The Sun. — London, England, 1827-09-10 00:00:00

111 ah , aged ;li ap m the ravers. tsslon, in the rol len. re him relief, ;ht leg conti een in more, t, the trance. to be ranee ; 't was Mr. illiams lth to antity atient, ld lips t, and pulse The ppear ineous there. ppear- Aches, sation. veins, d, but LS very there Mr. daily, : bottle ins of pound ss ex- ancle ; id the bron- elieved repeat , sties ; . Le... es ere Are :e take 'aught, 4uring on ;he da-,, -1 with ing irz (pan thorax, proba.; In the some disease of the yellow )eneath nsider gutted_ of the and ter had ipateci. ii iliac,, its lin. xed to c:fri. rnitude nl, :a, that 1 blood it li I I ..... .• Aden rpool 1 gdon 11 relal It cif Jolla tt, of a )f Lieu of a son. 4 Arajor ofa -square, ma, of Richard roungest s Lapri tiorfak. Leytou- et. Ur. 0 hue, Quire. N' Jane, Preben- Suffolk. Maria, Bathe. ry Mar— , Nottoi, p, Eliza ;eon, of Surrey, mted by •t, only ptltorn, i-str.et, Turner, resleyart a Gall, teeident gic ,t tlas I 2„ ,e?„ NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the In habitants of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and it 6 neighbourhood, held in the Guildhall, on the Bth Pe ptember, 1827, The Right Worshipful the MAYOR of Newcastle in the Chair ; Resolved, on the motion of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., seconded by Robert Bell, Esq. ; that this Meeting regards, with pride and satisfaction, the approaching visit of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, as affording to the in-- habitants of this town and neighbourhood an opportunity of demonstrating their admiration of his great achievements, and their grateful remembrance of the services he has ren dered to his country. On the motion of Thomas Smith, Esq., seconded by Lieutenant-General Terrott ; that it is fit that nothing be wanting on this occasion to evince these feelings, and that his Grace's reception here should be distinguished by such marks of honour and respect as are due to the Great Com mander, to whom Europe and his country are so deeply in debted. Oa the motion of Dixon Dixon, Esc., seconded by Alfred Hall, Esq. ; that a Committee be appointed, con sisting of the High Sheriff of Northumberland, the Sheriff of Newcastle, Isaac Cookson, jun., Esq., Robert Bell, Esq., Thomas Smith, jun., • Esq., Job James Bulman, Esq., Thomas Loggan, Esq., and Joseph Lamb, Esq., for carry ing these Resolutions into effect, and that they confer with the Right Worshiped the Mayor, and adept, in conjunc tion with him, such measures as they shall deem expedient. ARCHIBALD REED, Mayor. The Mayor having left the Chair, the thanks of the Meeting were unanimously voted to him for his readiness in calling the Meeting and his conduct in the Chair. AA DOYLE (Widow of the late Mr. • JOHN DOYLE, of 4, Chandos-street, Covent garden,) begs leave to return her sincere Thanks to the Public and numerous Friends of her late Husband, for the support they honoured him with for more than 26 years, and to inform them the husiness'is carried on as usual upoit the premises. M. D. takes this opportunity respectfully to solicit a continuance of their favours, and to invite attention to the extensive Stock of CHINA, GLASS, &c. which is now being offered at greatly reduced prices. N.B. Country and Shipping Orders carefully packed. 91 1 CLARK'S GENERAL OUTFIT -a. • TING WAREHOUSE, for the EAST and WEST INDIES and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND. Officers, Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gen tlemen proceeding to South America, or any other part •f the Globe, will find in this Establishment the whole of their Military Appointments, Swords, Chacos, Sashes, Belts, Ristols, &c. together with a large and well•manu factured stack of Sea Cots, Couches, and Bedding ; Cabin Wask.hand Tables, Chairs, and Lamps ; Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every ether deseription of Travelling Equipage. AN ASSORTMENT OF CANTF.F.I4S, ready fitted with the necessary requisites for India and other tropical climates; likewise a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives and Forks, suitable for families going abroad ; Military and Hindostannee Books, Map', &e. A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriage, Curricle, Tandem, Phaeton, Stanhope and Chaise HARNESS, with every description of Saddlery, &c. &c., for home use, East and West Indies, and South America, which merit inspec tion from their excellent quality, first style of workman ship, and moderate prices. All the Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the excellent plan of fifty years standing is still strictly adhered to, of asking one Ready Money Price, but from which no abatement is made. ROYAL MAIL COACH-OFFICE, LAD-LANE. THE following ROYAL MAILS depart from the above Office every Evening at half•past Seven (Sundays excepted at Seven) : BATH and EXETER, through Devizes, Taunton, and CoHampton. BIRMINGHAM and KIDDERMINSTER, through Stoney Stratford and Coventry. BRISTOL, through Marllytrough and Chippenham. CARLISLE and EDINBURGH, through Chorley and GarsatcK. EXETER, through Salisbury, Blandford, and Dor chester. FALMOUTH and PLYMOUTH ROYAL MAIL. HOLYIIgAtn, through Wolverbamp;Nn, Shrewshu - ::, and Bangor. LIVERPOOL, through Neweaatle and Congleton. MANCHESTER, through Derby and Macclesfield. MILFORD HAVEN, through Carmarthen and Haver ford-west. NORWICH MAIL, via Colchester and Ipswich. The following POST COACHES start regularly at the time specified:— MORNING POST COACHES. Weymouth, through Blandford and Dorchester at five. Norwich, through Bury and Scolc, at Half-past Six. Nottingham and Derby, through Leicester, at Half-past Six. Windsor and Eton, at Seven. Birmingham, Coventry, and Holyhead, a Quarter before Eight... Liverpool, through Birmingham, a Quarter before Eight. Canterbury and Dover, at Eight and Ten. Southampton, through Winchester, a Quarter before Exeter, Falmouth, and Plymouth, a Quarter before Seven. Brighton, at half-past Nine. AFTERNOON POST COACHES. Cambridge,_ hrough Ware and