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OK eta IP V , to MURDER OF MR. TAYLOR AT HOWNSEY WOOD. CO*oltell'S INfitlMlTagity homisition we% taken yrs. teh j a y sherncon, before TMOM.O STIRLING, t h iq. Coroner, at the Hornsey Wood House, on the body of 111 ho Thomas mho., a medical gentleman, who wax atop .1 on lliureulay n ight last, on the iron Write of the New 'leer, by 1101145 villeins and basely robbed, murdered, ai thruwii into the river. Thu: Jury being rmpannelled and sworn, took a view of the Ire i s of the decea.ed ; there appeared violent air k• of st -, ,, otlation ahasit his neck, a knife was in his waistcoat ma ku., and a cola riu,e , upon lii• norrer, shirk the diabolical viaams who minute,' a him, in their hurry, dol not take from hoo k The following evidence was afterwards taken : ti Thomas Thorpe, of Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, de. peed as Cullom% : I was a particular friend of the deceased; he "as at my house on Tuesday last; he was then in good healer amt sp4i is. On the following Thuroulay I was at his how% and he was then from borne ; his brother called on the following morning (Friday) upon me, and inquired if I ha l seen, or hail any knowledge of where his brother (the &erased) might be found, as he haul not been home since the preceding morning. I iuformed him that I had not seen him eines be called upon me en Tuesduy. The deceased's brothet went from my house to Mr. Norrntt, of Gray% hos and made Inquiry, and there learned oohing at all sat nadir tory as to his brother's abseuce; he afterwards went with Mr. N. to Guy's and Si. Thomas's Mini tale, to make inquii rie: there after the deceased, and was informed that he had not been there since be was at the Lectures on Wednesday. In the evening I went to the biome uf the deenteri, awl re mained there with his friesoh, in anxious saapense uatili I I o'clock; the brother of tbe deceased, air. Noreutt, Mr Grit. gas, and myself, determined upon proceeding ill SIIIMINCSIS; we set uIT, mot went to the Lower-road, Islington, as far as Mall'. Pond ; there we met three of the Row-street patrule, mud made inquiry if they had beard any thing of a person hying subbed ur murdered, they inform. .1 us that they had j,tat returned Ciotti ibe Green Lauer, and that nothing of the kind had occurred the night previous, or they must have beard of it ; we then returned to Mr. Taylor's house, iii ex pectation and hopes that the deceased might hive thrived there, but upon our arrival we found be hell nut ; between four and five o'clock the same (Saturday) morning:, Mr. Taylor, the bristlier of the dereaacil, myself, and Mr. Nor. cult, resolved to go to Southgate ; upon our arrival deer, we foam! that the deceased bad been at the house of a friend, Mr Pearce, and had taken tea on Thin softy evening, and he left them hi-toren six and seven o'clock in excellent spirits; he stia to Mrs Pearce that be hail promised to meet a f. trod at the Justly Ris.cherr, in the Green Lanes, at seren o'clock ; Mrs. Pearce invited him to sleep at her honer that night, as she considered the journey very lonely and dangerous ; he stated ilia he could not stay oat any •ectuilit, as he had nut left word at his house of his having any intention of remain ing from home all night. Sirs. Pearce !wise aware what uneasiness his element* might occasion to his friend% did nit press hint further to stay, but advised him not to eu home through the wood, II- reuslied to her advice, that "he had always been anus. timed to go that way, and li • was not aft ,id of outing stopped by any body, soil that it was his nearest road to town. 1 and my friends afterwards proceeded to the Jolly thatchers, at Wo , ol Green, from the house of Mrs. Pearce, lad aecertained of the landlady that the deceased t Mr. Tay. hurt wars there un Thursday evening; he arrived there about siren o'clock, and took tea again at tle? house, in the bar; he made inquiries if any one was then wading Cie hits? He was informed that nu one bad been there. He took a small quantity of spirits and water, and waited for the arrival of the person whom he expected, until between It) aud 11 o'clock; he‘xpeessed great disappointment that the person had not met - him, aud deem left there, as he said, with the iatentoin of oroceeding directly home. The landlady ad. ruled him to put the chain of his watch out of stets., which he immediately did, bade her omil night, and went away. 1 and my friends having gained the above information went eau the way which the