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V OLUNTARY - or LOMAS, Tkken - before FAITH:of, THWJAS, one of .gajesty's Corone. for the COunty of Chester, April 14, 1 S Ic2 Statetla---That his iiiistresS Morrev, Set m 1,1, • on to murder his master, and he was tti, have the had. She toPe him to gra to a public-house, a aankelow, on Saturday afternoon, the llth ;Pril, to get some drink, and ah t e. \vould get things l e4 dy to kill. him. His inaster. was gone to And amishe told him (J. Lomas) that he must mu, tgo to bed lie came home about 12 o'clock, ‘ i t i d as so o n a s his master was gone to bed and Jeep, mistress came up to his room. He was d eep ; she awoke him, and told him his master fag fast asleen, and he . must come an:l kill him. e refased she went down stairs, and afterwards i t c 4 i 'lle up again, an went clown again, and he fol a fed her. .She had got the axe ael - niv, and gave i t. Into hiS hand. He said it would be found out, antithey shOald 'a be sure to be hanged. he said, Yl 'e would sec - him safe, and swear he was fast deep in bed, and Would send the servant girl to " dl him ,up : /le (Limas) said; his master would a l a ake. before he.reached;the bed, and she said she Ott g o i n first, and . hut Up her hand if he was ast asleep, for him to come in and kill him. She put 4 erhand untwo or thaee times, andthen said he must in: He (Lomas) then went in , and his mistress told the candle, while-he struck his master three , 'Kiel with the axe on cis head He struck him the "at time over his temple. After hie had struck. him • tit ree times,' he heard the servant wench; who s lept 11 in th e , next 'room, get upon. the floor, and said theservant-woman was coining on which 13 mistress ' , Netted her finger and thumb, and put n ' 4 e candle out. He (Lomas) ran away -- tdwards iatt door,. and his master was. shooting; 4)1 '.1 I" ilia mistress turhed him back again, and s aid he must'go again, as he had not killed him ; Abe said he Must kill him. Then lie went again ; I lt 9 struck at him in the 'dark three or four times; a l th the axe ; he' thinks he only - hit' him once Zlth the head of it ; and then he ran out of the Irttloar His Mistress met 'him in the house- Tac o , and opening - a sheath ; took out' a razor, }a d she put into his - hand, saying lie must go t .nd kill him out : be must cut his throat. He wised, but she gave him a bit 'of a push, and. Lid he must go. She then went first, and he fol.a iwed her her with the raior- in his band. She Out-door of the house open, and then into the room where the servant girl slept, 0(1 shut the door after her, and he (Lomas) went b 4l O the parloma - His Master was coming off the N backwards, and he touched him, on WhiCh his 'latter rose up, and catched at him by the breast,, kilLe by his right band that he had the razor in. - L e (Lomas) sprung out of his arms, and then laid Old of him by the head, Its he was upon . his bees, and cut his throat twice. He 'loosed him nd ran, and his Master fell to the floor, and he ;eat up stairs - and got into -bed. After a while,. i t_te servant girl,- Hannah Evans, came up to him jshout him up. She came and shook him, and e desired her to go down stairs again, and to ail the candle. He had the. bloody shirt on, a ll did not put his arm out of bed : he, was afraid :rhea seeing it: He then got up, and put ills G anda on over his bloody shirt; he dried his bloody upon his waistcoat - he also put his smock y ▪ uck on, and went down stairs. When be "came : 15 tvn stairs, the servant girl-said, somebody had "ordered. her master, -and he was desired to go in l ed see if be was dead: He Ns-eats-to the parlour and just peeped in, and ,said he thought he / :as. His. mistress desired .them to call Betty 'node up,.and he and the servant wench went and Silted her up, : and she came with John Moors, l ames Sandiiance, and 1:1 - imnaa .r,mmia. They. i v ent in to look at his master, but he did not go • T. Timmis came out again, and John Moors 'sent in with the- candle . . lie came out agairt, td they all went to call u p me. James Morrey,, s master's brother, -and he returned with them. back again, 'bringing Thomas Hall, and joseph a enlington ,wjth They went into the_ par- , 7' 'lr. He (John Lomas) and Thomas Tinimis sat ti the house. They came out again and asked him , 'Lomas) to hunt some hags to lay hinr e went up stairs to his own bled-chartiber, and al'o a n e ht down the window a Sheet and gave it them. Aloors and T. Hall went away, to search lodga t o aouses, and they came back again , with Mr. room, Mr. Dooley, and. other persons.. J . Moors tilleinto the house for a pair of scissors. - He (J. a - nas) gave them, and,' he saw Mr. Groom and ;,I.'