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PRI PATE CORRES PONVI.VC E. Duatirr, sm. 3. COMMISSION INTELLIGENCE. .761 m Begg stood trial on an Indictment for High Treason on the two branches of the Stat. 25th Edward 111. recited in the former cases. Mr. ATTOItNIY GENERAL informed the Jury that the Prisoner at the Bar, from the nature of his trade and occupation, being a Carpenter, stood within the influence of a species of public prejudice which has pervaded the minds of very intelligent Ten since the breaking out of the late Insurreflion. This prejudice probably arose from the many im plements of destrudion which were found, and which had been so often detailed in evidence, re. gutting the assiduous operations of men belonging to that trade or craft. Of this prepossession, as well as all others, the Gentlemen of the Jury were to endeavour most completely to divest their minds, and weigh the evidence which shall be adduced to prove the fads laid in the Indiament, on their specific merits. The preliminary evidence of a traiterous insur. Teltion breaking out in the City of Dublin on the night of the 23d of July, having been previously gone through, Lieut. COllman, of the 9th Regiment of F oot , was called to pr ove t h e particular charges against the Prisoner at the Bar. On the night 23d July, having proceeded at the head of but tour men of his own regiment, and some Yeomanry of the Barrack Di. vision irs coloured clothes, in all amounting to twenty.eight, to the spot contiguous to the Dept!: of Arms, Ammunition, ace. so often described, he arrived at 1304111 am-street, a.. street which he de. scribed as running parallel to the lane, viz. Maas. where the DO of pikes were, and only se. , parated from that lane by three tilt:her...yards And a • dab-J. : yard. In Bonham.street he met with a large square piece of timber, mounted on a carriage with. out wheels. This timber was throughout perforat. ed in the middle, and a plug made of harder timber than itself, adapted to the mouth or rnuaile of the aperture. Nearly in the middle there was a species of touch.hole, adapted to re. ceive a priming o f pow d er to communicate by the application of a quick-match, or rocket, to a charge of powder destined to have been within, and with a great explosion to act the machine in splinters, and thereby to contribute to destroy either Infantry or Cavalry whi c h s h ou l d come before them, besides opposing a formidable barrier to their progress its tsarrow lanes or passages. A similar muchine the Witness discovered so Dirty.lene, from its posi. lion calculated to oppose the passage of any of the King's Troop s f rom U s h er ' s I s l and. On the left hand - of an Iron Foundery, in Bonham-street, the Wittlell3 t accompanied by his party, at the head of whoM was a Private . of his own Regiment, by name Gallagher,. discoVered the Prisoner at the Bar con ceeled among a number of coarse unhetved timber, which he conceived to have been the roots of tre e s, Witness 'tailed him from his place of concealment, tied him, and had him committed to the custody of a Sergeant and party of the 38th Regiment, by whom he had been reinforced. Previous to the seizure of t h e P r i soner, the Witness took up one pike within about a yard of his hiding place,..,. I Contiguou s to the machines which Witness describ. ed as calcalatcti by an explosion to do much da mage, Prisoner had but to step to a pile of timber, anti from thence to the place whence he sought refuge. Among other engines of destruction, which the Witness discovered in the Dolt at Mass. lane, near the plaCe from whence the Prisoner at the Bar was uakennelled, were planks of timbe studded thi c kl y w i t h large spikes, the sharp ends r upwards, set in a diamond -like form in different compartments, and the whole constructed most effe. Nally, as Witness believed, to annoy and obstruct either Infantiy or Cavalry in their respettive passages. On eross-examiation—Witness acknowledged that the wooden tubes which he described, were not charged with powder when he discovered them. • The transaction of detefling the Prisoner, Witness described to have occurred about twelve o'clock; when the atmosphere was clearing from that extreme darkness which prevailed at the commencement of the InsurraliOrt, viz, about half after nine o'clock. Witness having' interrogated the Prisoner when discovered, what he had been doing there I The other replied, that he ran away for his life from Pi ke-men.