deceased must have travelled towards AO home. and made frequent inquiries on the road whether each a person as the deceased bad bees mess or beard of, and u 1 nits !Staler/ or murder had been committed in that to ,ellrooktited. The first Information we gained 115015, that cu ies of murder had been heard near West-Greets on Thum day aught, and we were told if we went to the Black Roy we li ned obtain more particulars upon the subject. We pro ceeded there, and found that there had been an alarm in tonrequenee of the cries of murder, about ten o'clock un l'hurselay evening, and that three men had entered into a house, with intention to rob it, but the family not being in bell, gave an alarm, and the robbers decamped. We then re turned towards the tile kilns in the Green Lows. crossed a field, and made fur the wood ; we traced some footsteps at the foot of the bridge, fur 100 yards, which the brother of the deceased said were much like his brother's, whom we were in rearrh of; at the centre of the bridge we lost the trace of the footsteps, and we suspected that he had been murdered there and thrown into the river. Mr. Taylor's snot/sienna were particularly excited by the marks of the boots being straight, and not right and left, as are more usually wore, because his unfortunate brother had on when he left his home boots of that description. We thee inquired at the Homey Wouddiunse and at the Sluice-boo,', if they bad any drags, or if they had dragged the river recently. They informed ii: they had no drags, nor had the river been dragged fur a 4 . ol.llderable lime. We made several bigamies, and was iu f rutted that a hat had been found at the Sluice. 1 and my f, :ends requested it might be sbewu to its; and the man ask . d as what was the name of the maker? We replied," Wil son and Waugh" He asew.ved, that is the name in the hit, and he immediately produced it, and we found it to be 111, hat of the deeraard, Mr. John T. Taylor. We intake it. tole sent to the Half Noon for the dispe, sod employed r es-oo to drag the river. They continued dragging freak /4 .tur,lay until Sunday morning. I went on Smock,' MUM. ill: with my friends again in the New River; six of my men were dragging, and an alarm was mule that the 1)04 was i , uund. I alighted from my chaise and saw the body brou4lit up; it was perfectly dead, and appeared to have been in the water several days. The flap of the small- clothe, was unbuttoned; the watch which the deceased always carried about him was not its him fob, and there was no money shone the deceased's person, and he never went oust without taking money with him; his pockets were turned nut, and the re were appearances of strangulation, and a black mark eel the side of the neck. I know the deceased hid a watch wilt, gold chain and seals when be left borne; he was a very high..pirited young an, sad from what 1 know of him, he sound not tamely submit to he robbed. He 11311 a practice of ',voting his watch pocket after he put his watch in ii, sad I hive frequently heard hint say, that he would defy any thief to rots him, fur if they took his watch, they must also ' take Ms pocket. 1 ant of opiotort that the 'Mattes who mar- dered the deceased unbuttoned the dap of his smallelothea for the ;melow of untwisting the fob pocket, mud taking the watch. In his pockets remained the followitig trilling *di rt. s :— , t %faith key, Akenside'a poetical works, a pair of eluee9, -ilk handkerchief, peuknife, mid a stick of black seal- b.': ie , •a. The body was carried to Hornell , Wiwi., House. IS. , nruhre Ile, which the ileense.l had with him on Thursday "izht, was .lootail MI the iron bridge, which was torn te tchily. !ruin its appearance. From the deep marks an the hank *bete the body was found, I am entwine/al that Ise meat great r-sistauce ; some of the heel masks are several int'o-i in depth in the ground. %Ire. Sarah Wilson sworn—sl keep the Jolly thrtchera, at itno.l Green, Tottenham Parish. 