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• DIVIDnNDS.—At Guildhall. • Aug. 'l9. J. Wyllie, Copthail-court, nerchant, at ten. S c; t 5. J. Wheatley; Mark-lane, corn-factor,. at twelve. Sept. 1..7. E. Grob, lal - e.of Coll - ege-bill, sugar-refiner, at 11. Aug'. 1. W. Blow', Hertford, tanner, at eleven. Aug,. 29. W. Fisher,.Cambridge, woollen-draper, at eleven. - .Aug. 29. J. Pinney, tH rY-stre.a, St. James's, tailor, at 12. Aug; 2.7. W. L'hulluirg, HumherAcnestreet, carpenter, at eleven.. 7 Aug IV. Huffani; and 'W. IL Huffam, Limehonse, chandiors. .at twelve. Ans. 29. E. Mee3on, Aldermanbury, linen-draper, at twelve. Sept. 29. T. Carden, late of St. Michael's-alley, eornhill, in gurance-broker, at twelve. . • . . Sept 29. J. Dawson,.Aldg-ate High-street, linen-draper, at 10. Aug. 22. It. Rippon, W. Lees,. and T. Wilkinson, jun. Liver pool, merchants at ten. • Aug. 26. J. Davis, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorgan, druggist, at eleven, at the Crown, Merthyr Tydvil: .Aug. 26. L. Morris=, Cardiff;Glam organ, merchant, at eleven, at the 'same place. Aug. :31. W. Bannister'. late of Lichfield, clock-maker, at • twelve, at the Flitch of Bacon, Wichnor-bridge,.Stafford. Aug. 26. E, Godwin, Portsmouth, butcher, at one, at ~the George,Portsmouth. •-- Aug. 26. H. Pape, Pocklington, York, grocer, ,at eleven(at Baines's Hotel, York. Aug. 28. H. Mills, Guisbrough, York, miller, at twelve, at the Cock Inn, Guisbrough, Sept. 9. J. Whitaker and It. Alsop, Manchester, grocers, at two, at the Coach and' Horses, Manchester. CER.TIFICATES,—Au uST E. Knight, Horleydown-lane, lighterman. ..•• - C. Mood, Southampton, druggist. . . . G. W. Shury, .and It. V.-Windsor, Chancery-lane, law-sta tioners. I:nnell, Streatham-street, Bloomsbury, carver-and gilder. H.,Grace,Thavies Inn, bookseller. 1. Karkeet, late of Skinner-street, Snow-hill, upholsterer. • J. - Gutrain , of Salford . , Lancaster, brewer. C. Say, Newington-Butts, Surrey, haberdasher. , PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Taylor and.G. Furnace; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocers. R. Harrison, jun. and 3. Sugden, Howden, plumbers. W. Edwar6, and 3. Bntlin, Middle-street,. Cloth-fair, porter- flealers. _ W.- Jones and B. Zones, ,Lilrerpbal,•theesemonger3. M. Appleton-and J. Appleton, Kneresbrough, Yorkshire, flax- . S.' C. Ridont, L. Oliver, and C. Hooper, Bristol, •linen-nerchants: J. 13eare, J. Pilsen, - and .I. Hooker, - Norwich, linen-drapers. J. Waller and .1. _Payne, Leadenhall-stret, wine-merchants. M. L. n.t.niel and Hall, Smith-square, Ane-merchants., G. Neden and J. Neden, Manchester, manufacturers. Robinson and C. Lee, Lincoln's-Inn, attornies at law. Contrary to the opinion asserted by some of the newspapers, and an impression that exists in • the minds of others, it does not now appear that Ge neral Bernadotte, the Crown Prince of Sweden, is the suggestor of the mode of warfare now adopt ed by the Russians ; but that it is a plan formed and acted upon since the month of June, 1811, at the particular. instance of the War Minister .of Russia, 'after having recommended it for the opi nion of the Emperor, Alexander, upon the event of hostilities with Buonaparte. In consequence of the approval of his Imperial Majesty, - it..was de termined from this early period to put the troops in motion towards the western frontier of the em pire. The Commissariat underwent some material regulations ; Duneburg, Witepsk, Porotsk, and Snolensko, were fortified : the 4. circumstances prove a settled plan as far as thirteen or fourteen months ago, of not passing their frontier. This mode had its origin from historical experi ence, as the Russian annals furnish us with one of the - finest examples in the reign of the great est Sovereign Russia ever had. • Peter the Great executed it precisely in the same country which contains the present theatre of - war ; the borders of Lithuania, on the banks of the in the environs of Kowno, and: of Grodno, in 1708, when Peter encountered Charles XII. who, after having reduced Poland and Saxony, and draining from the latter, by most extraordinary, contribu tions, all the specie she possessed, proceeded to at tack Russia, threatening to march direct to Mos- -cow, and dethrone