The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-03 00:00:00

14i17. NATIONAL 1tt3G15,711.12.

A letter from the Cupe of Good Hope, dated the 6th
of May, str.tes, that by an areival there front Calcutta,
accounts were received of the 20th of February, " thus
Lord Hastings had signed a peace with I-lolkar and
S:iu►lia:l, and that the troops were ordered into can-
tonments."

We give this day, a full and interesting account of
the trial of Humey, at Maidstone, for the murders of
r..r. Bird and hislousekeeper, ut Greenwich. After a
very long and patient investigation, the crime was
brought.honte to the wretched m;:n, in a manner, so
satis.::,:tory to the Jury, that tiicy .:most immediately
rc:•.:::ic verdict of— (;J:ii.t.;;,

Dfc-ronnAsrees AT :\IANCItErr CR, &C.—The follcw-
ing is front the Cheskr Chro:tide received yesterday.—
We arc sorry to learn, that most alarming symptoms
of insubordination have been manifested by the discon-
tented catton-spiuners, Re.—Throughout the whole of
the week, they .have assembled in great .numbers—
some say to the amount of tenor twelve thousand men'
—and paraded the sheets of Manchester ; and .it is
supposed, from fitods previously formed, they have been
enablA to provide themselves with foal. The ingis-
tracy, however, have not hem-inactive; they have been
preparing fur a more alarming change, which was fully.'
expectei to tul:c place, when the money which they
mist 1 was exhausted. Accordingly, measures %acre•
taken t' cs::eitible the military immisliately, iu.case of
necessity ; and tir this purpose, routes were lodged in
the hands of several of the Magistrates by the Coin-.
mender-in-Chief of the District, directing the concen-
tration of a considerable force. These precautionary
steps, it would seem, have not been unnecessary ; for
this. morning, an order was received tirs the immediate
march of a strong detachment of the 95th regiment, in
garrison here ; and at a quarter past one this day, .they
marched past our office en their way to Manchester,
via Warrington. The precise c. tuse of this movement is
not known here."

We are happy to add, however, that no disturbances
have uatually broken out at %lancheiver, or its ti:lgh-
bourhood ; but, in vonsequencesof -the continuance of
!;m> large a body of journeymen voluntarily out of employ,
the Magistrates of Manchester have thought it prudent
to have military force near at hand, lest any riot s!iofilml
break out ; and at their deice, Sir John Byng has de-
tached some troopi to oancliester and its vicinity.
Flanders and. Dutch mails to the 28th tilt. bring the
curious, and perhaps we might add, unexpected intelli-
gence, that his Grace the Duke of Wellington has sac
seeded in his appeal against M. Bu:;s:lier, author of
the libel upon Lis Crace ; the Court of Cessation, in its
sitting of Monday last, haviOg reversed the judgment
of the tribanal at Ghent, :mud declared that the article
which is the subject of yrosecution does " bear the
character of calumny." The Court, therefore, sen-
tences M. f.fasscher to a month's ieiprisonment, to in-
terdiction of his civil rights fur five years, to a tine of
twenty five florins, and to •the costs of the two trials,
in lieu of damages. A clause of the punishment, is us
follows:—" Fire hundred copies of the sentence may
be printed, at the expense of M. Buss-her, in what-
ever part of the kingdom the Duke of Wellington shall
please."
The French papers just received crintz:n a letter pro-
fessing to be from the head quarters at Cumbray;
whit!. asserts positively, and indeed somewhat angrily,
that, in spite of every thing stated to the contrary by
the English journals and other papers, the army of
Occupation will quit France towards the end of Sep-
-tember or beginning of October.
A letter from Rum: states, that the Coont de St.
Lea (Louis Buonaparte) has instituted an action for
divorce against • his wifo, before the Court called the
Congregation del Uncilio. Such is the secrecy with
which the process is carried on, that silence is imposed
on all persons concerned with the proceedings, under
pain of excommunication. It is said that the Countess,
who is at present at the baths of Pisa, will not employ
any counsel, but that the dcfcntor cr-of.cio
will merely oppose the action pro forma.
By advice* received front Rio Janeiro to the 18th of
May, we learn, that on the 25th of the preceding month
a royal decree was issued, establishing a new tariff of.
duties upon various commodities imported into the Bra-
', ails. Wines and brandies, Portuguese and foreign, are
the articles chiefly atfeeted by.the tariff. the duties on
port wine de-Feitoria, in lieu of all former iniposts' are
12,000 reis per pipe, port wine do Ramo 10,000, Ma-.
deira .12;000, all other Portuguese wines 9,600. brandy.
20,000, bottled liqueurs per dozen 800. Foreign wines
per pipe 85,000 reis, bottled 1,600 reis per dozen,
brandy 50,000, bottled liqueurs 12,400 reis per do-
zen, and foreign vinegar double the former duty. The
foreign wines, Sec if imported in Portuguese vessels,
and fur Portuguese account, will be entitled to a dis-
count of 25. per cent.—Englishman.
Mr lacletlon Las written to a theatrical friend em
Lendon, signifying his intention 4)t returning to los
native country in a very short time. During his stay
in America, he bas made about 50007.

