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The following day I to'd her I wanted to buy a pair of shoes,
and asked her to accompany me; she refused. and went off
by herself halt' an hour before. I sought her for some time,
and at length met her near Bishopsgate; she at first refused
to go with me. but ultimately consented, and soon after left
me. and when 1 came home she refused to tell me where she
had been; I was very angry and we had words all the time
of tea. I told her 1 had not money enough to get shoes, and
she wanted me to go to Church street, Newington, where
she said I might get them ; I went there. and found neither
shop nor shoes. On my return 1 found her again train home.
and tried for her in the coach yard, where she sometimes
went to the men, hut she was not there. I then went to the
cow house. where I heard her breathing." He then minutely
described the situation in which he found his wife with Law-
rence on the evening of the 128th of September ; her en-
treaties to be forgiven because the man forced her in; he
stated his offer to prosecute the man, her refusal, and decla
ration that she loved that man's finger better than his (the
husband's) whole body. He then admitted his having had
a continued altercation with her in the bed-room, and Ilia
being at length provoked ; and in the height of her abuse of
hint, and threats to go out again to the man whom she loved,
and also her imprecations that she would be the death of him
or herself; lie then struck her once, twice, or thrice, with
the ace which he tricked up in the rooni; and after hav-
ing done so. he drew her head towards him and kissed her
sayiug. " Aou were once my comfort ; I have now beep your
death ; and you, my dear, will be the death of me ' fie
admitted his having taken the 11. from his father-in law's
hot, and threatened those in the house not to stir. in the
course of his address, which was rather long and in some
parts unconnected, the prisoner more than once adverted to
acts of infidelity on the part of his wife, which according
to his account, he was aware of before the night of the
murder. He said she had been in the habit of going with
married mien in the neighbourhoed, and that he had long
suspected her. On the night on which he alleged. he had
detected Lawrence and his (prisoner's) wife in the cow-
house, he said he upbraided her; but af. erwards consented
to forgive her, and forget what was passed, rovided she
would ga and' live with Lawrence or Tucker, ur with any
oue else she loved bet er than himself, awl not come to him
any snore It also appeared from his statement, that the man
(Lawrence) had joined them (prisoner and his wife) before
thi y got home from the cow-house. on , he night in quesoon,
and had called for sonic drink for them, acknowledging that
the .whole transaction with prisoner's wife was his (Law-
rence's) fault. Prisoner said he would not drink. bet (we
think; only tasted it, and threw away the glass From :Mk-
ther nart of his speech it appeared that he had on a former
occasion been bound over to keep the peace fur ill-treatment
of his wfe This he •Ileged as a reason fur not witting her
when she crovoked him so by saying, (as he stated,) that
s',e wo .id do as she liked, and he might go and bed —d ;
.r. he k.f.ied he was afraid sh would send him to prison
a rot there From the whole of his defence, ad.
mi.ting it ,ii be rue, we could infer. that th' life he and his
wife two leil lic:ore the melancholy conclusion of hers was a
aoostatit scene of quarrel and reeonciliat on On the present
occasion lie rested his case chiefly on the great oroveicati,,n
he had received from one whom he said he loved so dearly

A number of witnesses were then calledTwhogavetheiiri
em er an escchent character for Inunani y.
Mr B.ron WOOD summed up the evidence to the Jury,
and rental ked. that had the prisoner committed the act of
which he stood charged, at the moment he caught another
man in adultery with his wife, then the law had humanely
provided a palliation for his crime; but here the act was de
liberate.), committed at a subsequent period, when the pas-
sions had time to cool and therefore the prisoner had discn-
titled himself to the benefit he might otherwise have had in
the eve of the law

The Jury. after six minutes deliberation. found the pri
saner G-tity, and the Recorder immediately pronounced
upon him, in the most solemn manner, the awtul sentence of
the law, which was, that he be hanged on Monday next.
The prisnaer bore his fate with the utmost composure,
and retired from the bar iu the act of coolly wiping the.dust
from the top of his hat.
The Court was at an early hour crowded, particularly
with females.

ALLEGED' MURDER.
Moroi L ofl was lieu put to the bar, charged with the wil-
ful murder of Anne Jackson.
In this case (the particulars of which we have recently
Riven to the public is the account of the proceedings at the
Coroner's inquest ), bills of indictment had been sent to the
Grand Jury, who threw them out for want of sufficient evi •
dence. The prisoner was now. therefore, arraigned on the
Coroner's inquest.