Buntingford, at Half past Two. Canterbury and Dover, at Half-past Two. Carlisle and Edinburgh, through Garstang, a Quarter before Fire. Derby, through Northampton and Leicester, a Quarter before Five. Edinburgh and Glasgow, through Kendal and Dumfries, a Quarter before Five. Manchester, through Derbr and Buxton, a Quarter be fore Five. Nottingham, through Loughborough, a Quarter before Five. Bristol and Bath, through Chi ppenh am, at Half-past Four. Milford Maven and Tenby, through Swansea, at H a y_ past Four. Taunton, through Cross and Bridgewater, at Half-past Four. Windsor and Eton, at Two. Liverpool, through Coleehill and Lichfield, at Three. Norwich, through Colehester and Ipswich, at Half-past Five. Derby, through Leicester and Northampton, a Quarter before Six. Edinburgh and Glasgow, through Carlisle, a Quarter before Six. Manchester, through Leek and Macclesfield, at Six and Seven. Nottingham, through Leicester, at Six and Seven. Birmingham and Coventry, through Stony Stratford, a Quarter before Six. Holyhead and Shrewsbury, a Quarter before Six. Manchester, through Leek and Masclesfiald, a Quintet before Seven. Canterbury and Dover, at Seven. N.B. POST COACHES to every City and Manufac turing Town in the lUngdom. Bath and Bristol New Caravan every Afternoon, at a Quarter before Six. W. WATERHOUSE and SON, Proprietors. a- The Proprietor. of the above Carriages will not be accounta bl e for any Parcel or Package whatever, nor for any Passenge r's Luggage above the value of Five Pounds, nat e ,. the same b e entered and paid f or accordingly at the time of the deliv er ! of any such Parcel, P ac k age, er Pas tenger,. L ugga ge, to them or their Agent.. THE GRAVEL AND STONE, LUMBAGO, &e. HICKMAN'S PILLS are allowed to be the most successful Preparation for effectually re moving, and preventing the future recurrence of those Disorders which arise from an imperfect action of the Urinary Organs, as Gravel and Stone, Lumbago, p a i ns in the Back and Loins, &c. Composed of the most inno cent ingredients, this truly invaluable Medicine relieves the suffering patient from the excruciating tortures of those disease s without any violence br injury to the constitution, an d requires no confinement or restraint of diet during its use. It is one of the oldest Public Medicines extant ; and its Peculiar virtues and efficacy have uniformly maintained the highest rep utation. Sold in Boxes, at 2s. 9d. and Ile. by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, London ; 54, Sackville-street, Dublin ; and 73, Princes-street, T'din burgh ; Savory and Co., 136, New Bond-street, and 220, Regent-street ; and by the principle Medicine Venders in th e Kingdom. Of whom may be had, BUTLER'S C4JEPUT OPODELDOC, strongly ` recommended in CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, SPASMODIC AFFEC 'SIGNS, PALSY, STIFFNESS, and ENLARGE 7IENT of the JOINTS, SPRAINS, MISES, &c. Bottles, *t 2e. 9d. No. 10,919. The late Hon. William Philips, of Boston, report says, left property to the amount of two millions of dollars—a sum sufficient to purchase all the estates, real and personal, of half a dozen of our country towns. He gave / it is said, about one million and a half to his children and grand children, and the remainder to various individual societies.—American Angus. INDIAN MODE OF FISIIING.—The Bay of Manta, in South America, has probably its name from the great quantity of mantas in those parts, the Indians being chiefly employed in taking those fish, which they salt and carry to the inland provinces. The Europeans cannot help admiring their dexterity in this kind of fishery, which they carry on in the following manner :—They throw into the water a log of wood, such as they use in making a balza, being about five or six yards in length, and near a foot in diameter. This log will be sufficient to sup port the weight intended, which consists of a net lying across one end of it, and the Indian standing in an erect position on the other. On this tottering vessel, assisted by only a single oar, he puts off to sea, about tile distance of half a league, where he shoots his net. Another Indian follows him on a similar log, takes hold of the rope fastened to one end of the pet, by which means the whole is expanded, and both the Indians move towards the land, where their partners wait to draw the net on shore. In this occupation the dexterity and agility of the Indians, in maintaining an equilibrium on round logs of wood, is truly amazing : for the conti nual agitation of the sea renders it absolutely necessary positionssaryforthem to be continually changing t with their bodes ; and what: still heightens the i and making different motions difficulty is, that the Indian is at the same time obliged to mind both his oar and his net, in drawing it towards the land. They do indeed sometimes, though very seldom, slip off their logs ; but being excellent swimmers, they re cover their bark, and in an instant place them selves in their former situation. STEAM NAVIGATION-VOYAGE TO INDIA. We talce pleasure in recording facts connected with this illeresting art, and therefore again call at tention to the steam-vessel plying between Dublin and Bordeaux, for the purpose of marking the capa bilities of this species of navigation. We find from the Liverpoo! papers, that she has made three trips, and in each has accomplished the voyage from the one town to the other in 65 or 70 hours. As the distance is ful:y 700 miles, this exhibits a rate of sailing day and night of no less than ten or eleven miles in an hou,•! The vessel waits seven days at Bordeaux to allow the passengers time to visit th e Pyrenees if they choose. They generally bring fresh grapes and other fruits home with them ; and they might in fact almost rival the feat of the cele brated men of 'Lurid], who went from that town to Strashurgh on foot in a day, and ate in the latter city, pies still warm, which had been baked in their houses in the mornii,3.. Apropos of pleasure voyages. We wonder some of the enterprising navigators o f the Clyde never think asendin