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Yester.lay mwning the corpse of a Man was dis-
covered on ;Le surface or the pond in the Green Park. He was dressed in a blue cast,
coloured breeches, and roses and stockiegs. Front
the bruises th app-seed on the body, it was Ws peaed. that he tenth: have been r•bor 1, or other-
wise ill-treated, and thin„-.t in He was wirmined
to have lain eight or nine days in the water, And was
taken off in a shell to the bout.-house to Lest-tweed.
There are a: this time living in one hints., in
Hyde, near Gee Cross, in Ch,ibire, fir pets • is,
whose joint ages amount to fare* Hundred owl live I .forr years.
Some of tLe Papers have stared, that a letter,
written by Petri :le day previous to his executt,m,
has unexpeßedlv Nile, into the hands of Mr. Iris,
who, with the Hion Seta ter, attended ,he Sc.cer. TARP of ST A re's Office on Tuesday, and tt.at the
contents of the letter were to he submitted to ai Privy Council yesterday. We have ma been able to
ascertain whether there be any foundation for this
report.
On Wednti lay last, the wife of a private, in the
Scots Greys fiegiinent, was shook ud a bag., les
waggnn, between Ponten and Grantt.am. in Suff,i;k,
upon the shaft horse. She foriunately escanesl welt
little injury; but an infant, that was at her breast
at the time she fell, was killed by the waggon wheel
running over it.
Oil Wednesday last, as two Peace Officers were
conveying a WOM4II to Swindon (in company with
a third person on horseback, behind whom she rode),
upon a charge of sutt:ng and maiming some eat.
tle beloneing to a farmer near Mato Basset,
as they were crooing the bridge over the t% Cis
and Berks canal, the Pris n r c,mplaiiiing of
esaterne thirst, her cunduetros euea.may gave !•est leave to alight, and approach the .
did; when, deliberately pullia; sae' i.er ~onne she
t and cloak, she plunged headlong
into the canal, arid
was drowned !---tthat a fellow-creature should be
saffered to sacrifice her lifee in ens fare of d it, in
the presence of thee': men, and in • piece of water
comparatively of very trifling tA Lith and dqeth,
hihiLs one of those circumstances not easily recon•
cilable to the disftates of a empathetic :Lied.

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CA A: 1) IFP ASSIZES. '
Taere was-awls one 'Prhwer tried at these
R--Les, viz. 'afire-gm William. charged with the
viola murder of Margaret William, his sideaun ;
-he Prisoner's son had be.'n cnmiuitted rin•thV RRlllo.
:haree ; but the Grand Jury did not find the bill
crotinst him
In sup... .it of the proveantior. it appeared, by the
!xtminaticl of the. evidence, that one evening ia
Datober last, the retainer on returning hame to sup-
per, desired the deceased to get biro some bread
and butter ; hat that TV't. being satisfiedos to tac
meantay. same words erese ; and the deceased i•b•
;et vitia, that the ghost of his foorher had appeared
to her, nn, That she had heen info, med by other per-
son'. Oat they had %ern the same, he got up, and
laid hal I of her, fuel rhoek her vielently, struck her
with hi /et on the side threw her on the ground.
ararored her about. and gave. her some blows
with Ms h Inds and knees on the thighs a dI. %saw
part of :he belly. l' 1..1e the deceased aas down,
she requested the whress who was a servan• of the
Prisoner, to assist her ; tat William Morgan, the
sae. desired him sot to interfere, fist the darersod
had caused winch mischief in the family Senn
after, ihr worn to aapeared to be dead, and was Pt
ed Mtn a chair Whilst she Was in the chair, the
Prisnoer appeared to be io a distriSlien c f *tie.
calli'd leer has •• ser bole Pcagy, begged she would
speak to "iv, and kissed her on the ,heek Some
spiAts were "on put into her mouth, which tie
witness could not tell whether she swallow. d or not,
and. she WA . tfr. tweeds Wenn up stairs on the
shoed rs or \fnrgan William, the inn
A boy, fifteen years old. stated, that the Prisoner
ea-steed him to ray, that the deceased had died in a
fit, if any one asked him.
The funeral took place about the tatted time after
a natural death, at ten o'clock in the day-time, and
-teas attended by the hiends of the deceased.
Richard Griffith, Esq. Oa Coroner, deposed, that
about ten days after the death, an inquest was
demanded, and that he had direEfrd the body to be
rah,. Ica Dem examinatian. there appeared many
marks of violence on the thighs and lower part of
th belly, evideatly made by an obtuse instrument,
and which he was convinced could not be the ale&
of "natural cerenption, nor the marks of any
previous eruptive disease ; that being satisfied as to
the cause of the death, lie did not open the body.