his rival. He had the greatest army Sweden ever- had, having unfit .r him many Generals of renowned talents, besides an immense treasure. He sought by every means to engage the Russians ; but Peter knew. too well how to avoid a battle, when he was _certain that the best wily to overcome his enemy was to protract the war ; and that drawing him on to athunce, was depriving hiM of- his resources ; thus avoiding battle, but, retiring in the best order,—breaking up the roads, removing or dcstroying all the pro visions and 'forage as they went, harassing the enemy with his flight troops, who.took all his con- voys. :Charles, by this conduct, was forced to give up biSintention of marching to Moscow,and was in, debted for his : _safetyto the treachery of Mazeppa; who rebelled from his Sovereign,. and invited Charles into the Ukraine, where he had prepared magazines for Those acquainted with- his tory can but know the events of 1708; and the wretched situation of Charles during the winter and following year, when the battle of POltawa cifnpletely destroyed his power. The plan nowaadopted b:L.Alexander is then no other but that of Peter the Great, and was resolv ed upon long before the-Russian power could rec kon upon the present good understanding that , exists between hers and the Swedish Court. . Extract of a letter from an Officer of 'the Bri gade of Guards attached to the army under tb.e Earl of WELLINGTON: " Camp, rear Villa Verde, July 13, 1812. ‘` Lord WELLINGTOWS head-quarters are at Rueda.. The French still continue' on the oppo site bank t)f the Douro. Two regiments of:their infantry, and one of cavalry.„erossed the river, on the night of the, 1 presume to intercept. sere of our supplies on their way from Ciudad Rodrigo. The first division of the British army was, in consequence, ordered from Medina del Campo to Villa Verde, iu order tbat they might be at band, if their assistance, should - be re quired by the/cavalry, who were ordered to drive the 'enemy back. They retired, however, Without nicking any very serious resistance , ; but we still remain in our position, in order to be within reach of them, if they should venture'over again." 'NEW HAY.---The -number of hay-stacks which have taken fire this year, ; from the wet state in which it has been put together, is - without prece, dent. Lord MANSFIELD, at Caen Wood, and' he Duke of YORK'S tenant, at Weybridge, have been great sufferers ; and a Gentleman connected with a Brewery, at Islington, estimates his loss at-three thvasai:d.. pounds. LONDON rrint , ad by TI At tilt-, SIY 0.717.! CITY Busmrtss Yesterday, a Court of Aldermen tvas. held, at which were present the Lord Mayor, l3Aldermen, and the City Oflcers. it was referred to the Gaol Committee to consider of a complaint made by the prisoners in Ne•catate, and to rcriort. I _ _ After.wbich a Court of Common Council was held, which was very fully attended. . The Remembrancer presented the -New Prison Act, and the Moorfields linprovement Act, which wereseferred to the Committee to carry - into exe- cution. Petitions were presepted from the prisoners confined for debt in Newgate, Ludgate, and the Poultry . Compters, praying for some relief on their being discharged under the Insolvent Act.— Referred to the Committee for C3eneral Purposes. It Was referred to the Tithe Committee to con eider of applying to Parliament next Sessions agree ably to their Report. It was resolved, that all future applications for aid in support of Charities, be referred to the 'Committee for Oeheral Purposes, previous.to the Curt 'coming to any tote thereon. A motion was made and carried, that it be re ferred to the Improvement Committee, to consider of appropriating Blackwell-hall for transacting public business. The sum of one hundred pounds was voted in aid of the funds of the Society of the Refuge for the Destitute. IRELAND.—The female Whose murder we an nounced in our paper of the 23d July, was a na tive of Lismataigue, in the County Kilkenny,. 'and had beertfor some time at service in the Tiooqe of a farmer, in the neighbourhood of Tory-hill.