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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY , EXTRACTS FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS, September 1 3. [MO R.NING CIIRONICI.I3.] The jury delivered yesterday an unanimous verdict of " Manslaughter against the Officers and Men of the First Regiment of Life Guards, 'who were on duty between Tyburn Turnpike and Park-lane on the day on which Richard Honey was shot, namely, Tuesday the 4th day of August, 1821." The views of the Jury will, we have no doubt, be generally recognized as sounder than those of the Coroner, who recommended a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. The defence set up for the soldiers by the Coroner, that their lives were in danger,_ and they were acting only in self-defence, was rather at variance with the suggestion thrown out by him, that during . the interval of calm which preceded the firing, they were leisurely employed in loading their fire-arms. But such a defence as this for mili tary in array ought at all times to be viewed with great distrust, as withdrawing the military from all dependence on the Civil Authorities. — To allow soldiers to act against the people with out orders from a Magistrate, and on a supposition "of the people's hdving no legal right to the posi= tion they may chance. to occupy, to 'drive them from it, and, if resisted, to fire on them, on the pretext of self-defence, would be to relieve sol diers from all civil controul. The Jury, how ever, have adopted sounder views, and have not made themselves accessary to the establishment of practices which are directly at variance with the principles of our Constitution.—While we consider ourselves bound to give " expression to these opinions, we are -far from entertaining any hostility against the unhappy instruments of Ministerial obstinacy and improvidence.— We are anxious to expose a system gra dually invading the Constitution, the baneful effects of which must be analysed and traced in their destructive progress. In mercy then, to individuals, we cannot spare principles of action pregnant with mischief to the community. The rash folly of a self-willed man may give motion to a piece,of dangerous machinery, the operation of which it is not in his wisdom to foresee, nor in his power to controul ; but lie is no less an swerable for "having given the impulse, and the primitive wisdom of the law would withdraw from him the opportunity of ever again employ ing the engine of mischief ; the passive instru ment of death is forfeited with us, and was ab horred by antiquity. There is no law, in the case now before us, unhappily, that reaches the cause of disaster, the unfortunate agent must bear the pu nishment, his employer only the disgrace. Mili tary interference, the root of the'evil, is even now - in this country in its infancy, but it is the , infancy of a giant whose clumsy strength is not the less formidable beEause guided by little reason; and exerted on frivolous occasions to as certain the extent and measure of its powers.— it behoves us to watch the growth of the monster. [MORNING ,POST.] The protracted labours , of the Coroner's Jury are at last terminated. After having retired and deliberated' amongst themselves 'for about six hours, they brought last night a verdict of " Manslaughter against the Officers and Men of the First. Regiment of Life Guards, who were on duty between Tyburn-gate and Park-lane, on Tuesday, the 14th of August, at the time when Richard Honey was shot.' On this verdict we congratulate them, the'. Life Guards, and the community. We congratulate the Jury, be-. cause with the ,propensities which they had dis played in the course of the investigation, and the strong excitements constantly administered to them by'a seditious and blood-thirsty portion of the Press, they have, to a very considerable ex . tent, redeemed their character for good , sense and impartiality. We congratulate the Life Guards, because they now stand completely acquitted from the charge of haVing wantonly shed the blood of their assailants. And we congratulate the com munity, .because all the arts , and efforts of the enemies of order have failed in perverting and dis gracing-the noble and valuable institution of the Jury. :The present verdict being general in its , nature, !eaves no room for individual prosecu tion, or indeed for prosecution of any kind.