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THE LONDON JOURNALS• DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jun. 2. ENEW TIMES 3 A meeting of the West India Merchants is aboat to take place, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present alarming state of the Colonies, and to petition the Legislature for relief. We trust that these Gentlemen will cau tiously abstain from any topics which may tend to irritate rather than to allay the discordant passions now afloat. Living, as they do, amidst the enlightened society of Europe, they cannot but feel that slavery is a state abhorrent to the ger►ius of our free Constitution ; and though its othiva abolition would doubtless be attended vrith infinite evil, yet reason, humanity, justice, and even the well-understood interests of the masters themselves, command its gradual extinc tion. Why is the state of the Colonies alarming ? It is because both parties may easily be driven to extremities : the Slaves may be incited to insur rection against their masters ; the masters may be hurried into rebellion against their Sovereign —unless the voice of reason be addressed to both, in the accents of authority. This office the meet ing of West India Merchants may effectually perform. They may state to Government the hardships under which the planters labour ; and they may represent to the planters how much those hardships must necessarily be increased by an unjust opposition to the measures of improve ment which the Government has suggested. If such sentiments of considerate humanity prevail at the intended meeting, it may be converted into a source of great public benefit : if not, we fear it will only be tkrowing oil o►► a flame, which, alas ! already burns but too fiercely. [MORNING POST. j French Papers to the 31st ult. reached us last night by Express. The chief article of interest which they contain is the trial of Simon the Royal Guard, who shot young Honein on the day of the Duke d'Angouleme's triumphal entry into Paris. He was brought before a Court Martial, and the result has been, what might easily be expected, the acquittal of the accused, or to speak more conscientiously, the assassin, for the evidence proved the shot to have been fired when no possible danger could he apprehended from the deceased. He was on the quay below and Simon on the terrace, at the top of a wall ten feet high, which must he scaled before the un fortunate Ilonein could approach his destroyer. The plea of personal security therefore had DO foundation : or if Simon was threatened by any individuals on the terrace, his selecting a young man below for his victim must appear still more wanton and unjustifiable. It was not stated by any witness that lionein even attempted to mount the v all, and the highest provocation which he gave was to call the centinel a " had conscript." Ills father, however, was evi dently unwilling, after receiving the King's bounty (a paltry 401. a year) to press the trial to conviction, and only instructed his Counsel to clear the memory of his son from the charge of having been a rioter. The Pre sident of the Court, .on the other hand, took care to stop every witness who entered into any details unfavourable to the accused ; and the Counsel for the defence declared, that if Simon should be condemned, " fear and discourage ment would be spread throughout / the army."— It is not astonishing, therefore, that he should have been acquitted, and that justice should have been sacrificed to authority on the one side, and to gratitude or interest on the other. Of the feelle gs e xcited by Ilonein's death some idea will be formed by the following bold declaration of one of the witnesses, Mr. Delorme, a corporal in the National Guard, who was on the spot at the time :—" I heard a thot, and saw a young man fall. I then saw the sentinel shoulder his musket, and coolly walk backwards and forwards, after having Committed the murder. The indignation was so great, that the people talked of cutting him in pieces, and had my musket been loaded, I am not sure that I should not have shot him." The existence of such a spirit between indivi duals of the National and Royal Guard is a se rious consideration for the French. Government. [BRITISH PRESS.i Lisbon Papers to the 21st reached our office yesterday. These wretched Gazettes ,of des potism contain nothing of any interest from that country, and are occupied with a long tirade against Masonry and its votaries, to whose mys terious influence they impute Don Podro's dynasty in the New World, and the separation from Por tugal of the Brazils. A new Cagliostro, in the person of an individual of the name of Moniz Barreto, is brought forward, whose got-up con fession of Masonry, and all its consequences, is