— About the 22d of June, she left her Situation, on . account of , some.dometie quarrels:, and retired to the house of another farmer, in the same quarter, having in her pOssession the sum of twenty-five shillings, /which she had received as payment of her wages. On the evening previous to the last fair-day of Waterford, the farmer, in whose house she was, :having occasion for some silver, bor rowed a half , a-croWn . from her, saying, that he would repay her at the fair, to which she intend -ed to go. The farrier left his home early in the morning, - without seeing his ledger, .and made particular but _fruitless inquiries for, her 'in the fair,. It appears .that she, also, left the house on the morning of the same day, and that no account of her had been obtained, from the period of her departure,"till the discovery of her body. The bare skull was, in the first instance, only found by the boy, some animal having deprived it of the flesh, &c. When he communicated the circum stance to his friends, They insisted, that he had mistaken the bead of a dog for that of a human being. The boy, however, persisted in his story, and was him's& speedily and fully convinced of its truth, for the body was likewise discovered by him, :and not, as we formerly mentioned, by some coun try people. - Neither wasit found in a bog; but on the north side of the hill, in a small receptacle. for water, the usual resort of cows, of' which he had the care, and whose uncommou noise drew his attention one day to the spot. When he reached it, he discovered something iu•the watet, with sods and stones laid over it, on the removal . of some of which the body appeared. This led to sub Sequent examination, and the deceased was fully identified by her mothet and brother, to whom an account of the occurrence had been transmitted. On Thursday week, an Inquest was held on the body by Humphrey Jones and Joseph Greene, Esqrs. Magistrates of the County of Kil kenny, when a respectable Jury of farmers brought in a verdict of wilful murder against a person or persons, unknown. The instrument used to sever the head from the body, is supposed to have been a hatchet, or, with greater probability, a slime, and, froth the manner in which the arms of the deceased were bruised, and fractured, it would ap pear, that she had made a strong . resistance...—. There is reason te, believe, and the circumstance is not a little remarkable,„ that the murderer had revisited the body, as fresh sods of earth were . added to the stones arid sods with which it had been at first covered, evidently for the purpose of preventing it from rising in the water, as it be-. came more buoyant in its progress ,to putrefaction. No money was .found on the body. In addition to the foregoing particulars, we have .- learned some others, but these are too cloSely connect ed -with the investigation still going on, to be p"liely stated. Hitherto no discovery has been made by which the guilt of this atrocious crime' can be fixed on any particular person.—Water for. d Chronicle. At. Cornwall Assizes, at 'which Sir ALLAN CHANLRE presided, Edward and Thomas French were found guilty of sheep-stealing; and Wilt wn Wren was found guilty of hreaking.into a dwell ing -house, ,with. an intent tai rob and murder the owner. The Midsummer Quarterly Sessions of Notting ham were held on the 3Dth, but there was not one prisoner for tial. • At Thurso and at Wick the herring, fisheries have commenced. The shoals of herrings are nu merous, and the finest ever remembered, for, fat ners and size, to have approached, the coast.— The' fishing is expected, from this favourable be ginning, to be very lucrative. The Thurso fish ing-boats caught, an the 22d, upwards of an hundred barrels each. A great many boats are 'll -motion. The Agricultural Report of the Upper Ward of Clydesdale contains the following favourable par ticulars. " The wheat bein ,, in full ear, is fast changing- the green colour for tinges of ripening yellow. The oats are luxuriant, and heavy. and in general the cyops are extremelypromising. • In the course Of a month some of the sanguine fanners expect to produce new samples Of, Barley in the market.!' The Agricultural Report for the Lower Waid of Lanarkshire speaks in terms equally fa yourable to an excellent crop. Some days ago a fine woodcock was shot on the grounds of THOMAS Nicnor.so . a, Esq. at Round lay, near Leeds, by his gamekeeper. lONTAS WOOD, of N 0.35, Maiden-lane; Covent-garden; .