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THE TOWER.

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The Tower of London is situated on the east side of the
city, near the Thames, and the best situation fur a forth 83
that could have 'seep chosen ; it stands about 600 yards
eastward of London Bridge, and consequently near enough
to cover this opulent city from invasion by water. We do
not read, however, that this ancient fortress has ever had to
act spinet a foreign enemy (whatever the first intention
oas), but our domestic troubles in early days have been
such, as to raise hs importiur by ailing the garrison some-
tunes into action.
Longehamps, Bishop of Ely, was Kr. er of the Tower
when Richard the First was in the Holy Land ; and this
haughty Prelate, for a short time, found a refuge here,
against those Nobles who were mused to resist his tyranny, ;
and who obliged him to surrender ; i.rd to effect his I
escape in safety, he habited himself as a female. At first '
it consisted of no more than what fa now called the White
Tower ; the building of which lies been erroneously
sttri-
hated to Julius Cesar. Before the Conquest we appear to
have no authentic documents to prove. the existence of any
place of strength on this spot
Stowe, on the aethority of Etlinund of' Ifedenham's Re-
gister Bock of the acts of the Bishops of Rochester. says, I
" that he (William the Comment') built the White Tower
shout the year 1078, appointing Guodolph Bishop of Ro-
chester, and the most celebrated architect of that period,
to auperintenh the work."
Rufus and Henry the Piret made considerable
additions to the orig,inal structure ; and we are assured that
Rufus built the surrounding in 1097, and that Long-
champs surrounded the fordfielltious with the ditch, as it
now is, alid in other respects improved the place. Several
of our succeeding Princes enlarged it by additional works,
and the Church was rebuilt by Edward 111.
In the year 1638 the White Towle was rebuilt : It is a
large square irregular stone building, situated almost In
the centre, and consists of three very lofty stories, under
which are opacious and commodious vaults, and the roof is
covered with fiat leads, front whence, it will easily be ccu-
mitred, there is an extensive and delightful prospect. In
one of the cells (then used as nete prism's) it is tradition..
ally reported that Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his history of
the ll'orld. Of its Witch Towers, of which there am
four, at the top, it is rather remarkable that none of them
are built alike. On the seeond &or of this tower is an
apartment, commonly called Ccsar's Chapel, which Mr.
Bayley says, in his History of the Tower of London, " may
justly be said to exhibit one of the Brest and 'nest perfect
specimens of the Norman style of architecture now extant
in this country."
In the uppermost story is a room, reported to have been
the Council Chamber, where the Duke of Gloucester,
aftcrnards Richard the Third, is raid to have ordered
the execution of Lord Ilaetings, and the arrest of the
Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Ely and Lord
i 5 anh•y.
The Tower still continues to be a state prison. In 1794,
Ilene Tooke, Hardy, and others, were ecnfined here.
The last to be mentioned (and may they be the last poness-
lug such diabolical thspositions) arc Thistlewood and his
associatts iu tress':n, who, in laio, suffered at the Old
Bailey for a conspiracy, knew!) by the name of the Cato-
I street Conspiracy. Dnring the trial they were removed
front the Tower every morning to the Old Bailey, and
conveyed back in the evening.
The church of St. Peter ad Vincula, mentioned as having
been rebuilt by Edw. I I I. al thou;r,h in itself a plain building,
and destitute of ornament, is nevertheless interesting, from
el di personages wile • last frond re-

R'ESTERN 17T.
SOMERZET ASAIZES—Wv.s.s, SEPI. Z.

