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EXTRAORDINARY CHASE.

The following is an account of a Stag Hunt on '
the 14th September. its Hungary. The horsemen
consisted of Prince Esterhazy, and • party of
friends, the horses English bred. •ud the dogs,
Lord Stewart's peck of foe-hounds.
On approaching a gentle but long declivity we descried
the glassy lake of bulls, which the stag had taken, and was
now nearly half way across, the distance torn one shore to
the other being rather better than an English mile. The
hounds immediately luck the water; their noble master
(laird Stewart,) Prince Esterhazy, Mr. Fitzroy, and Mr.
Illoombehl, Mr. Weatherly, and two English grooms be.
longing to the Prince, dashed in along with them. Will the
huntsman, and Jack the whipper-in, both Englishmen, (re.
carded with repel !) bolted with the Hungarians. The scene
was now certainly unparalleled in the annals of Enrupean
sporting—a stag swimming across a mighty lake, a pack
of hounds in full cry swimming by the Mew of the horses,
encouraged by their daring riders. The effort was desperate
but irresistible; the very water appeared to give a tacit
(memo, to the attempt ; it was placid aad perfectly motion-
less. save • gunk wndul•t' caused by 1110°°°°d° of wild
ducks, which seemed to sit in judgement upon the rash-
ness, of the sportsmen. From the ceutre of the lake they
beheld the uuble stag reach the shore at a mument when
an insurance at Lloyd's would have been very high
against their doing so; happily, in shout a quarter of
inn hour more, their gallant steeds brought them safe
to shore, attended by their wute pack of hounds, which had
no wind left fur music. After a pause of a few minutes, to
collect the hounds and breathe their horses, they challenged
at the very edge of the lake, and ran in • direct line fur •
mile and a half, to the summit of a very strong ascent into
a small walnut covey, were the dashers were joined by their
hing.lost companions, who had more prudently preferred
"'Mopping ou dry land to win gin a lake. Here the stag
turned back, mud heist his course down the mountain to-
wards the lake again ; it was now difficult to determine
whether the effort made by the hounds or horsemen to
prev. sit his gaining the lake was greatest. A reuse'
swimming appeared to be desired by neither ; be made
a desperate 'Mot to gain the lake, did so, best it
was only to die; eight of the leading bounds pulled hint
down ate•ut twelve yards from the shore; most piteously be
t bayed. Thous ended a chase of 14 miles by land, and one
tic water, that would not have disgraced • pack of Hag best
appointed stag.hounds in Europe. This was the GM time
that land Stewart's pack had run a stag.

The following is an extract of a letter from Liver-
pool. &fled March 8 :
Tlw sliitoearpeoters at this port struck their work this
day tor au advance of wages; they have hitherto etnidui
ted
thrnowlves Qoiettc, and without any disposition to riot, and
1 doubt not but the business will most be settled between
them and their emptiyers.
•• The agent fur the Spanish Government has succeeded in
rug igitig two at this port, aa teattoporls, fur conveying
1r..1)1.4 in South America—the flaretwe, of 314 tuns, and
11w tri Murton, of 36S tuns. It is understood they pay
three aluutlui in advance."
We are gi.id to find that the ardent spirit the-
played by the l'eoniartry of the County of West-
wetland, in the late context against the -Aristocratic
influence of the house of Lowurga. has not met
with the slightest check, but, from all appearances,
struts to have gained additional strength and confi-
dence. We observe, with pleasure, that the Free-
holders and Friends to the Independent cause, re-
sident iii Loudon. intend to dine together at the
City of London Tavern on Seturday next.
THE FRANIII.III MANUSCRIPTS.--We congra-
tulate the public on the completion of these value-
tile papers, by the publication of the flint or eon-
elading Volume to Quarto, comprising the posthu-
mous writing.. The Editor very properly observes.
" it is a common complaint that the reputation of men
of eminence to the world of letters, suffers by their posthu-
mous works ; noshing, however, of that bind is to be ap-
prehended in regard to the resent collettion. fur many
of Ile fugitive Essays hire ussemtaleit, and the original
piton now for the first tune broiled to public clew, are
dimity referred to in the preceding Memoirs stud Cur.
respouitencr, elucidatury of particular tisuaactiottai ar
as documental 4 authority tor the confirmation of the Math
of what a thse aseertrd. But indepenilleutly of a coo.
sideratiou which is suditieut to fire this supplementary
Volume friar the charge of hieing supererogatory, the several
traetates which make up its cuuteuts have all • paransuust
Claim 10 prmervatom in their veriest' form, as accutiot of
their iutriiisse merits and ichtiofe worportattor. as connected
with the personal history, ehuraeter, sod pursuits of a mew
who hewer adopted auy theor), but will' a view to practical
eaperieuce. sad who, is We true spirit of philosophy, ap-
plied all Isis specolktiona mu objects of general utility. It
would, iberef.re, have been so act of culpab
such ale isegligesiad
ee
to base left eves the lights* Na
of Na
to Goat flows the lare.lll of liar. *Object to all its Soden-
boo% anti tiabk to be lost or pri eerie., amidst the perpetual
tissuges wbicb take place is Isutaau cuucetts."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE.ceaNCEI.I.OK•s COURT, IPICOLN% IMOO
WZOSZODAY, MARCU 10.