extracted from some wretched rag called the Padre Amazo, said to be printed in a garret of this city, and subsequently circula ted through Lisbon. This veritable docu ment is entitled, " A Defence of Citizen Dominjos Alves Branco Moniz Barret() (a Don with five names), against an imaginary crime, for ayhich he was unjustly sentenced by the Judge (who has only two names and a half), Francisco de Franca Miranda." As the crime of Citizen Dominjos is stated to be imaginary, we fancy his confession is pretty much"of the same character : both are probably the production of the compiler of the Padre Amazo, and have no other foundation. The Italian Cagliostro, when all his schemes were? exhausted, and he was caged by his Holiness the Pope, in Adrian's Tomb, commonly called the Castle of St. Angelo, made a full confession of his former practices, and renounced ma sonry as impious and heretical ;. all his crimes, including his league with La Motte, and the conspiracy of the diamond necklace, were con tritely imputed by him solely to masonry and its principles. The genuine defence of the worthy Sieur Moniz Barreto imputes, in the same way, the independence of Brazil solely to the " Craft." But it is an utter waste of time to com ment on such trash as this. It is now plain, with- t out any sort of mystery, masonic or otherwise, I that degraded Portugal has lost the Brazils for ever. Her Gazetteers may impute it to " Ma sonry," if they please, but not one stone of the edifice of her former ascendancy remains, and the state " Masons" of Lisbon will never be able to construct it again, let them labour how they may. They may try to flatter 44 Don Padro,"• by call ing him 44 August Prince," and impute his unfilial affection to the wiles of this sect, but they 44 waste their breath in vain." The Brazilian Emperor has enjoyed the sweets of power with great complacency, and appears in no disposition whatever to make any surrender of it to his con sistent father " Don John." I - MORNING HERALD.] We received the Paris Papers last night by express. They are chiefly filled with the report of the trial, by a Court-martial, of a soldier named Simon, who, it will be recollected, was accused of having shot a young man named Honein, for having attempted to scale the wall of the Tui leries Gardens, on the 2d of December last, the day of the Duke of Angouleme's triumphant entry after his return from Spain to Paris. The Court martial was composed of a Colonel, who acted as President, a Chief of Battalion, two Captains, a Lieutenant, Sub-Lieutenant, and a Serjeant- Major. The soldier admitted the fact of shooting the man, but appealed for his justifica tion to the strictness of his orders, which were on no account to let any person scale the wall, and also to the provocation he received from the young man, who, though frequently entreated to desist, and even threatened if he should persist, only insulted him, and being encouraged by the po pulace, called him by some approbious names, one of which was a mechant conscrit, which so fired the anger of the soldier, that he could no, Longer subdue his passion, and shot the young man. In the opinion of the Court this was a suf ficient justification, and the soldier was acquitted by a majority of six to one. Walter Scott's new work, " St.Ronan's Well," is already translated into French, and was published on Tuesday last, nearly as soon as it was published in London.— The Journal des Debats says that it is to be im mediately followed by a new work from the same author, in which will re-appear the principa characters of "Ivanhoe." The title is to be " The Siege of Ptolemy, Extract of a History of the Crusades, by Josiah Corgill, Evangelical Minister of St. Ronan." [ lORNINS CHRONICLE.] A circumstance has come to our knowledge, which in some measure accounts for the singular conduct pursued by Morillo in the affairs of his country. That King Ferdinand acceded to the Constitution in 1820 against hikown will, may readily be believed, and it would require no arguments to convince those who have watched the events in Spain, that from the moment he gave his consent to the re-establishment of the new Code, he began secretly to plot against it. The fact is, that it is well ascertained the grst great attempt, viz. the noted revolt of the Guards on the 7th of July, was the result of very gene ral combinations, and on that occasion Morillo remained neutral, although commandin g th e gar rison of Madrid, as long as the affair remained dubious, and aft erwar d s on l y p l aced himself at the head of th e t roo p s t o k eep hi s ground with the Constitutional party, so as to be abl e to ren der his co- o p era ti on w i t h t h e Ki ng more effectual on some m ore f avoura bl e occas i on, of which it was seen