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I tD124111R014 Nwl4. =Oa COCRT OF JUSTICLAIY• YOAC Je tr IN TH CASTLE. --- Yesterday 'canter on this trial of Iftßion Goldie, late private soldier in the Argyllshire militia, ac cused of the murder of William Shaw, also late a private in the said regiment, on the 9th of May last, by stabbing him with alasyonet in the left haunch, at the bead of Advocate's close, Edinburgh, of which wound he died oa the 13th of May in the Royal Infirmary. I°lll aT CAMPIitLLs Esq. junior Counsel for the prisoner, in opening, stated, that the pannel was a man of a general good charaEler ; and that he would prove that his wife had been beat and mal-treated by the deceased , who, he would also prove, was a man of a very turbulent disposition. The Loan ADvoci rs said, that what Mr. Camp bell had stated was very different from the informa tion which had been laid before him ; but if it came out on the defence, it would certainly weigh with the Jury. ft appeared from the evidence, that this unfor tunate affair had its rise from an altercation which took place between the deceased and the wife of the Prisoner, about a few pence, which the latter in sisted the former owed her, but they could not agree about the amount. The Prisoner and the deceased had both been quartered in the house of 3. Ormiston, change keeper, in Advocate's close ; Shaw had left it some tilde ; ism both he and the Prisoner having met thetas en the 9th of May, and also Goldie '5 wife, a demand for payment was made by the wife of the Pannel, on the deceased, and she ohjeaing to the justice cif it, 2 scuffle ensued. The deceased called Mr a bad name, and some blows were given. They were separated at that time: the deceased went down stairs, and Mrs. Goldie followed him. The wife of the pannel, e hen is the close, seized the de. ceased by the arms ; be gave her a Mow, which made her reel a little backward, and then got up the dose. l'he Prisoner followed, and coming up with him, near the head of it, he stabbed him with Isis bayonet, on the haunch, which penetrated near eight inches into his body. On authenticating the declaration of the pannel, and also a declaration of the deceased, taken in the Infirmary before his death, Mr. HAMILTON, senior Counsel for the Pannel, insisted that a derlaration emitted before the Magistrates of Edinburgh by the prisoner's wife, should be admitted as evidence of the injury she had sustained from the deceased. The LOAD ADVOCATE opposed it, and the Court refused to receive it. Several witnesses were examined in exculpation, who all gave the prisoner a most excellent character. The Loma ADVOC •T I summed tip the evidence for the Crown. He contended that he had estab lished his charge of murder. and that the Jury should bring in a verdid of Gasi/y. .Hr. Has LION summed up for the Panne'. He insisted that what the Panne' had done was in de feat:oof one dearer to him than himself; and ctm chided with hoping, if the Jury did not entirely ac quit him, they would at least huing ru a veluia of culpable homicide. Lord Minims sit, the presiding Judge, charged the Jury, recapitulating the principal part of thv 'Aden*; Who were utclosed about half-past three iw the aftersoms, and returned their verdia this day at one o'clock, finding. by a plurality of voices, the panel giant' , of eutpahlt hmicuie. The Court ordained him to be transported beyond the seas, far the space of icinneen years from this date. Thatellivering as s caeorlete and Corset Lia at the Niemen, in ibe C. who see to tab their Trials et the en , Ulll( Assisi*. ethuh cesium:we this cia! (July 14). before the nonourable Sir /.I.n Chambfe. Kot. 014 of the Justices of the Cowl a Common near. and the Honourable Sir Robert Onboy Kat one of the 11.rons of the Coon of E.:cheque•. Jonathan Ellis, aged 22, of Rotherham, in the West-Riding. rer, for an assault upnn Elisabeth Virsddises, of Ads ick- , ipon•Dearne, in the slid Rid bilkaillikwoman, by baring carnal knowledge of her against ber power, will, and consent. Sacked Rohinson, aged 45. of Bradford. in the