„. 1 and Published by ANILLTAM ARMIGER SCRIPPS, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-Auatc, Na. 112, Strand, where„Adurtimwiti, Qr; c7s for the Paper, Letter for the Editor, &c. (post raid), mt.it be bAidieSsed. POLIC L. "A youth of 16, named Owen, was brought up for examination, charged with entering the house of a publican in Tower-strcet; named Jones, yester day evening, and stealing ,privately from his bar, his till, - containing a quantity of copper money. M c ...T ones , having observed the prisoner, just as he.got o - ff frcaa the door, - pursued him towarls Tower-hill 3 when, 'perceiving that •he was fol lowed with a..cry of stop thief, the prisoner flung away the till ; but was still followed and•taken-in to custody. The priA.oner denied the theft, and 'said,, that he had - been but a week in London, and was by'tradt a ship-painter ; but the facts - Against hiin were tod clear to be disproved - . The Magistrate - , after a very strong admonition k gave him the choice of • vol nteeri er for the . sea ser-' vice, or of tieing committed to Neivgate, to take his trial. He Preferred the. latter, and . was eoitix inittcd accordingly. UNI 01C-HALL .-- Thomas Holden, proprietor of one of . the 2ditcham stages, was fined 191. and costs, on the informatiou of Mr. Lyon, a stock broker, charging him with having carrie - dia:greater. number of outside passengers on his coach than areilloWed'by.Actof.Parriament. James Smith, and John Antlers6n, charged with obtaining goods under false pretences frOm Mr. Hitchcock, of Tooley-street, were fully committed for trial for the fraud. A. baker residing in the neighbourhood of York street, Blackfriars-road, was - summoned before the sitting Magistrate, for selling bread short.of Weight ; ten •quartern and eleven' half-quartern loaves were produced by the officer, deficient in_ weight 36- ounces. The defendant pleaded guilty to the , charge ; but said it was owing to the ne glect of the man - she employed to manage her business; slap being a widow. She was titled IL 16s. and costs. Fire.—The extensive Workshops of Mr. Reid, cabinet-maker, in Glasgow, was destroyed by fits:, on'Wednesday eV - ening last.l 'We are sorry to add, that no less than five persons perished in the flames. The 'lathes are, - Thomas Edict, clerk in a ware house ;‘, Andrew Pougal, - . ii gardener; Jame:; Fal coner, a chair-maker ; Jamesneutoul, a painter ; and David M‘Gregor„ a wright.;, all young 'un niarried men. son of Mr. Hannah, butcher, has been much burnt, and several others Were considerably hurt,. but none of them are consi dered in a dangerous state. A Miscreant wag. lodged in the' Police Office. for attempting t 9 plunder during the conflagration. • A white crow was lately taken in a 'field near Kendal, and placed as a cariosity in Mr. MD iiTiNTERS Kendal Museum. Modern Greek Literature.—A Greek, of the name of ANTHIME GAZY, Archimandrite of the Greek Church at Vicuna., conducts a periodicel work, in the modern Greek languag6 at that place, entitled ifertnes.liq •Logios ; 'aud is pOlish ing o Dictionary of the language at Venice. is the authOr. of several works in', modern Greek, the principal of which are " A history of Gree- Ltterature till the' taizii - tg . of CorAtantiriople"-- " A Gieek Vocahular"—" Translatins. u f Vol taire* History of Charics the 12d:1-7—' 1 ,111e Abridg ment of Lalonde's ii.itTonomy"--Ifotreroy's Philosophy"—and " Mop of Grecce' in-.- 12 sheets. BIRTHS. In 'January last, at CrownpoYe, in the'East Indiesi•the wife of Major-General Stafford, of a Daughter. On the . 80th. ult. at Obis house in George's-square, Edin burgh, the Lady of J. C. Scott, Esq. of a Sun. A few daysagO, at Erina.