he av a il e d hi m s e lf t h e moment he was support e d by the late advance of the Fren c h into Galicia. It now turns out that Morill o came over from Colombia at the request of the King, and that he was expressl y sent for to act the treacherous p ar t w hi c h has stamped him with infamy f or th e rema i nder of .his life, and subsequently made him the victim of that man's dissi mu l a ti on , w h ose ready in strument he was. Ferdin an d having once fo rme d his plan of creating a counter-revolution, and overturning the Cortes and Constitution, i nune ., diately applied his thoughts to the choic e of mot , capable of executing it. Th e E gu i as, Lottges, Quesadas, &c. were men on whom he could rely ; but they had not the necessary boldness, nor had they the confidence of the Constitu tional party, whose efforts he sought to pare lyse, by gaining over to his own interests the men to whom the latter would entrust the comtnand of their main force, in case of any emergency. He himself instantly fixed upon Morillo as one. This man who, from an obscure serjeant of• marines, by an accident, or rather a successful ruse de guerre, had gained the rank of Colonel, immediately obtained the confidence of the King after his return from France, and with sorne astonishment it was seen that the command of the expedition against Venezuela was con fided to him. He was afterwards made Count of Carthagena, and by every other means bound to the King's interests. Every thing led the King to believe that he would be a willing instrument, and hence he was called over to aid his scheme, and from the mo ment lie arrived, it was privately agreed that he, should, in the mean time, temporize and keep well with the Constitutionalists till a favourable moment presented itself. How well he executed his orders, and conformed to the plan agreed upon, is sufficiently known to our Readers! [THE TririEs.] The proceedings in Demerara appear to kis: tify, in more than one respect, the apprehensions of reasonable men for the reputation of the Co lonial Government, and for the satisfactory set tlement of the Colony itself. Our readers will find in this day's Times, a statement from the Missionary Society, which calls upon them to suspend their judgment, with regard to the guilt or innocence of Mr. Smith, by the last accounts under trial by Court-martial at Demerara. Mr. Elliot, the other Missionary stationed in that Colony, was taken into custody, not for the crime of insurrection, but for disobedience of orders, in " visiting Smith," after the latter Gentleman had been thrown into pri son. Throughout Mr. Elliot's division, viz. the western, there was not a single Negro, as we are assured, who had taken any part in the rebellion. If, therefore, it VIRS not the object or intent of that Missionary to excite the slaves to acts of insubordination, it seems strange, at least, that his Brother-Missionary, deputed from the same Society, and acting in the same cause, and, as we must presume, under similar instructions, should have pursued a course so opposite as that which has been imputed to him. Although a few weeks may bring us the result of the Court-martial on Mr. Smith, in whose case the prosecution had closed on the 25th of October, and whose defence was to open on the Ist of November, we can hardly in the mean time refrain from asking what a religious instructor sent from England could propose to himself by trepanning the miserable slaves into an attack oa a settled government, and on a powerful military force. Unless he was a lunatic, he must have foreseen the immediate and necessary issue of such a contest; but in the narrative before us, a distinct cause is assigned for the revolt of the Negroes near Mr. Smith's residence, which exempts him from all participation with the in surgents. It appears that an order had been given for the arrest of two Negroes on a conti guous estate, and that those on the estate of Ressouvenir assembled to rescue the prisoners, on their passage through. This, however, like the accounts first received, must be yet regarded as an ex-parte statement. 