—Wianess being interrogated by a Juror as follows : Q. Did you, when you discovered the Prisoner in his place of concealment, or afterwards, while in Your custody, ask him where he lived is he A. I did ; and as near as I can recoiled, he said lodged somewhere near Oirty.lane, and had been at a tailor's for a pair of breeches. Seqeami kite o f h Oat on th e 9 th Regiment, deposed, lam-str eet, tl t leTnsurreft ion he was in Bon. issifizice,ni,htea.saew t the command of the last Witness, he Prisoner at the bar, whom . he icien k from out of , a timber-yard in Bonham. street ' W here he found him concealed under a heap ohis f timber, When wtt - ness too k the Prisoner from co ncealment th e l atter h a d nothi in is . This occurrence was about the hou r g of tw h elve, han o d r rather between twelve and one o'clock. Witness was accompanied by a Private of the name of John Ga llagher, being the first man who directed the at tention of the party to the Prisoner in his conceal ment. laid,' Gallagher being sworn, deposed, that he saw the Prisoner at the bar run across Bonham. street at the time alleged by the former_ wit , nesses. Il e was the fi rst man of the party com manded by Lieutenant Coltman, and within a few yards of the Prisoner at the Bar when he descried him near ttfa timber machine in lionhant-street, al , laded to in the testimony of Lietit. Coltman. Saw the Prisoner, rim, 'towards the large beam above mentioned, which he ascended, and stepped to a heap of timber, near a yard, into which he leaped over a wall. This the Witness distiettly • Saw, and immediately cried to his Officer, Mr. Cullman, allnding to the man he saw, w!cain he afterwartiS hiir reason to conclude was the Priswlei) " there is a Rebel armed with a Pike gone over the Wal l;" on which he resolved instantly toinusue hims ee t urai e ,s interposed, eed warned him of the danger of advancing alone on the other side, lest there might be other armed Rebels to associate, with him. Witness still persevered in following him ; when Witness called to his Officer to remark the man with the pike, he saw him instantly drop the pike, and siek under a heap of timber. Witness then had no arms but the bayonet about him. Wit 'less described the Prisoner to have been dressed in a grey coat, with a linen or ticker apron before him. He deposed, that so exasperated were the party when they detaled the Prisoner, that they ivould have instantly put him to death, were it not for his, the Witness's interposition, who alleged that " the watch, meaning the Prisoner, had good guts, and if they spared hislife, might give useful i/itarmation ;" on which they were appeased, seized on him, and committed him to Lieut. Coltman, who banded him over either to a Serjeant of the 38th or 3zd Re giment. Mr. M C NALLY, for the Prisoner, was by the . Court conliued merely to state his Client's case, without observations on the Evidence for the Crown, unless he wished to combine both, in which case his Colleague would be prevented from speaking particularly to evidence, and the opposite Counsel would have the right of reply to Mr. la/PNALev ; who assented in limiting himself to the simple statement of his Client's case, and leave the privilege of speaking to evidence to Mr. C. BALL, his assistant. The Defence consisted merely in a statement that the Prisoner was an industrious tradesman, returning from Lis work on Saturday eight, after receiving his weekly wages ; that he lived in the vicinity where the Insurredion raged ; had been at his tailor's, in the same neighbourhood, to get a pair of breeches, when, on his return to .his lodgings, in the midst of the traiterous tumult, he was seized on by the insurgents, and forced into the Rebel Ranks. A woman with whom the alledged tailor - had lodged, in the neighbourhood where the Prisoner