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DULILIti,
COMMON ri.1;,v4.-TRIAL AT RAP.

;Vapor-Gesieral tvAN LOYD and the Right Hun.
A I.ICI A LADY li A RON F,94 TRIM LESTOWN , his
trite, l'lminttffs; the Bight Hon. THOMAS LORD
'BARON TRIM LESTOW N , Defendant.
This trial, which occupied the Court of Common
Pleas for twelve days, has at length been decided.
The Jury, after being confined the whole of Satur-
day night and Sunday, returning teverdict in favour
of the Noble Defendant, at eleven o'clock nn Sun-
day night, which, to preient their remaining in for
another night, Judge Moore, by the consent of both
pi.rtiee, received at that hour. There have hero few
tsials for a long time post which have excited greater
lowest in the breasts of the public them the present.
It was an issue from the Court of Chancery to
try whether a certain paper, bearipg date the silt
day of December, 181?„ be the last will end testa-
ment or Nicholas, the late Lord Trisitlestewis.
There watt a similar issue tried in the Court of
King's !fetich, in last Trinity 'fern], which, how-
ever, after occupying the Court fur no less than
fourteen days, proved abortive, the Jury suit
agreeing in a verdict, there being Mite to 1,1-
sour of, soil three against the will. It was*
therefore removed lots) the Common Pleas. Hull
came oil to be tried on Monday, the 22d of Fe-
bruary, before three of the Judges anti a Special
Jury. Judge Johnson did not sit. The Court wits
crowded to excess ; each day a number of Ladies
and several Gentlemen el rank attended. Of
those interested in the cause were preset'', Lord
Tiintlertowis and his son, General Loyd, Count
Dalton and his two sons, General Eustace, &c. &c.
The following constitute the facts of the case :
Nicholas, the late Lord Trisnlestown, went over to
France at the age of twelve, where lie was possessed
of a considerable estate in the province of Langue-
doc, and where he remained until the Revolution of
1789, when he was compelled to fly with other
emigrants, and returned to his native country.—
While in France he bore the title of Marquis Barnes
wall, and married the daughter of a Prrsidrast of the
Parliament of Thoulouse, by whom he had two
0:161th-eta —Thomas, the present Lord Trindestown,
1 and Rosalie, the Countess D'Alton ; he hail been
1
a widower. however, for prime nine before he left
France. On coining over to !rebind lie was left
wholly dependant on the homily of his cousin,
`'Thomas, the then Lord Tiiinlestown, from whom lie
only received the scanty allowance of 1801. it year.
llle then lived in the house of hie son, in lisslles-
t street, who had married the daughter of the late
' Mr. Kirwan, known by the appellation of " the
Philosopher," until the death of Lord Thomas who
died intestate, by which the Trini!estown property
1 and honours devolved upon lens HS met heir to that
estate. Upon his accession to the title, he tank a
1 house in Merritm.square, and here lie became oi-
-1 Innate with the family of General Eustace ; and
I although he was ut this time borderilig (111 his 70th
year, he became attached to Miss Eustace, a beau-
tiful young woman of 33, to whom lie paid his
addresses, and who did not refuse (as Mr. Justice
Fletcher eloquently expressed it) to unite the Mo.-
ponta and flowers of spring with the frost and snow
of winter, Lord Trimleston making a settlement
of SON. a year upon her, and receiving 2,0001. for-
tune with her. 'Phis marriage took place in the
year 1797. flaring lived for four months in Mer-
tion.square, they removed to I:ahls, where they re-
mained for a year and a half, and then went to
London. They continued to live its 1.01111011 until
1810, when they returned 11l II elaitil, and resisted
at Taney (louse. the Kintzsland estates iwlsiel:
are the subject of the pleat-tit suit) 11,11101 g de-
scolded to his Lordship by the maternal hue, some
years previutss to his 11'81,111g I.lll‘llolll. From the
primal of lii. marriage, Lord Trimlrsiosest had. front
time to time, executed several wills and codicils, iii
none of whit It did he leave his estates, from his
son, until the month of Derrisiber, 1812. when lie
recent. d that will, the validity of which has been
successfully impeached iii the present trial, on the
grounds of its execution having been effected by
the undue influence of Lusty Trimlestowis, and iii
which were bequeathed to her, befildrii other
legacies, the whole of the Kingsland rotates

IWNDALK ASSI7.LS, FRIDAY, MARCU 5.
