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TRIAL OF THE PIX. Ycskrtlay morning, at ten o'clock, the Lords of his Ma jesty's most Hon. Privy Council assembled at his Majesty's Exchequer, at which hour the Lord Chancellor, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stowell, and Sir Ilenev Rus sell, were assembled. Mr. Wallace, the Master of the hunt, was present, and although the meeting was to ex amine the coins issued by him, yet his Lordship did nut see any objection to his taking his seat as a Privy Colin eilior ; but still there wanted another Privy Councillor to constitute a Board, and they waited half an hour before another arrived, when Mr. It ynn entered the room. The Board being then formed, the proper officer proceeded to call over the names of the Jury, and' they answered as follows :—Thomas Brind, Thomas Ayres, 'Thomas Halifax, Thomas Albion Cox, Philip Gilbert, James Henderson, Sam. Haynes, Walter Smith, Jahn Robinson, Thomas Hayter, George Miler, and John Jol:Lson. Moat of these gentlemen, we understood, are' goldsmiths. The Council and Jury assembled by virtue of an Order , in Council, from the King in Council, to make trial of his Msjesty's coins in the Pix of the Mint. 'rhe Jury were sworn to make an assay between his Majesty, the late Master of the Mint, Lord Maryborough, and also Mr. Wallace, the present Master. Ti.e Lord Chancellor shortly addressed the Jury, and A 4 ,1 them they were to try the coins hulled between the ,King and his people, with the Muter of the Mint, it being essential the coin of this realm, which has attained such I pre-eminence in the world, should be meek pure, and that I the public mind should be satisfied 00 this subject, the 'experience of ages. The Learned Lord then stated the subs:sacs of an indenture, which *as entered into between our s.uvereign Lord the King, which establishes the stand.' and of the coin in gold and silver, which directs alloy to be used, which is not to be too strong or too feeble. It fur-' deer provides for a trial by a Pia, which is to be done by I fire, water, &c. His Lordship concluded by saying he had no doubt, from the experience he haul on former cc easions With the same gentlemen, but that they would ro turn a proper verdict. The Lords of the Council then repented, and the Gen tlemen of the Jury retired to the Bitchy of Lancaster Cum t, where they were joined by the Viet k of the Goldsmith's . Company and others, and proceeded to make the necessary ' experiments on the coins by calculations, and afterwards melted a certain quantity, to ascertain if the quantity of alloy in the coins contained was the proper proper.; tioa. The account of the gold monies coined by the Right Hon, Thomas Wallace. Master Worker of his Ma jetty's Mint, from the tenth June, Int, to the Ist July, 18.13, agreeably to the indenture, dated 6th February, 1811. the total value of the coinage amounted to 5,046,300/. A similar account of the silver coined at the same time, after the rate of sixty-six shillings to the pound weight (troy), of the standard of eleven ounces two pennyweights of fine silver and eighteen pennyweights of alloy ; together with an account of the small monies coined for his Ma jesty's Maundy, in the year 1823 ; the whole of which was only of small amount, the total value of the coinage being only 137,761!. 164. The experiments occupied the attention of the Jury till between three and fonr o'clock; the report of which was made at Goldsmiths Hall. 111.47'111C1 DE. The Journal de l'Aulie contains the following account : A young man of Brienne, named Lela: uff, not more than two and twe; t 1 years of age, has lately killed his own mother. It is attributed either to love, a long series of ill usage, or a vice of his nature. Several times hefore, and even within a week of the murder, lie had beaten one of his little sisters. Ills passionate temper was so well known that his (abet had been warned of it, and be had, in consequence, thought of getting him put out. ()n Monday, July 4, a dispute arose between the unfortunate man and two of his sisters, about ten and twelve years old,leoncerning an ome lette lie wished to make; his mother coming in to restore concord between them, he seized the barrel of a gun which had been turned in a bellows, and struck her two blows on the breast with it: the poor woman ran away, but he pursued her, and at thirty steps from the lions:, brought her to the ground by a blow on the head. He then struck Lis two sisters in the face with the same weapon, reproach ing them as the cause of his having struck his mother. Site did not survive his ill-treatment three hours. The young roast was takes up by the Police, and is now in the hands of justice. In the meantime the father returned, and saw his wife bathed in blood; he hastened to see his son, but was refused admission into the prison. The eldest girl of eight children left by the unfortunate woman, hearing what bad taken place, hastened to the spot, where the horrid sight deprived her of reason, and obliged her to have medical attendance. These are the first fruits of this chucking affair, which will Ito doubt be attributed to a blind passion. It is said, however, that when the accused was conducted to recognise the corpse, he made a speech which added greatly to the horror of the eritne.—Courrier Francais. The Spanish General Costillar, having successively been Political Chief at Ductlona, Minister of War and Captain-General of Valencia and Murcia, has just set out for England, after a stay at Paris of about six weeks. Mien he was made prisoner at Carthagena, he came into France with his wile and six children ; he took up his abode at Marseilles for eighteen months, during the last fifteen of which he has received no assistance from Go vernment, although a provision was formally premised him by the terms of the capitulation of Carthagena, signed by Centrals Ronnemain and Vincent, and ratified by his Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme. After stlling his plate and jewels, be had no means of subsistence left, and took the resolution to go over to England. At Mar seilles and Lyons he found benevolent citizen., who fur nished him with the means for his journey. On arriving at Paris, he solicited an audience of the Dauphin, who received him with the greatest kindness, and promised hlm his support in obtaining the succours which are ifs right, and have been withheld from him. A month hal ing elapsed vrithont his receiving anything, the General solicited a second audience of the Dauphin; and his Royal Highness was pleased to inform him, through his Private Secretary, that his efforts had been vain, fur that he had b en able to obtain nothing for him, either from the Minister of War or the Interior. Upon this General Cas t:Tar determined to continue his journey to London, and when setting ont roldrened a letter of thanks to the Dauphin.