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.i of Lmieloo awl Middlesex, to enable him to take the benefit of the Gaol Delivery an thu Serii.insis or ther and Terminer at the 0141 Bailey. 'Floe Lord Chief Justice did tint know haw to act, but went in Lord Nottinglisou'i house and consulted with him, end stated to l o in that he knew there were precedents where prisoners had hers. removed 1 the Tower to Newgete. Lord Nottingham reflected much on the case, and at lag felt that imprisonments were intended in the rye of the law nut fur old immune, but sal custodians. He also It ;;ht that the prisoner hail been long enough in gust and therefore he advised the Lord Chief Jus tice to acquaint the King iu Council that such was his opinion, and as he could not attend the Council in person, being confined with the gout, to request his Majesty and the Privy Council to follow this advice. This happened to be approved of by the King in Council, and the prisoner was taken to the Lord Chief Jnstice's dumber* and discharged, oil finding sufficient hail for Isis sppearance on the first slay of the fol lowing Term, if called upon. Having said so much on this case of Jenks, I will now tell you what feel is the proper constrectiou to be pot on the law authorities, which I will du with as much brevity as their different bearings will allow. The d oe . trine of the law. as it is understood by all his Mos. jesty's subjects, is, that a writ of Habeas Corpus is the high prerogative of the King, whose irnitent tive duty it is to inquire why any of his subjects are deprived of their liberty, and to afford them an opportunity of defending themselves. The erst place of this being mentomied is in Lord Coke's readings on the statute of Magma Charts, who in that most valuable work declares that the Name power was vented in the Lord Chancellor for the time being. as is. the Court of King's Bench ; for that the Court of Chancery being the qffiliMJ jurtitier, was suffered never to be closed so long as any subject had just cause to complain of being w gly impri.oned, mid thin no man ought to be deprived of Isis liberty except on a specific and de flated charge. Every Act of Parliament has proved that !sessions so imprisoned have a right to redress, for certainly if an injury is inflicted some propor tfonete redress should be awarded. Lord Coke further adds, that every man so imprisoned has a right to claim it writ of Habeas Corpus tither from the Court of King** Bench or this Court, and in privileged ease* from the Court of Common Mae, and in event of their bring wrong int- Pristmed they ore to be discharged from custody. Its page 592 of the same book, that eminent lawyer is not so explicit as ass former occasions. and of course it is tint necessary for me to state it. In leis eth lastitute, page 81, speaking of this Court, lie says, it is rather (mark his expression) open a lways to his Majesty's subjects, fur if a Mali ,we inspriwerly imprisnited during Term time, then awit her slue Colin of King's Deitch nor Common Tires could discharge him in vacation, but oily the Lord Chancellor. It, therefore, seems quite 11.•:sr from lord Culce, that he felt that the Court of King's Bench could only discharge in Term, and that the CointirlOis Pleas could only do it wh e r e th e persons were privileged. The next point 1 have to allude to is, the act of the abolition of the Star 'Chamber in the 16th of Charles I. This Act did sway with that iniquitous Court called the Star Chamber ; and it enacted, that in every case where the person of any or his Majesty's subjects was com thit teal to prison by the Star Chamber, or soy Court vretentling to have. or virtually laving the same poweri, should have the privilege, as in common caret, by applying to a Court for a discharge by a writ of Habeas Corpus, and paying the usual fees. The Act, it is true, took no notice of the Court of Chancery, bolt I feel that there was much authority for the J ori,aietion or the Court of Knig'e Bench to issue out writs of m0i1... Corpus. The ease of r),1,e11, io the reign of Choirs 11.. is ass impor tant precedent, for which reason I shall refer to it now, as I think it is important us it bears on this case. It is very singular, according to the notes 1 have of Ilnithell's case, that he, as a juryman, should have been committed to Newgate, on ac coma of his agreeing to an improper verdict, and nlso that lie was fined forty marks. This juryman •,ss one of the jury its the case of Wm. Penu and Joseph Meade—cases so well known now, as to ad. mit of no possible doubt ; and when the Court value to that decision. it ought to have had sufficient evidence