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fit ronscipicnce of representation, from Lord Viscount
Sydney and Lord Witi. Gorden, the Itangrrs of Si James's
and the fliers Parks, of the disorderly conduct of persona,
bids men slid WIIII/Cll, Sir Nathaniel Conant issued a sestets
warrant to Perry, Nicholls, and ushers of the Park consta-
bles, to apprehend all reasons of a disorderly description
found iu she two Parks on Sunday might, between eleven
and one o'clock, whets they apPreliended no less than folly.
erect; mess, women, girls, and buys, in the Parks, and con-
fined them in differesit watch-houses, and brought them to the
Offiee yesterday morning, when they displayed me molly a
group probably as ever was beheld ; some of the men ware
very respectably, and even elegantly dressed, others most
filthy, and some with scarcely rags or cover them. One of
the females had the appearance of a hossemaid iii a gentle.
man's family; others, some of them way could be called
children, nod several far advanced is years, of a most atom.
domed am ription, nightly resurtiog to the Parks fur the most
indecent purposes with area and buys.
The (enterice of the Park coutatiles and keepers went
to prove their aftesillairce awl exersiuos to prevent disorderly
persons resorting in the Parks, but ins accwort of their ex-
tent, while they were suppressing them iii one part, the
disorders were committed in others, and if they drove Ibe
persons out of owe gale they entered at
Among those apprebewied 1114 Sunday night, who could
give • reasonable stemma of themselves, sorb as being
locked out of their klgirep, Sm. and the officers not having
seen then, improperly its the Park before, the Magistrate
discharged them with admonitions.
A fellow of the name of Galilee wee recognised u • well-
know is thief by Humphreys and several others.
A man of a respectable appearance, whir was fused in the
grove in the Green Palk, staled him same to he Madeira,
that he %Vasa atraoger to London, lost was a lodger with a
Mr. Marl in, in Imilzate.sireet, he hi ing in London un hasti-
ness, and was a bookseller iu Dieblio, which be nuilertuok to
more.
'llw most extraordinary rhararters were James Welch,
alias Jerome IYrich, b dreorM Mortimer, end James Mertmed,
alias Sof Foe, who were appreliendeal is the walk leading to
the Pagmlo-bridge, wills another inau in their company,
who Milk his escape from the officers on their approach
towards them.
The roomer Prisoner, who is well known as Jemmy Welch,
was were fai.h Illy dressed ; she arrogant he gave of him-
self us., that lie lodged at 43, North-place, Gray's Isis-lane,
and said it was foisr years some Ire cater from the West
Indies. and Este 110 other account of himself.
Tl.e latter Prisoner persiord ihst his name was Steward,
loud Iwo Fox, by •hieh he hail hero convicted as oue of the
can:, :and pilloreti.
They were nil iii.leied to lie committed as rogues and va.
pawed* Mr 14 dais, or to find hail.

YORK ASSIZES'.
THURSDAY, JULY 16.
POISONING.

The trial of Knght:on ramie on this morning at
nine o'clock, and occupied nearly the whole Court
was 1111r0f0 ly crowded.
Counsel fur Slit Proweolion, Mr. IVlLLtarta and Mr.
GRAY; fur She Prisoner, Mr. MAUI►,. and Mr. CROPS.
The Prisoner vas charged with orvliciou.ly uilnsinisteriut
a quantity of deadly poison, vie. weenie, with an intrut to
murder Joseph lkol.wurili, of Arkeiiihale, uoThnraday, the
4616 of March la.l. _

Mr. WILI.IANi opeile4l the cogent, tie part of tbe prose-
cution. The iirrt witswas rani it was _ .

Joseph Uodaworth, who was an ill, in conaermence of the
poison which had been administered to hint, that be was nn-
aids to stand, and he gave his eviolorwee seosusl in the Gravel
Jury boa. He stated that he was loving, in March last,
at Arkeortale—be lived with his father, Thomas Dus-
worth, who has two children, himself and his sister, who
is married to the Po i,ouer. His father was possessed of
some laud, freehold and copylould, consisting in the whole
of about eleven acres—witness was nut iu possession
of any of the laud. Witness wee married the last Christ-
mas; and sub.cqueot to his marriage the Prisoner and
his wife lived with his father. lout they quilled tits house
vu his mars Mgr. Ou the 26th of March, witness and
the Poisoner *mot to Bursoughbridae fur some coals:--w
their return they called al a pulolie.house at Minskip, where
they had sum: bier. After having the puhlic-boisse, the
Prisoner took out of his pocket a peony roll, from which be
broke a small Mere. and gave the remainder to the wituess,
who oh. ol upon the broken part something which hail the
appearance of flour ; son his remarking this to the Primmer,
he said the roll hail soot been properly II oko 11. Witness then
ate the bread. Allo r proceeding aAM diIdAIICC, the Prisoner
and the witness plfieti, the former going to Arkeoolale, sad
the latter to Knotreslooruugh. ll itsieso hail suet proceeded

