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wurnen .47* CLIPTOY.

A ease of the malt horrible deitertpt ion was brought before
the Creamer (Mr. I.7nnia) on IVeduesdaY neutlight. The
lending facts 111.1 cirri' mat alien are as follow :—duo Holmes-
: I,v, the dereased, who was about 3rd years of see, was the
wife rif J. Flohnesluy, a bricklayer's laboorer, huth of whom
Imiterd with the father of the decease.) in a smail house
/14 4rty firing the Crooked Billet at Clapion. It ePeemeed
from the evidence a Esther Sorry, a lodger in the house,
th at the derrere-it and her hush and came home in the erect; ne.
%bunt mitt o'clock, and as they ectered the house, wittiele
and seine very angry cairn...ion pas* between them. %Vit-
en-As sit la the next loons with Iwo children, with whom she
was left in char.le by tut Mounted, who was a watchman, and
fether attic &wooed. The woman wrest to bed in ad..
joinrug ritorre The husband Came ink) W WK.! runt",
ecleu
asked hint if he eta coming in sleep with the clii"dren.
llolmerby staid. perhaps he might. The deceased then called
rut, that dile did, he soon M .get up agsht. Ilnlniesiay came
and out of the roma several times. %Vitae's at length et.a•
u rismt tb,t ec oanid cut to heel to the children, retinal Igo
the base dieur, Iu lheLa. lO minirt•s she hear al the sreinil i.f
WTIMen ;him ruialoal to the door, aiel was mul by
nee of the chddreu who rolledswitait al the chi* nad raid if be called Get ae. ia, hewoull
wander him. Witness then, frets the adjoining room, heard
three dill s,el Mows, and the unfortunate direased
calling
'MI..' Lord h ore Merry upon me!' flithnealey then tame
into wit err room, and slid, he " had done for her, and
altould be home' • Ile then asked one of the lists where
hSa fethee'e (the watchman) mousey was; that money he
ranted, God money he wrath{ hare. lioluieshy took cilia-
te!, sod broke 'pros chest, and took what rntin,‘, he ctiol.l
end said to witness, * I am guise out at the back..dour,'
and :holding tin as axe) added, you speak or stir I will
maids. yow Insult.' Witness sad the child then wrist to the
next hone, and an ...tau as she was a little recovered from
lace ft ight, seat a girl steer to the public: house, where Pea..
eall,• one of the parish beadles, happened to be. Perscorl
sated, that he went over to the house immediate Iv, and haw.
tog procured a light, saw the d d lying ulead on the
heti, nearly naked, a vast quantity of blood appeariug ors
the bed, and several wol& un her head. Ile saw an nice
with a great deal uf blood upon the top of it, particularly
on the back of the handle. He rnu inimediatele fur Mr.
Re'leYs the 'nevem. This wittier.; found tin person in the
honer butt the deceased, and • child asleep in 'he adjoining
Tomei.
Mr. Bailey stated, that he found the eireenseirl lying in
bed on her left aide. There was a great quantity of Muni'
on the bed, but not in the spot where die was lying; thought
she bad been dead fibula two Mourn; examined the heed, um
the hack part of teloch there was a large wound from Iwo lu
three inches in length, appearing to have been made be
mime b:trot instrument. Au axe was produced to bent with
Mood and heir upon it, with whirls it is probable the act
was committed. round the jaw fractured in the centre,
ecrl by aloe left ear. Footed soother wound between the rye.
trout s nlenit an inch in width, and another on the left tem.
pit, aheut half an inch in width, and an inch and a half in
depth, pi ohalrly caused by wise tharp.point. d knife. These
trujurriee, and more particularly the latter, were the cause uf
death.
The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Wilful Alarder
spinal John Huinresby, the huabaud.
The horrid Miler at of the rase necasioned the attem'atere
of a number of respectable gentlemen of the neighbourhood
at the Inquest.
J. Flolatealty hes since surrendered himself into the hsnds
of jumice, and voluntarily made the fullowiug centric:ion :
Kent, Ciiirpie Ports to wit —The voluntary examine.
tis. and confessims ofJuliti Holniesby, biirklaye;'s labourer,
taken try and before us, the undersigned Justices of and for
the eairl Cinque Purls, who retro-sot that the letter before
us shall be opened and read ; it ta adds eased to Mr. Damara,
5, Dean.street, Soho, Loudon ; its purport is a confes-
sion of the nuttier of his wife, in consequence of having,
un Tuesday evening week, shunt the dusk of the reel:one,
caught her is the art of aduhtcay, in a cow hovel, opposite
her father's house at Claptore—the imminent accurnpairieil
kis wife bowie to her father's house: be was gone its his
etch when they get home; be, the Primmer, then told the
housekeeper, ar hose oarne is Sorry, of the adultery of Ilia
w•te, and almost directly Ott r his wife and he had an alter.