— The character of the offence, cleared of all the dark colouring thrown upon it by calumnia tors, is *reduced, if not to its natural hue, at least to one less removed from that of truth. To declare that manslaughter has been committed, is to proclaim that provocation had been given for the act; for had there been no provocation it would have been wilful murder. The great ques tion of aggression is thus settled and the charge fixed upon the mob. And hoW is it settled ? Not by the arbitration of parties who might be sus pected (however unjustly) of a secret leaning to the military—not by the decision of Judges against whose honour and integrity no other charge can ,be brought by Radicals themselves except that of being paid by their country—not by placemen or sinecurists—but by a Jury, who till they brought in their verdict we-re extolled by every writer and preacher of sedition as the quintessence of independence and pa triotism—by . a Jury trained up by Mr. sheriff Waithrnan himself in the way they were intended to go, but which they had, after all, too much honesty not to abandon—by a Jury who did not conceal their strong bias against the military, hut acted in many , instances as prosecutors, not as Judges, and were applauded for it by*the Times' and the Chronicle—by a Jury who admitted all kind of evidence, provided it had a tendency to criminate the milisary ! By such a Jury, after a most laborious, open, and inquisitorial investiga tion, with advantages allowed them which no other Jury ever possessed—by such a Jury has the mob been virtually declared to have been-Abe aggressor,_ and the Life Guards to have. shed blood only in self-defence! And . Ahis-too at a time when every radical had regis , tered beforehand a verdict of wilful murder, and •the Times had presumed to tell the Jury against which individual it was• to be directed. We have neither room nor time at this moment to , pursue the subject any farther , although the field - is wide, and the harvest is abundant : but we cannot help thinking that we shall speedily . perceive a great falling off in the respect pro fessed by Radicals of all classes for that " bul wark of the Constitution," the institution of Jdries. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Inquest upon the death of Richard Honey closed yesterday evening about six o'clock, when the Jury, after a very protracted deliberation, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against all the officers and privates of the Life Guards who were on duty at Cumberland-gate on the dey of Honey's death. We are glad that this inquiry has at length terminated, even though the judg ment pronounced by the Coroner's Jury be such as will probably raise the necessity of having the evidence repeated before another Jury and a higher tribunal. It will be observed that the opinion of the Jury differed very considerably from that which was expressed on the day before by the Coroner upon the manner of Honey's death, The Coroner, after reviewing all the circumstances of the ease, as they were detailed by the va rious witnesses examined upon the inquest, con cluded by emphatically declaring ,that the Jury ought to return a verdict of " Justifiable Homi cide." This opinion the Coroner formed from the belief that the troops were assailed violently by the populace at Cumberland-gate, before they used any force to disperse the crowd, and consequently long before the fatal shot was fired by which Honey lost his life. In this belief the Jury seem not to have concurred with the Coroner, and undoubtedly the evidence upon this important point was sur prisingly contradictory, and leaves ample scope for entertaining doubts respecting it. There can, however, be no doubt that the soldiers abstained from firing for a considerable space of time, dur ing which they were assailed in a manner that very seriously endangered their lives, and that they resented the showers of stones and brickbats in no other way than by "occasional charges among the people and the flourishing of their swords. There is, however, sufficient evidence to shew that the affray at Cumberland-gate was not the first evidence of the angry and hostile feel ing which actuated the contending parties upon the day of the Queen's funeral. Upon the indiscretion of the Ministers of the Crown in issuing commands which were known to be dis tasteful tolhe great body of the people,and must, therefore have necessarily led to quarrels and the shedding of human blood, we have already ex pressed otir decided sentiments ; but we must confess that we think it unfair and cruel in the extreme to•censure _the troops who were em ployed by • the. Government upon that occasion to enforce their unwise commands, or to attribute to them the moral guilt of whatever accidents might arise from their being placed in collision with the people. We are firmly persuaded that no troops in the world _could, under the ,paiWul circumstances that marked the day of the Queen's funeral, have displayed greater forbearance, temper, or humanity, than was evinced by the Life Guards. It is quite evi dent to common sense, that had they used the means of attack which they had in their power with all the effect that necessarily belongs to the use of them, the'consequences to the people must, have been tremendously destructive. There were however, in fact, but few casualties among the crowd, while on the part of the soldiers the accidents were very numerous. A- soldier is .I often placed in very.painful and difficult circum stances, in which he is entitled .to a large por tion of indulgence. The soldier must lie consi. dered merely as the instrument of another's will, and if when'acting under the commands of his officer, or in a •supposed obedience to the civil power of the Government, he should not nicely calculate the precise operation of a penal law, his- involuntary- crime ought not to be visited with a disproportionate severity.. 