'We wish the Missionary may, if innocent, be proved so : we likewise trust that no danger may arise to him from the desperate tales of culprits, in terror for their own fate, or from the prejudices or arbitrary temper of an un constitutional court, or a hasty Governor. Gen. Murray's conduct has been questioned on former occasions, by persons of respectable character and station in Demerara. A petition has been long be fore the King in Council", from clergymen of the English, Dutch, and Scotch churches, praying for redress for alleged injuries offered to them by Governor Murray, who is represented, in a series of documents said to have been copies of official correspondence, to have insisted, contrary to law, on the performance of certain administrative duties by the above Rev. Gentlemen—to have, on their refusal, removed them illegally from the performance of functions which they had faithfully and usefully discharged—and to have brought a number of wrongful accusations against them. The merits of the case being yet sub judice, we shall say nothing more ; but that as Negroes may be barbarous, and Missionaries in insane, so a Go vernor may be impolitic, indiscreet, and over bearing. GENERAL RIEGO. An extremely interesting allegory has been designed by an Italian gentleman who was re cently in Spain, to the memory of Gen. RIEGO. In th e centre is a tomb w ith the patriot's name upon it, an d o n one sid e is a female figure, re. presenting Spain ) leaning on the tomb, and la. meriting the loss she has experienced. On the other sid e , is a figure of PALLAS pointing out the tomb to a group of children, or Spanish youths, tellin g th e m to avenge the unjust death of th e found er of their country's liberty. A lion couch ant at the foot of the tomb, observes the remains of the torn colours, spread before him, and is in tended to represent the genius of Spanish free dorn__wounded, but not dead. An empty cor nucopia, and scattered emblems of the Sciences, denote the terrible conflict that has desolated the earth for so many ages. In the back gr o und unchangeable Virtue, rises a pyramid, amidst darkness, and above the a a r b i y d s o s u of it ti a m re e, names of several ce lebrated ,i patriots, os i af n s s c frtiaobpeNpvdrl representing ; i e i t c h h l e e r n I d ' ianm: is h`tturendNeVrtlaeth. pyramid,Despot i Sll sustained by ignorance precipitated into Blind fanati cism that the balance and e topEg Throneu o t ft u h i cism leads by the hand one tmhaey yawning u l i o n s g t, g a u n i d p of its chief sup porters, Superstition ; whilst a figure represent ing Natural Right!., although chained to the foot of the throne, courageously points to a tab let, on which is written, MAN II BORN FREE. __ . Truth turns her back, and flies far from the throne, near which the will of the despot is th e only law, and in her flight reflects from her mir ror a shower of brilliant rays, which descend on the tomb of the hero. Above hovers the Genius of Spain, attended by those of the other three great Powers of Europe, one of whom (France) blindfolds and leads the Genius of Spain into slavery. On the other side, resting on a cloud, appear the Genii of Vengeance, armed with thunder, and as if waiting impatiently for the Almighty, represented by an eye above, to de stroy the tyrant as a punishment for his injustice. The tout ensemble forms a beautiful and ingeni ous composition. IMPORTATION OF TIMBER.—We are informed that a gentleman of Port-Glasgow has devised a method of importing timber, which, if success ful, will tend to reduce very materially the price of that important and useful article. The plan is simply to lay down a keel 300 feet in length, as for a ship of extraordinary dimensions. Upon this base a superstructure of solid logs is to be reared, and the external surface calked and pitched. Having prepared the lower part of the hull, it is then to be launched (while that opera tion has not yet, from its immense size, become practicable) ; the building is then to be proceed ed in afloat in the same manner as before, form ing a solid mass of timber, with exception of a space for the machinery of two powerful steam engines, by which it is intended to propel the huge raft. In this way, it is calculated, that a single importation may extend to not less than 15,000 tons ; a quantity of timber which would require 30 vessels of 500 tons burden to carry. This scheme, we are farther told, has been submitted to the committee at Lloyd's, and received their approbation; and it is added, that the Under writers have entered so far into the views of the projector as to take the risk of the experimental cargo, now in preparation for the voyage from one of our ports in Canada, at the ordinary rate of premium.