The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-08-23 00:00:00

THEATRE'. ENGLISH OPERA. This Theatre was again crowded on Satorday night ; and the opera of Der freisehatz, with the delicious sing 13g of Miss Stephens sail Mr. Braham, delighted a moat attotive audience. Afes rovey also, as Ann, executed the plc allured to her with great spirit and sweetness. This erera has had a moot extraordinary run: it was annonneal for e ertition this evening, we believe fur the twenty ristial time. la The Reign uf Twelve Hours, which con cluded the performance. Miss Kelly was excellent ar yiernio, and Mr. rearman was deservedly encored in one of his songs. COBURG. Oa Saturday evening:the tragedy of Jose More, or, in the language of the Royal Coburg Theatre. The King's kiln's', was performed to a very numerona audience; an d was received in such a mann-r as to w arrant its an aoaueement fur the ensuing week, and with it the re mageinont of Miss Macauh•y. The piece was well cast, sod the characters as well sustained. Mr. Cobhant was esccilent as the Lord Hastings, and Mr. Huntley as the Lake (g . Gioseerter. A new eharactcr has hem ercatf d for the purpose of introducing the favourite actor Mr Da is the part of a baker, who gives a loaf of bread to th,: fair and frail heroine, and, together with said broir.., goes through an amazing deal of inexplicable dumb show. The scene was a Krfect burlesque on tra gedy, and does little credit to the good sense or good taste of the inanar:er, hut it sons received very kindiy and patiemly by the auditors, or, rather, the lookers on ; and the extraordinary evolutions of " Shore's wife" were lou•lly appland, , l by the gallery. Mr. Bengough very ably sus uinel the character of Dumont. Miss Macauley, to whom has been allotted the part of Alicia, a part inferior in in terest and in power to that of Jane Shoer, and therefore t est calculated to display her talents, sustained it with that ability notwithstanding theta are others for which she is better suited, could not hut seettre f or h er that pu bli c pa image which merit always deserves. Wehave no Awl* that the iaanagcr will select other Dramas for her future appear to which she will fed herself more at home, and w hich will afford greater scope for the display of her prwerful and effective talents. Miss Watson sustained the part of Jane Shore, and although she conceived the cha racter well, her acting was in a great degree marred by that continued whiae which a little more study would certainly r•nu,re. We must not omit to notice the excellent scenery slacii was introduced ; and this, among other improvements that have taken place at the Coburg Theatre, are sufficient to warrant our guarantee for the success of the season, sad the prosperity of the theatre under its present manacTe vat. LITERATURE. DUPUIS' JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN ASIIANTEE. (Continued from our Lauer of Saturday.) Moving put our readers in possession of the substance of the introductory chapter, we now proceed to the body of the yak. The first chapter contains a very interesting and well written account of the Author's Journey from Cape Coast Castle through the Fantce country, interspersed with the history of the late wars of the Ashantee Monarch with that people. Whoever has endeavoured to read, and re tain in memory, the wars of Alexander's successors, as laboriously detailed by the learned Dr. Gullies, in his His tory of Greece, may be enabled to form some conception of the confusion which tl.e recital of the various conflicts of natians equally powerful, but with much less classical rums, will fonn in any ordinary bead—in fact, the whole pastes before us like a feverish dream of havoc and blood shed, obstinate contests, and indiscriminate slaughter.— The whole route is tracked by the ruins of villages, and Beery day's march is through a field strewed with human bones, whitening in the sun, and each with ita appropriate ligerd of desolation and human misery. Yet, why should we blame the barbarians of Africa fcr this? Tike away tie great and imposing name of the conqueror, and what is left of every conquest since the flood, but pain and die tcsa to the human • ice? The country thr....gh which Mr. Dupuis travels is one con fnuell forest of noble trees woven together, and rendered surly impervious by a reticulation of parasitical plants of ererydiameter,from that of a pack-thread to that of s cable. This, as may be expected, causes a twilight gloom under ilmsiavelian sun even of the tropics, which, however, mutt he rather to the advantage of travellers than otherwise, since the thennotneter in the forest stands at bu lower than when exposed to the sun in passing through a glade or crossing a wide stream. The soil appears principally composed of sand, mixed with light marl, and is highly produr tire even where the rays of the sun cannot penetrate. Many varieties of tropi_ sat fruits, which elsewhere require the hand of the culti vator to bring them to perf e ction, gr ow i n th ese w ild s i n spontaneous luxuriance. But we cannot - tgree with our slither, in attributing this to the soil and climate alone. In llindostan, where the soil is equally productive, the pre sence of the bamboo, the mango, or other cultivated plants, is always regarded as indisputable evidence of the jungle In which they are found having been in former times the she of human habitations, and in most cases, where di lent search has been made, ruins have been found in their tc:.nity. In a country like Africa, which has, ever since it red known by the civilized world, been agitated by intes tine divisions and exterminating wars, there is every likeli d that large tracts, now forming an uninhabited forest • cice under cultivation, and as the habitations of' the , .e are constructed of the most perishable materials, only re,:etalile monuments remain to tell where man has been. ti the animals Mr. Dupuis meets in his route, the principal varieties of the parrot and monkey tribes. lie hears messionally of lima, and his people often call upon him to ••• the :meid of the hyena. This disagreeable odour across his path so often, that we suspect, had minute • been made, he would have found many of effluvia to have proceeded from the decay ante species of wocd fungus, or other feetid plant, u our own peasantry frequently mistake fur the of the badger. Of the entomological production, of is re . gion, the most wonderful is the black ant, the tolkinng description of whose extraordinary powers we can believe, from having seen similar fears, but en a 'a scale, performed by the small red ant of Asia:— hillocks formed by red ants were now rarely discovered but linek an.a were numerous and troublesome, the bite they occasioned a sharp burning heat. Nor are they leas is the cultivated parts and even in the towns. The von. vb'eh they surprise their prey and assail him at all vul ~io rocs exceeds that of locusts, when they alight in a field of kg when once the attack is commenced, no bodily etliwt of rein sill avail him. Flt is generally impotent, Imams it i t i v:;_c_.tesil firm to s p ool , when a natural instinct, occasioned by tte induces him to plunge into th e water. Ties at' . becalmy the Ashantees, it not ar.ly the plague of all other m of (very die: of their own species, and of the red ',Pr-I:elan If I inny be Indulged In a whimsical compact .° "Was resembhuice between these diminutire free. sand the Arabs, who, alike migratory, rove o v e r t he s ur f ace tizutl, and est a bli s h s ten ray residence where it meet/ . 