1 knew the deteased be f 'le In came to my house on last Thursday evening; It was beta,. n six and seven o'clock when he towed iny house; I io, sled him into the bar, as he was aceputinted with my 5 , !,.. ...lien he went to 'chew!. I asked him to lea, sod he otrd, and sat 11l Sgy liar until between ten and eleven n'u lock at night ; he had three small glasses of brandy and "-"", ; he ltd not drink half the liquor himself, 1 and my bon drank with him; there were no y11%14..11 in the house all the reciting. Te deceased had a watch in his pocket "II .tote money; he paid net four shilling% fo the Istplui, ay. ; it was a bunting watch, with yellow chief awl seals, whir lu I supposed to be gold, and 1 advised him ti, bole them i•loir , hi , clothes, as they might attrict dee attest of ill doo••• d persons whom he might meet, and he anal.' he nob), 11, Sled I saw loin pot th , nt and , . the bottom of his waistcoat. IThen the decent 4 first cape into the bar, lie - •*- 111.. k inquired if a GeraleMan laid been there for him Wheal, set off frnm our house, it was a fine bright light t. The bridge steer *kith the deceased was f it malith nearest way huge; Ise bade toe good night, and was in extant spirits whets he parted. Joist. Wilton, • youth about 11 yeses of age, sworn-1 am the eon of last witness; I went its &shoot with the de erawil ; he called at my mother's homer on Thnraday evening, soil said that he had been on a Vila to Mr Pearce , of South gale, aa he was going to write to a College at t:inihridee, to Mr. Pearce's son, and wished to know if he had any thine to communicate to him. The deceased said that he had promised to meet a gentleman at our house, on his return from Mr. Pearce's, and he expressed surprise at his nut hav ing kept his promise. Mr. Thomas Evans. 24, Old-street, anrgeon, stated-1 knew the decreed abuut five or six years ; we were fellow pupils at the Finsbury tilispeneary ; I have 1101 seen him for near a fortnight, and then be was is good health and spirits, and I am satisfied that he was nut ender ally kiwi of divalent or derangement of mind, do I believe that hr would have put an end to his mimeo heard he was mowing, and last night that his body w and. 1 saw the body of the deceased this day, shout two o'clock, and in my opinion he was undoubtedly strangled previous to his being thrown Imo the water; I form that conclusion from various appeartocri on the body, the mark r.pund the neck Is nut all 1 form my opinion from; the tongue is forced through the teeth; there is a mark also under the tar; and the licensed was an ex cellent swimmer, and had he fallen into the water by acci dent, he timid have saved himself. The teeth of the ile meted were darted, sod the tongue was forced, in my opinion, between the teeth by the violence its stranglitr.; him Mr. Richard Henry Major, surgeon—l never sow the dc remelt before hi. death but aut.., and that was a consider ',hie time ago. I sa• the body this day, and nay opinion is precisely the same as Mr. Brass's; that he was strangled eanuot admit of a doubt, and be must have been nearly dead befor he was thrown into the water. 1 have seen numbers of persons who were strangled, particularly Bellingham, and other notorious murderers, and all had the same %Weal mice of strangulatioss. lam sure the deceased 1111161 have lust all powero f defeat* before be was thrown into Inc river ; be even appears now to retain the posture of self. defence. Mr. No►eutt, of Gray's-lam, being seronli said _N lent the dressed an erahrella when he was at my bowie, and the one found upon the iron bridge of the New River is the save I lent him ; it was not torn when 1 lent it to, him ; the rent in it apppeara to have been newly made, and in my opinion was dune ix the straggle with the peewee who at. tacked him. The hat produced lam sere is the deceased's, and must haw* floated down the river to the male at the Sluice-house. I made particular inquiries ..t West Green, at the Black Boy, and learned that a gerithresaii's house was rubbed iiu Thursday melt, about the time the deceased left the folly Butchers, and I have nu doubt, from the direc tion which the thieves took, and the road the deceased went, that the thieves went serum the Gelds, earl met with the de. ceased on the bridge opposite the tile kilos. The Comer 11411111111efi sip the widow , . and said, that he bad hopes when the investigation roMmeneed. that the death of the wituruinnin young gentleman was produced liv meri diem, but after the emderice whiele had been received, he was sorry to say, that there was proof adductd that the deceased came to his demh by tbs violeut hands of murderers It x clear to hive that the deceased was met in the field* by the villains who took away his life, and that be strugeled with them until they arrived at the summit of the bridge, aheu he was rubbed nod thrown into the water. That his death was cowl by the violence of some persons, nothing could tic more cunclasive than she evidence of the aorreteqa The Jury in•tuatly returned th.