-House, near Castle Connell, this Lady pf the Rev. M. S. Adams, of a Daughter: ' At Ballydavid, near Thurles, the Lady of Mark C. Russell, Esq. of a Sun. At Thurles,the Lady of George Russell, Esq. M. D. a $ Son. ' Lately, at Nun-Appleton, near York, the Lady of Sir liam Mordaunt Milner, Bart. of a Daughter. On Monday last, at Malshanger, Hants, the Lady of COlo. nel Cunyngliam, of a Son. NIARRiED. In cork, Richard Harris Purcell, Esq. of Annabella, is that County, to Louisa, daughter of William Leader, Es- of Mount Leader. Yesterday se'nnight, at St. Nicholas Church,Worcester, Mr. Daniel Lloyd, of Hanley Castle, to Miss SparTy, daughter of the late Thomas, Svarry, Esq.. of 'Walton-Cardiff, Glouces tershire.. . At Tooting, B. flounders, Esq. of Kingwood . Lodge, oal Cooper's-hilt, near Windsor, to Miss Chapman, only daugh ter,of William Chapman, of Whitby, Yorkshire. On Sattirday last, at the Collegiate Church, Wolverhamp ton, .Mr. Charles Stewart, of Surrey, to Attu/ second daughter 'of John Within, Esq. of Bilston, Stafford shire. On Monday last, at St. Pancras Church, Mr:WitEmu Bell, of Queen-street, - Cheapside, to Alicia, eldeSt daughter of Ma jor Slingshy, Esq. of,the New-road, Fitzroy-square. Yesterday, at St. James's, Clerkenwell, Samuel Pul leys, Esq. of Cumming-street, Pentonville, to Miss Blackith, of -Gwymes-buildings. The. same day, at St. -Mary-le-honne . Church, • Hutches Trower, Esql of Harley-Areet, to Miss Slater, the younge4- daughter of the'late Gilbert Slater, 'Esq. of Knots Green, tit the Giunty of ESsex. On Friday se'anight, in the 37th year of his age, Williadt . . O'Leary, Esq. nt , piiew (If Esq. of Limerick. Lately, at Exet c, NV. H. Thompson, Esq. only son of M. Thompson, Esq. to Miss Tonkin, only daughter of W. II- Tonkin, Esq: of Northernhay..-House, Barrister at Lary, awl a Bendier of the If onwtrable Society of the Middle Temple- • DIED. On !Thursday morning week, aged 94, John Davie,. Esq firsteOttsiki to 11 . 1 S Grace the Duke of Norfolk, and Captain 111 the Royals. A few days ago, at Billing, Northamptonshire, aged.3 s, -Caroline, Lady of Robert 'Garay ElWes, Esq. and pecond daughter to the Right I-10n..L0r4.1-Yarberough. Oa Friday last, AIL his .17th, year, , at his father's hous-e iO Clarg,!s-street,,rieeadilly, Robert, eldest son,of Lord Robert Fitz Gerald. • On SinraitY, :at her. house. in Sloane-street, Mrs. Burton , widow of the Ate John Ourton, Yesterday, at Kew, in 'the 80th Year of his age, Robert Hunter, Esq. " The same morning, Mrs. Weddell, wife of Mr. 'Weddell, of -Aldgate-street: PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock, 21.31 India ponds, Bs. 93. dis. Navy 5 per Cent. 85 4- . South Sea Steck,- 60f . Irish 5 per Cent. Exciter'. 11i115,34d, perday, V • 4 par Cent. 73iii 3s. - dis. per Cent. Red. 56th Dittd, aid. per; day, As: .5:5. pt. 3 per Cent. Cons. 561-Vgi Ornniurn, •2 4 : 24 pr, Bank L. Ann;ls 5-16ths 4 : Imperiat Ann. 5 L-16th India Stock, IGii Cons for 428th inst. sCiii4 . , WATER AT I O ONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW• Morning, V minutes after . 1. I Evening, 5 minutes after 1• WARWICK ASSIZES. On Wednesday morning, at eight o'cloA . , Mr. Justice Gibbs proceeded to the trial of Thomas Tole, for the murder of Michael. - 111‘Comesky, in the parish of Curdwoitb. .Mr. Clarke, Counsel for the prosecution, open ed the case to the Airy, and stated the cin um stances under which the murder was committed.. He afterwards proceeded to call his witnesses ; the first of whom Was, Win. Adam a servant of Illessrs. Bridgwood , living near Minworth. He remembers that on the 7th June, about seven o'clock, he rode a horse of his master's to be shod ; went through Park lane, and coming back the same way, about 200 yards further, he saw somebody lie in the road, at which his, mare started and. run . away; soon after he and John Smith went and looked at the body; it appeared to be dead; there was a -deep cut at the back and front of the head. When he went with the horse,. no body lay in the place where the deceased was found. He said the road in which the deceased was found, was not a pub lic road ; it W4is quite day-light, - as'inuch: so as at any other part of the day... Wm. Dunn-keeps the White Horse public-house, at Litchfield. He remembers the prisoner and the deceased coming to his house, the sth June, at, four o'clock in the morning. The.deceased came in first, and said he was recommended to his house; said they had been up all,lnight, and wished to go to bed. • • , Eleanor Lemmon, the wife of a serjeant, in the Sussex - .Militia, now, encamped on Hill Common; near Sutton Goldfield, remembers the prisoner and deceased ,coming to the .camp on the Saturday about a month ago ; it was between eleven and twelve o'clock ; they had two bundles of cloth' with them. She bought