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CRIMINAL cIL

SATVEID•V, MAIICII 49.
MVRO, R.
Samoa Strrhv Was indiaetl for t!,e ailfal friar
der of Thorne, Halsey, by bra:L.l4lllS him On the '2ls
.A tieptembrr last.
( cr. for the Prosecutor. detailed the
cite= .tance sa- the cast, pt.ited in the fql/0-...
iap evide•
Thomas Skinner depsocl, that he was illaliasks_

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lord of the public house called China Hall, on the
Deptbird Road ; he knee, both the Prisoner and the
decease 1, they st.re LAI caplets. and very intimate
frier Is ; on the '2 Ist of October, thev came to his
ho tse. ;1.0 were playing at bowls all the att•trnoiin ;
afterwards they went into a room where some
tradesmen were drinking, and continued there some
time. In the course of the day they became both
intoxicated. Halsey, the deceased, came to the
bar, and asked what the witness would give him to
drink ? the witness replied,he had had enough, and he
would give him nothing more, unless it were a bason
' of tea. The Pt isoner followed, and they hoth sat
, down to have a bason of tea ; they sat opposite to
each other. Hatsey. the deceased, said to the Pri-
soner, " If you tf.ink I use )oat ill, or wish you
take a knife and stab me !" Starling replied, " You
• always promised to sti. kby me, and you did not."
Halsey again repeated the w rds. "If you think I
Ir •se you ill, take that knife and stab me " There
was a knife laying on the table in the bar, and the
witness seeing them drunk, took it away ; as he was
in the kitchen, he heard Halsey again repeat the
same words, saying, " Here, take my knife and
do it ;" at the sante time he saw him gin Starling
the knife. Ac he came to the bar-door, Halsey
reeled against him, and looking down, he saw the
knife bloody in the Prisoner's hand. The witness
exclaimed, " Sam, what have you done ?" He re-
plied, "Oh ! I have done it !'' A surgeon was sent
for, and Halsey put to he.l ; he died in the course of
the next day. On cross-examination, be said, that
the l'risoner and the deceased were as intimate as
brothers, and appeared to have the greatest friend-
ship for each other. After the Prisoner had done it
be appeared in the greatest agony of mind, and
wished much to see the wounded man ; but, by the
surgeon's direflions, nn one was admitted ; not
being able to get into the room, he passed the night
under his windows; he never attempted to ahscond,
but was apprehended in the house the next day.
Thomas Syddal, ostler at the house, said he was
with the deceased a short time before he died ; he
told him the Prisoner was very sorry for what he
had done ; to which the deceased replied, be freely
forgave him, for he was sure he did not do it wil-
fully.
Charles Stuart, the surgeon, stated, that the knife
had entered between the ribs, and had divided the
intestines.
The Prisoner, in hia defence, stated, that when

the deceased gave him the knife, he made a push
by way of kart, meaning to pass the knife aside
him, but the deceased, at that moment, stagger-
ed. and the knife hit hire. Several respeaable
wit,.essPs gave him an excellent charaetet as an in-
offensive humane young man.
The 111110 CHIEF BARON told the Jury, the ques-
tion here would be, whether they believed the wound
was inffilled by accident or from malice ? It must
be either murder or nothing ; because, if it were
designedly done, it did not appear there was any
sufficient aggravation born the deceased to reduce
the crime to manslaughter. The Jury found the
Pr isoner—Na Mike.
The LOAD CHIEF RA sos then proceeded to pas:
sentence on the capital conviCts. two of whom. Ben-
j4aeiN and Sarah Herring, for coining, he told were
about to conclude their guilty lives. The Assizes
and Circuit here finished.
The trial of Pa!rh, which has excited considers•
ble relish< curiosity, has been postponed. He mill
be tried in the Borough, but the day was not
settled.

NJ PAL INTIJILIGENCE.