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31 CR DE R.
Jisswes Reywislifs. alias Walter, was iedieted fur the wilful mur-
der of Jacob M'ilkins, late of Norton St. Phillips, tea Bath, en
the road from )tithed to Nortor.
Mr. fir ater:to stated the we as one depending en elreninstan.
eat evidence, and thm:gh no witnesses torand be called who actually
saw the prisoner strike the Olow, whfsh led to the death of Jacob
Wilkens, yet the ernhettee week! be saflinienthr clear to enable
the Jury to come to a senr.d end rt.-, decision. The prisoner, who
was only 0 years of age, hat been t-ried before, and convicted of
felony.
John Fisher sworn.—l lived at lAimpley Stoke. (A map was
put into the hands of the witness, the distances of which he said
were cornet.) I know Ruth Inn, whit% Is &boats o miles from the
Fux Inn ; it is not quite halted-trile from the Red Idor. lam n
maitster and fanner, at Linip:ey Stoke. From the Fox I r.r. to the
prisoner's lodgings, you go uphill all the way ; it is up hill also to
Charterhouse Hirton. From the Carpenters' ARAI at t:toke to the
prisoner's lodgings, it is nearly three miles; guittg through Bath it
would be nearly five miles.
Cross-exuniced be Mr. DAYLr, who. we understand, had only a
few te Mutes before the trial received his instructions. The Learned
Counsel WWI retair.ed at the lostanee of Sir John Cox Hippisley..
who was desirous of drooling to the i risoner erery opportunity of '
priming his I. tkorence. Mr. Ilityly had not even • brief, and col-
lected his information fitly as the nisi nroceetled.—The (noise
Keys is three.qttarters of a mile tom' me house. The prisoner's
Louse is in the old Rod to Bristol by Old Down.
Ilenrge Wilkins—l am the son of the deceased, my father lived
at Phillips Norton for many years. Was the bottler to the Blu-
cher Inn. Ile was 53 yeersoe age. hen his house on Monday, at
half-past eleven in the fireman ; was &rated In • dark mixture
coat, light breeches, dark waistcoat. and light kc'seymew gaiters.
The coat came down as far as his knees. I saw him take a sin per ,1
watch with hint. Ile had ma a gi.t mat on the • etch, with a red
stone in in marked with " F." I saw my father at the Fox Inn
next day, dead. I saw the watch again afterwards at Mr. Fishers,
at Stoke.
Mimes' produced the coat which his father wore when be
went cot in the morning.)
Mary horington—l knew Jacob iVilkies. I sew him on the
Ist of August last. I went to Bath to see him. He came to pay
: his addresses to me. It was about two u'elock in the afternoon
' that we met. I drank pan of a quart of liver with him. lie dined
with me at Bath. lic mild for the dinner and beer. He had a
good deal of :..!yr in his purse. I think about live half-crown,
and some other silver. U e left /lath to go to the Cross Keys be-
tween six and seven in den evening. The rood is up hill. We
had a quart of beer between four of us at the Cross Keys. We
staid • quarter of an hour, re,.t parted about eight o'clock. He
took out his watch to see what o'clock it was. It was &silver watch,
which I kitty, harit.g got it repaired tin him. Ile went away to.
wards Milford, and returned home with two other women towards
Bath. lie was very sober.
Samuel Burnley—l was on the road bet omen the Fox Inn and
the Carpenters' ARM, Stoke, on the Ist of Au:rust ; I was tatting
to Dimon, and passed the Fox Ern. I met a man about half a
mile from the Fox. He had alight fustian iteket, a dark waistcoat,
and light breeches on. It was halt:past nine in tote evening. lie
said, " Young nom, there is a swan lying down drunk up luxe in
the road, 1 have been struggling with him for two hours, and I
cannot get him up. I wish 70:1 would heave him out of the road
as you past along." I mid, ` I will." I was in company with
Arts Derereil, and her daughter Ruth. Ann DevereU asked hint
if it was one of his company ; he said " No, lie is a stranger to
me." He went on towards Bath—we towards /licton. Ateratl
:Inn yards further on we came to the town. I knew him. Ile
was lying down by the side of the road. I called hiin three
times—lie trade no answer, and I ttok his lust off, and foam: ,
ha was dead. It was Jacob Irilkirs. Ills right-hand pocket
was turned inside out. and he had co watch. Ce had tat am-
meter. I turned bee' again after the man who had Nooken to
us. It was two or three minutes after I tow the body Autt'l set or.
I ran as hard as I could to the Fon inn. I toll the r, le at
the Fox, and then went Lack to the body and searched the
pockets. Foiled a knife and root! ; the women in the mean
nine went and called Perch: and Grtnt. cona:ables ; I e..anot
Isay from the prisoner's countenance that he is the man., but he
was much such a one es the priioner ; I believe it Is the same
WM.

