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TIM DUKK OF ATHOL.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

...N.

On Tuesday last an attempt was made by it
man 'Nosed James Murray, to assassinate his Grace
the Duke of Athol.- Murray, under I.r.tence
of important business, liscl loomed an audi-
ence of his Grace, at one of the 'mtges leading
to Donkrld House, where he handed his Grace
a letter, containing some unreasonable demand'.
and which further stmed, that, unless his Grace
complied with them iu a fcw minutes, he would
shoot him with a laatul. The Duke, with singular
fortitude, and great presence of mind, seized the
pistol as Murray drew ot from hi. pocket, mild
calling to souse of his stteinlanta, Msieray was jou-
, m.diastly secured and brought to tile gaol of
' Perth.

1,,,,,e property of hie firet wife, Miss Horne, and was
sive pica• lure avoided the gallows) have been saved,
ii. ',there fur the same offence been sacrificed ; while three inure about leaving this country for America. Under ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
await at Hsin temmelit the tcnonsitionx death which they will those circumstances, he, the Learned Counsel, had
f y sorely die to•tnorrom morning, sinless reason and feelino no doubt hut his Lordship would grunt the motion. On Tuesday last an attemp
"0 iterpose t was made by 111
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ii. since the above-named communication was sent. I bees The LORD CHANCELLOR—" Let the writ issue man named JoiMel 'hurray, to asoassinate his Grace f
forthwith, and let its amount be 4,000 f." the Duke of Athol.- Murray, under vretriire
learnt that by the new law future offenders of the same of important bovines., bed ',rivaled an laud'.
description will not be mallard with death, sad therefore Motion grouted.
3.,, it is imploringly asked, why, in the nesse of justice sad _ ____ __ . __mice of his Grace, at one of the lodges leading
In mercy, shook, the proem Gam ? to Dunkeld House, where he handed his Grace
In the Appeal case of the Duke of Horitti.Tots
[I- I am, Mr. Editor, yours respectfully, a letter, containing some mireasunxisle &torrid..
ili HUMANITAS. n. Mrs. H. ERTEN, Dow SCOTT WARING, the and which further stwied, that, unless his Grace-
House
of Lords gave their judgment op Monday, complied with them iu a few minutes, he would
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wa Mr. JOHN RATCLIFFIC. well known on the Staf. and confirmed the decision of the Couryof Smarm, shoot !mu ~,,t,, „1,,,t,,1. The Duke, with .in ulcer
he ford mid turfs of the neighbouring counties, who is Scotland. that the leases granted by the late I)uks fortitude, and grant preeei,cr of mind, seized the
r. now iii the 84th year of his age, has challenged all of HAMILTON to the Respondent were valid. • pistol as Murray drew it from lii. pocket, told
he England to rums one hundred yards for one hundred One hundred and sixty male convicts have been calling to souse of his stteridanta, Murray Was lim-
n guineas with au)- man ten years Younger thou him- shipped at Portsmouth, to go on board the lithe, I mediattly secured and brought to the gaol of
self. at Spithea4 for New South Wales. Perth.
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MA RIC ETS.

From the "London Metres,tile Prire Correia," of Tresday,
Jody 25, 1820.

WEAT INDIA AND SPANISH MAIN PROT/VCR.

COW/1M —The quantify bronchi 111 public sale Nat week
Was rather large, auil chiefly of good mail fine ordinary qus.
lilies, who‘h in consequence .old at a decline uf • 2.. per
cwt. but the prices u( the better qualities were (may support.
ed. St. Domingo AV:I4 .01.1 by auction on 'numbly, at I 265.
p. r cyst. There ha. Leen le.. helium; dune by private con.
st,et, than fur some lime pass.
The stock of W. I. Cisfree k new 3,500 bumf.. .ins 2,200
le.• than at this time Imo year, ',resell' pricer 154. per cwt.
b.ft.er. .

