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AUGITST 21.

guti-brig Lieutenant Nugent, bad a smart
brush JidrtytNR~►W ith a large French man of war brig, sent
out nt Cherbonig for toe e‘preoa purpq3se of taken. bet. The
frenr.tmen soon found theatselyes woefully mistaken; and after
au action of three quarters of nA hour, saved theekselyes feom
il,e/itahtti rapture by means of their sweeps, in getting under
esewevill:- Fort, N hich inoants
.40 guns. Lieut. Nugent,
got kohl of the Freirchinan's jolly-boat, with ottetnan
on hovil. fret,' whom he learnt that the enemy had two men
killed, sad =i aeon wounded. Thterit were a French frigate and
at, .tier tit r in Cherbourg. Roast and a Captain of the former,
':ray of ilis Picked men. cattle out to tote assistance of the
b•.., hoot wa.t titen getting away with all passible speed.
Thei—e w is no other English vei-el in ti.4ht at the time of the
action ‘Ve .re happy to add that the Streuuons did not receive
any materidl damage.

TRIAL O:z WILLIAM PILKINGT9N_FOR TU

MUADER OF MS FATHER.

GVILDPoRD ASFSZES, II %TURD 11r, AUGUST 20.
Willi-an Pilkingtoo was tried on an indictment charging him
with the wiltal murder of Montagne William Hyades, nt the
Maze, Sauehwarkion Friday se'nnight, by discharging a pistol
laden %oh ball.
Sonic particulars of this mysterious business have been al-
ready before Inc public, from the report of the Coroner's In-
quest. It ail] be remembered that the prisoner, who married
the daughter of the deceased, and who aas alsts the step-son of
If %aides, mho married his mother, was alone with the de-
*eased in the patilir of the Red Lion public-house, in the
Maze, stern a pistol as discharged, shich killed the
'rather. • Here were five witnesses called on the part of the
prosecution, hut none *I 'them could prove how the net vas
•eaminitted ; but it wa% admittea that Hyades hall died
.af the wound he had received at the hands of the prisoner.
/The only material evidence was the assertion of the deceased,
from the time of his leaving teen shot until he died, in which he
Varied very materially. After he had received the wound, he
iln rage and agony areased the prisoner of havin,„; committed pre-
L meditated minder. by,amiuted espressions, such as " You have
*filled the best of fathers,"—" Vau pullet) the fatal trigger," &c.
It however appeared, that in `the nionsents is lien death was fast
approachitig, the deceasoditralute.l't he seam-king catastrophe to
Accident, as was stated by a mnt.'rial witness, Mr. Clark,
-surgeon, of Tooley-street. Thi. sl ititesi proved, that Hyades
Aral died of his wound, and that on questioning him if the
pistol had gone oh' in a straggle, he first said that the prisoner
had pulled the trigger, and afteraards that it was an
excident, as his ton did not mean to kill him, he never hail
-each an 'intention. It was proved (moll hands, that the pri-
soner was much iiiebeiated., and that tris father and him lived on
the most affectitmate tern.. From Me evidence in general, it
Was evident that-the deceased who hail been using persuasive
saguinen s to get the prisoner home, attempted in el struggle to
get the pistol he held in his hand frten him, and also that from
his pocket,and thus happened the fatal event. The prisoner made
livery artless defence in II way so truly penitent and distressed,
that tears of sympathy ss t•re firming in every part of the Court.
He protested his wretchedness, and the sitirere love he bore his
either, whom he had for a length of time niaint aimed, and never
tette excited Ms anger. Had the pistol discharged its contents
iu his own holy, it wotild have been desirable, to a being so
wretched as hiMself. The Prisoner was so truly overwhelmed
With grief, that he was ',sniffle to proceed.
After a hams le charge from the Lord Chief Baron, the Jury
-returned a verdict of IlanAlaughter.
The Judge passed sentetwe on the prisoner in a feelin n-
aer. Ile observed that his situation aas truly pitiable It
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'hoped that the tears ot'symptelly shed in the court for hit ua-
tion would prevent shim from carrying fire-arms about them,
and particularly men given as drunkenness awl dissolute habits.
Ptibliejustice required that the extraa of punishment for Man-
slaughter should he inflicted in this instance, as the idea
of carrying lo.uled pistols Nis monstroosa and the most danger-
eau: thing to society. The prisoner maig sentenced to be im-
prisoned lX months. .
Four culprits received seatenee (if death, angthe business on
the crown siae ended. One of the capital convicts, a notorious
pick-packet, was convicted iat the course of the day for steal-
ing a gcntleroan's pocket 4took Ins Epsom racecourse. liis
*wile is John Griffiths.

