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IRE,4DI•'UL 111? E IN SPITALFIELDS. INQUEST ON THE POISONS WHO PET2I§HED. ymen s e y w wwwiog no Imposition woo tuken at tke Teo Bells, opposite Spits;fields church, lwfore J. ttnwin, Esq. earorr, on tbe bodies of Mrs. Sarah Saminonit and w ho lost their lives in the conflagration shirts Wok Fifes to Wilkey-street, about two o'clock on l o rolay wintatiog last. Mrn. i ist Jones sworn—l live in Wilkev...mireet, Spited (.2.1y. On Monday morning, oboist two o'clock, I heard some .•rei Fry in the direction of the Are, and several calling .. it Vire!" I thew op the window-sash, mud called "tit, %Alio cces fire!"--hal no one answered. I then went 1 , 110 ,tirrl loosed' the ehasulter'e shop kept by Mr. Ruthen, and s aw ,mike issue front the side of thl went toe door 111111 th throughr kry-bole the door was fast, and e Sta rabbi- how adjoining, knocked at te door aneall A vd -.0 0 Firer hot no person answere h d front , wit h i n ma n at the baker's shop, kept by Mr but io. eiviil who vied, I sold, I did not ; tier :t is. I then went ho. A lodger in the san Io ,syw,, si• 'dive I live. sad alar w med the neighbours , mere after Ns. c ourt , eon', a baker, res idi n g opposite to the !tow u t w ,,, In t firc look, out, sworn —To the best of my knotw. I ledge 1 heard a cry of " Fire r` between one and two o'clok om moneLy inonon g ; went into the street, but (mild see so fire; a rows, came up to me, and said, there was .t firm, fo. •Ive Ar 4 Ser CST*. I looked about. and prrecivi •1 " Do ke rosin front the lower part of Ike shop ; who lull!, I believe, the watchman called two o'clock. Ina fee minor*, as I approached, the tone broke not I through the dour; I immediately gore an alum ot home, I tarn rams out agooi, when I r oun d two watchmen •eliatmg lbw rattles The chandler's shop floor cult iol t... 1 be got open ; none of the tubshitants timid make their apitt4r3lll.l., but they were all aereantiog. reeni &bey a.; if le gir4l. di•fress. The pnblic.flootc W. 14 Orel., pd I wont WAS 1111111W11 out uf the (.143.4. Pees diop, apper•part of which Iwtonged to the politic tome ; fiat there was no comm iiii ication between ti,, .es in the Inver-part. I tr.aotted in removing tint the goods from tar pw i i h r h..me smell the fire peel. cooed Il i— It appeared efierirods that some of the property belonging to tlw chard. lei's .Itop was removed tutu the prblic-moose, and carried _ . eat 'Lome) it nre met to untertnist whither the fire ols otromortl by nrotleiit or wilfully dolie, htratine if the r, it in not the emote of moon hut murder ih,it li n horn c un- Witted I.'t nom person wliu lived iu the lit,ude Le INA* ininrsl Idilliam ltnthen sworn—l am the tenant of the remind I fisior sod clsauiller's shop, lieloogiug to Mr. Ragland, I landlord of the public house. I was first alarmed by a ! knorkisez at the back dine from the skittle.grouoil, but he. fore I r told itress,,the door hail hero broke,' in, before I had maw ins wife and children, who all slept its the saute room, sod one of the children, *IVO was in bed with me; they hostile their escape out at the window. I went out the same way, l partly uthrssed. The fire scented to he housing rapidly in I ow middle room. There are three rooms use the door, but i .4rtrr I Rut Wit I could only are the dames. Cormier,— Who awoke you 1-1 cannot tell ; my wife had un time to wake me ; but amongst the persons gotta& the door were two watchnicii, Coroner —Who fastened the ,nor'-1 Am% know; the bark 41 • belongs to the lodgers, I never fasten it ; there was a general cry for the engines; they then broke open the door into the middle room, and there was ti tire in the room which was occupied by nw ; but I slid slut consider the lire to be so tier" .... sas to prevent the property !wing aoll, some of the furniture wos saved, but flour of Ilse •1111 k 1 was busily eistployosi in "moving the goods ; the stock hail been insured for SO/. and was worth shoot 70/. ; there were some sills, turpentine, nod candles its the •hop ; I be. here the fire must hare originated iu the middle room or the shop ;.I always fastened the middle door between the shop and the bed room; I Fierce had a shop before this; 1 had hero porter mow , wears at the bowie of Stirlisio. and Co. iu Tlcetodrect ; I hail not been nut that err iiiiiz, nor was 1 so Isquor ; I went to bed at the time my wife ;toil family dill, soil put out the Ore tinsel( ; there Is id Is. eii fire in tin room all the pretesting day; I had paid 411 for the fixtures and stork. Cionsier--The fire tweaking ont in your apartment. Ilse print ipal imputation rests upon you. It will hr salisfsciso • for the Jury that you give a prop& account of the traurae tion, except that retrain...hoary drowsiness which seized you whilst the whole of your family ~aped. Wmtaess—l over was intoxicate I but once in my life, sir. I know no more than what 1 hare sald. Mr. Samuel Hagland sworn.