—Consritutimtnel. A'young student, between fifteen and sixteen years of age, threw himself four days back out of a window of the Suit& Agnese Seminary, and was killed upon the spot. It lies been remarked that suicides have multiplied in Rome in an extraordinary manner. These unhappy persons are nut deprived of the privilege of being buried in consecrated ground. By a bull of Pope Benedict XIV. they are con ailend as having lost the use of their reason.—Universa/ Ga-.elfenf Rome, 20fh June. 11 - ednesday last the inquiry into the case of the Rev. D. Thorn, who is charged by a part of the congregation of St. .%cdrew's Church, in this town, with having preached dectrines contrary to the articles of the Church of Scotland, mme iced in the kirk, in Rodney-street, Liverpool. 'I be commissioners who appeared, by appointment cf th Presbytery of Glasgow, to take evidence on the sub ject, were, the Rev. Dr. M'Clean, convener, the Rev. Pincipal Alacfarlane, and the Rev. Mr. Leishman.— M-. Mitchell and Mr. Ellis, of the Scottish bar, op pearcd on behalf of the petitioners ; and Mr. Ye :tables and Mr. Hall, of the English bar, assisted by Mr. Whit e , wr i ter , i n Gl asgow , f or Mr. 'fhom. The witnesses examined in support of what we may term the prosecution were, the R-v. J. Thomson, Mr. Sorter, jun. the Rev. A. Wilson ( Mr. Thom's colleague), and die Rev. Dr. Barr. Mr. Wilson was under examina tion during the whole of Thursday, and Dr. Barr, nearly the whole of Friday. At the close of the proceedings on the latter day, th e f urt h er exam i t scion o f witnesses was p 'emitted until Friday next, in consequence, we understand, of one of the commissioners being under the necessity of r•turning to Scotland. It would he improper, whilst the matter is sob jsdice, to publish any part of the singular evidence given before this:commission, in support of the e ctraonlinary allegations against Mr. Thom.—l.iverp.:of Cadre. The =Serials of Downing extensive floor-cloth manu factory, in the King's-road, are to be sold by auction to-morrow, the l'ouiltcss St. Antonio having determined to kt this valuable ground, for the purpose of forming a new :guars in this delightful spot. zilt ßAßr GLEANINGs. Hoc mit had one failing in common with most people, who attain wealth and eminence without the aid of liberal education. He affected to despise every kind of knowledge which he did not 'lessees. Having established his fame' with little or no obligation to literature, he either conceived it to be needless, or decried it because it lay out of his reach. His sentiments, in short, resembled those of Jack Cade, who pronounced sentence on the clerk of Chatham, because he could write and read. Till, in evil hour, this celebrated artist commenced an author, and was obliged to! employ his friends to correct his Analysis of Beauty, he did not teem to have discovered that even spelling was a neceseary qualification ; and yet he had ventured to ridi cule the late Mr. Rich's deficiency as to this particular, in a note which lies before the Rake, whose play is refused while be remains in confinement for debt. Previous to the time of which we are now speaking, one of our artist's common topics of declamation, was the uselessness of books to a man of his profession. In Beer -street, among other volumes consigned by him to the pastry-cook, we find 'Turnbull on Ancient Painting, a treatise which Ilogarth should hate been able to understand, before he ventured to condemn. Garrick himself, however, was not more duc tile to flattery. A word in favour of Sigismunda 'night have cemmanded a ptoof print, or forced an original sketch out of ow artist's hands. The furuisher of this remark owes one of his scarcest performances to the success of a I compliment, which might have stuck even in Sir Godfrey Kneller's th-oat. With Dr. Madly, the late worthy Chancellor of Winchester, Mr. Hogarth was always on terms of the strictest friendship, anti frequently visited him at Winchester, St. Cross, and Alreeford, It is well known I ; that Dr. Hoadly's fetidness for theatrical exhibitions was so great, that no visitors were ever long in his house before they were solicited to accept a part in some interlude or !other. Ile himself, with Garrick and Hogarth, once per. I formed a laugh a bl e p aro dy on t h e scene i n Julius Grsar , I where the Ghost app ears to B rutus . fl ogart h personated ' the spectre; but so unretentive was his memory, that, although his speech consisted only of two lines, he was unable to get them by heart. At last they hit on the fol lowing expedient in his favour. The verses he was to de liver were written in such large letters, on the outside of an illuminated peper-lantern, that lie could read them when he entered with it in his hand ou the stage. Hogarth painted a scene on this occasion, representing a sutling t booth, with the Duck of Cumberland's head by way of j ;sign. He also prepared the play-bill with characteristic ornaments. The original drawing is still preserved, and I we essuld wish it were engraved, as the slightest sketch from the design of so grotesque a painter would be welcome to the collectors of his works. lloearth was also the most absent of men. At table he would sometimes turn round his chair as if he had finished eating, and as suddenly would return it, and fall to his meal again. I may add, that he mice directed a letter to Dr. Iloadly, thus,---" To the Doctor at Chelsea."—This epistle, however, by good luck, did not miscarry, and was preserved by the late Chancellor of Winchester, as a pleasant memorial of his friend's extraordinary inattention.