g one of their numer ous steam-boats to nu-ke a pleasure trip from Leith to Christiania, Gottte: l4 urgh, and Copenhagen. The voyage is about as short as that from Dublin and Bordeaux, and the scenery at these foreign town, especially the first, is extremely intet-;sting. But the subject merits notice in a tuore extensive point of view; and the following short calculation will shew the marvellous change which would be made in the commercial intercourse between nations, if this velocity could be permanently commanded. Taking Portsmouth as the point of departure, the voyage to the principal portr in the South of Europe and in Asia, would be accomplished in the following times-- From Portsmouth to Lisbon 4 days. • Gibraltar Leghorn Morita Constantinople l3 Alexandria From Alexandria to Suez, across the desert, two days ; and froth Suez to Bombay, 14 days,— making the voyage fron , Portsmouth to Bombay _ _ _ The use of steam would thus have the astonishing effect of bringing each of these places within one fourth part (commercially speaking) of its present distance from England. The voyage from Ports- Mouth to Constantinople or Alexandria would be nearly as short as that between London and Leith was a few years ago. It might even happen, that ifone man started for Indiaby the new route, and another by the old, the former might be at the end of his jour ney before the latter, if the wind was westerly, had cleared the chops of the Channel ; and in ordi nary eases the one could go to India, remain two months there transacting business, and return home to England, before the other had completed his voyage out - Considering the magnitude and value of our Indian empire, it is singular that no attempt is made to establish a communication with it by steam through the channel we have mentioned. Admit ting that 1000 persons pass by sea between India and England in a year, and that they pay 1001. each, we have thus 100,0001. per annum expended in pas sage money. Now as there are few to whom con finement in a ship is a luxury, we take it for granted that these persons would pay 'as much for a passage in one nionth, as for a passage in four. Here then is. one hundred thousandpounds which= Indian Steam Navigation Company might immediately pocket, and this is certainly but a part of the pecuniary be nefit they would reap. Experience shews, that whatever adds to the facility of travelling increases the number of travellers, and generally in a still higher ratio. Since steam navigation was introduced in 1811, the circulation of human beings round the coasts of Britain has increased ten-fold. Does any body doubt that there would be a similar increase in the number of passengers to and from India, were the voyage shortened from four months to one ? Then 10,0001. might certainly be got from Govern ment and the East India Company, for the convey ance of dispatches ; at least the accommodation to these parties would unquestionably be worth twenty times the sum. His tanned and turbanned Excel lency too, the Pacha of Egypt, would, we presume, be liberal, either in money or privileges, to a C om p any, that enabled him to get those models of o ur newest steam-engines, powder mills, and spinni ng j enn i es, within one month, for which his impatient spirit must now wait three or four. It is true, the ex pence and trouble attending the execution of the scheme would be great ; but this very circumstance would secure the undertakers a monopoly for many years, and whatever the difficulties be, enormous re turns are certain. The intercourse between England and India—the trade in passengers, if we may call it so, already exists, and there is a moral certainty that it only awaits the application of the new and wonderous power of steam, and the adoption of the shorter route we have mentioned, to shoot up to a magnitude of which the most sanguine scarcely dream at present. It is possible that the East India Company, from its jealousy of the private traders, may be unfriendly to the scheme. This is a point of which we cannot judge; but they have no power either to prevent its execution, or to deprive those who engage in it of the enormous gains it would bring them. The re-opening of the ancient canal of the Ptolemies, which is said to be projected by the Pacha of Egypt, would further the scheme, but is not indispensable to its success.—Scotsman. THE JAGUAR.—The jaguars are solitary ani mals, or are met with only in pairs ; they inhabit thick forests, especially in the neighbourhood of great rivers ; and if they be driven by their wants to seek for sustenance in the cultivated country, they generally do so by night. It is said they will stand in the water, out of the stream, and drop their saliva, which floating on the surface, draws the fish after it within their reach, when they with the paw, a nd th ro w them on will attack cows, and 1 shoresei z bulls ef of e ffo i o n ou dr even years h old, but horses seem to be their favourite prey. They destroy the larger animals by leapin g on th e i r b ac k ; an d p l ac i ng one paw on the head, and another on the muzzle, they contrive to break the neck of their vi c ti m i n a moment. Having thus deprived it of• life, they will drag the carcass, by means of their teeth, a very considerable distance, to their retreat, from which their great strength may, in some measure, be estimated. The traveller who is unfortunate enough to meet this formidable beast, especially if it be after sun-set, has but littl e t i me fin. con sideration. Should it be urged to attack by the cravings of appetite, it is not any noise, or a fire brand, than will save him. Scarcely any thing but the celerity of a musket-ball will anticipate its murderous purpose. The aim must be quick and steady ; and life or death depends on the re sult. Generally speaking, particularly during day, th e j aguar will not att ac k a man ; but if it b be press e d by hunger, or h av e previously tasted human flesh, its appetite will overcomezara its in frs; and during the residence of D'A Para guay, no les than six men were destroyed by this formidable beast, two of whom were at the time before a large fire. ~~, IMPERIAL GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. 