He admitted, however, that there might he some
cause., of sudden death, which could only be dis-
covered by a disseetion of the parts. Upon being
ask . • by the Court, what was his belief of the cause
r•f the atath of the deceased ? he was decidedly of
amnion. ,hat she died in consequence of the bruises
she had received.
Dr. Ttuton, on behalf of the prisoner, said, he
was a physician residing at Swansea, and haJ some.
times scos coos of sud..en death. Beiag desired
to give his apinion, as to the probability of disco.
lourations of the skin appearing alter death, in a
very clear and scientific manner he informed the
Court, that the circulation of the blood is the last
effort of existence : that after the body is to out-
ward appear once deed, eirculatiotamay be for some
time g ring OW. though in an imperceptible degree;
that %%bile circulatiati duet go 'en, the vessels must
be necessarily in adieus, and more or less full of
blood a and that duting this time, even after the ap-
pearance of dissolution, they may be broken by any
violence of rough handling, and by discharging
their contents, occasion discolourations of the skin.
He likewise olneraid, that there were various inter-
nal disorders and nail-form ttions of the organs,
which might he exasperated by violent agitations of
the passions or feelings, so as to cause sudden death;
that even the passions themselves, by an excess of
exertion, might produce immediate death by spasm,
rupture of an artery, Joe. and that these various in-
ternal causes of sudden death can cnly be discovered
by dissection.
The learned Judge, in a speech of much energy
and elomience, recapitulated the evidence to the
Jury ; and the latter, after retiring for a few mo-
ments, brought in their vetch& —Man,loughter.
On the fallowing morning, the Judge passed
sentence OCT the prisoner, in the following impressive
adds fee ;
" Morgan IVi'!iant—lion are convicted of man-
slaughter alone, upon a charge of murder, which it
was the eir press opinion of the Court that your guilt
had 'newer 1, if the faas in evidence were believed.
The Jury therefore must either have set up their
judgment of the law e'g bust niers—or have misun-
derstood the law as delivered by me— 'r have dishe-
s breed the witnesses—or have been misled by the ef-
' feat'of your charaller, as a peaceable and good na-
I tared man. As to their preference of their own
law; in d•reft and-wilful opposition to that of the
Court, I' cannot and will not believe it ; in other
f worth, I must nat believe them to have abused their
power and violet. d their duty. If I were misunder-
stood, it was not for waist of all the efforts in my
—power to impress the rule and principle upon their
I minds, with ail the accuracy and precision which I
r could stamp upon them. As to the discredit of the
witeesees, it happens that not one of them was im-
' pear est by yourself. No witnesses, in my judicial
experiarce, ever delivered their testimonies with
nada delicacy of caution. One of themannsolicitea,
en irked in his evidence,
uponen,that yurennyfou
elkickedetc!tiis
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fereetee in effed was ti ilia' ; but, in his mind, it ne-
. curved as a feature solteniag the outrage. The son
1
of that father, a boy to whom you recommended a
false account of the death, in eenfidenee—apart—
ands with him alone, is confirmed by the woman
who laid out the deceased, and who represents that
you told the same dation to her. The evidence of
•• the Coroner and Surgeon, Mr. Griffith so the cause
of the de .th, as occasioned by your violence, must
have convinced the Jury, when they found you guilty
of manslauglaer. They must, therefore, have
tA•)nght, with me, the evidence of br. Turton wast-
ed and thtown away. lie enlightened us with cer-
tain other mats nt death, reconsileahle to similar
apasorata-es, butt which had no ground for them in
the faa. Hi. eriaer.ea, therefore, might have been
spared. As to year eharaAer, if it were true, and I
will assit.we its with, it would prove that you have
tees iv d your neighbours, and that you .deserve a
• , ~ , . , eyease of that which has been given.
* . • . itnesses culled you "pe it cea %le
Oro qa. •s- • . . .
ler it the% one ttansasaion of ;oak
Ilse asee 1 • 4 . siatireiall thew all. The Jury
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may have thongllfybu net mean to hill. " and, I
theietore, cntt Id not be guilty of murder;" in other
words, may have thought that you Intended cruelty
and mischief in the etereme to this defenceless wo-
rn in, hut sheet of death. If the fait here simpost.sl
were trite, the opinion, therefore, that it was no
rrrur-
der, would h.,ve been false. and it was reprobated
br me, with all the energy. which, armed by the
law, I cOuld eive to the opinions I delivered. rut
could they believe the lag that you did not mean to
kill ? Y a, that sei.l, the very minute before you
made your first attack, " it was in your hands to
kill her l" Perhaps, they believe you were not „mas-
ter of your own reason? but were heated by passi, n.
from the moment of your first anger, up to the very
instant of this poor ciraturt.'s death. Could they
believe it—enuie they believe you heeted, when, af-
ter such afe ither of provocation, on tll upon a
clef nceless person, who did not raise her fund
attainst you, heat her with your fist upon her bosom
and thighs, kicked her, and, when the was down,
Pressed your knees upon several ;ems of her body,
is fi Ring flows and centusions even upon her
waist ? C. eld they believe you were heated, when,
upon her affeeting a peal to her i allow- set AM, you
commanded him to desist from any help to her ?