Au:a.

We mentioned in our last tout a cmmis:•ioa had beta
appointed under the Cheat Sind to inquire into the
h.st means of preventing the forgery of Bank-notes.--
We walerstand that among the plans.tilreadysubmittel
to the Conunission is a r,:_w.one, which appears to
of a very simple and .enitucions nature. Acc.nding to
this plan, the words necessary to express the obligatiori
to pay the 'bearer cf the note are to be white, on n
black ground, but the black ground to consist of lines
of letter-press, ..composed with a•ery small type• of a pe-
culiar fount ; the face of the eln.ractr being male as
large as the body, the.lines of the ground will appear
compact and regular, and will still be perfectly legible
wLen -c/usely examined. The whole letter-pros may
form eithera single story, or a collection -of &Allelic,'
sentences. 'I he words of the premissury part of the
note are to be produced by cuttinz the letters out or
the black ground, so that when the note is printed,
the white char..eters will cross the black lines in a great
number of places ; the. points of intersection will ~Le
easily recognised by the public in cousNuence of the
words through which they will pass being known, and
thus a inean3 of detecting forgery on inspection will ho
afiiirded

On Monday laFt a private order was issued by till
'Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, to susiwn.l fur
the present the issuing of sovereigns and half-sow-
reigns, and to substitute guineas and silver in lieu
•thereof.

TIIIAL OF TIIE Monday the usual core-
many on this business took phtce. The Lord Chau
tailor, and several members of the Privy Count il, met
at ten o'clock, at the Exchequer, to swear in the Jury
(who are taken from the Court of Assistants of the
Gol !smiths' Company). After the Lord Chancellof
had given the charge, they adjourned to the Court or
the Duchy of Lancaster. As the monies to Le enunted
and weighed were very considerable, the charge was
not so long as timmrly, and must of the gentlemen had
been lately on the same business. It was tour o'clock
.before the assays were reported. The quantity of gold
and silver melted was 21b. each, taken, in certain pro-
portions of the pie,xs of the coin, promiscuously from
the monies thund in .the Pix, which amounted,

In gold, to C. 4.1 i sovereigns. 2,,219 halt ditto, and the gold coined
was 15,434,(!:. bewsen July 15, 11417. and Ju:.c. IBIS.
The silver incw.(-, waste,93,:hall.etowt.s. 3,447 shillings.
1.518 ?ix}•ercc.; silver witted between the 3d of Juoe. 1317, a. 1,1.
IM.y 41. ISIS. 1.50,9621.
Nlnking a total. lueluding the trial, tlth July, 1817-6ohl.
7,1:::7.;t11.; Silver, 4„:46,0;014 beside ealb. weislit of Maun,ly
I- om, s.

Toe assay!: were tried against-the standard pieces in
the Exchequer, and wer. found to agree with them to
the greatest exactness. It appears that the remedy is
net so large as formerly, as such, the gre.tes cure is
necessary, or the Master of the Mint might be serious.
ly injured by a loss on the coinage. Tins is thelarpst
coinage ever e:tecated at his Majesq's Mint. fho
Lord Chancellor ieceived the Jury's Report at Gold-
smith's Hall, and with other members of the Privy
Council, as also the officers of the Mint, &e. dined kith
the Warden and Jury at the someplace.

