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HISTORY OF INDIA.
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HISTORY' Or Ii it i TISII
Hy JAM Es Mil., E.g.
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nosier-ion.
•.• • We have already had ormion, iu inannunne the
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of its merits The labour which hati been employed its Col-
lecting mid eiratotiong materiata, the nkdful iliatrlbutton of
the tarts iato !nor'r comports's...Ha, thr high tune of Moral
frding, and the enlarged mildly which t amyl/here per.
vat the narrative, • nl.ll, the History of Brilialt Isnlsa to be
mrar.l.e.l as a raltiable addition to our national !dentine.
II RlVre a clear connected view of a series of tramactiona,
'writ liar in their nature, and Important in ttrir rougenneuri
oh ch till now mere involved 111 sib,., urity, but which can.
slot lw ma& Climber to the mind wallw.ul enriching usu. tit.
It Ilcrtnal botrea a Oh new von. of society and of indtvidual
t Attract. r. The imettiovecirculattun of Mr. Milts Iliatory
trot be a heto ti both to England and to India."—Dritish
I:ev, XXIV.

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TIIC COMMISSION INTIT.I.I.IGENC4

TVC.DaY, NOVV4UEII 3.

MYSTERIOUS AND EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Nary Arthurian was indicted for feloniously
it. atio,g namry, mill other valuables, to a
ble amount, tau the 10th of Julie last, out of the
ilwe Ilitig-huuse of Aitogartt Flood ; and, in a second
count, fur it, ailiug said property out of the dwell-
mg-house of Muses C iiiiii
Mary Ann FIOO4I MOTS and eXillgirield.
Is slaughter to Ilargaset Flood; lived in June
last a ith her mother us Thom as-street ; remembers
her being rubbed at that time at about 75/. a silver
watch, and some gold ring, which were'deposited
sit lit r mother's hoe. The Prisoner theta lived ser-
vant with her module; witness has nut seen her mo-
ther she missed her mother at about a quar-
ter after three o'clocit ; site (witness) went I
home at about time o'clock, immediately lifter
breakfast, and slid not return until past three
o'cloCk ; asked Piisoner where her mother was—she
said she weld out with a tailor. This tailor had
lodged with her mother some time before, and
tame the night previous from the tousitry. Wil-
lie's went 4411( lli,(11111, /41111 returned some tune after;
Prisoner then said her mtelier had come in with ;lie
tailor, aunt her mass and a womaii, and then arid
out atom. Iler mother occupied a cellar; Moses
Connor occupied the house user it, and lived its the
shop; the only eutrance to the cellar was from the
street ; there Was a way backward, but it was over
a wall; there were three apartments in the cellar,
in which her mother kept a coult's shop mud six
lodging beds : her father 11411 been dead sonic time;
ilwre were but Pier illuener, herself, rasa a little sis-
ter; saw a watch that belonged tai her mother, and
was in the box, with Corporal Ella rut's sister the time
of the rolybery—about is fortisight after it, raw
gold ring. part 01 her inotheT's property, with *et.-
jrailt Cassius, iu about two or thine dais after the
watch was fitisiol—(ltere the watch unit ring were
produces!, and witners identyied them as the wee
that bud been sinien ; art ear-ring WU 44:10
daced)—osie of the apartments to the csjlar was
very dark ; limos) that ran-ripg be-tweets twp beds
that lay in this artittinssit ; got the other ear-ring
in the pos,ession or Mr. Steven's, a peace officer;
her mother always wore these rings ; did not 11011 Cr
bar wearing thrill the day tsf the robbery ; it post-
:lee she had them on the nay before; hears! the
Prisoner say at the l'nliCe ()flier, dust stir took
watch from a gentkinais doe n on the „„.,„,
she picked his pocket ; did not say what was Isis
name, o: where lie heed; she said Captain %%girlish,
of the Lancers, gave lier the mg; saw Captain
Wlsrlais at the t'ulice Office afterwards, he denied
giving it.
Questioned by Burma (:EORGE-IY[lra witarra
come hark, Prisoner was its the cellar with her little
s-ister, about Pie }ears old ; asked sister where
mother was ; she caul she will nut, playing with
little girls ; tirxt day, when she futinii lief mother
was out c 1111 l 'Ane. stir Went to her coUslii's to
iutlutrr after Pier; whets she cause hack she found
the house ou lire, mid the •hgllied there Its put mat
the fire, the cellar was UVrlThisiti with wstrr ; be-
heves Prirosser set tire to the chitisory by hgthoing
souse ditty straw ill piisosser would tint smut I,
th st any liersUJl to sleep in the place, though
several peisoUs tallest for lodgings ; said that her
Cher orgies:et) eio person should steep there; wit-
ness asked her why she lit straw its the elsiiiihe) ;