3 1• often to the terr o r and in defiance of neighba.uring Thos the Mark antis in myriads will trace a particular , • ,_•Mid purs ue that track in exact and thick embodied file, over ,; t 7i,Ferliaps, of miles, until they fix upon a spot to their ie2.7Te they trees little conical habitations, which may be 7.lllrely to bear a similitude to the Arabian tent, both in . I , s " rtnn• Th.! red ants, on the intrary, raise solid / char, which are cemented with a mucilaginous sub. C __tttpt hinds the parts tog e ther in an i n diss o lubl e incrusta _'tkids defiance to any viol e n ce Idiom of the pick-axe. coins of the black ants is thus effectually prevented re their entrenched prey venture abroad, or are ob. si Zjita tr ag and augnientsnr their habitathma, which they a tame ensues. and thousands become the victims of 7 4 71t5, sow sotacinses force an entrance even into the :it once when hillock was perforated, in seliii t is co mmon l y terme a rithe (peen, or mother ant, unwieldy insect, two inches in length and one in tri,!r_e:.forrioxl is heial and shoulders like the common s ast ,„7,: l "! holy like that of • maggot. This insect readies a e ,,,a - 2; et% , at the eery fbundation ot the hillock. and La said cad with such inexhaustible fecundity as to bring forth its Ihkeyy tist datly and unceming repetition. The act of cutting ras owit .. l24 , siutrfna,cemisalyas labmieitS; bat that effected, the earth &ea. The cells resembled those of the y . ,t,e 7 v ;entran t , in diagonal rows, but without order or dat.4.2 LIII.IIII. WS% siltinsast attended with success, in Ile a 4,7.' 4 ~ he queen mother. During the process the gets, 4, 7 , al directions, and vainly endearcarred to recover they were assaulted by a troop of black ants, who Itars a f r j it ' resistance devuured their prey on the ayot, it„ 4 : l a between their nippers. The black ant, it is said, 'fad, Wick any animal. net exempting mankind ; but • ti..: l 4 ri .antai whom they frequently destroy and devour. +to te. _ not ten strong for them to cope with, the rat is not st4rthe areal too active; vigilance and force are 4 1001 4 .7 1 W"1nfi. They sill even is thr Asbantees report, neat "'Mb, and en:crin g l44 b c ., e s, allow the reptile no chases of escaping. The hangirg nests of small blot* ants were also very tumorous is dm tress, where, it wools' appear, they choose their abode as • security against attacks of the universal ' enemy. At one halting place he is sorely annoyed by numerous rats who consider his Iv.nl as a roper stage whereon to peribrin their nightly gambols, en.: sorely " murder sleep." We quote the following account of en African village, as a specimen of our author's mode narrative with description : The town of Kiklivhary is conaid:rtthly larger than that if Pras soa, and its inhabitants proportionately numerous. The papules tion of the place is said to exczed futte-.n thousand. The dynes. ogy of the ward Kikiwhary is, lake he Irg. or resolution. a name wined is not uncommon to other towns 0: the kingdom.. It Ii said, that the present town stands on the site: of a vcry extensive city, which was destroyed unite ages back by :to irruption of the tribes of Dagaviba. Like Previa°, it is characterised by one main streci. 3.cpssatin; the hotrees into two sections, and intersecting at right Angles a number of avenues. Tile hawses. which ressmbk in etemitruction those stt . Premium, consist of various chile's, front the quadratiular building down to th e cotimmo bamboo hut. Tie white cliy washed walls generally distinguish the habitations of the wealthy ; but they arc not numerous. As the apartments are all either upon the ground tidor, or elevatet; ouly two or three feet above the natural surface, the roofs are r..te,:s.arily the moat con spietscris f.atuves i s the emit d'aii of an Afriean town. Th., in. tern, compartments of the hest houses are leniished in a style cor responding with the aimplichy of African wants ; two or three •itexlen Atools,sonve earth: tot pots for culin-ry purposca ; cane mats, a waterier. ad • lamp, constructed of brass or clay, comprise ail 'tic utensils of the far greater portion of the inhabiuults; many of the bousea of tams high in tar.::, are adorned with large wo:xlet drums, and horns decorated with sculls and jaw bones. The following account of his reception at Ansa!' will give our readers sonic idea of the ethrtette of African ceremo-; nial Desolate as the land is on both sides of the Pratt, with the excep tion only of Prassoo, Kikiwhary, and Amish, I had, nevertheless, deemed it expedient, in support of my public character, w an. nouncc the approach of the mission with all bet:noting solemnity. A desrr!ye ion of the ceremonies practised at Arsah, as they bear a relation to the_migest a observed, trey tent be displeasing to the reader. road flag with which I travelled through the wood: , and welsh was simply a small union-jack„ was, on our appowth to she' tows, dismissed to the rear, its place being sup plied by a more brilliant snit of colours. Such of the re . ort were in attendance joined in embodied ranks equal to the lintiat or the path, while one of my soldiers who hal practise . / the bugle, blew a blast or two on that instrument, whi-h, cattpled with the shoats and songs of my attendants, never failed to collect from the hues a numerous ensnare of spectators, who, it may be said, strove in emulation to par that respect to the British dog, and I. white men, and Englishmen, which it was my pride to witness. At Anesh, every countenance wag siamped with thaw genuine feelings of respectful admiration which it sass my object to excite. Crowds followed us to our quarters, bestowing occasionally some Nattering commendations upon the objects that interested their at tention. As the day declined, drums were heat and horns sounded through out the town, to give notice to the chief and elders to ensemble with their retaincrs. in the ntarket.place, to receive the public visit they anticipated. On nor aide, I gave instructions to the officers to equip themselves in uniform, and the people to dress in clean ap. &c. Thus arrayed, we sallied forth, at a sort of funeral pace, preceded by the colours. On turning an angle leading to the market-place we were suddenly saluted by the beating of drums, but trio? a while the discord ceased. The Caboceer, whore name was Coinin Atkin (Deputy Viceroy of Amiss under Anton Koitea) was encompassed by all the principal male inhabitants of the town, ' headed by t..eir respective chieftains. An avenue between this mass ' of human being's was left sufficiently wide to permit us to approach I in the order of single tile ; and through this space I advanced, touching hands with the Ceboceer and the other chief., while a ritimber of boys waved short wimetars, chopping bills, and 1110,(11, over my head, its they yelled out the " strong earn."'" of their patron, descriptive of his rank, heroic achievements, 8 At the conclusion of this ceremony our party retired to the shade of a tree, where, when we had taken our seats, the Assin chief and his party advanced In turn, nreceded by the bond of performers, whore overture was of • character still more inhammnines. ledeed the flutes and acme of the smaller horns only, when they could be dietinguished in the medley of sounds, softened to a degree of tole rance the harsh barbaric clamour. (inc instrument, resembling the horn of an ceormons buffalo, which