The size. fur the county or Louth. enmmenc,(l
at Mind:ilk, beriore the Lion. Baron M'CLELLAND
and the lion. Mr..lustice MAYNE.

GRAND JURY.
the Right Hon. John Foster, Foreman, the Right Hon.
T. H. Skeilington, Sir Edward Bellew, Chichester Forte-cue,
Matthew Forteacue, Faithful Futteseue, Alexander Ftlgate,
Thomas L. NOIIII3/11, John Tisane, Henry Ifrabazuu, 'Turner
*Canis, James W. Nl•Neale, George Shirts Eitlesson,
Thomas Fitzgerald, Faitbrill Wni. Fortexcue, Thomas %Vm.
Fi'gale, 31sttheir O'Reilly, Thomas nodal, Nathaniel
Nahum, Wilton) FilZatr, Christopher Moore, Henry Ches-
ter, and Thonnis Lloyd, Esqrs. and W. P. Buxton, Esq. Hith
Sheriff.
The Hun. '!r. Jo.tire —MAYNE (who presided in
the Crown Cana), alter adverting, in a few words,
to the stale of the calendar, dteis the attention of
the J ury to the late Act, which empowers
Magistrates, at certain Sessions, to investigate tine
nature and tendency of Presentments for public
wank..

DROGHEDA ASSIZES, TIIVRSDAY, MARCH 4.
mußtw.n OF PENTONY,
From the watch-hcoise, during the lute Electron.
The 4:06.11 this day war occupied in the trial of
Armstrong, the Constable of Drogheda, for the
Murder of Peter ['colony, on the first night of
the late election. by a shot tired froth the watch-
home.
Our readers have before heard many of the cit.
curnstanices of this very singular and most extowor-
olmary case; but we carefully abstained from then
11a1ing mart particulars which might in any way
affect the merits of it future hurl, and particularly
as a criminal information had been applied for,
and 1,415 pending against three chartered Magis-
trates of Drogheda, for their alleged mi,condirct
filogistrates. in eroleavontiog to Pcretli lle'mu-
tterer ; Berms-nig oh-wiles iii the war' of those sit..
end:asonred Iu discover Llnl ; alit', H. to Iwo Of
actually writing a lett, r to Major t•irr.
ut
It, procure I 1.111(1' for the mail whom
they knew to have fired the shot. That andicaiion
was made tJ Oe Court of Hi,ig'a Bench iii No_
temper hot, by Mr. tierjrinit Burton, and the Pin.

eeettlogg were ''llspenes,l, Serjeatit's iodate',
until the trial for the murder should hive been had ;
the Magistrate., line ever, gettiur liberty from the
I Court to answer, ill the 1111,3/11 11111 r. the sini,lasit
I charging them pith iniscionrhe.,t, it. they thought
proper. The Nlagistrates have • not thought pro-
per, we itinlerstaiol, to file ally aftiolevit in an-
swer to the chic ge, and thersfiore, as to their coo-
duct as connected si.orti th ot trausactinie the public
mold yet rein-tin nuiuf rt. But the facts which
have on this trial loppeourot ill evideuce, 1111 the sub-
ject of this unhappy nod innocent young man's
death, we conceive ourselves' bound to give to the
public, and shall therefore in the course of the
next week, ley before our headers an accurate stoat
full report of Ow troll. lit the mean time we give,
a short summary.