Itie-itidiag, iabonrer, for setting fire to a worsted. sil k situated at Bradford afonsa:ii, the property of m om . R am pb t at i ma and Swains, of Bradford and Halifas, merchants and mannfalturers, whereby the said mill was burned down and cl..Krmyed. _ _ Mary I.Avlrwood, aigcd 21, of Seaton lio‘s. in the East-kitling. ;engin:lt:Tian, fcr the wilful murder of a new-born infant child. I. rands Taylor, aged 57, of New Mahon, in the North-Riding, tor havi:l secreted, embezzled, and made away with the sum of 4001 received by him of Richard Kirk, of Ellabor!), on account of his masters, Robert Carlisle Broadley, Joseph Denims, and William Joseph Denison, Esqrs. Bankers, of New Whoa aforesaid. George Newsome, aged 30, a debtor in the Castle of Yore, tailor. for baying assaulted and ill treated the Reverend Randolph Marriott, in the Castle of Toth Sarah Liulewood, Bpd 40, late of Scoreby, in the East- Riding, singlevennsan, for secreting the birth of Der mak ba.tud child; and three others.. Our ►aring to record only w kw prisoners for trial at these Assizes, trom the three Ridings of this extensive eosin:), nini.t afford our readers, and every ',lend to good order and reetitude of conduit, great batietaitioa. QU/RTLII SLINUONS. At the Town S.ssions for Beverley, held on Timi d./ List, an indidment was tried, the subje6 of which Lad a good deal occopie the attention 4.,r the neigh hoorbool—Mr. Eccles, a mpettable ,:oal-merchant in Beverley, charged Horner and Smith, quarter master-eer)eants .ia the Durham and West Yo:k Militia, with an assault. The witnesses for the pro- secution stated, that Eccles, Pearson, and another man, named Smith, left the Beer-houses on the Hull turnpike road, about nine o'clock on the evening of the 15th of November last. It was allowed on all hands that Eccles was then fru*, but the witnesses wore that he did not gallop or ride furiously. After Cg a brisk trot tor about half a mile towards y. they said they heard horses galloping to. et thorn I le night was excassivety dart; and to prevent mischief, Eccles and Pearson, who were first, drew near the edge of the road to the left hand; when they had so done, and both be ing considerably to the left of the crown of the road, Horner rode against Eccles's horse, bosh the horses came down, and i,:cles was severely bruis el. A man of the name of Bruce, who lives near the place where the accickat happened, swore that fast previous to it he heard horses gdinping from Beverley, and that he ir:irnediately declared, be was glad he w as not tia,,,the road, as in such a night it would he very dangerous. Randerson, who keeps the toil-bar a fe w h un d re d y ar d s f rom t h e place, and nearer Beverley, swore that two men, who were ap parently soldiers, had galloped through the bar just before the accident, in a very riotous way. The witnesses swore that Homer's horse was laid near the edge of the road. No evidence of assault ap pearing against Smith, he was immediately Ac quitted. The witnesses for Horner deposed, that be and Smith left Beverley to go to HArll, rriedly sober, about half past eight o'clock. .1 hat they set out in a quiet and leisurely manner. A witile< Liam! of Eushaw, of a most respectable appearance de posed, that whe n E cc l es l e f t t h e Beet--louses, he , the witness, held his horse ; that Eccles was much in liquor; that he set of in a gallop, declaring " his horse would ride over the devii." The ,guard and coachman of the Hull coach deposed, that just be fore the accident, they met two men riding furiously tovards Beverley, and near the place where the acci dent happened. Randerson had sworn that on the night of the 15th of November he had gone in the Hull coach to Bruce's house. These two .witnesses distinctly swore, that an this eveainq, the 15th, there was no snow on the ground, but that when they did carry Randerson, there was snow on the ground, and that whilst Randerson was on the coach, they stopped to take up a hat laid on the road, which they discovered from the snow lying around it. They also swore they met two men riding furiously from Hull who ran against the coach horses.