THE HARVEST.—Accounts from every quarter of
the kingdom state the commencement of the harvest—
this week it will be general—in most parts the crops of
wheat are described as cacellent —new oats of prime
quality sold at Cork Monday lust, ntSOs. p. r barrel—
the seed for these oats was ploughed in the 2d of Oct-
taher, 1817—new wheat was sold at Guildfora Satur-
day, at 265. per cuacter—a sample of acts' 1,•11c:;:.
produce of the island of Portsea, weighing 611bs. per
bushel, exhibited at the Royal Oak, Portsea, ThuritLy
-.+4 wheat rick was .made on Saturday week at the
residence of E. Siincan, Esq. near Hyde, Isle of Wight,
:which is earlier than recollected during a period of 47
years.—A fine samplo of cats exhibited at IVeatlierby
market, Yorkshire ; the grower reported he should
have eight quarters an acrc.—A Ical
was on the 113th ult. brought to Iteaniog ra-.1
sold fur.B4s. per -quater by Mr. T. Stephens, of !...taplc-
durhain, Oxon.

A rumour was very prevalent on Saturday, that an
embargo had been laid on Spanish vessels at tlelvan--
natl. We have seen letters from that place, dated the
;sth June ; which, so flr from confirming that rumour,
assert, that the.Govcrnor bad declared his intention not
to interfere in any way with the intercourse between
that port and the United States, until he should receive
instructions on the subject from the Spanish Govern-
men t.—Englidunan.
The following is an extract from the agent fcr
Lloyd's at Bourdeaux, dated July 25:—" A ilrge
armed schooner, said to be the General Arismendi, of
Buenos-Ayres, and commanded by Captain WEson, of
13altimore, arrived cm the 23d inat. at l'ouillac. The
Commander, with one of his officers, came to Bourdeaax
yesterday, and dispatched immediately a courier to Faris.
lie returned to l'ouillac directly after, and is waiting
for un answer to his dispatch, which, it is reported. is
from the Government of Buenos Ayres. We under-
stand that no commu icution is permitted with the
s homier

Ahursday the Eagle cutter, Lieut. Pogson, captured
t. e Aurora sinugg:ing vessel. belonging to Roobuster,
laden with dry goods to the awount of 10,00 CL

MI

THE DRAMA.

HAVMARKE'I"ri!EATRE.

The Merchant of realer was played '.sera -on Tues-
day night, and introduced Mr. IV mae in ~.S'Oyloefr. His
scene with Tmial was very well executed,. and the
;11dgment Scene contained some masterly poi:at:, which,
if strewed a little more thinly, will soon introduce hint
to the foremost ranks of his profession. Mrs. Glorzr
played Portia with great judgment awl kteling: ne
regret to state, that this deserving actress was se'ae,l
with a sodden -indisposition, near the tern-tin:l;lc n of
the fourth .act, which fer a short time suspended the
p •- •
erfoatan-eI and afterwards went through th s. ploy
Isith extreme difficulty. The sympathy of the audience
vas much excited by this event. Tokely was very
happy in Launcelot Gosbo, and Jones's Gratioeso was•
-eseremely gay and spirited ; the representativ e •of the
AO:ike was net comme 11 faut, the tace was a little
Thorn of its dignity. The rest of ch, play west respcet..
ably cast.

TRIAL. OF HUSSEY,

10k THE AILTROP.I( OF MR. RIM) AND M.
SIAINION • %T GREENWICH.

NIAIDSTINE, VnbAT. AUX al.