Ann and Ruth Devercll gave a similar wateront, and added,
that they believed the prisoner was the Man sho wt them in the
road.

the many dicingtdslied personsgts who at last found repose
in it r.fter falling Ab. till:S in tyranny and oppression, and
were buried here, it is said, bavine been executed on 'rower
!fill, or in the Tower, as a place of ohscut ity. Ann Denver' emsserxamined.-1 met the person about bn!f
way up the Hi. There is a short will en one lade of the read;
John Fisle2r, Biashop of Rochester, beheaded on Tower
11'11, June 92, 1533, sleeps in the tame tomb with Crom- it is very steep Ise the other side a the wall, all the ray up the
hill. There Is a wood on the other side of the rote.:!, close to the
well, his patron, and the virtuous Sir 'llamas More. hedge. If a onion had lifted a dead man over the well he would
' Anne Boleyn, whose absence lie.try the Eighth once de. have fallen down the hill, or he might have secreted the body in
Glared gave "greater pains to his heart than angel or Mir. the woad. 1 did not see any thing in slie man's Land. I
lure could express." was beheaded Jlay 19, 1336. know it was hadtpast r.ine pit is 1 Pict lion for I had
tier brother, George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, was be- looked at try tvateh. T. man 'Jet me of the bey being in the
road as soon as I met him.
headed two days previous. • G. Pal:ins-1 lived in Auptet last at Mr:ford; my house is
Thomas (.'roinwell, Earl of Essex, beheaded 1340. situate between the Fix Inn end Ilinton ; the house is 661.1 yards
Catherine Howard beheaded February 13,15411. trona the Fox, on the left hand side; some persons came to ray
Thorr.as Seymour, Baron Smiley, and Lord Iligh Ad- han'e ; I weld wilh them' observed the b°4 of the mesa I knew
mind, belienot d in 1519, ley a warrant from his own thlw-, Inotexan
hinkinhedutheltTnTieletidi thebr! sitsas.n:;t::ottiley nor 'retell in
brother, the Protector Somerset, who, in leas than three body on a hurdle to '.ie Fox.an
It did not rec'eive a bit'3..car,7 t,l.e.
ayes .0 i Co rte
years, was lonitp,lat to the block on the Mlle scaffold. road. I looked at the botty, and sae diet there was a blow on the
Ellnard Scvmelle, Duke of Soinerset, was beheaded nose, and a little blood issuing from the corner of the mouth : the
January 21, 1352. . hest! looked Hark ever the eye, as if it had Lem hroocd. I isw
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, tecliceteled Mr. George Dyke Fisher ilex% l'ay ; went with hire to Cie C •7.
renter's Arms public-house et Stoke. When tic got there. we saw
August 24. 1353. the prise:ter. I think it wee be:urn' one p, d tiro o'clock in V.,
11t,hert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the favourite of Eliza- day. lie pnlh-d money C. ,r, his peed: t. Mr. Fillet rid ire .to
beth, and who cent him to the bled:, February 23, 1609. take hint into ivy custody. lie said very weil, lit would go cry
John Scow, 2iult.9 of Aloninouth, son of Charles 11., wherewith me if I would let hint tare his jacket. It WAS LIGU;;Ilt
to him ; he put it on. It Ifif, a liiiit.coleitred fuit:.ti jai::: t. NV('
beheaded July 15, I r:l3, for asserting his rieht to the **ILA of sciirchntic him, and he took from his pocket a I!. ewe,
Crown agninst James 11. fourteen shillings ID:dicer, and eii;ldlictice halfperaty. The In-
The Earl of Kilmarnock, end Lord Dalmeritio were menet is the num.
beheaded August 11.1, 1746, for being concerned in the re- Cron-estunined.—T live bs,..ete the Fez and Ilinton. I don't
lemon in &milord; and Sialon Fraser, Level Lovat, con- Hum the lodge at the top of the hill, but there :s another Louse
vieled of the ran:e crime, stated in the following year o. the hill. Tian: is n wail by the side of the roil !. 'niters? Wall a
e 9 peer on the nee., and black plant the forehead of the tie:ased.
and lies in the some grave. They might have been produced from falling strainit the well or
After this melancholy detail, it rosy be observed that the trench gouts by the :dd..: of the road ; btu the c't,•!-ft..d was
several officers of the 'Power are also reposing within these not near enough to any cf the cur's: tt.r.er to bred me to thlt sup-