• BRADSHAW V. BRADSHAW.
Mr. AGAR moved that the Master's report might
be confirmed, under the following eirturustences :
By the will of the father of the Plutonll% who ate
infants, they were made wards of Court, and the
Court had appointed them guardians, whine con-
duct was subject to its approbation. The testator
died possessed of several estates of large value,
and the guardiaiis of the infants made an up-
plicarion to the Court that it might referred
to the Master to inquire and report what timber
would be beneficial to the estates to he cut
down and sold, arid he had reported that 400 trees
ought to be cut down and saki, as they weri be-
ginning to decay. Ile (the Learned Counsel) was
not aware that this motion was opposed, and if it
was, he was at a loss to know on what ground;
as the only person that could be interested, beside*.
the infants, was their *lest of kip, and it would be
for his advantage that the trees were cut down and
sold, otherwise they would decay, and iii case of
the infants departing this life before the age of 41,
he could not he .benefited if the sale was nut car-
ried into effect. Perhaps it would be too much
for him to ask that the proceeds of the sale of the
timber should be paid to the guardians of the in-
fants ; he would therefore only ask that it should
be paid into Court, with the knowledge and privity
of the Accountant-General, liable to any further
order the Court might think proper to make.-.
Under those consideration% he had no doubt but
his Honour would giant the motion,
The V.IOE-CHANCELLOII-" Let the sale of the
timber take place.lrh6 the knowledge sad appro-
bation of the next of kin of she infant% as it will
save the estate being put to unnecessary expense;
and when the sale has taken place, let the proceeds
be paid into Court without prejudice to any further

directions."
The Master's report confirmed,

METROPOLITAN LAW SOCIETY.

A meeting took place on Tuesday, at Fierle's Coffee-Masai
iti Carey-street, of many very respectable Members of the
Profession, Alturuies and Solicitors, with a view to the esta-
blishment of a Society, which should have for its object the
preservation of the just privileges and the support of the
credit of Attorities and Solicitors, and particulaily the pre-
vention and correcting, of the growing abuse of improper and
unqualified persons becoming members of the profess .
W. Luang, Esq. M P. took the Chair at about half-past
two, and a series of Resolutions were moved and approved
of, containing the opinions of the Meeting, that the existing
laws, so far from protecting regular practitioners, subjected
them to winch injury and discredit, by allowing unqualified
persons to enter tutu the professiou. It was further agreed,
that fur the better protection of the profession, its rights,
and its character, a permanent society should be formed,
consisting of Atturnits and Solicitors practising in London
or Westminster, or within the limits of the twopeony post.
This Society was to be called the 0 Metropolitan Law So-
ciety." Some discussion arose sums( the Gentlemen pre-
sent, and many cases of gross abuse were stated. As the
law uuw stood, it signified very little to any Solicitor, as far
as regarded pecuniary matters, whether be was struck Or
the rolls, as at the expense of between 201. sad 301. he might
be enabled to put hinitielf in the same sitaatiou as before
his disgrace. This was an evil which had been gradually in-
creasing for many years; and, unless a step were put to it.
rapid progress, the injury to the respectable class of the
profession would he incalculable.
Solicitors, it was observed by one of the Gentlemen pre-
sent, had paid too much attentiou, and had been too
anxious about the Cases of their clients, to regard their
own. It appeared by the statement of one of the Meet-
ing, that the number of persons articled, from the year
1794 to 1804, was 2,7i)0, by each of whom a duty was paid
of 1001. making a total of 270,000/. paid between those two
periods. From 1804 to 1815, the number of persons arti-
cled was 6,500, by each of whom 1101. was paid, making
a total of 711,0001. From 1815 to Deceniber 1618, no fewer
than 1,800 individuals were articled, and the duty paid was
180/. each, making its the whole 228,0001. Sy this it ap-
peared, that very large sums were given for aihniseion to
the profession, which was by a defect m the law almost to-
tally avoided by those who introduced themselves by sinister
means. It further appeared that the number of atturnies
admitted from 1805 to 1615 was 2,4128; the duty of MIL
paid by each attorney amounted in that period to 48,7601.
From 1815 to ISIS the number admitted was 1091, and the
duty paid, at 251. each, was 27,2751. The number of cei-
I tificates taken out in the years 1817 and 1815 was 5,399, and
the dui y.paid, at 91. each, was 48,5911.
The Society was formed, awl she Gentlemen present en-
rolled their dames as members,