far before he was taken extremely ill ; hia stomach swelled,
and hr became very sick, and vou,ited repeal. illy. When he
as rived at Koaresliormigh he was so silt that he was Obliged to
lay down in the and he had to be c•iiveyed part of
We way room Knarestwroisgh lu Arkewisie in a rare When he
gut home he went its ttttt••diately ttital the prisoner
Malls after came to visit him; he seens...l much concerned for
him : shortly after the prisoner fetched • mint osier,
which wax given to Lisa by his wife, and oloch he isansedi-
ately 11,1111e,1 (lam Isis st ttttt Thong:is Ilaw was seat to
Btientozlihridge for slr. Seilaw irk, a surgeon of that place,
his dui him goo.l. Mr.Seilgo iek visited hint in the spurn.
lime, and ordered him some nseiheine, *hurls they were tu
send for to Burintalthridge ; nod Wm. liaighison, the pri-
soner, said he had his to to linrimghltrielge, and he would
bring the medicine to Westfield Gail., from which it was to
be fetched by his falher-itsdaw. Al t half paid eleven
o'clock she medicine was brought by his faiheein-law, who
gave it tu Isis "site. The ineiliciise was shaken up before it
was given to him. As soon as he had taken it his sickness
was thermal:lJ. The medicine was given to him three times,
and each lime it was attended wish increased pain and con-
tinued vuenitior. On the folios lug day another medicine
was received, which did him good. II is illness was severe,
and produced
Witness, on his ex...domino, 'mid lie had given the Pri-
inner a promissory some for MU hot which was not payable
until the strolls of the witheses fatls,r. Witness hail not
been in an infirm slate Of health previous to the 2511. March.
Mrs. Dodsworth is wife of the last witness. Osi the 2fith
of :Mauch her husband was brinettid lame ill, about five
o'clock, and immediately put to tied. bhr maw the Prisoner
shunt an hour and ia half afterwards: her father-isidaw Jr.
sued hini to Fitch some mint-water, which be did, and
brought it in a •mall pitcher. Wit mesa pot it into a temenp,
and told the Prisoner that it looked eery thick and muddy;
Iv a Melt he replied, that he got it at Mrs. Wehattes, who
said, that it was all she hail, and poured it from the bottom
of what she had it in. Prisoner wrist up into the room; be
desired her to pot slime anger in it, nod to stir it well, sad
he was sure it would du him good. Witness then gave
it to her husband, who drank it; it made him very sick,
and he ejected it almost immediately. A doctor was sent
for after the Prisoner was gone Thema,. Haw was Mai for
Mr. Sedzwick, of Borouglihridge : he Mil not come, bat
Haw brought hark a draught and bolus, which were giver
to her husband; they appeared to settle his stomach, and
give him a little ease. Mr.Seilgwick cams the next morning
by seven o'clock, who said some person must fetch the me.
divine (rum IL glibridge. Prisoner came in soon after,
and witness told him they had some persists to send to Bo-
ruughbridge fur the medicine : he *mil he was goialg, and
*mold bring it as far as Westfield Gale : his hither was to
meet him there, as he was Ruing to litiaresburough with coals.
Her brought a bottle 'mil six small powders,
about half-past I I, and gave them to witsiess. There was.
label, that two sable spoonfuls and one of the powders should
lw taken every four hones. It was a Clear medicine, of a
pink colour, with Mille white powder at she bottom, Which
remelted about toff an inch: the curt was nut tied, our was
there any paper over it. Her father-tie-law directed het to
shake the bottle : she did so, awl them gave her husband two
table spoonfuls of the liquid, and a powilet mixed wish it.
She repeated the medicine three liana, the effect of "shirts
was her husband was air* each lime. Witness put the re-
mainder of the medicine in a small drawer in the room—
nearly half temaisied. Some other medicine was brought
that day by Thulium Steel, which was ticcn to his husband f