10, Coleman-street, 7th September, 1827. NOTICE is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of Proprietors of THE IMPERIAL GAS LIGHT AND COKE, COMPANY, will be held at the LONDON TAVERN, Rishopegate street, On WEDNESDAY the 19th day of September next ensuing, at One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of ELECTING .7 fit and proper person to be CLERK of the Company, in the place of Mr. Henry Clarke, who has resigned. By order, BARTHW. MAYIIEW, Clerk, pro tern. ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 34, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. DIRECTORS. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, M.P. Chairman. THOMAS FRANKLAND LEWIS, Esq. M.P. Deputy Chairman. Lancelot Bangll Allen, Esq. Capt. George Harris, RN. Stephen Nicholson Barber, C.B. Esq. Francis Kemble, Esq. Robert Biddulph, Esq. John Knowles, Esq. F.R.S. Thomas Fenn, Esq. Thomas Meux, Esq. Adam Gordon, Esq. Henry Frederick Stephen son, Esq. AUDITORS.....-111. W. Clifton, Esq. ; John Kymer, Esq. ; J. Whiahaw, Esq., F. R. S. PHYSICIAN.—John Piris, M.D. F.R.S. 28, Dover-street. SURGEON.—Benjamin Travers, Esq. F. R. S. 12, Bruton-st. Sottenou.— , -Henry Young, Esq. Essex-street, Strand. AcruAtty.—Mr. John Naylor. ADVANTAGES BELONGING TO THIS INSTI TUTION :- PREMIUMS on young and middle-aged Lives consider ably lower than those generally required. Three-fourths of the present savings and profits, and eventually the whole profits, divided among the assured. Policy Holders (if assured to the extent of 5001. for the whole term of Life) entitled, after five annual payments, to vote at all General Meetings ; the Members of which have absolute controul over the a ffairs of the Society. Full particulars are stated in the Prospectus, which, with every requisite information, may be obtained by ap plication at the Office. • In 3 vols. post 6vo. 31s. 6d. REUBEN APSLEY.—By the Author of " Brambletye House," " The Tor Hill," &c. " Sir Walter Scott must learn to bear a rival near the throne. His contemporaries are already beginning to pay a divided allegiance. They think, and apparently with justice, Horace Smith is second, and only second, to the once sole monarch."—Monthly Magazine. Printed for Henry Colhurn, 8, New Burlington-street. In 3 vols. post Svo. 28s. 6d. H YDE NUGENT ; a Tale of Fashionable Life. " Among a multitude of other scenes and characters sketched in this novel with great brilliance and effect, will be found :—A Presentation at Court—. Westminster School --Country Gentlemen—Methodist Ladies—Lancers— Hussars--Guardsmen—Oxford —D t leis—The Continent— The Opera and the Danseuses--Almack's--Aristocratic Suninier Parties—Fashionable Archery—lnvitations Drawing Rooms—Melton Mowbray—Dandies—Quadrill ing—Gaming-houseq--The Exhibition--Flirtation-- Long's—Foreign Fashionables—Watering Places, &c. &c." Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street. Lately Published, THE SECOND NUMBER of the QUAR TERLY JOURNAL of SCIENCE, LITERA TURE, and ART. (New Series.) Edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By W. T. BRANDE, Eaq. F.R.S. 1., &c. Printed lur Henry Colburu, New Burlington-street. This Work will in future be conducted upon a more ex tended and popular plan than hitherto, and instead of being chiefly confined to the abstract sciences, and princi pally addressed to the proficient, it is proposed to render its contents more suitable to the general reader ; for it can not be denied that the elements of many of the sciences, when treated in a popular manner, are as interesting in the perusal, as they are useful and important in their results. The subjects discussed, will, accordingly, consist chiefly of such of the Sciences and Arts as are cultivated more or less in domestic circles, and which consequently number, among their Students, a large body of Amatenre of both sexes in various classes of society, particularly in the highest; as, for example, Chemistry, Botany, Horticul ture, Geology, Astronomy, Natural history, in all its divi sions, (especially the very attractive one of Zoology) Music, Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Popular Treatises on the Medical Art will also be included, parti cularly as it relates to Diet, Air, Exercise, &c. Another portion of this Journal will be devoted to the Biographies of Scientific Men, and to Reviews of such Publications as may be considered to have relation to the general desig,n of the work; including Voyages and Travels, Books connected with Antiquities, &c. A full Quarterly Abstract will also be given of all that relates to the General Progress of the Arts and Sciences in this and other Coun tries. The proceedings of Learned Bodies, and of Scien tific and Literary Institutions, will thus form a department, in which an opportunity will, doubtless, be offered of furnishing much that is new and interesting. The Trans actions of the Members of the Royal Institution especially, will form a prominent article, and, from their varied Nature may be expected to confer a useful and distinctive character upon the Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art. Communications for the Editor are requested to be ad dressed to the Royal Institution, Albemarle-street. " No. S will be published October 1. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1827. PRICE 7D. " When do you intend to marry me ? You must tell me the truth." I said I had told her many a time I did not intend to be married vet. I said we had nothing to be married with,—we had no Foods, nor nothing to furnish a house with. She said her father had signed , over a ll th e goo d s t o h er : t h ey were all her 's if she had a mini I said that did not signify to me. She said, if I did not- believe her, she would fetch the paper, and show it to me. She did fetch a paper out of the shop, and I read a line or two; there was both writing and printing on it, and her name was at the bottom ; I did not see her father's name. I gave her it again, and said I did not understand it. I saw the word " snuff" in it, and I asked her what it meant. She said, the snuff was in along with the rest of the goods and things. James Shorrock, ay.',zugman of about 18.