The House of Lords will now sit fur three days
each week, from ten till four, to hear Appeals and
Writs of Error, in which the wresr is still very
great, notwithstanding the appointment of the
ICE-CHANCELI.OII.
By an account of the amount of Bank Notes and
Bank Post 111119 in circulation. from the 25th of
January, 1819, to the Ist instant, it appears, that
on the 27th January, the amount was 27,176,580/.
mid on the Ist Mardi 24,991,4101. being 2,185,1701.
less at the latter period than at the former,
last summer. as some workmen were employed
at Vaynol, near Bangor, in removing some rubbish
contiguous to a lime kiln, they discovered a large
collection of Homan silver medals, and a pair of
small antique brans) spurs, about two feet below
the surface, by the side of • round grit stone. They
are in a high state of preservation, and appear to
have formed part of • cabinet collection, as they
-are of various dates. The ancient mane of this
part of the parish, as appears from an old extent
book of the see of Bailor. of the date 1286, was
Vareherd, a name which seems to designate its proxi-
mity to a military statioo. and It is not improbable
but that Vaytiol was formerly a Roman villa, situ-
Mid as it is, mar the 8.000111 l'rujectus over the Me-
wl. The number found was ; and the histori-
cal period which they serve to illustrate, embraces
an interval of 22 years. reckoning from the corn.
mencement of the reign of Vespasian to the death
of Commodus. Of these there are Mae of the
Emperor Vespasiau, six of Titus Vesposian, three
of Durnition (ooe of which records the celebration
of the LAdi Serum-es, A.D. 84). three of Nem,
sixteen of Trojan, ten of Hadrian. Due of the Em-
press Sabina, his wife, eight of Antonio, Pius,
seven of the Empress Faustma, six of M. Aurelius
Antonioni, one of Commodur, and three which
cannot be ascertained. The workman who first
made the discovery was liberally rewarded for his
Wormy in communicating the same to the propri-
etor. T. A. Smith, EN. in whose possession thin
clash( treasure reutaws,

CASH PAYMENTS,
stEetist EXTRAORDINARY 0P PRACTICAL
MEN IN THE CITY.

It cnnselnenee of the alarming state of the Monter'
lieranrsT, and of the late fall iii the price of Atoeks,
wrung Nlreiiiig was 111.111 1M Mond"). in 110 1%‘114 for tin
purpose a t4Lu,s these tnipmdaut .sehjects 111111 11101113C111.
lion, and with a view of avertinre the. dreadful evils appre-
!welded from the Inee.iiritions of the two Parliamentary
secret Committee" one sitting. The Meeting was most
annsermisly auricled.
Mr It—ytt—n, being called to the Chair. stated in very
per~;airuous and copioni terms, for "Neel ur
,Ilie Meeting;
declai log that tneamren were iu contimiplatimii a-hich ap-
peared to him to he beyond endurance in any CIIRISTIM4
Cosintry After much conversation and discussion, the ful •
Wiring ttrsoliitiuns were unanimously adopted:—
It LV F. I), •
THAT those who contend that Two and Two make Foca,
are BOLIJONISTS, VIsIoNARIaI, and Ttitioniers, wholly
unlit to interfere in our Financial and Monetary Systems,
in the present enlightened age; particularly when we con-
sider the great discoveries made, with reference to thesis
subject', re this Connery eishtsively, since the year 1757;
of the value of which discoveries these Theorists appear is
he altogether ignorant.
THAT Ike Resumption Of Cash Payments by the flank,
would, by cresting au increased demand fur Gehl, drive all
the 1;014 nut of the Kingiluin, it having been proved, mint
satisfactgrily, since 1797, that Guld cannot be acquired
and retained iu Countries which are RICH, but that it is
naturally attracted and Rows into countries which are FOOL
THAT, therefore, all England is the richest and most com-
111efe131 country in the world, it riatitrally follows, that we
cannot possess Gold to the extent its which it is to he found
lin Franc.-, Holland, Germany, and other Cuntinental States,
greatly inferior to ourselves in wealth, in trade, and in