was decorated with a pro fusion of human jaw -hones, uttered abrupt and incessant Mote o the most dismal howling that can he imagined. Others of similn dimensions ornamented with the like brutal trophies, produced a lengthened distressing tone, something resembling Cie moderate cry of hyenas. :Sonic email elephants' teeth, hollowed into form, were rather more melodious, excepting when they chimed with the concert. The large drums were carried on the heads of men, end beaten in that posture; but the small ones were slung as kettle drums, These aided to calabashes and gourds tilled with shot or mall stones, concave bits of iron, and s:niking sticks, will give an idea of the national taste in harmonic matters. As the chieftain ad vanced to take my hand, a number of parasites rushed before him, holding their nose., as the custom is, and recapitulating his „ strong names," with vociferous, and, as it would appear to a stranger, offeneive intrusion ; for these flatterers, notwithstanding they were gently pushed aside, returned to the charge as boisterously as before. On a sudden he burst from the crowd, and as he took me by the hand, perfect order and silence ensued, The Cabeeeee was folliswd sweameiwely by the earaink. tidos, and ordinary thereof inhabitants ; b ut . tile latter aid not presume to offer them hands for aceopinnee, a compliment which was ea. peeled by the Ciihoceer and chief officers only; all others were happy in being permitted to pain in tire pompous line, to wave their hands, and pay the compliment of a welcome. I had scarcely returned to the quarters when a file of men en tered profusely laden with provisions. The present consisted of a sheep, a goat, a quantity of yarns, ego, fowls, plantains, and palm wire, besides tire-wood, cankcy bread, sugar cane, and some honey in the comb. Indeed I never before witnessed hospitality, even among filiesselmen, who are religiously scrupulous of that virtue, equal to this, which in fact was a private present. My ac knowledgments were accompanied by a trilling return of rum, and a piece of British manufactured cotton. The following notice of African infant manners Is into-' resting:— On the twenty-third, my second messenger retuned from the capital, for ceremonious courtesy being the sine qua sou of African diplomacy, I endeavoured toneglect none of those outward forms which are to well understood in 'private life. I was assured by the Caboceer that the streets in Cooinaesy were by a royal edict ordered to be cleansed in anticipation of my approach. While the presents were houstag, I received a visit from the king's son, a child about six years at age, who was brought to one by his nurse, and sem .1 guardians, besides a courtly little troop of slaves rtai playmate s. Tile custom of Africa was not omitted even Co this occrien, for the visit was attended with a present of fowls, vegetables and wine. A suitable return In sugar highly gratified the threat prince, who, however, generously distributed a portion of the sweets anatwq his juvenile compan'ons. I was next honoured with it visit by a female memb e r of the royal family, a daughter of the king, whose age was probably about ten years. The retinue of this young lady was as bunierous as the former. A sugar offering to the princess, with the addition of a little rum to the attendants, introduced us to a familiar acquaintance at sight. The matrons endeavoured to ai h my lab tee to their ward, by intimating that she was very fund of white men's carcases ; but her timi dity gave a flat contradiction to the assertion. I eedeteoured to soothe therefore, in language somewhat adapted to a female ear, but the compliments 1 paid were unaceintutasl7 appro priated by my . auditresees to their own youth and bcauty, or to other inclinations; fur they assured me by way of reply, that although the princess was young, vet in avery few moons she would be ready to t a k e to w if e ; and if I admired her, they had no doubt the king would give her to me. At the same time the old some', taking several of their youthful companions by the shooldees, introduced them in a circle, desiring me to select a favorite without scruple, and keep her as lung as I thought fit. The journey to Coomassy, the capital of the Ashantee dominions, is highly interesting in all its details, but is not capable of being reduced to a space sufficiently small for our purpose, and at the same time to retain the interelt which in the original it cannot fail to excite. It is suflicient to say, that at every town and village Mr. Dupuis was received with c dcgree of consideration, accompauted with a kind ness, eiviLty, and hospitality, the recital of which must convince every one not besotted by prejodice, that the whole people of Ashantee, from the King downwards, were anxious to cultivate friendly relations with the Eng lish, notwithstanding the very equivocal conduct -C the local authorities of Cape Coast Castle. I'his we would strongly impress on our readers, as we foresee that t h e friends of our African authorities will, in their pleadings in favour of an Asbantee war, rake up all the hackneyed cant about the treachery of savages. His rxeption at court corresponded with this treatment, and the studied barbaric pomp with which he was greeted, and the attentions paid to him, 'hewed, beyond all manlier of doubt, that the King wished to evince every respect to the representative of the British Government. We for bear going Into this ceremony in detail,.o we have not room for it, but we recomtnend it to our wailers, as a' striking and well described specimen of savage Manners. In our next we shall give some account of that part g r, the work, which is of the greatest poiitical interest.-the negociations between Mr. Dupuis and the Ashanum Go verment. I Imo live mart, , rays of the sun Cl ad fruits, which tame to bring tin spontaneous luxu audio!, 1:1 attribu• , llindostan, when scum of the baml is always regarth In which they are site of human It Lgeut search has 1 veinity. In aco 'known by tht ( nee divisions and bad that large tr $ were c.)ce under c B people are constru a cetable roomier:, , Of the animals M I. rft varieties of tl !•• ateasionally of lic n aotiee the :melt ( a wan across his I y equity been rat L . theft effluvia ti 1 ., 4 some species c Web as our own ft wed: of the batlg in ibis region, the e. Minna; dcscript t o W eil believe, fro' antler scale peel 1 . Ile hillocks tom black ar.a wen • try +l atomism! R t btaitti is the cultic th'elt they Ltd "ALhroints exact '"r 1 ; rat when once t!va-ltrt win avail *mu le.a him t tin liona•.t., • o 7, k uLd Puo, th e sot ad t. i o patitutor. %o w l tan 11 h yS tit and the Aril 1 burr:a. 4444 7. and often ta •.•41. The , the I and -Nat, Ferha " t lint 'her hi"' :1, (Swan v e ely e t Y . sett illll. , r k r . v tbat ;•,::;! 4, 1 bids dens k 4 ' mtlisa of th *lsm? ,s,„• ia • h ile re tl r _y • d er-Pranits ti 44 ,.. kid. ft obtatnirichi Irl unO'e i t forn La a white be, o in utent e et" anal timis tre.. 11:1 ssvfats 14",t.asi w n i:tee the 1:,1 1- 4.7 4 ;_,' 1 7 of Os ‘,„4 r voi 0,46,41. While till lak tigoo t off b et , set Al a 41;7;11411 ae pt k low nOt r *M y : 4 eit tb af • ADMISSION OI•' FOREIGN OATS. The following is a correct statement of the corn averages for the last week and the last quarter, copied from Satur. ' day night's (;anette " A Report of the average Price of Corn and Grain sold In the maritime counties of England and Wales (comprising the one hundred and fifty towns named in the Act of the Ist and 2d of 'I tleorge IV., c. 87) which govern importation, for the week ended August 14, 11124, being the Quarterly Import : " Weekly average prices of the countiea which govern Import.