'L.. ... . , NEIV TIMES.] • At length the Inquest on Honey is tat an end, and it has ended in the disappointment of every an ticipation which had been formed with respect to the decision of the Jury. The verdict is one of " Manslaughter against the officers and soldiers of the Ist Regt. of Life Guards, who were on duty between Tyburn-gate and Park-lane, on Tuesday the 14th of Aug., at.the time when Richard Honey was shot." We shall not at present enter into any inquiry respecting the effect of this verdict, nor by whom and by what means the officers and privates on duty at. the particular time when Honey was shot are to be ascertained. Leaving out of our view questions of law whiCh may arise upon such a verdict as this, it is clear that unless the ascertainment legally devolve on some public authority, the verdict must be a mere brutum falmen. To this subject we may return ; but at this moment it is particularly desirable that the public ,should recollect a few leading facts of importance connected with the circumstance which 'unfortunately- tendered a Coroner's In quest— 'necessary. Persevering and often re peated misrepresentations should not cause it to he forgotten that the lawful orders of Go vernment were resisted by a lawless mob—that the riot commenced in Church-street, Kensing ton, where the road was blocked up, the fu neral procession turned out of its described line, and the police officers were pelted by the popu lace—that the riot continued at Kensington-gates, where the procession was again prevented from pursuing its intended route, te police fope was overpowered and the soldiers were pelted with brick-bats on corning to its assistance—and this be fore they used their sabres—that the procession thus interrupted moved on to Knightsbridge amidst shouts of 44 victory" from the mob and occasional throwing of stones, which became more violent at the entrance into Hyde Park, at Grosvenor-gate, and on the approach to Cumberland 7 gate, that be fore the arrival of the procession at that gate, the rioters there had shut it two or three times, and pelted the military detachment stationed to keep the way clear; that the procession entered Oxford street" under a shower of brick-bats from every direction," which placed the lives of the soldiers in great peril, and to procure which, part of a wall had been pulled down—that an attempt was im mediately made forcibly to turn the horses of the hearse tOWai.ds the City, instead of allow ing it to proceed by the Edgware-road—that the soldiers " on duty exerted themselves to prevent this illegal and outrageous act—that they were pelted by the rioters with the utmost violence — that they did . not fire in their own defence until thirty-se'en of them had been wounded by the mob. By this firing Honey lost his life. These are a few of the facts which dwell on the mind of every man who has impartially read the evidence. The legal right of the soldiers, as well as of any other citizens, to interfere to appease a riot; even when . not specially on any particular duty, we have repeatedly, shewn from the highest legal authorities. Tills then is a very brief and gene ral sketch of the matter which the Coroner's In quest had to investigate, and on which the above verdict has been given.. It is to be regretted that that verdict is not accordant with the very clear, precise, and satisfactory explanation of the law, contained in the Coroner's Charge to the Jury. [THE TIMESI After fourteendays of laborious attendance, the Coroner's Jury, at a quarter before six yes terday evening, brought in the verdict which had been under their consideration between six and" seven hours—" illanslazighter against the officers and men of the Ist regiment of Life Guards, " who were on duty between Tyburn-turnpike " and Park-lane, on the day when Rich. Honey cc was shot, namely, 14th of Aug. 1821." This, we doubt not, is, on the part of the Jury, a con scientious verdict. The impression which was left upon our _own minds by the whole of the evi dence taken together, and more especially by certain portions of it which were the most positive, uncontradicted, and unsuspicious, might perhaps have induced us, had we been Jurymen, to