iaufaciures.
THAT if Cash Payments were resumed during the present
scarcity and high price of Gold throughout Or world, there
is every rearms to believe that its MARK FT-price in England
would continue above its MINT-price; which, we admit, is
the same thing as to say, that more than one pound weight of
Gold IN COIN would be given to exchange fur our pound of
Gold IN BARS; and, of course, all the Gold in the couutry
would goon go out of it.
THAT TIRE PRoMlssOltir NOTES OW THE BANK or
ENGLAND HAVE HITHERTO ■ENN, AND ARE AT THIS
TIME, HELD IN 'UREIC ESTIMATION, TO BC EQUIVALENT
TO THE LEGAL Cola OW Tills REALM"
Mr. JOHN P—ocit moved, as au Amendment upon this
Resolution, to leave out the winds " EQUIVALENT To," for
the purpose of substituting the words " ■ETTLR Turin."
The Resolution, thus amended, was carried by acclamation,
and for some time nothing could be beard but the names of
Mr. VANsiTTALT !—Mr. p—mcg!--Mr. P--nott—Mr-
VANSITTART!--vociferateil with iapturtoua applause. After
the noise excited by this Resolution, so amended, had •
little subsided, a serious elderly-looking Gentleman, whose
tonne we could not learn, dressed as was the fashion thirty
years ago, asked with great modesty and diffidence, " Why
Bank notes uf a particular flak, payable by the Notice of
the Bank in cash, bore a premium ?" Here there was a ge-
neral cry of Itanclit!--ORDelle!—TpleN tllw OUT!—THIIII
His OUT ! Upon which the old Geottemaii, seder evideut
symptoms of fright mid alarm, mule his escap►, awl got out
of the room. The Meeting them promoted to vote—
THAT the truth of the doctrine laud down in the forego-
iug Resolul is nut in any degree affected or shaken by
the fact, that whets the course of exchange with Paris is
5 per cud. oriental this couutry, 20 of our Sovereigns car-
ried over to Paris will exchange there for 211. in Bank-sautes,
or (what is the same Ming )(or R hill on London of 211. pay-
We its Liwiluu, in Bank-notes; any more thau it is affected
by another fact, namely, that what the market price of Gold
is above the Slim price, 20 of our Sovereigns are intrimi-
tally worth hire, 211. in Bauk•uotes, and convertible iota
that seta by the very short and simple process% of melting—
because, however easy both these operations may be, every
body limbos that to melt down, or el pubs out witi, is con-
trary to the law uf the land.
THAT the Resumption of Cash Payments by the Hank
will lower the price of Stocks, and of all marketable com-
modities ; and that although ►uch a fall in prices will Ireurfit
the Stockholder, who is anxious only for 'hi regotar payment
of his Dividend,as well as all utherAnnuitants and Receivers
of certain fixed Incomes, it is nevertheless obvious That it
must be ruinous to the public interests; particularly until
the THREE AND HALF ►elt Usrs, created in the last
Session of Parliament, shall be disposed of by the unfor-
tunate Subsciibers to that Loan, and distributed more geoa-
rally amongst the
THAT so long as the Restriction on rash Payments shall
continue, the extent to which Paper Currency should be
issued in this country, ought to be left entirely, without
chick or control, in the disinterested judgment and illicit-
IC of the Directors of the Bank of England.
THAT so far from the present amount of Batik Hanes
being, as alleged by the theorists, too great, it is our item-
odium' opinion that it is infioitely less than it ought to be;
and that a further and more extended issue of Bank Paper
would raise the price of Stocks, sad give energy and in:-
proifslitent to the industry, trade, and manufacturer of the

country.
Mr. 6 T—uat—T-6 moved, THAT to 6a any definite pe-
riod Go the grumps of Cash Payments would he a
DELUSION upon the public, and moat impolitic in iteelf--s
unless acrompaiiied (as doubtless was the ruse upon the
renewal of the Restriction Law in 1815, 1816, and 1818),
with a private understanding, that when sucti future period
should arrive, it is not intended to act upnu it.
A Gentleman now role, upon whom the eyes of all pre-
sent were instantly, and intensely, fixed, mud silence this
most profound prevailed throughout the assembly:—
The Holt. GaNTLIONAN began, by assuring 11w Meeting,
that every thing that bad occurred within his practice and
observation, either in Ibis country, or during his residence
in Holland, ia America, awl in France, hail satisfied him
of the truth and correctness of the doctrines of the Rio,
1401 ConntTegt--(Mairesurs from the lower end of the
room)--and that UNLEsi CAAII PAYMFNTS OVAL lIIPIIHIKR,
ruin would inevitably spread itself over the Empire—tilers
the clamour became so perrered, accompanied with /Wee
4... ULNAE! SHAMS!" "Urrr ! Ore!" that had it not hese
for the interference of some permits, who took upon thews-
saws to assare the Meeting, that if then would HEAD NM
OUT, they would he perfectly satisfied trite Aim, flit pro-
bability is, that lie could not here been :leered to taller
another syllable. Sikora, however, being at &snide tome-
what restored, the Hon. Gentleness, evidently disturbing and
discomposed by what had happened, proceeded to observe)
That whatever his theory on these subjects might be, his
advice, his practice, and his VIITTS had invariably kemi
giveu is direct opposition to that theory ;—and that at 110
former period of his life had he been so powerfully coo-
viuced, as at lb/ 'Ageism moment, and after his late residence
of two years is France, of the expediency of (*Distills the
uperatiou of that theory. He would, therefore, couclude by
moving, al an aineodnout to 11w itesuliatiou proposed by
fir. T--N,
THAT IT la /Mg OPIPION OP TR' M rawer:, Tits? /Mg
ACT FON THg Ittauttr/tog or I A4ll PARISI:MT, OUGHT
TO .00 summating/a run A reutols Of IrIYE YEARS!
This Proposition restored the Honourable (lentleimin to the
good humour of the Mertiug, and the Revolution was in-
stantly soil neatiimously adopted, amidst lurid and rertited
cheers.
Mr. L—T—D then Illtnted—Resot cf.D, !FINALLY,
THAT upon all thew grounds, awl for many usher lessons
which might be Plated, representations be made furtl,wilb to
theChaticelloe of the Exchequer, deprecating the It. sump.
*ion of Ceab Payton!, by the Bank, and imploring that no
redaction may be made in the amount of Snob Notes slow
AN cirtidatiou, PITHIEIt by carrguig into eller. the prorish.ii
pad, by the Legislature in the last Session of Parliament
fur the repari-ent of eight or nine millions of the Wit doe
(rum the (internment to the Rank, on ridosraire--because
it appears le as that Ow execution of that Art of the 1 ogle-
Wore, ur any oes tether measures which smoid
,s 1 teal."'" !if
amount or Batik Notes time in cireulatiou, would he h111"7
injurious to our interests.
I Thanks mete voted to the Chalio.l4, els 4 gb.: Mill" 11 4,1*
1 „Imarisod..—LMereA 4, IMP j

LENT ASSIZES.