—Nicheison's Anecdotes Sts Cu Risror nen 11 - nese—This eminent mathema tician and philosopher, al well as architect, executed many of the finest building , - in London and other parts of Eng land, in the inoilern style. St. Paul's Cathedral, inferior to none but St. Peter a in point of magnitude, and un doubtedly superior even to that both in skilful construc tion and design, will perpetuate his name to the latest pos terity. The exterior cupola of St. Paul's is constructed of oak timber, and is sustained by a cone of eighteen inch brick=work, which has a course of stone, the whole thick ness, every five feet ; and the intermediate parts are two bricks ii: length in thickness. This cupola was turned upon a centre, which supported itself without any standard from below. From the inclined positicn of its supporting walls it has little or no transverse pressure • yet, for greater security, it is hooped with iron at the bottom. Ot the great English masters who flourished about this period, Jones was grand but unequal ; as may be seen in his cele brated work, the Chapel at IVliitelhall , the conception of which, as a part, and but a small part, of an immense palace, is certainly noble ; its primary divisions few l and simple, its openings large and handsome, but it is unequal in composition and in style. The play of light and shade produced by the breaks over each column is in a minute taste, the very opposite to grand. The lonic specimen is one of the worst and most impure he could bora chasten ; the trsodillions ; not belosig to the order and approach too nearly to those of the Corinthian. If one order upon another be admissible, at all events the Corinthian should not have been excltuled for the purpose of introducing the Composite. Wren was more equal and consistent than Jones ; was possessed of more mathematical and general knowlege ; was a man of a more expanded mind ; hut less of an architect by education, and had, generally speaking, less taste. Perhaps nothing of Wren's is equal in taste to Jones's tenter-gate of 1,4. k-buildings, and nothing of Jonee's equals in scientific construction any thing of Wren's. Jones's Gothic, as shown in Lincoln's Inn Ilall and Chapel, is decidedly bad : Wren's in St. Mary Alder mars, Bow-lane, is bold, if not quite pure; in the tower and pinnacles of St. Michael's, Cornhill, still better ; and in the spire of St. Dunstan's in the East, unexceptionably fine ; perhaps this is the finest thing of its kind in Europe. St. Stephen's, IValbrook, has, I Clink, been extolled Ix yond its merits ; although novel in principle it is faulty both in construction and taste. His spire of Bow would ; alone immortalize any man ; so beautiful is it in form, so novel in design, and so dexerous in construction.—Eintes's Lectures on Architccturc. LAST MOMENTS or Mn. Fox.—The first seeds of his disorder commenced about the beginning of last winter (1803). In tj month of December last, Mr. Fox was on a country visit with the Earl of A—. Mr. Fox found his constitution rapidly giving way. Ile was able neither to take the same exercise or the same diversions as formerly. He laid aside his habit of early rising, and frequently slept after dinner. His friends observed the change with a presentiment of the consequence. Mr. Fox himself was not blind to his ad vancing weakness. The seeds of his disease began daily to develope themselves, and Mr. Fox was himself con scious that lie would not live long.—"My life has been active beyond my strength, I had almost mid my duty. 11 I hare not acted mach, you will allow that I hare spoken much, and I hare felt morc than I have either acted or spoken. llfy constitution has sank under it. I find myself unequal to the business on which you have written : it must be left loyouncer men. I think, moreover, that it will be a thankless labour. I expect nothing from --.—. 'Ti, a sword of state which is borne in procession on solemn days, but is sever allowed to he employed; it is too old and rusto to cat. This is what 11 . —.--- said at Lord ----'s, and I perfectly agree with him." hlr. Fox was confined to his bed many days during December, and was once very seriously indisposed, his leg§ swelled, and he took largely of decoction of the woods, under the impression that he was suffering under the scurvy. It was peculiar to Mr. Fox, that he had formed in his own mind a kind of philosophic theory of medicine. He referred every thing to two causes, impurity of blood, and the habit of the stomach. He seldom, therefore, consulted a physician ; for the most part prescribing to himself, and even mixing his own medicines. Paytherus, in Eon& street, was his ellymist, and his annual bills for drugs, &c. amounted to a very considerable sum ; rhubarb and rept able decoctions were his favourite medicines. I have heard him,• however, say, that the but purgative in the Materia Medica was fruit with thin skins, currants, raspberries, &c. He had no suspicion that he was droPsical, and perhaps by this error contributed to confirm and aggravate his dis ease. Ile entered on • course of medicine as if for the scurvy ; and feeling very early in the period of his com plaint an uncommon weakness of stomach, be imputed it to an insufficient disgestion. This erroneous management had certainly very had effects. Ile was in this state when he returned to town early in January. Political affairs.—Tlie situation of his partY be gan to wear an important aspect. Mr. Pitt was declared irrecoverable so early as the beginning of January, and in a consultation about the 10th, it was announced that his death might be daily expected. The necessary activity of such a time banished from Mr. Fox every so: se of his weakness; he exerted himself in a manner which of itself would have ruined his consti tution. Once, and once alone, he employed a very re markable expression ; " PITT has died in January—pre-' thaps I may go ..s" before June." Mr. Fox said this walk-.' . • . big up Pall-mall, as ho clitcred the door of Nichols the (bookseller. A gent l eman w h o was w i t h hi m, Mr. 'l'—, 1 slid som e thi ng i n rep l y . N ay , sa id M r . F ox again, I be. gin to think that my complaint is not unlike Pitt's, my 'stomach has been long discomposed, I feel my constitution dirsoiriv. His disease, however, was not publicly d ec l are d to b e the dropsy before the month of .duly, The symptoms were then no longer doubtful ' • the lethargy was alarming, the tumors daily increasin g. All efforts to enable the yes. owls to discharge the water by natural process failed ; the former weakness of the stomach was the gradual decay of, 'all its powers. It was now generally agreed amongst the i attendant physicians, that there was little hope of any fa vourable termination. On the 99dt of July a consultation Was held, when it was generally agreed to try the operation of another pow erful medicine, and if it failed of, an immediate diuretic effect, that he should be tapped. Ito alternative remained but this last resource. The medicine failed, the poweia of the absorbent ves sels were extinguished, and the physicians resolved upon the immediate execution of the last resource. On Thursday. Aug. 7, the operation of tapping was per formed ; about five gallons were takettfrom him. The weak , ness immediately consequent on it was such as to excite a general alarm that he would not long survive it. He *as for a long time speechless, and this at a moment when the newspapers of the day announced "that he was In most! excellent spirits, and laughed and talked with Mrs. Fox ; and several others, after the operation." In spirits indeed !; —he was prostrate on the bed, and with scarcely an ap , -; pearance of life. His eye was half closed, and the