• P. Sun Um —The demand was lasi week more moderate
than in the prerioit, and prices were iu some instance
per met loner wi .odiiiary qualities.
The stuck of B. P.S.iyar is now 11,480 casks less than list
star's at this lime, present prices 3s. per cwt. lower per
Gazette average.
En Rom fair hnsiness has hems done at rather hither prices.
Tim present stock of Ruins is 13,764 puncheons, and price
of proofs 2s. Id. per gallon.
So.ck la►t year •am• date was 15,068 puncheons, and price
of proofs Ss. 6d. per gallon.
Ptuato of good qualities continues to bring the ad-
vanoril IN ice quoted.

LIVERPOOL REPORT, JULY 22, 1820.
Corrox.-The demand (or Colon mowed its WIC lent has
',divided, and market has again become dull, owing its a great
me•atre to the• heavy imports, which amount this week to
15,065 sign. The public sales of East holm yesterday were
rather fiat, and what sold was at a decliue of 1•I. per lb. The
.•rtes are 6,000 bags, and consist by private of 550 Sea
Wands at 19d. • 25. 45. ; 80 stained at 16141. a 171;41. ; 1,700
Bow. rls at 1114. • 1314.1 ; 500 Tennesseca at I Ind ; 1,200
Orleans at Ind. ■ 15.1.; 100 Pernams at 151,41. a 15141 ;
120 Bahias at 141,1. a 1541.; 554) Maranhao's at 14Z41. • 154.;
100 Dem at 130. • 16141.; 54) Barhadorr at 1214.;
100 Went ladies ■t 1141. • 12;141.; 10 8111/1h ins at 19d.; 151/
Smits at 81. a 9141. and by anctiou 180 31adras at od. a
911.; 611) Bengali at '70.• 81.41 per Ile. The import► con.
rest of 116 bag, Demistam 1,397 New Orleans. 5,407 Char.
14 aton sod Sivannah, 2,451 other parts of U. S., 5,604 Bra-
rils.-Total 15,065 bags.
The public sales of 8 I'. Sugar have r•one off heavily,
and at a decline of Is. per cwt. from the II tces °Waisted last
week; the qnsolity Pohl is 909 taxi's : to Foreign de-
scriplioos we have had nothing alone; 2110 chests good Dr -
„ zil, ja.l imported from Rio Janeiro, are advertised for
sale on the `214114 Instant; 250 bags of vet), soft yellow
Brogil were put up to auction yesterday, and taken in
• for want of buyers at 27a. 9 I.; a small lot of browu was
tak.•n fur export at 245. 6.1. We have bail but little
doing in Cuffee till "thisistlay, when a !lONIC sale of Dutch,
Jatin.ica, a•d Domingo was brought forward, at which the
a lade sold, thoogli at a decline of la. a 2.. its Dutch 1•
the last public sale, and of 2s. on Domingo from the prices
previously la tinned ; Dutch triage soh! at 109.. a 115 a. fine
ordinary 144..91. • 125.. middling 127., a 129, good mid.
13).. • 1334 ; Jamaica ordinary 117..; good to fine
serliatary 118.. a 121 s. 8.1. low middhsssg 124, a 1275. 6d.
good to fine middling ljgo. 9J. • 1355.; Domingo. ordinary
118..; fair 11474 • 1204 s 9.1. Pinsentat is inquired after and
fold .ti®); a small parcel has beets bought at 841. but notion;
offers now at this pries. l• Cocoa and Ginger we have no-
t hing done; of the haler article typarcwl of Barbadoes was
token i•' a patine sale at 58s. 3d., and 7,400 bags sad
pocket: of E. 1. at 15a. 61. per cwt. Carolina Rico 111
shit
very dull agile wills the exception of foie, for which 20a. 6.1.
utf• red; 5;0 casks have been off-re sl at auction, and the
wliote withd(ast• Cur waist of bityets : 1,600 bags white Bau-
rl were takes yesterday by the :rocas, chiefly at 12, fo►
air, and • few lots at 14.. (its huodl for g I. Common Lee-
ward I•lani Ram ►a• sold at 2. 214 D. I'. at 3.4 3.1. and Jo-
maina 21 17 P. at 3s. 341.; but 11w demand fur this article is
stall In Ilidra there ate no $414.11, hut prices arc steady.
No alteration in Tallow.
We have esperieneed more demand in Tobacco for export
than for some time past, atone alilllll parcels hove beeu dia.
p 05.41 of, principally in the low descriptions of Kentucky
and Virginia Leaf at 3d. to 411. per lb. The market fur
Moat remains steady, the business done however is limited.
There is as 'alteration its antericau Flour. The sales in
Moores, Pot Aube* have been et/ Ailed to a few small lots
ro by the consumes at 325. per 'cal. and some stained
and et u,1441 at 29. to 30, per cwt. -The demand for Pearl
A ;los is nearly su.pended ; a small parcel of New Yorks
4.0. red by auction usi lloaday, was withdraw•, bill after-
s. rots sold at 31u. ad. per cwt. Dyers/oda continue in
Vto led demand ; the sales of the week coupist of some small
lois of Jamll4l 1.44gw00d at 61. 2s. 6.1. to 61. 104. per
null a parcel of Spaiiish Emote at 51. 54. per ion. 40 11111111
fOrill Nicaragua Wood offered by •urtiu• yesterda), acre
nolotraw is for want of bidders, being held at 131. per tots.
Shotinae coons ues in ►trod) demand, and about 500 to
6212 bags have ti en taken •t 22:. per cwt. About 100 tuna
of Sicily Brimstone, of tine qurlity. have beau sold, but the
parer ha, out 11CCII aslftttd lu trao.Pire.

