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The old was ran to tie door of the house, sod teeth 64111 e
It a large wooden bar, with which be returned, sod dirdilitrl
the Prisoner. The bar, however. was wrested fres hiMis,
ike Prisoner, who broke two of the old man's ribs with it.
The woman seized • lornip-hoe, which the thieves bed
toka' from the stable, with which she levelled the other
!jobber; who exclaimed, as be rose,“ D--e her, fur a b---,
1:11 kill bee for that." She 'ben received • blew on the
, another on the shoulder which broke her collar bone.
$ third on her bead. The thieves then laid both the
Peosecutur. and his wife down; the Prisoner standing over
am, whilst the other meek a light, forced open the cup-
thoorddemsr, and robbed it of a pocket-book, containing four
YIIN. Bosh of England Notes, cod other money, to the amount
of 111111 L all the money the old couple had in the world.
Aftertameacking the drawers, and getting possession of the
money, the other thief said to the Prisoner, " Go thy way
now—l've enough !" They then left the house, and the Pro-
secutor never saw any of his money after. The persou of
the Prisoner was positively sworn to by both the Plob-.Tutor
mad hit wife.
During the trial, the Prisoner repeatedly exclaimed, "Tote
know, say Lord, 1 plead guilty to part of the crime; but I
did net heat them. I desired the other man to desist." The
Jury found kiss Guilty
•

iloiert Crowther, R;rkislancl, was tried and arquitleal of
Melding a are out of a stable at Sowerby, on the Atb of
February last. The Prisoner called several respectable wit-
witaiteses, each of whom gave him an excellent character.
As be had bees in confinement about Mc months, his Lord.
ship ordered his immediate discharge.
At kalif-past two o'clock Ibis afternoon the Greed Jury
was discharged.
AUWST Itk
PETIT TREASON AND MURDER.
Awn Berber, aged 45, of Rothwell, near Leeds, wa►
charged with the wilful marder of James Barber, her
husband.

In consequence of the great interest which this trial en-
cited the Court was excessively crowded, pa►ticeitrly by
Ladies, at a very early hour.
Mr. HARDY upend the ease, and Mr. Mauna stated the
farts to the Jury. Counsel fur the Prisoner, Mr. Jolla.
The indictment contained live counts, charging the
Prisoner with administering the puisou (white *smile) in
different ways.
The Prisoner was proved to have bought a pennyworth of
arsenic at a druggist's sbop at Wakefield, which, accord-
ing to her own iroofession when apprehended, she adminis-
tered to her husband is a Tuesday cf warm sweetened at.,
it cousequesee of which he died iss a few bonus. The trial
occupied the Court seven bout •
The Jury, after retiring six minutes and a half, pro-
nounced the Prisoner OWN, of Murder and Petit Treason.
As soon es the verdict was delivered, the Primmer felt down.
His Lordship passed sentence of death spun the Prisoner,.
ordering her fur execution on Monday, and her body to be
delivered to the surgeons fur dissection.
;Valiant Wadteorth, aged 21, late of Swinton, was tried
and found guilty of stealing a mare and a horse from Mr. J.
%Valium, of Waudby, near Ellerton.
Two persons, for whom be bad worked, gave his a good
character.

FOREIGN SLAV& TRADE.

CASE OF L'ESPOIR, SIEUR LEMOINE.