— Purdon, the keeper of the Hull turnpike -gate, de posed, that there was no snow lying on the ground on the night of the 15th, but that there was on the 16th. He further deposed, that on the evening of the 15;h, after the accident, Horner stopped ten minutes at his gate, conversing in the most sober mane-r. From the testimony of these three wit nesses, it was argued Randerson must wilfully mis represent one fad at least ; that it was clear he did net go on the top of the Hull coach the evening of the accident, but on some other day. Bruce, on his cross-examination, acknowledged his wife and he had differed respecting the quarter whence horses were coming, for that she imagined they were com ing, from Hull, and riot from Beverley. Mr. Par don further deposed, that Homer's horse was not lying on the side of the road, but very near the middle. The Jnry found Horner guVty t and he was fined by the Court 2us. LIVERPOOL SESSION. The Midsummer Sessions for the Borough of Li verpool commenced on Tuesday last, but the prison ers not being very numerous, nor the cases very in tricate, the whole criminal proceedings were finished, and the sentences passed in the course of the follow ing day. The town clerk having, as usual. read the aft for suppressing riots, and the King's Vmclama tion for the encouragement of religion and morality, the Deputy Recorder addressed the Grand Jury in a very judicious and impressive manner, on the differ ent topics which these papers were calculated to sup,gest. He remarked that, in his opinion, the in habitants of Liverpool, considered as a public body, were virtuously and decently disposed, inclined to regular habits, and to pay obedience to the laws.— Belt in such a large and multifarious population, it was not to be supposed, but that all the vices noticed in the royal proclamation, would be found in various degrees of enormity. He noticed the great increase of public houses in the town ; a circumstance un doubtedly tending to facilitate all kinds of disorder among the lower classes, but he entertained no doubt but the magistrates would exercise all possible care in the distribution of licences. He next adverted to the dreadful and destruelive vice of gaming. We might congratulate ourselves, he said, on the very small progresshitherto made bytbat most tremendous of all evils, for, wherever it is found to prevail, the foundation of every social and relative duty is imme diately sapped, and it is not long before every virtu ous and regular habit is completely subverted...— He then noticed, in very energetic terms, an evil which, though in some degree inevitable, every friend of public order must deeply deplore. He al luded to the iacreasing nu:nbers and profligate con due of those unhappy females who infest the streets of the town in an evening, and by whom the feelings of every decent inhabitant are perpetually outraged. He properly observed, that no positive institution being found sufficient to eradicate this evil from ci vilised society, the laws took no cognisance of the prig ate morals of thoie unhappy persons; but they had a right to interfere when their public condo& became offensive and injurious. On this principle he exhorted the magistrates to use their best endea vours to punish every violation of public decency with the greatest severity, and this. he dcubted not, would, in a short time, produce its proper elleCt.— He then proceeded to notice more circumstantially the different offences which were to occupy the at tention of the Court at the present Sessions. He was very sorry to say, that, notwithstanding all the exertions and repeated conviltions of that Court, the pradice of stealing merchandise from ships and warehouses. by porters and labourers, was still very prevalent. and even seemed to increase with the pu nishment which were designed to suppress it! He exhorted the court. the jury. and the inhabitants at large, to unite their efforts in checking the progress of this increasing and intolerable grievance, without which no confidence could be reposed in servants, nor any trade carried on with ease and security.