rl.ll OITA have not varied much since over last ; no con-
el,' lOU can be finned 4‘ she ultun.ue Klll'ol4ol of the Fishery,
f the accounts whirls base already been received, they
bent only to dates whirls which "mild allow time fur good
iioi.ll7, before the ships would be obliged to return. MAD
(ht.; are steady.
NM :Tit AMERICAN PRODUCE.

Corcon —On WIASIPPdiy last a very active inquiry COM.
rOf0C•11, chiefly for Some, and upwards of 1,200 bales of
OM description wife 'taken at lair prices, nearly Ibe a hole
by the trey; the tone dispiuiilson to purchase has conti-
nued throughout she neck, and the misineas has only !wen
sii.n keit by the increasing firmness of holders. 'Um: sales
u•e, ditty paid, 152 bags Upland, middling 121,it. fair to
r.Jod 12;.1. to 121.1 ; 5:1 Temples:we, fair 112 1. ; 100 Per.
11.11111)11Cil 16.1. to 101 d.; 150 Smyrna, fair to g 1 101 d.
to 1 (iu hood) 1,000 bags Surat, totlinary to widdhng
C: I. w7'-,J.fair to good 7 !01. Is. Slid. line OW.; lillo Heogal,
4... hoary all middling 61.,. to 7.1. tair to good 714. to 71.1.
per lb.: total, 3,07nt Mtgs. The imports are 1.2 bags In--
'Derma, 24 West India, 125 fiCispil, 100 Aladraas; total
import 271 bags.

Postscript, Teregday, Julyls, MO, tour o'Clock.
CUltet.—The marker was very heavy tu-d.iy, and at Iwo
public saks the prices of all dem-septum. of JAMAICA gave
wvy about 3s. per rat. and of Dummies l ; 124.. was ra-
t.. Jay gives fur SI. Doming.), and at a ask lu-day Ms. was
l'.e hig!iest price bid, and it was withdrawu al Ws. G.I. per
ca 1.

SCCIAII —Thrre wai a dearly dematiJ fur E.P. Sugar 10-
d.y, and about 1,300 blade. true suld at Ilse prices of Last
welt.