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The Court was this ,norning enr.vtleel at an early
_hour by .people attracted by the interest of Ilusseis
against whom a true 101 l was !build on'Wednesdny
fee the murder of M'. Bird and his housekeeper, ut
Greenwich, on the 7th of February lust. littesey was
brought to the bar mid arraigned un two indictments.
far the murder of 11.1 r. Bird and his maid-servant.
The prisoner was well deeeeed in a black coat and
waistcoat, and mixed pantaloons, and appeared com-
posed, both in his manner of entering the Court, mid
in his mode of anewering the questions put tallim on
his.arraignment_ lie is rac►ter a tail man, with a mild
fool:leg countenance, and possessing much the app.eir-
awe of a person above his rank in life.
When the Clerk of the Arraign& put to him the
usual questions, " guilty or not guilty,- and how would
he be tried, hennswered with u firm tone, and with
something like a practised manner, " Not Guilty," and
he would be tried by God and his country.
He was accused, as is stated in his arraignment, of
the murder of Mr. Mid, of Greenwich, by giving him
several mortal blows en the hotel on •aturday the 7th
of February last. A model of the premises was exhi-
bited in Court, representing the situation of Mr. Bird's
house with respect to the academy where Hassey de-
posite•l his box with Litton, and the other buildings
mentioned in the eviden,!e. The plan was on a large
scale, but the Court remarked .that if not necessary it
would rather tend to perplex .and.distract the minas of
the Jury than to enlighten theta
Mr. Sergeant Ouslow, in a luminous statement, de-
tailathe circumstances of the case, gave a connected
view.of the evidence which 'he was to bring forward,
showed how it bore against the prisoner, examined the
weight of every part.ef it, and laid it before the Jury
in a very methodical and distinct manner. He dwelt
particular►y car •the late discovery of the hammer, and
the evidence • which contradicted the statements
made by Hussey in his own defence, both in his ex-
amination befiire the Magistrates, and in two letters
found on his person when apprehended, the one ad-
dressed to Mrs. Walmaley, the mistress of the Tiger's
Head Publie House at'Greenwich, and•the other to his
brother. Those•tetters stated, that he had embarked for
America, though he was then in Oxfordshire—in the
heart of England ; and tied lie had been all the Sa-
turday niglit,frome7 o'clock downwards,when theinur-
der was committed, at the Tiger's Mealnimonrdie
t4ociety.that met there, called the lodge of Odd Fe lows.
This last statement he wouhl disprove by the evidence
of persons who were there.
•I'he whole evidence, he reminded the Jury, was
circumstantial ; but according to a trite obxrvation,
circumstantial evidence was sometimes stronger than
direct testimony, as circumstances could not be so easily
falsified. I helearned Sergeant prozeedel to ca!! 1% it-
.nes:;es.

..itvio.ut lake some plate out of the lontrao, obit* was
n.

o.o%l6ex:omitted by Mr. Kolan.—lt was at), • ”ne o'clork
trial he we ut if. Mr. Binh,. Tile 11.1111.1 r had bel u
broken a• if Ma: y •itouumus had laid hold of it. There were
several wound. 1.11 1,,•r head, made apparently by a bl wt it..
stl timelir. Jr. ILA n ot% iu the rat kur ; poke net-,
empty, bnt not turned altogether out. All i!,e plarots whirr
he i.l.tered aopealed to have bees examined. lie enosloi
say so of the bark parlour. The thivf, whoever he was, int,ot
have inspected the rooms