-1 keep the Star WO' c hoose ; I was 1114rtItiril on Monday morning, by a knnet.inz at my hack mid a cry of " Fire!" in front of the boost. I went down directly to the bock of the chandler's ramp, and saw a fi:e in the partition of the middle room, next the shop, shout twelve feet from the fire-place 1 slot not try to open the slime, which was lorked,but went for water, which 1 threw on the fire ; 1 then went for a second pail, and on my return (ovoid the room, the passage, and stair case, in a hive.. I saw some of the I let (AlttilV ; tirard when he entered upon the premises he had paid Cole 401 for the stock and Wares; 1 don't think hr wilfully set the place oo fire; it would not lie worth his while; I "w-arit he iiumreil the whole of his stock and r..Aitla fur ISO/. I b e lieve the lire was accidental. Coroner—lf you think, gentlemen, the tire was not cern 'Mined wiiiully, we t infer it broke out by accident This witness is at materially concerned. %Villiam Clsizes. d :triton to Mr. Haithory the brewer, sworn nag in the lirewhouse, and on hearing screams of fire, I rain« nif throe the skittle ground, when I saw the aronnu who kept the chandler's shop, and her three children with hi r; she was to her Hight dress, •1111 the ellidlresi were naked ; her bosh:mil was throwing somethings not at the window ; I got in at time passaze door, but I could uot girt the bed room door sown ; I broke it, soil found iiss person in- Side, they all 11.11'.112 escaped through the window ; the middle room vela on hie. The d d persons were old women hulling in the house, and their Midi«, were found nearly bursted to a yon der, :owl were removed to the house of Mr. LOW, the motets taker. lir.ir the rittlrrh, in a most s h o cking o we. The watchman was motor's hot his evidence was not material ; lie said. bowers r, that pierious Whit' coffin the hour lie saw some awoke, but took particular notice of it. The Coroner, in his ch 'lze to the Jury said, there appear ed anthill!! its ecoletire which would impeach any one. The 'tory returned Own . verdict—" Redden/ally burned to death." - E MINORITY ov Tur.snAs xlcnT. OT %IR 'UMW.' MOtIOR RELATIVE TO VIZ EXCISE. Althorn, Vi•c. Honywrosel, W. Phillip, G. Itroocham, U. flame, Jas. Phillip.,(:. jam. Parham, J. F. !lard, R. Pelvic', R. Urinal, Ralph Ilatrhinesete, Iln. C. Palmer. C. F. Barnett, Jas. Rill, Sir John D. Pcres,Tlsus. Calvert, N. Ernmelv, T. F. Price, R. thearrtill, Lora C. Lateetsche, J.thic Ilie:trol.), Della Cale! ift. John I.lmlstem, J. (i. Ri.11 , 1, flir M. W. Chittese, lord Merest, IVWI. nob:Will, W. T. Dickies...a, trm. Slavierll. 'cam S.isitle, Hon. R. Damlat, I 1 3 ,tsrlas Manic, Hon. Win. Smith, Wm. Davits, tot AI acleeeil. R. :44ton ~ Earl of Ellice, Isilvaril Montt, Sir C. Terme!, Rt. Hn G. neirington. I Artl Iletore. Peter Thorp, Al.termau farmed, lit,lc Newport, Sir .1 . . Wilkins. W. ';riliccha, JW. Nrirllt.in, RY. Mimi), Sir R. . t:nise, the W. I'lslll ip, C. X. Wili tarns Wen. IVrestill, P..1-...rie Ttu.yrs-1). Sc. II srmy and Alderman Watchman. Llnytr- hook. ou Virerke.4l , ty portent...l a very ..tognlar appearance, there being only our hue ?pi. tem,' o r s t !, e , o , w h i ch glop the orriv4l At Liverpool tlwr Anse. CIOULDIIIO, from OpOtte; suit wired to titdi awe rerwrik tb.le, there web not n •togle vet el entered it the l'ortore-Itoutre act 4.7, noy nor no-ett I;ravevetarl hem any pert ahroutl. POLICE. CILDUALL. COMMITTAL OF RiIOUGH roN. Yesterday Bartholomew, Rrounhlon: ofil: Navy, who bar undergone several examinations upon the chirge ~f havont robins! Gentlemen at the White Horse bun, Fetter.laue, V/4) brought lip for a final ex•minatioss. Mr. George Shudbliothaon stated that he came to town from Macclesfield to collect debts, and set up Nt the White Horse. Oa llse 31st of Dees-miler last has retired to bell, taking with him bis pocket-book, containiug a Wilk note fur 10111.; five for 10/. earls; and four fur 51. each, which he (mind in the morning had been stolen. Some bills of ex change which were iii his pockct.book remained untonelsed. Mr. Wright, clerk to Hankey and Co. bankers, of Fen. chnrch.street, stated, that he paid to a ectillenon" for n cheek, drawn by Williams and Cross, of Paster, two notes of 1001 earls, the one hatred 19,169, the other 19,151, and resent smaller notes. Mr. Thomas Slisoffieloothant, linen-draper, of Exeter, and trother to she former a illness, received the above "rotes from Mr. Wrivld ' and gave them to his brother. The 11)01. mote , ,•• , I/floaters' in cviuence stains' the Prisoner was one of theta. Mr Kimbell, of the house of Mr. Burge, mathematical in ! strnment maker, ricradilly, stated, that on the Ist of la• 1 assiary the Poisoner called and purchased a sextant for 16 Guineas, in payment fur which he tendered a 100/. note.