• irok i um t u up e airt " Vardar sobs! rows person or patrons ininvores, eke direaseot haring Mrs, in 11 opinion, etvorgliod, robbed and /Aim info Me Nov River A large reward has been offered for the discovery of the murderers. Tlie &yawed was the 900 of slr. Taylor, the sumo'', of Gworrit•striret. His body was resound yesterday iu a lwanie to his falba?* boobs. The premature death of so excelktit yawls swan, has prediscod ohs wettest sfilictiou to his aunt respectable relatives and friends. lIIIRDNA. AT- MORNS NY. Yesterday evening a suspicions character offered the do. plicate of a watch., pledged at a pawabeuker's its the neigh lowurbood of Caswell-street, fur sale, which corresponds with the watch the unfortunate ATr. Taylor had in his pocket at the time be was so inhamauly murdered. 'Mtn name of the person to whom the ticket was offered fur sale we have nut been able to learn, bat we trust it may lead to a dol. corny of the perpetrators of the horrid deed. ♦ reward of UM is offered by M►. Taylor, the father of the deceased, spun the apprehension of lie mud . SUDDEN DE.4TIa. An Inquisition was taken yesterday evening, at the sign of the Feathers, Hart-street, near Covent-garden Theatre, Ike. fore THOMAS HIGGS, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Ite. Richard Shirley, tobacconist, of Hart-street, Covent-garden. It appeared from the evidenci b uf Mr. Walter Richardson, hotel-kreper, of Covent-garden, and another witness, that t h e d .ceased was 40 years of age and kept a hair-dresser% and tobacconist's shop in Hart-greet. The deemed was in the habit of dressing Slr. Richardson's hair every morning, and nut calling on him un Sunday morning, as was his usual custom, the porter was sent far bias, who found his shutters np. He called several tinsel afterwards, and the place was in the oune condition. when, by Mr. Rieliard sou's orders, the dew was forced open, and the deceased was tbsind lyiap on the bed quits dead. His Wily was much olh-ulourtd, but the evident* of a surgeon went to prove that ha died of •puplexy, and the Jury returned a verdict of Died by the Visitation of aid" On Uonday night an inquisition was taken at the Coach and Humes, St. Illartin's.lane, before Mr. Hume, on the buds of Hr. Charles Osbourn, tut Of f icer is the Navy, also wits &mid dead' in his bed, at the Northumberland Culfet.house, on Saturday asuriiing lost. Verdict.," Diod by Ike Visitation of God." Yesterday afternoon ■u Inquest was hold at the Crown Ta vern, use Clerkenweli.green. before T. STIRLING, Esq. 414 view of the budy of Mr. Thomas Moor, of the Bull's Mead puhlie-hour, in Ayleshurpotraid. (li-ekes's/ell, who put a period In his existence by calling his thrust. Verdiet—lnrantly. On Mondey night the out-houses of J. WIT.LEY. Esq. of Hearn.-bill, in the parish of Camberwell. was broke open by robbers, who carried off forty ducks mud other poultry. Cotoess.—The point reserved on the trial of Willium Phillips end his son, who wrie capitally convicted at SJI.op Assises of having iii their pns.•rs ston a die on which was the impression of a shilling, having been referred to the twelve Judges. the PRINCE KERENT Iws, in consequence of their re port thereon, granted the Prisoners a free pardon. The elder Phillips, it will be recollected, was in custody in Gloucester some time since, on a s lar charge. and at that period re►ided near Westbury pon-Severn. A chymist of Cop,erilingen has discovered a wears of producing d 116 ely yellow colour for dyeing cioth. He gathers thit tops of the putitoes when reudy to Cower, presses the juice, unitive it with wore ur less wilier, end suffer► the cloth to reenein in it duffing twenty-Four boors. Ile then dips it in spring water. The cloth allay he either of w.“ 11, silk. cotton, or eax. By plunging the cloth 11. ins tinged with yel low into a reset' of blue, s bn Iltµut and leshug green is obtatt►rd. W W INTELLIOENCE. vICP-CHANCRILOWS COM?", Ltscoveslen, TUMMY, Dtermatit 15. The Vicg-ettarrott.Lort vomit orrupied until one o'rlork hesitog c4ost4 fur foriller tlirretimo, of no mi,rret eterpt to the partite concerned. At that hour his lioisour rose. COURT OF BING'S BENCH, t: VI TLINIAtL, TunDAY, Decal Men IS. Sittings finer Michaelmas Term. before Chief Justice Atmore wed Common Juries. • PERJURY. TOR RING On Me Prosecution of AARON MOSEI V CHORLEY. This wise on indictment for wilful and corrupt perjury. The Proarcutor, a Mitch Jew, Some tune since imported a variety of rare articles from ifulland. Tory rousiated of au essortu►eot of pica tures, natural curiosities, and other valuable perty, touted tu the English ma•ket. When the vessel arrived its the River, the Prosecutor employ. ed the Defendant, who is a Custom-hm►se-quay broker, to clear out his property from on board of her. For that purpose, he gave him the bill of lading, and the Defendant proceeded to send ha propert►• on ►hore. Defendant afterwards made out his bill for 33L—hut all the Pro►ecutor's goods ► it appeared, were lint fortlivorninga—and. iu co►►se. 