he was following the cart, on the 27th of January, down Black-Lion-lane, when he saw two men with the'bou that had been taken from Lis companion. He was sure the prisoner Nowland vas one of them, and that the box was in his posses sion. immediately afterwards he went to the pub. Ic-house, and gave the alarm. Charles Grevenor said, he es a surgeon at Ham tmersmith ; he attended the prosecutor on the 9"th of January at the .priblic-house. He examined him, ; and 'found he had received a severe wound or cut tivershe -temple ; one from his forehead down to 'his ear; and a transverse cut across the nese; his lands were also cut in a severe and cruel .manner; several tit' his fingers were disabled; tile whole of whids - wounds appeared to have hien given -with a knife. , Mr. ALLEY addressed the Court, and observed, , that in 'the present indiament, it was necessary the prisoners should be found to have lain in wait, for the purpose of committing the crime for which they .stood indicted, before they could be found guilty ; , glad as no evidence had appeared to that end, ac cording to the Adz of Charles 11. they could not be cont-kred. However wicked their conduit might appear, or their crimes demand punishment, it was 'better they should escape,.than th.tt the law should le violated. If it could not be proved, that the pri soners had annally laid in 'wait, they could not be conviEted according to the Ad of Parliament. He then cited various cases, which went to support the iobjenion he had made. (hurt, after nand-. discussion, ace of an opi -Mem, that the article expressed in the declaration :respcfting the prisoner's 'having +aid in wait to eom =it the offence, had not been.prevcit; consequently, according to the Ad s of Parliament, the prisoners .cotrld.not.lseia-onounced guilty upon the present in alitament. at was, however, left to the considera tion of the h r y, and fur them to determine, whether 'the prisoners h a d or had notolain wait for the.proses. learnt, from the evidence they hat! heard. !Mr-Justice LE OL ANC observed, he case vas si =filar to one tvhere u man bad been observed steal ing turnips in a fieleiithe owner or which, oncoming to take him into custody, was wounded by.the ot !fender with the 'instrument he was digging with. The man .was inclined for lying-in wait,-with a ma licious intention, to assault and - wound the owner, and was acquitted, .as the -charge of lying in wait .could not be proved. In the present case it ap peared, the prisoners were running away from the Tro.;ecutor, and had been guilty of the offence, to prevent being apprehended for the felony .; which was a sufficient proof they were not lying.in wait. If tit,' Jury were therefore of an opinion .that this was the caso, they could not corwia the prisoners. V, on 'the .coatraey, they could 'believe they had • PPP netnally laid in wait, they would then find them 11-. c Jury returned a verdict t —Net lty. The prisoners were detained upon another indift ment, wherein they were charged with 'fsloniously steali . ig a box, the praperty of Mess. Dickenson and Co. The circumstances attending the trial of the pri soners for this offence, were so closely attached to the fags contained in the first indiament, that we decline stating any further account than that the robbery was dearly proved ; in consequence of which the prisoners were found--. Guilty. Fordyce Gow!an was indiaed for stealing one bank note for 101; one bark post bill for 101. ; and one bank note for 51. the property of James Dowlin. The prosecutor stated, that he lived at the Cum berland coffee-house in the Strand. On the 12th of January he left his portmanteau in his chamber, con- , taining notes to the amount of 1101. ; it was at that time secured by a lock and a chain. On the 17th he returned, and observed the portmanteau had been opened, and the property taken out. He did not know the prisoner; ire had never spoke to him ; though he had ohsorved him in the same house. James Sherwin, the master of the Cumberland coffee-house, said, the prisoner had lived in his house, in an adjoining apartment to that of the prosecutor's. He kept ten beds ; and at the time the property was taken they were all occupied. The hair-dresser and the chamber-maid were the only persons that had access to the prosecutor's apart ment. He knew nothing of the property left m the room on the 12th of January ; if he had, he should have taken care of it. Mr. Galley, a linen-draper in Aldertgate-street, stated, that the prisoner came to his house, and bong,ht six pair of stockings, for which he gave a 101. Bank bill. The witness gave the prisoner the change, and immediately sent the note to the Bank, to ascertain if it was a good one. In the evening the prisoner came for the goods he had purchassd, and indorsed the note. Charles Raynion said, the prisoner bought goods at his shop, and paid for them with a 101. note upon the Bank of England, which he immediately sent to his banker's. Charles Carter, a publican in Windmill-street, • Finsbury-square, said