light lof life as it were extinguiahel. These were his spirits, I and gayety, and conversation. Lord said, that he had matte a party for Christ mas, in the country, and had taken the liberty to include Mr. Fox in it, without his knowledge. But it will be a new scene, Sir, added he, and I think you will approve of ' it. I shall indeed be in a new scene by Christmas next, said Mr. Fox. " My Lord, what da you think of the state of the soul after death ?" toed --essatefoutleel I believe by the unexpected turn which Mr. Fux had given to the conversation), made no reply. Mr. Fox continued— " That it is Immortal lam convinced. The existence of the Deity is a proof that spirit exists; why not therefore the soul of mass ? and if such an essence as the soul exists, by its nature it may exist for ever. I should have believed iin the immortality of the soul though Christianity had never existed ; but how it acts as separated from the body, lis beyond my capacity of judgment. This, however, I shall know by next Christmas." Mrs. Fox here took his hand and wept. Mr. Fox was much moved—" I am happy," said he, "full of confidence, I may say of certainty." Mr. Fox had so far recovered from the operation of the seventh, that he was declared in no immediate danger from the effect of it. This opinion of the physicians was strangely mistaken, as referring to the disease itself, and not to the operation. I can take upon myself to say, that the physicians had by this time given up all hopes of his recovery. On the Sunday evening his physicians recognised the symptoms of approaching dissolution. Mr. Fox had en treated them to give hint previous notice. The physicians, however, did not consider it their duty to speak as yet. It was notified, however, to Lord Holland, and Mrs. fox was not informed of it till the following clay. On Monday the symptoms had so auguiented,thc return ing swelling, longer intervals of lethargy, and the languor of the pulse, that after a consultation it was decided to in form Mr. Fox, that he would most probably norsurvive twenty-four hours, and that his recovery, or that the con tinuance of his life fourteen days longer, was not within the possibility of things. The communication was ac cordingly made to him in those words. Mr. Fox replied, God's will be done, I have lived enough, and shall die happy ;" he then turned his head on his pillow, closed his eyes for about half a minute, and Lord Holland having entered in the mean time, he opened the palm of his hand as a sign for Lord Holland to give him his hand. Lord Holland took the hand of his uncle, but was unable to repress his tears. "My deaf, my beloved mishear," said Mr. Fox, much moved. Mrs. Fox, supported by Lady Hollard, and Lady E. Forster, the latter, however, only coming to the door of the apartment, now entered ; every one but the physicians anti the family now left the room ; the scene of distress was past description. On Friday, early iu the morning,_ all appearances of amendment minished. The fatal syThputfins of Monday and Wednesday returned, and it was a third time an nounced to Mr. Fox, that be could not survive many hours. His friends were again permitted to take leave of him ; but when they were about to leave the apartment, Mr. Fox waved them back again, and expressed signs of impatience, when the physicians advised them to with draw. Mr. Fox was able to speak at intervals. Lord Henry Petty approached his bed. Mr. Fox said, " this is all in the course of nature. I am happy—your labour is difficult, do not despair."—Mr. Fox would have said more, but Lord Henry Petty, unable to repress his emo tions, and by the desire of the physicians, retired to ano ther part of the room. Mrs. Fox was fixed motionless with grief. A sudden burst of tears defeated all her pre sution. Mr. Fox who had hold of her hand, looked pi teously at her ; his back was turned, and he had to raise his head. "Do not, do not," said he to Mrs. Fox. He was now evidently much exhausted; the physicians in sisted that every one should leave the room, and were obeyed. Mr. Fox fell into a kind of stupor. In the evening his friends were again admitted. Lord Holland and Mrs. Fox seemed almost wholly to occupy the attention of Mr. Fox ; he talked to them at intervals, and finding himself exhausted, put Mr.. Fox's hand into that of Lord Holland, and then solemnly imposed, as it were, a silent blessing, by raising his own, and suffering it to fall gently on the united hands of his wife and nephew. Mr. Fox passed the night restless and alternately in a stupor. In the morning he was evidently approaching nearer to his end. Ile again solicited by signs and half words the presence of his friends, who were in the apart ment, but beyond his view : they approached his bed about noon, he made a sign for the bands of Mrs. Fox! and Lord Holland, they were given him, he again united! them, and silently blessed them with the same slow de- I of his hand as on the preceding day ; this he re peated three times. He then endeavoured to turn himself, his back being still towards them, and his head only bent ; forwards ; he was too weak, however, for this effort. Mrs. Fox and Lord Holland went round to the other side of the bed ; it was then he pronounced the last words he was able to speak: " God bless you—bless you—and you all. I di e happy. I pity you." fie sunk again into a stupor, recovered about three o'clock, became weaker, looked for a moment fully upon all in the room, hung upon the countenances of Lord Hol land and Mn.s Fox, closed Isis eyes, and opened them not again.—Cireemstantial Details (1 the long illness and last Moments of Mr. For. I - A private letter from Paris, dated Tuesday, states that Madame Catalani is seriously indisposed, and that conse quently her concert, which was fixed for to-morrow, is postponed for an indeterminate period. It is known that the recent discovery of the Miltonian MS. in the State Paper Office, attracted the notice of his Majesty, under whose auspices the work so long lost to the world is about to be published. We understand, in con sequence of this and other interesting discoveries, made within the last few years, in the same quarter, his Ma jesty has been pleased to appoint a Commission to examine the documents in that valuable depositary of the records of former times, with a view to printing the most important of them. The Commissioners named are, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. C. W. Wynn, Mr. Croker, and Mr. Hobhouse. Mr. Lemon, the Deputy Keeper of the State Paper Office (by whom the MS. above mentioned was found) has been appointed Se cretary to the Commission. Napoleon, by the author of Traverley,is certainly said to be forthcoming. Many, however, consider it as only a work or the same class with the l'Hernals, by the very reverend divine of St. Ronan's. There is no joke as', to the Napoleon. In four volumes, the ma s t e r-hand w ill,' we hear, really condense anti illuminate the materials of an unrivalled career. There will be a preliminary volume,' bringing down the history of the Revolution until the day' when Napoleon first appeared upon the theatre of blood and ambition. Strange but true, that as yet we should have no intelligible sketch of that eventful period !