- 1 Witness 'observed, that i' would be necessary to have the instrument adju.terl, and that it would take au hour to do so. The Privoier did slot object to leave it, and said, au • toeing asslrei be witness, that he was Captain Wished, and that he resided at Hatcliett's Hotel. He left the shop, after 1 having put into witness's hand, the mile 19.151 fur 100/, sod i received the change. Soon after he returned in a coach; , said lie could mot wait any longer, and asorst have the sexiest,. I Mr. Purge provrsl that be changed tte 1001. 'mute fur Mr. Kimbell, who lo.nielit it to him from the Prisoner. 1 The (baits of evident e was eArriol to a further extesd, dies which the Prlalllll r was fulls C 1111 l Milted. Beiiiiirlibm :uti mple.l to destroy himself on Wednesday I last. with laudanum, but his stomach revolted at the close, ' I whit lo was s cry great. lie appeared in good 111.:11111 yester- I I day, but was, as. 'slight lie expteted, much rls jetted. s Bout.aittleT. FORGED NOTES. Vesteralay a novel case of uttering forged Bank of Eng• land notes, lilliirrVirnt a long investigation before Richard Risme, A pmts.( woman of genteel appearance and :address. wearing n large white vett, was charged with ut terin' fmgrel notes, under peculiar circumstances. She appeared under the names of Lydia 'Well, alias C'laglow. On the 12th of February lasi, she above to the Red I.iou Inn, Aspendon Common, Sussex, where she remained about three hoots, during that time she had four glasses of mulled LOR I in payment for which she gave a five pound note, pite peslint to be a note of the Bank of England. Mr. liandow, t►e landlord, not having change, he procured it of his sleigh.. beer, Mr. Baker, a grocer. In the course of 'the afternoon of that day it was discovered that the note was a forgery, and Mr. Bristow set off to 'tensile her, but failed in over. taking her, but he continued am his journey to London, and gave information to the Solicitor to the Bank. In the afternoon of the same day, she went to the Bar ren Arms Inn, at West Oa instead, in a post chaise, anal uttered a forged 11. note to Mrs. Margaret Muting, the landlady. Bashop the officer war employed to trace out the Prisoner, hut he was cut able to accomplish it till last Saturday, %lieu he funnel her holging with Mr Finnigan, in Lumney-court, Quin-start, Bluomahury, by the name of Clay ton,l4llli it has been ascertained that she has uttered a forged Il note at a paitslic-house in that iseiglibourliemal. On her person were found It. notes of the Guildford, oia Yeovil, Moist 3, and other Banks which, it is FlIWOU'li, she has obtained change for 5/. forged Bank of England mites. She had also a good It and 21. Bank of England note, which she could not give any account of, only that abe had then, ha her for some time. She stated herself to he a married woman, but mita. rated fr her husband. She said she had lately been cu. g toad at Covent-garden anal Astley's Theatre as a singer. She was committed for examination .4 buy *as committed for further V(2,1111131'4)11, charged with breaking open the shop of Mr. Simunands, a chemist, in Suit thampton-street. Ois Donaldson, the con.lable, be. mg sent for, he seat died him, and funnel un his person con etalt•tl a silver spools marked D., which it as supposed he had stolen from another house. UNIOV•i/ALI.. EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION. • A woman, about by years of age, applied yesterday to Mr. King, the ill agistrate, for advice in the following case:—The Complainant, whose beauty hail long ago taken refuge is the sepolt lire of all the Capulets, stated, that she was a short time ago married publicly ill a young Mall kr age. The marriage was known by Isis mother and relations, and 'le:y.1111 wit attempt to fin Lid it hut latterly he began to ~hew signs of restlessness nod inquietude, and the qas light rt a shop next door, kept by a buxom young woman, Recessed to have more pleasures for hint than the holy torch of Hymen, he was always peeping in there, and at length