C,lMllebout ening to bed together; and he baring struck
eer -Iteht ty with his mien hand, she threatened if he did not
carne to bed to her, the would grt up and go to or with those
ate leid tuft ; eel, as he had struck her, she would swear her
life ayallist and he sleenlil lay in gaol and rut ; and the
woo id go and live with the other man, whom she loved. After
thus, be walks it out Berl in the room two or three timer, anal
she declared, MI his liesiistine to come to bed to her, with
violent oaths, that she would be the devils of one or other uf
them. lie slots went fur an axe that lay in the adjoining room,
Maar by her father's chest, and with it in his hand lie challeue.
eel her ill sly so 6411111. Siff Snit!, rilt tar I h3ll suffer the usage
she had, she wr.rild be the death of WIC or the other. At this
imetant he stem k her upon the head with the bark of the axe
iorehtly. Shr was then sitting on the bed, partly undressed,
Jelling previously seemed to attempt to dress herself again,
*eel, she said she would go to the other man; after the Gest
bow was struck, lie had just time to hear her say, ' Oh!
y 0.,. known and a second blow with the bark nf the
sae immediately followed. He dors not know whether he
at,. cit. her more ur not. She seemed to swoon un the right
aide, and bled to as to be heard by him. He then took her
by the left arta, and pulling her to Ilse kit side of the bed,
It 'led her, raying, ' My dear, you was otter my comfort
for a 11111, time; and now I am the death of you, and you
or me.' She was then alive, and was so when he left the
fettle and went to her fathar's chest, and took a pound smote
salt of it end itheapcd—having threatened the children sad
•-the woman (the housekeeper) he would be the death of
ttelr, if they made any Noise, as he must hate money for a
t •rre, in order to repent, before he went awny ; and, after
leasing his wife bleeding, he put dowel the name of Slue man
b.s wife bad been connected with, and left it with the house.
keeper. He came to Woolwich about nine or ten o'clock
the next morning, and was at Canterbury last Sunday, was
a: Dower yesterday, and has wandered about at different
riewe, without any particular intrusion, till he came to
'4\ tuner. He bought the jacket be has Oil at Woolwich,
leaving a brown cloth coulee, sod a pair of fustian trousers
la err ; having also bought the striped trousers he Dow wears
et Woolwich. He wishes to add, that on bus wife's making
use (nese that the bad been dragged into the row-house by
rem force by the marl he found her with, he, the Prisoner,
.04reft, if she would swear a rape against him, she irbould
ha foment ; but she refused, is emirate langnare, raying,
'the hived kis little Anger letter than her Lusbnnd'a whole
Lode' JOHN HOLMESBY.
Takeo End Mimed the 7th day
of ()emitter, before sue,
.f. B. BAmarsouse, M FriltlNGTOn."

The Hon. Mr. Scirrv, son to the Logo Cstiix.
ci:l.Loa, will, it is said, be the tier. Accountant-
( „nets! tit the Court of Clcmvery. in the room of
t:,e late Ikitment.as Sarin. Esq.
The last advice@ from Cadiz and Madrid Agree
in the statement. that the yellow fever his spread
air fir as Ecija ; that ten infected sneer have been
lai.ded froin the Admiral's ship the Assautaciu ; that
CALi.ar• had left Cadiz, where • garrison of only
OM) toes. remained ; that the army was riot abuse
Imam in number ; and that the Consuludo had
moat positively refused to cousent to a further loan.
The merchants of Curbs are in despair at the cer-
tainty of the grand expedition not taking place.
because they are said to have good. W the ainothot
aiklive millions of dolor,. which they had intend-
ed to ship in the train of the expedition. The ye!.
low fever seems first to have sppeered amongst sew.
men in the fleet. and from thence it was catoinutsi.
tired to the troops and to the inhabitants of the
Jets. Desertions. sod the toted absence of all order
or discipline. have 'payed it in several ports of **-
dahlia and Estremadurs; seen at Madrid mini.
derable alarm prevails.