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aliaitiarch Or a peerage, as in France, would be high .treason against the people. The House of Peers among our neighbours, without here ditary estates' of . influence, is a mere nullity. of itsThembers are pensioners on the Go vernment for their means of living. Its pro . ceedings during the last busy session in the Lower Assembly, were scarcely heard of, except from a stray speech which some mem ber's -personal. 'vanity prompted him to send to the journals, reluctant often to receive such an honour. The great fortunes in the other Chamber will be found—not among the cottatry 11 1 geitllernen (if such a word can now be applied to the French noblesse de province) but— among the Lafittes, the Perriers, and the Ter neaux—the manufacturers, bankers, and mer chants of the capital, who have been the creators of their own consequence. In many parts of the country this division of landed property has reached its minimum, as the Cudastre, or Go vernment survey now before us, describes the state of whole.districts, in which there are found nearly as, many landed proprietors as inhabitants, and in which the average of land possessed by each does net exceed . two or three acres. If such a course of things were to continue, for half a century longer, the Crown must either become all-powerful, by having no aristocratic counterpoise, or must be.- swept away by the levelling torrent of demo cracy. The present Ministry, With the feelings which naturally belong to c i te class or party from which they have sprA n i g , will very likely endea vour to strength P A the constitutional monarchy, t by proty.,sing a compulsory law of primoge niture, :Jut by relaxing the existing enactment wh =c'tl compels an equal distribution of the fa mily inheritance among all the children df a family. In addition to these changes, and sonde relaxa`tion of the University monopoly of educa tion, to which we May afterwards refer, the new Cabinet will probably show some additional,fa your to the established church, by calling some of its Bishops to the Upper Chamber, and by increasing the too limited income of its clergy. In the conduct of their internal administration, and in the management of the system for pre serving public order, Prince Polignac and his colleagues may be expected to evince more strictness and rigour than their predecessors, in proportion as their principles are opposed or their popularity decried. The theatres are accused by their partisans of rioting at present in all the luxury of unrestrained licence, indulg ing in political allusions and ecclesiastical stric tures, without check or controul. As all dra matic representations are under the domain of the - authorities, this licence, as it exists, will be 'suppressed. A more attentive vigilance will be exercised over the periodical press, and probably some attempts will be made to narrow the limits of political discussion—attempts which, if just, the tribunal may be expected to repel with the same impartiality and firmness which so honour ably distinguished their conduct during the Vil ielel,dmitastration. In making these hasty re 'ma t 7- -, as well as some former observations on the probable conduct and policy of the new Government, we presume to offer no advice and - to pass no censure. By its acts, and not by its names, it ought to be judged ; and we wait for its acts before we mount the seat of judgm.ant.— Times. The Liberal Journals continue to assail the .new Ministers, and the Gazette de France to ,protest against the iniqUity of condemning befbre hand. In the Journal des Debats of Thursday there is an article distinguished for powerful sarcasm, in which the characters of the Members of the new Cabinet are hit off in a few epigram matic sentences. As the French are peculiarly alive' to sarcasm, we can easily conceive the im patience of those who suffer from this fire. It is hardly fair . .to condemn men before they have been tried ; and therefore, whatever the charac ter of the new Ministers, we would allow them the chance of earning a better one. The French complain that there is no understanding the Eng lish ; but the 'English, we think, may return the compliment. At present the French would seem 'at a loss to know what they would be at. It is obvious that the good understanding with Eng land is unpopular in France, and hence the im portance attached to the promulgation of the opinion that the new Ministry are the creation of the English Ministry. We refer our readers to an extract of a communication from Paris for information respecting the cause of the hostility of the French to this country. They are, it seems, not satisfied with the estimation in which France is at present held in Europe. There is • an Italian proverb very applicable to people like the French—Stava ben, ma per star meglio, sto (pie The times are no longer favourable to ambitious projects in this part of Europe. The ' French are, no doubt, a clever and enterprising ' people, but their neighbours are nowise inferior to them ; and an attempt to extend their fron tiers would have very little chance of success, and might be attended with very serious conse quences to themselves. The most profitable conquest the French can make is improvement of the territory they already possess, a great part ' of which is in a wretched state. That phantom, military glory, we fear still disorders their imagi nations. Compared with England, France, not withstanding her extent of soil and her climate, ' is weak. Her agriculture is for the most part wretched ; and the state of agriculture in any country is the measure of its civilization. Wherever the arts flourish, agriculture flourishes ; and when we say that agriculture in France is no • where very good, while in more than half the kingdom it is wretched, the other arts cannot be in a very enviable state. In the eighth number of the Foreign Quarterly Review, just pub ' lished, there