he took ass up portstnity of quarrelling grids her; and the seeds of shisseusi 111 l toeing thus sown, it was continually kept sip till he sold all the gum's, and thus left her destitute. The object of her application was to hive him apprehended for the (doily, as ■be called it. She was informed that all the goods belonged to the hus band, and that he was at liberty to do as he liked with them. QIU F.F.N •SQUARE. nonnEKY AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Yesterday thmeiree, a young man ti` shabby gen teel appeareiiee, was brought tip in the custody of James Gilman, cltarged wills stralisig the hat of Christopher Sean, Esq. out of the Committee Room, at the House of Commons. Mr. James Pratt, Ni.. 22, James.street, Q"ckisgharn•gatr, stated, that he was attending the Committee sin the Not tingham Election. and saw the Prisoner about eleven o'clock Yesterday ne::rtiong enter the room. Four of the gesitlemen having lost their hats within the last few days, and p a iimme.r having a suspicious appeaunuce, lie was induced In watch him, when in a minute after he saw him take the hat, ■nd walk ar with it under his arm ; witness followed him out and gave hint into custody. Magistrate—l• Prisoner, how do you get your brine"— ' " I ant a dealer in hats, Sir. I went into the room, and it seems I took the gentlesnaii • si hat a mistake. Magistrate—`• It seems you was wrung in taking it. Pray, what toughies , had you there; being a hatter, you could distineititsh a mew lest from ass old one very easily''— " Yonr W4l!*.ilip, I ant not a hatter, lint a dresser of Wt. I went in, in the hop• of seeing a flirted froiii Nottingham." Magistrate How lime is it since you had beets at work ?•'—" I bad OM 11111 Lir ellipillylll 4. ll l , • Worshir, these 12 mouths; hub 1 meitsionally do jobs our my own account. I have a wife soil two children. at i4l ~ Drury lane, and on their account I hope the gentlensau will not press the rase against me." Magistrate--.. I am 110111: fur it, bet studs fellows as you shoot' be mirk an eramplr Ilf. " The Prisoner was fully eirminitteil to trial. German Paper+ have iiirived. It iq +toted, under the head of [fanny. r, the goth 11.4. that there iq a co:unifiable deficienev in the pinillice of the revenue. and that reenur , e Si,.t he had 1(1 extraordinary means to make it good. The pithily expense. 1111sfe the reitmatiiiii of the legitimise (ht- vernment. it i 4 atm mid. exceed 'hose in the reign of is:tic/mg CoNsPARTE. The Emperor mid F.lll p 1 1 ,44 arrived in grind Is-alth, at Venice, 1111 the ISO'. Her Alaje.ty the i)nclievs of PAILM A ariived there on the 15th. In consequence of the great fall in the market for riot cotton, expreqiies have been tent I t l.i-verlicA. verlicA. over-land to Calcium, in order to coun termad is speedily NY preoihle, any farther ship ments of that article. Ass aleoslnte e ngagement pi said to hirer been entered Min Icy the ',risme. hear ' toff; the expresqrq, to deliver thesti, allowing lust ur. eident4 to life of in Cure niontliq from the I date of nesting Englaml. InkLAND. DULILIti, COMMON ri.1;,v 4 .-TRIAL AT RAP. ;Vapor-Gesieral tvAN LOYD and the Right Hun. A I.ICI A LADY li A RON F,9 4 TRIM LESTOWN , his trite, l'lminttffs; the Bight Hon. THOMAS LORD 'BARON TRIM LESTOW N , Defendant. This trial, which occupied the Court of Common Pleas for twelve days, has at length been decided. The Jury, after being confined the whole of Satur day night and Sunday, returning teverdict in favour of the Noble Defendant, at eleven o'clock nn Sun day night, which, to preient their remaining in for another night, Judge Moore, by the consent of both pi.rtiee, received at that hour. There have hero few tsials for a long time post which have excited greater lowest in the breasts of the public them the present. It was an issue from the Court of Chancery to try whether a certain paper, bearipg date the silt day of December, 181?„ be the last will end testa ment or Nicholas, the late Lord Trisitlestewis. There watt a similar issue tried in the Court of King's !fetich, in last Trinity 'fern], which, how ever, after occupying the Court fur no less than fourteen days, proved abortive, the Jury suit agreeing in a verdict, there being Mite to 1,1- sour of, soil three against the will. It was* therefore removed lots) the Common Pleas. Hull came oil to be tried on Monday, the 22d of Fe bruary, before three of the Judges anti a Special Jury. Judge Johnson did not sit. The Court wits crowded to excess ; each day a number of Ladies and several Gentlemen el rank attended. Of those interested in the cause were preset'', Lord Tiintlertowis and his son, General Loyd, Count Dalton and his two sons, General Eustace, &c. &c. The following constitute the facts of the case : Nicholas, the late Lord Trisnlestown, went over to France at the age of twelve, where lie was possessed of a considerable estate in the province of Langue doc, and where he remained until the Revolution of 1789, when he was compelled to fly with other emigrants, and returned to his native country.