—Ediu burgh Observer. .111DLANb i• • NORTHAMPTON ASSIZES, Nowreamrro*; /der Ih CROWN SIDE. Befiare Mr..l usher PARK. Ilrni.l.rigs/ote and Therms Longslure, were indicted for sFssl. intr., on tiac 10th of May last, 40 sheep, the property of 3latherr 11 ard, of Clipston. Blathew Irarl, grazier, examined--I have a close called Pease brook, at Clipston, and had 212 sheep in it on the 14th Of May lest: Between that day and the-19th 1 never sold any of therti. Joseph Newcombe, shepherd of the last witness, examined—fen the Ilt't of :flay last, [ counted 212 sheep in Pessebrook-close. ijn the 19th I counted them again, when I missed 40 sheep. I saw 10 of the lost sheep on the Saturday following, at 'lr. Burden's, at Prior's Harthvick, iu ll'artrickshire. I knew them to be toy rr.aturt . 's, because one of them was injured in the feet, which I had occsaitinally dressed when in my master's flock. I knew another of than by a great brand mark on the hip. The o th er eight hall my master's mark on them, but which we re p at tly o bli terate d. These ten were laniblings, and had never been sheared. I after. grants went to Mr. Odcy's and saw ten other sheep, which were panic( the flock in Peasebiook on the 14th. I then went to Rool:by, and saw the other 20 at 31e. Richardson's. I knew some of tbcru by a slit in the ear, and others by a stroke of ruddle on the near hip. I can swear that all these sheep were my master's property. On his etoss.examlnation he said, the sheep were called lamb hogs previously to their being shorn t when they have been once shorn they are called shearers, and when voice shorn they are called sheep. John tanner, landlord of the'Fox and Hounds at Daventry, ek amined by 3IARRIOTT—I remember two men coming to my house on the 17th of Ma) with 40 sheep. They took the sheep out the next day into the market and sold them. I don't know that I Amid know the prisoners; they are not dressed now as they were then. Thee slept in a double-bedded room ; they slept in one bed and Thos. Weston slept in the other. Thos. %Weston, of Hrest Bowden, examinets-I am a licensed hawker. I was at the Fox and Hounds at Deventer, on the 17th of 31ay, apd slept there in a double - bed d ed loom. Two men slept in the other bed; the prisoners are the men. I saw and conversed with them in the evening. I saw them the next morning, anti I have no doubt that they are the same men as those now at the bar. I don't know- what they came with. Wm. Burden, of Friths Hardwick, railer, examined—On the 10th of May last I bought ten sheep at Daventry market of one of the prisoners, who said his name was Smith, and that he came from Welford. I gave 465. a-head, to. back again, and Is. chop money. This was the full-vahteof the sheep. There was another persOu with the prisoner, but I cannot swear to him, though I be lieve the other prisoner is ths.tnan. He helped me with the sheep over the pen. Those were t.:e ten sheep which Mr. Ward after wards owned. Job Morton, servant to Mr. Lovett, of Hill Morton, grazier, examined.-1 bought go sheep in Daventry Market on the 18th of May of the prisoner, L Miens Longalow. I gave 30s. a-head. There was a man with him, but I should not know him. lie took no part in the sale. I sold the sheep to Mr. John Odey, of Kilsby, on the satne day. John Odey, a grazier, living.in Kilsby, clttmlned.—On the 10th of May last I bought ten sheep of the last witness. 111 r. Ward came on the 20th and owned the sheep, and he fetched them away on the Monday. I sew Morton bargain for the sheep, but 1 was not sear enough to notice the man. I think the prisoners aro the men, but I will not swear to them. 111 r. Miles Richardson, of Rugby, grazien—On the 10+ of May last I bought !wenty lanibt:egs in Thiventry market, of Longalow, the short man standing at the bar. Ile told me his name was Smith, and that he same front Telford. There wits an other man with him, but I cannot swear to hint. The sheep were afterwards owned by Mather Ward, and I delivered them up to him. James Biaidev, constable of Market Harborough. examined.—l apprehended William Longslow on the 23d of May, and the other prisoner, Thomas Longslow. on the 24th. I did not niake use of any promise fly threat to either of them to induce therh to tell me anything. ' illiam Longslow said, when I was taking hint to prison, that nobody was concerned in taking the sheep but himself and another person. He said the sheep all belonged to Mr. Ward. I apprehended William Longs/ow at his own house at Libben. ham, about three or four miles from Clipswn. Mr. fitalbutt, baker and mailman at Libbenham. examined—, I know the prisoners at the bat. I live just opposite the house they oceupy. They have lived there about a quater of a year. I never knew of either of them goii.g by the name of Smith. William Longslow is a married man, his brother lived with him but for e few days. William is a shepherd. Thomas was in the service of Mr. Arnold, of Luttcrwork, as his shepherd. I have known Wil. ham for four or five years. The prisoners, on being asked what they had w say for them selves, said they should leave it to their Counsel. Mr. Sergeant A pasts, on the part of the prisoners, submitted to his Lordship, that the lambhogs were not sheep, a they had been set out in the indictment, but were lambhoga until they bad been shorn. Ile remembered a case which supported this dis tinction. Ills Lordship asked the Jury whether they called them sheep or not ? If they slid not, he should not sum up the evidence. The Jury said they considered them to be sheep. His Lordship then summed up the evidence, and the Jury re. turned a verdict of Guilty against Win. Lorgslow, and acquitted the other prisoner. The Learned JUDGE immediately proceeded to pass sentence of death upon Wm. bongslow, who, during the whole time his lord. ship was addressing him, did not evince the least symptom of dread at his awful situation. lie is a person of rather low stnture, but somewhat robust in his make, and had an appearance of respect ability above men in his class of life. Although his Lordship told him that there was nothing in his case that could possibly prevent the sentence of the law being carried into execution ; yet the pri soner, we understand, would