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POLICE.
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Polteay..Henry Locke, a few days since committed epos
a charge of forging a 6001. Cheek in the name of the London
Duck Company, was on Friday brought up for examination •
upon a distinct charge of forgery long previous. Mr. Bavistockt
a publican, stated, that on the 'tight of Saturdays the 21st of
November last, about seven in the eveningodke prisoner came
to kis house, in Prince's-street, limiticant had a plass of li.
queer, tied tendered him a note, which. he said was a 50!„ flank
OWN for payment, requeting change. IVitness could teat
change. The prisoner said, le should go eases here in the neigh•
bourbood and get change; and in alma five miscues he retnneed,
saying he had a smaller draft fur lot and asked change for that.
The witness's wife at first demurred to change a check fur a
stranger $ but the prisoner said it was fur their neighbour. Mr. •
Richards, in Bridgewater-square, a hose men were waiting fa.
payment; upon which the witness seeing the check in Mr. Ri•
hard's favour, and being desirous to oblige him, as a Heil:W.)llr •
and a customer, lie immediately gave tae change, a five pound,
and the test in smaller. notes and money. The prisoner arat
away immediately. The witness said his face was quite familiar
to him at the time, hut he could not recollect where he hail west
him. The witness's wife, notwithstanding her husband's cnnii-
denee, bad still some' doubts of the cheek, from the prisoteer's
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manner and mode of address, and she ti eat to Mr. It Otani. to
ask if it was right, when Mr. Richards iefonned her he hid sus
knowledge of it whatever. Mr. Ray block himself then went tee
the Bankers on whom the check was dra we, but was there in-
formed that no stub person as Bliss, the name signed to the
check, had ever kept cash there.
Neither the witness nor his wife Lad any doubts of tit; TQP).
soner's person. The former said he had seen his fare fraeuetalv, "
but eoald not tell at first where; hut he after% ar.is raco!iccaal„ ;a, • " '
that having himself wrought 23 seats in tha watch tatrofarturtk, '7 Y.
it must have been in the course of his trade lee saw she prisoner,
who he understood was n watch-linisher in (*kriteria elf, abouk -
two. years since. Ile had, when he passed the cheek, a wen ois' • • •
his cheek the size of atm, but it had three berg removed/ wag • ..
only a slight scar remained.
The prisoner, by advice of his Solicitot, said nether, 'far ft"- .
present in his defences, aid he was fully committed to take le' i
trial upon the 'charge.
ACCIDENTS, ort•Tsci,
Oa Friday morning, a the lady of Mr. Curtis, Of I,linatafi„
and a Mrs. Wilson, s ere driving past the Yorkshire stingy,
a one-horse chaise, the horse took fright, and rat fitriot.tv op'
Chapel-street, towards tae Caaal, and coini.,g iu etenta-to with
the post at the corner ofahlr. Wood's (-impel, the chaise aas
broke to pieces, the horse leaped the l'ahliagteen gate a itl; tuts
shafts and harness, the Aadim: were thrown out, and vie ore sore,-
to add, that Mrs. Curtis was taken up by Mr. Mackinder, the
surgeon (who was near the spot), apparently lifeless, her slittabl •
der being dreadfully lacerated, ;aid her collar-bone brnke. Mr-.
%Vilma] was shockingly bruised in the fare After receiving
every attention from Mr. Mackiader, they were safely rouvey. ,
ed home to Islington.
The follow ing singular instance of insanity must be .ceensidered
worthy of remark ;—A young woman, from an attack of fever,
became deprived of her senses ; the rircitinstaace being r 1111 l mu-
ideated to another sister, she in a short period ac:as equaliy af•
fected, and with the same degree of violence. The situation •
these poor girls rendered their rtafineval to dPitice for the rem,. - •
(+on of lunatics, absolutely accessary. Strange as it may ape
pear, a third si.ter, receiving the intelligence, and who visited
one of them prior to leer tremoval, oa- immediately impressed
swill' the melancholy catastrophe to such an extent, that she fell
a victim to the same lamentable derangements 'Phe latter wait.
removed to the parish house of St. Pancras, v. here. she met with
every humane attention and kindness.
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BIRTH.
Yesterday, the Lady a Lord Viscount Atishn, at his house hi
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Arliugtou-street, of twin sons, one of which was still-born. . .. *,
DEAT/li. ~ . .
'On Thutsdav the 18th, aged fift3-eight, Mr. JawaK yonirms, *--- .1."0"
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steward to Colonel 'ritornton, at liea3on-houie, Liar° -*op.
fields. .., i •
On the 28th of June last, at Dusteldortt, Edmund, Biros
Harold, ileneril in the Bavarian service.
At her house, near Ellesmere, the Right Ilion. nowaffer Lade
Kenyon, relict of the late Lord Chief Justice lieuyea.

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