— While in France he bore the title of Marquis Barnes wall, and married the daughter of a Prrsidrast of the Parliament of Thoulouse, by whom he had two 0:161th-eta —Thomas, the present Lord Trindestown, 1 and Rosalie, the Countess D'Alton ; he hail been 1 a widower. however, for prime nine before he left France. On coining over to !rebind lie was left wholly dependant on the homily of his cousin, `'Thomas, the then Lord Tiiinlestown, from whom lie only received the scanty allowance of 1801. it year. llle then lived in the house of hie son, in lisslles t street, who had married the daughter of the late ' Mr. Kirwan, known by the appellation of " the Philosopher," until the death of Lord Thomas who died intestate, by which the Trini!estown property 1 and honours devolved upon lens HS met heir to that estate. Upon his accession to the title, he tank a 1 house in Merritm.square, and here lie became oi -1 Innate with the family of General Eustace ; and I although he was ut this time borderilig (111 his 70th year, he became attached to Miss Eustace, a beau tiful young woman of 33, to whom lie paid his addresses, and who did not refuse (as Mr. Justice Fletcher eloquently expressed it) to unite the Mo.- ponta and flowers of spring with the frost and snow of winter, Lord Trimleston making a settlement of SON. a year upon her, and receiving 2,0001. for tune with her. 'Phis marriage took place in the year 1797. flaring lived for four months in Mer tion.square, they removed to I:ahls, where they re mained for a year and a half, and then went to London. They continued to live its 1.01111011 until 1810, when they returned 11l II elaitil, and resisted at Taney (louse. the Kin t zsland estates iwlsiel: are the subject of the pleat-tit suit) 11,11101 g de scolded to his Lordship by the maternal hue, some years previutss to his 11'81,111g I.lll‘llolll. From the primal of lii. marriage, Lord Trimlrsiosest had. front time to time, executed several wills and codicils, iii none of whit It did he leave his estates, from his son, until the month of Derrisiber, 1812. when lie recent. d that will, the validity of which has been successfully impeached iii the present trial, on the grounds of its execution having been effected by the undue influence of Lusty Trimlestowis, and iii which were bequeathed to her, befildrii other legacies, the whole of the Kingsland rotates IWNDALK ASSI7.LS, FRIDAY, MARCU 5. The size. fur the county or Louth. enmmenc , ( l at Mind:ilk, beriore the Lion. Baron M'CLELLAND and the lion. Mr..lustice MAYNE. GRAND JURY. the Right Hon. John Foster, Foreman, the Right Hon. T . H. Skeilington, Sir Edward Bellew, Chichester Forte-cue, Matthew Forteacue, Faithful Futteseue, Alexander Ftlgate, Thomas L. NOIIII3/11, John Tisane, Henry Ifrabazuu, 'Turner *Canis, James W. Nl•Neale, George Shirts Eitlesson, Thomas Fitzgerald, Faitbrill Wni. Fortexcue, Thomas %Vm. Fi'gale, 31sttheir O'Reilly, Thomas nodal, Nathaniel N ah um, Wilton) FilZatr, Christopher Moore, Henry Ches ter, and Thonnis Lloyd, Esqrs. and W. P. Buxton, Esq. Hith Sheriff. The Hun. '!r. Jo.tire —MAYNE (who presided in the Crown Cana), alter adverting, in a few words, to the stale of the calendar, dteis the attention o f the J ury to the late Act, which empowers Magistrates, at certain Sessions, to investigate tine nature and tendency of Presentments for public wank.. DROGHEDA ASSIZES, TIIVRSDAY, MARCH 4. mußtw.n OF PENTONY, From the watch-hcoise, during the lute Electron . The 4:06.11 this day war occupied in the trial of Armstrong, the Constable of Drogheda, for the Murder of Peter ['colony, on the first night of the late election. by a shot tired froth the watch home. Our readers have before heard many of the cit. curnstanices of this very singular and most extowor olmary case; but we carefully abstained from then 11a1ing mart particulars which might in any way affect the merits of it future hurl, and particularly as a criminal information had been applied for, and 1 , 415 pending against three chartered Magis trates of Drogheda, for their alleged mi , condirct filogistrates. in eroleavontiog to Pcretli lle'mu