'limner, some denier was made to the payment. Aaimigst . I other things, a pair of valuable chino. jars war.- mi••iug. Prosecutor repeatedly ap. plied for the jars, and offered to pay Defendatit's demand, provlded he furni4l).4i a regular bill and receipt. The 13efetidato refit...ll—and went all far tu contact an salmi& nn the Prosecutor, of which he was conv►cted at Hockv'e Hall. The Prosecutor at lerigth paid the 33/.; hut the Defendant, not satisfied with this, brought his action fur 20/. more hr swine was due to him—making a gross aunt o f SU On iuvrst►gattsg the account, how. ever, it was manifest that iv. ivua all that he could justly denoinul. These clicninstences were proved—amid the Jury returned a verdict of egrriNG. CRITON C. DAVIS. Mr. GURNEY st.Oril, that tho. action was bmnght to recover 1.20/. the amount of stake and winning, which the Defendant retained in his hands. us stake holder. 'Elle tails lithe Fancy, it appeared, had knocked tip a fi,or-rrire between two promieing youths, named Blanks and Blompter. Tom Bel ch. r, OByer , soul others of the &pa lmed lar;:.e Pomp in the Defendant's hand., which w e re to the event of the nice. The Plaintiff deposited 601. and was to receive not d u ly that, but Ins ailver.oory's stakes, if he happened to het PO the right side, The event of the rare wos favo:brahle U. him, soil , when it was decided, hr demanded ins money. 'the Defendant, however, refused to pay. He was not tviekward in govit,g their winning, to Belcher and Diver, knowing Imo they were men norto he trifled with—hut he left the Plaintiff to recover 1111 , 1 1111'01N:1 the MellitlM of a t toil Solon. Now, if olie Omit should be of 01/1111011 that the was root riddled to recover the whole suns, it could not be do uhord, that he hail at least a right to receive ',auk lois own The case fur do- Plinittitf was folly prnved. The defence oet up was, that the Plaintiff had actually been uttered the money he deposited, but that he refused to receive it. Tutu Belcher, Oliver, George Steadonote, Thos. Dde, and othero, pr.ved that, on the evening when the rare alms decided, the Defendant tendered 601. to the Platnittl, but re fused to give up the winning, on the ground that there hid been ti cross iu the race, one of the parties having been abeolutely bribed to lose. Briton would rot take leas Own the whole, and brought Ina actin., to recover it, The Jury fninid a verdict for the Defendant— and the CHIEF JUSTICE said, he had a very vtroug duul,t on liiv ' I, whether the Plaintiff could at all recover in law. Eve's if a verdict had 'Peen given for the Manua it was liar from clear that it would ultimately stand. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, CHIEHHiLEL, Tummy, DECIEXIILR 15. Sittings after Term, before the CHIEF JUSTICII and Common Janes. WALLS V. HOCKLET• This was an ant brought by the Plaintiff, so apothecary, residing in Curtain-road, neer Shore ditch, against the Defrothi.t, as brother cud exe cutor of Miss Hockley, who died of a poilmomary consumption' in Jul" la.', to recover the sum of 343/. 1 41.-2011/. the value of apr 1111 l homy note pass.il I.y the deceased to Plai n tiff 1111 N o ve in . her 30. 11;17, payable six hi. after her Ilerth; 4.5/. 124. NJ. fur medical sttemlinice, snit the re m...oiler fur medicine. supplied during her The defence made *a., that the Plimitiff had of ri4lit no demand on the score of the note, in. Miss Hock ley vtii% not in liworsiion of her facoleira alien she drew it. and as improper had been used by Plaintiff to extort it ; that the methemes and a t. temluoce had hero greatly overcharged, and that Plaintiff had received sufficient reamileration for them by payment of a bill for 50!. drawn hy de ceased in Deceiniier,.lPl7, on Defendant, iu Isis favour; and payment of a legacy of 1044. be queathed him to the will of the deceased. Miss Ho..l,:ley's 'mew-tender proved, that the Plaintiff attended her (luring now the of her Worm till her depth; that his visits were frequent by day and night; and that 1w MR. sometones obliged to sit up the whole night. In