[Extracted from a flopplemeotal Report of the Committee
to the Directors of the Afrieau Institution, dated May,
11521.1
to the month of September last, the Sieur Le-
moinv, master and owner of the schooner Pitspore,
or the Bumbodie, left the Mauritius under English
colours, shaping his course towards the coasts of
Madagascar and of the Mozambique. He fell in
with a Portuguese vessel, laden with Negroes and
gold dust. An esgeruess and thirst of gain seized
upon his soul ; he run alung-side of the Portu-
guese vessel, and immediately killed the mate by
a musket-shot ; having boarded her, he soon
obtained poasession of the vessel thus attacked ;
and his hest questions were addressed to a
Portuguese Colonel, aged 50, of whom he in-
quired where the money and gold dust were
deposited. After this short interrogatory. Le-
moine purposely stepped aside, and a man named
Reineur, who was behind with a pistol blew
out the unfortunate Colonel's brains. But these
crimes were nut enough to satisfy their savage in-
humairi'y. The master of the captured vessel,
alarmed by the rapid succeasion of these massa-
cres, threw himself overboard, in order to escape
• more immediate death. Vain hope ! the fury
of Letuoine and his accomplices was not yet
allayed. They pursued him in a boat, and,
having soon overtaken hits, they cut him on
the head with a 'else. The unfortunate man
feeling himself wounded, caught hold, in order
to support himself, of the boat in which his
murderers were, who, profiting by this last effort
of drawn, had the dastard cruelty to run a sword
into his throat, the point of which came out at the
side of their victim ; the body disappeared, arid
they returned on board fatigued, but not satiated
with murders ! They shut up in the hold the
remaining Purtugtrese sailors, and after having
biker) off the lick cargo, they scuttled the ship
ar.d sunk her with the crew they had thus shut up.
1 own, Monseigneur, that such horrid :sets of
cruelty would be too painful to relate, were they
not seldom found to be accompanied by such
frightful details.
After this infamous expedition, Lemoine went
to Mahe, which he soon left fur the Mauritius, leav-
ing one Basset, his second in commaud, iu charge
of the schooner at Seychelles.
. . . .

Oa his arrival at the Isle of Front's., Lemont*
orde.ed Basset to sell his vessel at blab., which was
done through the means of the Judge of the Ad-
miralty. But when Basset donned the unsount of
the sale, the indiscretion of his crew had given rise to
suspicion : the rumour of the murders was generally
spread, and Basset was taken up. Having by con-
feesinn obtained the clearert evidence of the crimes
committed. by Lemoine cod the crew of CLspoir,
the Commandant of Seychelles sent them to the
superior Court at the Mauritius, where proceedings
are now going on against them.
But the ends of justice will only be half attain.
ed : the most guilty person has escaped, and every
ciecunistance coufirme the presumption that he has
left the two colonies.

The foregoing is, Monsigneur, a faithful narra-
tive of the horrors practised by a slnve.trader. To
these lengths will an eager avarice urge on those
who can traffic in human flesh. I shall not venture
to add a single reflection ; the heart and under-
standing of your Excellency will furnish the best
infetence to be deduced from this communication.

• ifEW sour,' WALES.,
A respectable provincial paper emilaine the
following interesting communicatiou from a Mis.
sionary resident at Perranutta
" The advantages offered to settlers in this
rapidly improving colony Cannot be known in Eng.
land, or the stream of emigration would set more
strongly towards our shores. The climate is mild
and salubrious; we have about eight months of
summer : in the hottest days the thermometer varies
from 90. to 100: ; the nights during this season are
delightfully pleasant. In winter the thermometer
is about 46. at sunrise, from which it varies to 60.
during the day. Occasionally, during the summer,
a very hot wind blows ; during its continuance the
atmosphere is very oppressive, but it never prevails
longer than a kw days at a tune. During the
winter nights we have occasionally a frost : but the
ice on the ponds is never thicker than a dollar, and
seldom continues longer than an hour after sunrise.
These observations apply to within 50 miles of Port
Jackson : at Bathurst and Van Lhetnen's Land the
temperature more nearly approaches that of Corn—
wall. Generally speaking, the colony is very healthy;.
dysentery is the prevailing disease. The soil here is
truiversully free, and consequently cultivation is
comparatively easy. Vegetatiou is rapid : %siest is
sown from March to August, and is reaped in
November and December : in some !daces the
harve►t is not completed before January. Early
maize is town in August, and is ripe iii February, the
late crops of maize are sown in November, in the
ground from which early wheat has been reaped, and
is gathered in March. Thus a g►eet proportion of
our land bears two crops in the year : and hundreds
of acres have done so for twenty years successively,
without manure. Fruit-trees of all descriptions
thrive well, sod there is no part of the year in which
fruit of sonic description may not be gathered.
Oranges and lemons are to he seen on the trees ■t
al+ tunes : of the trees which bear these fruits, ■nd
several other kinds, it may lee said—