it was a draught, to he given all at pile : this medicine gave
her hastiiind ease. Witness saw Iturzhtemi when ire return-
ed from Knaresborough, in the revalue after her husband
had taken the draught : he asked her how her husband
middle told him that Re bad bees very ill all that day, after
taking the medicine brought by him, anal that she hail nut
given him any shore of it ; when the Prisoner add they had
dime wrung; they ought to Lave continued it, fur changing
the medicine always made persons worse and this was the
cause of his twine so tileiry Her husband bas continued
ill ever since. On the Ise of April she cremated some veal
broth for her husband's sapper: it was iutended only fur
her husband. It was put on the fire, in the kitchen, between
six and seven iu the evening. William Knightsou came
into the house *haat the brush was on the tire, she saw
him there. The room in which her husband was is over
the kitchen ; anal she heard the Prisoner ask her father
what was in the pau ; to which her father replied, that she
(the witness) was snaking some veal broth for Joseph's
nipper. Witness went down to the kitchen, and found bee
father, Juhu Haw, aual the Prisoner, there. iluightrun asked
her bow her husband was. She got a candle, and looked into
the pan at the broth ; sow a while scum, a Lich she look ME:
she then tasted the broth—it affected her mouth very much,
but sloe did nut mention it to her father or Roy person then,
supposing that the had taken a spoon %%hid' laud been used
with the medicine. She changed the spoon, and got some oat-
meal to thickets the broth with. Win. Kuightsion went nut
at this time. Witness put the oatmeal in, and let it buil ;
she then tasted it again, and it Rail the same effect upon her
mouth as before. She asked her father to taste the Moth;
be dial so, as did also John Haw. Witness was much ma's et-
ed with sickness and pain in her stomach, though she did not
take a table-spoonful of it. Witness was ill several hours.
Her father and .1. Haw also complained. The broth was Put
into a dish, and preserved for Mr. Serlgwick to look at it : it
was put into a closet in the kitchen—it 'was not. locked.
Mary Haw came into the kitchen, mad looked at the broth in
the closet. The broth was found the next morning in the
same situation in which it had been left, and witness *hewed
it to Mr. Serligwiek ; when, in consequence of abet Mr. S.
said to her, she took it to Mr. Lambert, of Knare-borough,
drugging, and left it with him; she delivered it to Mr. Lam-
bert himself. Witness shelved the bottle of medicine to Mr.
nedgwick, ow the following day (the 311 of April) ; the dreary
from which she took it was ill tier husband's bedroom, anal
she found the drawer in the same situation in which she had
left it. She gave.the bottle to Mr. Seclgwiek ; it was nearly
half full. No other persons had been in the room except
Mary Haw, Thomas Haw, her father, anal Was. Knightsun,
anal none of them persons had been left alone in the a OUIII.
witness received a parcel from John Haw, sealed with two
seals, a few days after she hail delivered the medicine to Mr.
Sedgwiek, directed to Dr. Murray, of Ketareshorimell, anal
seat it the next morniug, by John Haw, to Knareshorungli.
CVO. IS. !Milk ed by Mr. MA UDR.
_ .

She lived with her sister about two months hi fore she was
married; bad lived at Hull Iwo years, hut was out in service
all the time; had lived its Turk before she lived iu Hsll—was
in service all that time; did not receive the mint-water from
her tether, but from the Prisoner ; observed a while skim at
the lop of the broth; her father and J.Haw were sittiueover the
fire; her sister came back with her, but was nut hft in the
house a meat alone ; there is it small kitelsete but the
witness had no occasion to go into it. Her sister went away
about ten o'clock. Witness admitted that it was possible
some persona might have come the house in her Oren-
the Prisuiter always expressed sorrow at the
illuesa of her husband; the Prisons r lived a short distance
from them ; his wife never visited her husband.
Thomas raudawmili, the father of Joseph Doilsworth,
swore that Knighton') delivered a bottle of medicine 11/ him
on the 28th of Marsh fur Isis sou, awl told him that it amiss)
he shaken a little before she medicine was given. This but.
tie be delivered to his ilaughter-in-law, for the nse of le r
husband. lit :tower to a question from the Judge, lie said
the Prisoner was in the ruom when the broth was making,
but he believed that he did nut put any thing iu it.
Mr. Seilgivick. a surge n at Itsirunglibridgr, attended
Joseph Duilaworth on the morning of Ile gOth of Match, and
fisund him labouring mailer such symptoms as the taking of
as sesiic would have produced. He Prnt I a saline mixture
by the Prisoner, but there was nothing iii it which could
either produce sickness or a Vedirtlellt. Ohl a subsequent
visit, the bottle in which lie had sent the medicine was sheen
to him, and he found by experiments, that arsenic bad been
mixed with she medicine.
Dr. Murray, of borareshornisgh confirmed the evidence of
Mr.flectgwick ; and Mr. Mark Lambert, a druggist at Keares.
borough, swore that he sell the Prisoner a quarter of a pound
of arsenic, which he gar was for his father to destroy rats.
A person of the name of Gee, who accompanied the Pri-
soner to the droiegiat's shop, confirmed this evidence. Ms s.
Webster, the person who sold the mint-water, said it was
perfectly clear and transparent when she gave it to the
Prisoner.