her cross-examination She *Writ that various precautions had been taken in oievreit the young iisjiujeig herself—the bars ft: the window.. of her room had been fastened up, l-.t -he should throw lier.clf out. She used io br to queotly de• after her medicines acre atfun..slefed: I.lle did put know there tens any thiog iin ; .rourr in the niedienws, she did sins 1f0..w what the) I•ert Up of; she hehreed llr. Wallis made Piofc'shnle of love to his patient, toot she war attached la big s ; thought that if she recovered I. y Were to he 'parried ; aacirratood that Mr. Nl' iii. tilt. • ned to tiotroy jutstbelf uuloop she rogogrd to II $U Atop rwil th.l Mitt. 11. was ?:cnetitneAllirmed lest he thauld do ea; did not kt.ow any ° thing about the promissory note till after the lady's death. Witneta eolith!. red the Lady in a tiling state for right month/ hefn• e her death. Mena Parr was called in to see the Lady about the end of ' , mom,. an t i attended her regularly after her return from Weymouth ; was in the habit' of visiting her its November, and did not then look upon her as beta;; in a deranged stale of mind, She had s pulinntialy ctiniumption, and was fre iptirdly attacked with hyste.ical allectioitt, which often produce a disorder of ir.ind similar to insanity. gave no dirtctions about the apothecary ' l s attendance, but merely wrote the prescriptions; many medi cines were required to palliate her disease, though they might not hsve heel, expected to r{i}fest,', cure; his on retimai to suppose the Apothecary did not do his duty. It was nut po.•lhlr, from the nature of the coniplaint, to pronounce whether too much me dicines hail been g.veu her. After her return from IVeymnutli, knew that her complaint w.ms incur able; from that time till het death the was in an extremely low elate. Dr. Hamilton visited Miss Ilockley previous to the attendance of Dr. Parr; her complaint was al together hysterical; she was not insane; except when In her paroxysms, she was competent to any act. It'irnight be iirceasury that an apothecary alveolil attend her through her whole illness, and lie continually repeating the medicines. The apo thecary paid het the greatest attention; constant attendance on his part was necessary, and her brother used sometimes desire hint Insley all night; has tasted the medicines. and found there were no love potions in them. Mr. Serjeant VAUQIIAW, for the Defendant, said, the Plaintiff's demand was altogether unjust and iniwarrantable. He both furnished medicines not necessary, and charged. an unreasonable price for them. %Vim opinion could the Jury entertain of a men who had tried every art to seduce a young Lady's affections, who he knew could never recover, for his own base ends? Was it credible that the Jury would compel her brother to pay a note drawn at a time when she did not know what she was doing ? The deelanition did not contain a word of the legacy of MO/. nor of the hill of 501, drawn by Miss llockley about two months before her death in Plaintiff's favour, and paid bins by her brother— Three two aunts, the Learned Counsel contended, were au ample compensation for the Plaintiff's me dicines, with all his tabour and trouble, and that the Defendant was perfectly justifiable in resisting such unconscionable demands. The 501. bill wag then pot in and proved. Mary Coleman wee culled. end the CHIEF JUII. TICK asked what , the was to prove. The Defend:u►t's Counsel replied, the state of mind in which Miss Hockley way after returning from %Vrt•mntstli. The Culey JUSTICE said, enough had been heard on that subject from two respectable phy sicians. Mr. Seijeant LENS was then proceeding to reply to the remarks thrown out on the other side, about the 'tote for 2001. and the legacy of lua The CHIEF JUSTrE advised him to put that sum out or the d , iii4sid, and .Hy nothing shout it. That world save him (the Chief Justice) the neces ..ty of adverting to that part of the case; but if any thing more were said of the transaction, he should express all he thought about it ; and which, perhaps, the public would not be obliged to him for suppressing. The claim for the value of the note (30O1.) was then given up by the Plaintiff's Counsel, and also fur the attendance, 4.il 13s. 6d. the legacy being supposed to be meant as u remuneration on that head. Mr. Serjrant LENS then argued it was morally impossible the bill for 501. could have been drawn on the Defendant, es executor of his sister, before she was dead. It was necessary for the other side to ',hew that fact before they could allege it was passed in part payinrot cf Mr. Wallis'. demands. The Cui EF JUSTICE told the Jury the only ques tion fur their cowiderstion was, whether the bill fur 501. was given to the Defendant in part payment of hip medienues and attendance—if they should he of their (minion, they would %abduct it from the Plain tiff', !lieu el ; otherwise, Pot. The Jury, sifter or short etunsideration, found the 501. to have been in pert payment of the bill, and returned so verdict fur the Plaintiff.