of the crime as to have jus. titled the committal. The next question was, e:lietlier the Court of Common Pleas had the power In bail where the imprisoned was not privileged? The case, us it came before that Court was, whe ther they could order a prisoner to be discharged that was not a privileged ;serum ? Three of the Judges were of opinion that they had the power ; for they held, that, es sitting in Court " into je risareere ram" they were bound to discharge the Juries; and one reason given against the exclu sive right of the Kinser Bench to the whole power of issuing writs of Habeas Corpus was, that the Lord Chancellor had done so repeatedly. Lord Hale, in his Pleas of the Crown, holds, that the Lord Chancellor has the poser of issuing this writ ; and he says it had been so held from time instatmovial. Such was the opinion of Lord Hale, if one might judge safely from his writ. tiny. His Lordship was perhaps the ablest lawyer, and s what was saying much inure, the sliest independent and indefatigable Judge who titer ,darned West 11l i l taw Hall, and I can say there is tin inan's op which I would sooner sub. mit to. It may lie necessary for me to allude to the time when Loud Hale was eppoisited to his dif ferent high situations : he was appointed one of the Justices of the Court of Conimou Pleas in 1643; to that of Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer tit 1660, and Lord Chief J sistice of the Court of Kong's Bench in 1671, which situation lie resigned in 1675, and died its 1676, fell of years moil justly-deserved honours. Daring the period that this lioneet Judge and able Statesman loved. he hoist have known what were the opinions of the Courts of Westminster Hall ; considering the pe riod at which he presided, and the various high si tuations lie held as a Lawyer and s Judge, he must have known the defects of the law, an d yet he states the doctrine on this most important point to be, that the Courts of Chancery and Kstig's Bench have unquestionably the right to discharge persons on wtits of liebeis Corpus, although they were not privileged, as was required by the rules of the Court of Common Pleas. I must say _ bas beeu • Ilirsvii - a n my way. by the quotipg of Jeasks'ie ease. God F.:n,' that the day shall e:ver arrive *lie u I. or any other Judge of the hinted Empire, shall dare to hike into our own him& the right of elf. .snt single right which u British sub ject h as ! I have nu drn,l , l but I sou considered as *peeking wills sincerity by all who hear one, then I must say, that iii the eerie of Michael Foster's Bull, I find that the House of Lords hail found that the ousometurn of the writ of I labeas Corpus, issued by their Lordships, was a gross violation of their order, sod also • great contempt or their authority. Wow, if the House of Lords could judge so Ink• Court, could any mass Sulk. pose the Lord Chaticellor's authority was to be . trifled with; fur does not the law and co:ninon sense say, that, as Lord Chancellor, the version who holds the Seale must say the mime thing, whether he is on the woolsack or bitting iii this Court ? Lord Hale afterwards toiik a different view of the case, au alluding to the fatuous and never-to be-forgotteu statute of Alava Charta, where it is held that no muss should be consisted without bring tried by Isis peers, as expreesed by the old law, that is, by his fellows, lii* etoiole. It was im portant to observe here, dial although the Court of King's Beside had by 'ancient statutes the right of granting. Habeas Corpus writs , yet still it reommed with the Court of Chancery, it being anciently privileged. No doubt there were cusses where • Judge might refuse a writ ; for example, a case might occur et sea, where a ship might be detained under quarasitiiie, although a person uni4lit, ill the strongest terms, petition for hie liberation, lie would nevertheless Ise retained. Looking, however, at the nutho.ities I have stated. 1 will ask if the statute of Magna Charts insures the liberty of the sul.ject, and in looking over all list law authorities. I find net poly the doctrine of the low clearly laid dowel, but also dm very manner ill which the proceedings sire to he carried on. 11'here is the authority of the Ch:ui tellor founded, if it is not in the Act of Charles 11. ? Are the Judges of the cwnuuwl Costae of Law to be the wily Judges ? Ceresiiily nut; fur nu Man sass suppose fur a single moment they were to he so, especially in a point of such iinpoitance. Wioli respect to the cave of Jetikv, I inn (let:14101y of opiuiun that more iinimrtioice has been attached to it as is precedent than it sieserSed. I certainly differ isiateiially is inn the view that Lord Nottingham unit of that case, I omen as to the law of it, for Ido nut thick t ha t it was properly or legully laid down by his Lordship. The case of %Wilkes is so well known, amid so his. 