The Court sat sit nine o'clock, Baron
LAND presided as Judge, toed in his charge to [he
Grand Jody, winch appealed to be most revpect-
able, and upon which were the three Gentlemen
opened whom the criminal information had
been
applied fur, his loont,ship adverted to the case of
Armstrong, which sysis to ensue before them, and
explaitied to them. moat luminously, the law, es
applicable to the ofience with which 1w was charged.
namely, bong present. counselling, tooling, and
abetting Ilse person who 110166411 y fired the tied. by
which the deeds had been occasioned.
The Grand Jury, examining setwal wil-
lies:Mi. fonts(' the bill of iloolictmeot ; sod Arm-
strong, who tip to that tune had been at large, and
acting as a constable, having heen ad:tolled It, hail
by the present Mayor, Mr. Balfour, plat rd him-
self in the dock.
51r. SculvEN then stated the citcutiistances of
the case for the prosecution, and
Peter Connor, who had Ireen with the deceased
at the time of his death, proved that Peotimy,
young man, living four eMles trout Drogheda, mid
himself, were walkilig down flirter-street, retiring
Iminewerd, at about twelve et night, the street Oleo
in d state of perfect trairptillity, when a shot was
fired from the watch-house, by which Peillony was
killed, and witness wounded in several places -by
slugs, some of which have not been extracted.
Five other witnesses, Samuel Poe, E•ri. Japhet
Alley, Esq. John Cooper, Esq. George Fig's, and
Capt. toms, all deposed to the perfect
tracdutl-
lily of Peter.rtrert, in winch the watch-house stands;
at the time of the shot. (Fur the prosecution wits
then produced, the late ,Nlayor. Francis G. Fairt-
lough, and proved his having been brought to the
watch-house after Petition), t:ad been shot.) That
he entered the watch-house with the Sheriff; that
he found Arm .bung in a back-room ; lie asked
Armstrong who had tired the shot; that Caulfield,
one of the watchmen, was mentioned ; that Caul-
field was Bon sent for, mild bring asked whether he
bad fired the shot, lie denier' it ; bat, oil his (the
Mayor) saying (and winch lie confessed was an error
he was sorry fat) to Caulfield, that ,he might tell
him safely, or words to that effect, Caulfield ad-
mitted he had fired the shot. and that the Mayor
then sent him to gaol ; hut when asked whether he
'had committed him to gaol, the Judge intetfered,
and prevented that question being answered, as
being irrelevant to the trial of Armstrong.
Caulfield himself was then produced. Ilis evi.
deuce, which was long, and detailed a most extra-
ordinary history of the transaction, we shall here-
after give fully. In substance, as to the fact at
issue, he swore that lie tired the shot, but that he
did it at the repeated instance of Armstrong. who
had, at a particular time of the night, stationed
hint at the door, and had given hint a cat bine,
winch, he said, was charged only with gunpowder ;
that the street was then quiet; thiot he staler' to the
Mayor before Aitustrong, that he hal flied by
A rinstronies order, and that the Mayor then shook
hands with hitt), and told him no harm should
happen to him; ghat he would weird him to gaol
fur forty-eight bout,, on saspleiosi.and afterwards
he should be liberated ; that he remained to prison
for some dills at his own desire, to keep himself
safe from the mob ; that he then was at large, but
that when 3111 investigation had been set ois foots its-
(inking into the murder, by Mr. NVallace, and
some gentlemen of the town, Armstiong cosine to
him and induced him to leave the town, and go to
UnndallC, to keep the other side in the dark ; that
he went there, and was ofterwaill. placed us ens.
tody at Dundalk, from which place, flouting him-
self neglected, lie gave inforin:itimi of the facts of
the murder to Mr. Wallace. (11r. Wallace, who
attended the trial, but not as Co.utise!, tendered to
the Po ootter's Counsel all the letters which had
been sent by Caulfield, to lie read as they might
thick proper.) That lie was, while at Dundalk,
traduced to smear an affidavit sent to him by Arm-
strong, fur the purpose of Ins 'Wing bailed, and
which was read to him Mr. Bigger, the son of
the Nlagistrate of Dundalk, Will afterwards signed
by him. Caulfield.