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titArryoao, FRIDAY. MARCH S.
EIF.INIOUS CASE LIF ARSON.
Junes Iliad. a4Pil V, and Abotha. Lis wit ,
were iiirlicted for having art fire to a Loam in ifs
occupation of John Overt'll, of ll'iskely, 41111 burri-
-lug thereby all immense quantity of corn, li
party, on the ejtla of August last.
Mr. W•ncotto opened the case for one tiroseett-
tion; but in she remise of Ilia statenteitt at titioeared,
that the smile Prisoner and his wic-t Inl a:ten:A.lo
made declarations storm the subject of ti
to the barn, and that the woman par.ieukily ca I
rowed that «he vrus the hand who did it, but +tts
her husband was present what the act was Coln,
nutted.
Upon this it long di•eii.sion took ',lusty, whether
the woman, atllag a guilty pert in the pregame.. Of
her husband, was tint excased rat the ground of
coercion; the Counsel for the prosecution arguing
that the principle did nut extent! to the yrsiiie
ail
arson, and the advocates on the other side coots-off-
Mg that it did.
The JuDGE (PARK, who .1.0 obtainer, the id•
vice of Mr. Justi.er BA V Lry) rilmcifleil in opinion
with the Prisoners' Counsel; but dewed tie r
to proceed as against both Prisoner., upon th,
ground that the woman might turn out to to.: Cue
guilty person, anti not the roar..
Mr. %V ALrottu having stated t'de case, proceei:rd
to call evideoce.
John Overidl said he kept an extensile farm, and
resoled in the hamlet Wakely. The Pris'oncr
had been in his ettiplo) isietst, and be discharged
him on the 18th of May at. His harts set bis
fire the 87th of August funowioK, awl conapletely
burnt down. His large stable adjoiiiiiig, end a
shed. were also burnt down. The halls was sepa-
rated some distance from his dwelliog.linuee. lis
the year 1817 his premises were set lire to in a aimir
par way.
J. Turtle said lie resided at Buntingford. On
the night of the 'nth of August he wa. ahirlittli by
information of a fire at the premises/if Mr. (.rapt.
He rose from bed and rode to the ',poi, 'Flue tire,
which was blazing, appeared to have commenced at
one comer, In about two hours itft:r lie had !well
there, Jame', Head appeared upon the premises.
and kept walking about and talking very touch of
the former tire at his master's, in nil,. Ile talked
also much of the then tire, nod witness wus isiduced
to observe him closely. l'he prisoner caught his
eye, appeared embarrassed, and shuffled away, to
break off the conversation.
Ceorge !Mickley said, he also went to th- premix.%
of Mr. Overall the night of the tire. Ile saw the
0 .
Prisoner there, aho spoke to him, 141. •414 I t t
was a sad job that • fire should thus Inflow!, .act's
on his roaster's premises. His wile, I.e .vas
unwell, and had got out of bed in the inght, whets
he (the Prisoner) said he thought there was a tire.
His wife replied it was nothing but moon-I.:or, lint
he thought it, was a contigutius farm which was im
tire. The Pr.simer appeared to the sitiie,s t.,
confused and agitated. He hved about a mile fruit
the place where the fire took place. W 00.... did
not think it possible, from the situation Ills I least's
dwelling, that he could see a lire while hr lay un
his bed ; but admitted that the 141011146110 Vie
be illuminated by a blaze where the tire was nut
directly opposite to the view.
Thomas Britton reaiderl at Minden, close to the
Prisoner's honse. The latter called hint up to•
night of the 9.7i1i of August from bed, by oil .11-.ru)
of fire. Wittiest' arose. and accouittanied httii to
the premises of Mr. Overall. The Pits tier tMit
him on the way, that when lie first called him up
lie was usiked. and that his wife threw lit. clothes to
him out of the window, lieu lie put Mein nil by
the time he (the witness) had got dressed.
Richard 'Tew (an interesting hoc) will. lie was
the sun-in-low of James Head. Martha Hem! Wu*
his own mother, and he lived in clue house with
them. fie slept up stairs in a room outside his 11.
theni, and through which the latter must hare
come to go down glens. Ole the night of the -27 i 16
of August he was awoke by a person, whom he
knew to he his lather, and who went down mans
mud out of the house. He returned in about a
quarter or half an h unr. He knew his vuiCe
and heard him say, " I have left us
light behind we." Witness sOOll atter this went to
sleep, but wail again its a short time aroused by Ilia
mother, who called nut, s' Dick, get up, your mas-
ter's (Mr. Overell's) fsrni is on !" Wittiest
threw his father.* smock-frock out ut. clue window
to him.
Anne Bowyer said that her was as the
employment of 11r. Overeli to August lust. I ler
husband had money to pay the Prisinier alter in,
discharge from the Ptosecutor, iii May last. tie
accordingly came to tbeiritoure. but her
was not at home. Wilms* asks ml Liras if lie cum-
fur his money ; he said, yes, but it would tint
much when he hail it. Witness sa.,l it *Mold
sonic for him, as it was for them ; when lie -
finitely replied, e‘ Dsiwn Itis old h!toid
lug Overall), lie wants my ktote its li.ts
and another or two want a knife as w. ;l as
Ile also added, " be d—d to hell If y rlaa't
have it, and he (Overall) must riot live. He wool
another light OW In* head. and he Inuit look o—.l
sharp if lie does nut have it !" Witness stilted hi,
if her husband ever heard him iota such ,
whet) the Prisoner relined, " No, 'tell a bit tier
less your husband knows the better it will be f P
biro." 11'itiiess had known /lead and hi. nal.t I, ;
eight or nine years, but had no, immediate ,sitei-
course or acquaititance with them. hike tavair
angry words or quarrelled with !eller 111 ber life.
Under the directiou of the Learned Judge, ti
prosecution as against the iwoman was hire malty
abandoned.
Stephen Lavender. the Bow•street officer,
snarl
he teas employed in the ineestigation rof the affair i 4
question. and went to the house of the PtlbOtiet.
Joules helot, which be carefully examined in Ins
presence. He laid down ou the 'bed from "bench
the Prisoner astyl be had seen tke tight of the
and he thought it utterly impossible los could Reis*
seen it from thence.
The prisoner, iii the toren solemn pro,
tested firs innocence.
Mr. Justice PARK addressed the Jory ;
rifler a c0u11131009 of !WWI ;e* 0/3*lnkitOr yisj