'Mbar to every person in Eligletitl, that it is unnecessary for me to eider into it. The case of Wood. in the Court of Con ttttt Pleas, was perhaps of snore importence, fur when it came nu to ler that insist rites Britt Judge, Mr. Justice Wm:ketone, was sitting *so Court. The motion made by Wood was. that his wife should be brought up by Ilabeas Corpus, and di:charged from isnpriso ttttt eut : un which Lord Chief Justice De Grey made several °lies:toms, for lie thought there were doubts, 34 lie wets of opinion that the Court of King's Bench only hail the jurisdiction. But my opiuiun is, that this sue sloes 11551 bear oil the present one ; for there the question Of privilege was riIiPCIL I must hear a vast deed more of taros% convincing argument before I can lie of Opinion that a person has iso right to apply to this Court fur a discharge by Habeas COI pus, after having been colifiiied two Terms; for, suppose I was imprisoned 4131 a private mall for two Terme, and such was nit' ignorance of the law that 1 did not know witat was meant by being couffiseal for two Terms, would tiny Judge, silting where I do, tell nit I must tuffi-r from my igisoratice of Ilse law? I find that persons have beets discharged under the Act of George the Second, on petition; and I be lieve I have dune so in *lie owe of Tompkinson, and also that of Taylor. If I ion wrung in the decision I am now giving, almost all those who sat here before me have been also wrong; I therefore have uo doubt but this Court has the rig:it of grantiog a writ of Habeas Corpus in vacation, and afli r two 'Fergus has elapsed. In thus expressing myself, I have sus doubt but some inconvenience may arise ; but seiro jurunteute suo, I cannot in my conscience, before my God amid the public, say ils .1 1 have a right to refuse the Habeas Corpus. If the Com missioners of Basikrup:s wish to address use on the form of their order of commitment, 1 will hear them to-morrow by Counsel." !F - R • 1 I • that very peat and auuccessary diffic 1111111111mimm ORDER OF COURT. The LORD CN•NCELI.IR-" Wednesday will be the next Seal, and let this my order be under stood, that 1 will not bike any mm nun after Wednew. day, of which the briefs are not delivered by the 5014111 . /111 to Counrel before that day, for 1 men de termined the next Seal shall not be like the last, which we have not yet got out of. l certainly attach blame to myself fur my iodulgeuce, which has disarranged the order of the proceedings of the Court, by which meats I am now hearing motions when 1 ought to be hearing appeals. When ever the business of the Court is stopped am account of the absence of a Counsel who has a motion to make, I will that moment close the Seal, 11114 1 never will again hear Counsel slide a part of the case on our day, and the Counsel opposed to him on another. Let this he understood as the positive order of the Court." A Neapolitan artist has succeeded, by mesas of address imil patience. in ils-tacbing three beautiful frescoes , of Do ggg i g riclimo, the damp walls of the Palace Farnese, and affixing them to canvass, wheieby they will be no longer exposed to the same danger of destruction.—( Paris Paper.) The convicts transmuted to Cork for transporta tion to Botany Bay, amount to 411.—County and City of Limerick vent 31, County Tipperary 53, County Kerry 15, County Clare 14, Count Gal way 21, Qiirets'a Comity 17, King's amity sa, County and City of Dublin 147. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONET. The Circe for le Frederic's'', nu the Roth instant. at mu. 23, Nothing-street, Strand. liis.alls saint place, every Tiirsday and Friday, fur three months. The Nymph., fur the Friendship and Hebe, on the 2Stit turtling. at No. 23,aurrey.street, Strand. Recalls sense Olive, every Monday an 4 Saturday, rut three months. PG LICE. ; V." - • fit ronscipicnce of representation , from Lord Viscount Sydney and Lord Witi. Gorden, the Itangrrs of Si James's and the fliers Parks, of the disorderly conduct of persona, bids men slid WIIII/Cll, Sir Nathaniel Conant issued a sestets warrant to Perry, Nicholls, and ushers of the Park consta bles, to apprehend all reasons of a disorderly description found iu she two Parks on Sunday might, between eleven and one o'clock, whets they apPreliended no less than folly. erect; mess, women, girls, and buys, in the Parks, and con fined them in differesit watch-houses, and brought them to the Offiee yesterday