was apprehended, deposed to his calling at the tailor's lodgings in • her house, for the breeches. The tailor was • not at home. The Prisoner remained there from half after nine o'clock un til ten o'clock. This time,, and the Prisoner's omitting to bring ally evidence how he had spent the interval between ten o'clock and tsuelve, the hour he was deteded with the pike, fanned a strong hold for the SOLIC teak GENERAL in his reply to Mr. Bea L L's Speech to Evidence, which however, Lord NoRBURY, in an admirable Charge to the jury, obviated, by stating, that in the con fusion of the night,, an honest simple man like him, which charader he bore from the te3titnony of his employer, ,_ might well be conceived to wander, not knowing w h ere, without the possibility of his being able to offer testimony on that point, The Jury eee -, r most solemnly exhorted by the Court to retire, and weigh all the merits of the case. 'They did ,so, and after a few minutes, returned a VerdiCl—GuUty ; at the same time recommending she Prisoner to Mercy, on account of the favourable charader which his employer gave of him. lanes Byrn, yesterday ii►und Guilty no Charges of 'High Treason, receivrd Sentence of Death front Baron DALy ; after which, the Court adjourned un til Monday.. A conspiracy among twenti.seven Convia , , to break open the goal of Kilmainham, to escape, was happily discovered yesterday. Wednesday last, Capt. HETENSTAL, of Sandy. mount, from a pike.heing found near the spot, had some ground turned up at Irishtown, nearly opposite the Church, and there discovered iso heads of those rebel weapons: Mr. HEPENsTAL in consequence took some Smiths into custody, who .were suspeaed to be their manufadurers, and we understand there is foundation to justify suspicion, at least against one of those persons. Tuesday a party of the Dundrum Infantry, brought into the Castle four Prisoners, charged with being part of those who wounded Lieutenant jetit4iNos, of the Royal Navy, at Miltown, on Sunday even. ing last. On Saturday the 2gth Regiment of Foot landed at Monkstown, from Portsmouth, and marched up to the'City of Cork, under the command of Lieut.. Col. SrxwArr : and on Monday the first division marched to Cloumel, where this Regiment is to do Garrison duty. The following Letter is from His Grace the Duke of NORTIIUMD ERLAND, to the Mayor of Berwick, in answer to the offer of service of a Rifle Corps that had inrolled themselves at Berwick : 6 11 —Nothing would give me greater pleasure than attend ing to any recommendation of yours ; and I should have been very 1 1 4PPY to have forwarded the prop sal for raising. a Rifle Corps, had I not received directions last night from Lord 1105All'f, 001 to transmit any more proposals for Vo lunteer Corps until Ills MAI k. srv . shall be pleased to sig. nify his intention to increase the Volunteer l once in the County under toy charge. I shall not, however, fail to let His MA! trev know of this additional proof of zeal and loyalty of the Inhabitants of 13em I have the pleasure he, &c. NO toRTHUMBERLAND. We are glad to observe a reciprocity of sentiment pervades the Committee ar Lloyd's, and the Pro fessors of the Fine Arts. The following Subscription has been transmitted through the Inc'.limo of Messrs, HAISIMEASLRY anti CU. GINTLIMIN, Apprehensive that the Vote of the Royal Aca. dewy for subscribing 5001. towards the patriotic purposes stated by the Committee at Lloyd's, can not; consistently with the Laws and Regulations of the Institution, he carried intoetre,tt, We the un. dersigned Academicians, in our itadividual capaci. ties, du request you will present to the committee the stun of One Hundred Guineas, for which we en. close a draft. We are, Sirs, • /beg. 2s, 1803. Yotir obedient Servants, PAUL SANDUY, F. BOURGFOIS, R. CoswAY, W. BRECHRY, T. s. COPLEY, H • TR RSHAIqi T. F. RIGAUD, JOHN So4NE, f. WYATI", JuHN YENN. Covent Garden Theatre defers its benefit for the Patriotic. Fund till the Town shall is full enough io :afore oa overflowing house. EXECUTION OP HATFIELD. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CARLIsLt, SEPT. 3. " I now send you the•accouniof the Execution of HATFt Etrp. His irons were struck oil this morn ing about ten o'clock ; he appeared as usual, and I did not obs,er ye . any alteration or increased agita. lion whatever, Soon after ten o'clock he sent for. The Carlisle 71uswal, and perused it for some time; a little after he had laid aside the Paper, two Cler gymen attended, and prayed with him for about two hours, and drank coffee with him. After they left him (about twelve), he wrote some letters, and - in one inclosed his pen-knife; it was addressed to London. The Sheriff; the Bailiff's .and the Carlisle Volunteer Cavalry attended at the Gaol Door about half past three, together with a post-chaise and a hearse. He was then ordered into the Turnkey's • Lodge for the purpose of getting pinioned, where he inquired of the Gaoler who were going in the chaise with him? He was told the Executioner and the Gaoler. He immediately said, " Pray where is the Executioneer, I should wish much to see him." The Executioner was sent for ; -HATFIELD asked him how he was, and made him a present of some silver in a paper. During the time of his being pinioned he stood with resolution, and requested he might not be pinioned tight, as he wished to use his hand kerchief when on the platform, which was complied with. He .then left the prison, and wished fa. low prisoners might he hippy. When in sight of the tree, he said to the Gaoler, he imagined that was the tree (pointing at it).that he Was to die on. On being told, yes, "0! a happy sight, I see it with pleasure." Then k: desired the man to be as expert as possible about it, and that he would wave a handkerchief when he was ready. The. Hangman not having fixed the row in its prorr place, he put up his hand, and turned it himself. He also tied his cap, took his handkerchief from his own neck, and tied it about his head also.— Then he requested the goaler would step upon the platform and pinion his arms a little harder, saying, that when he lost his senses, he might attempt to place them to his neck. The rope was then com pletely fixed about live minutes before four o'clock : it was slack, and he merely said, " May the Al. migh t y Mess you all." ,Nor did he falter io the least when he tied the cap, shifted the rope, and took his .handkerchief from his neck. He hung midst of a great number of Speetat4rs for one hour, when he was cut down, and interred in St. Mary's Church:. yard, the usual . place of interment for those who gome;to. an untimely end; the Parishioners of Burgh objeting to his being laid there." ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A notion very generally prevailed that he would nor be brought to justice, and the arrival of the mail was daily expeOed with the greatest impa tience. No pardon arriving, Saturday the 3 d was at last fixed upon as the day of execution. There is a story in the town, that some years - ago a reprieve arrived tor a criminal at three in the afternoon, who had been executed at eight in the morning. The custom now is to fix the awful day a sufficient length o f t ime before, that due notice of it may be received by His Majesty's advisers; and to wait till all hope of the royal interference is fled. - • From the hour when the Jury found him guilty, he has b:haved with the utmost serenity and cheer fiattess. He received the visits of all those who wished to see him, and talked upon the topics cif t h e d a y will the greatest interest or indifference. 11e could scarcely ever be brought to speak of his own case. He neither blamed the verdict, nor ma d e any confession of his guilt. He said that he had no intention to defrand those whose names he forged ; but was never heard to say that he was to die unjustly. The post coming in a little before three, and bring. ing neither pardon nor reprieve, the Undet Sheriff and a detachment of the Cumberland Yeomanry im. mediately repaired to. the prison near the English gate. A prodigious crowd had . -previously assem bled, This was the marker day, and people had come front the distance of many miles our of inure curiosity. A post.chaise was brought for him from the Bush Inn. Having taken farewell of the