moored on acquittal as to Martha Head, but found
the Pri.oner, Joints Head. Guilty.
nig Lordship proceeded immediately to pass
"11011 him the awful sentence of death; and in the
mew, solemn manner implored him not to indulge
in any hope of merry in this world, lint lose not a
moment in seeking his peace in the world of eternity,
to which he must shortly be consigned.

WINCHESTER ASSIZES, MARCO! 6.

MURDER.

Sarah Ilsorthreard was tried, for that she did,
on the 24th of October last, at Parties, feloniously,
traitorously, and wilfully, of anther aforethought,
kill and murder Thomas Iriuntingfurd, her husband.
'The principal witnesses in this ease were—Samuel
Basteley, Mrs. Jennings,. and Mr.. Turnbull, who
were examined upon the Coroner's inquest, when the
eireninsaimaires were fully detailed in this Pamper.
We shall, however, state the substance of their
erolener

Th. Prisoner and deceased lived at lodgings, at
41.1 /range.strerl, Postses. The deceased (who had
been ttposards of sixty years a shipwright in the
Dock-yard) was about 71, and the Prisoner 61
years of or. They were both of remarkably quiet
and retired habits. Two other persons lived in the
Plait' house with them ; one of whom had known
them twelite sears, aitil had lived five years with
them. The Prisoner. during that period, was al-
woos the tenderest wife imaginable. They retired
to bed soon after tine on the night stated. One in-
mate supped with Prisoner (the deceased bring
then absent at church). As they went up stairs,
they bid witness " KOllll 'tight." They were all in
Berl by ten o'clock. About three o'clock the next
morning, one of the witnesses (Samuel Stocky)
heard a person coining down stair,, and in a few
'Mottles lifter he got up and saw the Prisoner go
otioen the yard, with something over her head and
lice. 1111 opening his door, he met the Priso-
ner on the lower step of the stairs. He asked
her whst WAS the metier. Site replied—" I am
murdered and robbed ;" the candle fell from her
kind, and went out. The Prisoner said What
111411 I do 1" and appeared in the greatest distress.
I Lid any person have come into the house, they
must have passed the doors of the other inmates.
Alarm beit,,,t that vireo, the deceased's room was
Vlsilrti by too witnesses, who observed him lying
dead on die i.e I, covered with blood, and he ap-
pram, to bare !nen dead about two hours. The
witness said to Poisoner, " How can you be so
foolish as to say lie is murdered ; for how could
that he whom all the doors are locked ?"—Pri-
moiler replied, " My husband went out into the
yard before lie came to bed and left the door
opeo."—Witness asked, " How cdtsid your hus-
band be murdered in that manner, and you give no
alarm ?" She said, they told her if she made any
noise they would murder her. %Vanes, inquired the
description of them. She said there was a tall man
and a little mini, and they looked like chimney-
sweepers. Witness asked," Was you in bed then ?"
She said, " Yes, she was, and being awoke, got out
of bed aiod asked what they wanted ; told them she
had nu money ; upon which her husband struggled,
mill they knocked him down with something like a
t sssss :shank." Witness expressed her disbelief of
the story, when Primmer replied, " Puh, polo! do
you thiok I murdered my hu-band 1" Witness
said " No; 1 closet think any such thing." Tim
bed was immediately after examined, when it ap-
peered on one had been in the bed but the de.
ceased ; he was laying straight in the middle of it.
'hie floor was covered with a large stream of
coa-
gulated blood, and on the bed-posts was blond,
dried. The right hand pocket of the deceased was
turned inside nut. lio the waistcoat pocket were
found a few pence and other little things. The Pri-
soner...arched the root pocket herself, in preseuce of
nor or i he witnesses, and said there was nothing in it.
Prisoner smide great laineotation, said she had lust
her all, for now she had nothing hut the work-
house to depend upon ; that she 'lid not know what
she should ,10, as she 11411 no (flea& : that her bus.
band was murdered, but that she dill not mind dy-
ing, a- she should die innocent. Being further con-
vented with resin-vile% the murder, she derired nu
more questions might he asked her, as she would
tell no more. On being told afterwards that she
was arcused of mordernig her husband, she re-
plied, in r pet, " Every body is against me, but I
will pluck up my spirits, and stand up my own de-
fence, as I eon "cent, and no one can prove my
having murdered my husband." Prisonet's clothes
wm afterwards examined. when spots of blood were