Could they believe that you had no deliberate hatred
isi your mind, when there is not one mark of your
penitence and remorse? Your " diStiaslaral" was
the horror of momentary panic, and it came Lou
late. But it was followed up, in a very shot t pe-
riod, 'y toe command of a most wicked lelsehood,
in cold blood, impressed upon one of your servants
—a telsehonch asserted the very next morning by'
yourself. Hundreds have been executed for mur-
der, less aggravated than your's, less depraved and
cruel. It is the second instarce in the county of
Glamorgan, since my judicial intercourse with it, and
I shall, alter this acquittal, fear that it will not be the
last, of a master's tyranny to a servant, ending in
death and in murder. Whatever motives of judg-
ment, or of conscience, induced a Jury to deliver
this verdict, it will be long felt, as a deep stain upon
the county. " that such guilt as your's could escape,"
though I impute no blame to the mercy which I can-
not understand.
" You have taught your son to resemble you.—
He did venture to iiitreet that you would arrest your
murdering hand—hut when? after the vietim had
expired. He had previously fomented your bitter-
ness against this wretched creature, by telling that
idle story of the ghost, which you resented by Idling
her. When he addressed himself to her, supposing
her to be alive, it was in terms of unfe ling insult ;
" You have done," said he, " mischief enough, go
to bed." God of mercy, are servants to be thus
treated ? It it in this generous island that we can
hear of such tyrannies ? Had the Juty convieted
you of the mut der not all your opulence, or the in-
terest it could make, would have given to the short
interval between your sentence and your death, one
additional hour. Who would imagine that lam
talking all this time of manslaughter, which is, inks
legal acceptance, heated passion, or a wanton aet,
with no peril of life, but ending by accident unfore-
seen. in death ? The Jury would them-elves igno-
randy tell us, that if it is not murder, it is very near
it, and is the most aggravated of manslaughter,
which, of cote se, would call upon us to inflie.t an
exemplary punishment upon such an offender. In
truth, it is murder—it is nothing else. Not one
feature of the mitigated crime appears. It is, at the
best, a depraved and cruel outrage, endangering
life, and closed in the death for which it was calcu-
lated; but, at the worst, it is also deliberation, in
cold blood, and with a decided purpose to kill ; in
both of these views, it is equally a murder. Yet,
how to punish it under its name of menslanghter, is
a difficulty. We are crippled, and yet it is no dis-
honour to the law that we are—for it never suppos-
ed, that a case, like this, could have the name of
manslaughter stamped upon it by a verdiel. We
cannot imprison for the offence, to which your guilt
has been softened by the vordiet, for more than one
year. The additional punishment of burning in the
hand for manslaughter, properly understood, was
absurd and cruel, nr both. But, in a case like
this, one half laments that it has been superseded.
—Branded, however, you are still to be ; con-
science will inflift that penalty; the abhorrence
of your chareeter, in every feeling heart, will pol-
lute your path and your bed. The day will
come when this murder, as I call it still (and by '
its true name), will sit heavily upon your soul,
unless the guilt is deeply repented before that hour
shall come. The only punishment which is now to
be added by the Court, instead of burning in the
hand, is fine. As your fortune is ample, and as we
are desirous to m irk our sense of your guilt, we
should make the fine exemplary as well as penal.
But here again we are crippled—for the law con-
templeting what is manslaughter (not a case like
yours) has told us, that it must be a moderate fine.
Upon what principles I cannot imagine, but the
Court in general considered the word " moderate"
as intending is nominal fine, and has deemed it sa-
tisfied in aggravated manslaughter by a shilling.--
We have. upon former occasieas, broke in upon that
jaJiciel habit elsewhere, and are wilting to els-
Lrace the odium of the singularity. In your case
we impale 501. as the fine the most ample that was,
perhaps, ever inflisdied upon a manslaughter ; but
still, if compared with your guilt, moderate in our
view of it, and reconciieehle to a sound exercise of
discretion—so moderate, that if it were not for that
word, we should have made it tour times heavier.
Your sentence, therefore, is, that you be imprisoned
for one sear in the county gaol, that you pay 501. as
a fine, and be imprisoned until it is paid."