is an able article on the letting of land, in which the state of French agriculture is particularly described. " The Aletayer system (says the Reviewer) is upheld, in all its pristine • vigour, in more than a half of the whole king dom of France ; and in all those districts where it exists, the state of agriculture and the condi tion of the occupiers are quite as wretched as at the period described by Mr. Young. " In proof of what we have now stated, we beg to subjoin the following passage from a very valu able article on the present state of French agricul ture, in the number of the Revue Trimestrielle for April, 1828:—` When the proprietors do not cul tivate their own estates, nothing has so much in fluence on their cultivation as the mode in which they are fet. In France that mode is in general de testable. With the exception of Flanders, and of a very small number of provinces where the system of cultivation by a rotation of crops has been long - adopted, the duration of leases is far too short to eitable the farmer to indemnify himself for the out lay which the introduction of a new system of culti vation would require, and to derive any profit from it. Indeed in a very large part of the kingdom, in all the central provinces, farmers are h ar dly k nown . The land is cultivate d by unfortunate metayers, who engage to occupy it 4or,a period of three years, and to perform the various operations required in its husbandry, paying half the produce to the pro prietors as rept. The metayec furnishes his labour, his ignorance, and his good. ti4etite ; the proprie tors supplying an exhausted soil, the stock indispen sable to its petty farming, the grain required for the first sowing, and that which may be required for the support of the meta, er and his family until the first harvest. The ,me Byer works, sows, reaps, and feeds on the produce. After he and., his family are fed, the proprietor gets the rernaindeK7.. Sometimes a middleman is interposed between the landlord and the mOayer. This third party is, for the most part, a sunhing inhabitant of the village, who agrees to pay the landlord a certain rent, independent of the variations of harvests, acquiring in return a right to his share of the produce raised by the metayer. The middle-man takes no part in the labours of cultiva tion, but he attends to all the harvesting of the metayer; he follows him to every market to get his half of the price of the produce. His art con sists in getting more than his half; as he knows how to read and write, of which the other is most com monly ignorant,he is able to confuse the metayer's ac counts, and finally to plunder him. Under this mas ter, who is constantly present, the condition of the metayer is still more miserable. The middle-man, who has some capital, regularly pays the rent to the proprietor ; he makes little speculations on the sale of his produce, and sometimes becomes rich. This division is very convenient for the proprietor, whom it releases from the necessity of all surveillance, and to whom it affords some security for the payment of his rent ; but it is destructive of agriculture, be cause it keeps the metayer in a state of extreme in digence, who would cultivate less badly were he al low ed to make any profits or savings in abundant years ; it hinders him from even rising to the con dition of a petty farmer; it puts the reward due to labour into the pockets of fraud. Not less, perhaps, than a half of the whole kingdom of France is oc cupied by metayers ; and the proprietors whose estates are so let are hardly able to introduce a dif ferent system ; for in the provinces where this miserable mode of occupying land is general, those who have capital and skill, and who, consequently, might cultivate land with advantage, become middle men; so that the business of cultivation is entirely carried on by the poorest and most ignorant persons. Agriculture is then really the most abject and de graded of all employment.' Such is the striking, and we 'know authentic, account of the distressed and miserable state of French agriculture at this moment under the metayer system . . While these practices are permitted to subsist, France can enjoy no real or lasting prosperity; for no country can be prosperous, the land of which is divided into small patches, occupied by a beggarly population, without either skill or capital; and who, though they possessed both, have no motive to exert the one or employ the other." We hear a great deal from superficial persons about the resources of France, and the com parative absence of taxation. Now, France is really a highly taxed country, for we must not judge of the taxes of a country by the amount so much as by the ability of the people to pay them. The French are, generally speaking, a poor people, with little capital, and without the ability to bear heavier burdens. Even in the best provinces, Normandy, Flanders, Picardy, and Alsace, where the race of men and breeds of cattle are good, there still is a great inferiority to England. We shall rejoice to see our neighbours attempting the most important of all conquests—the conquests over ignorance and vicious practices. If they allow themselves to indulge in dreams of other conquests, they will assuredly be humbled, as they have been more than once heretofore. It would be well for them to bear in mind, that the Revolution, and not the resources of France, gave to them the triumphs which were followed by their late re verses.—Morning chronicle. There are a few points in the.letteri of our Manchester Correspondent which appeared on Thursday and Saturday last, which it may be worth while to bring somewhat more home to the attention of our readers ; .and these are the changes which are operating in the Silk and Cotton Manufactures, and the harvest of calamity which appears to be stored up for the close of the year. With regard to the silk trade, its mi gration to Manchester and the neighbouring towns, appears to be now in rapid progress, and little doubt, we believe, need be entertained that in the course of a year or two, not a vestige of it will be found in Spitalfields, with the exception of a few particular kinds, in which it still holds the pre-eminence.