lean towards a judgment less qualified in the degree of guilt which it ascribed to the destroyers of Honey. But though, on fair and manly grounds, we dissent from the exact terms of the verdict, we respect the motives by which it was go verned ; nor shall we follow the modern example of intimidating Jurors,- or vilifying their deci sions, when they happen to be at variance with our own. Much as, in our opinion, it would be desirable, that so far as was consistent with the sworn facts of each case, the sense of every tribunal throughout the land, from the Coroner's Inquest to the final array of the Petty Jury, should be declared against the agents of military speculation, and should stand in the breach to protect our free constitution, no hu mane or reasonable being could entertain such a sentiment from vindictive feelings towards the unfortunate soldiers. Where the soldier betrays no peculiar and malignant ferocity, but acts, al though strictly speaking, in contravention of the law, yet, speaking morally, under the pressure of painful and• perplexing circumstances, arising of necessity out of the situation in which his supe riors have unjustly placed him, a Jury, it is true, may be compelled by their oaths to find such a man guilty of the crime of murder ; yet the Ministers who have exposed him to the risk would be un pardonable for suffering him to undergo the pu nishment. Why, then, we shall be asked, call for the trial of a criminal, only that he may escape the gallows ? We answer, that it is of inestimable importance that an arbitrary Minister should be forced to screen from punishment a crime which has been perpetrated in obedience to his own orders. It would be such an expo sure of the - real criminal—it would be such a signal condemnation of that kind of Government under• which crimes bbcome inevitable and punishrnent impossible,—that after a very few public instances of subjects shot, and soldiers after conviction pardoned, little more would be heard of peace-officers in helmets, of constables' staves represented. by drawn sabres, or • magistrates re- 1 ceiving orders from a Captain of the Guards. It is from our constitutional anxiety to .see the end of this terrible system, that we are disposed to lean in every case of-military violence against the principle from whiCh the ,violeace emanates, though not against the persons (more to be pitied than con-' demned) who have been its unwilling agents. Itis therefore that we feel disapponted, in some degree, when we find, or think we find, a Jury entrapped by their own•moderation and tenderness into a judg ment which militates against a great -reform in our state policy, but which saves no culprit. from legal punishment.; because, as we said before, none is in danger of his life. At the same time, let it be well borne in mind, that a bill of indict ment may yet be found for a crime more serious than that which the present Jury have recorded, and that a conviction, even to the extent of man slaughter, would not be without advantage to society. FATAL MISTAKE.-An unlucky circumstance occurred off Kerry Head, on Friday evening last. His Majesty's sloop of war Redwing fell in with the Harriet revenue cruizee, Capt. TANDY, and supposing it to be a smuggler, fired several shoes into her, and continued to do so for a consider able time ; it was not until the boats of the Red wing were preparing to board the Harriet, that the mistake was discovered. One of the crew was killed. The Harriet has been but very lately commissioned, only on her first cruize, and was formerly a French lugger, in which craft shd is retained, and which confirmed the Captain of the Redwing in his belief of her being a smuggler, having never before seen her on the coast. The firing was heard distinctly for a considerable time off the Ballyheige shore, and upwards of forty shots were fired, accompanied by repeated cheers from each vessel.—(D ublin Correspondent.) On Friday se'nnight, Mr. LAVENDER appre hended one Thomas Dutton, in Bradshaw-street, Shade-hill, on a Coroner's warrant, charging him with the murder of Susannah Jenkins, of 'Nor thenbury, Flintshire. It appears that Dutton lived next door to. the deceased ; that he kept hens, which entered her garden and did conside rable mischief ; that she had driven them out by throwing stones at them : and in revenge the pri soner threatened to kill her, which he effected by beating her on the head with a flail, so as to occasion her death four days afterwards. The murderer, who immediately absconded, is about 25 years of age, is a shoe-maker, and was at work when he was arrested .—(Manchester liet ald.) touct IsTturct,'Ncv. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday.John Manly, an officer belong ing to the Police establishment at Dublin, arrived at this office from Portsniouth, cvith a man in his custody, of the name of Armstrong, charged with being cOncerned in the murder .of John West, a miller, residing near Maryliorough, in' the Queen's County, which took place several wears Since. • On his being placed at the bar, the charge was read over, and the offi cer Manly then produced a confession Which had been Officially taken from the pristiner by the Magistrates at Portsmouth, and in which he confessed that about sit years ago, he, irl company with two other men (dne of whom has since been executed for the murder), armed with pistols, went to the house of West, about nine o'clock in the evening, and on gaining admission to the house, which they did by forcing the shutters of one of the windows of the ground-floor, they discovered West and his wife at supper ; they all three rushed into the room, and the prisoner seized Wrest by the collar and demanded three hundred pounds, which they had been informed he had received on the preceding day, threatening at the same time if the demand was not in stantly complied with they would blow his brains out. West denied having received any such sum, and the prisoner then told him that he was not to be played with, and deliberately , cocking his pistol, presented it at his head ; at this instant his wife uttering a loud scream rushed between them, and conjur ed him to spare her husband's life and to take all they were pos sessed of, but the obdurate, blood-thirsty villain, callous to the calls of humanity or nature, struck her 'a violent blow on the temple which felled her to the ground, and again levelling the pistol close to the forehead of her husband, pressed the trigger, and blew his skull to pieces. The poor man fell dead over the body of his wife, who lay insensible from the effect of the blow : and the wretches, hearing the approach of some per son, made their escape through a garden at the back of the house, each taking a different route. It being then quite dark, the prisoner walked about five miles, and laid himself down under a hedge with the intention of passing the night, but no sooner were his senses steeped in forgetfulness, than dreams of the most terrific and appalling nature haunted his disturbed imagination ; unable to remain in this place, he roamed about the remainder of the night a prey to the most bitter anguish and remorse; the break of day found him the most miserable inhabitant of this world, and on his observing that be had approached a small village, lie avoided entering it, and proceeded on his way towards Dublin v, during his hourney he underwent extreme hardships, being continually arassed by the fear that he was pursued, and his only subsistence being the produce of the fields and hedges.— On his arrival in Dublin, he enlisted into the :.?cl regiment of 'infantry, and was soon after drafted to the 'West Indies. The continued bustle incident .to a military life in a great measure contributed to stifle his feelings, but on his being quartered to a remote station, he was again assailed with the horrors of his guilty conscience, and after dragging on an ex istence miserable in itself, and his prospect as to futurity. still more gloomy, for two tedious years, he divulged the fatal secret to his Commanding Officer, and in consequence of which he was ordered into confinement, where he remained for eleven months, and the return of the, regiment to England being at that peraid, he was brought as a prisoner with them, and on being landed at Portsmouth, a communication was made to the Police at Dublin, and Manly, the officer, was dispatched from that place to take charge of him. During the examination he appeared greatly affected, and when told that he•would be im mediately sent to Ireland, he trembled exceSsiVely ; he accord ingly proceeded by the mail yesterday evening. HATT ON-GARDEN.—(DEPRAVITY IN A CHILD.)—In out Paper of Tuesday last, we mentioned a circumstance under the head of " Another stolen Child," which' occurred at this office, respecting a lad about eight years of age, who had been decoyed away from Mr. Perry's boarding-schopl, at Rumford, by a showman, and by whom he, was afterwardt deserted in Maiden-lane, Battle-bridge. The interesting appearance of the little fellow, and the manner in which he narrated his adven tures, excited the commiseration of the Magistrates, and Han cock, the constable, who had the child in his•custody, - was dis patched on Monday - last to Mr. Perry's - School; L et Rumford, to make the affair known to him, Onlhe officer arriving at Rum ford, he found to his astonishment, there was no such person or school in the town, but he learned that a Mr. Perry kept an academy-at a place called:Shenlleld, about eight miles further. Thither Hancock went, and found Mr. Perry's boarding-school, and on stating the nature of his visit, he learned there had been none of his scholars