The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-08-09 00:00:00

DUN 1).4 Lh AN.siZ ES.

Par, ILLY 9,

NUR DER.
• 'This day came °abettors the Right lion. Justice
Mayto E. and a mast respectable Jury, tlie tnals of
-17waso floper, James Ateleen, Henry Porter,
m Qo,ls and Leslie Merino, for the murder
ft' tid Foetus, a serjesuit in the td Itraimonsor
itkeys, by shooting him with a musket hail.
There seas also a octant tndictmetit,ehargiugthem
with shooting at David Ranter, a prii rite lie ssid re-
giment, with intent to kill him.
Mr. MAC•ItT4 Ey opened the proseentiou with a
statement of the facts, which will 'press more
Path hem the evidence.
{Williams Kilpetrick was first prodm-cd. who
swore that he is a gauger in the Dundalk .
that on the night ofthe 21th June h.. left Diinlslk,
towards Ardor, is consequence I>f haring recelved
Information that a quantity of unlicensed malt was
there. lie arrived in Ardee about three o'clock in
the morning of the 25th, and in the house of one
Mankettrick he 'fired about SO barrels of
unlicensed mutt; that in another house in Ardee he
wised anothsv quantity, of about 40 barrels; net
baring acka sulleient to convey it away, lie set*
to Carricitasacross fur then', ertuch he got intme-
disiteiy filled, and put on can premed for that pur-
pose ; that as he was laurelling out of the town,
escorted by a serjeant and-Metre dragoons. he heard
two abets tied from the right heal side of the road;
going a little farther en, he heard three or four
more, one of which raised the ground a tittle be-
t% ire him. lie could plainly perceive peepk be..
bind the hedge, one of whom had a `due coat,white
waistcoat, ant a cross-belt and bright musket We
also saw a tall man firing by himself, with a dark
gnu; anal. es taming round, observed the pnsoner
waving his hand. burzeing. he. and a
eisialber behind hita ini the CM,. Wand
and his party still proceeded about a quarter of a
durims which time he heard above twenty
ahem tired : he could not say who fired them, nor
when exactly Forties was killed, as he was at the
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fisont af the party. and Forbes at the rear; that set.
answe wishing to get above ha. Forty, he rodeos
ett, and then waited fur the ears to come on, when
Valid kiatater. adu mectui•who had been aunded
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the_leg, rode by him and fell. The firing dill
continuing. he ressfaced to abusakth the twat. ;
l'horints gyruins, a privoceSu sail regiment, cow.
IrOberwied the foreg.ing facts, sad tiard•that was;
sitar Forbes when 'l,e received a ballin his breast....
and instantly fell. lie identified replier', Gunnel,.
sad .lainee M.Cirau, as. being among therioters •'•
he saw them come f7eta the field intothe rued, anti,
fire up through hir, party:, Forbes 1.,11 intratillataly ;
that when he fell, Witne,s wished to go to his as-
sistkaer; but was prcv:rnted bj, the tire confirm-
; that David limiter was of the party, who,
after the prisoner, had tired, rode oil wounded in
the leg that' MiCtean (lariat-tiled anus
and ammunition; that he threw his pistol on the
ground; end prisoner Gunnel. took his sword.—
lie could diatingiiisls none but the three—the mob
were' huzzailig, &c. and at length carried off the
matt.

William Loughhea•l, a private in said regiment.
corroborated most of these facia, but ideutitisal only
Pepper and Gunnel to have been horse
was shot under him.

Andrew Marshall, a private in said regiment,
said he saw three men rush out, but could only
dentify M.Lean ns having fired ; he saw :garlic°
(on Forives's falling) hazes and shout.
William Young, a private in said regiment, iden-
tified Pepper and C;u:itiel.
:* David Hunter, a private in said regiment, said
he was wounded in the leg by a ball tired from the
mob ; could identify. none.
Itolocrt Wilkins, %private in the Louth Militia,
said he knows all the l'risoners; saw Pepper and
,Porter at the end of the town, armed; in a few mi-
lutes after, from the direction they took, he heard
the shots fired.

Thomas Phillips, a private in the Scots Greys.
corroborated the runner evidence, and identified
Gunnel and Pepper, who forced hien away when he
was endeavouring to assist or curry off Forbes.
Here the prooecntion closed.--Sevend Witnesses
were produced for the Prisoners, but they did not
-prove any thing material ; they went chiefly to
'prove• soury doubt+ and contradictions the soldiers
expressed on their former examinations, and also
an alibi; but thi-, making an alloehmee of fifteen
or twenty minutes, did not appear ineonsistrat
with the soldiers' evidence.

The Lc .reed Judge having summed up the esi-
'dence w.th hia well-known ability and impartial
love ofjnaice, the Jury wired for a short time.
and retuened with a verdict or Guilty, against
Thomas Pepper. Joseph Gunnel, and James
*Clain, and repatted the other two Prisoners.
The Judge. in a mo,t impressive appeal to the
feelings of the unhappy tnen, to make locare with
their offended God, during the short time they
had to live, and which arrested the attention of
every person in Court. pronounced the dreadful
.enteibee of the law. These ill-fated men, whose
genend chseteters were respectable, are to be exe-
cuted on Mo.olay neat, and their bodies sent to the
Louth Hospital for dissection.