—This result became evident to every one who reflected on the probable opera tion of the Free Trade Acts, but has of late been greatly hastened by the outrages and shame ful destruction of property which took place in Spitalfields. The manufacturer, on toe one hand, will always select as the site of his esta blishment the spot where labour is cheapest and his property most secure from violence ; while the workman, on the other, finds it his interest to go where his wages, whatever may be their rate, will purchase for him most of the com forts and necessaries of life, and where also, if he cannot find employment in his own pe culiar branch of industry, he can most readily employ himself otherwise. Manchester affords facilities in all these respects, both to the ma nufacturer and the workman, which are not to be met with in the metropolis ; and to Manches ter, therefore, and the adjacent towns, the silk manufacture is migrating with all possible speed. The second point in the letters of our Man chester correspondent is the unwholesome and rotten state of the cotton trade. There is no longer any market for cotton cloths, except on bills at long dates and ruinously low prices ; but, on the other hand, the sale and export of yarns is flourishing to a degree never before known. The fact, however, of this very pro sperity proves the ruinous state of the market for cotton cloths ; for the yarn is bought by fo reigners for the purpose of being manufactured into cloth, and it is evident, in consequence, that the more yarn we export the less of the cloth will be demanded from us. The practice and experience also, of some years, has rendered foreigners expert in the weaving and dressing of cotton fabrics ; and hence the ruinously low prices which are given for British manufactures of the same kind in the foreign market. To conclude ; the extensive failures which have lately taken place in the manufacturing districts are considered by our correspondent as only the fore runners of still greater disasters. This result we predicted long ago, as the inevitable effect of the contraction of the currency. It could not, in fact, have been expected by any reasonable person that a country drained of its resources, taxed beyond its means of payment, and sustaining a growing rivalry in all the staple articles of its manufacturing industry, could withstand, unhurt, the shock of the withdrawal of two or three mil lions of its currency ; and there is accordingly no quarter in which the evil effects of the measure have not been felt. The manufacturers and mer chants are now suffering, and bye and bye the revenue will suffer also, when, perhaps, the Go vernment will see the folly of its past conduct, and the propriety of returning to a currency more suited to the wants of the country than that which now circulates.-- Morning Advertiser. • • SUMMER ASSIZES. • NORFOLK CIRcUIT—NORWICII, Auo. 14. John Stratfird, aged 4.2; was indicted for the wil ful murder Of l JOhn Burgess, on the 2d day of March last, at-,tht parish of St Andrew, in this city. The indictment charged that the prisoner, feloniously %in tending /0 poiso - and murder one Thomas Briggs, delivered a cert parcel containing a quantity of flour, mixed with rsenic, to one Susannah Hook, for the purpose of its being given to and taken by the said Tho Mas Briggs ; and that one John Burgess, not knowing that the flour was mixed with arsenic or any other deleterious drug, made it into certain dumplings, of which be afterwards ate, and of which he died ; and that so the prisoner feloniously did kill and murder the said John Burgess. Mr. ALDERSON (with whom was Mr. Preston) stated the case for the Crown. It happened, during the last year, that Thomas Briggs, a pauper of this city, being afflicted with a horrible and loathsome disease, it was thought proper that he should be al together withdrawn from society, and provided for in the workhouse. Accordingly, he was taken into the workhouse, where, from the peculiar nature of his disease, a room was kept entirely for himself, and he was attended altogether by one of the nurses of the workhouse, a Mrs. Burgess,, the wife of the de ceased John Burgess. The wife of Briggs, left to maintain herself after he went to the workhouse, be came criminally connected with the prisdner, and in progress of time she found herself in the family way by him. She communicated this fact to him, and he said he would give her something to prevent her going her full time. She was in the habit, during the residence of her husband in the workhouse, of taking him weekly a small quantity of flour for his support; sometimes she sent her daughter with it, but in most instances she took it herself. The prisoner was made acquainted with this circumstance, but he never was employed to carry any himself. It would be in evidence that, some time in February last, the prisoner called at the workhouse where Briggs lived, and delivered a small parcel in brown paper to Su sannah Hook, a servant in the house, with directions to give it Briggs. It was tied up with twine., and was directed " for Thomas Briggs, sick in the vork house," in the handwriting of the prisoner.l She told him that Briggs should have it, and thepf sorer then left the house. That he was the man who brought the parcel to the workhouse would be cer tainly proved. As soon as the parcel was given to Hook, she laid it on the window of the kitchen in which she was working at the time, and in about an hour (during which time she had never left the kitchen) she delivered it to Mrs. Burgess, who, as he had stated, attended on Briggs. She took it up stairs to Briggs, but as there was no immediate oc casion for it, she put