►uSTSMOt'TII, M A CCR 28.
Capt. Lakin, is appointed to the Gibraltar, of SO
runs, instead of Capt. Whitby, who is very ill ; sae
is ordered to Cawsand Bay, to have the number of
her men completed. When the Captain was paid
of, half her complement was turned over to her.
Sailed the Tennant, of SO guns, Rear•Adtmiral
Harvey, to join the Channel fleet.
Arrived the Dera.talioa bomh, with four outward-
hound East Indiamen, from the Downs. She sailed
again immediately, with a convoy for Plymouth.
The Lropara man of war has a signal king for
a convoy for she East Indies
Pak TSMOUTH, P 4 A *CM 29.
Arrived several sail of outward-bound vessels,
from the Downs. . _ .

Sailed the D. r og' bomb, with a convoy to the
Westvrard.—Wind N.E.
]lie Monte:mt.., C AtmELT , from Tortola, for
Liverpool, has put into Campble-Town, with
alamAr.

ri.vmot TH, MARCH 27.

Since my last, saile.l the i'sb hard schooner, Lieut.
('rewe ; the Virer cutter, Lieutenant Carpenter ;
Morknoin hired armed ship, Lieutenant Anstrutker;
errrwr, Liemenant Gedge ; hob-epee/woe cutter ;
Nds.nbee hired armed ship ; Nimrod, Lieut. Orde ;
and Moisclier,o, Lieutenant Hawes.
Sailed the Peet (e Lim, with a large convoy, to
the eastward; but the wind heading them so much
they are returned again.
Orders came down yesterday for the Renown,
Bellerophon, Kea, Impelarar„ Spas hate, and MAUI.
elleet. of 74 guns each, to proceed off Brest, under
the command of Earl St. Vincent ; report says, that
they are to leave Cawsand-bay tn.rnorrow.
Went out of dock yesterday, the Pemeilpe frigate,
and the Plrernix decked in her place.

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TOM 114 Y, MAIICII 23.
The West India. NewfinindlAnd, and Mediterra-
•ean fleets, under their respedive convoys, ate Again
gone to sea.

DIAL, MAIICH 23.
Arrived the Prarnero bomb, from Portsmouth,
with a convoy, which remain in the Downs, with
the Edg,r, Cirrchl, and the /I”odispe men of war ;
Lir sloop rf war ; Easing', bomb ; Hammy vic-
tualler, And several N.E.
asst., sitCH 29.
Sailed several ships of war for the French coast.
Wasel N. E.

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7AI.IIIIVIN. MARCH 2t .
Sailed the Man• Attter packet, Capt Davis. with a
Mail hit eke Vet 1r lie ; •nd ;de Pr 'veld Lima-
kth packet. Capt. Kidd. with a Mail for Lisbon;
‘‘ tor Sundeilanti; 1 dadr4r,
Tacker; and et,an,r. Cummins, for Swansea;
.e is; and Lli:alort 4. Winter. for Chap-
. ... Marta, tot ',indent; st. Poet,. Cock,
s` .:•"" tqt, Gleen for A citation
• 1 lir VIM .
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FROM SATORD.II' MONT': CASETTE.

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Nit kraSpotya Ship Malabo?, off Tort Au,
tatlerueo, Band of Cuba, 3 .o. 1, I►o6.