Examined ,iy Camino-is Serge:int.—Richard Smith is aV,
Citrate. Heard of the discovery of the murder about oi.o
nick, iinasediately idler morning service. when he was Us
tli.• vest,) room. He then wtnt immediately to the bowie,
where he erased in abort two minutes. Mr. Timms', the
last witness, let him in. Lie described the house. H.- observ-
ed a W. 1111.111 lying on the floor in the passage. 'there was
much blond on the door, which was spread over it by the
,nosing of the .body. The body lay in the way to the fro, t
door. Her Lead lay just at the foot of the-staircase, and he
noticed that the lower banister was broken, and this masts
,iart whirls could oat be laid bold of by a person in an erect
I».ition. There was a candle lyintt, near the body in the hall
which :vat aged new, only to have been 114hted and then
blown old. He went into Mr. Bird's parlour, f taint Ur. Bid
lyiug on his back evidently dead, Ii fee' near the (Idal.
scarcely enough to let the their open, and Ills he of near the
fare place below a chair. e was .1 little tab.e upset ht.
hind the door, and ua the table steer his head %I.:mess saw a
pocket souk. Toe spectacles lay net the ei tt.e
pockets appeared to base heels and. •edi,
he found below the door of the parlour the mask of a Ilaalalers
which had just grazA the lints I. nail left the Hatt k of blood.
He marked ,rectal wounds on the bodies of both, apparently
inflicted by the saute instrument ; sonic of the %sounds being
seemingly inflicted by a hammer head, and the others mo-
derately sharp end. lie saw the hamini I sate' nerds, and
such an lost :•111111.1it lutist Boor been employed to inflict these
wo n Is. There were several wounds on the head oldie vita-
min,, and on Mr. Bird's. The skull of Mr. Ilird was fractured.
Witness went .up stairs, tryst 4110 lb:. Saadi It a 1111 roor..
where "li. Bird hail a bureau desk. -He thosight that a pet.
4011 sitting near the window of this roam, as lie mast do when
the flap of the desk was down, might be seen tN ni the 1 iger's
'flume was a small table with a portable desk neon it
nearer to the window. The flap of the bureau was down
when witness stew it. Many papers were scattered alma
on it, and some down oat the floor. They appeared to have
been scattered about as if stone in a hurry to nil.. et tie
drawers. The bureau had a seriet drsu er, trot a huh 51
one pound Batik notes were taken out in the piesenCe Oaf wiS-
mcas. He afterwards saw plate taken out in a iievi roost.
.9:11(11 hoot escapeitthe notice of the person whit, hail pie uttered
the other things. Mr. Bird's bed was made and tame.' down.
in that bed room.there had been the same setteti fin articles
of propm ty, and the same mitifasion as in the othur pea is
• tin" house.' Witness went then to the attics, which
the saute scene of confusion, Witness then examined the
premises on the ground floor, beginning with the back pal-
' lour, and it did not appear to have been entered at all. Thyre
was a sideboard later° with some plate, which had Ina betas
disturbed. After that, witness went to the kitolien, laiale lie
saw thy servant's work on the table, a limier box ins alit table,
and a table cloth en a duair in the room, anal Mr. I.tirePa
slippersattar the fender. 'lv o watches were delivered to
witness on the 13th of .March, by Godw yet, a tidbit at Peek heti,
who represented himself to be prisoner's brother j 3 Wi:.
nes, produced the watches, but could not speak to their pan -
vious ownership. lie was present at tee examination at
Hussey, u hen prisoneremittrd a statement which was taken
down from his lips, by Mr. Biel:Dell, which the prisoner was
recnesteil to sign, but wh:eit he a clitied in do.
Gross-exatnitied by Mr. Adelpleas.—Witness said he I vet
examined the house arid the di ceased persons. le.:lu=.
trade was drawls dow n by a, per.da streiggliugenn the gentled-
, Five rooms laud been ransacked, and at least a dozen .dritweu..
examined. So match had been done that it took witness soux
time to examirie it—about-au hoar. IVitoess said, that Arlie:,
he mentioned that Mr. Bit d's room could be seen from t!
'tiger's Head, he meant from the float of the Tiger's Hear).
and not from any of the rooms ef the it a, He never went i!:;/.,
Ihu tap.toom to try wliethet he conks see from it or not.
Frederick l'ineli is at surgeon. 'Resides at GI eettwich.- -
Went to Mr. 131 rd'S 110.113 e on the Tilt of February last.
found Mr. Bird slaughtered in the twist but ri ble mantle:,
observed two remarkable imliritations on the forth, atkaboh:
the size of a it:a-penny. Ile oh ,esvcd at fracture from 11..,
front to the ocripittim. Auy of the %It:tends would dm ye pro
iisived death, and Ilia pa, lets! bane. the keno had
coped. Ile hail no doubt 1/EA the wounds were inflicted
an instrument, like aMs aintee, wiJu it blunt cutting edge, ::oat
a smooth. He observed ,din the,head of Mary Simmons...-
lie observed a ilepre..slon on the es froutis whi^ii woulai
have produced death. lie obsessed other severe woltuds-s
They werFt es ideut!e ()seduced by tee same instrumeitt as
the wo:iii is were of tee side of flag, eluting edge of the ham-
mer. He had area the hammi r, and lie thought it
would exactly taro dile..! ate monads he liad described. lie

s.tw ;he hani:mrr its the ett Hakes, the eunst.lble,
Ts", s'', v.O" yr" • wott•atit. tl Ist the jugular vein. au.! had *vi.
dently • waiter fror.t•the Nympothy between the head and the
stoottarit.