into a closet in his roorm There it remained until the deceased, on the 2d of March, in the absence of his wife, went to the cupboard, took out the brown paper parcel which the prisoner had taken to the workhouse, and made two dump lings of its contents. Of these, the deceased and four other persons ate, and in a short time they were all taken violently ill, and Burgess, who had eaten by far the largest portion of them, in the course of four hours died. That he died of some thing he had eaten, he should clearly prove; and he should also as clearly show that he died of arsenic, and that the arsenic was contained amongst the flour which the prisoner took and gave to Hook, for the use of Briggs. It would further appear in evidence before them, that the prisoner, in the January pre vious to the death of Burgess, went to the shop of an apothecary in this city, and purchased two ounces of powdered arsenic, which he stated he wanted for the purpose of poisoning rats on his premises. This arsenic was wrapped up in two papers, and the ap prentice of the chymist wrote on each of them the word " Poison" in large letters. On the death of Burgess, suspicion having fallen on the prisoner, his premises were searched, and in his shop were found the two pieces of paper in which the poison had been wrapped up by the apprentice of the apothe cary, and in them there was found to be a single ounce only of the powdered arsenic. 1 hese were the plain and simple facts of this case, which th e y would hear more in detail from the witnesses whom he should have to produce before them. Susannah Hook—l am twenty. I was servant in the city workhouse in February last. (Looks at the prisoner.) I have seen him three times before. The first time I ever saw him he brought a small parcel to the workhouse: it was a brown paper parcel. Can't say how it was done up. This was about three weeks before Burgess died. He told Me " the parcel was for one Mr. Briggs." I asked him " if I should ask my mistress whether he might carry it himself ?" He said " if you deliver it your self, it will do just as well." I was at work in the kitchen,.and put it on the kitchen window, and he then went away. It lay in the window for an hour, and I was there all the time, and saw it lying where I put it. Mrs. Burgess had the care of Briggs, who was ill in the workhouse. She came past the window, and I gave her the parcel. It had two lines of writ ing on one side, and one on the other. Mrs. Bur gess took the parcel and went away with it. The prisoner was with me five minutes when he brought the parcel, and he is the man. I have no doubt of him. Rhoda Burgess—l am the widow of the late John Burgess, and am a nurse in the workhouse. I at tended Briggs there on February and March last. I received a parcel of Susannah Hook, in the governor's kitchen. It was a brown paper, written on the out side, and tied up with a bit of twine. She said " there was a parcel for Mr. Briggs, and I might take it up to him." This was in the forenoon. It was of a Wednesday; but I can't say the month. I took it to Briggs by his bed-side, and he sat up in bed at the time. I said " Here's a parcel that's been left in the kitchen for you," and gave it into ' his hand ; and he said " What is it ?" and I said " It appears to be flour." Briggs said " I suppose there's no money in it ?" My husband was work ing at the foot of the bed at the time, and he undid it, and felt about it, and did it up again, and I put it into a cupboard at the foot of the bed. It was not meddled with no more till my poor " unfortunable" husband took it; arid that I can say with a clear conscience. Nobody lodged in that room but Briggs; he slept all alone, but my husband worked there. I attended upon Briggs, and when I was not by, my husband did. Briggs was bedsriddeo 'at the time, and could'nt. get down stairs. He has got a pot made on purpose to eat out of. He has never been out of bed since he took the parcel. I re member the day my. husband died, it was on Mon day the 2d of March; the same day he took this flour unbeknown to me. I had - been up stairs, and when I came down I found him in my kitchen, and saw a saucepan he had got on the ire; he was making up some flour into dumplings. — After my husband had finished making the dump lings he brought a couple, and put them into the saucepan. When they were boiled, I saw my hus band carry them to the cupboard and cut them up. There was nothing but water in the saucepan when he took them out, except. a dark white froth. They boiled over, and then there was a nasty, dirty-looking froth came from the saucepan. When he had cut them up, he asked me to have some ; but I said, " No, I did not like the look of them." I saw him eat very hearty of them, and seeing that, I thought there was nothing in them, for I had a jealous sus picion there was. My husband said, " Wife, come and have some of them :" and I took two pieces to my son. Then I came up, and ate part of it myself, and asked what people were there to have part of it. Mary Morse and Ann Pillen were there, and they ate of them along with me. The dumplings were cut up between one and, two o'clock. After I had eaten them, I felt violently sick. •,My husband felt so sick that he went out to get a little air in the garden. In about half an hour he was led up to his bed. He said, " I am a-dying ;" and that was all we could get out of him. He said his eye-sight was a-leaving of him very fast. He retched violently; but nothing came from him. Thomas Briggs—(After a considerable pause, this person was introduced into Court with hishead and face covered with a handkerchief.)