—(Glasgow Courier.) On Wednesday last, the Rev. Dr. CHATFIELD, Vicar of Chatteris, gave his annual donation of beef and plum pudding to the scholars of the National School in that parish. ANOTHER MURDER IN HERTFORDSHIRE. A most melancholy occurrence took place on Wednesday evening last, near South 3limms, by which a poor man of the name of JAMES GRANGE lost his life. The cir cumstances of the case, as far as we have been able to collect them, arethese : For some time back, a gentleman, whose name is Patrick Connolly, resided at a mansion called Rabley House, within about a mile of Shenley-hill, in the County of Hertford. Rabley House is the property of captain Nestor, with whom Mr. Connolly was intimately acquainted, and from what we have collected, it appears that Mr. Connolly was remaining there to avoid an execution which was known to be out against him. In the same house was residing a lady of the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, the widow of a Naval Officer of that name, who we believe had charge of Captain Nestor's do mestic concerns. Beside these individuals, there were a fe male servant and two m a le serv ant s on ie premises. On Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock, three persons arrived at the mansion—A Mr. Stephens, an Attorney from Lon don ' • Thomas 'Watson, a Sheriff's Officer, residing in Great Suffolk-street, Southwark ; and his assistant. They found easy ingress at the outer gates, and on reaching the hall door, knocked for admission. They were answered from within by Mrs. Brown, who, perhaps, suspecting their errand, did not open the door—She demanded their business, and they commenced by asking if Captain Nestor was at home ? She answered in thenegative—they then asked some other indirect questions, and finally begged to know if Mr. Patrick Connolly was there ? To this question Mrs. Brown also answered in the negative. They then stated that they had an execution against Mr. Connolly, and peremptorily desired to be admitted—this Mrs. Brown as peremptorily refused— and they immediately attempted to force the door, the upper part of which was partly composed of glass. To effect this purpose, they placed their fe e t aga i ns t th e b ottom of the door, and in the exertion which they made they broke one of the panes. The noise which was thus occasioned, and the vio lence which was committed at this moment, seem to have roused the choler of Mr. Connolly, who was close at hind, and he suddenly made his appearance with a pitchfork in his hand, with which he threatened to resist any further attempt that might be made to enter the premises. In defiance of this threat, the officers, on being again refused admission, re newed their attack, when Mr. Connolly pushed the fork through the broken pane at one of the men, whom he struck, but luckily did not inflict any wound. The assailants finding their man thus determined to oppose them, retired for a time, and while two kept watch, the third proceeded to a Magistrate in the neighbourhood (the Rev. Thomas Newcome, we believe), before whom he laid an an information of the assault which had been committed upon him in the discharge of his duty, and procured a peace warrant for the apprehension of Mr. Connolly, this warrant was directed to the constables of the distriCt, and those individuals were summoned to put it in execution. From the specimen which Mr. Connolly had given of his disposition to resist all ordinary means of arrest, it was considered neces sary to take a competent force to effect this object, and certain persons were sworn as special constables for the occasion._ Among others included in this body was the brother of the pa rish constable, James Grainge, an industrious shoemaker at Shenley Hill. The whole posse being assembled, they proceeded in considerable force to the - scene of action, which they reached about six o'clock. A second loud knocking at the door gave notice of their approach, when Mrs. Brown again made her appearan ce , an d, as has been stated by the witnesses, , admissionand, w as de mandedyng th in the this King's demand. name. Mrs. Brown still declined cons mand. A general assault then comm ence d , and several panes of glass were broken in the windows, as well as in the door. This c ontinued for some time, till at ISngth-Mr. Connoll ' came forward with a gun in his hand, and threatened to shooty the first person wh o presumed to break the door. Thi s only tended to increase the violence, and as the party outsid e c onsidered that they were armed with sufficient authority t o ise every exertion in their , power to mak e th e i r capt i on goo d , they treated M r . Connolly s threat s w i t h indifference, and a ctually began to break the pannels of the door with such mis- Mr. Connolly dischar ge d t h e gun, an d James Grain ge b e i ng siles as came to h a nd. At this un l uc k y moment, and in the heat of irrit at i on, nearest the door, he lodged the contents in the unhappy man f e ll, an d a cry o f " Murder' " burst f rom a ll mangledupperpa . rt of the arm near th e s h ou ld er, which was dreadfully quarters. A co ns id era bl e pause now took place; the att ac k wa s discontinued, and the officers and th e i r assist ants drew back, fearful that further mischief might be done ; and indeed wa have heard that other shots were actually fired, but without producing any further injury. The wounded man being unable to walk, was placed in a cart and carried to the 'White Hart, at Shenley-hill, from whence expresses were im mediately sent to St. Alban's and Barnet for surgical assist ance. Information of what had occurred was then conveyed to the Rev. Mr. Newcome and John M. 