The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-03-24 00:00:00

TRtII ASSIZES.

f/n :Wanda! the )11h inst. .11mwarat Plunkett and Praneh
Gilligan, otherwise llPMahon, were tried for the amar.er of
Towels Plankelt,hnsband of the first named Prisoner. There
we/ a second cone! in the imbeingrol, eisartioC them, tom,
they with Judith S.AVA and Judith .11•111drhon, watt con-
spiring to commit said murder.
Keatiur, Esq. Sovereiro of Kelly, depasea that
the body of the deceased homing been form& by the otovou4
in a Geld, be (the witness) bad it remoter( to she Castle of
Kells.

Mr. Theroteihgeed, the Cormie►, held an iotoest on the
body.

Or. WDerinot, who alleviated the inquest, proved that the
averaged roan by his death hi eonselnease of wombats hr re--
retard is Ike head from a piano,.
Mary Garry (sister to dm Prisoner, Morgrwart Plamkell)
stated that, in Ike month of July last, the Prisoner tartii. h. r
that she was improperly ted with Gilligan; that she
had ;of a plant called the davits's, ur deadly night-shade
that she dried it on the hearth, powdered it into sour, pot It
into a iraboto, and gave it to her hurband to eat; that after he
had .alro it, be vomited, and a doe attempted to eat it, hat
Gillnan took it up sod nu away with II ; Prisoner *ea put
turf mould ou what remained of it, mid the deceased accused
her of having poisoned biro.; that, un Sunday the 24111 of
September, abe (the witness) was called early ia the monolog
by her sister, wl. said that her husband was out all 'dab',
sad that she supposed be ova killed ; that she (the Prisoner)
wail shivering; un wits's' going to the house, she saw the
. Prisoner, Pesach; Gilligant his norther, called the
and Judith Smith, by a large Ilse.
Patrick Corbally, a labourer, said, be had given a pistol
to Gilligan, who had loaded it with a trooper's resetting tool,
nod two slogs. A pistol, which had beat found-tirar the
body of the deceased, was prodoced mad identified by wit-
peas na the same he had lieu to Gilligan.

Judith Plunkett, daughter to the &ceased, is cleave years
old; did not wadetstand the nature of au oath, hot repeated
the Lord's Prayer • she stated, dies ow the night her father
was murdered. be mother sent her to her grandfather, who
lives at Cookstown; aloe returned home the nest morning,
mid found her mother crying; she bad heard her father say
some time before, that ber mother had poisuwed him; used
to see °Olive, the Prisoner, its bed with bsr mother, wbu
charged bet not tas soy a word about it. Ow the mainline
after her father was mimed, lairs soother said that he bad
gone fur • bundle of hay, and that be wart either ladled or
abut.

I Mary Flood, sister to the deceased, stated that she had
I. sees Dr. Gregg and Dr. M•Dermot% attend her brother, in•
eonerepseime ut hie having gut pui.uie.
The preeeettliow here closed, and the Jury returned a got-
, dist of guilty against Margaret. Plunkett and Francis Gina-
! gan—the other Prisoners were acquitted
Lord Newbury then pronounced. the awlttl•sentence of the
law upon the wretched Prisoners, in pursuance of which
they were both taken out fur execution at eight o'clock on
Wednesday morning. Gißigsn requested that he might be
*Rowed to die by himself. He coofessed his having rum—
• mittechhe murder, and declared that Margaret Plunkett had
conspired with him fur the commission of it, but that when
he did perpeßste it, there was out any person with him.
He also eolifessed hie having been eoneerued in the rob-
beries of the Ralllieboroegli mail coach sense time back..
The other wretched culprit arkeurveledgead her connexion with
Gilligan, and that she conspired with and urged him to the
murder of her host:mod. Mr requested the executioner nut
to keep her long in pain, and she died without a struggle.
lioth.of the unhappy beings appeared very penitent. Gil-
ligan was only emitter* years of age, and leis partner in
guilt about twenty-die; they were attended by the Rev.
Mr. Lynch and the Rev. Mr. Flood. After the bjdtes bad
• been ►uspended the u.ual time, they were cut (10.11 and
sent to NaVall for dissection, agreeable to the seutence.
Twelcr others, convicted of burglary and Mous, reeei►ed•
sentence of Les/h.

Mr. Mrynell'i bounds bail • eery Cat@lifiat run on Wed-
•eadsy last they tart •t Cation, and many of the Aruwn
Ho•t bring present made • very large boil of spurtmru
Tlrry found i• • faflow firld, and a gallant frillier by pruerd;
bir was killed after au hour and three 1111111/110.1 SeVate cleaning,.
iu • tramp's' buret, at Cruzall. It is s•ppasod to be the
same fox which afforded Lord Anson so good a day from
Elford early iu the season.

A Gentleman has favoured us with the following
Extract of a letter from his SOO, now at Maple ;.
anthills() with the Bulletin of the first battle gained
by the Neupoliturs over the Austrians ut Abruzzi).
—(Derby illereary.j

".nseuss, mangle 3; 1821.
" II wrote a loot, letter to you yesietday so say th■t I ar-
rived safely bele on Wednesday last from Hume. Home that+
letter 113$ sent I ha►e learnt that 10,a00 Aostriaos are golf,.
tered in Hume. 1 had told you before, acemnsnottatioas
were prepared for diem on the outside of the city, and that.
all rommunioation betayeu Naples and England, th►utmh
Home, la stopped, nal you may not Imeive.that kiln.. lee
English mau of war locceyver sails in a few hour., and I avail
myself of the offer uP sending a letter Isy her to inform you
arrived sari ly here and MY very well. I hope to sail fur
Malta is. tea der."
First batik gained by General n'illiani l'epe on the
Frontiers of Abruzza.

On the 26th of February the telegraph sigmified to us that.
an Austrian column, composed of 12200 foot and WM horse,.
woes. oo thetstb, ten miles distant from the frontiers of our
kingdom on the side of Abrugeu; that an attack was ex-
pected, and that Geweral Pepe said, addressing himself to
the National Parliament, that he hoped to girt them cause
to keep a joyful Lent.
Ponce that time tho immortal General Pepe with the whole
second corps of our constitutional ai toy, stationed at A bras.
a's has ventured en lo measure his strength with the Fiorillo
squadrons of the Austrian slime, who, urged by the despotic
power of their Master, or rather by the perverse sentiments
and perfidy of his Ministers, have brought • most unjust and
iniquitous war spoil the Neapolitan uation,. brcause it hes
proclaimed fur itself& free constitution. But they ends
in rain to omega the innocent Nempubtana, since the omni-
potent God of armies, who is the etouiluolow of our therm, has
already bilged to extend his protection over the innocent
laud of the Neapolitans, by causing almost the whole of the
hostile Neadrom whit* permuted itself before the brave Ge-
noa! Pepe sad his good Abrurzian soldier'', to fall a victim.
This is clearly shown by the subjoined letter bearing his
Moisture.
4, I write from the beadsquarten is Aquila, rebniarf 27th,
from the Neapolitne eamper Vittoria; in the battle of yes-
terday, the Seth instant, allt Ihe troops of Terms* bed the
third regiment of light troops, with a company of marks.
men (gernaglieri) and the revelry, defeated the Austrians
with great loss, and took five pinta a artillery with all their
baggage. V111.1.1A21 PETE.
“ Ewes tie beettuarters is Arils, Ft b, 270,0221"