"OREM% Sccans —The wily lowilicsa of importance in
Fareigii Silting was a public wale of 1-2/Iclicebi us Brazil tor-
day, st.e price* were ritual su those paid last Tuesday, al-
-I`...rugh the highest price plot was only beir. the white nut
14...4:: of she finest deserip .
A4OLIN• —Assailliar public sale war brought for-
a ...I Isis day, at which the desolated appeared Forgisial, the
b•-. pascal was taken in at 39.. sisal part of the sessialuthr
lid, dull at 31s. 8.1. to 3ss. tl.l. per cert.

The Hasp, 01 id gimp, just arrived from Jai.
ret mord belUre her time tin isecionuit of tiw
(toy rut. Previous to her sasli she had surveyed
i:.e whole of Mexico. Iler Ciiouni, a very
iirtelligi tit Mall, and who has been i.wa nl that
speaking the lango,igr. and a Etvuurlte of
II e Spaiiierdii. *us admitted
treated with the most friesulty lioaptialo.y. mot. thil
sily, has brought informal, which will serve to
change that system of jealously awl 'distrust which
bas hitherto been so is o i 000 icul to r cordial comma-
meat ion between iliistountry Nod the Swoosh Colo-
vies. Tnis has. nudoulit. been brought alnaut by
the wisdom end lopsight of that zealous and *Vire
officer. Sir H. Puritan. We ire. however, coas-
t:4.o,llrd to suy. tliat Ins 'welsh was iu a very preca.
rums state when the H up left Jammer.

YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.
TRIAL OF WILLIAM OLOFIELD,
Fur the wilful Mercier of his Wife.
[Flom " 77t0 Leer's Atereury," of Friday, July 21.]

The trial commenced st tone o'clock in the morn-
ing. The Primmer, who is a publican at Bradlord,
wits charged by the Coroner's Inquest, and by an
indi oment booed by the Grand Jury. with the
wilful murder of Mary Oldlield, his wife, on the
28th Jour, by kicking, besting. and striking her,
and throwing her upon the flow.
Mr. JONEI slated the case ow the part of the
prosecutete.
The following is a brief account of the trial.
The principal witness was Win. Wheatley, who
lodged in the house at the tisue of the death of
Mrs. Oldlield. He slated that the Prisoner kept
the I for,e and Groom public-huuse at Bradford.
There are two stair-eases in the house, one leading
front the passage, and the other from the kitchen;
the former comumeirates with the lodging-rwien of
the Prisoner and his wiFr. and the latter with some
*pertinent+ occupied by the witness and his family ;
but there is no communication between the two
motes of rooms, except by coming down our stair-
case and going up the other. The witoess went to
bed about half-pasl nine o'clock on the night of the
27111 of June; he was roused from his bed about
twelve n'elock, by a person coming to his room with
as tankard, supposing him to be the vraiter,,to have
soma ale drown. l'ise witness, after this, fell
asleep, but awoke some time after, when he heard
two cites of murder, in a faint voice, which pro.
seeded from the room of the Primmer, awl winch
wittiest. believed to be the voice of the deceased.
Knowing that the Prisoner had been in the habit
of ill treating his wale, he did not think these cries
tiny thing extraordinary, rod did not get tip. The
cries were succeeded by a perfect stillwmi. Wit-
ness then fell Are,' again, and did pot rise till five
o'clock in the morning. When he came down
stairs he siw the body of the deceased lying in the
kitchen, at the bullion of the stair-case, and he
found, on examination, that she was quite dead, suit
covered with blood ; her heed was reclined upon
the frasie of a chair. The witness immediately
wrist op to the Prsolier's room, the door of whica
lie Cooed lurked. IVittiess called to him, and said.
" for Gail's sake, Mr. 01.1 field, get up, your wife
is lying dead in her blood," The Prisoner replied.
" I low csats 1 help it, a il--d itifernal b-11!"
There were a .great roans fawsteps marked with
blood in the kitchen, but lie thought they bad the
appearance of being made by r woutait's foot. Wit.
netts was of opinion that she could not have fallen
iii that positiou. He could distinctly trace blood
from the body of the deceased to the chamber-door
of the Prisoner. There was also the print of a foot
in the room of Benj. Oldlield, the son of Primitter,
by it former wife.
Witness on his cross-examination said, that when
lie went to bed he left Mrs. Oldfield sitting by the
lire in the kitclirit" clue had had some liquor, but
was not ;tut beyond her guard."
John Stain.by, on 11111111qtalli Milne,* on the part
of the prosecuttan. was called upon Its recogni-
zance, but did not appear, stud the Court ordered
hilt recogilizances to he retreated.
Jahn Gibson, the deputy-constable of Bradford,
slated, that he arrived at the house of the Prisoner
between live and six in the morning ; he described
the situation of the deceased much in the same
terms as the last witness; and lie abo spoke in the
trace:. of blood front the kitchen to the door of
the chamber where the Primmer lodged, and to
itiatiol in the elvinalter, which appear,d to have been
wiped pip with a cloth. Ile also stated the account
which the Prisoner gave I • or the transaction,
which was nearly the same as the Prisoner after-
ward. ended as his defetece.