Mr Acres% who was retained by the parish (qt. Mar-
tin's in the fields we belly.),t.tatrd the case to the Jury. He
de•cribed most of the circumstances as they were detailed on
the coroner's inquest, arid added, that from the statement in
the deceased, at a time when she must have believed she was
dying, there was nothing elicited which could in any degree
inculpate the prisoner, The learned gentleman wa. proceed-
ing,when

Mr. Justice PAR t observed, he understood that he (Mr.
Alley) had no evidence against the prisoner, but that which
was adduced before the Coroner—no evidence which could
bring home any thing to the prisoner.
Mr. A r.t.tv said he had no ouch evidence, hut appeared
there by direction of the guardians of the parish in which
the verdict of the coroner's inquest bad been returned.
Mr Justice Paaa sa.d, the parish had :wad very properly
in setting the inquiry on foot. Where blood had been shed,
it was their duty to endeavour to find out the cause; but he
and his learned brother (Mr. baron Wood) had read the de-
positioos taken before the Coroner which he had no doubt
were correctly given; and though he did not mean ta ques-
tion the motives which had induced the verd ct on that oc-
casion, yet he should observe, that for any thing which ap-
peared, they might as well have named any other person in
the kingdom as the prismier. Under such c4ciimsrances,
and where there was no additional evidence to he offered, it
would be only a waste of time to go on with the case.
Mr A or. sr repeated, that he had no furthsr evidence; and
hi. Lordship told the Jury, that as throe was uo evidence,
they most acquit the prisoner.
A verdict of acylitsi was accordingly given. and recorded,
and the prisoner was discharged.

CASKS OP PfOrGERY.
Mr Serjeant BMA I. I appeared m Court.and on his MO.
firm several prisoners were put to the bar, accurcd of littering
forged notes knowing them to in (urged, (A capital offence),
and alsoorlhav mg in their pos.ession knowinglygurged note,.
purporting to be of the Bauk of Imgierid,(an offence which
'objects the party, if convicted, to 1.1 yearY transportation )
'1 here were 18 persons in all. Ot thew the tullowing per-
m,,, pleadtti rtt.try re the minor offence, with the untlet.t.itut-

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ing that the capital indictment would be abandoned by the
Bank The nature of their plea, and the punishment at-
tached to it. were clearly and humanely explained to each by
Mr. Bantu Wood and Mr. Justice Park: —Vt'illiam Turnbull,
Edward Moore, George Wilson, John Butler, George Wil-
liamson, Hannah Green. William Jones, John Green, Daniel
Ping, Lade Titterton, John Webster, and Thomas Dubbin:.
The tollowing prisoners pleaded it a guiity to both offences,
and of course remain for trial:—Richard Jennings. James
Harrison. Mary Anne Croft, John Bailey, Jas. Stubbs, and
Tlitimas M`Dermot.

The 1.2 prisoners who had pleaded guilty to the minor of-
fence were then severally put to the bar, and given in charge
on the capital indictment, when
Mr. S.:rje.int BosANquET stated, that after their plea of
guilty to the lesser offence, it was not the wish of the Back
to of any evidence on the other charge. They were there-
fore each acquitted on this indictment, and remanded for bell.
tence on the other.

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the name of the owner of the property was essential, and if so
tt was essential that it should be given correctly.
i The CouRT again called Mrs. Stowe, whe stated, that she
had known Mr. Campbell as John,Campbell. but she had also
heard him called Graham Campbell sometimes.
Mr. CURWOOD now observed, that whatever he might
have been called, here was a probre of a will to which he
had sworn, and in which, by his own act, he was called John
Graham Campbell. If this objection had not suggested it-
self, there was another which he intended to have made, but
only in arrest of judgement. He thought. however. he might
as wall mention it then. It was to the wording of the indict-
ment, which described the house as be "prowl J. Campbell,
Ice. Now, he maintained that this expression was equivocal,
and that the terms, " the p.. pe,sy tpl," &c. should have been
ii,,ed; for a house might be belonging to a tenant, and yet
the property of any other person; and if the house was held
as tenant by the prisoner, the offence of setting fire would
not be a capital one. This description of the property he
therefore maintained was not a sufficient one in law.