walls; 'rall‘:n Edwards is one that ought to be in:ntioned, positioniileedThe prison::: mr.d: no rei.stence slicti
.1 took hint, and
who defeated Colonel Blool's attempt to steal the crown. to „,,,w to ';,:ot",r,;;;!1,' ..,. (;;.„T ,:r;`.'iotiltri.':*bil h`i.e,,,,i1:::,11,`",„`„h,
The principal entrance is by three gaits to the west, one stones that hntl been 11:1 in the n 0.3! by a behder rot re t a , I did
trithin the other. The first of these teems to a court, on the curb stones. The t', rotted was near those stones. The body
the right band of which is the Lion's TOWCT. no second did not 11.1 from the :10..!!e in once to the Fox. It te rained at
opens to a stone bridge over the ditch, (this ditch was the FOX fitqll Sunday ri:,lit to 'l.utn,clay. 3lr. (iinarge (ioldstoo cf
cleansed in 1663, andrailed round in 17.5 n) at the end or rad", a '"7em's c""'1. '1"" 6' dr.
George timger.—l ke,,, the hiox Inn at 1111trurd A only west
which Is the third rate, with a portcullis. iVitl.in this on brought into my house on thc 14 of Animist, about tc7l: t•y :.:' .
the right hand. is the draw-bridge, for foot-pessengers, to Perkins and three oth...- pen4ms. I C%Stillt,ett tin.: hots, end -frot.rd
and from the Tower wharf; parallel with this, upon the the left temple diseohtt.::(l; a wound on the nose, nt.o some the. il
walls, is a piat:arnr, called the Ladies Line. from which is on the corner of the rnmeth. I licked tip toe body aboist an hour
after iwti.eareci:Lodnity It;.tieseei..i The,toC:itlicron/tc
ici.,..[le no Totsi.isy. The
a fine prospect of the shit:leiter on the Thames. FICIM
this there is a walk round the Tower walla, on which ate; eir.ytiontsrea. tilt:ellenon' :Le afternoon of ...4on'th2;.c.. sam ar.ti
three batteries, vie. the Devil's Battery, the Stone list- I Wien J:tncs---1 live tt l'etert, in tho parish of Chertcrhonse
tety, 101%1 the Wooden &tic. y, tech wow, tul wish Mown. with is; loiter. I taw the prisonzr en tit, 1.1 of Angtot
e.ll I
.00. last. 11. came to my father's house. Detween cue aid two o'clock
1 .I.sm.sw.hriLim tiiri.t..t.r.i,ife continued there about ore hour end three.
The principal oilleer 10 WhOM the government of tills
fortress is comntitted is denominated the Constable or the , ;h7,..bjfes in tic -••••••a-e';‘,..'•;;;_thli.affltits4•,nuttow '*.iirli'i'ii:::''''''ll'i'•,:eter•-t41...e0,
'rower, and this place is commonly given to a pervon of • there we staid a lt•.10 it hilt, and part Ni. I went horse. red !e
consequence (the Duke of Wellington now fills the ritua- I for Afitrord. It writ rother better than half--pact sit o'clock in the
don). To uiention the various offices, and the adolitiatiel evcnirg. Me was drct,til in white stockings, ligtit curd brc....c):es,
!jig. litittbalianan ii:lntekbetftit:tw-,litiri.:i:p,:usli r.-..:,:itii-r, woiati,ll:ll:.tr,k, titretit-S IA
buildings for the various important purposes to which they
arc applied, and to specify their contents, would require on. The umerella Lade en.bi.' •hi artS note'(7111; rotinti, net! hail':
the space of a volume • it must therefore be rat:Meng for' crook at the end.
me simply to state, that here are the (hams of Ordnance, I Cris-examine—The prisoner was at my father's tgl I.:If-part
of the Keeper of the. Records, the Jewel t tax, the norm three...,
~,
.It is fleetly two miles from that to Mr. Sintoters's co...etre.
Armoury, the Mint, barracks for the Bel:tiers, the Spanish i He er.,ll;Torwnisw.
stnortirioatttheinena,
Ile "7:1 i'lvi%"l"ndltialiking nitre t'l
Armoury, See. Ike. On entering the outer gate, the eye ' rrxt ii:orning, Le well come to et.), hither's."l'l'e Zeveer.rmmew;en
beholds the Lion Tower, in which is a fine collect:ea en* Her and &hole' or two hours in walkieN to Mr. li'ntmott's co cage.
wild beasts, consisting of lions and lioness. a, with a variety ; 1 hare rot seen the spot where the moot Cu rimed. The cottage
of birds, &c. all of which are carefully attended to. 1 vr,s et the top of the hill. rout the Fox at the Wane. I might
The contacts of die Spanish Armoury, a groat portion aft
get to the Fox front t'... .. J
..