. Dooley measuring the feet in the garden, and t think s M r . G room asked him for: his shoe: He f etched it; and they measured it. Mr. Dooley, b: 11 (1 Win. Hall came to. him, and said that they ad some suspicion that he had been concerned in , t lebusiness. He said he had not; they said he had, Da asked hith what made, his smock frock bloody. 1 7e said he had been bleeding some calves and the I ,`'ire. They asked him where his dirty shirt was. ) te said that was it he had on. fir. Valley a id, it did not look like dirty 'shirt ; .but Ilea "'Lick to it. They said he must strip. lie pull off his coat,. and they turned his sleeves. ere was some blood upon the *eves, acid 11 a button on his breeches. Ms- Groom came fc'wn the stairs, and asked him whether his ;!iii was not locked. He said it was, and he asked :!in to give him the key. He refused; and Mr. '-'oom said he would break it open. He. (John La,. s) then 'went up stairs' with' others, and his ' l istress was conveying the-bloody things off out t the box. She was getting them away. He when he first put them off, he left them on 4 e floor, and when he went up stairs again he : t ut them into the 'box and locked it: He says, , hen a _ he Went from murdering his master it was. dark, and be had cut his own right hand,, and his 'ands were bloOdy. with his master's blood. He °4ltt his hand in the dark on the table at.the bot ,a the stairs leading to his room, which left a " (1 1 ark of three bloody fingers. He also put his hand the..stairs, which left a mark of three fingers : l ere. He washed the mark on the table with . ° ltie water that stood Upon 'it, and spit on the rlitirs, and rubbed ir oft with his feet and his a4ds. • The,following conversation took place, between b' ef L ore omas anexEecd dith ution Morofre LomasS. J y, 6n 'u ohn Loma y l the a e d ing expressed a desire to Mr: llalsoki to see ith Morrey bef'are he died, Mr. H. ala.aae diem his presence au interview about live oeioak izi WI the afternoon. Lomas was called ihto Mid &on's, office a few ininw:es before MeS. Morrey, and told that the wretched woman had Cohles.sed ' her guilt ; to whieh Lomas replied, " it is -bet ter that she bas h chnfessed ;" and Mr. naulson I observing that it :.vas - his wish, as he !qui spolito M to r. ..h`ish, the Chaplain, upon the propriety t;'f. -it, th let them" receive the Sacrament together, it appeared to give a degrce of satisfaction 'to Lomas, who' aid, " I had rather she did receive' the Sa 7 crament with me." Mrs. Morrey was then brhught into the office, and seeing Lomas, she exclaimed, ``. Oh, dear!" sat - doWn,. and remained in silent affliction for some time, with her fa.eo covered. Lomas, wao was seated at some distance, endeavoured to comfort and sooth Sher, telling her, to bear up, and to pray for mercy and forgiveness--their sins, he said, Were very great, but. God was good, and he hoped 'be would forgive 'them. He said, " I must go il.ow,.you will have to stay a little longer, all. our time is s'hort, 'and if we repent of our sins we may meet in Heaven." He then asked his mistress whether she had ever said to any one, that he. (Lhihas) bad got up to Murder his master, at' twelVe, one, and half-past one, the night before the murder ; which site denied, saying, " 'lt is not true ; they have made that amongst them." She complained of a wonian, whom she. alluded. to, as concerned, in thefabrication of such report h as one that was never sober. -Lomas then prayed to God to forgive - them, and to forgive him, for