taken away, but there, had been a youth named Brown, .corresponding in description with the boy now in question, in his school about nine months since. Mr. Perry them advised him to inquire at the Rev. Mr. Baroskill's school at Mountnesing, two miles and a half further. Thither he pro ceeded, and arrived there at dusk. Mr..8..t01d him he knew no thing of the boy, but he had a scholar of that name who was then in bed. Hancock procured a certificate from each of those Gentlemen as to their answers, and he returnee' to Rumford late at night, and - his horse being knocked. up he slept there, and started for home next morning, where he arrived at eight o'clock. On his going home he questioned the boy, and threat ened to have him confined in the House of Correction, where he would not be permitted to see any one, and have only bread and water to live on, and be well whipped if he did. not confess the - truth, and to be aware of deceiving him again. .He.then began to. cry, and said he had run away from.. Mr. Brown's school at Ilford. Hancock 'Warned Lim of again de ceiving him, and the boy assured him most earnestly he was telling truth. Hancock accordingly set off on Tuesday morn ing to Ilford, but returned without finding such a school there, but was advised to go to Woodford and make inquiry, but here he met with no better stiebess. On his return home, to. his surprise he found that the' young villain had opened the back door and made his escape. He went in every direction• quest of .him, but to no purpose, and about one o'clock yesterday morning he was taken to him .- by a watchman, who found him strolling about - Gray's Inn-lane.—On hear ing this the Magistrates read the little truant a severe lecture on the baseness of his conduct, and threatened to have him locked up in the black hole, and have him well flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails, if he-did not instantly tell the truth ; and concluded by telling the 'officers to take him away and lock him up.—This threat was instantly put in execution, and whilst the officer was locking him up in one of the dark cells, and appearing to itrepare to have him stripped, in order to have him flogged; the young delinquent cried out to spare him, and he would tell the truth. He said his father's name was Sheppard, a master carpenter, and kept a shoe-warehouse, which his mother managed, at No. 15, Prince's-place, Dog row, Bethnal-green, and that he ran away from home on Sa turday, because his mother threatened to beat him. This story thenfficer told to the Magistrates, but front the number of falsehoods lie had told, little faith could be placed in it ; how ever, a messenger was dispatched to make the necessary inqui ries. In the interval of the absence of the messenger, a man brought a posting-bill which he found stuck up, into the office, describing the person of the child, and offering a reward for his recovery, which bill exactly corresponded with his person, and the address given at Prince's-place. About two o'clock the messenger returned with some of his friends, to whom the young runaway was delivered ; and they and Hancock left the . office to settle about the expences. MARY-LE-BONE-STREET.—It must be still, in the recol lection of our readers of an account of a pistol having been found concealed amongst some shavings in an unfinished house, at Kilburn Priory, a few days ago, which was supposed to have been placed there by a nest of robbers. Yesterday the circum stance was again investigated before Mr. Rawlinson, the Ma gistrate, when a distressed looking lad, named Edward Jones, was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously stealing the pistol from the house of Mr. Cramer, No. 239, Oxford-street. It appeared from the statement of the witnesses that the house of Mr. Cramer was under repair, and the prisoner was employ ed to assist in re-slating the roof there were two pistols in a case; placed over the joists of the wine cellar, one of which the prisoner contrived to ,steal, and being afterwards sent by his master to assist in the repairs of a house at Kilburn Priory, he took the pistol with him to shoot sparrows, and afterwards offer ed it for sale to a youth named Franklin, for ss. The pistol was afterwards 'placed by him in the shavings, where it was found by the officers. The prisoner did not deny taking the pistol, and he was fully committed for trial. IMPORTANT TO GARDENERS.