the prisoner formerly lived at his house. In November last he left his lodgings ; I e came and paid him some money !that was owing for the apartment he had occupied, and presented a 51. note. The witness gave him the change, and he went about his business. The witness pnt the prisoner's name down, with the day of the month on which he received the money. • Edward Dunningham, clerk to the house of Messrs. Wilton and Co. Bankers, 'Colchester, on the sth of July, received '2OOl. from a young man, who tame front the prosecutor, Mr. Dowlin, for change. The Notes were—ten of .51. one of which was No. 4279; one of 101. No. 8027, signed Dovrlin ; ten of 101. and one of 201. with a Bank • Post Bill, for 101. No. 1444, dated 19th September. • —The whole of which notes made np the change. James Lucit, a clerk in the Bank, produced the three notes in question taken from the library, the numbers and indorsements of which exaaly agreed with those already stated. The prosecutor, on his . 'cross-examination, said, that he had not parted with any of the notes since he had received them at Col chester. He examined the bank post bill, and was sure it was the same he had deposited in his port mantean. Carter, the publican, examined the 51. Bill, end was sure it was . the same the prisoner gave hint in payment for his lodgings. The prisoner called no evidence to speak in be half of his charataer. He made a slight defence, stating that he was a Quarter -master in the 16 th Light Dragoons, in which situation he had been accustomed to receive much money ; the note. by that means had got into his possession. Mr. Judge Ce sere summed up the evidence, and pointed out to tke Jury the particular points wherein the prisoner's condo* had appeared sus picious, direaing them at the same time to give • their decision upon the testimony of the different witnesses. The Jury, without hesitation, pro- • flounced the prisoner--Guilty. James Sibley was indicted for feloniously stealing one ewe lamb, the property of Thomas It appeared that the Prosecutor lived at South Minas, Middlesex, where he was possessed of seven sheep. On the t.Y.7th of January he missed the lamb, and suspected the prisoner had stole it, -cam his having several joints of lamb hanging in his house, of which he could not give a satigfittory ac count.—Sufficient evidence not appearing to couvid the prisoner, be was acquitted. James Brook, and yolyn Norwood, were tried for stealing a quantity at lace, the property of Eilwat el Meredith, but were acquitted. Tuesday two young gentlemen underwent an ex mination, at Hatton-garden, charged with commit ting an assault on oneTitc hner, at I,lingtonToll-gate, by whipping and otherwise ill-treating him, because he insisted on their paying the toll, or shelving a ticket, to prove they had paid in the course of the day. Several witnesses who saw the transaction. declared, that the turnpike-man acted with' the greatest moderation. It afterwards appeared that a set of idle young fellows frequently take a ride a short distance, purposely to " kick up a row," as they term -it. In the • present instance the conduct of these lads was reprehended by the Magistrate ; and the matter in dispute was comptanised, in order to prevent them:from being exposed, though they justly deserved it. A letter from Leeuwarden, in Holland, gives the following accounts—" Several fires have done considerable damage within these two or three weeks past, in .the country places of our depart ment.—On the 26th ult. at Harig, a darin.house and yard were entirely consumed, and a great number of cattle destroyed by tlw flames. On the 29th, a new-built farm house, with the ap purtenances, met the same fate near Wytgaard, when twenty-three head of horned cattle, four teen sheep, and two horses, were burned to death in a most miserable manner. And, since that time, , onthe redwing to ashes another farm house, in the Zuider Dragten, :nearly all the poor owner's cattle fell sacrifices to the devouring element. Such a concatenation of disasters, so similar in their na ture and aids, seldom occur at nearly one period, and 'within the circumference of one distria, in such a short -apace 'of lima; and 'that tech as it should teetta, - the mere tiled of accident. _ ~- "•IG DFAF AND DUMB. • Most of our travellers to France have attempted descriptions of the splendorof the Tlauiaeries, of the guard, a p n er d son oth o b ser v ation and outward spew. But thfingli we have heard of circumstances timhemderdiaesstoefllis the heaevolence and ingenuity of the Abbes l'Epee o er f and Sicard, and their school has produced an inter esting event for the drama, which has found its way to the English stage r --but few have accurately de scribed an institution which does honour to the French nation ; and therefore the following account, by a writer who appears studious of accuracy, must be acceptable to every reader of taste and sentiment. I shall not now speak to you of splendid build ings, of glorious monuments of human ingenuity, of renowned heroes, or