he had done a very wicked act, and he deserved to die, for it.. He could. not wish to live. " If they :had not found me guilty, they would not. have dime justice : it is' only doing me, justice to hang the'. -,There is 'a GOd above, and I hope to see my master in the other world." At. this Mrs. Morrey said " Pray . God you may !" Lo r maS again ad= Monished his mistress, as 'she had a longer tinie. allowed her, to confess her sins and repent. To 11questihn put to her by Min"fludson„ Mrs. Morrey denied that 'she took the candle into the other room,, and said h she would not let the see, vant.girl-go through the window; she repeated she did not hold the candle.; Lothas said, " Mis tress, do not say so, it will do - you no good to deny it.; .when I told -- you Hannah was coming, you. pinched the candle out." Mrs. Morrey'S reply to this was, " my good lad, it was net so ; there have been many false things said ;" and she then Proceeded to animadvert upon" some part of the. evidence upon the trial, which were afterwards, by the explanation of Mr. Hudson, reconciled; and understood by the convicts to 'be correctly given. Mrs. Morley admitted that she took the shirt out of the box, and threw it upon the bag of b'sriev ; Lo has said he put the box upon the bed. When Mr. Hudson asked Mrs, Morrey how she could ever expect to be acquitted, She, declared it to be from a supposition that IJoulas's confession could not be admitte,d evidence against her. Lomas observed, that he was riot likely to do otherwise than confess ; but the coptessifin did not come 'against them ; there was enotigh,. he said, without it. Mrs. Morrey then said, her husband had declared, the night of the murder, that he should turn Lomas awarthat week, for he suspected that'he got up in the night to get to the drink. This, Lomas said, was very unlikely, for he had said nothing to him, but appeared very well satisfied, and was joking and in good huinaur with him that very hight. They never had, he said, many words ; any thing of that sort was soon over.; they neither of theni ever bore ally malice ; tie liked his nias , er—be was a very good master; but, added he, " I wish he had turned me away that • And Mrs. Morrey repeated; I wish he had; but I hope -your sins will be forgiven.," and mine too ; it was your own you Were always prokihg at, me, and Would note let me alone:" This was retorted upon her by . .Lomas, who ~ said ft -was she that would not let ham alone ; and he reminded her of a partieider instance on the very night of the murder, when 'she gu:out of bed, and came to him, and' he Wanted her to go to bed again, and she Would not ; land .he , :vas all in a tremble.' She replied, know I' ha've 4cen too bad as well as von." Mr. Hudson asked Whether she. could have ex- • pected to live happy in case she hadbeenacquit-', tell ;. and she said, she never should have been happy-7-" I know that I liave done wrong, and 1 have sinned." Mr. H. asked Lomas how he got toe axe that he struck his Master with 5 - and he said, , his mistress gave it into .his hand. The ob servation she, hiadeth this was, " My - dear,lad, is it not oh the chair,?" lie said, " Why, mis .,tress, you put it in any hand ;" 7hich she did not deny; and being asked about the razor, he said his ,mistress - concealed it under her petticoats; that he took the axe, and while fiis rhistreSs- held the candle, ,he struck his master three times; she then pinched /the candle out, and they both ran Into the house-place, where thevheard him groan, upon which his mistress said, " John, he is alive; go, and kill him;" Mrs. Morrey replied to this,. she only made the observation, " John, he is He then went and' struck him with the axe two or three times, in the dark, and return ed, when she gave him the razor ; they still heard him grhafiing ; Lomas persisted in it, be fore her, that she directed him to gh and kill him, to go and cut his throat ! She continued to deny this part, whilst he repeated it as true ; and he said he did go in consequence,, and found his Inas ter. raised in his bed, and attempting to get Off backwards ; when getting ;close up "to him, his 'master appearing to know him, laid his head upon Loinas's breast, and caught - hold of his shirt with . his right hand; Lomas said that he thrust his hand. away, and got his, master's head under his left arm he then cut his throat twice, desperate cuts and deep, and then ran and got into bed, and pretended to be asleep. The razor . 