—I know the prisoner and also George Richardson very well. I saw Jane • between five and six on the Sunday night. She . said, " I have just been watching George go into the dandy shop, to Betty Watson's. George thinks to make a fool of me. I'll make a bigger fool of him. • He'll be here after awhile." She then said, "My father and mother are very badly. I'll go in ;.o supper; stop here till I come back." She went away, and came again in about 20 minutes, and said, " Oh, J em, my father and mother are sure to die,—are sure to die." I said, " We're all sure to die." She said, " We're all sure to die, but not so soon as them." She added, " Next week I am going to Manchester. I owe you two shillings. Come to-morrow might and I'll pay thee." She said, " When I come back from Manchester, I'll be wed, and we'll have a bit of a stir:" She did not say to whom she would be wedded. She said, she would not ask every body, but she would ask me, because I was such a nice lad. She said, her father and mother had signed over all to her, they had three houses, and when she came back from Manchester, she would sell one, which would set them up in some kind of business, and then they weuid go to Liverpool to her Mary, meaning her sister. _ _ Coss-examined.---I had known her well for four or five years. I knew she was subject to fits. I don't know whether they weakened her under standing. Robert Brown, surgeon—i went to Scott's house at about half after nine o'clock in the evening of the Monday night. Mrs. Scott was sitting in a chair in the kitchen, supported by Mrs. Cragg, vomiting violently. From what I learnt I concluded she was poisoned. I had some conversation with Jane Scott.' Whilst the water was making ready I desired to see the pan in which the porridge was made. She bad told me at my house when she came for me, that they had got ill immediately after taking some porridge. Afterwards she told me that she had made it. When I asked for the pan in which it was made, she brought it ; there was from half an ounce to an ounce of the porridge remaining in it. I desired her and the other persons present that it might be put on one side, that I might examine it when I was more at leisure. It was placed on the table under the window. • I asked for the pan, in order to send it to my house. The prisoner brought it, and I saw it was washed out. I said I was surprised she should have meddled with the pan after the orders I had given to preserve it. She said, the water applied in the pump had been boiled in the pan. I answered, that pan had not been used at all. I had superintended the boiling of rho water. Shp made no answer. I then asked her for the basin from which Mr. Scott bad taken the porridge. She said she had emptied it into the canal. The canal is from 50 to 100 yards from the house. I expressed my surprise that she should have taken it so far. She said, her father had told her to take it. 1 asked her if she was in the habit of taking things so far. I think she said "no." She afterwards produced to me a basin ; it appeared to have been washed out. There were some very small particles of meal adhering to the sides ; those par ticles appeared to have been boiled, but it was too small a quantity to make any experiment upon. I saw no marks of distress in her appearance; she seemed ready to give help. On the next morning, at half-past nine o'clock, I opened John ScOtt's body. I examined Mrs. Scott's body. I should certainly attribute their deaths to arsenic, or some mineral poison. Mr. Justice BAILEY addressed the Jury, an& said there was a considerable defect in the proof; they had not evidence of the result of the examination of the meal, because the apprentice was not in attend ance, nor had they ally evidence of the contents of the stomach to enable them to give any decided judgment. There is another charge against the pri soner with reference to her mother.. Before that is tried, the prosecutors will have an opportunity of supplying the defects in the proof of this case. I have conferred with Mr. Baron Bullock, and my opinion is, that the safer course will be for you t o give a verdict for the prisoner, as that full examina tion which you ought to have is not now forthcom ing. It is the fault of the prosecutors that it is not. Mr. Brown, the surgeon, here said, I went home with the contents of the stomach. I assisted per sonally in carrying them ; I and my assistants went together. We went together to Dr. Moore; we there c:,:arnined them. Mr. Scott's stomach was first examined ; the oesophagus and stomach were very much inflamed. The fluids remaining in the stomach of Mr. Scott were collected by themselves, and submitted to the usual tests. A numerous set of experiments were applied to real arsenic suspend ed in fluids. The arsenic was held in solution, and the portion of the fluid taken from the stomach and bowels of Mr. Scott underwent a filtre, and were subjected to the same tests. The prisoner, on being called upon for her defence, said she knew nothing at all about it. Mr. ARMSTRONG called ilary Wood. I am the own sister of the prisoner. I live at Liverpool. My father kept a bakehouse and a jerry (chandler's) shop, at Bridge-street,Pres ton. My sister has been afflicted with fits the last three or four years. lam sure her mind has been very much weakened by them. There was no vari ance or falling out between my parents and my sister. They always thought a great deal of her : much more than they did of me. She was always kind to them. I have known mz sister fall from one fit into another, and have 5.0 nts in a day, and be ill for a a week afterwards. She has got up after a fit, and gone to the fire-place, and raked all the fire out. Sometimes she would say she had had nothing to eat—she was starved. She has some times been two or three hours in that way, and sometimes a shorter period, Mrs. Alice Ben:lA.