of brilliant festivals. What I saw to-day interested me, and lam sure would have in terested you, much more than all such objects united; I mean the Institution de Sourd-muets (that humane establishment for the instruction of the deaf and dumb), first founded under the care of the Abbe l'Epee, and now concluded by his worthy successor, the Abbe Sicard. " Having tickets offered me for an extraordinary j meeting, which took place this m ornin g. I willin g l y availed myself of the opportunity, and at ten o'clock , repaired to la Rue St. Jaque, where, in a former convent, this beneficent establishment is carried on. Here I found a large assemblage of respectable per sons, who all listened, with pleasure and attention, to the simple, plain, and unaffeded manner inwhich the Abbe Sicard explained his method of giving to ' the deaf and dumb the means of expressing their thoughts. "As foreigners," said he, " unacquaint ed with the langu age of the country which they visit, arc suppose d stupid and ignorant by the unin formed, so the deaf and dumb are often considered as ideots, because they are deprived of one sense. No," continued he, " they ere not ideots; they have ideas as well as you, and only want an organ to ex press them." He then went on to state, that in most educations children are taught first to speak, and then, sometime!, to think; whereas, in his plan, he began first by teaching his pupils to think, and then proceeded to instruEt them how to express what they had so thopghti. " To exemplify both his plan and his success, be examined Massein, .his favourite and ablest pupil, a young man, about twenty or twenty-one years old. As soon as the Abbe expressed, by his ges tures, any particular passion, Massein instantly wrote the word appropriate to the peculiar feeling, and then explained the meaning of the word he had written, with a vivacity of aCtion, and a variety of countenance, which I never before witnessed in any human being. Ile next wrote on the wall, with great rapidity, the chain of ideas, by which the Abbe Sicard regularly advances his scholars, from the expression of a simple thought, to one of greater import. Thus, beginning with the word 44 voir," he ended, goieg on by regular steps, with the ward " examiner,' to examine ;beginning with " ideer," (a word created by Massein, but answering to " avoir Wee," or to have an idea), he ended with " approfondir," to search into ; and beginning with " vouloir," to will. he ended with " bruler," to burn with passion. Massein expressed, with won derful fire, the meaning of each progressive passion, in the changes of his countenance, which, when ani mated, is uncommonly fine. " In the course of this meeting, the Abbe Sicard likewise examined, for the first time, a young wo man, now eighteen, who, at six years old, had be come entirely deaf, and who could now only speak such words as she had learnt at that tender age, many of which she still pronounced imperfectly, and as children are apt to do. He began with shewing us a memorandum, or washing bill, in which this girl had drawn her gowns, petticoats, &c according to the different forms of these articles. Massein then, by direction of the Abbe, drew on the wall different things of .common use; to some salthese she applied their proper names, same she did not know, and others she micpronounced. The latter &fed M. Sicard immediately removed, by pronotmcing the word himself, teaching her by signs to move her lips, as lie did, by blowing on the hand, and by touching some particular fibres of the arm. I cannot satisfadlorily explain this operation; but it will, perhaps, be sufficient toobrerve, that the Abbe, more than once, said, " by such and such motions I will produce such andd such sounds ;" and that as soon as the girl had imitated the motions he made, she articulated the words, as he had pre viously promised. " The more I saw of this institutinn, the more was I delighted. There were forty or fifty children present, who, horn deaf and dumb, were, by the wonderful skill and unceasing care of the respedable Abbe, restored to society, to Happiness, and them selves. They were seated in different parts of the room, and conversed with each other, though at the greatest distance, by the means of their fingers, winch were in constant motion. They hadevery appearance of enjoying health, spirits, and vivacity. " There are all kind of workshops, manufactures, and schools, in the house of the Sourd-muets, and the establishment is entirely maintained at the ex pence of the government. Massein, I hear, has displayed strong symptoms, of genius, and has even written some very .beautiful verses. " flow admirable is this institution! How ho nourable to the ingenuity and the heart of man ! 