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had not received so ouch money from ltim as he
hail given account of. Perign, she said, ,the night
before she was taken up, had given her &Linde not
of his packet. Airy hilbhand had not taken any of
this bottle, lint she ilia, 111111 wax very ill with it.
She denied that ehe had ever seat tho &ioy fur

poison.
The Prisoner being asked if she lind any thing to
say in her own defence. said she wars inuocent ; but
had no witneeses to call to contradict any of the
evidence.
The Learned JUDGE proceeded to charge the
Jury. The isidietment, he observed. contained two
counts : the tir.t char nod the Prisolier with :Mull-
in Arnim poison to the deceased, the second with
enticing her to take It. The latter applied wore
pm ;:eidai ly to the evidence ; yet if the poison was
lent or ,urea by the Prisoner to the deceased wile
fully or inalivioiii]y, of l'l-1..• if it 11:111 only been laid
11l N,IIIn place wle•e. the deceased was likely to Mid
:mil take it, the Prisoner would lie eeially guilty
of the adimeisterilig, as it' she had herself actually
ailiiiiiiistered it. lie then proceeded to recapitu-
late the ceadeisce at great length. It MIK 'molly
to be supposed, lie observed, had nut the fart been
so strooglv estabbslied," that a man could have '
been found, in this enlightened age awl mot tory,
s, stupid as to have suffered himself to have been
imposed upon iii an singular and shameful a in:miler
for is months, us the man who was the principal
witness against the reironer at the bur. On re-
marking opois Perigo's evidence, he said, that it
surprised lihn, and lie doubted not but the Jury had
felt the saute surprise, that the wituess could have
repeated, with such apparent correettimis, the con-
tents of a letter written some yeasts ago; lint lie had
taken a cope of the inure striking passages, by re-
peating which, they might have been impressed up-
on his memory. Our circurnstiusee was timiecount-
ed for, namely, in what mourner the four bags with
the guinea notes of the prisoner had trim got out of
the Intl. The only object. however, Itirthe considera-
tion oftheJ ley, aus--misetlier the prisoner teas the
pepsin wlw glee tile powders, which were clearly
proved to have berm the Cillibt• Or the deceased's
illness; and the honey, which contributed to iris
crease it ? They wets not to determine upon tire
feuds proved o4ginst her, however criminal ; these
were bete only brought forward us furnishing the
titres by which the Prisoner WIIS actuated.—
Ily the deaths of this mars and his wife, she might
hope to escape this punishment, which, as the hour
of detection %sus drawing near, monist otherwise have
fallen on her. After dwelling it great length upon
the evidence, two particularly that of Perri"
which, he Awry. d, was tint shaken liy any other,
Pe hit. the %bole with the Jury, for lion detertni-
uution.
After c eisulting a short time, the Joey returned
a verdict of (:;.ilt.e. Thu Judge ' eihately pro-
ceeded to lia,,s S. lingur men. the Priming..
The Prereiier, on being asked if she bud any
thing to say, why the wearier parsed our her ieioalil
not be executed, pleaded that she was twilit y-three
weeks gone with child. A Jury of Nintrusis was
immediately impaimelled, who returned a verdict
of .. Nei Quirk."
The trial lasted nearly twelve hours. The Court
ors more crowded than ever koowii.
The extreme and minute attention pail by both
of the Judges to the laborious and intricete cases
that came lieline theta during these Assizes, is.tfle
subject of general remark and cmaineridetioni end
the perseveratice with whi. li Jlr. Justice LAW-
limner. continued, till he had finished all the Aisi
Prins hasiness, will, we are certain, never be foe.
gotten Le f the count.; of -York, or by those who had
cause; on the list, oil %%Inch there were no fewer
than one hundred and forty-seven entered ; cer-
tainly a must arduous and liereuleati labour.
We have not witneesid, for these many yreirs,
such a number of peopf• as attended these Assizes.
Every ' vas 101 l and crowded. The pressure In
Castlegiitt.„ in paseirig to and from the Courts, re-
iiiiiedcd its of the noise and hustle set the late elec-
tron :Or this county.
Nary Bateman, the dreamland peofbote woman
whose Irish we give at length this day, mite a ful-
• lower of the piiiiciples of Joanna; only improving
deception into barbarity and suarikr. She affected
the visions, the trances. the second sight of that
wretched sect, large leelies of whom from Leeds
attended the exemiti (((( , find the most simple part
of whom real!y ini:suiiitd that some miracle would
lie worked ill her 11%0U1*, anti illat %lA' 11,0131(1)4g qff
the &rabid,' to a aired, or on a &alum, and be suoial by
the a:Ater/kW/kr of Ilrareu ! 'Notwithstanding all
the prayers and rxliortatit..:s of the elergyiaim. she
°lntimately persisted in denying that she had mimeo-
cif the woman for whom she suffered. at died ex-
tremely hardened end tioremitting.
Brawn, the soldier of the York Rangers, and
oho was one of the worst-looking fellows everseen,
expired ispially onaffected ; denying to the last the
murder lie bad before coulessed, and which was
clearly proved Mt hi. trial.
At eleven o'clock, these two culprits were limught
on the araftiold, and after pray ing ir short time arch
the Ordinary, were conilneted tinder the drop, to
which they came very readily, and were launched,
by the instairtaireous fulling of it. into that state
where rep gamier canes too late.
About .i.lOO people. smelled to Iw spectators of
the exit of thew abandoned wretches ; wh-is haring
sheen' no mercy themselves, expenenced little com-
miseration from others.