Cross elm' mina;] by h/r. There wan is member of
blows on b mil ilia der ent.e.: I•cr.t.o.t. He thooalit no lustre
loco! lint A immoter caul.) it„ • thee It • II
Kesitti.; 13.11 Ael.osed, tha.t she lives at GI. I nu it'll .r.
Ist she O%A-tit ,•11501 to gee tu.flr. Etirlra w as-.t.t ;ta •cus!, ;74,
bete itroll,, yteich hviyeuctl welt. o!!12:10.so
";;o• Mr. Bird izener.lll2, t weal
Poo atesit al d simnel lle %%rest •11 bid at. lw o dreg.
o,e oif his rhoes •atter %nigher. e hr.s; the dulls was.r,-
rmoed. Wittet ss et/ended e‘•try, ir.nDnt. -fa Mr. BOW*
tot th.c Monthly helot e :I:* ;:soetle T, nett it*Ll s atilitql
Situ sate InII shit ts I,.rodeee,l Dy Holie%, the csiustalt:e, alst(r
the nottrileis, and !Ile mass t ery AIM* dice 11.1:! •A loth U thten ca
the Joritlo invogiotted. A la....ahem:i.e. ise pro-
duced. which she iltestOtt itir. BitcPs.
Cross •exantiard by .Plr.'Nokau.—Deporrtl that Mr. Biril
was 4 11Vg11141 111411,.4 Vat to Odd at 10,0 leW naikllltts out or
ill, lit. meet 1011 g•
Hwnosh Cooper lie•es on the Woolwich row!. si!ont half smite
fret.' Mr. Birti's house. She r.,5:.! Mr. Biro's 1•.. eon Sattmiay
eight, a little TA. eigia ,eaa ibg:v. She I..ft.e:.
loose at tio'clr:ik, 31,0. aligl!t h.: ..hont minus sn g,iog Ole dis-
tance. Sir know :sir. it,rd Sit, Atokr
WO, n Man ta;kiasou alto was thr•l r. •
saw
Nile moto a, per etly as if toning.
Wi.nist. Neel. VI-dour a4in at 4.11 t ten.u. • • ,loor shits.
and mojamg 1,&:+3t144 etyAlit the NAM. ";:r. Bird quite
wall ; he wee hertather's tantatird.
Cross easy:dried by NI:. ,Nola::.—Deposed that she e.c.;'liwt