'fo restore to all the enjoyments of life, and to the dignity of rational beings, hnplessereatiires, doomed by the caprice of nature to inexpressible feeling and irremediable ignoranoe, is perhaps the highest and proudest effort,of human contrivance. " Of all whic'h I have yet beheld at Paris, this is to me the most interesting sight. Other objets strike the imagination, but this moves the heart." at • The Abbe Sicard,:infthe course of this leffure, took oc cmion to remark, that of all ilanguageit, the English was the molt simple, the most reasonable, an i the mist natural, in its construction. • afis a pronf of the truth of his assertion, he in formed us, that his pupils, as , they began to learn tite means of conveying their thoughts by writing, were constantly guilty of ahgficamtr. lie added, that it was difficult to make them lay aside ktioms purely English, and still Inure so, to touch them those which me peculiar to the French language." On the •24th ult. at half past one in.the morning the parish church of Gettieres, in the South or France, +was struck -with lightning; the steeple was destroyed, the bells carried ofl; one of the walls was entirely levelled, and the clock shivered in pieces, nor was the parsonage house spared by the devouring element: a man was killed in his bed, but whams really astonishing, his little child, only in his fifth ;tear, who was by his side, escaped un touched. NATAL INTELLIGENCE. eokrsmocre, TED. 17. Remains at St. Helens, his Majesty's ship Le licrcsile. Remain at Spithead, his Majesty's ships Neptune, Itittrep;d, Isis, Calcutta, Woolwich, Chichester, Loire. Amazon, Dryad, Apollo, Blasche, La Virginie, La abilonne; and blip Alorgiana, Port illahon, Lie i , Starling, and Charger, with the Plynnosith naval store-ship, Mark Lee commander, from Plymouth. Arrived the Adventure, Newton, from Gihraltar, with troops.—Wind W.S.W. blowing hard. It is understood here, by recent intimation, that a change is about to take place very shortly in the uniform of the Royal Marine Corps.: the co:it will be blue with red facings, an alteration cL peLcd to be carried into effed some years ago. DOVER, FEB. 17. Sailed the Dicheu of Cumberland, for Calais. early this morning, with the Right Honourable Lord John Campbell, and suite, and J. Motteux, Esq. ; also the ..Exprem packet, Capt. Dell, with maul and passengers. Arrived L'lndustrie, of and from St. Vallcry. Capt. Haquet, with salt from Croysue. Also arrived L'Aimable, of and from Bourdeaux. Capt. Shomer, with wine, for St. Vallery. No passage-vessels arrived. The wind has blows very hard from the westward since the morning. NA DEAL ANZCDOTE. A Lieutenant in the Dutch nary, named He 7.. berg, entered into the Dutch service in 1793, and in the engagement with the English fleet on the 11 th of October 1797, he was First Lieutenant of the Delft, which, surrounded by three English ships, maintained with them the most obstinate con flict during an hour and a quarter, but was at las: obliged to strike. When the English Officer,. (Liens. Charles Bullen, First of the Matoccedli came on board to take possession of the ship, he found her mach damaged, having many shut through her hull and rigging, and her main-mast and yard shot away ; two officers and forty-one of her men killed, and one officer and 75 men wounded.. He sent the captain, two officers, and 90 men, 4.121 4rturd his own ship, the Ruud, and requested Mr- Heiberg, who was not wounded, to assist him, with the men under his command, in preventing the ship from sinking; in which they succeeded till the 14th of .the same month, when a storm came on, and put the vessel in a very dangerous situation. ; slit filled ten feet with water, so that all hope of sa;ing her was soon at an end. Lieutenant Bullen Re presented this to Mr. Heiberg, telling him that A a certain signal he should throw himself with his men into the long-boat, and invited him to avail him self of the opportunity of effecting his escape. " But how can I leave these unfortunate men?" replied be. pointing to the wounded sailors, whom it had bees necessary to bring upon deck, as the hold was already full of water. Lieutenant Bullen, struck with this an swer, " God bless you, my brave fellow ;" cried he, " here is my hand : I give you my word, I wilt stay here with you." He then caused his own men to leave the ship, and remained behind himself to assist the Dutch. The Russel soon sent out her boats to their succour, and brought off as many as could be put on board them, and lost no time in making a second voyage with equal success ; but few al the wounded could be got off,though the two officers had united their efforts for that purpose, and -still remained with than in the vessel, with three subal tern officers and about thirty seamen : they were still cherishing the hope that the boats would a third time come to their relief ; but the fatal moment was now ar.is-ed, and on a sudden the Delft went down. Lieutenant Bullen sprang into the sea, and swam to his own ship ; the unfortunate Hieberg perished. the victim of his courage and humanity. BIRTHS. On Thursday se'nnight, the Lady of J. C. Esten, Eeq. of a still-born child, at The house of her father, J. G. Palmer, Kcsit.sh Town On Wednesday morning, the Lady of U. A. 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