me w a‘'.•:•...g.rn we oartiet he Ira. ge.-ig to his
in a iluirteT of an !.our it I .11e1
which arc the Toils of what are vainly called the Invinci- 1,;,"1'•;: Tfe erisoncr t.ret, • ' -
ble Armada, present, in the disposition of so vast a variety ! It; the Couaw—'d ..
of arms, to a discerning eye, a thousand peculiarities which ionn'irg•
too description can roach: it is therefore to be recemenended , Ge'"O'c Cray—l was at the Fin; 'll All'fccd on the lot Angna-
toe ripener. there 11. cane in there se a'• ott area O'clock
that every one who lies a taste for the admirable cembina- ' ;„"thwe eveZng:
lions of art, should gratify it with a sight of the noblest cu-' lie staid there' -Amu ton nii-tutt's' • :le caned for a
pint of beer. and asked me to ti-in'lr.- l'asked hi 0 witcte he s..trketi ;
ricsitics of this kind in the whole world. At the sight he saki at Newten. I know Itusli-11,11 and ire:: tau 1 they are Tao
however of such a variety of dreadful /Amines of . very fat apart. (The witness ilescrrit:ti the prisoner's dress ea the
destruction, one can scarcely help wishing that these hot- !miter witnesses had done.) Ile did not tell cue where he was
rible inventions had lain' lihe a false i conception in the guing
ex
'
Cross.amine&—There wire others in the Teem at the Fox he-
womb of nature, never to have ripened into birth. But' sides myself when the; :boner rote in ; I knee the yoeng man b-.
when, on the other hand, we consider tl:at with out they are' fore; 1 rover saw him with that dress on before; I know how the
not nstd to answer the purposes of ambition, but for self- I others were dressed, one had a light coloured frock, the other a long
defence, a,:d in the protection of our just rights, our coat, but I ant tell about their stockings, breeches, or weistctiet ;
terror subsides, and we view tin se etTines of devastation , !there tied a little talk at Alitford about tt e prisoner's dress that
he was opposite to use when he
with a kind of solemn complacency, as the means which' cameale rem L'riciumltair lewnute'innekttiti!
Providence has put into our hands for our preservation. 1 John Wheeler—l was at illitionl to, Sunday, theist of Atd‘e.ute,
'l'he signal defeat of the Spanish Navy in the reign of near the Fox. It was pest seven o'cl.:::k when 1 went there. ti...tir
Philip 11. will over endear the name of Elizabeth to' the prisoner go into the lox, 11:1!.1 out again. Ile went towards
Blitotie: !or out of one huralred and thirty ships that ar- Intrlkerlelielef. or staid "a
thellots'niash4len tow
minutes,
lfuli e had
on
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rived in the channel, scarce ceventy of them returntd ;lush waistcoat wa'sC•lle spots ounril.aligttish OCT/Ithr:e-j:i!::4le,L.%lrJte
home; and out of 30,t,00 men on bean!, upwards of stockings. and quarter Lome. Sc. Mtn come back agtio, hetwecn
20,000 were either killed, drewnoel, or n.tale FACIX.:3 by i eight and nine. A darkish lookirg man was sith lion, who was
the Entilirdi. i a:: older num than the prisoner. The latter aelctsl the other to ro
In conclusion, it may be mill of the 'Power, that it is a innotoott Fox, have ' Pt;''' of beer. The old fl i.' 11.1"
place so very considerable, and of so winch importance, as did, o A': It was rt`ivree"ad;;;lit artest ud. niosen loalc*.o.ii.' ''i
h'al ,treTt
to merit a visit from all who come to London. Within the prisoner a fortnight Were, ;,mint; icto the F.':. Ile had the
the walls it covers twelve acres and five rods of ground, same dress on then, except his -waistcoat, winch I did out take
and the circuit outside the ditch, is one thousand and fifty- Mice°r•
I Cross-examined-1 saw th• prisoner gong into the rot on the
two Cert. I Ist of August. I was talking to two t r three boss at the time. I
i live with my father, rho lives about tac:Ly inifrous the IPA,. I
know it was bctercen eight and nine. Ivrause I saw the mail coach
at the time. It sae main dwiky when the met. i ,FACtI. I know
partly it was the prisoner. because he had a dog a ith biro, and so
he had when he went into the Fox at terreo o'ilts.k.
I Ann Fisher-1 was, on the Ist of August last, • servert to Mr

