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she lowly, end said, " There'll a speck for you."
The Prisoner lifted up his heads. and exclaimed,
4' Oh, Jetties! it is." Bowden, elm was in bed,
cried out—" That old rascal (waning the Prissier)
has poisoned the Captain, and the Captain is gone, '
and I shell soon follow ; if 1 die, when you get to
Liverpool, try and get him hung; if 1 get over this.
shall do it myself;" this was in the hearing of
the Prisoner, who. mode no reply, but got up,
mid walked up to the deck. In the cabin, Prisoner
did not speak or complain of sickness; he had beard
him, before the death of the Captain, on deck say
that he was sick. In the morning the corpse «as
taken up on deck, and dressed in clean clothes ;
it exhibited the same appearances as before, in
a higher degree ; it was kept two drys and a night,
iu the Ivor of meeting a man of war, and having
medical opinion on the cause of the death; but not
Itari..g suet one it was committed to the deep.
When the Captain was taken ill witness took pos-
session of the saucer; • little of the sugar was left
iu it, merely what stack to the saucer. There
appeared to be another subitance mixed with the
auger, like a white powder; it was whiter than the
angler, which was *oft and very light in colour.
Ile took the saucer with a view to future inquiry ;
at first Ise. put it over the Captain's bed-piece (es a
ledge ; it remained there • day ; he found it in the
very spot, and in the same state be had left it ;
he took ir, and *hewed it to some of the crew ;
he then put it is a chest of his own, which
he locked, and kept the key himself; it mo-
tioned there four days, during which time he had
the key in hie own possession. The Prisoner then
questioned him where the sauce► was; he said lie
did not know ; he observed, it *as very strange,
nobody had any business with it but he (witness) ;
he said he had left it on the deck, but he suppose,'
somebody, had broken, or thrown it overboard.
The some evening. Prisoner told him he most find
the saucer, or abide by the consequence'. He
talked with some of the crew, and from what they
advised, gave up the saucer; Prisoner gave him
the key of one of the deceased's trunks, and desired
Mm to put it on the top of the clothes it contained ;
did so, and returned the key ; Bowden was present,
Pad said before the Prisoner that the saucer must
be taken care of; Prisoner said he wanted the
saucer, to see if he could catch some of the mice
about the cabin—" They ny there's poison in it ;
we will try it"—it was never set for mice ; lie never
stew it afier that night ; the day after Captain
Ryder's death Newton took the command of the
vessel; shout fifeen days after they arrived i,t
Liverpool, and be was placed in a boarding-house
there by Captain Newton, where lie remained up-
wards of three weeks; during that time he men-
tioned the facts to many people. but male
Do complaint before a Magistrate ; the vessel
was coppered, and he got on board of her
Itgain ; she sailed for Pernambuco ; Cleghorn,
Davis, Johnson. and Wood were also on board ;
they were bound by the terms of their
original contract ; from accidents the vessel was
obliged to put beck into Milford; there Cleghorii,
Johnson, and Davis left them. The day after tlw
Prisoner said to him on board. 41 These rascals
discharged yesterday have put about a report that
was concerned in Captain Ryder's death ; per-
haps I shall want you at the Custom-house to clear
ell my chewier, and perhaps not ; when 1 send
for you, you must come. What are you going to
say ?" Witness answered he would tell no lies—
he would tell the truth." Prisoner replied, " You
may my the weather was very hot, Captain Ryder
was taken ill, he had • great swelling, and died
suddenly ; you may say that-1 don't want
you to tell a lie." He made no reply. Ile
afterwards sent for witness on the same day,
and he went before the Justice, Mr. Stokes.
Cristiana Ryder bad a watch, an umbrella, a liquor-
case, and a medicine chest ; after his death Captain
Newton had the care of them. The weather was
lint, and the crew were tea iu number. Previous
to Captain Ryder's death Newton had no authority
on board. The first mate (Bowden) would have
been the most natural person to take the euuninind.
Cross-eramined by Ns. ADOLPHUS.
Witness admitted that the three sailors had been
discharged at Liverpool, by the Poisoner; that lie
himself had full liberty to go about, and plenty of
time to make a formal statement of the facts of
Captain Ryder's death. Bowden never made any
complaint to a Magistrate while in Liverpool.—[A
Idler was here handed to the witness, which lie
aeknowledged to have been written by G. Wood,
in the twine of himself and witness, to the Primmer,