tterer ; Berms - nig oh-wiles iii the war' of those sit.. end:asonred Iu d i scover Llnl ; alit', H. to Iwo Of actually writing a lett, r to Major t•irr. ut It, procure I 1.111(1' for the mail whom they knew to have fired the shot. That a ndicaiion was made tJ Oe Court of Hi , ig'a Bench iii No_ temper hot, by Mr. tierjrinit Burton, and the Pin. eeettlogg were ''llspenes , l, Serjeatit's iodate', until the trial for the murder should hive been had ; the Magistrate., line ever, gettiur liberty from the I Court to answer, ill the 1111,3/11 11111 r. the sini , lasit I charging them pith iniscionrhe.,t, it . they thought proper. The Nlagistrates have • not thought pro per, we itinlerstaiol, to file ally aftiolevit in an swer to the chic ge, and thersfiore, as to their coo duct as connected si.orti th ot trausactinie the public mold yet rein-tin nuiuf rt. But the facts which have on this trial loppeourot ill evideuce, 1111 the sub ject of this unhappy nod innocent young man's death, we conceive ourselves' bound to give to the public, and shall therefore in the course of the next week, ley before our headers an accurate stoat full report of Ow troll. lit the mean time we give, a short summary. The Court sat sit nine o'clock, Baron LAND presided as Judge, toed in his charge to [he Grand Jody, winch appealed to be most revpect able, and upon which were the three Gentlemen opened whom the criminal information had been applied fur, his loont,ship adverted to the case of Armstrong, which sysis to ensue before them, and explaitied to them. moat luminously, the law, es applicable to the ofience with which 1w was charged. namely, bong present. counselling, tooling, and abetting Ilse person who 1 10166411 y fired the tied. by which the deeds had been occasioned. The Grand Jury, examining setwal wil lies:Mi. fonts(' the bill of iloolictmeot ; sod Arm strong, who tip to that tune had been at large, and acting as a constable, having heen ad:tolled It, hail by the present Mayor, Mr. Balfour, plat rd him self in the dock. 51r. SculvEN then stated the citcutiistances of the case for the prosecution, and Peter Connor, who had Ireen with the deceased at the time of his death, proved that Peotimy, young man, living four eMles trout Drogheda, mid himself, were walkilig down flirter-street, retiring Iminewerd, at about twelve et night, the street Oleo in d state of perfect trairptillity, when a shot was fired from the watch-house, by which Peillony was killed, and witness wounded in several places -by slugs, some of which have not been e xtracted. Five other witnesses, Samuel Poe, E•ri. Japhet Alley, Esq. John Cooper, Esq. George Fig's, and Capt. toms, all deposed to the perfect tracdutl lily of Peter.rtrert, in winch the watch-house stands; at the time of the shot. (Fur the prosecution wits then produced, the late ,Nlayor. Francis G. Fairt lough, and proved his having been brought to the watch-house after Petition) , t:ad been shot.) That he entered the watch-house with the Sheriff; that he found Arm .bung in a back-room ; lie asked Armstrong who had tired the shot; that Caulfield, one of the watchmen, was mentioned ; that Caul field was Bon sent for, mild bring asked whether he bad fired the shot, lie denier' it ; bat, oil his (the Mayor) saying (and winch lie confessed was an error he was sorry fat) to Caulfield, that ,he might tell him safely, or words to that effect, Caulfield ad mitted he had fired the shot. and that the Mayor then sent him to gaol ; hut when asked whether he 'had committed him to gaol, the Judge intetfered, and prevented that question being answered, as being irrelevant to the trial of Armstrong. Caulfield himself was then produced. Ilis evi. deuce, which was long, and detailed a most extra ordinary history of the transaction, we shall here after give fully. In substance, as to the fact at issue, he swore that lie tired the shot, but that he did it at the repeated instance of Armstrong. who had, at a particular time of the night, stationed hint at the door, and had given hint a cat bine, winch, he said, was charged on l y with gunpowder ; that the street was then quiet; thiot he staler' to the Mayor before Aitustrong, that he hal flied by A rinstronies order, and that the Mayor then shook hands with hitt), and told him no harm should happen to him; ghat he would weird him to gaol fur forty-eight bout , , on saspleiosi.and afterwards he should be liberated ; that he remained to prison for some dills at his own desire, to keep himself safe from the mob ; that he then was at large, but that when 3111 investigation had been set