Detmatches were reei !veil on Saturday morning at he
Colonial ()filer., from Sir limjainin D'Urban, at Demerara,
slated the 19th of Jciy, at which time Cie celmy was
&a:thy and tranquil

tni net come to m•; f::t!rt's next

florton, who keeps the Red Lion public house at Old Dien; f saw
the prisoner on that day. about twenty iniitutas past tam at istb4
he. came to the door, whirl) Wee glut at he knocked it and
fur a pint of beer ; I told him he could have none that night. for it
wits past hours ; he mid he had been wall:ing all day, and was
ready to dr's.; he had name from Weymouth ; I opened the du it,
and eve him a pint of beer s he took out of his pocket • waMiii.
and asked tue to light a candle. that he r.i?tt see to wind it up;
I saw the face of the watch ; it was silver to...it-the edge; I brough t
him the oendle • he took the key in his (tend to do it. but put the
wa.ch is his po;ltet, and said he would let it stay till he get to his
lodgings; there "as a chain end bey upon toe watch ; did rot ch.
sewn if then was any seal upon it; he took out a handful elf nth-ne-
er:tit as many as Om or four half crowns in it. and pall,
far the beet; he testis! a drop of the herr, and raid the first drop
turned him alok, and he threw it a!: out of doers : br said he shoal'
try to get to Rath that night; saw bin: on ‘‘'erlneed:.7 r.-.omirg in
a out as he came br with 51r. Col:ins ; I reid it sae the mew
who called fur a ;ilia of beer on Seeday eetr,inir :he trer I very
nate', and appeared heatet: wkert lic came fur Lae beer; I.e annted
as if he had hem walking quick.
Crotraexamined4 don't know whether there a a 1.1:1 firm
my master's to Hinton. It is a steep and long :.i:l to hi itund.
gave tie man W. chants. I did not notice whether the Biter
whtd it no was in front or at cite back of ;Le notch ; 1 thi:* it
was in the front of the watch.
William Perry—l lodged at Rush Rill with the prisener at the
bar; I left him In bed on tionday the Ist of dtlgutt; went to Led
at tan o'clock on Sunday night ; prisoner was rot at home i I saw
Lim about a quartemiaefoe II ;he came into Louse quite rest
Ices ; got up to let h:al, is ; he knocked very lc:id, and said to me.
" Who are
_you ? Who ere oa: ? {Vito ire roll r. I had r'"
ligl.t: I said, "Jima'. what'sy tie meter, don't ycu know mac ?"
lie asked fora light ! he said he wante,ini:e to wind up his watch ;
the light was brought ; I.c dhl rot iind up his watch ; 1:e went
down when the bght was brri:ght to !dint, and said in waned some
victuals; I was in bed, and prisoner scion canie up to bed t he
brought the light up; flaked him what o'clock it was, and he said
helf-past one ; he toot out his v.i:tcli sad linr,i; it up on a roil by
the bedstead; never asw him with a watch Lefort ; we gat up at
five next rooming; be asked me what seven bail crowns were? I
told hint 178.6 d. He looked ever his money, of which he of einftt
to haves good deal; he said he had changed two Found bills the
day before; the watch apperred to me to be silver; it was a roughish,
chain, with a seal to it; I went away and left him ; erizoner was
out of work often.

Cross.examir.ethe•lly Ileum is ear a mile from the Crofts Keys.
Ile worked one week eery well, but was often cut of work. II w
used to rise between nave and six in the morning.
Thomas Fort—l 'seep tile Carpenter's Anus at Lim y St*.
On the 2d of August I saw the persona at my hou tit c.,;at
o'clock la the morning. lie was la the ag a rat
of leer. Ile afterwards came to me in thrtgnte asked t.:e if I
he d anything to eat? I said. res. He tl'ei asked my wife for
pound note tot a poundsworth of Olrer. I brought him one of Mr.
Ifolkott.v.*s Path ices. lie gave me ia eitehange four Mir-crowns:
the rest wits In shillings and sixpences. He rimained at my house
until be WAS taken away entirely.
Samuel Naah.—l was at the Carpenters' Arms no the 241 A,. •
gust. I saw the prisoner there at eigid o'clock in the trcr; ing. 110
talked to the folks is the house about rattling for rewrite.% 'fixer
were about four pennons present. Prisoner said he had cos in his
pocket he would put up for Wk. I looked at it, and ..aid I wade'
give IFs. for it. Ile said hei would wrrant the watch as a geed
one, for be had list' it a twelvemonth. I then said if be world trait
a few minutes for it I would get the money. I brought Ent tile
money, and lie maid if I did not like it in a week or fortnight het
would rt atm the money. I pdt it in my pocket, but alte.wad•
delivered i: to Mr. Fides.
Cro..e...t;ntuinial_pei.oner said I might retro the watch In a
wetk or fortnight. lem rot kroit where the prison In ad, but a
man in compsoy said he lived at Westw,md.
Perry raid led—PrLecner milked me the font.. Old to Bali.
Ile said he would go by coach that day; he It.. walkel a wxs
deal the week before. it t did tekb the road to It irk.
Mr. Otor•te US lee Fhltin—l was at the C.a.;enters' Amos it.
',hanky Sluke the .% ct,ust, and obtained a weeeth from 'Nad-
i went t.ll to ascertain the truth respecting the morn,,. I
saw Mr. Perkins, trei v c teturned to Stokz. t.i .I Oen. lappre.
herded the pristine... Ile slid he would go • ill e, but desired
to have his yicket. As soon as I had titk n•i . prisoner I sent t..
Norton, and in c•mincaence the deetaset". son came to me and de-
scribed his father's watch. I then sheered it him, and be said that
was the watch.