not believe that Ise should suffer, even after the gaoler had lucked him up in the condemned cell, which is a step taken only in eases where it is intended that the judgment should be carried into effect. Joscpla Tetbitt. aged 34, was indicted for the murder of Joseph Stenman, of Earl's Barton, in the county of Northampton. It ap peared that the prisoner had been with the deceased, in company with several other persons, on a party of pleasure, and that some jokes passed between them, till the prisoner poured water into the pocket of the deceased, when a quarrel took place, and the deceased struck the prisoner. In the scuttle that tollowed, the prisoner kicked the deceased's leg, and the bruise soon after mortifying, oc casioned his death. The prisoner was found Guilty of 31anslaughter, but as lie had been in prison two months, the Learned Judge sentenced him to pay a fine of Is. and he was discharged. Samuel Ilioirr , aged 30, was capitally indicted under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for having wilfully and maliciously cut and wounded one Susannah Curman, a child of about five years of age. The indictment charged the prisoner with committing the offence, first with an intent to murder secondly, to disable ; and lastly, to do bodily harm. Susannah Sullivan examined-4 remember the prisoner coming to my father's house on the 23 June, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon. He knocked at the door ; I went to open it. Ile never spoke, but put his fingers to his mouth and ear. I thought it meant that he was deaf and dumb. I shook my head, and went in and shut the door. He pushed the door open, and came in ; I gave him a penny to get rid of hint, and he went away. Ile wan a pedlar. Thomas Sullivan—l lire at Laxton ; my home is in Mr. Evans's Park ; 1 am his servant t my house is close to the road. On the 2d of June, I saw the prisoner ueder the chestnut-tree, by the road Fidel I had been as near as three yards to him ; I saw three children go towards him. They afterwards ran away, and I mar the prisoner following them. Ile stooped down anti put hi, hand into his breeches-pocket, and immediately I heard a child scream. Before this, I had heard * noise in the village. 1 ran to the children on the spot where he had stooped ; I saw a great deal of blood, and the child was bleeding very much. The prisoner and nobody else was near the child. The child was carried into a cottage badly wcunded. Charlotte Green examined.—l remember the prisoner at the bar coming on the 2el of June last to my father's house to sell needles and buttons. My father's house is not near Sullivan's but is near the Park. I saw the prisoner immediately after the child was hurt. The children were In great terror. 1 heard the child scream, and I ran out immediately to her assistance. I found Susan Curman all over blood, and with a large gash in her throat, she was bleeding 'profusely, and at last she staggered and fell down. I immediately ran for assistance. When I first saw the child the prisoner was about four or five yards from her. He was not further ofr. I am quite sure that the prisoner is the man. I have not the smallest doubt as to his identity. Elizabeth IVoottele examined—l am wife of a labourer of Laxton. On 21 June I recollect Charlotte Green calling on me, and saving, that a child had been cut in the throat. 1 ran out, and found the child cut and screaming. I found a wound in the neck. I applied cold water and rum to the wound. The child fainted, and a surgeon was sent for. When I lint saw the child the prisoner was four or five yards from the spot. Nobody else was near. Thomas Price, surgeon, near Laxton, proved the wound anon the child. If a surgeon had not been called in the child would not hare bled to death, but the wound might have occasioned death. I saw the knife with which the wound was inflicted, the wound corresponded with the shape of the knife. The knife was now produced. It was a common clasp knife. with a blade about four inches in length and pointed. It was free from rust; another knife was found in his pocket, which was very 'rusty and had a square top to it. Timothy IVotel—l ant the constable who looked out for a person who had been guilty of this outrage. I pursued him, and at Inst traced him into Staffitnishire, and took hint at a distance of miles tram Laxton. I took him in the court-yard of th'7.. Mar. quis of Stafford's seat. Ile had a pedlar's box hanging to his neck. tapped him on the shoulder. because he had acted as a deaf and dumb man. I pitt hand-cuffs upon him. Immediately I did thin he spoke. Ile addressed himself to the Marquis of Stafford's agent, Mr. Lewis, and said, " I am the man the constables are in search of." lily son was with me. He then said, " I saw the child bleeding, but I never touched the child, an help me God ; the blood spouted out of the child's reek like water out of a jug." Mr. Lewis said to him, why did you not assist the child ? lie said, " I looked at it three or four mlnates, and made my escape to Kings_ cliff for fear I should be apprehended, and sent to gaol. and my box be taken from me, which would have ruined me, but I never touched the chikl, so help me God." 1 'marched the I.‘ honer and' his box, and in lute box were two knives and a pair of scissor and two razors. I took him to Laxton. lie then cried out—" Oh ! I have been guilty of every crime under heaven but this." I never committed murder. The knives were again produced, and handed to the Court and Jury to examine. Witnese continued--I delivered the knives to Mr. S. O'Brien, a Magistrate, in the presence of. which I seized was rusty, but blood. , J. Mille —I am the constable livered by last witness to the Sts; up: It Is the same produced in Mr. T. Price, surgeon, again t., wetted not make a wound similar this dhe with the pointed blade wodld. 