- *ion: —Wheat, .i7s. Pd. ; Barley, ; oats, 284. 74. ; Ryc, 39 % 4 ( 1 . Deans, 345. I Id. ; Pease, 375. M. ". Quarterly average, by which the opening of the ports Is re gulated :-16 heat, Ns. rd ; Earley, 335. Ita.: oats, 275. 24. ; Rya, 49a. 3il. ; Beans, 375. 4J. ; Pease, Ms. 6.1." HOME CIRCUIT. SURREY ASSIZES, SATURDAY, Avs. 21. ( . 7y 111 INA SIDE. niare Mr. JUSTICE. 11171;;01/01‘. AM/ref, Leslie was indicted for eudiciously setting fire to the ; house of Alexander %Volker, at Bermondsey. file. bow briefly stated the case to the Jury, and proceeded to call the witaseses for the prosecution. Ann Walker is the daughter of Alexander Walker, who lives at' No. 24, Saltsbury-place, Ilermondse7. The prisoner was a fireen wich pensioner, anti had lodged with her father for about nine years. previous to the 11th of July. Ile was to hare left, owing to a quarrel, on the Friday; on ;he Wednesday moraine, about nine, he cane into tie kitchen to ask if he could have the use of the fire for his breakfast. Iler mother anal, " certainty," and lie acme& imit) . prepared it, and took it up scales. About a quarter of an hour afterwards he came down for a lighted candle, which he likewise took up stains. About ten o'clock she went out, mod was desired by a neighbour to look up at the prisoner's window ; site sew stroke precee,:ittg• from it ; in consequence of thick she went up sta i rs , and fount! the prisoner's room-door open, and the smoke streaminr out. She ran down and called 31r. W. Itlullinger, wit° went up stairs while she went into the yard for writer. She ;id not herself go jaw the room while the fire lasted. About baleen hour after the discovery the prisoner west out, and passed down the street., be. fore the people had quitted the room occupirel • he did not come back till the followtog Saturday. About an hour after the fire she eve the boards o f the. room, which were burnt about the millieof the room ; the more valuable apparel of the prisoner had been removed from the room previous to the fire; before the Wed. nday, be h a d frequently sworn at her mother, and said lie thought it would be no sin to t.-':e 'way her life. William Al ullinger—ltired opposite to Mr. Walker's ; he heard the alarm of fire, and lookiug up saw stroke cotnirig from the i garret-window ; in conserpleme of which he went up stairs and tried 'to open the door, but the prisoner shut it again and sa id, no b o d y should come in for there was no lire, but he saw there was lire; he ran down for a pail of water and km coming back threw that I and other water that was providirtton to the fire, while the prisoner declared all the time that there was ne tire, but nothing but pieces lof paper, and standing erre the life. the flames being out, struck ' the witness, on which he collar:4llhp prisoner, and had him turned ' out of the room into the street. A constable was sent for, but the ' prisoner wade his escape before his arrival. This fire wes made on the floor with paper, old rags, and rope-yarn, about three feet from thediearth ; the hoar vel, bummed about nine inches in a erele. Barret is a watchman—He got the parish engine to assist in putting out the fire; there were seem pieces of wood, about a foot from the burning of the flour; one earl sparks out it, and the others were warm. William Painter is a car.stahle—Re went on the following day to Inelt at the state of the room t the hearthstone comes out nine inches from the wall, and the firo two feet six from the extremity of I the hearth-None to the fire ; the diameter of the fire was about I fourteen inches, and burnt into the floor about half an inch. On I the following Saturday be found the prisoner about three or four hundred yards from Mr. Walker's, in the way to Greer. elicit. lVhen h• told the prisoner what lie wanted of him, he struggled violently to get away, and he was obliged to use some , suenatli to secure him. . _ _ . . 1 he prisoner had nothing to say in his defence, and appeared ex tremely confused. Ann Walker said, that from time to time he less In the habit of tritking wildly and incoherently, and that he had received severe wounds in his head. lie way in the habit of picking up old paper, pieces of tobacco-pipe, and other rubbish in the streets and bnng ing them home. Mr. Justice lir•aovan then summed tip. The Jury had, first, to decide whether there was any intention to injure 31r. Walker; and secondly, whether the prisoner bad any malicious intent in doing so. The Jury, after a few minutes consideration, returned a verdict of A'ut Gail!, ; the foreman ridding. that :be Jury did not con. sailer the prisoner to have been in lets right mind at the time of the transaction. 'Mk Fitch was indicted for stealing a rocket-book, and two sovereigns, from the person of John Henry Frederick de Dorn pierre, on the :11th June. The iirosccutor stated that. on the dry mentioned in the indict. meat, be and a party of a dozen, after dining at Cumberland gardens, proceeded to Vauxliall.gardens. Ile walked with Mr. Donner, a merchant in the eity, and staid there till between twelve and ooe, where be lost his pocket.hnnk. lie did not exactly know the time when he lost it, but he had it before the fireworks com menced, and it was wins time after the fireworks concluded before he missed his porke.-book. While near the orchestra he missed it. He hail had his coat buttoned during the greater part of the evening. His inside pocket had been rut, a nd th e b oo k gone . Il e immediately spoke to Hall. the officer. The pocket-book con tained two sovereigns, ands blank cheque, with other mernorsada. Crms-examiued by Mr. Anoxeutrz—There was an immense crowd at the fireworks, and an hour and a half el 'piste! from his knowing his property was sate to his missing it; when the Pri soner was apprehended and searched, there was nothing found mon him that belonged to the witness, except the blank cheque ; he believed that there was oo knife or other sharp instrument found upon him. it hen Hall Is an officer—He fwd heard of several robberies ha, been committed in the Gardens, and vim on the look--ut ; M 7 I)umpierre came to him at the tints this. the prisoner was custod • the witness desired the miasma. to walk into a little roma, called the Irreasury,,.'whlui its did, Mr. Dumpiest, ac companying them. He then searched him, and was told that his name was Fitch ; the witness knows now that this is not his true name. [Mr. Anotencs here interrupted the witness, by observing, that he nted not pursue that subject any further.] Witness found upon him three or tour sovereigns, and a guinea, and silver ; and Cave, a fellow officer, produced • blank cheque from his coat pocket; upon which Mr. Dompierre said, `. That is my cheque ; don't show it me. for I can tell you the number," and the number that he stated (Ik6, he believed) was the number of the cheque. The prosecutor then exclaimed, that he had taken a va luable purse, which he would give tire guineas for. The prisoner said that he knew nothing about it, and that with respect to the cheque, he would explain it some other time. Cross-examined by Mr. TIT ESSIG ER—The prisoner went wil lingly to the Treasury, and offered no resistance to being searched ; the money was either in his waistcoat or breeches pocket, and the cheque was loase in his coat pocket behind; there were about half a dozen persons present; M. de P impierre used very strong lan guage, upon which the prisoner said that he would explain at some other time. (31. de Dompierre here swore to the cheque.) 