—AppIes and pears have been produced on trees raised from seeds, in the short space of four years, by the follow ing mode :—Sow the kernels in separate pots in November, and place them in the green-house during winter. They will vegetate in February. At Midsummer remove the plants into a seed-bed in rows, about 14 inches apart. In the autumn of the following year transplant them into a nursery, at distances of six feet. Every succeeding winter prune away all small trifling lateral shoots, leav ing the stronger laterals at their full length to the bottom, and so disposin , the branches., that the leaves of the upper shoots may not shade those underneath. Apple-trees raised in the common way, from kernels, rarely afford their first blossom before they are eight or ten years old; but treated as above, they will yield fruit at four or five rears old. OLD BAILEY, SEPT. n. Yestehlay morning the General Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery commenced at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, before the Right lion. the Loup MAYOR, Mr. Baran GRAHAM, Mr. Justice Ric ItArtDSON, &c. Alin Amu's HotnEltY.—Thomas Fitzgerald was indicted for assaulting Nicholas Peters on the highway, and taking a t watch and four shillings in money, from his person. The prosecutor is an infirm elderly Gentleman, residing at Somers-town. On the 10th of August last, about two o'clock in the afternoon, as he was walking near Primrose-hill, the pri soner met him, and presenting a large horse pistol to his breast, demanded his money. Mr. Peters, who was extremely terri fied, immediately gave him 4s. which was all the money he had about him. The prisoner said, " You have got a watch; I must have that also ;" and Mr. Peters gave it to him. and he wen t away. The same day the prisoner offered the watch to pledg° at a pawnbroker's shop ; but upon being asked some questionS he left the watch on the counter, and went away. He was afi. terwards apprehended by a Bow-street patrol i o n consequence the description given of him by Mr. Peters. lie was foun a Guilty—Death. He is aged 21. Matthew-Lynch stood indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of John Wessen, of South Minims on the 91 of August last, with intent to kill and murder him the sai d John Wessen ; also with intent to rob or steal therein. The Jury in the first instance found him Guilty of breaking and ea' tenng ; but on being informed that that verdict could not be re' ceived, brought in a verdict of Na Guilty. John Tagget was indicted for stealing, on the 4th of August in the dwelling house of William Francis, in the parish of "'" George, two watches, and other property, value 201. and up' wards.—Guilty of stealing under 40s- James Colley was capitally indicted for stealing two coats, the property of John Dillman Ingleheart, Esq. value 40s. and uP:, wards, in his dwelling . house.—The Jury' found a verdict Guilty of stealing below the value of 40s. Thomas Wilson, an old man, was indicted for stealing, j e fl f the dwelling house of John Jacob Wydmayer, on the . 3n Mg-um last, a tea-chest, three watches, several gold seals, air 2121. 19s. in money, the property of him the said .1. J. Wc" - mayer. From the evidence.adduced, this robbery was coinn3it" ted with an audaciousness seldom surpassed.—Guilty—Deat h ' ROBBERY AT MARSHALL THOMPSON'S HOTEL.--Jt rj Bunbury was put to the bar, on an indictment charging 1,1 '; with stealing a quantity of articles of Silver plate, the prope Tl i of James Marshall Thompson, of Cavendish-square. The / 1 , 1 1: soner had, at the time of the robbery, lived as foOtinan c' t " Lady Churchill, who temporarily resided at the hotel in titi t i o tion, and from his situation in the house, had got access o' t place in which the plate in question was kept. • Mr. Justice 11r6tAnnscik, in summing up, pointed out is the Jury the necessity of its being proved that the . plate 04 0( taken in such a quantity at one time its to be above the Y valne., 40s. If they were of opinion that it was taken at onetime. till, were bound to find the prisoner guilty-; but if they had 2 doubts as to that being the fact, they would of Course find verdict accordingly. In- this instance, it was not proced to;, the whole property was taken at (Hie" time; which, would he n s cessary to bring home the capital charge to the prisoner lt! ) ., legal sense. They, ould, however take into consideratio n whole of the case, and he had no doubt give a proper verdiGt"" *. Guilty of stealing below'4os. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. TT John Gorttob Mattcke, a young man of genteel appeara tlc r ; a native of Germany m was indicted for comittingan assati!ry„ Ann Flint, with an intent to violate her person. The d ef. ' e ant had been tried for the capital offence the last Sessions a t Old Bailey, and was acquitted without Making any defe" , ; in consequence of the facts proved by the prosecutrixbeinb sufficient .to sustain the indictment. The plaintiff on her cross-examination adm:tted that the oc fendant had once before made a simihr attempt, on whi c-h c;he casion she complained of him to her cousin and mistress• also stated thatafter her master's return home on the e vco n - a be the assault•had been committed, the