It is • curious matter to state, that so in-
grained and assimilated to her disposition had
become Nlary Rittman's taste ror plooder and
witchcraft, that Irmo the poor tiounao who had
attended on herself and child in the prc.no,slor out-
towed to steal a guinea, by telling die w ))))) on's for-
tune. wood making the stars favourable to her in a
swrethzart.—When it is considered that
wretch, by the same means. and by a com-
plete knowlecl4e of poisons, had before destroyed
the lives of two imioccut women, whom she rob-
bed of every thing they least, and that bad Perigo
died as well a, his wife, this would have been
the Aaeth Isre a victim to her infernal arts, we trust
it will plugs& wintery awl dreadful lesson to thowm
who ore attempting to ati.leni the troulerstsoodings
of use poor by thew fanatics/ flights;—by visious.
--second sight—thuoupings and groatirmo--and
all the oiruninsery of such alattidoned schools aa
those of JottArtai. Asc. who ars! marchisitt throngli
reseeded Piety into the Poehtt. mid making Kell-
g on a ~talitipg-home for platmler.

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Tit child, which had been sacking far a year
past, at her breast, was taken from her, some little
tune bets re her execnt. ; Amiga's' to tell !—she
gave it ul---without • pang 1 parted from it
—witout one en.' !I ! Whet' the anatomist
comes to dissect r hewn, will lie find It, as Mr.
Hardy, the Recorder of Leeds, well exprersed et—
" A heart of'ilesh
The Inuit, Brown, was given to he diorairted and
anatomised at York ;- and Mary Rateinan conveyed
in a cart to the Infirmary at Leeds.
The road from York to Leeds, on Mouthy, was
crowded the whole of time afternoon with foot pas-
sengers, horses, unit gig% retoriiiiiig from the exe-
cution; and notwithstanding the lateness of the
bout (eleven in the evening) when the cart with
her body appioached the town, it was met by a
number ni. people. On time following day, (Tues-
day) the body was exhibited in the Surgeons Room
at the Infirmary, at three-pence each person, mind
an immense number of people were admitted ro
view her recount; the greater part of whom
evinced predominant sups radium), by touching
some part or the body befits they left time room, to
prevent her terrific interference with their mocttu
nal dreams., It was fully expected by the follower
of Joanna, that the shill would have been found
empty, and that, though sufficiently strangled,
the witch hail taken her Hight.
Sir Simon Le Mane kit this city, on Wednes.
day, to open the Assures at Latteaster, on ilium.
duty evening. At these Assises there are forty-out
prisoners for trial. viz.--finer nor wormier; fourteen
for totreriag !urged motes; right for felony ; two
for croft-hretn.iog ; seven tar sheep-stealing, ; one
for burglary ; one for horse-stealing ; cue for bi-
away ; two fur num-slaughter ; mind one for utters
i‘ig base money.
nit: KING n. TEAL, CLIIIBEULAND, and *111111111•

TIIIS MIS an indictment for a rommiracy. when
two of the Defeotlantr sere room' pithy.
The oture .• Fox r. Smow nA1.1.," for a hrrurh
of martmge promise—% ertlict for
Wager :Axil.

LOMB imitaar.