411 t was the one that he had in his pocket on the night in qtiestion. Richard Pople had die prisoner in his custody about ten minutes before he gave him to Hall ; he apprehended the prisoner in con sequence of information he received from a gentleman in the e,urdens ; the prisoner was alone, coming out of the Rotunda; he told him that he was charged by two gentlemen with picking their pockets, and that he must conic up to Hall, which lie did ; there was another person of the name of B!ewart apprehended the same night, but there was none of M. de Dompierrets property on him. Cross-examined by Mr. A DOLPIII , S.—A knife was found upon Stewart, but nothing of that sort upon the prisoner. Thomas Cave was in company with Hall, and they conjointly searched the p risoner= witness t oo k the cheq ue ou t o f hi s coat pocket, and delivered it immediately to hall. Cross-examined by Mr. Arrol.riics.—The cheque was careless. ly put into his pocket rumpled, without any order. The prisoner was then called upon to: his defence. He ad. dressed the Court nearly as follows:—My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Jury, this is a charge of which I am as innocent as the child unborn. I had been going to a part of the gardens for certain purpose when I found the cheque, which I picked up, as any person might have done. With respect to Stewart, who was also taken into custody at the sante time as myself, that was a circumstance that might hare happened to the first gentleman of the land; if the same person had been standing near any Noble. man, the sante thing would have taken place, upon the principle that any body might have picked up time paper. Ile had very little to may as to Mr. des Dampierre's evidede except as to the mistake that that gentleman had made with respect to the number of the cheque. lie hail been reared, as he might say, in the lap of affluence, and after serving for twenty years in an honourable profession; was it to be supposed that he could be so mean, so despicable, so low as to descend to pick pockets, more espesially in AO public a place, where every eye was upon him, and where it was impossible for him to escape ?—at made his blood run sold. Again he would ask, if he had been guilty timid he hare kept the cheque, a piece of paper quite valueless ? 3l'otild lie not rather have instantly have thrown it away, If, as had been represented, he was a hanlened offender ? To their verdict he looked ; it would either enable hint once more to hold up his head before the world, 'or blast hinafor ever. ...... Mr. Justice Burt oront summed up at some length; and the July, after consulting together for a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict of Guilty; but they nevertheless expreued some doubts on the subject, aed therefore recommended ll'au to mercy. His Lout:is:ire, in pausing sentence upon the prisoner, said that he had no doubt uto the roptiety of the verdict. lie per fectly knew alto it, erne, and he thought he could not do better, in order to remove him from his present companions, than transport him for fourteen years. WESTER A' CIRCUIT. DEVON ASSIZES, IS , AVOVOT S. )31 n, .......- 111/liarn Marshall, aged 42, was indicted for tba wilful murder of Ann Taylor, in the parish of Woodchat. 111 r. CoLeninoE stated the ease for the powectition, and ob served to the Jury that when he stated to them the charge against the prisoner at the bar was for murder, he nerd not, be was con. &lent, ask them for their serious attention ; and when he further in. formed them mat they had awn her anxious inquiry before them ems. fleeted with this charge, via. t whether the prisoner's mind was sane at the time the dreadful transaction occurred, he was quite certain that would be an additional reason for them logic. the most profound attention to the proceedings which Lead just commenced. lie should not, he hoped, be considered presumptuous in thee:car. two of this his most distressing task, to take a general review of the law as it rtood with regard to persons h the prisoner's situa., tion, and how far insanity could b 2 pleaded in elects. for the coni.l mission of Ili: crime; and when he stated, which he did unfeignedly, that he felt the highest gratification at being under the correction of his Lordship, and that the Jury wo.ild hare the peculiar light that that Learned Judge threw into every cause he presided over, to guide them in their inquiries this day, he trusted they would not think that he obtrusively or improperly put forth his opinions. 'The Jury would, he believed, have no doubt that the murder of :ton Taylor was committed by the unhappy man then at the bar; ' but he thought they would find it a difficult task to make up their minila as to the state of the prismer's intellects at the time. lie could wore them he did rot appear before them that day advo cating one aids of the question. God forbid, that on this or on any other occasion of so grave a cast as the present, a bias should be charged upon him. /Ins anxious wish was to pre_ sent the circumstances connected with this distressing transaction ' fairly Wore them. He washed to state every thing as fairly as he, could fur the unhappy man at the bar; and above all, he wished to conceal no fact that could bear favourably upon his case. lie could', assure his learned Friend, who was ecotone' for the primmer, that if any thing were omitted by hint (Mr. Coleridge) that could not be eor.strued favourably for the unhappy person who was the object of, the present inquiry. it would not be omitted intentionally by him, I and he should be obliged at lining reminded of it. He entreated of the Jury, in this grave pomading to consider well that they had a solemn duty to perform to the public, in pronouncing the prisoner guilty, if they believed him of sane mind at the time he deprived Ann Taylor of life (for that Marshall committed the act there could be no doubt). They were not to be drawn aside by any false notions of humanity; they were not to be led astray by am idea they might entertain of his bring under the inetience of liquor at tl.e time, for that was no excuse for the commission of such a crime. They were not to take into their view any thing they might have heard of the previous aberrations of his mind ; but, on t h e other hand, they were not to look with apathy on the infirm:kw of ' human nature; and they were well to consider, that if the prisoner was s een slightly afflicted with the greatest of all calamities that could befal the human species, on the morning of the twenty. eighth of June, the subsequent circumstances of that ill.fated day were but little calculated to tranquillize the wretched man's mind. They mast, at all events, bring strongly before him the changes arid chances of this world ; for he rad seen' the beloved child o f hi s b osom gone front this life to a better—ha I had seen the body of hie infant stretcher' out upon the lap of the' unfortunate woman, who was herself in a few minutes doomed to be a corpse. The Learned Gunn:man that gave an outline of the cam, as it afterwards appeared in evidence, informing the Jars that th• prisoner at the bar had formerly been a corporal in the Royal Marines, that he had been discharged from that szrvice about ten years since, and Lad resided during that period at liroaddist. In adverting to the law that bore on the case, he particularly referred to the npittion of Lord Illie, and observed, that that illustrious man and em anent lawyer, who was not more conspicuous for his knowledge of the laws of his country than he was for his intimate acquaint- I ranee with human nature in all its varieties+ anti workings, had said, 1 " blast penuma, felons of themselyea and others, labour under a I partial degree of Muutity at the time they commis tittle oflimees, and it is hard to define the invisible line which separates perfect troth imperfect sanity. The circumstances of each case must be duly weighed by Judges and Juries, lest on the one hand a kind of inhumanity be shewn towards the defleieneins of hutnaa nature, or, on the other, too much encouragement be given to the commission of great crimes ; but it may be inferred that a person with the powers of mind of a child o f IS years old is capable of committing act, of treason, munler, An." 