—l remem . h er t h a t Mrs. Porgess told me that somebody had sent me some flour. I told her to put it up till, the first time that I wanted it. As far as I k sow, it was put into the cupboard, where the fl Jur was always put, at the foot of the bed. It was in the month of February, and as far as I can re , :ollect, it was on the 9th, 10th, or 11th, or somewh :re there. It was brought in a paper bag. There was my name written on the bag. I never took the bag out of the cupboard myself, nor did any body else that I know of. I was always in the room. The de ceased, Burgess, used always to work in the room. I did not see Burgess take any thing `rom the cup board on the day he died. I mostly lie with my face covered. I saw him on the dAy he died, but did not see him take any bag out of the cupboard, or put any thing into it. I did r.ot see or hear him go to the cupboard. I saw my wife a few days be fore Burgess died. I spoke tc her about her being pregnant several weeks before he died, By the Learned JuDGE—I4y own sister and my own family used to come to my room, as well as Burgess and his wife. Nibody else. Cross-examined—l Lave known the prisoner a many years. We were always on very good terms. Other evidence wrs adduced, which clearly proved the prisoner's guilt, after which the Jury found him Guilty. The prisoner was then asked what he had to say why the Court should not give him judgment to die according to law ? He again protested his inno cence, and declared that he never had been in the Oorkhouse in his life. Mr. Justice PARKE then put on the black cap, and proceeded to pass the dreadful sentence of the law, which he did in the most solemn and affecting manner, and concluded by sentencing the unhappy man to be executed on Monday morning next. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEICESTER, Arc. 15. The Assizes for this county commenced this morn ing. There were 13 prisoners, and 14 causes for trial. Of the latter two are Special Jury causes, which are fixed for Monday. One of them is an action for libel brought by the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, against Lord Huntingtower, which excites consider able interest in this part of the country. BEADSMORE V. RICHARDSON. This was an action of trespass, brought by the plaintiff, Elizabeth Beadsmore, a milliner and dress maker, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, against the defendant, for breaking and entering her premises, and illegally seizing her goods. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. CLARKE AND OTHERS V. HOWARD. Mr. DENMAN stated that upon this occasion he had the honour to represent the Messrs. Clarke, father and son—(A laugh—the two Counsel Messrs. Clarke, sen. and jun. being present).—They were carpet-weavers at Market Harborough, where they had a large carpet manufactory, and they com plained that the defendant, who carried on a similar business at Leeds, had seduced away some of their workmen, and caused them to break their engage ment with them, by offering to pay them sd. a yard for their work instead of 4d., which was all the plaintiffs paid them. But what made the case still worse on the part of the defendant was, that the plaintiffs had a valuable patent in their manufactory which, no doubt, it had been the defendant's object to discover by means of those workmen whom he should thus seduce away from their employers. This certainly was most unhandsome conduct on the part of one manufacturer towards another, and such as he, the Learned Counsel, thought the Jury would feel disposed to make him pay pretty smart damages for. Verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, 40s. Nathan Goodman, aged 20, and James Tibbals, aged 17, were indicted for having, on the evening of the 9th of December last, assaulted George Eldridge, on the King's highway, at the parish of Barkley, and robbed him of a pocket-book, con taining two 1/. notes, a purse containing ss. 6d. in silver, and two knives, and other articles. The Jury found both prisoners Guilty. Lord TENTERDEN ordered them to be put back for•the present. Robert Brown, a slaughtermass and butcher, was indicted for feloniously receiving three sheep, the property of William Tebbut, well knowing them to have been stolen. The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Lord TENTERDEN said the sentence of the Court was that he be transported for 14 years. Frederick Rance, aged 21, was indicted for steal ing, in the dwelling-house of Lord Plymouth, a silver watch, snuff-box, and other articles,.the property of Joseph Williams. He was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Samuel Francis pleaded guilty to an indictment which charged him with the commission of a bur glary in the house of George Perry, at Hinchley.— Sentence of death was recorded. • THE KING, ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE EARL OF PLYMOUTH, V. THE REV. HEATON DE CRESPIGNY. Mr. Serjeant GOULBURN moved that Mr. De Crespigny s recognizances be discharged. Mr. Serjeant ADAMS, on behalf of the prosecution, consented to the application, which was accordingly granted. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, Auo. 14. DOE, DEM. TURNBULL, V. SREPHERD AND WATSON. Sir JAMES SCARLETT stated the case. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Dr. Turnbull, to recover the possession of certain property, sit trite at Beverley ) in the county of York. The case turned chiefly on the execution of a will made in favour of the plaintiff, which, however, being unable sufficiently to prove, he was nonsuited. The trial was a very protracted one, and occasioned some interest in the neighbourhood. SATURDAY. The Assizes terminated to-day. Mr. Justice BAYLEY continued hearing causes the whole of the day. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE proceeded to open the commission at Durham. WESTERN CIRCUIT—EXETER, Aua. 14. Kezia Wescombe was placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of her 'husband Samuel Wescombe, by . ;administering to him a certain quan tity of white arsenic in broth, at Whipton, in the parish of Heavirree, on Tuesday, the sth of May, and Richard Quaintance was charged with malici ously inciting Kezia Wescombe to the said murder. Martha Davy—l live at Whipton; am eighteen years of age; know Kezia Wescombe; recollect seeing her on Tuesday, the sth of May last; I walked With her between seven and eight o'clock of the evening of that day; I went to her house, and she walked out with me. When I went to her house, Kezia was sitting by the fire-side. There was'a little crock by the fire; she was going to make some broth for her husband; he was there at that time, and appeared to be very well. I had known him before; he seemed in .his usual health; I saw thickening (for the broth) already made in the basin which stood upon the table. It appeared to be made of flour and water. By the COURT—In the usual way ?—Yes, my Lord. Kezia put it into the crock; she also put bread into the crock. After this I went to Heavitree with Kezia; the broth had not boiled up while I was there; I did not stop long enough to see it boil; Kezia said in the presence of her husband, that she was going to walk out with me—but I heard no thing said about the broth then ; I saw the thicken ing put into the crock, but I did not see it made; i t w as made before I came in ; I did not see Kezia taste the broth before I left the house with her; I did not observe a cup in her hand; if she had taken any of the broth while I was there, I must have seen - her ; I am quite sure she did not ; I went to Heavitree in Kezia's company, and returned with her in about an hour and a half. As we were re turning, Kezia said, " If Sam was to die, I would marry no man besides Knowles." By the COURT—There was no previous conver sation about Satn's state of health. I was not talk ing about marrying. She said it without any pre vious introduction. I knew she had a dislike to her husband. I can't say that any thing passed before on the subject. Kezia did not say who " Knowles" was. On our return we both went into my father's house, Kezia stayed there a few minutes; she then went into her own house, and I accompanied her. By the COURT—Kezia made no objection to my going with her. We went up stairs into the de ceased's room; he was in bed, and said he was bad; he had eaten some of the broth, and was very cold and shivery. This was in Kezia's presence. Kezia took the clothes off her side of the bed and put them upon him. She said nothing in answer to de ceased's remark about having eaten the broth. At this time I saw the crock in which the broth had been, on the floor between the fire-place and the window in the sitting-room. I looked into the crock, and observed that there was about half of the broth left. Kezia was with me when I looked at it. I had not observed how much broth was in it before we went to Heavitree. Kezia tasted none of the broth on our return. When Sam said he was bad, and had eaten some of the broth, I took the cover off the crock and looked into it. I held the cover in my hand about a minute, and then put it down. I borrowed the crock from Kezia on the Thursday after; it looked very clean. I believe I saw Kezia at mother's house on the Thursday. I heard Kezia say a word or two about me to my mother, in mother's bed-room. Kezia said to mother, " I ate a tea cup full of the broth, did'nt I Patty ?" (addressing me.) I replied " No." I did not see her touch the broth. Mary Richards—Remembers going to her father's house on Tuesday, the .sth of May. I stayed there till Thursday. I did not see Kezia Westcombe on Tuesday night, but I heard her voice below stairs when I was in bed. Between eight and nine on Wednesday morning Kezia came into the bed-room where I was lying ill. I said," What, Sam is bad, is he ?" She said, " Yes, I have had enough to do with him all night, for he .has been vomiting and purging all night." I asked her, " Are you going to have the doctor ? She replied, that her husband had said, " If Mr. Pridham comes, I'll not speak to him." 1 said, "If he comes by and by, shall I send him up unknown to Sam, and then he must speak to him." Kezia answered, " You may if you will." I saw Kezia between six and seven next morning; her husband was dead at that time. She came in with her hands on Ihet stomach, crying and lamenting; and saying, she,*as in great pain, for the neighbours said they were going to " crown" him (hold an inquest on his body), and open him, and I don't know what else. She said they may " crown" him if they like, but the first that says they will open him, I will say there is the door, and there is the way, for I will never see a friend of mine opened or cut abroad ; I forget which expression she used. I went down stairs, and saw the prisoner Quain tance there. I spoke to him, and said, " Oh! Frank, (we call him Frank instead of Richard,) this is a dreadful thing about Sam." He said, " Yes, it is." On that night (of the Thursday) I slept at my father's; Kezia aiso slept there along with me. In the night before I went to-bed she was sitting on the bed-side, crying, I said, " Why do you lament so? I hear Broom has said Sam was seen picking .savin." She replied, "If he has been wicked enough to take savin, he would take arsenic, mer• cury, or any thing else." Kezia went to-bed, and got up before me. I went to bed at ten o'clock ; she More ten. The purchase of six pennyworth of white arsenic (three ounces) by the male prisoner, at the shop of a druggist in Exeter, about a fortnight or three weeks before Westcombe's death, was clearly estah lisht d. It was proved that Quairitance obtained the poison under the pretence of destroying rats in his master's premises. Evidence was given of Quaintance having knocked up some of the female prisoner's relatives who live ten miles from Whipton, and apprised them of Samuel Westcombe's death, between three and four o'clock of the morning after that event. The intimate, understanding and constant inter course subsisting between the male and female pri soners 14,, previous, and subsequent to this period, was made out in a manner the most- distinct. Prisoner Quaintance consulted a man with whom he worked as to whether the female