morning, when they displayed me molly a group probably as ever was beheld ; some of the men ware very respectably, and even elegantly dressed, others most filthy, and some with scarcely rags or cover them. One of the females had the appearance of a hossemaid iii a gentle. man's family; others, some of them way could be called children, nod several far advanced is years, of a most atom. domed am ription, nightly resurtiog to the Parks fur the most indecent purposes with area and buys. The (enterice of the Park coutatiles and keepers went to prove their aftesillairce awl exersiuos to prevent disorderly persons resorting in the Parks, but ins accwort of their ex tent, while they were suppressing them iii one part, the disorders were committed in others, and if they drove Ibe persons out of owe gale they entered at Among those apprebewied 1114 Sunday night, who could give • reasonable stemma of themselves, sorb as being locked out of their klgirep, Sm. and the officers not having seen then, improperly its the Park before, the Magistrate discharged them with admonitions. A fellow of the name of Galilee wee recognised u • well know is thief by Humphreys and several others. A man of a respectable appearance, whir was fused in the grove in the Green Palk, staled him same to he Madeira, that he %Vasa atraoger to London, lost was a lodger with a Mr. Marl in, in Imilzate.sireet, he hi ing in London un hasti ness, and was a bookseller iu Dieblio, which be nuilertuok to more. 'llw most extraordinary rhararters were James Welch, alias Jerome IYrich, b dreorM Mortimer, end James Mertmed, alias Sof Foe, who were appreliendeal is the walk leading to the Pagmlo-bridge, wills another inau in their company, who Milk his escape from the officers on their approach towards them. The roomer Prisoner, who is well known as Jemmy Welch, was were fai.h Illy dressed ; she arrogant he gave of him self us., that lie lodged at 43, North-place, Gray's Isis-lane, and said it was foisr years some Ire cater from the West Indies. and Este 110 other account of himself. Tl.e latter Prisoner persiord ihst his name was Steward, loud Iwo Fox, by •hieh he hail hero convicted as oue of the can:, :and pilloreti. They were nil iii.leied to lie committed as rogues and va. pawed* Mr 14 dais, or to find hail. YORK ASSIZES'. THURSDAY, JULY 16. POISONING. The trial of Knght:on ramie on this morning at nine o'clock, and occupied nearly the whole Court was 1111r0f0 ly crowded. Counsel fur Slit Proweolion, Mr. IVlLLtarta and Mr. GRAY; fur She Prisoner, Mr. MAUI►,. and Mr. CROPS. The Prisoner vas charged with orvliciou.ly uilnsinisteriut a quantity of deadly poison, vie. weenie, with an intrut to murder Joseph lkol.wurili, of Arkeiiihale, uoThnraday, the 4616 of March la.l. _ Mr. WILI.IANi opeile4l the cogent, tie part of tbe prose cution. The iirrt witswas rani it was _ . Joseph Uodaworth, who was an ill, in conaermence of the poison which had been administered to hint, that be was nn aids to stand, and he gave his eviolorwee seosusl in the Gravel Jury boa. He stated that he was loving, in March last, at Arkeortale—be lived with his father, Thomas Dus worth, who has two children, himself and his sister, who is married to the Po i , ouer. His father was possessed of some laud, freehold and copylould, consisting in the whole of about eleven acres—witness was nut iu possession of any of the laud. Witness wee married the last Christ mas; and sub.cqueot to his marriage the Prisoner and his wife lived with his father. lout they quilled tits house vu his mars Mgr. Ou the 26th of March, witness and the Poisoner *mot to Bursoughbridae fur some coals:--w their return they called al a pulolie.house at Minskip, where they had sum: bier. After having the puhlic-boisse, the Prisoner took out of his pocket a peony roll, from which be broke a small Mere. and gave the remainder to the wituess, who oh. ol upon the broken part something which hail the appearance of flour ; son his remarking this to the Primmer, he said the roll hail soot been properly II oko 11. Witness then ate the bread. Allo r proceeding aAM diIdAIICC, the Prisoner and the witness plfieti, the former going to Arkeoolale, sad the latter to Knotreslooruugh. ll itsieso hail suet p roceeded far before he was taken extremely ill ; hia stomach swelled, and hr became very sick, and vou,ited repeal. illy. When he as rived at Koaresliormigh he was so silt that he was Obliged to lay down in the and he had to be c•iiveyed part of We way room Knarestwroisgh lu Arkewisie in a rare When he gut home he went its ttttt••diately ttital the prisoner Malls after came to visit him; he seens...l much concerned