'they would recollect that a person under temporary derangement from the influence of liquor was not irresponsible for his act,. Whether the wretched man at their bar was mentally afflicted be :and that point WWI the question they had principally to consider. That the prisoner killed Ann Taylor there could be no doubt, but to pronounce that fact was comparatively a light task. After that came the anxious and awful inquiry—was he guilty or not guilty of the murder ? That this must be deter mined upon the proof that would be produced of the previous state of his mintl,must, lie knew, weigh heavily upon those whose duty it ' would be to pronounce upon it. He was quite certain they would I aonszientionsly discharge their duty to the public, and humanely look at every bearing of the prisoner's case, and with that impres sion upon his mind, without further ointment, he should proceed to call the witnesses in support of the afflicting case it had been his painful duty to open to them. Grace 'lnnis sworn.—l live at Brcaulelist. I know William Marshall ; he lived there. 'and has done so several years; he is a married man, and one child living. On the ?.Bth June 1 saw him at a quarter before seven in the morning going down the road. He ailed to me and asked what o'clock it was. I told hint it wanted a I quarter to seven. He said he was gin. g to Ilunitun Clist. He said he thought that was just the time; he made no stop. Elizabeth Hawkins sworn.-1 live at Broadelist Heath. I know the prisoner. I saw hint at the Zith June. I via 'going from Exeter in the evening of that day. I met him not quite half way between the Heath and Exeter. I saw Win a little distance before I overtook him, and observed him. Ile appeared rather tipsy. I When I came to hint, he turned himself about: I asked hint how he did, and how he found Lis complaint in his head. He said, no better, Mrs. Hawkins, richer worse. He said he was very in iiic night before, he thought lie should have died. He said he had been after leeches to apply to the child's head, who 1114 S very ill. When I came up to him. and saw his countenance, I thought lie appeared different to what I had seen him before: I thought it might have been the complaint in his head that made hint look so, but I could not tell whether it was liquor or the complaint in his head that made his countenance look so end. It struck me very forcibly there was something more dint common that ailed hint., My judgment inclined me to belies:. that his extraordinary op perance arose from the complaint in his head rather than from liquor. I have suffered from such a complaint myself, and I told my husband when I got home that I had been 31andiall, and that I could not tell whethbr he was in liquor or not, but I thought Lis head must be bad. . Richard Boucher sworn—l live at Broachlist, and know Wm. Marshall. I saw him on the 211th June, about half-past two. I was wothing in the road between Exeter and Ilroadclist. The pri soner came to me and made a atop. He said he had been a bad boy, and had stopped too long; he said he had • child eery ill lie said he had been to Exeter for some leash wormer, and had drank a little drop too much, and putting his band to his head, he said he felt it there. Ile was with me about ten minutes. I perceived he had thank a little, but the Stan was able to walk.) Ann Newton sworn—l know Win. Marshall and his wife per feztly well; I know the house where they reside perfectly well. On the 28th Juno they had a lay three years old, ill. On that day I was working near Marshall's house, and was requested to conic to the cottage to help to nurse the child. I saw Marshall conic in; he did not say where he came from ; he brought four keches. The child was on my lap. lie asked me bow the child was ? I told him he was very ill, past all hopes of the leeches being of service to him. Ile said he hoped not, kissed the child, and wept bitterly. The child's complaint was the croup. After he kissed the child he went out of doors weeping. I then applied the leeches. Ile pinged his hands and seemed in deep affliction. lie was absent about a quarter of an hour. lie was called back by his wife, wilt, asked him if he had brought any bread from Exeter? Ile replied no, and she desired him to fetch some out of the village to make poultice for the child; he went out of the house. I then went away and sent a girl to nurse the child. I returned about seven o.cloek. When I had given the child to the mother he put his hands on my neck and said, what lie had seen at Exeter was indescribable; lie had seen ten fields thrown into one, and the houses turned upside down, and he was obliged to walk on the top or the bottom of the city; I can't tell which he said. I afterwards saw prisoner in a neighbour's garden looking stedfast on the ground ; I had no conversation with him. I did not stay at that time at Marshall's five minutes, When I came out he was in the court leaning against a pile of reed, with his head upon his hand; he did not turns and I did not speak to him. I returned a third time to Marshall's, shout nine o'clock. When I came into the house I found Attn Taylor, the deceased, with the dead body of the child on her knee, Susan Thorn, Jane Marshall, his brother's wife, Jane Troute, and a little girl named Pollard; prisoner's wife was also there. Marshall, 1 ant confident, was np stairs at the time. I saw him up stairs, and went up, on hearing his wife intreating him to go to bed. I heard him say, "Lord have mercy upon me! Lord have mercy upon me!" in a very doleful tone. Upon this his wife took a candle, and went up stairs with the prisoner. I heard his wife say, "My dear life, where are you going ?" The prisoner made no answer, and his wife again intreated hint to go to bed. I then in.mcdiately went up stairs. William Marshall was standing between two beds in his shirt, with his small-clothes in his hand. I went close to him and said " William, for Hod's sake, go into bed, and lay down and be quiet." lie then said, "I can't bide here; I must rise and go out of it." It was at this time quite dark. He then got dressing himself in Feat hav'e. His sister-in-law, Jane Marshall, then came up, and intrested of him to be quiet. lie then said to his sister-in-law, throwing his two arms about, " Yen, you know aIL" I then saw lie hail a sore place on his neck, where the blister , had been taken from. I p ut t h e pl a i ster aga i n to t h e sore place, I and he pushed me with his arm to clear his way through the I room. He finished dressing himself, and went right to the sia:rs. When half way down stairs he said, " Owe me my hat," in a very doleful manner. lie came into the room down ' main. I saw him with his hat on his head, in the room below. 