—l am a married woman, and have been Mrs. Scott's neighbour for seven or eight years. We were intimate. I have held the pri soner many times whilst she has been in fits. She has been in the Dispensary at Preston, and the Manchester infirmary. I have heard both her father and mother say they were afraid their poor Jane would never be able to work for her living, she had such severe fits. I never saw her other than kind from Preston e ffe te hereccotimonea (t w enty-one miles) a t my own expens e . to her pa ren t s , an d th e y so to her. alnldiaNa• There oc e tions. By wh a t means the deceased John Scott of mistake w ni nc i e g ; ht hu b t e it il N i vus stan f c r e o s m the came to his deanthA:LiEfYbysaipdo,istohne, whether that p o i. re were three ques. sol l : l N l :as Ju a s t t l i m ee inist ere d by the prisoner wilfully an d v accom panying circum stances th e J ur y w ere to d ec i de whe ther mistake could be applied K) the present ease l ‘iictikiepdetctil ..__. • :c i ). t :•: - . i .'•:•.•:, • . -....-....- - c ..-- I , 41 )SA . V.;'- .1 . 7 , , ~ ,,,.,,..k k ' * • t . " ,.. . •- ' —, \ • ... - . 1-V. '. ' -'-• 4 - er-"l'''-• - • ''.-.A1..,, , --4:-14 - i ',,- •-,,,:::: ..• ,• and 0 1 tat ail; - depended upon th e The third question was, whether thO- saner, tif flee time, had her mind so conduct lth eis tiu -, impaired as to be deprived of the knowledge of right or wrong, and did not know the character of the act she was doing. By want of due caution they had not the opportunity of hearing what was 'the state of the meal - taken to Mr. Brown's house by his ap prentice; neither had they the means of knowing what there might have been in- the contents of that which was pumped up from the stomach. His Lordship summed up very minutely : when he came to Shorrock's evidence, he said that he rather liked to look at the conduct of parties than at the evidence of conversations. With respect to the prisoner's not appearing distressed, he said that many people felt inwardly very strongly, without exhibiting any external appearance. When his Lordship came to that part of Mrs. Berchell's evidence that re lated to the prisoner's fits, she fell into a fit, and was carried away. In a few minutes, ho*- ever, she was brought back apparently recovered. His Lordship observed that there did not appear any thing to show that the prisoner's mind was so im paired as to destroy the knowledge of right and wrong; yet, though there was not a total want of intellect, her fits might have produced forgetfulness, and make her more liable to mistakes; and it ought not to be forgotten that she had a fit on the Friday preceding the death of the deceased, and there was a possibility that the fit left her mind confused. One of the Jury asked, whether she had not told Shorrock on the Sunday night that her mother was bad. Mr. Justice BATLEY.—She did, but you are to judge what reliance you place on the evidence of the conversations. ' , 'he Jury retired flr t?n m'nutec, and then brought in a verdict of " Not Guilty. William Robinson, aged 34, was brought up and arraigned upon an indictment, and on . the Ellen coroner's ßobinson, briso inquest, chasing chaV at hcimiauwighthtont, on the hemurde l r st o h r of August last., Mr. BROWN stated the ease, and called Betty Plimley, a young girl, who said—l live near the prisoner at Hall Moor-end, in Claughton Mrs. Robinson, the prisoner's wife, had been poorly, and was getting better; I waited on her because she was poorly ; I remember her husband coming home the day before she died; they had a violent quarrel at night; I was there at dinner-time on the day she died; he generally came home to dinner at 12 o'clock ; Mrs. Robinson went out fire minutes before the dinner-time; he came home five minutes afterwards, and asked where she was gone; I said I did not know; he stayed in, ate his dinner, and went out to seek her; came back and told me he could not find her, stepped a little, and then went ; half an hour after he was gone, Mrs. Robin.- son came in, and went out afterwards; Robinson came home at half-past four, and she came in about two minutes afterwards; he said something to her; I can't say what it was, but she went out, remained some time, and he went to seek her, and came back saying he could not find her ; he went out again ; she came in, and he came in about two munnes after her ; he asked her, if " such like carryinrgs on would do ;" she never answered, but went up stairs; I heard her say something to him ' , Alen she was up stairs, but I don't know what it was; he said " if she said two more words to him, he would kill her," or "finish her ;" I don't kno w Itether he said "kill" or " finish ;" in a minute or two afterwards lie. went up stairs ; I heard them both quarrelling, but I. could not tell what they said ; I heard him strike her ; I was at the stairs' foot ; I heard more than one blow. She said, " William, hest thou very near done enough ?" He said, " No, not yet." I beard him strike her again more than once. I heard something guttling in her throat; I thought it was in her throat. I heard him "side" (shuffling) about very much ; he came down stairs and walked two or three times over the floor; he then went up stairs, and I heard him drag something on the floor, It seemed as ;f he was dragging a chair with a gre:at weight in it. He then came down stairs and 'went a milking,—he had a cow, and took the pans out. As soon as ever he got out of the house, j w ent up and saw Mrs. Robinson sitting in a elrair with her head reared up against the bed -post. I went down again and fetched up her son, who is F.;bout 12 years old. The son went t o th e chair. I was a yard off. He got hold of her arm, and said, "Mother." She never answered, and I thought she was quite dead. I went down stairs and fetched my sister Anne who, is older than me. We then went up together, an, my sister went to the chair, put her hand down; her breast, and said "Ellen," but she newer an swered. We