11... put un der. a bag in b s room, but in the morning he took it, and when he went to water the mare, 'he threw it into the pit near the house, and he saw it again, he :aid, on the trial, it being found there when_ the water was let off. Mrs. Morrey was 'then solemnly questioned by Mr. Hudson, about the truth of Lomas's declara tions, and whether it was not nearly the truth and she said " It is nearly the truth." She said he was sixteen weeks mile with child, and en . • tered into a calculation from the time of her being in prison. Lomas asked her 'about thetime of her misgarriage; and she gave him the particular time, stating, that it was the day she prepared to go to - . - an -.vhich lie seemed-6 under- Hudsob ashea bet how iNig,she had be ;n ha bed with her husband beftire al+ to pexpetate,the murdcr ; but she epold, not par ticid,arly so : te. He questiOued her as to Miether her biL - sband was sober 3 . and o she said he \S 87 :iober enough. • Hudson then addr,essed them in the i:m guage 'of adiiio,nition, and prepared them -f.Jr a final separation. Loma forgiN e her, but it seem s she does dot forgive me." Aid she said, -I have, fotiver; every body, a:1,4. cvery thing that has been done 'against me." Lo:oas Sato hi . half-brother had r u;sed Lei. (Airs. Aloy Yey) be said nothing. Ile said, nothing cut him up so much as to see his 'poor father what grief he' was in; it 'l,ya - s a case.,- in. said, -for .hint to bring children up to thiS encl.'" God help and •Go(Lhelp it chiidren ; I hope they will take good. ways." lie thdn iaf aired as to what situation they were in, and "'"kvasinforayi by his mistress. He said his own mother wi's a very wicked woman.. Then addressing hUnself to his initress, he piously called upon .her to ma4e her peacewith God, ,and to read the Scriptures, and, pray, " Till I carile," 110 to this place, I.knew nothirig , of Scripture. I haVe been made to read 'to Bible, and- to pray, and . I am better off. - 1 like 'the New TeStanient; I have read it, and.l know that Cliristeame down to: die for us poor miserable sinners. Mistress, I wish well to you, I* will leave you a good hook of prayers, and Lope you ‘vilt . read it. Mrs. Morrey said she freely forgave Lomas ; and he said he forgave her; and finally said, " Fare you Av,;ll, Mistress.'' A,letter from a ':ritish officer,.spcaking of the battle of Arapiles, or Salamanca, , says—" The- French lOoked at us, and iooked,savagely too, as if determined to witils`tand' our charges :—it was all a fudge —we crossed bayonets, and awa' , went the conquerors of Austerlitz and Evian. We hav - e lost feW men in this battle ' • the French' lost most of tiwir , men in their disorderly, re treat.' • It was the second, editio . Aflaidawe had only to cut down as they n flew. Their :Inns; baggage; drums, music, every thing was aban 'donedL-tbe British and Portuguese cheering and killing till the night #all=till dtat night-tali which alone prevented the entire dispersion and destruc tion of the whole French grand . army." On Wednesday •.morning the 59th regiment .of foot marched from Chichester Barracks for Ports, thouth, in order to embark for 'Cadiz; and, on Friday the .57th regiment of foot - arrived there from Little Ilanipton, to replace the 59th. One of the baggage waggons of the „Yith reginient "broke down near Little Ilkunpton, ley' which acei -dent a woman riding on. the same was unfOrtu-. nateiy killed. • Mr. SHERIDAN, it is said, is in the country, preparing an Address for the opening of .Drtiry lane Theatre.. Judging from the admirable Pro logues and Epilogues which this Gentleman has written, and which may be ranked :with the very best compositions of that kind, he has no occasion to retire in÷,o the. ern - Lary in order to court' the Muse. He