'Winter, Esq. another Magistrate in the neighbourhood, who-consulted upon what it was expedient to do. All the constables of the surrounding villages were forthwith summoned, and fresh additions were made to the list of special constables. With this fbrce the Magistrates proceeded in person to Rabley-house, within which all remained in perfect silence. It was now between nine and ten o'clock, and an attempt was made tie force an entrance at the back of the premises, where some more windows were broken. Under the direction of the Magistrates, admission Was once more formally demanded, and their warrant was read in a loud voice. Mrs. Brown for the third time came to the door, and announced, that if the party would chew her their warrant she would admit them. This was refused, but it was read in her hearing, and the door was finally opened. The Magistrates and the officers then entered, and Mrs. Brown said she would send to call Mr. Connolly down stairs. A servant did accordingly go up stairs, and Mr. Connolly came down and surrendered hi mse lf. All the other persons in the house were then secured as being participators in the outrage—namely, Mrs. Brown, her servant woman, Hugh Moran, a servant man, and another man called Edward, whose surname we were unable to learn. The whole were conducted to the White Hart, at Shenley-hill, where they remained under a strict guard for the remainder of the night. In the interim, the unfortunate wounded man had been con veyed to his own house, where he was put to bed until the sur geons should arrive, which did not take place till a late hour. Mr. Lloyd, of Barnet, Mr. Webster, of st. Alban's, and a third medical man, at length reached the spot, and on examin ing the wound, pronounced it to be extremely dangerous.— They remained in attendance the whole of the night ; and yes terday morning, on again opening the wound, they unanimous ly declared that amputation was necessary, and that this opera tion afforded the only hope of preserving life. At ten o'clock the Rev. Mr, Newcome, Mr. Winter, and Mr. Beddow assembled at the White Hart to take the depositions of the diffe ren t w i tnesses aga i nst the prisoners, and on hear ing the opini on o f the surgeons, they deemed it necessary to take Grainge's evidence before the operation took place.-- -They accordingly proceeded to the bed-side of the wretched man, and received from his lips the detail of all the circum stances which he had witnessed previous to the fatal shot hav ing been fired. To this he was sworn, and attached his signa ture. The surgeons then lost no time in performing their pain ful duty, but still expressed their fears of the result. The Magistrates then returned to the White Hart, and exa mined, in private, a vast number of witnesses,_ whose diff eren t ' statements they committed to writing. In the result, we un derstand, that a very strong case was made out against Mr. Connolly ; who, it was proved, was perfectly aware of the character of the persons who demanded admission, as well as the object which they had in view. It was also proved, we learn, that between the use of the pitchfork in the first in stance, and the return of the officers with the assault-warrant, Hugh Moran went to the house of a farmer in the neighbour hood, of the name of Baitholomew, and obtained from his ser vant the loan of a gun, with a quantity of poWder and shot._ Other testimony was given as to the declarations of Connolly, and to the state of irritation in which he appeared to be at the time the attack on the door was made. Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Connolly,and the three servants, were all called in separately, and their statements were received with the utmost attention. Mrs. Brown was greatly affected, and fainted three times during the day. Mr. Connolly, who was present when the surgeons were examined, particularly ques tioned them as to the mode in which the operation on Grainge was performed—namely, as to whether the bone had been ex tracted from the socket, had been splintered, or had been sawed off with a butt. We understand that the amputation 'took place just below the shoulder, and that there was no splintering. During the investigation ?dr. Connolly betrayed a good deal of impatience. Soon after three the melancholy intelligence reached the Ma gistrates that Grainge had expired—a fact which at once de cided the course they had to pursue ; and, after a short consul tation, they determined to commit all the parties upon the charge of the wilful murder of .James