Jane Hardy, John 112 M, suit Ambrose Heath, were called
to trace the trausfer of the bottle to Dr. :V al ray, of Knarts-
borough.
Ms.. Webster lives at Arkendale, near to Dodsuorlh's.
She stilted that the tnint-rater which she give In the
pri-
soner, was perfectly clear and irmisparent; ►he tasted of it,
and it was perfectly good : she hail about three quarts iii
the bottle, front which she puttied it out.
This witness finished the c4b4: on th: part of the prosecu-
tion.

The Prisoner being rolled upon fur his defence, said, he
hatl nothing to say—be should lease his defence to his
Counsel.

Or the part of the Pi isuner the following witnesses were
examined:—

William Pm.ley, farmer, Slainhorn, knows the Poisoner,
who gave him a mall parcel in the latter end of March, on
a Saturday, to carry to his father, who lives at that place
and which he delivered to him.

Six neighbours of the Primmer, all very respectable per-
SOUS, gave him a remarkably g .041 character.
His Lordship summed rip lire evidence with great care
and perspicuity, dwelling n pm, r very circumstance favoura-
ble to the Prisoner, and strongly charged ilw Jury to dimities
from their minds any previous opinion they might have
formed tot the subject.
The Jury retired fur about half on hour, and, on their re-
turn, pruausinced the fatal ve►dict of Gmillg.
Mr Justice A v, the most impressive terms. imme-
diately passed semester of death upon. the Prisoner, who
seamed hue affected by the awful ceremony than most of dm
spectator., o: than tlw humane Judge who hid this painful
duly to perform. His Lurddrip said, the salience would be
carried into full effect.

The Prisoner is a Kowl•looking young man. NO motive,
but that of avarice, rail lie asmigued fur three iliabolleal at-
tacks upon the hie of his broilier-iss.law, by 'douse death his
wife would have succeeded to a small freehold soil copyhold
proprty belonging to old Godsworth, and us 1111:4 hr pi/soared
only a life Men st iu.
One of those disgraceful scenes, which have been too fre-
quently exhibited in the metropolis, occurred 011 Thursday
seinsight at Penzance. A shoemaker, named William
George, having good reason to believe that too close au in.
timacy subsisted between his wife mid a Mr. Comets, which
cameo, much mutual disagreement, determined, with the
consent of the woman, to lead her fur ask to the mai ket
place in appropriate piropheroalis, and as she possessed
some personal attractions, he hail nu doubt of obtaining a
tolerable price fur her. On their way to the market they
stopped at a public-house, where the offer of half-a-guinea
by a grocer proved too tempting to be refused. The money
was paid, and the bargain completed, with this proviso, that
the purchaser should nut dispose of his new acquisition to
Carman, who was present. To evade the Weal of this con-
ditiou, the grocer traustlrred his right and title in a man
named Carbio, fur fifteen shillings; sail the latter in a few
minutes resigned the frail fair one, for twenty shillings, to
the very Caruso against whom her hnsba hauli 11/. so 'patriot
an objection. The money was Immediately paid, and the
'purchaser protested that he would Nut take twenty guineas
fur big bargain. We are assured Mat Carman possesses mon
aiderahle property!—'bat be ism a wife and several that.
den !!—and that he declares be would rather purchase a
good wife ever so dear, than have a bad one fur nothing!!!
Who wall wow say that we du not manage these things ben
ter is Cornwall than they are managed in any other part of
the kingdom, sot excepting the Capital itself!—( Comicial
&malt

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