— The tacllity with which stolen goods were disposed of, was, he said, one great cause of continuing the evil, and he wished the inhabitants at large to be informed. that by purchasing goods in this way, they were not only subjeft to severe penalties from the excise laws, but if purchased greatly below the value, were liable to criminal prosecutions, 4 receivers of stolen goods. LADtia e(Y.kISIITTET. Extr.,l from an A toottut of the Lathe; Committee for pronut• log t h e Edi:eatinu and gu.p'0%.,,,,,t uf ate Female P 0.4. (aancluded from ow Paper of Monday list.) APPENDIX, N.) 1. COPT Of THE ADDRICH SEs ROUND TO Tlit t *LOT SUBSCaI PSIS, AND 01 HEM bons the result of the different measures, which have been adopted for the improvement of the clia raaer and condition of the poor, it appears that tho e plans have been most successful, in which lathe; have taken an aaive part in the arrangement and execution. Their habits of life, and their exemption from political and professional engagements, give them very considerable advantages, not merely in the detail, but in the peculiar kind of attention and interest which subjeas of this Stature require. In one very important part, that which concerns the education and employment of the female poor, it is most obvfous that very little can be done dr:6lll.'lly or decorously, without the intervention of their ass a sex. It is a melancholy truth, that a yen: considerable part of the profligacy and misery of the lower class of females, not merely in London, but in the king dom at large, originates in the want of education and employment. Women are excluded front many occupations and means of life; and in some of those which do naturally and properly come within their sphere of action, they are grievously and unjustly intruded upon by the other sex. Besides this, they cannot, consistently with decency, or regard to clia raaer, go out in quest of general employ meat ; but are confined, most frequently, to a few scanty and unproduaive kinds of labour. As far AS the wretched and pitiable circumstances of many of these women are occasioned by the in attention of the upper and more enlightened classes, their superiors will, in some degree, he responsible for the consequences. The efforts of individuals for the correaion of this or of any tither general evil will, it must be confessed, prove weak and inade quate : but it is well known that, with the advantage of the increased power of ro-operation, there is hard ly any thing which miy not be gradually and securely effeaed ; and—with a degree of cite and to an extent of benefit, far exceeding the calculation of those, who have only contemplated the tolttary power of indiriclual exerting. . . . . These are the celsiderations which have induced the General Committee of the " Society for better ing the Condition of the Poor," to address itself to those Ladies who have favoured the Society with their subscriptions, and to submit to them the prac ticability and expediency, of forming a " Lathes Committee for the education and employment of the Female Poor." Originating from and connect ed with the Society, it is concaved that it may he formed and arranged, and nuy be made extensively and unexceptionably useful, with very little if any trouble, expence, or difficulty. It is not in contemplation to solicit new subscrip tions, from those Ladies who are at present sub. scribers to the Society. The proposal extends no further than (with their concnrrence and approba tion) to transfer from the Ist of January, 1804, their subscriptions ..s the forming of a new rand, which shall be under the direction of the Ladies Commit tee:—the Society offering the use of the committee room, No. 190, Piccadillv, for their me: tugs ; and pro posing the continuance of the deliver yof their present number of reports, free of expence; and the supply of any additional number, at prime cost, for additional Subscribers. The meetings of the Ladies Com mittee (it is presumed) need not be more than once a month; those of the sub-committees, which will consist of a few