defendant c Inte to h e ' . no fored five shillings into her hand, which she, n ot kno r ''' what,tO do with it, threw in a draWer in the kitchen. lived %eV Mr. and Mrs. Barrett, with whom the'mosecutrix vant, deposed, that the d e f e nd a nt h a d lOd ge d considers to time in their house, _and continues to do so • that, previolOse, the time of the assault comply ned of, they thought the Pr ° cutrix made too free with him. r oe-, A servant girl, who had lived with Mr. and Mrs. 1 1 ttc p deposed, that the..prosecutrix had said to her that I‘ lll r should pay• 1001. fcr it, which'would.ma.ke all rig"lt, A servant boy of Mr. Barrett's swore the preseeutrix • also said to him that the defendant should pay 1001. for it. 4 The CHAIRMAN recapitulated the evidence to the Jury, observed the offence charged was one at which it was lra ti pt milk any third person could he .present, and the clefr,.. could not speak for himself ; if . therefore they could entert. l3 -' doubt of his guilt, they would give him the ,henefit ofit. The Jury, after being enclosed half an hour, returned a 4ict--Not Guilty. • THE MURDER AT lIIGHGATE.—IIIs eiNti-rE crf s : in a Proclamation, dated Dublin Castle, (the first Kingly Proclamation issued in Ire 12 1; * during the last 150 years), has been grac 3 : r te pleaßed to offer a free pardon to any of the SonS'concerited - in the above horrid affair ( t , as actual perpetrator excepted), and the same s o forwarded toAlte Public Office Bow-stre et %b.. Monday night . last. The Mag istrates of 111 n i , gate„ . have -accordingly. issued large P la t a d making known the Royal clemency, arid, ) dition thereto, offering a reward Qf 1201. '' r apprehension of the murderer. EN ORMOUi Frstr.OU the 31st of 2 " 0e 7 was sold at the Fish-market, in Lille,a s tur s, e ad ten feet long, and weighing 1761b5. Tlle ) alone weighed 601bsi--(Jounia/ COAL-MARKET, SEPT. 12. Ships at Market.' ships sold Price -39- 0 Newcastle3l 7 11 Sunderland ! 1 3 3 2 8: t o BIRTHS. ___/, '' o f On the sth inst., Mrs. Dickson, G eorge-Wect, EdinbLlTY a son. On the 6th inst. at Inchdairnie, Scotland, Mrs. Altcran' °C a daughter. _..----"*". . MARRIED. „port At Edinburgh, on the 4th inst.,. Henry Mered l Tabet il t Esq., of Sibberscript, in the County of Salop, to onlydiughter of the late celebrated Mungo Park. . . DIED. . . Ir t pr rirtv At Edinburgh, on the 4th instant, the Hon. 31,,,arb 0„ e mond, relict of George Haldane, of GleneagleS t . ki s Cl . lib l it e to o % At Rio de Janeiro, on the 19th of April last, in the t oo ci , leave,H e e n t b e e r ei being of his age, Field illaishal John Shadwell Connell, i' d suo i Ti; of War, and Knight of the Order of the Tow°, r r i a a6l:: ` ,vpli th th e en Po a rtuese Lieutenant v l i n e4 th a-s e B C44 ri P ti i s e h ii : A t t ' e Y t k: . : , i , ;; ... v i ° 011 11 Governor of Lagos and Fato, arid, until 1818, of of Algarve in Portugal. l-r- •and -- t k vi i, were honoured with the approbation of his Most jesty the King of Portugal. . Affs L., just (Mtn erf t • C +llf7.l l i giV 1 LI ag e ' A few days ago at Bexley, in the 78th year a -. John Mace, of sporting ana hospitable celebrity. , aged On the 12th inst., at his residence, Langley, Stic' s 'l,ontlp s ' Mr. Richard Gwillim, many years of Fleet-marker, On the 10th inst., Ann, the rife of Thomas A n auctioneer. I' of Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire. ' .0 0119. Q . Ver , I At Laurencekirk, on the lith ult. Mr. Charles '-` tl sir el box-maker, aged 68. Mr. Et" joiner to t helate i itl iven -was the Yea r 1 . nt Nicolson, of Glenbervie, for several years prior to .., . vi rit l a when he made the first box, and presented it to Ih r • o f Ole° Millie, of Montrose, at that time factor on the esra_t rl e er, o c e cfr o i bervie. He continued in his original avocation ° of i he late 1),,,,f, sionally making boxes, till the year 1790, when .t., , bro'n, e Gardenston, the founder of the village of Laurencelerice, A- ti, , him to that place, and introduced him to publ ic w ined b y ,. 0 high degree of eminence Which Mr. Stiven lia(l the infer manufacture of these boxes, of which he wa s st the Pr ° .4. well known to those who contemplate with ir'tere,t_.e, bee n ......_ of persevering ingenuity. Frequent " itations ra' hav e bt-° lin of thorn ~ „bort tempted of these boxes, .but though some. „„ f a llen tar • tia. exceedingly Well executed, yet they have arw a r' o f exeel ,i, of the neatness of polish, and excellent at risen were 'so e n by which the boxes manufactured . by Mr. Silve ri _....... 0 " neatly distinguished. driLL'le, 4 u n ß uo i n p d p - str , e 0 0 t f , LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARST AIRS , °f No. 211 ' 509141‘: OFFTCE,. No 112, Strand; wh ere ADVERTIsv;O,. ORDERS, LETTERS &C. 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