'se told" by a thrust. Holey Priestly, turnkey of arnalltlethes which the prisoner lb gsoL Thej were mirked all over wu.. , pair of trousers were now produced. keen, amt.appeared to have been completely saturated with bl'xd. Charl..tc Creen again called—These trousers appear the sane the prisonerhad on the day the assault was made on the child. • Timothy Woods re:idled—The trousers were the same that the prisoner had on when he was apprehended. Mc. i Anptosr said this was tile MSC for the ptosettitlon• The .earned J C DOR th . :vi curled upon the prisoner tot Li! defence. The prisoner, with hi: eyes cor.stamly rolling, without being di.. rected lo any one object, and with e iiiinvulsive effort exclaimed, lit a half articulate voice, "11y Lord, I am as inhoceht air a babe ors born of murder." The Con aT—llave you any witnesse.: t Call i Prlsoner..s.No, my Lord, The belittled guuoi now addressed the Jury. In stating this ease lie had to Complain that he was rather hardly used ; tor in the depositions laid before him there was nothing - 4 ' whet had been proved to-day. There Argo rici more like case n^ rowed and what was shown by the depositions, forgery was like a case of sheep stealing. The t constables had been wholly omitted to be stated Lions, and upon the evidence there shown there of pretence to send the ease to the Jury. The constables, however, was Most material in fixing , prisoner. It might occasion considerable.purprise none of the children had been called in evidence - self who had prevented their appearance. lie h mined them before coming into Court. The child cruelly treated was too young to give any evidence , Justice, and the other children he hail examined Lad the least possible moral or religious instruction, Lo' within a church, and, were ;potent of every thing validity to an oath. Ile had therefttre prevent w before the Grand Jury, and could not therefore be Petit Jury. The evidence of the constables, howe their deficiency. The Leakier( Judge then explained the nature of the verdict which the statute required th.- ?be Jury, sfute I short cdnsultation, returned (ditty. The Count—Guilty of what ? The Foreman—Of stabbing the The COURT—But you must find the intent, , The Jury again consulted, and returned a verdict but not with intent to marder." The JuDoE—But with what intent ? I shall ; the verdict as an acquittal. The prisoner was then discharged; who appeared escape. Joiner Dixon, who was convicted yesterday for of exchange as true, knowing it to be a forgery, tenee of death this evening, and who, with Longview. execution. The Calendar was gone through to-day. CIVIL SIDE. Oefore AD. Justice HOLROTD. TUE BOHOL:G/1 OF DAVENTRY V. DT This was an action brought by the Bailiff, Burgesses, .... monalty of the Borough of Daventry, against the defends' recover damages, fee a violation of the ancient customs of the Borough, fur carrying on trade without being a freeman thereof. This cause was tried before Mr. Baron Bullock Spring Assizes for this county, and . a verdict given exporation; bits by consent of the ',earned Baron, ... granted. to the defendant, do the ground of a misdirection part of the Judge, in his summing up to the Jury. Six Special Jurymen only answered to their names, • was prayed. 111 r. Cr.auxt, Mr. Sergeant Ameits, Mr. R BultTOX, were Counsel for the plaintiffs; and 311 Amos for the defendant. Alr. et.aasE stated the case to the Jury. The was brought by the members of the Corporation o of Daventry, whose duty it was to protect and rights and privileges of the borough, against the who, in defiance of repeated warnings, had persisted, four or five years, in carrying on trade in wilful violation of. the Corporation. Daventry was an ancient Bor ,privileges and customs were founded on prescriptive to sag, it did not rest its claims for the enjoyment of , which it possessed on any particular statute, ordinance. but on immemorial usage, which, fn construction of law, an original Act of Parliament, or some other equally a strument, giving to the Borough those privileges, but some accident, or by the lapse of time, had been destroyed evidence of its having once existed was matte to ' - immemorial usage and practice of the Iloroue,h. other rights which the Corporation had invariably which was calculated to protect the trade of the _ power they possessed of preventing any person from carrying on any wade within the same, unless they enrolled themselves in sonic one of the company of ' obtained from the Corporation their freedom. In or, Militias en ancient enstem of the Boreugh, he should , Jury the old Corporation book s . w h ere i n t h e names o f who had taken out their tic( limn were entered ; they al: ens ies of receipts by the Cotporation from the various for what was called their quarterage.; the appoinin and other officers, and the enrolment of apprentices, noted in these books ; all of which most satisfactorily a Corporation etisted at the date of these entries, w were so far back as the year 1574. It appeared, hoe some cause or other, the borough had been suffered . into decay about that period, for a Charter was grantial Elizabeth, in the 17th year of her reign (1.576), to I wherein, after reciting that the town and borough of an ancient borough, and part and parcel of the Duchy ter, mid had been esteemed to have divers franchises customs, as well by right of the old charters made predecessors, the Earls of Lancaster, as by usage which, by lapse of time, had fallen into dew, borough - had sustained great damage and injury they had humbly brought her 31ajeety to restore 0 - therethre had vouchsafed to restore and make, r a Body Corporate. Iler Alajesty also granted Burgesses, and Commonalty, might hereafter enjoy gular the franchises, liberties, cotoms, and ;- ample a manner and form as they had theretofore to enjoy the same. This charter also institutt'd two • kets within the borough. It would be perceived enly a confirmatory Charter, and was, therefore, dence lie child adduce In support of the fact, that an ancient borough, whose rights were founded of But there was a subsequent charter made in the Charles 11., which, if further evidence were re pti elusive as to that point ; and it also mo,t very right (to maintain which this action was b the Corporation had in presenting any person within the borough, unless he were a freeman. duction of this charter, he thought it almost ' trouble the Jury with further proof; butes the right fendant had so strenuously endeavoured to resist portance to the welfare of the Lorough—nay, to th of the Corporation itself ; for if the defendant were , in this attempt., it would only be a prelude t 6 a systematic all the Corporation rights: for these reasons he duty to call several persons before them who had in t he borough for a great ninny years, and who wo, the invariable custom of the place was, that as soon ! should begin business for the Bailin° suntmon hilts pay the fine on his admission as a freeman, and that • not attend, the Town Clerk always took legal steps t either to desist front trading, or to take up his freedotti. Counsel could not conceive on what ground it was I intended to rest his defence t he had stated, indeed, entitled to trade is consequence of his being, or ha' soldier ; but such a line of defence was too ridicuf a serious answer, and he (Mr. Clarke) did not Lear.med Friend (31r. Phillips) would attempt to argument upon it. Ile should now proceed to cal to evabliali the facts lie had stated, and haying done confidently expect to receive a verdict from the Jury, at once put an end to that spirit of litigation which obviously indicated, and support those rights which , Daventry had for so many years enjoyed. Mr. Burton, the town-clerk of Daventry, produced and the Corporation books. Illisworthy, translator of records, was then read the varioutt passages Cron' the charters, which w, the Latin language, as stated by the Leashed Counsel ing speech. 