then both came down. The pri soner was out about half an hour milking. He asked if I had been up stairs. I said no. Ile went up himself. I heard him move something, but I thought it did not seem a very great weight. He came down in about a minute, and said, " D ear me , Betty, our Ellen h as tumbled down in a fit. She has lamed the side of her eye against the bed-rail." He asked me to come up ; I went up stairs with him, and found the chair shifted a little. Her head was hanging over the bed-foot rail. We came down stairs, and he asked me to fetch Ellen Almond and Grace Lambert. They live a little bit off. Before I went for them, he told me not to sayany thingof what I saw above stairs. I went out for them. Grace Lambert came up, and Ellen Almond and I after wards. We all went up stairs where he was. I, came down stairs again, and he came down, and said., " Oh dear, Betty, I have a pain at my heart," and he took me to the buttery, and said, " Betty, these women say I have killed our Ellen. Thou knowist whether I have or not ;" and he asked me if I would be a friend of his, and say nothing about his abusing Ellen. Almond and Lambert went away, and I did not stop many minutes. William Smith, of Garstaug, surgeon, viewed the body; the blows and thr strangulation were each sufficient to produce death; pressure on the throat would prevent crying o u t ; bed, but never struck of pressure on each side of the neck. The prisoner, in his defence, s a id, " O n F r id ay e th ow e u,e r l e ag l iu V i da e r r tr e fie nll gr de e dh a ee t xr m e:e a se rk thie s , cli n %na, i ag g i nsihyeot, dadhfr my o;na enl N da v tt i o f No e dvkihn N eh v n n a ee was rr su d h p r tie time,nt 0 1 c; camel home 011 S atur d ay her. I went t o my wor k at morning, and when I night, she was intoxicated again ; she began swear ing; said she had done more for me than my first wife had done, only she had not brought four rotten children into the world; and she rushed at me, and began kicking me, and I struck her. I had no idea she was dead; when I came back I saw she was dead." The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of murder, and Mr. Justice /3.11.Eit pronounced the sentence of the law upon him, that he should be hung by the neck on Monday next til he was dead, and that afterwards his body should be dissected and ana tomized. His Lordship admitted that the prisoner's wife had not been free from blame, but said that the crime of which he was guilty—that of mur dering the wif e o f hi s b oso m—was as wicked a cr i me as could be co n c e i ve d. wilfully v VALUABLE,brfoRMATION TO A RTISTS A N DAT —To copy inscriptio ns ; t a k e a sheet of tissue , held it against, or lay it on a b rass or stone, o v er the ioscription ; then t a k e a rubb er o fli et and wash. l i Qt, ...s gs . leat h er , in alternate lay In ers, rolled to about an inch ' did- m eter; dip the end in black-lead or lustre, finely pulverised. rub on it steadily ar over the paper, and a most beautiful lobes= will e. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NEW W,, The Chro n i c l es of t h e Canun gate, about to appear fr.om oRKF4 the pen of th e A ut h or o f Waverley, are three in nunabo : I, The highland Widow, IL The Two Drovers. 111. The Surgeon's Dauglate74., The first two will, we are enabled 4 ,0 state, occupy the first vo l u me; and the last, the seeor volume. The work w ill b e published by th e en d of r Jetober. The Tales of a G r andfather, which we atunr‘nced some time since by di g sa me author, have made , considerable progress, and will probably follow the ', Airou i r l e4 , IQ cur ly es Nemcber,... .literary Ga;:ettc, .-~1 1 2 ~~ // ,V‘--(-A , et-e l pe.,' .— •=aps :10, /''''' ...., , ,,P ~.1.4 . . teN ,t - '4l, ' ( • if ~ •‘'S _ , , -/ 7 - : '.` "* "."111.0" S 1 'l_ ,; k :: j,; 4 :,, •N, 4.-± , - , + 1 ~ t" , ''' 4 .11 1 '-=- • % - -- g - ,. , : 1 % ' ( / ~, ' ' . •.- -' ' teiVP :, 0 - --- '-,_', 71 1 1‘(.`4• - ?ifOligigAtt .s. .` 1 ‘4,4 . . , •-•- k e 3, ' . N . - ' ' ‘ ..k kr ". . / • .. --.'"' " ' , . e''''' . .... f . 'II' ')';'? "4. • 7 2 4:: 4;jiJi 2 ‘1 : ::4 ;I: :1- -., ~... ,:i• .....„,, . . , s • ~ ~4...,_ :,... .......,.. ...,..,,, • ..---' Ili ' 'K.-. 4 - .4 - rt. sy •„„ . 4 10, Oi.,`' • • 1:1 '---- —:-----"'- , ftlbi \ tV V ‘ '''''''S 11'2. 11) jili• 1 " 1! '"_ , •,' '',, 6,11, 1 ~, - 4 0,4 :: , , i• N ~,. .k 031 T .11_, . SUMMER ASSIZES. LANCASTER, THURSDAY, SEPT. 6. John Robinson the elder, Lawrence and Robert Robinson, Henry, William, and James Nelson, and John Robinson the younger, were indicted for woluid ing and killing a bay filly, the property of John Walmsley, at Farrington, on the 18th of August. There were two other counts for wounding and cut ting a black horse, and also a black gelding, the pro perty of George Green. There was another indict-. men ~against the same prisoners, for stealing a basket, containing some tea, sugar, soap, salt, &c. The Jury found John Robinson the elder and Henry Nelson Guilty, and Acquitted the other five wisoners. FRIDAY, SEPT. 7. Jane Scott was arraigned upon a bill found against her for petty treason, by administering arsenic to her master, John Scott, at Preston, on the 14th of May. She was also arr i:4aed upon the Coroner's Inquest for the same offer, and pleaded " not guilty" to both charges. S'ne is a short thick-set young woman, aced 21. Before the trial began, Mr. Justice Bayley showed a printed paper to the Jury, and said lie.had received it in a letter from Manchester. The paper purported to be the confessions of the prisoner Jane Scott, and of another person. If any of the Jury had met with a copy of it, he begged they would dismiss it from their mind, as it was without the slightest foundation. It had been most improperly published, and if the person who printed it should be indicted and convicted of the offence, a very heavy punishment would most assuredly be the conse quence. Mrs. Hannah Cragg.