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sure whether she took a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes. l'he
Weenies were shut. and the door was open. The man was outside
ti.: door, tie. woman inside. Witness walked on, leaving th parties
in the VISIIIV petition. • She saw Mr. liird a ell enough to know him.
John latent live. at the Greenwites academy ; occupies the two
floors above the ground floor. Is a arsevetchy trade. Was employtd
s. Inane' when the murder happereste iNeti to reeve his home at
8 o'clock te go to the patrol. Has known the prisoner ayt ay. whey
left a Lox at witness's house when he kft his service' in Mr. Steven-
Vansittavet Buildiegs. He carried the box up entire. There
were two pair of etaireases up to the apartments occupied by witness.
The hoe was placed in a room not occupied by WHIleSa. but only
passed throtlgh when going to his bed resin. There was a t'ront
staircase anti a back one. The back one mild be used is going to
tee nano where the prisoner's box ism deposited, but witness did not
keow if the prisoner used it. l'risoner did not live in witmees's hottsc.
he lived at the Tiger's Head. and frequented witness's house, and
knew every pert rtf it ; witness has not the keys of the house, but
merely kelps it till it be let. There are ono deers, one front the front
and the other in the side. There are two. privies, one in the front
place, and another in a place leading into the lane, which has no top;
there I.: a spit near it where the children Intel to play. He never saw
_thy nutting or rubbish in this place that scald have cenecaled a bun-
cii There is a cellar near this, where u person might conceal any
thieg he was dispteeel to conceal. The door of this cellar is always
open. From this cellar one might get up ti the T410:11 where the box 1,
was deposited ; there is a cistern near the staircase that keds up to
the room where the bin; was, always filled with eater. There as a
pump. in the kitchen, which kitchen is not in use. Any person neigh
!raft it without being perceived by witnesc's kepte
his cooper's tools in the lower part, close by the kitchen. He 'sorted
in that place, and had tarts there as well as at the brewer's, lie had
a cooper's hammer in the place near the kitchen before the murder of
Birds which lie missed about ten days or a fortnight before that
event. !female iequirles about it, but could not find it, It was a
pall rivettu:g hammer. It had a poeicolar mark : its handle was
split. Mr. liirkitc!!'s clerk showed him it Ia the presence of the
tonstiVe Hodges. 1!e. bud previously described it to the magistrate*.
and when lie Law it, was Certain it was the same hai iiiii cr. Witness
had frequently seen prisoner come to the box in the room. He never
saw the box upen but once, and their it did not seem half tilled.--
When {tai oner brought it, it was only secured by some packthread.
Witnese, in consequence of what his wife said, took the box, which
was sccttre,l by a strouger cord, to itlrs. Goddard. I/el:tend, who was
a raison»o of the prisoner. Ile removed it about ten days after rite
murder. ft wet heavier than when it came. which witness knew by
taking it 015 priemer'e shenilder. Ile knew prisoner when he was
rwrvant to sir Stevenson, where he eeted a:: and took care of
a gig. which the a toners had seen him washing with water from the
pond where the hammer was find. IVitnesi knew Mr. Smith's
ground, whore the pond is. There was a tree in the corner next to
the main road. Witness heard of the murder on Monday afternoon.
and Saw the prisoner on that afternoon, who came to hi.; house about
2n minutes past three, or half au hour before jeer o'clock. He came
up stairs with winiess's nephew, and stayed till ten minutes pest five,
when he went by the coach, as he said, to his brother's at Peckham.
Prisoner told witness that he had promised tai •• dine wit's his brother,
and if not is time for dinner. he should he iti time for tea." Ile
told witness he leul dined at his washerwoman's, Mrs. Bennet.—
When he first came mer witness's retell, winless seed, 'e Charles,
where have you been. you are quite groggy ?" He said he hail been
at the Tiger's Head me night before, and lied got snore than Ia: wes
used to take. lie said, as ire was going us the washerwoman's. he
met a person of the name of Jesse, and bad part of three pints of hot
at, the Ship and Last, and from that he went to his washerwoman's ;
that he had dined there, anti that lie could do no has. after hoeing
th. eed with lice. than give her eotnething to drink ; that he came from
her to witness's house. The prisoner, after remaining a short time
enth witness, went to his room, and remained fortes minutes. On
des return ht: asked for comething to drink. Witness saw a pair of
gaiters at tie, National School, which were shove, by the Magistrates,
and which he believed to be the prisoner's. Ile remembered a con-
versation
about the gaiters before, when the witness said they did not
fe hint, and he said that he bad bought them from a hostler at the
Prince of Orange, to whom he paid 4s. fin. them.
Cross-examined by Mr. Nolan.—Deposed that he had known the
prisoner %then at Mr. Stevenson's. and heard nothing against his cha-
zeeter. Witness painted out the neon ter the box, and it was not
c;ewen by the prisoner. The house had not been inhabited for 18
months before. tVitneas took charge of the garden, but had not
pr ocularly examined the premises. The hod was not locked, and
mtly neuted at all trines by a cori. 'Eire cord was changed.
hut winless did not notice when. It remained with witness three
renntfts. . _ _ .