for him : shortly after the prisoner fetched • mint osier, which wax given to Lisa by his wife, and oloch he isansedi ately 11,1111e,1 (lam Isis st ttttt Thong:is Ilaw was seat to Btientozlihridge for slr. Seilaw irk, a surgeon of that place, his dui him goo.l. Mr.Seilgo iek visited hint in the spurn. lime, and ordered him some nseiheine, *hurls they were tu send for to Burintalthridge ; nod Wm. liaighison, the pri soner, said he had his to to linrimghltrielge, and he would bring the medicine to Westfield Gail., from which it was to be fetched by his falher-itsdaw. Al t half paid eleven o'clock she medicine was brought by his faiheein-law, who gave it tu Isis "site. The ineiliciise was shaken up before it was given to him. As soon as he had taken it his sickness was thermal:lJ. The medicine was given to him three times, and each lime it was attended wish increased pain and con tinued vuenitior. On the folios lug day another medicine was received, which did him good. II is illness was severe, and produced Witness, on his ex...domino, 'mid lie had given the Pri inner a promissory some for MU hot which was not payable until the strolls of the witheses fatls,r. Witness hail not been in an infirm slate Of health previous to the 2511. March. Mrs. Dodsworth is wife of the last witness. Osi the 2fith of :Mauch her husband was brinettid lame ill, about five o'clock, and immediately put to tied. bhr maw the Prisoner shunt an hour a n d ia half afterwards: her father-isidaw Jr. sued hini to Fitch some mint-water, which be did, and brought it in a •mall pitcher. Wit mesa pot it into a temenp, and told the Prisoner that it looked eery thick and muddy; Iv a Melt he replied, that he got it at Mrs. Wehattes, who said, that it was all she hail, and poured it from the bottom of what she had it in. Prisoner wrist up into the room; be desired her to pot slime anger in it, nod to stir it well, sad he was sure it would du him good. Witness then gave it to her husband, who drank it; it made him very sick, and he ejected it almost immediately. A doctor was sent for after the Prisoner was gone Thema,. Haw was Mai for Mr. Sedzwick, of Borouglihridge : he Mil not come, bat Haw brought hark a draught and bolus, which were giver to her husband; they appeared to settle his stomach, and give him a little ease. Mr.Seilgwick cams the next morning by seven o'clock, who said some person must fetch the me. divine (rum IL glibridge. Prisoner came in soon after, and witness told him they had some persists to send to Bo ruughbridge fur the medicine : he *mil he was goialg, and *mold bring it as far as Westfield Gale : his hither was to meet him there, as he was Ruing to litiaresburough with coals. Her brought a bottle 'mil six small powders, about half-past I I, and gave them to witsiess. There was. label, that two sable spoonfuls and one of the powders should lw taken every four hones. It was a Clear medicine, of a pink colour, with Mille white powder at she bottom, Which remelted about toff an inch: the curt was nut tied, our was there any paper over it. Her father-tie-law directed het to shake the bottle : she did so, awl them gave her husband two table spoonfuls of the liquid, and a powilet mixed wish it. She repeated the medicine three liana, the effect of "shirts was her husband was air* each lime. Witness put the re mainder of the medicine in a small drawer in the room— nearly half temaisied. Some other medicine was brought that day by Thulium Steel, which was ticcn to his husband f it was a draught, to he given all at pile : this medicine gave her hastiiind ease. Witness saw Iturzhtemi when ire return ed from Knaresborough, in the revalue after her husband had taken the draught : he asked her how her husband middle told him that Re bad bees very ill all that day, after taking the medicine brought by him, anal that she hail nut given him any shore of it ; when the Prisoner add they had dime wrung; they ought to Lave continued it, fur changing the medicine always made persons worse and this was the cause of his twine so tileiry Her husband bas continued ill ever since. On the Ise of April she cremated some veal broth for her husband's sapper: it was iutended only fur her husband. It was put on the fire, in the kitchen, between six and seven iu the evening. William Knightsou came into the house *haat the brush was on the tire, she saw him there. The room in which her husband wa s is over the kitchen ; anal she heard the Prisoner ask her father what was in the pau ; to which her father replied, that she (the witness) was snaking some veal broth for Joseph's nipper. Witness went down to the kitchen, and found bee