prisoner could not successfully resist a post mortem examination of her husband's body, and when informed that if there was any suspicion of foul play she could not, ap peared, in the words of a witness who spoke to the circumstance, " stagnated." Kezia Westcombe, being called upon for her de fence, contented herself with saying she knew no thing about the clime laid to her charge. Richard Quaintance reiterated his previous state ment of having purchased the arsenic for the de ceased, who told hien he was so pestered with rats that he could not sleep, and declared that he had always been upon the best terms with the deceased. Two witnesses spoke to having heard Samuel West combs express a determination to destroy himself upon several occasions. Mr. Justice BURROUGH charged the Jury, who, after a very brief consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty against both, prisoners. The Learned JUDGE sentenced both prisoners to be hanged on Monday next,—their bodies to be given to the surgeons for dissection. The trial lasted from about nine o'clock in the morning till six in the afternoon. When judgment was pronounced, the female pri soner left the bar, declaring " she knew nothing about the matter." Quaintance betrayed as little emotion on receiving sentence as he had displayed throughout the trial. LATEST PARTICULARS. On Friday evening, we are given to understand that the female prisoner evinced some symptoms of remorse. This morning (Saturday) she admitted the justice of her sentence to persons who had ac cess to her at the gaol, and appeared fully sensible of her awful situation. It appears from her confes sion, that an attachment having arisen between her and Quaintance, it was determined by both to re move every obstacle to their union. With this view the deceased was poisoned, and two attempts were made to poison Quaintance's wife, who, although she has escaped the fate intended for her, is now confined to her bed, and suffering severely in conse quence of the effects of the drugs administered to her to procure her death. It is also stated, that the male prisoner has distinctly admitted his participa tion in the crimes of his guilty paramour. A report was circulated that the execution of Kezia Westcombe was likely to be delayed in conse quence of her (supposed) pregnancy, but we cannot trace it to any good foundation. Quaintance's sentence has been respited till Friday week. he female prisoner will suffer the extreme penalty of the law on Monday. SATURDAY. Jane Colman, a decent mild-looking girl, about 19 or 20 years of age,. was indicted for having, on the 28th of June last, administered to Cordelia Adelaide Head, an infant aged six months, a quantity of sul phuric acid, with intent to poison her. A verdict of Not Guilty having been returned— The Learned Judge addressed the prisoner, and, telling her that there was no proof of her having ad ministered any thing of a deleterious nature to the child, and that if she had, which was extremely doubtful, there was every reason to suppose she did so accidentally, ordered her to be discharged. Robinson, Brown, Watson, Young, and Morris, the persons convicted on Thursday of the robbery at the India Arms inn, at Devonport, were brought up to receive sentence. Mr. Justice BURROUGH told the prisoners he had considered with the utmost attention as to the pu nishment which it was his duty to inflict upon them. Had all the matters connected with , the case of the prisoner Robinson, which were within the knowledge of the Court, come before him in the shape of legal the for e e ti ' r e e c party, ution. i t ev idence, he should have had no hesitation in leaving that in worderwas n only yo necessarysli ow the character to say that Davison, the only member of it who es individual f entire i f. eaped conviction, was a recently retuned transpott They should all be sent out of the country for life , I OXFORD CIRCUIT—SHREWSBURY, Ave._ 14 ' ROGERS V. WOOD AND OTHERS. ' This was an action to try whether the eourt.o f Session of Chester had the power of granting an formation in the nature of a quo warranto against ° per Son claiming to art as Mayor of the. City of Cheste r ' Mr. TAUNTON, Mr. TYRWHITT, and M r . C. 'l' WHITT appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. CAMP.OIO and Mr. J. JERvis for the defendant. An irnmen-e mass of documentary evidence, con' sisting of charters from the earliest periods Of out history, occupied the Court from nine in the nwri l :, ing till ten o'clock at night, with the exception 01 the time occupied by the openings of Mr. Tol l " ton and Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Taunton's replY-; and at twelve o'clock the Jury found a rlerdic t for the defendants. SATURDAY. MORO V. BROOME AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, JO' nardo Moro, against the defendants, as the protL e. tors of a certain stage-coach, to recover from Mr'''. a compensation in damages for the injury be had r e. ceivcd by their using an improper and vicious hors' in the said coach, by which it was-overturned; The Jury found a verdict for the plaititiff -;, ' Damages 1751. .John Nodin was indicted, charged with feloniat4 assaulting Eliza Cuerton. Mr. BATHER and Mr. BUSBY conducted the secution ; Mr. WHATELY and Mr. C. PHILLIPS Of defence. Eliza Cuerton, the prosecutrix, a tall girl, dash ingly dressed, about 21 years of age, said that s he resided with her father and mother in Colebrook' dale, and on the night of the 17th of June last they went to bed about nine o'clock. She went O A stairs soon after, arid about half an hour after hea r d a knock at the door. .She opened the window: 8 1 3 ; asked who it was ? The prisoner replied, " M e ' She knew him, as he had been paying his addrosee to her for five months before. He is by .trade': wheelwright, and witness's father is a moulde r the ironworks. She went down stairs. fused at first, to go doWn. The prisoner asked P e " to do so, and