SURREY ASSIZES. •
at sm•Tos, iainAT, MARCH, 24.
MUGGINRIDGE V. CAREYN.
This was an action for bilge imprisonment
brought by a Field l'rearher against a Bather, who
gave him in custody of the constable. The clerk
of the preacher was produced as evillenre to prove
the fact. Ile stated, Out the. Plaintiff was by trade
a wheelwright, at Modem isi this county, but ou
Sunday hr expounded the word of God to the peo-
ple of Ryegate. One Sunday is. July last, when
the Witness was at hearing m the matket-place,
the Defendant Caine trilioti;;st the godly, and di--
turbot their devotions, and not content with that,
lie went, to the tiraphane one. coiled a consial,:e.
Hod gore the apesar over to the hands of the lair.
He was taken away ;
,hut in the afttroomi the ton-
-t 01.• Awl he Aiwa' in the inarketeplace, hut the
()readier dud not preach, herause Ito 011 C came to
listen. On cross-exatt.iiiatitni he arid, the barber
eirteist at the preacher, and made faces at him :
that lie battled through the godly with his lesson
amid shriving-pot under his arm, but he denied that
the parson attacked the barber su particular, lie
only held fortis on the sin of rabbath-breaking, as
lie sun the basher working iu Isis shop and wooing
from thence to the inn. . •
Serjeant SHEPligal), in his address to the
Jury, rewobated all • idea of disturbing the reli-
gious twines of worship of riuy sect. Re admitted,
by the laws of this land, every ham had a right
to worship God in his own way, but not where he
pleased. It was at least due to the established
laws of the gout not to 0)1101 a mob in the public
market-place, to the ennoritice ofull the peaceable
iishabitunts, and those who were going to the
peifortnimee of their religious duties at their
Parish ChurcLi ; yet such bad liven the con.
Omit practice of the- field preaching Plain-
tiff. Ile had chosen, every Smulay. dieting Di-
vine Service, to erect himself in Ityrgate Mar-
ket-plact, just before the I barber's door, mid
there collect a mob of idle boys. The Jury must
k:sow, that, with his client, Salalay 1111 l ming was
busy time. Many poor men, also waxer their beau&
all the week, were taken by the otsas. on Sunday
morning by the barber ; suit bathed lie thought it
was it work of nerearity, if not of s li.stily, In the
burlier. Yet Vial' liNd it iii ealiileaCe that the
pre.,cher took 'habitual opposite the barbe;'s shop,
to preach against Sahhath-lireaking ; and just
its hie client ass eneniog GAM the Imo, a here had
Iteeii sharing .1 traveller, the li. Id-press-her mini
out. There he goes, the Salitath-hreeiag barber
—see the babe 4:1 hell running fast to it—, with
his Fates natter his aria!" Upon which aline of
the congregation, who acre niche inclined to a little
fun, thought it would be a good joke to throw the
barber at the preacher, and they accordingly hust-
led them together. Oh this, the poorshisvi r r
to the conatable,.and narrated hitu to reticre hi ui
of the nhissince of this enceudiary preacher. The
emistalile t.uk him into custody, but, at his request,
lie let kin Lin, or rathyr, hr uecompaisitil hint
to the market-place in the often:rant, ishrre he
groaned and roll, .1 his vies shout for an hour, but
it being a fitte:alli moon, the people had all walked
shroud, anti he could not collect un embrace. Ile
1-zal not charity enough to bestow au exliortatiou
on the constshie--iiii, lie left him, as be had done
his neighbonrs at Nlorilen, to be rl—d in Vieir own
way. Ile trusted the Jury would not 'think, this a
case for shy damages.—feed bet for the Main:A.sl.

SATURDAY, IMARrH 25.

THE RAIL Or SLIMY V. THORLEY.

This ens au action by the Noble Earl again‘t
the Defendant. who was Churchwarden of the pa-
riah of Petersham. for u lOwl. I oflnkltil) had
tAketi u house at Petersham. with a view of becom-
ing a parishioner tool attending the Vestry, awl
haul given notice to the Defendant of his ion of
and the libel comploitied of was a letter In reply to
that notice. It ',toted in substance, that front his
Lordship's letter. and the manner in which it was
conveyed. "shelved a rontionante of that ',crumb.
eel spirit, which, after the scurrilous addre.. of the
-26th of September, the writer hoped had been al-
layed." It went on rn, follows :—.• I hove before
read your scurrilous letters to Mr, hlarAnno, and
I sincerely pay the spun who, forgetting what it