..Ir. Win. Stoup, Surgeon, at Bradford, exa-
mined the body at the desire or the Coroner; there
were e 'views bruises upon the body, some on a part
or the body or cannot describe; but the surgeon
was of opinion th•it
duce(' death, which was occm,imied by the rupture
or ■ blood %Timel upon the brain. There was a
e msiderable wound on the head, and also a bruise,
but these wounds would not necessarily have pro-
duced that rittravasittion of blood upon the head
to which lie attributed the death. This extravass-
thin of blond might leave been produced by a roll,
or by a violent blow on the head; it was on the
opposite vide .if the head to the wound ; but the
witness said a blow on one side of the head might
produce a stauslon of blood on the opposite tide of
the bruin. An apoplexy will more likely to happen
to a person in a state of intoxication than when so-
ber. The witness could not say that the bruises
upon the body or the deceased might not by possi-
bility have been occasioned by repeated falls. Some
of the bruises did not appear to have been recent.
Won •ss was also of opinion, that supposing the de-
ceoptrd to have died initatoly upon falling against
the chair, the pasition of Ice body was exactly that
which he should have expected. After so consider.
able an extravasat• if blood upon the brain there
could not have been that degree of exertion which
would have enabled her to conic down stairs.

The Prisoner, in his defence, said lie had been
at Halifax on the ;7th June, and returned home at
twelse at night ; I.e found Ins wife lying upon the
bed with her clothes on, in a state of intoxication,
with a child lying beside her; he shook her to
mike her get up, that the bed ruiv,lit be made; in
endeavouring to get her up she fell from the lied on
the fluor; he a•sietrd to get her up, she fell down
again, and then reeled out of the r uur, and went
down stairs, and lie went to lied, and did not see
any more of her until thestiornionr,.

Os the part of the Prisoner two witnesses were
csllrd,
Julio lagh•►m staled that the deceased was in a
state or nao.icotion on the evening preceding her
death.
Alice Broughton proved that she washed the
stockings of the deceased, which were very bloody;
in order to accuulit fu► the tout-mirky n► the k►tchen
she etited that the blood had been washed out of
the flour of list chamber by the direchow of the

eri.untr.
Tot Juvot summed up the evidence with grrat
paruculsr►ty, u►wn winch be made litany judicious
uhrervations. His Lordship hinsheil We charge at
ten minutes, before two o'clock. and the Jury ini.
mediately retired to courider of their verdict. When

they had been spine time out of Court, they sent •
message to the Judge, requesting • question to be
put to one of the witnesses. His Lordship isnines
distely ordered the :Jitsy• to be condicted iuto
Court. The witness; William Wheatley, having
been placed in the box, his Lordship inn the goes-
tioit to hits ; it merely related to the position of the
chair, whether it was placedin the middle of the
room or iigaisist the wall, and also whether the head
was recliord against the front of the elwir.
nese stst.4l, that the chair was stailding in its usual
position, with its hack against the wall, and that
the kraal of the deceased was upon the front bar of
the chair. which was about seven or right yards
from the fir...place. The Jury then ogsin retired,
end dud not return into Court until three o'clock,
whys, they pr ed the fatal verdict of Guilty.
His Lordship, in a very impressive address,
passed sentence of death moon the onhappy mail,
and, according to the statute, directed that hie es.
ccotion should take place on Mooalay, and that his
body should be given to the siirgeolis for dissection.
The l'rPoii,r, when he was leaving the bar, sal I,
" My Lord, I am a murdered matt."