On the croso.examinationi of this witness, it ap.
peered that in that ufljJavit, audio his exainmation,
and his present evidence, Caulfield had given dif-
ferent and ioconsistent liccomiets of the trantAction
—and the Mayor being tug tin eAsinined, denied
what was sworn as to Ins having charged Arm-
strong in his presence—and, on the whole; when
after two or three witnesses being examined fur the
Prisoner. the Learned Judge charged the Jury ; he
plated the inconsimelictes of Catillield'a evidence in
so strong a light to the Jary, that bring the only
person Cringing the fact home to Armstrong, he
was immediately Acquitted.
The Judge then informed Caulfield, th.t he
should finq it his duty to send tip a hill of indict.
ment against him, for the murder. Ile was then
put into the dock, and the bill of indictment
against hint was next morning rent op. and found
loy the Grand Jury. Coultield was then put to
plead ; he pleaded Not Guilty, and is to be tried
next Assizes.—(Freeman's Journal.)

HERTFORD ASSIEES.

ioc:c irnwsers lout n rin!, without ?ii
previistis eOl/lintoolinstioil, seized him by the collar.
sleiminileil his inuney, and told hull, that if hr that
trot deriver it, lie would inetautly outirder
The Prosecutor raid lie had iro on/wee, upon which
,the offender pulled out a pistol from ender his coat,
and disil rged it et Inv head ; but Ilse Prorecitio,
iweing the act, providentially din ked his head, bee
received pert of the !amino( on the bock pert of the
head, from winch his hat 14:11 1111/Wll elf by the dr•-•
efineee. The usasessin then struck him to the ground
with the butt end of the pistol., where lie remaiiiiil
insensible fur • coosiderable time, mot its the inter-
val Isis seal and earaiu were taken from Win. 14i
about an hour and a halt envoi/eels the Prisone:
was taken itt a rtrighboaring wood, but lie was not
e.,..ed ris the apparel shove-meistamea, winch.
linwever, roes found in the same wood, together
with a I/INIOI, tied up so a. bundle, and near to
•elwre the Preusurr was apprehended. The Pros. .
cutor, when lie first sew the f'nsnsier after lie Wi:s
taken, bring hardly recovered from the effects 41!
has ill-usage, wits not o hie to set at• to his pertain.
and consequently the latter was discharged, but
next ley was sorts imprieliended, when he was pt.t-
lively identified by the Prosecutor. Since the Isn -
%petition had comineneed.the constable who uppre-
heitded the litisritier had died, and thin link its tea
thew of evideuce. 11/Cll/14 wanting. the Leareee
Judge sisinnied up the err, making such
bunt as occurred to into sti the doubt of identiti ,
end ilie Jury, after cousider able iletilieriener, foster!
the Pirsimer Not Guilty.
dola: Berry was fluttered for assatiltitig J. 1..
Irlobbersty, on the kreg'r highway, putting
him in fear, and tetilig front his person eus.
in
silver, raid a gold inouriiime rung, his wooers', on
the 10 Is of August last, su the palish of Siatitiois.
It appeared that fir. II oblmr.ty was relenting
home tis hie trig, in the es easing mentioned. in the
indictment, between, Collier's Lod and Pucknolge,
whets tic was stole liv the Pir.ouer. who, esieserit-
Mg a leaded pistol at hie Ica.l, dem carded his
trey, and threetened that if he did nut &liter it
he would blow his Intros out. The Presectotor.