• At once they promise, and at once they ply.'
There are frequently seen on the same tree, blos-
soms, green and ripe fruit. The peach, pear, nec-
tarine, apricot, mulberry, gauna, laquat, damson,
green-gage, plum, fig, and a multiptieity of tro-
pical sod delicious fruits grow without much care.
From the rapid improvement of the colony, we
may calculate on the settlement of the more
northern parts of this vast island at no distant pe-
riod ; and as the settlers advance towards the tro-
pics, we may expect to find tobacco and sugar
raised it has been amertained that tobacco wilt
thrive in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson, near
Botany Bay.
" The vast extent of the country, and the compa-
rative paucity of inhabitonts, have hitherto pre-
vented any hmits being affixed to the extent of pas-
turage allowed to settlers; fur though fixed por-
tions of laud have been grouted to individuals,
these persons are not prevented from depasturinisr
their flocks on the adjoining unappropriated land.
'Elie great capabilities of this cotnitry for improve-
ment are but now beginning to be developed. An
opening has been effected iota a fine country to the
westward, which has been visited by his Excellency
Governor Macquarie, who expresses himself highly
gratified with it. About three months since I pene-
trated across the Blue Mountains, about 150 milts
into the newly-explored country. These looms-
tains are very bonen, .but beyoud them the scene
is most delightful. The country is diversified by
hills of gentle ascent, mid dales plentifully watered ;
the fields covered with grass, and having trees
thinly scattered over the surface; the scenery re-
minded me of the beautiful lawns of England.
Occasionally I saw large docks of kangaroos, some
of them as large as a calf of three months old, sod
which bounded forward with astonishing swiftness.
Some of these newly-discovered pastures are alskady
occupied by heads of cattle belonging to our
wealthy graziers; and after a long ride through' an
uninhabited country, I felt inexpressible pleasure
in beholding flocks and herds wind slowly o'er
the lea,' and to hear the ' bleating of sheep and
the lowing of uxeu.'
"Noce of the excellent land situated beyond the
Blue Mountains has yet been granted to private iu-
dividuals ; it is probably reserved for future emi-
grants. The breeding of sheep, horned. cattle, and
horses, here abundantly repays the attention of the
grazier. Oxen about four yew* old weigh from six
to seven cwt. Beef is a pound in the market,
and sd. at the Govermuent stores ; fat sheep sell at
about 30s. each, and saddle horses bring from 30/.
to SO/. each, according to their quality ; small cart-
horses sell for 20/. to 251. each. Sugar is 6d. a
pound ; tea 3s. ; English goods 100 per cent. dearer
than at home. An experienced farmer, with a
capitol of 1,000/., would in five years, with proper
attention. secure an income of 1.0001. a-year. The
chief source of profit is breeding sheep ; the fleeces
of sheep are worth 51. each on an average. There
are no direct taxes here. nor tiny drawbacks on the
industry of individual-. Land is spouted by
Government to individuals according to their means
of improving it : a farmer who could rent 200 acres
in England would probably obtains grant of t,OOO
acres here. Most of the farmers haue commenced
without any property, and, what is worse. without
any knowledge of agriculture ; the necessity of pro-
curing a livelihood, and the opportunity of obtiin-
ing land, have indoced many to settle on farms who
had been brought up in trade, &c. hlany of these
persons are also, unhappily, of dissolute habits,
and therefore but few of them have accumulated
much property. Some, however, are of a dif-
ferent character, and these have risen to wealth and
respectability.

The manners of the people are entirely British,
and the good order that prevails throughout the
colony generally, reflects honour on our excellent
Governor and the authorities under his direction.
Every week I ride during the night several miles
along a road on which there ■re mere then one
hundred convict* employed, and I have never ex-
perienced the slightest molestation from them.
" The colony derives great advantages from the
number of artificers of every description that are
sent here; many of them are moat excellent work-
men. it has been remarked that most of the per.
sons who return to England. after a residence of
some years here, eagerly embrace the first oppor-
tunity of returning. The Islands in the Pacific
Ocean. and these to the N.E. of us. promise to
enlarge the sphere of our commerce cousiderubly,

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