Grainge, and mitti muses were made out accordingly. Mr. Connolly, and his servant Moran, were sent off in a post-chaise to Barnet, hand cuffed together, in the custody of Frederick Propstring, the constable of that town, with directions that he should convey them to Hertford this morning. Mrs. Brown and her female servant were ordered to be detained at the White Hart, and to be removed to St. Alban's this day ; whither also the other man servant will be sent for the present. At the close of the business of the day, Mr. Noel, the soli citor, who, it will be recollected, took so active a part in the prosecution of the persons charged with the murder of Mr. Weare, arrived at the White Hart in a post chaise. He fin rnediately desired an interview with the Magistrates, and was sliewn into the Rev. Mr. Newcl me and Mr. Winter, who were just departing. Mr.- Noel announced that he, had come down in consequence ' of an express which had been sent off to him by Mrs. Brown, requesting that he would act as her Solicitor, and, as he was Solicitor to Captain Nestor, he had no hesitation in complying with her summons; :snd he had now to beg that he might be permitted to have an interview with his client. The Rev. Mr. Nevis:orn.,e said, he was aware that Mrs. Brown had chosen him for liar Attorney, and saw no objection to the interview ; but if he accepted of the office, it must be under stood that he was not to delegate his duty to any other person. Mr. Noel objected to this doctrine as altogether inconsistent with the practice on such occasions. He submitted that he had a right, if he thought proper, to employ his Crown Agent, and certainly would not agree to any other understanding. He had no objection to seeing Mrs. Brown in the Magistrates' presence, in order that na doubt might exist as to the unbiassed choice of her own mind ; but after that, he claimed the right of seeing her in private. The Magistrates consented to this, and Mrs. Brown was brought down from an upper room, in the custody o f M r. Hare, the landl or d o f t h e house, ho had been appointed a special gaoler for the occasion. On entering the room she was in tears, and welcomed Mr. Noel as a friend. She recapitus hated the circumstances of her having sent an express to him and- Captain Nestor, and begged that he would act as her solicitor. Mr. Newcome having now formally asked Mrs. Brown if site wished Mr. Noel to be nominated as her attor ney ? and she having answered in the affirmative, both Magis trates signified their wish that he should see her in private as often as he thought proper, but they forbad the introduction of any other person ; they said this, because they understood that Captain Nestor was in the neighbourhood, and it was their desire that that gentleman should have uo communication with her. The Magistrates then retired, and Mr. Noel went with Mrs. Brown to her own room, where he remained with her till a late hour last night. Captain Nestor, we understand, had as•rived in the course of the day, and finding that Mr. Noel hold not reached Shenley hill, he rode off to expedite his approas'n. Mrs: Brown is a lady of six and twenty years of age, and possessing considerable personal ch4rms—her connections are of the most respectable description, 'aer father being a Colonel in the army. She was much belovisd in the neighbourhood of Rabley-house. Mr. Connolly is an Irishman, as, his name imports, and is also respectably connected. He formerly practised with great sue cess as a surgeon at Brighton, but in consequence of some dis pute with an officer of the nansis of Andrews, who brought an action against him for defamation, and who recovered consi derable damage, he was obliged to quit the scene of his profes sional pursuits. The execution under which it was attempted to arrest bins on this unhappy occasion, we believe, had been sued out by Mr. Andrews for the damages which he had recovered, and which, he (Mr. Connolly), from a sense of the supposed injustice with which he 'slut been treated, resolved never to pay. Mr. C. was formeily a surgeon in the City of Dublin Militia, and was highly respected by his brother officers. Ile is married to a West India lady of large fortune, who now re sides at Portsea. Mr. James Connolly, his brother, is also a medical man carrying, on business as a chemi s t and druggist ' in Regent -street. This gentleman reached Rabley-house last night, but too late to have an interview with the prisoner. He, has a third brother, who is likewise a surgeon. Mr. Connolly and his servant Moran were last night vigi lantly watched is the cage at Barnet, where they were left without fire, and had nothing but straw to lie on. With regard to the females, the Magistrates treated them with every indulgence which their situation would