a piece of cloth of the prisoner, and paid the deceased for it ;. she paid it in a one pou ad hill that was very dirty and ragged.' She paid the deceased, because the prisoner said lie Nas his master. . Jahn Henry Lees, lives at Beacon's End ; he apprehended the prisoner in a field near his mo ther's house, at Beacon's End ; prisoner was fold ing some cloth up in his great coat. When the prisoner saw witness, he seemed confused ; I/ had three bundles of cloth with him. Witness told him that from the description he bad, he had no doubt but he was the man who had done the mur der. He saw some blood on a part of his clothes : what be saw was a spot or two pa the outside of his clothes. Tames Worsey, constable of Castle Bromwich. The prisoner was delivered into his . custody, to gether with the pieces of cloth, .which. were bloody. lie searched the prisoner that night, and found upon him, 'among other .things, poeket-book, containing sonie bank of .England notes, and a Birmingham Bank note ; two purses, one, long, the other shOrter ; and- some half pence. Ile stripped. the prisoner, anir found on his small Clothes two spots 'of blood. The pocket book was produced in Court, con taining one Tamworth bill and some Bank of England bills. Mrs. Allen, who keeps a shop at Litchfield, believes the book to be the same that was shewn to her by the deceased, and likewise the low b , purse • Eleanor Lernmon believed the note-which she paid to the deceased at the camp on Rill Com mon,. to be the same produCed in the pocket book. 'The bundles of cloth Were then produced, and marks of biotic' were visible on each of them ; two were spotted with blood ; and one of them had a. large mark 'of blood thereon. Mr: Gerge Freer, is a surgeon in,l,3irmingham ; he was called in to examine the body, at Min worth ; there was a deep cut on his chin, a very deep cut at the back part of ins head, and the skull was fractured. There were four small holes in the forehead, which formed a square, which points Were occasioned in his judgment, by the pressure without of- the instruMent which gave the wound. The interior part of the indention was forced into the brain. The bones of the nose were broken down, and witness conceives the whole injury was done at once, and the blow was struck by a large body of some kind. He thinks the wounds might have been inflicted by a large stone ; they . werecertainly the cause of his death. [Here the evidence on the part of the prosecu tion closed.] The prisoner being called on for his defence, said he was quite innocent of the crime laid to his charge,. and that the money he had in his posses sion was part of. the produce of nine pigs, which he brought froth Ireland, and sold at a fair near Liverpool, for 211. 2s.—With respect to the linen cloth, he said, before he and the deceased parted from each other, he _received the cloth from • the deceased, and had never seen him from that time until he was taken into custody, and saw the dead body. He pleaded mercy, on the. ground of his having a wife and nine children, and.to the time of' his removal from the Bar, persisted in declar ing his innocence., His Lordship proceeded to address the JUry, which he did in the itiOst:impresSive'lllithlCl-s,and having read over the ,whole evidence that had been adduced agaiiiSt the prisoner, commented on the several parts at considerable length. The .Tury consulted for about tWo minutes, and returnt • ed a verdict, Guilty, The Learned Judge immediately proceeded to pass the sentence off - the law upon the priSoner, whOm he advised to Spend the short time he had to live in fervent prayer to that Almighty eing, at whose gracious -throne it would' not be, present ed in vain. The sentence was carried into execution at half past eleven o'elocli. on 'Friday. He was attended by the itev. Mr. Laugharne, and previOus thereto by two Catholic Priests. The rope was adjusted im 7 mediately as he appeared'on the 'scaffold, and in less_than five minutes he was launched into eter nity; in the presence of several kundred spec tators. The prisoner confessed in the morning, that he committed the murder with the stone which was produced in Court and perhaps never was a man more agitated than he appeared to be at the pror spect of his approaching fate.