requesting a di-charge. Wood read to him the
contents...l—He had heard the Captain complain that
the crew did not work the vessel so well as they ought,
and when be came to Milford, he discharged Cleg-
horn, James Johnson. and Davis. They had all been
on board the vessel when Captain Ryder died. The
letter was sent sifter their discharge. Newton had
pointed out to the whole crew the money and all
the property of Captain Ryder. to be kept for his
representatives. The command of the vessel de-
volved on the Prisoner, as • matter of necessity,
Bowden, the first mate, being unable to under-
take it. Witness made no objection to going to
sea again from Liverpool ; all the men that were
not ilistliaigs.d by Captain Newton went out again
in the *hip.
In reply to a question from Mr. Justice Neu,
witness said, he had never been charged by the Pri-
Snlier with misconduct.
O. Wood, the second mate, on the night laid in
the indictment saw the Prisoner a little before eight
o'clock take a saucer round the binnacle and down
to the cabin; he tasted the sugar in going down;
rourierit in a few minutes without the saucer, and
west (1:111/11 to supper very shortly. He corroborated
the testimony of the former witness respecting the
st miaow* preceding the death of Capt. Ryder, and
also the reluctance of the Prisoner to go down to the
cabin, with the additional circumstances that he said
he was. ill, he could not go. and pretended to vomit ;
that Wood and Johnson looked at him by the light
of a lamp, and could see no signs of it ; on which
Johnson said, he was es well as he was. and niti,t
tome; on which he walked by himself with.nit
help; he also described the conversation in the
...Inn needy in the same words as the last anises., ;
Tne day after Johnson sok.. d the Prisoner, how
came he to take the saucer down ? lie denied hie-
, done - Witness then said, be saw him take
answered, it must have bees; Ins hand-
he had in bit hand. Witness then

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protested to nod (rod in Court insisted) that be
lied observed him with a saucer and 'sugar.
Cross-misdeed by Mr. bIAsHAY.
Fie saw the Prisoner on leaving the cabin sifter
'nipper going to wlndward, and reaching over the
side of the ship.
William Bowden, First Mate to the William.
extroimed by die SOLICITOIe•GeNtite L.
Saw Newton go down to the cabin a little before
supper-time, anal return ; he was sent on mine
business by the Prisoner at the moment that lie and
Captain Ryder were going down to supper: joined
thrum in st.out ten Bounties; there was beef, biscuit,
tea, and Wiper; he partook of the Wiper, which he
ewsllowtd from a saucer nu the table ; after eating
several spoonfuls, he found a pill ; Ryder took it
out of his hand and &lid, ',I Newton, here is one of
your pills ;" on which the Prisoner made no re-
ussrk ; be sweetened his tea from the saucer ; Ry-
der had been eating the lilipee before he went
down, and then had tea ; witness observed little
lumps floating on the surface of the tea, ■nd re-
marked that the steward had put the sugar in ■
flour saucer; lie saw the Prisoner ate only bread
and beef ; when lie left the cabin there were
several table spoonfuls lets in the saucer ; very
shortly after he felt himself attacked in the same
way the Captain was--with general sickness, burn-
ing heat in the stomach, purgings every moment,
and vinnittingii; the matter lie vomitted was white
clammy stuff; he was lying on the deck an hour
and a half, unable to move; when he got to the
cabin he experienced great pain from Isis stomach
down to his fret, and convulsious in his legs.and
feet. The two latter and his nerves are still con-
tracted, and he Is unable to use his left hand. He
first mentioned the circumstances to a Magistrate,
iu the mouth of March.

Cross-eicutaineti by Mr. ADOLPHUS.
The Prisoner had no regions to take away his life;
the reason lie haul not busted it earlier to a Magistrate
was, because Newton had promised to see to it;
because he bad promised to give him the command
of the vessel ; and because he thought au inquiry
would be attended with expruse.
Mr. Robert nitrite, a surgeon of Liverpool, Dr.
Roberts, of Bloonishury-square, and Dr. Powell,
..f Bedford, attended at the trial, and being ex.
•mined, stated, particularly the two latter, that the
effects of mineral poison on the 'mums frame could
not be described more accurately thau they had
been in the course of the evidence.
Several gentlemen gave the Prisoner • very good
character. He himself read • paper, i►► which he
strongly asserted his innocence, alluded to the
length of time that elapsed before the charge was
brought, and stated, that had he bent guilty he
might have escaped, with a fair wind.
Justice PAM occupied at► hour and three quar-
ters iu his charge, and the Jury having retired, in
about Is m►nutes brought in a verdict of acquittal.

BOAKD OF EXCISE, JUNE 12.

The following cases were heard and determined
this day by the Board of Excise :

TIRE RING V. WAINWRIGHT.