discovered on i.er gown, top, petticoat (which she
took up and nipped. saying it was only dirt), and
on her pocket. An Most instrument was found in
the coal-hole (used for breaking coals), resembling
a ininshaysk, which had marks of blood upon it.
With ibis instrument, it was the opinion of the
surgeon (Mr. Seeds), the deceased was killed.
There we, a continued lacerated wound ou the
side of tho heal, the bone of the head was
chattered to pi, era, the wound was large enough
to admit his finger ; the Jura snorer was not di-
vided, but pieces or the shattered butte depress-
ed it. It was possible for one such blow as
appeared to have been iidlicted to have paralysed
the deceased, and rendered him incapable of
ally exettiou. There were five other wounds on
the head, esilEcient to cause death.
The Prisoner, in defence, said there were some
inaccuracies in the testimony of some of the wa-
ne:se..

Mrs. Williams. Mrs. %Vinson), and Mr. Rowe,
were examined as to the state of the Prisoner's
mind, and they each related a circumstance of
strangest's. and singularity, but two of them hap.
petted more than ten years slime. The Prisoner
was knows, occasionally to indulge in the use of
liquor, and she had lit en heard to complain of un-
usual loins in the head. Her general character was
that of a peaceable quiet, harmless woman, and
s.ho. it was believed,
lived perfectly happy with her
husband, to whom she had been married upwards of
forty years. The trial lasted six hours.
Ihe Judge, in summing up, expressed, in the
most feeling and pathetic terma, his conviction that
there could hr 110 doubt whatever of the Prisoner's
guilt. —The Jury immediately returned a verdict
of Lathy.
- - - -

Thr Judge passed the awful sentence of the law
iu the usual limn of riseuers convicted of murder

end petty treason—" TIM she he taken hence to
the place from whence she came ; thence, on Mon-
day next, to be dragged on a hurdle to a place of
execution, there to be bung by the neck moil site
he dead, and her body be delivered over to Sur-
geons for dissection."
The Prisoner was closely covered up about the
head, during the trial, so that her face could
scarcely be seen ; but she appeared, by the con-
stant motion of her body, to experience severe
mental agitation. The great mystery iii this awful
case is not yet sufficiently developed, namely, what
could have influenced such a woman to commit so
horrid and unnatural a crime.

CIVIL SIDE.

PI LUTE! and PAUL. Assignees of SIMS, d Bankrupt,

et. sinfully and canTER.
This was an action to recover the sums of 8691.
and 7,1081. 134. 11d. under the following (Meow-
stances;—Tbe bsuk►upt was • grocer in Parties;
in Mitch, 1815, • docket was struck by Messrs.
Ryde and Vincent, when Minchin, one of the De-
fendants, was the Solicitor; • cotwa►ission was
issued, hut never prhceeded upon. lei April, IAIS.
Sims ridered into a deed of compnsitimi with his
creditors to pay 154. in the pound ; the Defendanto,
then bankers at Portsmouth, were creditors of
Sims, and received 869/. being 154. in the pound.
and interest on their debt; the other creditors, ex-
cept two, received 154. in the pound, but not any
interest. In December, 1817. another commission
was issued out by Paul, our of the creditors. who
had not signed the composition deed, and Messrs.
Salter and Harley were chosen assignees; Morley
became a bankrupt. and Salter was removed by
the Lord Chancellor, and the present assignees ap-
pointed. The Defendants hieing aware Of the act
of bankruptcy committed by Suns, received after-
wards, in thew capacity of hanker., 7,1081. 13s. lid.
and paid away 7,306/. 1 9(1. leasing a balance due
to them from Sims of 285/. 174. 10d. The action,
therefore, was brought by the assignees of Sims to
recover of the Defendants the sum of 8601. being
the amount they received under the composition
deed, without the wholes of the creditor. having
joined in the deed, and the 7,10 A/. 13s. lid.
which they had received on account of Sims, sod
paid sway.
The Judge told the Jury if they were of opi-
nion that Suns did commit iii act of bankruptcy
previous to the composition deed, which was then
iii the knowledge of the Defemliiiit, they must find
for the Plaintiffs, though he considered it a case of
the greatest hardship, that Defendants 'Mould be
called upon so many gars afterwards, hut it must
be so held under the law as it now etnod, which had
been wisely made to protect bankrupt'. property.
Verdict for the Pleititiffs to the full amount,
subject to • case, whether Defendants were liable
to both sums.