3lr. Tti !tuts temkested the witness to tend gave the Corporation power to make laws and held Causes not exceeding in value 1.01. ; which he read t Mt. Burton was then examined as to the entries tion books, which were uniformly made from the ys and from April 1803 to April last. Several witnesses were then called, who stated that in Daventry a great number of years. and always eustoin to br as represented by the Learned Counsel. Mt..Smallbone moved that the defendant was by maker, and had carried on business in Daventry foul 3lr. Boa ton again examined—The defendant is a the borough ; he had been summoned several times freedom. Cross-examined by Mr. Pruitt irs.—No notice the defendant previous to the action, but !veined _ stated that his reason for nut taking up his freedom was a soldier, and had a right to exercise his trader This witness afterwards said that kt.otice had been defendant. Itlr. PHILLIPS submitted that the notice ought and proof or its service given. Tire CeivßT decided that it was not neer-sare. Mr. Pitir Lira then addressed the Sari , . 'there by the common law of the land, every person had a trim his trade without restriction. The King could Charter, give a power to any Corporation to impose 'this right. Nothing but an Act of Parliament that power. k WAS clear from the evidence, that , up by the Corporation had never existed prior to Clarks 11. ; and ;urine Jury must rind is to be 11.1 i . \....,,,,, ' dd. •. . , _ A i, 'a constable of Lorton. The knife il t I could not see if it was the rust of 41 ,ble of Lorton, I saw the hoz de. la, ,, istrate. It Wes given to me seultd n Court. . 1 ain calted-The.ltnife nofv produced imilu to that upon the child, but ) ' would. The bound letmed as kit f Northampton 041, ptodiieed the r had on when he MU brought to the tver with bloods produced. They were broin nen% .. ~ . ! was nothing - of whet had mine like the case now , i epositions, than a case of ing. 'the evidence of the, o be stated in the depoei- hen there was note colour 1 7. The testimony of the in fixing the act upon the I blepurprise td the jury eher i evidence ; but it was him- ; :( tee. Ile had privately exa. The child Clio had been ti • I any evidence in a Coen of examined had not received neteuetion, I:nd never bees' r• every thing that could givX prevented them appearing • herefore be taken before the ~tables, however, supplied • ' iT then explained to the Jury ar , 4 to required them to give. n, returned a Verdict ef—e 1 i 1- • intent. , mod a verdict of " Guilty.' ? I shall, howevet, take 1 !o appeared surprised at lil .• esterday for uttering a bill e a forgery, received sett_ with Loricrlore, is left for S. e DLROTD.I KY e. DICKENS. "1 ...,' miliff, Burgesses, and Coemi against the defendant, to he ancient privileges anti on trade within the same i :aron Bullock, et the I•se. • i edict given in favour of oe, I 'ned Baron, anew trial wag of a misdirection on the f • the .Tury. o tittle names, and a taled T .. s, Mr. READtIt, and MT. if; and Mr. PItiLLITB and I Jury. The present active 1 i. .:orporation of the Borouet ' i: • protect and preserve the 1, against the dcfenda le ‘ s, had persisted, for the hilt' 0 wilful violation of the laws I e ancient Borough, and he prescriptive rielit ; that was :njoynient of the privileges ate, ordinance, or charter; ' 1 struction of law, presumed : other equally solemn ipt : privileges, but which, by I . ad been destroyed ; and the inar,e to depend upon the e Ilorou7h. Among many invariably enjoyed, was one do of the Borough. by a e 1 t ; person from exercising .. • • ,;', unless they had previously 'ompany of traders, and ht. 4 , , . dom. In order hi prove then ." ; t 1, he should produce to the the names of those ptesone i : k r . heeled ; they also contaira mm the various companies, the appointment of bailie/ llf F apprentices, litre likewise at satisfactorily proved that I I use entries, some of which. peered, however, thin front en suffered to go very muelt t i rter was granted by Queer (l46), to the Corporation, I 1 borough of Daventry wax i of the Duchy of bluis- divers franchises atilrfree era made by her Majesele i by usage and custom, set into decay, whereby the 7 and injury; whereurca r to restore their rights; she t 1 make, and lift then: ter. granted that the Ilail:tr, Taller enjoy all and sin, . I te, and privileges, in as ; t eeetofore en j oyed or ought stituted two lairs and mar. I be perceived this all, ti therefore, the best reit. he fact, that tlatentry ass I • '• e founded on prescription, Lade in the 27th year of il were re mireu, ass Col. • ti tort explicitly set out the :don was brought) u III& any peach from trading t . freeman. After the pre , . I 4 it almost hnneteesary t. tas the right which the de. • . - el to resist was of great in] , t: -nay, to the very master ..: . . . ndsnt were to be successt'ul de to a systematic attack on f ,sons he should feel itlais 1 who had knowh and lived I id who would all state that that as soon as any person !' 1 , 'mullion him to appear and an, and that in case he did legal steps to compel hirn his freedoth. The Learned I 0 I round it was the defendant 1 - stated, indeed, that he was —. being, or having been, a , t ia too ridiculous to require , ) did not believe that het ' I .ttempt to raise a single iceed to tall his witnesses teeing done so he should 1 ' m the Jury, which would stion which this action toe i ghts which the borough of t , .ry, produced the chartet . , was then examined, and • F TS. which were written i. , steed Counsel in his opre.. i to tend that part which I and hold Courts, and heat it he read accordingly. :tie entries in the Corpora, 'rum the year 107 e to ICO2. o stated that they had lived tnt always understood etc .11 Counsel. ant was by mule a *hie+ sentry four or five years. fendant is not a fret maa of veral times to take up his 'lo notice was Served 4 141 e heralded at my office, and . 1 his freedom wet, that hg . his trade on that &menu. r had been served upon the ice ought to be produce, • eressrv. .y. There won ho doubt. tra had a right to eats... King could not, by h's 1 . m . ! n to impose restraints ox t t ' liament could give that rice, that this privilege se's I rich to the Chartet Of if to be an inantetoota , . . 1 ; . i ~ ~ i . l ' 4 l ei i .et, zb ew ful ell! tte 1 of idis. won ;Tr t 'ton fly ton le m• ;0 of KT' ..eilil!. It $ll4 OW' Vre kalif te ti. 4 l e ID Pa st h *r DO Pll aC' l Le