This was an information against Mr. George Wainwright,
hottle.userekant, No. AS aad 14, New Comptes-street, Soho,
for having is his possession and using • prorate still.
Jobe Manion Wall, au officer of the Excise, stated, that
hr went with two other oaten, named Whitehead, on the
4th of November, to a place called Wick Cottage, in Wick•
lase, Story-le-Roue, with a warrant, to search the premises.
hulas received information that a private still was worked
there. He my the Defendant and a man named Stewart,
wham he understood was Wainwright's servant, on the pre.
miss, as soon as they saw them approach the house, they
(Wainwright and Stewart) fastened the hoot door, and it
was a considerable time before he could effect an entrance.

Upon searching the premises, he found in a cellar a pri-
vate still, a cask of yeast, a large copper, and two wash barks
fur molasses ; also three cans tut& to it the ant of a cart
or chaise. There was a link spirits left in them, and suffi-
cient wash in the backs to prove that they had recently beets
used. There was every apparatus for distilling. He seized
the property. Whim he bad searched three rooms, Mr.
Wainwright said, " You shall nut enter further into my
howe without a warrant." lie told bins that he had one,
host be dill not produce it.
Conimiu.ionir —" That was an admission that the house

beluliged to him"
Other evidence being heard in support of the information,
Mr. MARY avlikcsacd the Court at great length in miti.
gallon of the penalty. He mid that his client had beau a
highly respectable merchant, but lately had been made a
bankrupt, and if the Court did nut extend mercy towards
hint, their sentence would doom him to perpetual intpri-
Tire Commissioners convicted the Defeudaut in the pe-
nalty of 1001.

THE KING V. BROWN.

This wits an information against Mr. Charles Brown, a
baker, fur having 300 Ilia. weight of Irish salt in his posses-
sion, au article which had been usr,l for salting provisions.
The information d, that the Defendant resided in
Blackfriars.ruad, but upon tantalisation it appeared that the
house did not belong to Mr. Charles Brown, and the
mation was dismissed.—The salt was condemned.

THE ZINO V. HOLT.

Tbe Defendant, Mr. Holt, the proprietor of the Phenix,
Rateliffe-cross, was convicted in the penalty of 2SI. fur run.
mint euutraband spirits, which were seised by the officers of
the Excise in Whitechapel. There were only two gallons
of spirits , the penalty was takes by consent.

FORCIBLE ABDUCTION.

cumin, awn 6.

Sunday might last ah attack was made on an 'industrious
fanner, of the name of Coffee, who lives near Fozhall, in
this county, by • considerable asimher of nightly ma-
Flinders, will; intent to force away Ina daughter, and cion-
pel her to unite herself to a man of the mime of Col-
lins. Her titbit obtained private information •.f the in-
tended attack, and had some of his friends in the house, well
aniseed, who permitted them to break in the dour, when
they liked on them, by which one nom, named Skeahsu, from
near Dooms, was killed, and several wounded, as blood was
traced to a considerable distance. amebas was brothrr•in-
law to Collins. This is the second attack which has taken
place on the UMe man lately. Some time back, Collins car-
ried of his daughter, and kept bre several days, bat Coffee's
friends prevailed on Cullom, or rather dreading the close
pursuit which Coffee and his friends held sip, allowed her to
return, ins ludo; by that nouns to tffect a nee
bat Coffee was nut to be fa ightctscd into as alliance
with inch a tharacter—the above was the consequence.
Collies was on Monday morning a• the neighboullsood of
C•stk Connell, County Limerick, in a state of madness,
armsd • ills a inu.ket. Tikc hotly of Skealsan was brought
to the gess d •Isosiae of No: yr port.—(Cbonitel //triad.)

There are none of the Circuits Seed but the
Houle, whidi ne gave yesterday.

!CART WOOS, we aft burry to mute, vies
oq Thu•sdoy token 411, while tryiiig ciusle,• if, the
Cowman fleas. and obliged to rutist lwsu Court.

LAW 1 rELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY. Lescocies
Falomr. Jour It.

The LORD CIUNCILI.oII did not sir, a.l he in-
timated, ou the list day of Term. ll.s Lordship
will sit to-morrow (this day), to g.re judgments.
The first Seal after Term will be on Thur. lay
ntitt, end the last Seal will be on the Y6ch July.

'ROLLS' COURT, FILIDAS, Julia It.

His Honour the MASTER. of the ROLLS wax Oc-
cupied in hearing short causes, of uo interest ex-
cept to the parties concerned.
The case of Gordon v. Gordon, did not conic on.
This Court is undergoing a thorough repair.

COURT OF KING'S RENCH, GLILDIIALL,
FILIDAY, Juane 12.
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Sittings after Ternt, before Mr. Jarstice Anson",
and Common Juries.

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