11. seemed to be going towards the doer, but he turned and went to a corner of the house. ll'llen I saw hint again, hetad the shovel on his shoulder. It was a long-stemmed shovel. lie was going then towards the door. Ann Taylor then jumped to him and catched him by the ann, and his wife on the other side, to prevent his going out. Then all the women in the house ran away, saving me and his wife. The prisoner had struck his wife with the shovel before they ran away. When they were all gone, I thought he was going to strike his wife again, and I said," Mar. ! shall, don't kill your wife." He then lifted the shovel to me. I held my arm up to save my head. He then struck me two or three, times on the shoulder with the stick of the shovel. Ile then ran , away. lie never spoke a word after he said, " Hive me my hat." I rose and ran after him, and his wife with me. When we gut to the Exeter toad, we heard the sound of the shovel. We thought he was beatirg it on the ground as he was running after the people. We heard the sound of the shovel forty times at least. We had not then heard any outcry. I then ran on, and came, as I sup pose, within a short distance of Marshall, but it was tory dark, and I heard a forcible blow. I then ran back tower& Marshall's! house, and stood and listenel I heard people talking. and then I I was afraid to go forward again. I saw in toy ways woman's bun net, and on going a little farther I saw the dead body of a woman. I I afterwards found that it was Ann Taylor's body. Cross-examined by Mr.TY an EL—For the last three or four years the prisoner has done scarcely any labour in consequence of a coin • plaint in his head. I visited him when lie was on his be' at differ em times with a complaint in his head. I know he has been for weeks in the hospital at Exeter fur it. lie was seldom seat with. oat a bandage roamd his head. lie-examinetl—Tnelri;oner was never under restraint. He had repeatedly epileptic tits, one of which generally continued a quar ter of an hour. He would not then commit acts of violenre. By the Cottrv..—After these Ms he was not long in recovering his senses. He was a gnotl-nstured man, and a Lied father. They gave hint medicine on the night of the 211th June. He bad no sup port but from the parish. Jane Aland:ell sworn.-1 live at Brcadelist. The ?Thinner is my brother.in-law. Ann Taylor and myself were in Ins cottage, at. tending a sick child on the '.71111 June. I remember his going up stairs to bed; his child was alive at that time. His wifa desired kim to take his medicine and go to bed. I saw hint take medicine and go up suits. He was there about an hour. I heard bin' at the end of that time, say s " Lurd bate mercy upon me !" I was helots. His wife ran op stairs, and desired him to go Into Isl. Ann Newton went up stain, and I saw Lim in the bed-room. , When I went up he was putting on his jacket and shoes. He soil to ine, "Oh ! yes, you know all." I had before said to him. " iVilliain, don't go down, you can be of no service." Aan Too -1 lor had then murky finished laying out the child. I followed bun d>ae down stairs. He went towards the wood corner. I saw blis tako the shovel out; and I ran out, for I was atra:il to stop loops I ran into the road ; Martha!! le:lowed me, roaring and making • Idreattful noise. I heard • voice cry, "Jane, Jane! Moat!. murder!" The solve was behind me. Crosseexamined.—When I first went into the house be Wadi in a dreadful state, and said to Ann Taylor and ore , '`Tbeask nod, some one is come." Ile desired me to feel his breast ; sisui he said, "It is a ll gone." Ile appeared to be speaki ng o f Midi& He jumped up and walked about the boom in a very outrimated manner. lie made a roaring noise, like "Ob 1 oh ! oh!" IGM his blister dressed by his wife that evening. Jane Troutc sworn—l was at W. Marshall's on the 29th Jane; when he came down stairs that night the chill was stretched oat upon the tilde; it was a naked corpse in the house; when he tool up the shovel, Ann Taylor and I ran odt tregether; I ran fastest !I ran to Mr. Hartle's gate; W. Marshall was running after tis ; I turned round and cried murder; when I got there, Ann Taylor WWI ahoyt four yards behind me; I heard Ann Taylor say, " Cie Wi'• Marshall, what are you going to do with me!Y' Marshall said, Wbat are you going to do with my chilli, you are going to destroy my child, you are going to carry away my child ;" I thew saw him strike her tedb the shovel several times; she fell on the road. (lace Harris re-called—l did not see W. Marshall from AI morning of die "Alb June, until 10 o'clintk that night. On heariug a cry of murder, I ran out and /tanked into the road; I har prmde running away, crying " linnt bare mercy u;ton us, where P I aall we go. what shall we do?" I was then attracted by a noire, like a shovel st r iki t g aga i nst something hod, but it did not soitsd as it it was striking atzait:st slime or wood; I then heard Mardi& say, " thank liod it is done:" I was positive it was W. Illarwhall'i voice; 1 said, "111arshall, Marshall, what are you doing of ? You are conunittinz nturl,T;" lie said, come and see, and I'll serve you the sante. ' He instantly left what he was about, and aimed td strike me aeons the wall. A man t h en rade up, and mid, •• 11r shall, Marshall, what are you going to do?"' 111arsltall then Wrist across the road to the man on Itorseek. When I atiw 51 Irshig in the morning 1 did not observe any thing pardenlat in his manner. Abraham Smith sworn—l parsed the prisoner'. !tunic, at ekitins on the 211th June. Two gi r l s passed Me.' They begged at e to ticl4 back, for Wm. Marshall was going to murder a woman with • shovel. When I had turned, the prisoner rut right against me. and said, " Where are you cuing, tell me, or I sill chnve you and your horse down ?" I " Nonsense, Marshall, don't by is such • passion." I 'Oud him what he had been doing, and he said, " Caine and see, come and ace." 14Ir. Harris then come out of hie gate, and said to me, go and see, young man." The aril. soner went before us, and we went right along the mail until we Came where the betty Is/. Then we turned back, oild up the horse at Mr. llama a. The prisoner followed us, and We se cured him. I have known the primmer, but not long. Crow-exantlacal—When the prisoner saw the dead Lois', be said, " the Lard have mercy upon me ; I hate dune it ; tote Lord's w.ll be done." John (Istria confirmed the evidence of the last witness. Mr. Thomas Cross sworn.—l ant a surgeon of Thornton. IA was called to examine the dead body of a woman at the lied Lion, at Broad Cllst. There were two wounds on the head I one on thd hack. and the other on the side of the head. They had been in • Simi! by a sharp instr umen t. Th e s k u ll was fractured. no wounds would produce instant death. tln this part of the trial dm prisoner was seized with an epileptic ht, which contitmed for • quarter of al hour his countenance was dreadfuly distorted, and his pulse very rapid: the prisoner was taken out of Court, and oa his return Mr. 8..r0n liarrow asked him if he were quite ready and prepared to attend to his trial. If not he begged of him not Ws hurry hunself. The Court would wait for him as ion,/ as ho wished.) Examination continued—On the Coroner'. ir.qrtest is had to s shr.ilor attacks to the one lie has now had. I did not count kw pulse. These ware epileptic fits. The nature of them is to pro duce idiotcy—not frantic madness. I never knew an instance of these tits producing frantic madness. By the Co t: al —These fits are likely to break doer the into& of persons atfiicu.rl with them. Idiots ars sometimes eitrems!..y mischievous. lids Loanstria asked the prisoner If he had anything to aim in his defence. He reillted that he had not. Mr. Trnarr. here stated that the Attorney far thz prisoner had ende.troured to subpcsna the .