•LEXANDER DEVEREUX r. BOYCE, ATFIELD,
and %VAT's.

This was an action to recover damages for injuries
sustained by the Plaintiff, in consequence of the
upsetting of the Express coach, of which the De-
fendants are proprietors, and which travels from
Gosport to London. The Plaintiff, who is a navy
agent acid linen draper at Gosport, was riding on
the box with the coachman, in the month of Jior
last. This coach changed horses at Hill Pound,
about six miles from Firehain, on the road from
London, ■nd travelled free from accident until it
reached a lane immediately out of Fireball), when
the off wheel horse began to kick and plunge vio-
lently, the reins broke, and the horses struck into a
gallop, when coming in contact with some rails on the
left hand side of the road, the passengers were preci-
pitated from the roof sod box, and the coach broken
to piece,. By this disaster, the Plaintiff had suf-
fered two dreadful compound fractures in Its leg,
the joint of the ankle nue entirely destroyed, and
otherwise very much bruited. At the lapse of
nearly a month after the accident, as soon as the
state of the Plaintiff's body rendered advisable, but
still when his lite was doubtful, ampution of his
leg was made; and oil the hundredth din• after the
misfortune occurred, and since which time he had
lain at the Red I; lnn, at Farehain, he was
conveyed home in a convalsecent state. W. Fox,
assistant to M. Shute, deposed that he saw the
11 at the Red Lion, Foreham, to whom he
heard Mr. Atfield, one nt• the Proprietors, say, that
Mr. Watts ought to have been ashamed of himself
for putting such a vicious horse into the coach ; he
requested Mr. Devereux to have every thing requi-
site fur himself and his siteadants, and lie had do
doubt there would be a meeting of the Proprie-
tors, after the Plaintiff's recuvely, and all debts
which he might thereby incur would be liquidated.
John Charles Devereux stated, lie remembered
Mr. Watts coming to his brother's (the Plain-
tiff), after the latter's return home, and saying to
him, that he came from Mr. Boyce, in coos• quroce
of a letter Plaintiff had written, enclosing some
bills; lie said Mr. Boyce was extremely sorry for
the accident, mid he came to kilos what Plaintiff's
intention was about the bills, and the damages he
expected for the deprivation of his limb. Plaintiff
wished the offer to come front Defendants; Wefts
said lie could make him no offer, till they heard
what Plaintiff had to observe. Plaintiff replied,
that they must discharge the ladle that had been
rendered them by the 3d of November, and allow
him 1001. per annum. He said lie could nut give
answer to that then, but would lay his proposition
before Mr. Boyce.
Mr. Shute, surgeon, of Gosport, related the na-
ture of the dreadful fractures of the Plaintiff's leg;
he attended him during the whole of his illness,
during six Or erksjof which period the Plaintiff's life
was very doubtful, and he was in attendance oishim
daily for two hours and a half. His bill amounted
to 150 guineas.
Mr. Harris, landlord of the Red Lion, was called
to prove his bill ; it amounted to 176/. 10,. for 100
days, including chaise-hire, nurses, washing, up-
holsterer's bill, &c. incurred by Plaintiff's 'pre-
carious state at that 9701.

lIAULD and ANoTHER v. BIGGS.

This was an action brought by the Plaintiffs,
who reside at Southampton, to recover the suns of
531. 19.. 61. b r articles supplied in the repairs of
a coach, which ran from Southaniption to London,
under the brut of 64 Finder, Field, Mountain, and

Biggs."
On the part of the Plaintiffs it woe urged. that
each was individually responsible for the debt is

inilit partners, and that the Defendant, conse-
quently, was actionable for the amount,
The Defendant contended that he was not liable,
credit having been given to Forder solely ; that the
Plaintiffs were well aware of the nature of the ar-
rangement subsisting between the loonies con-
nected with the coach concern, in as much sit that
they knew Biggs horsed the coach from Southamp-
ton to Basingstoke, the other three did so from the
latter place to London, awl Fortier iirovided the
coach, and was liable to all the charge of repairs
upon it, for which consideration he received from
the other parties five-pence per mile.
It was proved that one of the Plaintiffs had said
to Defendant's brother, on hearing of Forder's
bankruptcy, lie was sorry for his snisfortune; that
he freely forgave him his debt, snit that he was
sure he would pay him whenever lie had au oppor-
tunity of so doing.
Verdict for Defendant.