—Dornages, 47/. 11% 41. A New Brunswick Paper intimates, that the Surveyins have found that the nigh Lauds indicated as a boundary by the Treaty of 1783, lay south ward of St. John's River, leaving the whole of that river, the Settlements on the Maditwarka, and that mute to Canada, in the hands of the Engbah. The Predo/os, JAMES MACK, arrived at Leith on Wednesday best, having completed her third voyage from St. tsrtrr►bnry f h, the greatest number made in one year—two are the average. Mr. MACK S teep. on the 45th ult. the frost was so intense in the Baltic, that lie. and the masters of about fifty other vessels, ttttt at have been under the neces sity of wintering at Omitted!, had they not actively entered into a sub•ciii.tion, tool enaithe).ed the Rus.. mans in r•ttving through the ice. The navigation of the I3vair Is a lid, in a Petersburgh article, to be ' , Nimbly closed for the remainder of the year. A slight shock of an earthquake 11,4$ experienced in Brogue, on the morn i ng of Niontlay sentlight, altont Hole o'clock. It was, how-err, h more sensibly G It in tile netglohnurliood of Peutir, where a gentleman (lest-Übe, it as it the earth sunk nearly a you! 1..,•u trotter his fret. /lactic Expsoirioti.—lt is said, that early in the emu'. g summer enother expedition will hr sent out for the ;unloose of exploriog a North Western pa.•ege to the Pacific Ocean. The Griper gun brig ha• arrived at Deptford, and *ll be l*enered as rose of the Discovery vessels, in lieu of the Frene. It Pi ohm mord, that two of the booth-1,01814N which were At Algiers will he ordered-uut on °tenon. dea ths:unto. 7'..r Isabella and A/err/oder will be paid off immediately, and the crews will he al. lowed t► month to gee and see their friends. (he wonderful Elatin sue, who is still on boar., one pi the ships at l)e,itford. aid whu lately sat fur ins ;wino% has taken an, h a fancy for drawing landscapes, that the Olfirris have Kivu him pilule and brushes. Mid every tither facility fur indulging Ills ►ew prupeuritf•. sio r . • I • ' OLD BAILEY, DEcsmnan Jeremiah Healy was indicted for feloniously s'ope ping Samuel Thorpe on the King's hignway, tor eddy detaining him in custody, rd threw wag nits, with being committed on a charge of so n fa mats nature, 'inlets he paid a ce , tarn sum • f money. Samuel Thorpe was a geutlemau'- -ere nt , re siding is Leiter Csdogain.street, Chelsea, had had been sent by his master upon some e►rands to Ox ford -street, on the evening of the Mil Novrmb-r, and as he returned through Hyde Pm k from Gros. venor-gate, he was attacked by the Prisoner sod another fellow, who threatened him with bring charged fur an infamous utiencr, unless he gave them a pound note. He resisted, and attempted to run away from them; they pursued and over took him ; the Prisoner then called out to his coin " D—n you, Captain R why d ii't you detain the fellow ? I'll report you to the Com mittee to-morrow, unless you do your duty."— The Prosecutor stated, that finding hums If in such hands, he said he had no money, but if they would accompany him to his lodgings, he would give them a pound note. They theo wet:, we'h hie' through Knightsbridge, but as they enteied the town the Prisoner put something like- a pistol to his breast, and said, if he dared make any nr,i•e he would shoot him. The Prosecutor a• they went along espied the butcher's shop where his uiaster dealt, and he told the Prism.er that if they would let him go into that shop lie might get what they wanted. They consented, and he went iu and iii formed the butcher of the parties who were nut side, and entreated his assistance. As the butcher was coming out fur that purpose, the Pri•one► awl his companion ran away ; the former was however secured, after a smart run, but the other escaped, Two or three witnesses corroborated the Prosecu tor's evidence, respecting the Prisoner's attempt to escape, and his apprehension. The Prisoner, in his defence, charged the Pro secutor with having robbed him in the Park, and