father, Juhu Haw, aual the Prisoner, there. iluightrun asked her bow her husband was. She got a candle, and looked into the pan at the broth ; sow a while scum, a Lich she look ME: she then tasted the broth—it affected her mouth very much, but sloe did nut mention it to her father or Roy person then, supposing that the had taken a spoon %%hid' laud been used with the medicine. She changed the spoon, and got some oat meal to thickets the broth with. Win. Kuightsion went nut at this time. Witness put the oatmeal in, and let it buil ; she then tasted it again, and it Rail the same effect upon her mouth as before. She asked her father to taste the Moth; be dial so, as did also John Haw. Witness was much ma's et ed with sickness and pain in her stomach, though she did not take a table-spoonful of it. Witness was ill several hours. Her father and .1. Haw also complained. The broth was Put into a dish, and preserved for Mr. Serlgwick to look at it : it was put into a closet in the kitchen—it 'was not. locked. Mary Haw came into the kitchen, mad looked at the broth in the closet. The broth was found the next morning in the same situation in which it had been left, and witness *hewed it to Mr. Serligwiek ; when, in consequence of abet Mr. S. said to her, she took it to Mr. Lambert, of Knare-borough, drugging, and left it with him; she delivered it to Mr. Lam bert himself. Witness shelved the bottle of medicine to Mr. nedgwick, ow the following day (the 311 of April) ; the dreary from which she took it was ill tier husband's bedroom, anal she found the drawer in the same situation in which she had left it. She gave.the bottle to Mr. Seclgwiek ; it was nearly half full. No other persons had been in the room except Mary Haw, Thomas Haw, her father, anal Was. Knightsun, anal none of them persons had been left alone in the a OUIII. witness received a parcel from John Haw, sealed with two seals, a few days after she hail delivered the medicine to Mr. Sedgwiek, directed to Dr. Murray, of Ketareshorimell, anal seat it the next morniug, by John Haw, to Knareshorungli. CVO. IS. !Milk ed by Mr. MA UDR. _ . She lived with her sister about two months hi fore she was married; bad lived at Hull Iwo years, hut was out in service all the time; had lived its Turk before she lived iu Hsll—was in service all that time; did not receive the mint-water from her tether, but from the Prisoner ; observed a while skim at the lop of the broth; her father and J.Haw were sittiueover the fire; her sister came back with her, but was nut hft in the house a meat alone ; there is it small kitelsete but the witness had no occasion to go into it. Her sister went away about ten o'clock. Witness admitted that it was possible some persona might have come the house in her Oren the Prisuiter always expressed sorrow at the illuesa of her husband; the Prisons r lived a short distance from them ; his wife never visited her husband. Thomas raudawmili, the father of Joseph Doilsworth, swore that Knighton') delivered a bottle of medicine 11/ him on the 28th of Marsh fur Isis sou, awl told him that it amiss) he shaken a little before she medicine was given. This but. tie be delivered to his ilaughter-in-law, for the nse of le r husband. lit :tower to a question from the Judge, lie said the Prisoner was in the ruom when the broth was making, but he believed that he did nut put any thing iu it. Mr. Seilgivick. a surge n at Itsirunglibridgr, attended Joseph Duilaworth on the morning of Ile gOth of Match, and fisund him labouring mailer such symptoms as the taking of as sesiic would have produced. He Prnt I a saline mixture by the Prisoner, but there was nothing iii it which could either produce sickness or a Vedirtlellt. Ohl a subsequent visit, the bottle in which lie had sent the medicine was sheen to him, and he found by experiments, that arsenic bad been mixed with she medicine. Dr. Murray, of borareshornisgh confirmed the evidence of Mr.flectgwick ; and Mr. Mark Lambert, a druggist at Keares. borough, swore that he sell the Prisoner a quarter of a pound of arsenic, which he gar was for his father to destroy rats. A person of the name of Gee, who accompanied the Pri soner to the droiegiat's shop, confirmed this evidence. Ms s. Webster, the person who sold the mint-water, said it was perfectly clear and transparent when she gave it to the Prisoner. Jane Hardy, John 112 M, suit Ambrose Heath, were called to trace the trausfer of the bottle to Dr. :V al ray, of Knarts borough. Ms.. Webster lives at Arkendale, near to Dodsuorlh's. She stilted that the tnint-rater which she give In the pri soner, was perfectly clear and irmisparent; ►he tasted of