—l live at Preston, and was acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Scott. They and their daughter Jane live in the same house ; Jane is between 21 and 22. I was at Mrs. Scott's house on Sunday, the 13th of May; I drank tea there; Mrs. Scott took me home a little after eight. Mr. and Mrs. Scott were then quite well, and they and her daughter were on good terms. I saw Jane Scott again on Monday night, a little past nine; she came to me and said, " Come to our house, my mother is dead." She appeared very much alarmed. I said, " I think your mother is not dead ;" she replied, " Oh, yes ; my father is holding her up." I bid her go home, and made up my house, and followed her. I found the door open; went up the lobby, and saw Mrs. Scott in the kitchen. I had some con versation with her, but Jane Scott was net present. I saw John Scott afterwards, in the yard, vomiting very hard. He went into the kitchen with me; Mrs. Scott was still there. Jane came in, and was going about the kitchen, but could hear what was said.— Mrs. Scott said, " I am poisoned by the porridge." Mr. Scott said the same, and "that it was a terrible job for them." Jane Scott said, " she would be quit of the porridge, there should be nothing more said about it," and she then went into the pantry, and brought out a basin of porridge. I saw it. I was holding Mrs. Scott's head. Mrs. Scott said, " Hold, Jane, don't take them out." Jane, who was near enough to hear her, said nothing, but went out and took the basin with her. She returned in company with another woman, and brought back the basin ' and took it straight forward into the pantry. Mrs. Scott desired her to fetch Dr. Brown, the surgeon. Mr. Brown came, and asked. Jane to bring the porridge-pan, that he might look at it. It was a tin pan in which the porridge was boiled.-- He told her to lay it down, and not to wash it. I 4 2 .4 not exactly sec ‘vhat was in the pan. A question was asked by the mother, but I am not sure whether Jane heard it or not. [Counsel declined asking what the question was.] David Graham was sent for. The prisoner and Mrs. Bilsborough went for him. I left the house between 11 and 12 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Scott were then both a bed. David Graham.—Mrs. Scott was my mother, and Mr. Scott my step-father ; I saw them on Saturday the 12th May, at nine or ten o'clock at night ; they were then in very good health ; Jane was not then at home; she lived with her father and mother, and was sometimes on good, and sometimes on bad terms with them; I have known her [subject to fits for the last three years; ,they were at times very violent; on Monday, the 14th of .May, Jane came to my house at about nine in the evening; she appeared, very much alarmed, and said, "Oh ! David, conic away as fast as you can, my father and mother are dying." I went with her, and found Mr. Brown there; Mrs. Scott said something about Jane; I can't say whether Jane heard it or not; in consequence of what my mother said, I told Jane I thought she had poisoned them; she said she had not; after I had got them into bed, she came up stairs into the room, and I said, "Oh ! Jane, how can you come into the room where they are ? You see what you have brought them to—them suffering in such a manner." She leapt at and struck m e , and swore at me, and said she had not done it ; she was so violent, I was obliged to put her down stairs ; I told her I would have her taken up; she is subject to passions at times; she was then in a very great passion and said she would poison my wife before long; I then sent for a constable, and had her taken up ; this was before either Mr. or Mrs. Scott died. I remained in the house until Mrs. Scott died; that was about ten minutes before three in the morning ; Mr. and Mrs. Scott were in the same bed; I told Mr. Scott that Mrs. Scott was dead ; Jane was not present; I do think that Mr. Scott thought he was dying at that time. Graham's examination continued—After I had told Mr. Scott that my mother was dead, he said, " I shall not be long after her." He then said, he believed that Jane had put poison into the Porridge she had made for them. --- Margaret Bisborough—l have known Jane during the last three years. Her fits have been latterly more fre quen t. I cannot tell whether they have impaired her mind. She has had them so very bad at times as to fall in the streets. Thomas Emmett, a druggist at Preston—The prisoner has come to my shop three times ; the first time was about two months before the death of Mr. Scott. She asked fora quarter of a pound of arse nic. I inquired w h at s h e wante d it f or; she said to de stroy rats ; t h ey ate h er f a ther's cheese and bread. I asked where she lived sho p i n Bridge-street. ; she said her fat h er kept a I c annot say whether she mentioned her father's name or not. ( Th e Judge desired th e W i tness i n f uture always to make a writ ten entry when he sold poisons.) She came again , about a f ortn i ght a f terwar ds, and ask e d foz three penny-w ort h of arsen i c . I again ask e d her whet.? she lived; collection she told me the othe r arsenic had not quite nestroyed the rats, that brought lwr to my re , and I sold her the arsenic. She cam e th e third tim e, in the afternoon of the Thursday or Friday previous to the death of Mr. Scot t , an d as k ed for three p enny - wort h o f arsenic; she sa id i t was to put into white-wash to destroy bugs. Arsenic is proper for that purpose. I sold her the arsenic. I wrote on th e parcel " Arsenic," drew a line tinder it, and then wrote " Poison." I told her she must be very cautious how she used it, for it was a deadly poison. She asked me how to mix it, and I showed her. _ _ ✓ George Richardson—l knew the prisoner for two months before Mr. Scott's death; I saw her on the Thursday night before; she Was then standing at her door, and called me in. I stayed with her from half-past six till near ten. There was another girl, Betsy Richardson, there; she wished her to go home, for she had something particular to say to me. I told the gill to stay, for there was nothing par ticular that I knew of. Betsy, after a short time, went into the back-yard, arid then Jane said,