she went down and opened the bor e door. The prisoner asked her to walk with She refused, as it was so late. He then asked 114 "; long her father had been in bed ? She rePli t " " Not long ;" and the prisoner then shut -the staio" door, and forced her .into the parlour, a nd with e ! t, saying anything more pushed herdown on the 09r,i , .t was a brick floor, and she was nearly siol ul, i t with the fall. The prisonersaid he would-do as '" chose, dead or alive. Witness said she would I' s -first. - She scream e d, but the prisoner put his al l across - . her mouth, and continued till he . sticceededl . effecting his purpo se . She screwed out, 811 ', 'made as much noise as she could. In about quarter of an hour her mother heard her screamstsuo came down, and the prisoner went away. She t °,:' her mother what had - happened; that was on 1.7- - Wednesday evening, and on Friday evening fol io,' ling the prisoner called at her father's house. S b .:. was in bed at the time, being very ill, The pri 9 9l l ' r came up to her bed-room to see her. Be asked' '',e" how she was at that time. Her father was 01 1 ,,,t t ,' A the garden, and her mother was with her. prisoner asked if her father knew what had he pened, and if the witness had not sent for Me. he wards, the surgeon ; she replied she had; and t -" prisoner said, " Bet s y, if you s a y any thing, eu NO, it, they will be sure to hang me, and what to thi that will be." Witness's mother was sitting on ;lo bed all the time; but did not hear this, si° ;li gt prisoner whispered. When her father saw sx iij prisoner he asked him what he , had done; he bus done." Her father said " yo u see w h a t you " - hil l done." The prisoner called again on Sunda,: her father sent him away. 00 1 Cross-examined by Mr. WHATELY—The Pr i . • had been at night several times before, and' rat A ia ,',: great noise, and had broke three squares a - ELI, I told him that if he did not mean hononellio . would have nothing to say to him. On th e 106 night that he came he broke several square" ( g f l ot+ and threw a stone'in at my windoiv as hifrort' a nti After that mischief being done, I went O vi l e a s(,.. let him into the house. 1-might . - miht have. been' 'Ate house about an hour. The next time he brok e ` d parlour-window. On another occasion he h - , t , tni two squares, and made a great rumpus , father and mother did not get up.. I never let s o one into the house except the prisoner. There , o another young man I was acquainted with, an d I d .ask him to take a glass of, wine after my fitherd 8110. mother were gone to bed, but my mother clue! ° isio again. That man's name was Thomas So u : " tmf one told me to use the words forcibly and 081".‘1-1 1 „ 1 wi 1. I never gave Small two bottles•of wu h l ,:f o re had taken a walk with the prisoner the Sunday bide this happened. I did not accuse hiM of having ; did with other women on the night in question. ism not go before a Magistrate for ten der, -jjed about 22 years of age. When the prisoner ell on the Friday I did not ask him to tn arryl i liot have been courted by others besides him, by J . b elif Edwards and John Nichol a s. I have let N' e n t l eft, into our house at night, but I cannot say W s : folle\' I cannot be sure that I have not let Edwards r A ...et times when my father and mother were in 7 0 0 . 4 My father and mother may have gone to be- b e : , left me with Nicholas. ret By Mr. Baron VAUGIIAN—AII the four- t low courted me in an honorable way. The prisoner, y • taken improper liberties with me once, and d impudently and indelicately. I told him that have no more to say to him. That was five y , 40„. ago, and me in E dt‘is;earidnst.eurnindedNiliictleiolas time.h have kept cool Sarah Cuerton, the mother of the pr ose , or, confirmed her testimony respecting the P r o -I rby knocking at the window, anti stated, also, ti , / Sloe heard her daughter go down to let him ine' knew the prisoner had been in the habit of /- 0 0 .her daughter, and she had asked him " upright and hottest ? He replied he was. told him if he was not, he had better keep avr7,.. She permitted the prisoner to visit her ttg a il s it She was awakened on that night by the- sc riot groaris. She was so frightened that she .!"001/1, know which way to move. As soon as 0 0 7 c t be she went down, and the prisoner went o u t 1:0 ' 0, 0 door and slammed it, saying he Would De ver ,bad again. Witness's daughter told her the Priset,,,..d used her badly, and that she was undone for - ." - her Witness went in pursuit of him aftee put daughter to bed, and saw the prisoner'S 111 0 the prisoner, and asked him what he had bee n : A far She told him her daughter was very and tr i l lo r d sorter called on the Friday. Witness ?Aid be ll ' not come, but he would. eeec li# Mr. Edwards, a surgeon, examined tl 3 trix, and found marks of violence upon ,her P e 4; o or The Jury found the prisoner , Guilty, b ut , mended him to mercy. • sorer oB Baronmt.: s e u re s y v v, A h ou e n r G e biA b hN e a f g aoff e t d etr t h o :t ri tr c ino o go nn i,ct m: t,roosa_ nd iee4 . ouo;4 , - forward those recommendations to-t he l ter, concluded by passing the prisoner. sentence of Ueath" !go. BIRTH. On the 14th inst., at. Little Hampton , the CounWrr Surrey, of a daughter. .: MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at Cantray , Inverness-shire , 1; 461 Rev. arles Fyvie, of Inverness,obert Graott. Ch M.P., to Margaret, onl daughter o f the late Sir v!,.. Y Davidson. 4, IV --e On the 13th inst., at St. Luk , ' 6, Chelsea, bY 0 hdi M. W. Lusignan, Mr. Fuge, of Sloane-stre et, to 01'. eldest daughter of Mrs. Gandy, of Sloane-stree t. DIED. t he sth' At Ilhooj, in the kingdom of Cutch, 00 dii, Corto March last, Mrs. Gray , the wife of the Rev. James ~or one of the Chaplains to the Honourable Earl n part', on the Bombay establishment. • ---- -- ' 1 „. 4 • PAINTED and PUBLISHED by AMMO YOU • . . . Otrica, 112, 16711A1,114 LONPOON ( , '