it, and it was perfectly good : she hail about three quarts iii the bottle, front which she puttied it out. This witness finished the c4b4: on th: part of the prosecu tion. The Prisoner being rolled upon fur his defence, said, he hatl nothing to say—be should lease his defence to his Counsel. Or the part of the Pi isuner the following witnesses were examined:— William Pm.ley, farmer, Slainhorn, knows the Poisoner, who gave him a mall parcel in the latter end of March, on a Saturday, to carry to his father, who lives at that place and which he delivered to him. Six neighbours of the Primmer, all very respectable per- SOUS, gave him a remarkably g .041 character. His Lordship summed rip lire evidence with great care and perspicuity, dwelling n pm, r very circumstance favoura ble to the Prisoner, and strongly charged ilw Jury to dimities from their minds any previous opinion they might have formed tot the subject. The Jury retired fur about half on hour, and, on their re turn, pruausinced the fatal ve►dict of Gmillg. Mr Justice A v, the most impressive terms. imme diately passed semester of death upon. the Prisoner, who seamed hue affected by the awful ceremony than most of dm spectator., o: than tlw humane Judge who hid this painful duly to perform. His Lurddrip said, the salience would be carried into full effect. The Prisoner is a Kowl•looking young man. NO motive, but that of avarice, rail lie asmigued fur three iliabolleal at tacks upon the hie of his broilier-iss.law, by 'douse death his wife would have succeeded to a small freehold soil copyhold proprty belonging to old Godsworth, and us 1111:4 hr pi/soared only a life Men st iu. One of those disgraceful scenes, which have been too fre quently exhibited in the metropolis, occurred 011 Thursday seinsight at Penzance. A shoemaker, named William George, having good reason to believe that too close au in. timacy subsisted between his wife mid a Mr. Comets, which cameo, much mutual disagreement, determined, with the consent of the woman, to lead her fur ask to the mai ket place in appropriate piropheroalis, and as she possessed some personal attractions, he hail nu doubt of obtaining a tolerable price fur her. On their way to the market they stopped at a public-house, where the offer of half-a-guinea by a grocer proved too tempting to be refused. The money was paid, and the bargain completed, with this proviso, that the purchaser should nut dispose of his new acquisition to Carman, who was present. To evade the Weal of this con ditiou, the grocer traustlrred his right and title in a man named Carbio, fur fifteen shillings; sail the latter in a few minutes resigned the frail fair one, for twenty shillings, to the very Caruso against whom her hnsba h au li 11/. so 'patriot an objection. The money was Immediately paid, and the 'purchaser protested that he would Nut take twenty guineas fur big bargain. We are assured Mat Carman possesses mon aiderahle property!—'bat be ism a wife and several that. den !!—and that he declares be would rather purchase a good wife ever so dear, than have a bad one fur nothing!!! Who wall wow say that we du not manage these things ben ter is Cornwall than they are managed in any other part of the kingdom, sot excepting the Capital itself!—( Comicial &malt LliN DON hinted and Published as She Other, N.I e 7, Si 1 . nh,rr iCiver4irements are receised. Nud bile's (Inrst•paid) must he addreasril.--C N.i. I. Clenieues Inn, Printer.—J. 11111 TE, No. 127, Strap''► Patti►ber. GENEILIL ELEC77OII: +.011•••!--er MEMBERS RETURNED. Inverness-214re—(lsrles Gant, jun. Anstruther (Distikt of B4ruliglis)--Lord Atlveutc of Scotland. „ , Kirkcudbrightshire—l-ie.-tenant General Dunlop. Glarguw—(District of Dorongf—Alrlauder Houston. NAVAL IN rELLIGENCE. • • - . !PoRTIMOUTII, JULY 19 • . Arrived yesterday the Commies ce, II achem limit F., Itimuth, (or lamidun. Sailed the L.nril Sfularave, lloffat:, for C.lik ; and Con- Sauce gumbriz, fur Jamaica. Arrived tnatay the Scum gumhi it' from the Eibtwartl i , asset enamored al Spithead. _ . . . _ . . _ Sailed the Liverpool, for the Ea=t Indira; Proselyti , ton, fur Ntaiteica and ilarbadoes ; Oil Friend, 1.4 the coast of Africa; fiecource, —, for ; C ro zet, Chitty, fur the Brazils; and Geurral Siewzrt, r, for New South Wales. • FALMOUTH. JULY 17. Sailed the Duke of Kent packet with a omit fgt. Lisbon. • HARWICH, JULY 18. Arrived the rural Blucher, Brinckm in, (ions Rostock f,r London ; Castlereagh packet, with mail arid passengers u:n Holland ; Eclipse packet, wills ditto from Cox!. yea. SLII li.l the Lord Nrlaat packet, with a mail 41141 I/3 4 5111,ff for Cuxhaven; and Auckland packet, with ditto for 11.11111.1 itvraPoor., J1;11' IS. Arrived yesterday the Fredrrick. froni New Or leans ; on 10th Jane, iu lat. 27. 