has only to begin the task doggedly, as JOHNSON says,'. and he would, probably, soon produce.'spmething . worthy of the occasion, and beyond the powers of any contemporary wit. . Lady CHARLOTTE DENYs,Witil that benevolence which characterizes herself and her linsband,open-, ecl the beautiful PaVilion, in Ilans-place, on 'Nlon day laSt, fora subscription ,Cencert, for the bene fit of several Charity SchOols, of both sexes, in Chelsea. The Concert 'was under the direction' of the Mana.L'rers of the New-Musical Fund. Mr. G. ASHLEY 'fed; and the Band w4s:of.herwis'e well supported. The Concert was agreeably diversi fied, and'well perrormed . ; ,but on such ,oecasions as there; the visitors..enjoy a' higher delight than what arises froth the gratification of . the senses. .. PAE]...4 - ,ENT . ..-,--We are sorry e are obliged to repeat the complaints' which have so often been made. in thiS and 'other public , prints, As to the . shinneful: neglect which appears in ahnOst every street in the metropolis. JY:cp ruts are: to be fonrid in moO : places, yet no . pa,..viors seem to be employed, except in laying - .pipes for the - several water-work companies. The puddles have re mained during the Whole,of the stammer, and if the streets are, suffered to continue in the smile state, or, rather to become worse, 'which rilust he the case:, if no attention is paid to them, ; they will be impassable. in winter. ,It is quite. asto n:shing' that there should be, .such ,a' neglect of duty after such reptqted and well-founded coin plaints on the stibiee - .: The kiss of IlAitarsotsr, and the indisposition of BARTLE MAN, wilt be a great drawback Upon the' Country Mtisie Mee:ings this season. .They will, however, be supported by the VAUGIIANS, BEL LANIY:, Goss, and other respeetable performers_--: A Meeting of this kind, for the benefit of the General Infirmary at Kettering, is sorni" to take place, and' Other, Charitable . Institutions through out the kingdom will be 'supported in the same manner. A very timely discovery has.been made at Por-• chester Prison, where the prisoners had; with•the most patient labottr, excavated a passage, from near the hospital to' the very ontside of the prisdn, large enough for one person to pass through. toe e:stetit of it eighty yards, and some notion might be flailed of their labour from the circumstance, that, as they proceeded in their work, every lap-full of earth out of'the cavity was conveyed to the mouth 61 it, in retrograde mo tion; to he cleared away: Three only effected their escape before the discovery was male..' i f CoPN-EXCHANOE 3 2.—To-day we have , very fresh arrivals Of 'Wheat, not much of re, maining supplies, a'nd the trade named nearly as on Monday ; ,the same may be noted in Barley and Malt ; Rye is somewhat lower ; White Pease rather's° ; very few Grey, or Beans of each kind, the latter again dearer ; the arriv-tb, of new Oats are nOW considerable, salesthereof, both on • Mo,nday,and to-klay, are a falling article ; Flour v Wheat - - I iSs. 150 i. Fine ditto - - 351).5. 155's. Lunch lower, and appears, Jfitout variation. Tick Beans - SRs. 945. Oats - - - - 385.G4 3. GGs. Poland ditto - G7s. 70s. Potatoe ditto - - 725. 745. Rape Seed - - - 521. 571. 'Rye - - - -70 s. 71;s. Barley - - - - 6Os. 63;. Malt - -90 s. 9Rs. White Pease 11Yoil.) 765. 82. - ;. Grey ditto - - 745. - os. Deans - - - Pus. 965, Fide Flour -115 s. las. Se.conds - - - lios. 1153. FROM THE,'LONDON GAZETTE, 'SEPT. 1 J-O f fice, Sept. 1; 1812. Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez; Bart. K B. has transmitted 'to John. Wilson Croker, Esq. a Letter from Rear-Admiral Martin;of w[nen the fo; . lo . wing is an e4.tiact. Riga, Atig.) Q. Icl2. In my letter to you of the sth •instant - , Z naen-. tioned.that the-division of kuh-boats uncier Capt. Stuart,- associated with another division Under a RuSsin:Captain, had proceeded up the BoHero river tO co-operate _with a body of troops front this place and the garrisor rf DUnamande ; the object of the expedition being, in the first place, to take the enemy by surprise, and, failing in that, to force- them back'from Schlock, and, if possible, to penetrate to Mittau. ,The service chiefly assigned, to the British was, to `keep in advance, and, if practiCable, to destroy the bridges which were convenient for the retreat of the enemy; and - the only bridge (that of Kai= nezeen) was speedily and effectually rendered un serviceable. General Louis, who commanded 11 - re troops, gives the highest praise to Captain Stuart, and the British boats employed upon that service. Admiralty Office, Sept. 1, 1812. Copy of a Letter from Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, Bart. K.B. 