Mr. BoLLAND ro4si to replv.—llis observations on the
second objection were not audible where we sat. In reply to
the first we understood lion to contend, that the way in
which the name was given did not vitiate the indictment.
They had proved that Mr Campbell had been known by
the name of John. and his having been left property as John
G. Campbell could nut effect the legali.y of the former de-
scription If he, Mr. Bolland whose name was William, had
been left property, and was t.escrihed in the will as Mr.
Henry Bulked, it would not invalidate an indictment in
which he should be described as William Bolland. Ihe

learned gentleman was proceeding with this argument, when
Mr Justice PACK (sset: ,ed, that although the will had
onl♦ mentrioied John G Campbell," yet in the probate
Mr. Camonell acknowleiftecl the addition, and filled it up
with the word 4: Graham."
Mr EC/LLANO sad he was nut aware of this circumstance
before, and had therefore nothing further to oiler upon that
objection
11,fr. Justice PACK then observed, that his leeesed brother
Baron Wood, having a doubt on the subject*, toe oi jection,
he would reserve it fur the opinion of the .2 fudges; as also
the other, which Mr Ciirwoied had ma,
The evidence for the prosecution ring now closed, the
prisoner w..s called upon for her deteuce, but did not offer
any übsercairon tier counsel ca led the followhig witness: •
Anne l'ajne knew the prisoner for t years and a hale
Saw her the five days before the burning of the house. She
noticed her incoherent manlier of talking he told witness
she was much troubled in mind, and would certainly make
away with herself. She complained particularly of the con-
duct of her husband. Witness asbeo her to see her lius:.and,
but she refused, and said she would never see him any more.
Witness firmly believed that she aas not right in her mind
Se had brio e this borne an excellent character.
Mr. Justice PAac summed up the evidence, upon which
Ise cummented at some length, and the Jary. atter a very
short deliberation, returned the following verdict --'• N
guilty, being at the time in a state of mental derangement "
This verdict, if not set aside by the decision of the twelve
Judges, favourable to the ob,ectiuns made by Mr Curwuod,
subjects the prisoner to imprisonment fur life in some asylum
for the reception of insane persons.
During the whole of her trial, the prisoner (who. as far as
we could judge from a slight glimpse of her features, appears
about 28 or 50 years of age) stood at the bar in a slate of
great dejection. She held her handkerchief to her face for
the most of the time, and scarcely once held up.her head, or
seemed to regard what was passing round her. At her re-
moval she wept much, but nut aloud: indeed, her whole de-
meanour indicated a person labouring under a deep melan-
choly and dejection of spirits. She wasordered to be detained
"Iliadic King's pleasure be known (that is, until the decision
f the t 2 Judges should he given).
In the course of the evening the Grand Jury came into
Court, with the last of the bills which had been sent to them.
The foreman presented a paper in the name of himself and
brother Jurors. This shortly stated, that the Jurors had
visited the gaol of Newgate, and were perfectly satisfied with
the order, regularity, and cleanliness observed there. They
were then discharged.
On Saturday John Trapp was indicted for feloniously
secreting a letter, containing a 501. and 401 Rank of Eng-
land-note, which letter had come to his hand in consequence
of his mom) meet in the General Post Oakes There was
sieond indictment sign gist him, for having in his pose•sion
the stolen property. The Clillit permitted him to pleas'
so the second indictment, Is hich subjects hum to transporta-
tion fur seven yetris.

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Jahn 'loath, antis her clerk in the Geneial post-office, was
convicted on charging hint with t.eereiing a

lett, r containing a5l. note, toldrisse7l to a gentleman nurned
11 eller, ~ N 111111.4 ut Ninth Crab, in Kent ; and alio a second
, indictment, eh'irging him with stealing a letter containing
tne halves of two 101. note!, addressed In W. Lamb, Laq.
of Wiestliogisiirth, near Redford. There were four other
charrs ag.mot him, which %sere not tried.

GLASGOW, OCT. 2G.—James Wrtdoe, alias the
City Orator, alias Blue Thumbs, alias Blue Jamie,
UM apprehended for a contravention of the Statutes,
crying on the streets, selling seditious and inflam-
matory papers, and animadverting on theta in very
offensive language. Wlndoe has perhaps changes
his mode of procuring his livelihood as often as the
celebrated Carew " changed shapes." In this in-
stance he has become a not only to increase
his respectability, but that by being popular, it in-
creases his " ways and means" of procuring aqua
viler, his chief end. His figure, gait, and phiz,
have as mien drollery in theta as the celebrated
Liston's, and he is as well known at the public
offices of this city and the neighbouring towns, as
that pers-)itage is to the Londuu theatrical amateurs.
He has itAareti ai a vender of spurious peppers,
dye stu.is, obscene papers, witty obsLrvutions un
marrt.l.4.s, lit-pv(4;6111, dying declarations, speeches
on radn.!i ne ui „z ; and mis not ualrequently made
as many imiverts m his thoory of the buni•iits likely
to accrues i, t fr nu ehea,,, w make, " the mad
of at at; new friends have Lr th,ir decorated
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bo,1? ..• ; 1. r t,t. tlt
sat into t ditch
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