The Jecea:ed's urn Was recalled, and on the watch being !•.auded
to him th.t Ifr. Pi.her had produced, he swore that was the watch
his falter wok from borne oa Sunday the Ist August. lle tabi ha
I knew the watch. because it had a brass balance wheel in It.
looking at the rttch. lioweve.-, it appeared that the balan a ..,!!eas
was steel. and ba. Ilayly dwelt upon that fact in Ida cr....5.-esami-
ration cf this witness; but the Learned Ju !eslaikal. a:t
the works rcund the br.lance wheel Le u:s.s, they might re.
a yellow colour on that past of the watch. tad raked the saiftest ii
he could !speak to the seal. which be positively swore to.
William Bartbot found a stick (w •!I he 7ractucea)
P.cli about a quarter of a tulle front l'erkir.-', Itame, towsr.!l

JoshuaPlt. a police orzti... ±aw tie 1•:°.o-.r at t:lr 1,1%.10.t
mike env ; ;4 taste is)
hint li4n, I e could 'l.> s::::11 a .:cod? raid
%tout! a fair chance of being hanged. Ile e. I not 4.,
tl:o (Fed." The gentle ~n went PaiUnies Nei& " No-
braly saw the kill the ran, and they can't bars me for Lavirg the
watch."

[:!•.re the reson:? Tels:neatly tizelii ttal, " Thtia false, c-y
Lore., that's falte.")
1%1 r..;usepti Page. clerk to the liegisttete. said the primmer was
t aa:r.ined in h!s ).rt ileum ; eothteat teas mr.ee. truhtatione wee
rcl.d ovLr to I.e I.risoncr, ant. •.igna: !::• the 31Agistruca. The
I.T:w.h.r "as a,h:ett to sign; be refuse, but ateavt reavut.
1 itcn: ..7cre two cmasninatioaa on the *ante flays he zeCu,t.t: to tig
bt.t:. ; I :col; IlvAn down.

1 The first exilminntion was Ills ecel..rstiart of the pri..!..,1,7 tia t
he [might ibe watch of a tracrller, t Nrs---, cm the rain, at sit.
:1'cl• 1:14i brining. and a ',mina tiott! 'A. it. fie setorit
treat to ihnt Nasli asked him to rable for ihe
Get size Gal...list:m-1 sill a susgeon at P.atli. I stir :lie de.
crii.ed at the ;ion, at Snike examined the Lady, rnd found 1
cootusicn on the r.ose, was very slight; n ennside...' Ic ccr. -
%Ilion on the, :eit side of the head; u-ct- was en irreguLvi:y pr-
cept.ble, which I. d cue to suspect that a great injury had been is
'lir tee! on the craaium. I opened the skull, making an incision in
the scalp, and took a circular piece of the skull i.ii: I slosild br.va
said, 1 il-r. trrecivcel a depressed fractute, and was c•:-:-:in of it
:`ter I heal divined the scalp. Thare was a very prat ettrat
don of blood uaacr the skull. which, with the Fcaersl
:o the heed, as I concave, cause Ole man s death. Tilat is
n y opinion da4,lcilly. bora the erci.lne for.n, arid CT' ii. ctmnt
to that form, 1 think It must have been Gii.eted by a wand e; capon ;
it must have bete a perticulsrly rancid ',one. anti higly ,wl.
if it were It stone, and then I think done etid have brce a w are
rf tl:e iategoinents; I mesa a woe.ad sliewinu itself extern..ily
was im such appearance. Tiie brill.. 4..41 rut t.ppear to l•
injured.; it migid have occasioaea a sufficient coacassa:n of a
brain to cause death.