Clergyman who attended him to the door, he mounted the steps with much steadiness and composure. The Gaoler and the Executioner went in along with him. The lat. ter had been brought from Dutuftits upon a retain. ing fee of ten guineas. It was exactly four o'clock when the procession moved from the gaol. Passing through. the Scotch gate, in about twelve minutes it arrived at the Sands. Half the Yeomanry went before the carriage and the other behind. Upon arriving on the ground, they formed a ring round the scaffold. It is said that Hatfield wished to have had the blinds drawn up, but that such an indulgence was held incon. sistent with the interests of pelalic justice. ,• As soon as the carriage door had been opened by the Under Sheriff,Hatfield alighted with his two com panions., A small dung cart, boarded over, hag; been placed under the gibbet. A ladder was placed to this stage which he instantly ascended. He was dressed in a black jacket,black silkwaistcoat,fustian pantaloons, white cotton stockings, and ordinary shoes. He wore no powder in his hair. He seemed at least fifty, and there was something grave and reverend in his aspett, which for a moment made one forget all the crimes laid to his charge. He was perfeetly cool and col. leaed t at the same time he shewed no disposition to die game. His condud displayed nothing of levity, of insensibility, or of hardihood. He was more anxious to give proof of resignation than of heroism. His countenance was extremely pale, but his hand never trembled, He immediately untied his neck handkerchief, and placed the bandage over his eyes. The Execu tioner was extremely aukwatd, and Hatfield found it necessary to give various diteetions as to the placing of the rope, and the proper method of driv ing away the cart. He several times put on a lam. gold and piteous smiles—lie at last seemed rather exhausted and faint. Having been near three weeks under sentence of death, he must have suffered much notwith stan di ng hi s e x t ernal bearing, find a reflec tion of the misery he had occasioned must have given hies many an agonizing throe. Having taken leave of the Gaoler and the Sheriff, etc prepaied himself for his fate. He was at this t tivtlgh rhy i 5 wc;ik Clear apprehensions were entertiitv'd tHt it would fie necessary to tiz. , him up a second tiniei The norie slipped twice, and he tell down . ahoVe eighteen inches. His feet at la ) t were iihnost touching the ground. But his excessive weighr, which occasioned this accident, speedily relieved him from pain. He expited in a moment, and without any struggle. He . was cut d'own after he. had hung about Art hour. On Wednesday last he had made a carpenter take his measure for a coffin.' lie gave . particular directions that it should be :arse, as he meant to•he laid in it with all his clothes on. It was m'kle of oak, adorned with plates, and exttemely handsome every way. A hearse followed with it to the ground, and afterwards bore him away.. CORN EXCHANGE, Supr. 7. GRAiN in general to-clay is in tolerable gond supply, •chiefly of Monday's samples unsold ; the want of water aninog the mills closes the Millers to decline purchasing, and little doing in this arti. cle ; Harley and Malt are a Rine lower; rea , ;e and Deans have ready sale ; although Oats are in plentiful supply; with some Foreign cargoes, they have many buyers at small advance on the licit quality; Flour stationaty. Wheat cos a i6s a 6os oft Tick Beans -. 301 a 31s 61 1 F , ,ic ditto . tos a 6.3 a od Oats . - ate a 23. a 261 itye . 4. 3zi a 34s od Pojand ditto - a7i. :I aii4 0,1 lizrley . 20i a 24s 6d R ape Set - - 371 a 391 &Mt . . Soi aOs od hilt! Hour - jos a SS, od White Pease 44s a 5 , 1 s oil Seconds - . .