who was rather so elderly men, gave the Pitsotirr
all b
ml
otuleitsiii,lvt,eitrolie abolituttpipit7rio.eilvtdoehittoyetit litrisuipon;kef,
ring
from off afinger,.and the l'resouer made tar. Next
day the Prisoner offered the ring for sale at a *slyer•
smith's in Chehneford, 'hiving previously takes' off
all the eitimel, and nearly efreced the eitgrovisig
oil the inside. The silverstinth asked the Prisoner
where he had got it, and he said lie had bought it
of a friend fur 0.. ; but suspecting the appearance
of his cestomer, he went out /1101 1)114101f a con-
stable, who touk the Procter into custody ; and
subsequent inquiries being made, the Piesecntor
mime forward and idesitifled the Prisoner as well as
the ring, and accordingly the Prisoner ens cow-
milted to Chelnoford gaol, and front thence re-
moved to Hertford.—Guety—Deuite
Alm:tell Chipman and James eirithony were in-
dicted Ito breaking and entering the slwelling.house
of William Green, in the Fetish of Buckland,
and stealing therein some silver and a oue pound
note. Thu was the most serious case in the calen-
dar.—The circumstances proved in eviiirtice were
these :---About two o'cluck its the morning of the
12th of January, the Prosecutor. a resort:tared
farmer, in Iliscklatid parish, and his family, were
awakened out of their sleep by the cassia of write
window glass, and presently Ate ras aril. tlw prmater,
Chapman, burst open the door of the Preercutur'•
bed-room, and wills hornet threats den rudest his
money. The l'rosecutor got out of bed and operael
a drawer, and gave the Prisoner three half-crowns;
he then attempted to get into an ailletiunig tooth
for the purpose of polling an alarm bell, but he
was resisted by the Prisoner, who struck him a
violent blots ; Lett, at length, suecei 41 lug in get-
ting out of the room, he we- followed lay the Pei-
boner to the next apertitteet, and was its the
act of pulling the alarm bell, when he sew
the other Prisoner ascending the lathier placed
against the window. A scuffle then ensued between
the Prosecutor and Chapman, who strut k turn se-
veral blows with is small iron crow upun the arm-,
and attempted to fume the same instrument dowis
his throat, in doing which he broke too of Ina
teeth. The other Piieutter in the mean time en-
tered the window ; but the Prosecutor succeeded
in getting out of the house and giving the alarm.
Other acts of violence were committed by the Pro-
' sonars upon the Prosecutor's wife rod a female se r-
vint, butt they oily got a pound note in monies.
The alarm being given, the Prisoner, quitted dies
house; but were both recognised tea taboos hug men
in the iteighbouilinod.
The Jury fume' both Prisoners Guilty—Pre 4.
Joins Teslt Field, a farmer, on the borders of U.:4
county and Bettlerdshire, .lames Seely, J. 13ruien,
and another, were indicted, wider the late ;etre
Act, for g noisilemeatior, fur easing entered a err-
ten' close, the property of J. Latour, Esq. wit's
intent to destroy genie. and litilig fooled therete.
armed with bludgeons and a pistolo—Mr. Cowmen
Serjeatit, who led the prosecution, stated, that thri
was a most rtrocitine case; that the gamekeeper amid
his assistant lied been nearly beaten to death, by a
gang of upwards of twenty desperate poachers, of
which the prisoner Field was the captain and ring-
leader; that he had not the ordinary excuse el pe-
yerty. for he was a man respectably connected, ewe
was also a farmer, and in a better conditiou of
life than offenders of this sort usually were.
The first witness, Darby, stated, that he wise game--
keeper to Mr. Latour, of the 1111110 f of Heitoti,
ii
this county. That on the 'light of the title of No-
vember list, lie and Godfrey, his insistent, were
out watching sifter poachers, and that alma eleven
at night they were in a field called Frirthoin Close.
They heard the yelping of several dogs its the pre.
serves, and shortly afterwards the trampling of feet.
Some one said " here is a gap," arid about 16 to
18 men cause through. lie sued Isis man lay down
its the ditch, when one man alone with a dog came--
whether the men saw them, or the dog discovered
them, he could not say ; but the last man Winged
to his companions, and and, '• here is a mail ;"
to
whom they answered, lay him on t, we will slaugh-
ter him." Upon this, he got top. and stood wills
his gun peruse his arms.—So Tee one Paid, •• leans
a ring," amid they surrounded him. They said be
was watching them ; he said he wes about his ours-
tes's business, and if they went shout their business.
he would go about his. One laid hold of his gun.
and " this is my gun." and forced it Irons
lino. They then fell upon hint, end huuted lent