ois foot s its (inking into the murder, by Mr. NVallace, and some gentlemen of the town, Armstiong cosine to him and induced him to leave the town, and go to UnndallC, to keep the other side in the dark ; that he went there, and was ofterwaill. placed us ens. tody at Dundalk, from which place, flouting him self n eglected, lie gave inforin:itimi of the facts of the murder to Mr. Wallace. (11r. Wallace, who attended the trial, but not as Co.utise!, tendered to the Po ootter's Counsel all the letters which had been sent by Caulfield, to lie read as they might thick proper.) That lie was, while at Dundalk, traduced to smear an affidavit sent to him by Arm strong, fur the purpose of Ins 'Wing bailed, and which was read to him Mr. Bigger, the son of the Nlagistrate of Dundalk, Will afterwards signed by him. Caulfield. On the croso.examinationi of this witness, it ap. peered that in that ufljJavit, audio his exainmation, and his present evidence, Caulfield had given dif ferent and ioconsistent liccomiets of the trantAction —and the Mayor being tug tin eAsinined, denied what was sworn as to Ins having charged Arm strong in his presence—and, on the whole; when after two or three witnesses being examined fur the Prisoner. the Learned Judge charged the Jury ; he plated the inconsimelictes of Catillield'a evidence in so strong a light to the Jary, that bring the only person Cringing the fact home to Armstrong, he was immediately Acquitted. The Judge then informed Caulfield, th.t he s h ou ld finq it his duty to send tip a hill of indict. ment against him, for the murder. Ile was then put into the dock, and the bill of indictment against hint was next morning rent op. and found loy the Grand Jury. Coultield was then put to plead ; he pleaded Not Guilty, and is to be tried next Assizes.—( Freeman's Journal.) HERTFORD ASSIEES. ioc:c irnwsers lout n rin!, without ?ii previistis eOl/lintoolinstioil, seized him by the collar. sleiminileil his inuney, and told hull, that if hr that trot deriver it, lie would inetautly outirder The Prosecutor raid lie had iro on/wee, upon which ,the offender pulled out a pistol from ender his coat, and disil rged it et Inv head ; but Ilse Prorecitio , iweing the act, providentially din ked his head, bee received pert of the !amino( on the bock pert of the head, from winch his hat 14:11 1111/Wll elf by the dr•-• efineee. The usasessin then struck him to the ground with the butt end of the pistol., where lie remaiiiiil insensible fur • coosiderable time, mot its the inter val Isis seal and earaiu were taken from Win. 14i about an hour and a halt envoi/eels the Prisone: was taken itt a rtrighboaring wood, but lie was not e.,.. e d ris the apparel shove-meistamea, winch. linwever, roes fou n d in the same wood, together with a I/INIOI, tied up so a. bundle, and near to •elwre the Preusurr was apprehended. The Pros. . cutor, when lie first sew the f'nsnsier after lie Wi:s taken, bring hardly recovered from the effects 41! has ill-usage, wits not o hie to set at• to his pertain. and consequently the latter was discharged, but next ley was sorts imprieliended, when he was pt.t lively identified by the Prosecutor. Since the I sn - %petition had comineneed.the constable who uppre heitded the litisritier had died, and thin link its t ea thew of evideuce. 11/Cll/14 wanting. the Leareee Judge sisinnied up the err, making such bunt as occurred to into sti the doubt of identiti , end ilie Jury, after cousider able iletilieriener, foster! the Pirsimer Not Guilty. dola: Berry was fluttered for assatiltitig J. 1.. Irlobbersty, on the kreg'r highway, putting him in fear, and tetilig front his person eus. in silver, raid a gold inouriiime ru n g, his wooers', on the 10 Is of August last, su the palish of Siatitiois. It appeared that fir. II oblmr.ty was relenting home tis hie trig, in the es easing mentioned. in the indictment, between, Collier's Lod and Pucknolge, whets tic was stole liv the Pir.ouer. who, esieserit- Mg a leaded pistol at hie Ica.l, dem carded his trey, and threetened that if he did nut &liter it he would blow his Intros out. The Presectotor. who was rather so elderly men, gave the Pitsotirr all b m l o t ul e it s ii i , lv t, e it r o lie abolituttpipit7rio.eilvtdoehittoyetit litrisuipon;kef, ring from off afinger,.and the l'resouer made tar. Next day the Prisoner offered the ring for sale at a *slyer• smith's in Chehneford, 'hiving previously takes' off all the eitimel, and nearly efreced the eitgrovisig oil the inside. The silverstinth asked the Prisoner where he had got it, and he said lie had bought it of a friend fur 0.. ; but suspecting the appearance of his cestomer, he went out /1101 1)114101f a con stable, who touk the Procter into custody ; and subsequent inquiries being made, the Piesecntor mime forward and idesitifled the Prisoner as well as the ring, and accordingly the Prisoner ens cow milted to Chelnoford gaol, and front thence re moved to Hertford.