}as a gas Beans 16 33s a 37$ od Capt. VOLANT VASHON BALLAIRD, of His Ma. jesty's Ship De Rnyier, of 63 g uns, arrived yester diy at the Adrnirally from the West Indies ' with, MipHeves of the Dispiches tespeaing the taking of the ',land of Tobago. sengcrs .he o f , n )() )o o l2n ie rr L aie a c d: l e : : and 7,,,iy 9 i e s nt h l i e p m t e h n e were pas. cirila, : l ,1 Greve, lately captured in the Channel by French:— Mrs. Colonel Whatson ; Mrs. Capt. Staunton; Mri. • Clarke; Capt. G. I-1. Pine, of the tith Regiment of Se. goys; Mr. Robert Clarke; Master sarnucl :n n l Miss Mary Inornton ; Miss - Sophia I ohnStone ; Miss Mary Angus ten; Miss Mary Awl Jra in ; Miss Charlotte, Sopilia, and Mary Clarke, and Master John-Lucas. The : .following is a copy of the Sentence of the Court Martial which lately sat on Capt. BARLOW, at Plymouth, and which His MASEsry has been pleased to approve of :—" The Court consider it a duty they owe the Service, and justice,th the Pd. soner, most humbly to submit to His MAJESTY, that it appears to them that Capt. BAKtos,v's con. MA the clearest investigation, has been stamped with evident marks of the strinest integrity ; and that the charge preferred against him is groiindie,s ; they do therefore most honourably acquit Captain BARLOW, of the Ist, or King's Dragoon Guards, of all and every part thereof." Yesterday the Master and Wardens of the 13.11;vro Company waited upon the Lord Mayor at the Man. sion Howie to set the Assize of Bread, which his Lordship, after examining the Reports of the Meal" weighers, ordered to continue •the same as las; week, viz. at , loth the. Quarrern Luaf wheaten, and 81. halfpenny the household, His Royal Highness the Duke of Coma ea inspetqed the Bristol Light Hbrse Volunteers on Monday, on Durdhanf Down. The number of Volunteers enrolled at Cardigan', and in its neighbourhood, exceeds tOOO men; they ate to be commanded by Cul. LLOYD, of Cardigan. A Subscription has beers opened in Carmarthen, shire for closthing and equipping the Volunteers of that .County,: to' which Lord CAwooit and I..urd Dr N vou have each given. tool, At a Meeting of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Fifeshire on Thursday last, upwards of 2,06.01: was immediateirsubacribed for the exrnces attend.'.. ing the furtnati ,n and diseipline of the VoN6leir Corps of that County. retains of Lady FRANCES PkReY pnssekl through Newcastle on I! riday, on their way to,the family vault at Stanwick, in Yorkshire ) where' they are to be interred. When SHER IDAN dined a few days ago at Rich mond Park, the /:evasion was so much the subjeft of conversation, that the Minister by , way of exit. 'intuit, got a little more thap half:ear-over, Mrs. WOOOmAN, who perished in the fire at Astley's, was originally Introduced to the no. tiee of the Public as a singer, by the celebrated Dr. Aarta,, to whom she was .a pupil above thirty years since ; she appeared it Covent. Garden Them_ tre in the part of Ntipbratvlie, in Com.vs , and was a competitor with the Celebra;ed Miss BRENT, lifter wards Mrs.. Prtyro. Her name was then Sraisc and she was better known by the appellation of .4iick Spraclr, being uncommonly elegant in her dress and person ; she afterwards sung at Marybone Gardens, where she received additional instrnaion from the late Dr. Aittg9l.l), and from thence went to Ireland, where site became deservedly a great favourite, and continued oti the Dublin Stage for many years. She married a Gentleman named Sutliff, by whom she had the present Mre. Asmay. After his deCeaSe she 'married a Mr. Woonsams, from whom, on account of some disagreement, slit was divorced. The'latter. part of her life she resided entirely With. her daughter, . to whom she was much attached, and. who is inconsolable for he r l oss . H er remains welts consigned to thegrave yesterday. OnMonday afternoon, a vast concourse of Per. sans assembl e d in' the. Long Walk, leading to the Great Park at Windsor, to witness a race berweeo Boltov and Holder, two Privates in the Stafford. shire .Militia; who had betted to run 120 yards, and .on whiCh considere)le sums. were, depending. Cci. .Stetyp.,.anci .k everi t i other persons of note were pre. sent the bets, at starting, mere-greatly in favour of Holder, who.is a taylor, and had often run befoit, and had never been beat—and for the first So yards, he kept the lead, but Jolson having gained his speed, passed Holder ) and Caine in about two yards befog; him. The vigor, Belton, is a pottet by trade—and after the race, he publicly, ,cluilenged any nun in. England to run 20Q yards,