of the alive members, may be l•eld more frequently. The forming of the regulations of the Committee, the providing for similar Liabet Committees in the provincial towns and in the me tropolis, and the eleaion of a Patroness, Vice Pa tronesses, President, Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Se cretary, and additional members of the Committee, from among the Subscribers, will be done most conveniently by a Primary Committee ; which, it is suggested, may be named by the General Committee of the Society; upon the recommendation of those Ladies, who may have the goodness to take a di•e&. ing put, in the arrangement and execut on of the plan. In the Ladies Committee so fo.mvd, the fu ture regulations and eleCtions will be properly and permanently vested ; the qualification for a member of the Committee being the subscription of one an nual guinea or upwards, or of ten guineas or up wards in one sum. The proposed objeas of the Ladies Committee will be the promoting of moral and religious educa tion, and the supplying of healthful domestic em ployment, for the female poor of England. As to the first of these, it is not easy to estimate how much may be done on such a scale, by attention, unitsoce, cad encownement; all co-operating to promote the establishment of female schools, in places where they are wanted; and, where they are already established, to render them as extensively, impartially, and unquestionably useful as may be. With red to the second objed—the supply of healthful domestic employment for the Female Poor—the Ladies Committee will have it in their power to do much, by furnishing the poor with 1.,- strodioe and InArmatioa adapted t the local cir cumstances of the different parts of England i—so as to point out the cheapest mode of obtaining good materials—the most advantageous method ut mak ing them up—and the best and most certain mar kets for t) ,, ir work. The Lad:m Committee will also be induced, from time to ~o IP, to take under their conwderation, how fat, ;..t , v !dually or collec tively, by vampire or by indtat. t. they can pro perly and effeftually promote ti'e use and sale of those articles, which may be manufactured by cot. tagers' wives and daughters at borne, and without withdrawing them from their habitations, or pre venting a regular attention to their families. A variety of interesting occupation will progres sively attract the attention of the Ladies Committee, as they ertend their scope of benevolence. Much of the injury, which the Female Poor suffer by beirg precluded from several kinds of occupation, and by being interfered with in otl-ty employments, would be speedily and effetaually removed. Many of the si.tlicultiei which attend their getting work, and a great part of the inipositioas to which they are corn. gelled to submit it, the disposal of the produce of industry, will be soon done away, when they shall have the advantage of the protellion and influence of a Committee, consisting of some of the must ele vated aad enlightened of their own itz. NAVAL INTELLII V AP•ilk Yesterday the Mails from Cotter here Iy the King George packet, S. The Mentor. Wells, tor Mem( roa.is to wait fnr convoy. Sided, the yam, Hook, to Drootheim. PORTSMOUTH, 'Ur ? 16. Arrived L'Eatrepresint cutter, from a cruise. I' A f.1101:T:I. PULT 14. Arrived the Princess Forresdaiie, with cotton, from Now Providence, bound to Lon. dnn, in Seven ve;•As pissage; and the Spreilanil, Stephens, from London, bound to Gibraltar and Malta. lIIAI, Jc ,.v IG. Sailed yesterday, after post, the Nivotk armed ship, Lieutenant SincLtir, for Leith, and the lin% elites man of war, on a cruise. Arrived the S.-ind 'le sloop of war, with a en from Portsmouth, which are sailed for th, the Scourge remains, with the rest of the shir List. Much firing has this day been heard at this from the S.E. direftion off Boulogne s rapposeJ be an engagement between some of our cruis . ,- squadron, and the enemy's flotilla.—Wind S. FROM LLuYll's LIST, f;ti4PIIIND, Jui.v 16.