THURSDAY, JULY 20.
CROWN SIDE-111tH TREASON.

All the persons in 1.11. i oily, against whom hills
for high treason 114(1 been blond, were brought •
Court this ruoruiug. They were brought forward to
lie spokes, to in parties of four. B-sides the 9.4
turotiortrrl yesterday, there is another. Thomas
Ferryntured, against whom a true bill has been found,
making thus 2.i altogether. Of these, three. Mo-
lnar iiirripleWilli Joseph Smirk, and John Pickering,
are not in custody. l'werity.two ere this morning
brought to the bar. The INuAry or Grange-
moor division were first called, seal of them the
first was Wallow Conedire, a good-looking and
well-dressed young man. Of the Iludderstield dist.
slim. of whom there are only four. the first was
John Peacock, aged 45. Each party, as they were
arranged at the bar. war tlop addressed :
Mr. Justice PARK—" The Crawl Jury have
found true bill. against you for high treason. It is
my duty, therefore, to tell you, that you have a
right to apply to the Court to assign yoo Coon-el,
not exceeding Iwo. IVllliani C ive, what
Counsel do you wish to lie assigned to you ?"
W. Conowsie---•! My Lord, I hope you will
give us a few days to consoler'" -"
Mr. Justice PARK—" I cannot refuse that err.
tainly. You need not be called up ;
Stavely can tell me; let it be by Monday isrx's
have you made choice of an Attorney ?"
W. Contstive—" Yes, Mr. Canters (of Shef-
field."

Mr. Justice PARK—" Have you agreed. Mr.
G,eaves, or do you wish for tune to consider 1"
Mr. GREAVES--." I wish fur time, if your Lord-
ship pleases."
All the Prisoners in the first indictment, 18 in
number. made tlle same request, and obtumed the
same indulgence.
Mr. Justice PARK—" YOU will have copies of
the indictment, a list of the jurors, mid a list of
the. witnesses, sooner probably. that is, a longer time
before your trial, than is arquired by law. I shall
adjourn the Assize for the purpose of having you
tried before it is concluded. It will he six weeks
after the business here shah he ended. The ad-
journment will be to a Saturday, but the trials will
not commence till eight o'clock ou the Monday
following.
The Prisoner James flowers, aged 49, was asked
whether he wished fur time to choose his Counsel.
Being very deaf, lie replied, " Yes, Sir, I was forced
from any home."
On the second indictment only four were called;
the first was John Lindley (aged 50). They ob-
tained the smile time for nailing their Counsel, but
they readily intoned Mr. Carr, of Goisiersal, for their.
attorney. Mr. Carr was called f the other
Court, and exprrsseil a desire to have time to con-
puler, as lie knew nothing of the men.
Mr. Justice PARK said, that lie should certainly
have time, and lie should make an order in Ids caste
to see the Prisoners. But Mr. Greaver could not
have any further order, having already had two.
Mr. ItA INE made the usual annum for a list of
Juror. to try the persons charged with high treason,
and for serving that list Nom Alaull, solicitor
fur the Crown.

Mr. Jut.tice PARK granted the order; and added,
that it might be mentioned at the hot of the list,
that the Jurors tired ant attend till the Nlooday
after the adjourned tnertmg of the Cornn►ission.
Several hours after.valtlN, wheat the Grand Jury
had finished their business, hi• Lordship said that
lie could not discharge then►. This would not l►e a
discharged Con►misstoo. It was to lie adjourned to
Saturday, the 9th of September ; but unless they
had notice they would not be required to attend.