—Guety—Deuite Alm:tell Chipman and James eirithony were in dicted Ito breaking and entering the slwelling.house of William Green, in the Fetish of Buckland, and stealing therein some silver and a oue pound note. Thu was the most serious case in the calen dar.—The circumstances proved in eviiirtice were these :---About two o'cluck its the morning of the 12th of January, the Prosecutor. a resort:tared farmer, in Iliscklatid parish, and his family, were awakened out of their sleep by the cassia of write window glass, and presently Ate ras aril. tlw prmater, Chapman, burst open the door of the Preercutur'• bed-room, and wills hornet threats den rudest his money. The l'rosecutor got out of bed and operael a drawer, and gave the Prisoner three half-crowns; he then attempted to get into an ailletiunig tooth for the purpose of polling an alarm bell, but he was resisted by the Prisoner, who struck him a violent blots ; Lett, at length, suecei 41 lug in get ting out of the room, he we- followed lay the Pei boner to the next apertitteet, and was its the act of pulling the alarm bell, when he sew the other Prisoner ascending the lathier placed against the window. A scuffle then ensued between the Prosecutor and Chapman, who strut k turn se veral blows with is small iron crow upun the arm-, and attempted to fume the same instrument dowis his throat, in doing which he broke too of Ina teeth. The other Piieutter in the mean time en tered the window ; but the Prosecutor succeeded in getting out of the house and giving the alarm. Other acts of violence were committed by the Pro ' sonars upon the Prosecutor's wife rod a female se r vint, butt they oily got a pound note in monies. The alarm being given, the Prisoner , q u itted dies house; but were both recognised tea taboos h u g men in the iteighbouilinod. The Jury fume' both Prisoners Guilty—Pre 4 . Joins Teslt Field, a farmer, on the borders of U.:4 county and Bettlerdshire, .lames Seely, J. 13ruien, and another, were indicted, wider the late ;etre Act, for g noisilemeatior, fur easing entered a err ten' close, the property of J. Latour, Esq. wit's intent to destroy genie. and litilig fooled therete. armed with bludgeons and a pistolo—Mr. Cowmen Serjeatit, who led the prosecution, stated, that thri was a most rtrocitine case; that the gamekeeper amid his assistant lied been nearly beaten to death, by a gang of upwards of twenty desperate poachers, of which the prisoner Field was the captain and ring leader; that he had not the ordinary excuse el pe yerty. for he was a man respectably connected, ewe was also a farmer, and in a better conditiou of life than offenders of this sort usually were. The first witness, Darby, stated, that he wise game - - keeper to Mr. Latour, of the 1111110 f of Heitoti, ii this county. That on the 'light of the title of No vember list, lie and Godfrey, his insistent, were out watching sifter poachers, and that alma eleven at night they were in a field called Frirthoin Close. They heard the yelping of several dogs its the pre. serves, and shortly afterwards the trampling of feet. Some one said " here is a gap," arid about 16 to 18 men cause through. lie sued Isis man lay down its the ditch, when one man alone with a dog came-- whether the men saw them, or the dog discovered them, he could not say ; but the last man Winged to his companions, and and, '• here is a mail ;" to whom they answered, lay him on t, we will slaugh ter him." Upon this, he got top. and stood wills his gun peruse his arms.—So Tee one Paid, •• leans a ring," amid they surrounded him. They said be was watching them ; he said he wes about his ours tes's business, and if they went shout their business. he would go about his. One laid hold of his gun. and " this is my gun." and forced it Irons lino. They then fell upon hint, end huuted lent CROITN SIDE. William Ambrose wns indicted for violently as saulting John Ili,hop, on the King's highway, on she '2711) of A ugwit 1844, iti the of Alden limn, and talong from Ilia liertion a gold veal and pint of a watch-Ciliilll. 31 apitrarrd that on the 27th of Angti.t last the Proverntor was walking in a lonely plat road, near the it, the middle of the dry, wilt', he was overtaken by a llama, dressed in