17 lone RO. 22. spoke ilt.t schooner Matchless and the ship Yicturitist: from the u tle fur L9llllOll ; on 25th June, in lot. 40. low,: 59.110. spoke the United States ship ,if the line Washinittiiii, Comminior, Chauncey; on ;14 July, in lat. 48. 44. long. XI spoke the Amanda from Liverpool for Baltimore ; sits 15th July, off Wexford, spoke the Atlantic fur New York. Sailed the Brilliant, Biker, for Batavia. HOLYHEAD. JULY MI. Arrived off this plsee the Msresret. Lenore, from St. Andrews, bound 10 Littenool Oil 23.1 ult off Itrer spoke the brig Jesse, of Ayr, to St. Andrews, out 52 days, 411 well. Ott 3d inst. spoke the St licleita. Ellis, front Lotitioil to Quo bee, out 30 days, ell well. On sth inst. .:puke the —, front Liver' out to Quabee, uut 30 days—all well. MA lIK E 'I'S. CORN EXCHANNE, SloxnAir, .ftmv Having ill-rived a eery large supply of Wheat and Oats since Owl day %eat, the sales this monitor; n tie very heavy, at a decline of from 5.. to 6s. per quarter in each. Barley and 31,,i• are dell % Prase and MAIM support their pric‘►i iu other kinds of Grain there t: Ito alteration. CURRENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Foreign Wheat sBs 680 Grey Pease .504 hue ditto Fuglist' Wheat .... Bt3s 78s 'Fick Mans . ...... 704 Fine ditto out ditto ...... ..• —a --s I Sm Rye Fine ditto 50s Harley 4os 48s Fine ditto .. s 58s New ditto ••11 Milt 75s 854 Fine ditto White Kase (tvoileni) Ms Gas Fine ditto ,all ditto •Jtis 394 Ind data --s 34• F.•. d Onto 311 4 nlll.lll t tIP • Poland ditto . ...... 324 3114 Fine ditto —s 3744 l'otakor ditto 344 404 Rape Seed, per Loa 4Bl 7e21 Fine Floor 75. tio;. Seconds 'O4 71i4 SMITHFIELU 311.11:KET. MONDAY, h.:LI 20. This day's orarkel loa.. a pretty good supply of prime lica-ts, and the ►her of Cattle in other re.., eta was eolisti— skrul•le. Lamb and I'urk were cheaper; Beef, Nluoturr,:illti C, al, sold at last prices, a',1,1 the trade in general was 14.111 C. what brio4.—The sales in the Haymarket shoe lather hvelyt Clover has gut top iu price; Hay has &upped sot mice : Straw fetched last price. Subjoined is an accurate Stith lIICIII of the prices and 11/11111h , IA : To sick the olTal per stone of Sib. Seef....3s. 8.1. to 55. 0.1. Heart of Cattie this .lav : Mutt o n .3s 10.1 to 5s 0.1 (least* 1 0 20 Lamb ...4s. S.I. to 6s. 0.1. Sheep and Lamle: I' 760 Veal.s.,4s. 0.1. to 6s. 04 Calves :.l:t Purk....3s. Sd to Sc. S.l. l'igs ..... ...... . .V.111 HAY—MARKET. 414. to 8/. 8. mi. Straw Clover 4/. 10s. N. to 9/. 04. 4).1. NEDVATE AND LEA (By for Reef .... 3.4 4al to 4* 441 Mutton.. 4to 0.1 ill 4ts 8,11 Lamb 4, DENIIA LL MARK Carcass VCil 1 4S 0.1 to 5• 4•I Pork .... 54 0.1 to 54 01 4. 4 01. 10 Rs 0.1. PRICES OF HA' ST. JAMES'S. Hay 4/ Ms al to Et/ 15s od SirdlV/ I4t Oil to 3/ 8i Od Cluvro7/ Os Od to 8/10s Od PRICES nF TA1.14/1 Town Tulluw 83. 81 —s ud Yellow Russia K. 0,1 .—, Od Whiteditto.. 771 04 —s Od Soap 714 04 —s 04 Me our Stuff 70. 04 —s 0,1 pop , rough..4os lid --a 0.1 X AND STRAW. WIIITE4II4pyr. My ..6/ 10.11,1 to 14/ 10. II ,t New 41., 71 7x0.1 to 0/ O. 01 Straw 2/ Iti. 0.1 1.. 3/ 3. ~ 1 1 CIIIVer 71 0. 01 to $1 0 o 1 ', SOAP, kr. per I 1211). Yellow Su. 9 p. Mottled Cued Palos Graves 'S. 11. Good Drew. lO. 0. PRICE OF CANDLES, From Taliuw Chandlers Hall. Priee of Candles, per dozen, 12s 6.1-1100.1 s, 14s 04. 6d. prr.lozen ailowell for ready •y . UAW HIDF.S. Best Heifers and Steers (per Onliners .24 01 I. 2 2.1 stone).. to $.l to 2s 10.1 Market Calf _O4 to 9 . , h Middlings 2. 4.1 to 2s ell Eug. Florae 0. 0.! 1. to. 0,1 COAL 31AltULT. JULY 20. Ship• at Ma►ket. Ships Soh,. Price, *25 Newenstle 2Ol 33. in 4' 8.1. 3 Sunderland PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 1-O u l 3 per Ct. Red. .. 7f12 1 India Bo d , ...95 96 lir. :i per Ct. Conk 773 I Ex. Bilk. 19 -21 pr. ti 31 per Cent (new) tin Ditto. 2i ..... SR) 21 pr. 4 per Cents. 972 JS 971 I Lottery Tickers 19L 10.. 5 prr Ct. N. Au... 106 ii Osmium di.. par. Bank L. Ann... 2!) 9.16 I Cow'. fur Act:. . • • • 791; I I- 16 BIRTH. On the Roth instant, Viseonnteui Torrington, a a sui, at her house, Upper Seymour-strret. MARRIAGE On Saturday, at Warbliosaion choral, Hants, Doctor Lsas,irettio, R.M. Residslit Physician at Piiiisc.i, to 11.4. Lowe, relict of D. Loam, Liq. sulacutor, of that plate. DEATH On Monday seciaishi,ia;;b Firth, of Bradley, Yorl.•hue, aged 75 years, who within the last 16 yrara 11.:s been waled as a witch, by an illiterate r•et or people. HIGH 11',41 Fll THIS DAY AT 1.0N1141N nntrGr. mortmit 33 afl.r 4. I Evelmig 51 alb r 4