Cross-exam:ord.—A blew ern) on that 7.31 of e, ,k,...7.
hare otteas:ttned death without au Irtentio.t can•
had fal!cn on the ground t::c ?till not have '..itta Kt cireu.
Ittr and cireuitutcribeaL The tiout.t: oa ti3O hex appezz.ti to be
the tottl.rt or a blow.

two wountli cruld not hare been ocirasiortd
by 0%; lbw, and I thbk r•ct by on.-
Thep:ismer hying t Ica cn fur Lis ,:ef;cce, said :_6! i hong!•t
the wittch of Edward Lacey. ■ trm-eller, and thought 1 had at
much ri3ht to buy it as to a.ll it, and a: soil it us to buy it. I it.:l
innocent ofthe crime bid to my ehargr."
The priaontrealbtl no tii,:tess.:s.
The LORD Ctttct• summed up the er::,r.ce with
great perspicuity, and left i::c Jury to pronounce wit:tier t'••
chain of rircunistancea ng.9:.•t the 1.-:scaor was not tiiiii.:!ently
str!ng to satisfy their irdit !s cf Lis gct:t.
7lse Ju-y, after eursuitir.g rb ut te.. urinutcs, ret
of Gritty.
The Los CITEF JU3TICZ:
of death ut,:u.i Cie prisoner.
The prisoner is a Toting man of a:.mt
with black hair; hut countenance is not otipmp,),
phreroi•ytist would not have tailed to obar•re me

urned ■ vr.-di.t

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:lurid ro^:.: _r

*cat 1

ion in the posterior part of the heed, as nimpared Wit% •‘:C
erected cerebral developeromt in the r.nttrwr portio-% i i-e
saner hard liia sentence wiiiiout omoti.ni ; h¢ appeonNi
wholly tir.ninved by th^ admit exhortations of the J-11.re,
throughout the proceedings maintair.ed intlexith: arc .
cess, or stupid insensibil;:r.
linnietrately after the pi!snner wax ronov..l bazk c lis
made the following confkit'on to the I/ore:nor filchesttr pi. I
" that about the stick iV23 r.: dtic,:l in m it
•1 which it was said I en:l:tined Jacob 11'9ki-ii, is whonv fai‘r. I
w,is walking-with him .3ong tho toast, ar..l trha•cr.'r -,.....;5c.0•rd in
1 do not kern, but all at oiq-c I thou:,4t I . I
took up a %nine, :and try force ;:.TCLV it. V. 7

the sick of the bead. !k ilin:cas on !i:.
round on his back, asel. 101 Li.

wax found."

The prisoner also !. 71 :',l:.
elc blood on the

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his fare.

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The pr'senee's bcha‘lattr. sjacc •3
e!ar,geit, and h-; appears admut anwiter man: he a. 3- • a
di..justness of his tenterxe. cal is eery pen:stn.; a r,
This morning ke waa 11.6310 Tea W Iktcster.
Lis execution.

I!....rGATE iIE•LTII•NUNTING.—"CLIT:C to :Ilargate,"
says `I N. Abrahams, " th‘ re y^t 1,01 get a colour ato.l an
bless non." 11. dotes tbey all go. Erse they
take a warm bath, then a cotol hash—iinarolering fcr
hour in th:: %vat- r—stay out s-tinttring in the
loight air—poke titemseivkl to:to cs 41 Pr4:l-;,s ar,l
dancing rooms—;r w bed at brea7t of t!ay—And e,:rnv
to town in a fevn.r ! l'hua it has be. la•ely with several ;
and we at i.res::nt v:sit a case vollieh has !oal a na:rou; cscape
from death—all brought on hy hea!Coo hJatiag a: Illargate.
Let people, if they go to watering-pl.:co-3 fur healer, an to
bed at ten o'clock—rise early—Mune; se themalvtis in the
water daily, and instantly leave it—live moolerstc—ani! mitt
with the amuaenurts only at proper heurs, and th'y will
return wi:h impri.ved health and spirits ; but 311r:tate now
a-days, since swain came into (Asian, is Co.:: pbtee to
:one an invalid.--1 .diced Adviser.