admit of, and by Mr. Hare, the landlord of the inn, under whose care they remained, they were treated with great humanity. How ever inexcusable her conduct may have been, she seems to have acted solely under the influence of an amiable feeling, and from a desire to preseive the friend of Captain Nestor from, arrest. It is singular that in two murders committed in the same county, and within a short distance of each other, Mr. Noel should have been selected as the Solicitor. Mr. Connolly has not as yet employed an attorney, although his brother expressed a strong desire that Mr. Noel should un-• dertake the task. That gentleman, however, declined the office, till more formally requested by the prisoner himself. Rabley House is not far distant from South Mimms, and is not more than half a mile within the verge of the county of • Hertford. The unfortenate event has excited a mast extraordinary sen sation for miles round Shenley-hill ; and the strongest commis seration is felt for the family of poor Grainge, who has left a. wife and four infant children to deplore his loss, REMARKABLE DISCOTERY.-011 Wednesday se'nnight, as Thomas Pitt, blacksmith, of Upton, nea r Blewberry, in this county, was digging up an elm tree which stood in his garden, within a few yards of his door, he discovered the skeleton of a full-grown human being, which appeared, by the white teeth, to have been the body of some young person ; it was nearly six feet in length, and buried about a foot and a half beneath the surface of th e ground, and immediately under the body of the tree ; and it seems almost impossible, that the tree should have been planted without the person who did it being aware that a body was so situated. As the tree had been planted within little more than forty years, and in the remembrance of many of the inhabitants of the village, many conjectures are afloat respecting the body. From the freshness of the bones, the body could not have been buried for any length of time before the tree was planted ; and it seems almost certain that some foal murder was then committed, and that the murdered person (perhaps brought from some distance) was buried in the garden, and the tree placed over the grave to prevent the notice of the neighbours; it is also singular, that though many persons re member before the tree was planted, and remember seeing it after it was planted, yet no man ever saw the man in the act of planting it.—(Reading Mercury.) MARGATE, DEC. 26.—An accident of an ap-. palling nature was nearly occurring at the house of Mr. Watson, pastry-cook and confectioner, in Bridge-street. Th. family retired to rest on Christmas Eve, leaving every thing in safety, but on the servant girl coming down in the morn ing, she was surprised that the dresser and shelves of the kitchen were burnt to cinders; the heat was so intense that the glass of the windows was all cracked, and the earthenware in a similar state. It is conjectured that the girl going to the dresser drawer, a spark dropped from the candle which, smothering for a time, ultimately broke out in a flame. Owing to the absence of a current of air, the fire subsided without doing further mischief ; but for this miraculous acci dental interposition the whole premises would, in all likelihood, have been consumed imme diately. Adjoining this kitchen is the ware house of Mr. Paine, ironmonger, where several barrels of gunpowder are deposited, whi c h must have exploded and inflicted a most severe shock on the town. BIRTHS. On Saturday last, at Shelford, the Lady of Sir Charles Wale, K.C.8., Of a daughter. Last week, at the Pottery, Hull, the wife of a poor man, named Rubinson, was safely delivered of three fine children. MARRIED. On the 31st ult., at St. George's, Hanover-square, John Robert Ward, Esq., to Grace, second daughter of the late Charles Lynd, Esq., of Mullantane, county of Tyrone. On Wednesday, .1. Michael, Esq., solicitor, of Red Lion square, to Rose, eldest daught er o f Lemon Hart, Esq., of Fenchurch-street. DIED. -- On the Bth ult., suddenly, of the croup, Elizabeth, sixth daughter of the Rey. it. Verers, at Stoke Albany, deeply la mented by all who knew her. Yesterday morning, aged five, Emma Louisa, daughte r o f Ferdinand De Lisle, Esq., of Stoke Newington. On Wednesday last, at his residence at Walthamstow Thomas Courtenay W a rn er , E sq ., T reasurer o f S t. Bartholo mew's Hospital. At Brampton, on Friday last, aged 79, Robert Godby, Esq., senior Alderman of the Corporation of Huntingdon. On Wednesday last, at March, aged 78, Mr. John Barker, coal-merchant, and may years a waterman from that place,to Lynn and Cambridge. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the livx- OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. OARSTAIRg.