Examined by the Coort.—The witness said that lie could depose
t 714 there Was LO Malting or mid:Ws, but only that he saw none
a: vat the corner alluded to.
Maria Litton. the wife of the last witness, deposed, that she remetn-
t!'ted the LOW that I:tomes? the prisoner put into her husband's house.
Slse reinenils. rat the pri,oner's asking hem procure a person to curry
the box ti Mrs. Goddard's. Iler husband did so at her request.
S!ic renwailiered the 'Ow of the hammer, and dic search made tio it
about ten days [vitae the murder. Hussey came to her InAantl's
helix about half-past three o'clock, and remidned till p:wt five.
When she went mu and heard of the murder, th,2re were many
pc :pie about. The pond Was be::11 from the house in Vabsittures-
t. 'ace.
t -rui,-examined by Mr Atioipicis.—Witness deposed that Ilussey
Rue no directions about the person Woo was 1.3 carry the box, but
desired her to get any body. Elie (7'.1 not think that unerring. or
rubbish could be :n the sitiott'nn where tile bundle was said to be
depositA, without her perceiving it.
Lituus, a nephew of the last witness, recollects the Sun-
day when t':e murder was discovered. ll e knows the prisoner, and
went into his oncle's house with bun on ;hat tounday about Mi-
tites after Circe o'clock, in the afternooo. Hassey came irons the
side of the house were the lane was.
done Goddard was culled. She appeared much agitated. She'
lives in Delman: ; reh,ted to the pthoner by marciage I remem-
bered a box being hr. night to her house on the Monday alter the
stli of February. '11:e box :loud in the shop and remained there
three weeks before it was opened. Her husband opened it ; and
foninl. the fir"t the silver ladle.then sheets. There were in it
old clothes, which she returned t he box. The box was
opened aboPt twr. or three (lotus af..crwaids, in the presurre of ail:tie
gcntleiron of Greenwich. • Hussey cause the n.:xt day after the box
was brought, and opened it. Site was present when the box was
ei%lted a s..vond time. and ,licald know the articles in it.
r.mswesarniwil by Mr. Notan..-W.::,..:14te1.aw1. ern tbrael's box eas not
anti that Wit:lllW lie HAW spoke of reMOving ft.
t.lepc..ed to the e.mteics or the box. le foq saw a lnsdle,

vs WI li!Vet la,11:". There via. a pair odour relnulloote., wilt a wine r 7slnu
• the pocket. lie saw Wan a yahtorat with &e e_. He sowun one ut

t. .. 11.. I. Ile then IpilVC information, n.ter havMt; oJnleti
trunk. The orneaLim, Larhisi at l Ilalgct, e.une, trite he.w.is not Fe-
lt., nen they milt'.
Croal ev.ambe_,/ by Mr. Adrtlphrte.-1/.lpa+ed, that no dircetions vrere en
of the° hot tlt,tt it vat orirded in the shop fin an) body to
leak al. 11os.cy VMS roast:ilea a Ir.mane, hem at man; witness ne•;r:s horn!
tnv thine t:ke o.etrarry.
. . .

;Ir!tume, et:brother of the ',Thews, who wat my:dangly a.lectert,

+Toted that Iti• ii:•tt at l'atii.hirn; tit..t he saw him about 4Or .e,•!o,* on
*.inclay, when the yam* was diss”verett. Itrl ailed tun to cane and
with hint cm He did not dt:tnee, bit 7f... war:a. Ile
dr, not V1:11'. itt a eavA, first 041,04 Wle'n 114 arrived. lto ta.d ho 11.1.1 aken
ran:-nanq ttlat hod tanned en inornit.4l. a.td ..illtetis if he luta kard
of the ho-rot niur !era at Creen.vich. vat, no. 1111:ener then raid
ridges+ I tag. ..71 I hit loam keeperltall twin' orid oppoilte where he hied.
glhate‘t ait ho dal not entre to dines and he answered that it wa; awing
*o , I:ke a fair. Ps ironer was di esp.
PA in • : At 4,na waist.• at s..tt alixrd pa.:ais.onss V. h a. t .14,11 rirotter
go to Lendiat wid; hint ate foUcaln. 0w... ti• ^At A th,
0 kr' bed ,_t -743 1141 .1t