have the greatest satistamman us naming it in nay power to
seq swat von, that Ills Majesta's shi s stadia my command, and
His Majesey'ra sloop Wol.e, have this day captured Le Rogue
latent and I.e Nalioleon, two of the I.arzest French schooner
privateers not of St. Java, protected by a double reef of pucks
Captain M•Renare. IVllllleVigilleCt deserves eve‘y praise. s,w
010 e of them go i a this morning. On coining off the Part I
slant the Master to sound Pit anchorage, who biers, a ISPa'age
on the reef, through which the Wattle was successfuty cons
dieted, and most ably mirhered within musket shot of the
enemy, attended be the boats of both ships maimed and
armed Le Regutateur was armed with a brass eight en-
pounder, four .14-1101111(letA, aid manned with eighty men.
Le Napoleon was armsl with one long ninolsomuler, two
twelve-pounder cartniiades, and two inuirsimuirdera, and
manned with tarty.-.ix men ; and it is but joules to say, they
were well defended, the action continuing without intermisa n
an hour and th.er sputters, when the survivors of the crews
abandoned them, and lauded in the wood., four only being
made prisoners, one of whom is mortally wounded. 'limy
were then towed without the reefs, when the Regulareur (a
remarkable firie scrireintr) sunk, and I am sorry to say Thom is
Smith, a manioc belongiog to Ilajesty's ship under my com-
ma.* went dawn in tier ; except this man, l have net sis—
ta eel any loss. The Officers, Seamen, and Marines of the
Malabar discharged their duty most perfectly to my satisrarnion.
Mr. Thomas Foilierrnehani, the Master, deserves particular
Praiser for having, in the shortest time, examined the pas-age,
so that the Wolfe could be takea in, a circumstance the enemy
had nut the least idea could be attempts!, and without which
the conquest, had it been elh. had. must lIAVe been attended
with very susiou loss; it is therefore attributable to the gal-
lant. emit, and able manner, is which the Wolfe was cumin:l-
ed and fought; and whi.b, I beg leave to offer nay opinion,
merits the fullest acknoulolgements to Captaiu M'Kenate, and
I.Lew au to his Officer: and ships company.
I beg leave to inclose a copy of Cs,-tain MiKenzie's letter to
me on the occaotin, with his report of killed and wounded oat
beard tke Wolfe. I have the honour to be, Sc.
ROBERT HALL.

To James Richard Dacres, Esq. Rear-Admiral
of the Red, Commander in Cita.
Ilia Maje‘,y's sloop Wolfe, Pot Marto
SIR, 2d of January, 1806.
I hate the honour to acquaint yon, in compliauce with
your orders, I proceeded with Ills M tjesty'e ship, under my
command, to curer tote boats dcstined fin the attack of the
two French printeers in this port; but, on approaching, I
found them moored in so advantageous a situatiun, and so
well propa-etl, I thought it wouid ba imprutlmt to allow them
to proceed, I therefive stemd in six fathoms water, within a
quarter of a mile of the enemy, and opened my fire, which
Mae continued fur one hour and three-quarters, when I per-
ceived the enemy were quitting the vessels; the boats were then
ordered to proceed and take possession. They proved to be
Le Rectilateur and Napoleon schooners; the former a most
beautiful vessel, mounting nue lung eighteen and four six
I pounders, bass, with orients, melt ; the other, a very fine
vessel, also with one hong nine, two twelve-pound carronacirs,
two loom, and sixty-six meta. It gores me infioitiaatisfactioit
to bear testimony to the cool and determined bravery dia.
played by every Officer and man I had the honour to com-
mand ; nor can I omit expressing my warmest thanks to Mr.T.
Vdtieringhani ( %taster of the Malabar), fur the very judicious
moonier to which he conducted the ship to anchor ; and also the
Offica-rs and crew of the Malabar's launch and joiiy bolt, who
vo.unteered their services at the guns. I hare a moat heartfelt
vatiitactien in having so small a hit of kilkit and wounded to
•übtotti. The 10-v of the enemy cold nut be ascertained ;
hot, from the appearance of the decks, it must have been
great. I am sorry to add, the Regolattur wok a short time
after being in our porsewioli, by which two untostnnate
wountiLd French 1111'11 were 1,4

I have tire lion.uir to remain, Sec. G. C. M'KENZIE
NOIJOi t HAI!, E.a Canton' of Fit. Ma-
je-t snap Malabar.
Rilled OA Wounded on board His Majosty'a sloop Wolfe,
January 2, 11,06.
Rilled—Joseph Taylor and Samuel M'Markin, seamen.
Wounded—allexa..der 114.0oeral snot troderiek Rantlin,
seamen Robert Sallmter, marO.o ; Benito tl'auche (prrAmor;,
daagorausl).—T .tal, 2 ballot, and 4 wounded.