'to John Wilson Ctoker, Esq. dated on board the Victory, in "Hawke goktd, Aug. 52C, 1812. SIR, I inclose, for the information of the Lords Com Missioners of the Adthiralty, the copy of a letter I have this morning received' from Rear- Admiral Martin, dated the 11 di instant, inelosing one (a copy of whieh is also transmitted here with) flout General Essen, Governor of Riga, comnninicating intelligence if the continued sue- Oess of the Russian arms, and the junction of Prince Bag.ration - with the main army at Stno, lensko, which you will pleme to lay before their tordshilis. I am, &c. JAS. SAUMAREZ. (Signed) SIR, Riga, July 30, 2822. I lose not a moment in communicating to your Excellency a most agreeable piece of intelligence, which I have just received. The Commander in Chief of the third army (General Tormasson), has obtained a victory over - the enemy near Cobrin. tour stand of colours, eight pieces of artillery, with one General, in the service of Saxony, seventy officers, and three thousand troops, have fallen into the hands of the conquerom I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ESSEN, Goverrior of Riga. Vice-Admiral Sir James Sartmarez, Bart. and K. 13. &c. &c. &c P. S. In addition to the foregoing intelligence, I - have - Jo acquaint. your Excellency, that the united forces of General Barclay and Prince-Ba. gratiou are in the neighbourhood of Smolensko. General Plata' commands the combined advanced guard, R;ga, August 11., 1812. I have the honour to inclose, for your informa tion, a letter which I have this instant received from General Essen, cOrurriunicating the agree able intclligclrce Of the continued success of the Russian arms, and the junction of Prince grfition's corps with the main army at Smolensk°. This infopthatian is' frbm the Commander in, Chief, General Barclay de Tolli, Whci dates his letter the 4th inst. at Sinolensko,‘, In addition to what is mentioned the Gene .gal's letter, I learn that General Tormassoff sud deuly left the position whiCh,he bad occupied for some time at Gitomirz or Zitomi:.z, in order to attack a corps of Saxons, stationed near - Kubryn, twenty-four miles from Bryex laowski, and about one hundred and thirty miles east of 'War saw,: where. he'dgfeated the emenr!,,' , :, who retired towardS Minsk. Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumnarczs Bart. K.B. Admiralty Office, Sflpt. 1,1812. Vice-Admiral Sir James S nunarez, Blrt. has transmitted to john Wilson Croker, Esq. a letter from Lieutenant J. C. Crawford, command-, ing his Majesty's gun-brig Wrangler, of which the inclosed is' a copy. Ills Majesty Grtn-briVirangler, off Seyet • Island, Augut 1812. SIR; In ptirsnance,of our orderS of.the 14th instant, Ipoveedeft off Randers with your. boats, 'and the cater of the. Locust,- bnenot finding the French bigger :•there, I proceeded further to the west ward, .:Off:Mariager Fiord,- to reconnoitre that port; w'sinall Danish ernizer wasperceived cam- Mgi,ottf., gave-chase to her, w'lleti She bore up, and ran into Alborg : at night Liem.enant Petley, my self, and Mr. Curtis (Second Master of the Lo cnst);thoughtthat she might be carried by the boats, which WA agreed npon. Lieutenant Pet ley then In.oceeded in shore, with the.barge 03,a cutter-, in •'.oinpfitiy` with the Locust's boats, un der charge of Mr: Curtis, her Second Master. About - two o'clOa. in the morning they act alongside of her, and carried her from 'under a very be4vy fire from the battery and must etrY from Hall's Fort, in the entrance of %that river,