said he only wanted to detain bun to answer for this charge. The Jury, without giving the Common Serjeaut the trouble of summing up, found the Primmer Guilty. The COMMON SERJEAWT said, that the Pr. , olier was en old offender, and should now rtceive sett tence, fur the purpose of marking the distinction between his character and that of others now its cus tody—who, bad as they were, would be con'atiti noted by being placed alongside hint as cuinriis at that bar. tie was long known as an old Oh tole( and had he succeeded in getting any moues front th s : Prosecutor on the present occasion, hut fife would have been the inevitable forfeit; es he hail not, til t Court could only award against hint the seuttoce of transportation for styes. years. Mr. A LLET said, that he had once harl the rniF fortune of defending the Prisoner at th e IVestiptit titer Sessions on a similar charge. Ile harl since heard of his being a most infaintius charm ter, and connected with a gang who prowled shout evito nog money in this infamous tu. r. If the officers could get at the fellow who Was with him 1111 this occasion, he would engage to conduct the prosecu tion against hint. _ Aiit)fficer said that the fellow was well known, and the police were in pursuit of hon. The COURT complimented the Prolocutor on his pursuing this charge against ouch an offender us the Prisoner. At live o'clock the RECORDEa passed aenteiii:e eili the fallowing Prisoners : Sarah Bruce, r lipbetli Mash, and Henry Oakley—to be trenppurted for life. Elisabeth Brady, R. Broderick, Win. Davis, Henry Thom. son, Jame Mullen, John Morris, and G.orge Kemp—four teen years transportation. Thos. Joseph, H. Harvey, Catherine Devereox, Lorenzo Netterville, Ann Maynard, Sarah Grreory, WaltiT Charles Button, %Vm. Newton, John Torrey, Patrick Myrtle., Wm. Maycock, T. H. Foreman, Catherine Sandford, Ann Lawson, Mary Marlow, Wm. Howard, Ann givers, limy Ramsay, Peter Riley, John Felix, Wm. Green, &MIA Davis, T. W. Brady, James Potter, Cathesl.li. Rwler, Atm Smith, A. Leneur, Sarah Ball, Edward Root, Won. Reed, Robert Palmer, Wm. Johnson, J. Holmes, Thus Baldwin, John Buller, Joseph Evory, awl Sarah Leuprd—to be transported for seven years. • l'hgre were several other trifling sentences for small offences. At • Court in North Curoliiir i osso men were convicted of perjury, and sentenced to h,fve thfir ears cropped. "We did," says the Editor of it e New York Paper, " not know that any State iii the Union still maintained in operation laws so sangui nary and unjust. The object of punishment ;;; formation, and laws are intended to operate Inn e from their certainty than from their severity. IVliat reformation can be expected from a mon who is ren dered insensible to shume by the joss of his eats— who carries to the grave the markp of • sava Lf e course of justice upon him—who wanders through the world an object of scorn end coritempr—Nod who carries upon him a mark like Cain ? Such marl thug mutilated can never be restored to society. The Russians have abandoned the bora and the slitting of the nose, and yet the most hormone and liberal oration on earth cosh , u-s to cat iff curs / On Saturday evening Earl Twastme, accomitu flied by Captain JAIVOISE of the navy, arrived rig the Waterloo Hotel, in this city, on their way to Erlinhorgh, from the south. His Lordship's car riage hiving sustained some injury upon the road, workmen were employed in repairing it till after eleven o'clock that night, when it was drawn into a coach-house, and locked up. The next mono log it was discovered that the staple had been drawn from the coach-house door, and a post mantetur stolen, which was left on the previous night strapped to the carriage. The portmanteau con tained several articles of dress, a Cite, flageolet, Itc. It was found in the course of Sunday iii Maiden Castle Wood, a short distance from 114 towir, with the flute and flageolet, and some other part of its content-, the trio yes not possessing suffi cient cu.ining to do-cover a secret opening winch enclosed some of the most valuable 'Wider'. 4 hmidkrrciitti has since'been found in an adjoining field, but the villains who committed this daring rhisery are as yet undiscovered. Lord TEMPLE'S se•vaut was a.krd on Saturday night by one of Mr, WARD'S oolers. if the portmanteau had not better be taken into the lon. lie replied that it VP.I. oreessury, as their coach-house had a lock upon it. The Noble Lord and his gallant friend proceeded northward out Sunday.—(,Gushum Advertiser.) if: • - ~! r