—Pa c - xl by the Neptune. Tdtenum, f ro m 14,..way ; and the J.)isanue Talatenee, 24,,m ks►. ch.u. Sailed the Diligeutia,Gowe , , for Lisbon ; Phih„ and the Ch+,lutte Ann, Itarrvil, for Prtor,trtgh. Let-r trom lA'..r..tay MA osui.w, Esq. S e Teta " to the Lcrili Cammissioners of the Adruiraltv, to Mr. J AMU KITCISISGM•N, Secretary to ;he &al of Commerce, Leeds. " SIR, .•i m ,,,,,hy 4 ) ( Fee,. hey 7, mos. “ Having laid before my Lords Comnuisuontrs of the Admira!ty your letter c I the 23J of last month, Enclosing a Petition limn the Merchants of Leeds, setting forth the advantage that would result to the trade between this comary, Spain and Pcr toga!, if convoys were appointed at coed periods, and praying that those petiods might le fixed at the times therein mentioned ; I have their Lordships commands to acquaint you, tor the in formation of the Iderchants of Leeds, that Cow* s will be appointed agreeable to their requ:st. I am. Sir, your very humble Servant, " Mr. hams Kitchis,gassati. Leeds. "W. MARSULS• Convoys for Portugal and Spain, we understand, will be appointed regularly to sail from Spasead az the undermentioned periods, viz. The tOth Au. gust. loth o.iober, loth December, loth Marti, lOth Jane. A Court Martial was held on board the S,, V, ; ./„ del :Wanda, of 112 guns, in Harmaze, oz 111,•rid r. on a seaman of the Pickle armed ship ; who was reed for it - damns and disorderly coadue off Brest, sr ale she was on that station with the heck out in•sl.r squadron, a few weeks since. After a lung was conviited, and sentenced to receive 500 I cher. The principal evidence against him, a seaman cat the Pickle, prevaricating in Ins evidence, was seatcaasd by the Court to be imprisoned solitarily in the pri son nt the Marshalsea, London. PRICE OF SToCCS. _ _ • Ow Oast. Red nerd 56111 4 per Cam. Callaols 744% 3 per Cent. L0va1ty........., ri 1 !7 Lang Annum*. Impet.al 3 evr Ceitt .. Skil DON Annuities. Ol 9 - 16 Omrziorn COIIIIOI4 for opening slli T. bl!iii, CvNtirmk:e, 4, Comb ill, atri 9, Ch . :riot Ca. PRICE OF IRISH "moms, sew it. G,.veigrinvnt Deb. S M► Cant......... 671 i COURSE OF EXCHANGE Tosio*r. hag 17. linaterdasn .... ''.7 10 t U. ' Ven.ce Ditto at Sight .. ..ii 9 I Kauko 3s Itinteriam C. F.. 11 16 2 U. 1 Lsturi ItAnibuegh.... . 3..* 7 11U. Opine, 62 titans 9,5 6 6411. • D o w.. l3l "an. 65 4 Ly. M i Mt.. 2 U.... ... I.l..tude.iiix .s3 II i Portugal Gold iu Cuin If ..I.id Ditto Ca iis Ditto l3 effect. • Saver in War 5....... CP 0 Bilboa Leghorn Cee:iim 4311.4 Pic i 4! per pent. Diii,lin an London (.1 , Il • 111. l2 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT, 50 tam atter 10. 81 RTHS. Lately, at Fildrvscie Flata,e. Lady Leslie, of Fiadireae a d Warded, of a dmitirter. Ou the Sth incant, Mrs. Duthie, of Mount Pinson, Ett burgh. a eon. MARRIAGES. on Thi,l4, la.t , at ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; lied*id, 0 " Rev. Mr Wa I, VI7II, of Kingston. i t that county, to V. • 11,vatylathrt r srf the late Major Boyars, of the Raawflagt On Frk lir law, at Chichewer, Mr. Edward 2-!1, at Ba" . I.)rnew Mr.. I.asella MU, )o,:rtg.:st .' • Fel RAI, Eq. of that adv. Yestrod... , %ems el., at ronieston, Mt. John GLIa. rt St,ding. to Ma A o n o s c aopl e , daughtat J. Se.apka, EN of rtentimaon DEATHS Car T4l-,day last, at eirtoat, Sur Edward Williams, Bat. a . L'angned..o the county of BM oat. a the 01 anst.rit, at I. wallas's, Mandoch M•l.l;na. I...whbus, L i. law Lteutenatat-Coion t au the Duinaaarto Lately, at rilacsow, Alexander Menzies, Esq. of Ch'sl .oll . one of Va.. •I -at.. S•6l At lierwack, of: .:.ah mat. Mr.. hfaraaret narews, an 11 3, dat.g:ater the Lae W i..am Purees, ot Hail, Bs: At Gre , ot •ck, on by la-t, aged 37, Mrs. Elaabe.a Ca"' yet , ., lame o; S r A•chltrAd Caatio'wdl, and daughter °III". in S.ch C•,;,7er, itArt Mw .10.:.a, sada T: I:nas Jones, E.g. o thlt, county a.: • Mo mouth, , tanlai.n.4 down dead to hef e• , haw..., "la las', and ex ~.red without a;a .1 L.' evemng • 0, - had taceo wa lc with Mr. Jones. an ' t act of un 2,44 an net cl a.r.be., to wAch 6:12 hat tired After eu.,per, se. 'loan a cori.s , hw lausSandsfr•e. 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