`Suri,..cm of the parish of liroatichsr. without success. Mr. Cot.EIIIDGE said, that he had just heard from Sir Thomas Ackland that the Surgeon of the parish was too ill to attend. The Learned Junta: observed, that he bad no doubt such wee the fact, for no man, educated or uneducated, would willingly re fine to attend of a trial in which the life of a fellow creature wed at stake. His Lordship here observed, that he understood that * very eminent medical gentleman was in court, to whose judguteut he should wish to refer nee to the nature of the fit that the primme' had just been visited with. Doctor Miller was then sworn, and mid have no doubt the It , the prisoner has just had was an attack of epilepsy. 1 ten confident that it was not a feigned lit. On the part of the defence, Ann Heath was called, and said, I beard of the death of Ana Taylor. I saw Marshall on that day, the 23th Jure, at a quarter past two, going into Exeter. He came into my house, and asked for a drink of water. lie said he was taken very com ical, and did not know what ailed him. I went out, and at that moment he was drinking, and with the remaind:r of the water he washed his face. I afterwards saw the prisoner in the road, and I said, " Marshal% witat is the matter with you ?• lie said, " I ant taken in a comi cal manna; I don't know what ails me." II: thought the plane was rantiing round about with him, and the road appeared to hin, he said, as broad as three or four road*. Ile then looked very . palsy and ill. I lire in St. Sidwell's in Exeter. The prisoner said be thought he shoold scarce' ybe able to proceed, but ho felt better alter he had washed his lac?. Mr. Henry Mercer sworn.—l am a surgeon, and have heard de whole of the evidence given on this trial 1 believe when lie com mitted the act for which he was arraigned, he was in a state of mania. I felt his pulse on the lit he has just had in court. It was the pulse of a person labouring under epilepsy. I gave it as air opinion to Mr. Marriott, the clergyman a Broadens:, some Donate ago, that the man was i. a bad way. Cross-examined.—l have been in the profession all my life. I am not a member of either the College of Surgeons or A pothecarks. Epilepsy is more likely to produce mania than idiotcy. I have pre,- ' tised in London and Brighton. I have been in some of the first houses In London. I was an Maim aut at Mr. Jones's in Molina. street, Grosvenor-square, and at Mr. Pointer's in St. Juba's , square. I was an apprentice at Mr. Hargrave's at Brighton, and recollect a person named Watson btvowing a maniac in conse quence of epilepsy, and remember many others. I have known the prisoner four Tears on the 7th of May. I met him when ha talked to me of his disease. The parish of Broadclist was applied to for me to attend him, but they refused to allow tee say thing because they thought Marshall was feigning. I did no: consider Marshall a dangerous person to go abroad. Hr. Miller was again called, and his opinion !eked as to the sa nity of the prisoner. He said, lam decidedly of opinion that the prisoner was not ins sane state of mind when lie committed the sea. Dr. Collins, who was alio accidentally in court during the paw eeedings, was sworn and stated, I am quite certain Marshall mei nc in a sound state of mind at the time he committed the murder. Dr. Daniel, another hysician who bad heard of the trial. being sworn, said, lam deci dedly of opinion that iii: man was deranged when lie committed the act. Mr. B;ron Gan aoWsummed up to the Jury at some length, recapitulating the whole of the evidence, and commentin7, upon it as he proceeded, particularly adverting to the improbability of s sane man, who had been affectionately weeping at the death of his child, becoming the murderer of the woman who had been perform ing the last kind offices fur that infant ; if he had been in his right mind, front his former conduct it was evident he would have re ganlcd the deceased with the deepest gratitude. Pticulting but 14- %amity could make him feel unkindly or act violently agains: a pits. son in the relation the deceased stood towards the prisoner. Under all the circumstances, he left it to the Jury to say if the, coda have any doubt of the insanity of the prisoner at the time he killed Ann faylur. The J ury, without hesitation, returned • verdict of—Aot GaUtg on the ground of Insanity. The crowd in Court, and in the avenues leading to it, was Terry great. Lven the Judges' otScers could whit di ffi culty get to tha places. CIVIL SIDE. ROWE V. GRENEELL. This action, which excited great interest in Exeter and its neighbourhood, was brought to recover the value of a quart i t y e t i copper ore, which had, at various times, been raised from a mine a which the plaintiff alleged he was sole proprietor. The stint claimed on this occasion amounted to nearly 200,tt00!., but that wail a small proportion of the value of the property, the tight to whit:4 depended on the issue of this case. Mr. Sergeant PELL stated the case for the plaintiff., who was a celebrated character throughout the kingdom for his mining epees.- litions. He had become possessed. in IVO, of an estate called Idamellen Moor, which he sunk a shaft upon in that year, and be that means had brouiht ore to the surface. In a s ho r t ti m e - ls Company, called the Last Crinnis Adventurer., took possession cf the ore, and appropriated it to their own use, by reason of some alleged powers they erOtiyed. Several witnesses were called, who Preyed ante of ownership*" ' the part of Mr. Rowe on this estate. The whole of their evidence I was a mere rec ipitulation of transactions by *hies ownership was I proved. On the part of the defendant, the title-deeds called for. as it was con:ended they lutist be in . . , ses•ion. No such document, however, wes produced. I The cittar J VAT IcE observed. that in the iransfr the Duchy and other mineral districts, is was use I property in minerals, should any discovery take , tide-deeds were not produced, it was inToss.hle . ' reservation had been made with r, col to Mr. Rowe hider these circumstances, Mr. Howe submi— with liberty to move to enter a verdict for the Alai: argument in the Court above. . ...T.1......!_•1 KNIGHTS HORlab:Rfl.-111 the Dieison made in the 31st year of Henry 111. there i curious clause:—" Knight. and Esquires wl, and among the principal robbers in wars and if they have no lands, but have goods, ab' their goods for their redemption, and find a. henceforth to keep the peace of the king and l 1 41 1 I. ; , 4 i 1 I . , ! I . 3 / 4c i i 1 til 9 if the tetate.were the plaintira educed. and traarfer of estates* . ustcd to rt•cr'e the r place; and as the .hle to say if watt a Kowe's carata nitted to a commit, aintiff, ',object tc as n is the following who are rohlres, and plunderinta, shall pay half of 1 suf f icient must, and kiugasuu." • •