_ .
she said that it was dirty. and that she wanted it
out of the way in rase her mother should be mar-
ried, as the was sure she Would lie to the t:.i'nr;
this strew, however, was fresh, tint foul ; !wool. s
wr► not c2stotnary to lawn straw at all; .he rriorm-
leered, !Awning it but once, sod that was in 11,111rer.
b•tt 111 summer they would tint do any such thmlC
had not seen the tailor at her mothee's then nor tor
six months before ; her mother was about forty
years old, quite fat and helpless : one of the ear.
rings was found between the beds, and was marked
with blood ;is wsiiive it was blued, bri.i tery red
and clotted ; her lumber kept her money and oilier
valuables in a hoit ; it was opened, the landlady,
Mis, Connor, had a bunch of kepi,. one of which
fitted. and was well known to lie the box ; Prkoorr
went for this bunch of k.la to open the box ; Sirs.
Consior's maid went 'stilt her to see what was Pi it,
and that sheothould take titvltiii,t, but all was gone
t)efore they opened the boi ; mother wmi
accustomed to keep the watch in the hoe ; Mrs.
Aitlitirton always knew all:re her mother kept
her valuables; ►he had lived Mile mouths with tier;
mother could not read or write, witness kept her ac-
counts; a quaker had 351. of the money ; believes
it was given up to the l'ulice ; the I?►i•oner never
appeared to have tiny motley; a few dap after mo-
ther disappeared, clue bought two or three liitle
things for witness and her little sister, and a num-
ber of things for herself ; witness was htrtusd an
apprentice to a maiitua-i;piker in South King-street.
went there in the morning and returned in the even-
ing; mother disappeared on a Tuesday.
• - -

Richard Allard sworn and exami.ted.
I • corporal in the 16th Lancets ; knows the Pri-
a iner at the bar ; hart known her for alintat lime
months; 1111 W her in the month of June boit;
(watch proolticed):—lind that watch in his litisse-sinti
once foi about a week ; got it on Saturtlay, the 13th
of JUIN', from Alary Arthurtmi ; she first gave him
a watch ribband, he said lie did not want that, as he
had no watch to put is on; she said she would lend
bin' one, then csve him this, and bade him he sure
tp reign; is safe back again ; on the Friday folinw-
minigd,
ittli:4l69:ll:itif June,
father's
Ann Flood came for
the watch, and said it was her lather' watch ; lie
and that lie would give it up ;
he did so to herself and cousin ; never saw Prisoner
ody at the Police-nffit.e ; she owned that she
was the person who had lent the watch to him ; she
sal., then *lie took it from a man no the qua), but
told him when she was lending it to him, that it war
a ims,sepi .be had a long tisqe ; there was a double
brass chain with two seals and two keys tip it when
she g ye it to lom.
Ala y Ana Flood being recalled, Said, that her
father's watch had a double brass chain, two seals,
and two keys.
The corporal, in continicitinn, said, lie had taken
of these and put on the iliphai.d ; the chain, keys,
and st'als were in his 11,VII oar, mail he
gave them up to the Police Office ; knew Mar-
garet P10...1, had been several times at the cellar
before, and three times after tl.is attfail ;asked Mary
Arthurton what becalm. of Mrs. Flood; she said
she went opt with the tailor.

Mary Aim Flood wlts..,agdo called, and being
afkrd respectieg the snitch roper, she drberibed it
all soiled and bcrntelied, and amd, the ibefl.oll who
list repaired it, had written her fothro's name on
the lop:k of it, Jame.; Flood." [On examining
the paper, this w.is found peifretly correct.)

Cowls sworn and examined.
sideatit in the Lancers; knOwi lie woman at
the bar; reineinbers getting a valuable article from
her the 11111 of June last, in the evening ; a gold
ring; she Dante that day to the Royal Hospital, sent
one of the dragoons for him ; when he came, she
had a child in her arras; she asked him if he would
take a tumbler of punch with her ;he said he would ;
they went Into a public-house with two dragiams ;
she gave them half •a gallon of porter, and they
hail rouse punch. When they sit down together,
the look out a large bundle of Bank notes; she
then took a gold ring from her finger and gave it to
him ; she had a Over watch at the same tittle ; the
said the ring was given to bar by Captain Whelan,
of their regiment ; after she gave him the ring, she
Paid she must hurry home with the child. She had
a great many notes, but the witness could not say
many ; be kept the ring until inquiry was
made after it by Mary Ami Flood and peace officer
Stevens; (ring produced ;) swears it is the came he
got froM riismier; had not seen her before for
better Outdo mantis; heard her say she came from
England; always said \he was an English girl.—
Captain IVlielaii belongs to their regiment ; he is
now quartered at Kilkenny.
. _

Mary Aim Flood WJ9lure caller! actin, and said,
~ •
that she liearci ukays declare, that sht
came from the County lii[dare. She said her
11386.111 d war one of the Lancers, IV illua,n Wain-
i:ght, mod that she had been Ittrnrd out of the re*.
gooriA fur a )e..r and a day, for Irratiog one of
the women.
lioherj Gilbert, Peace 011ictr.—It. collects
going' on the .26,1 i June last U. a person of the
name of Webb, Io Nicholas. beet, who afterwards
went with him to the Iliad (Mee t.f Police. A
young lail,ll deist of the %hop, came after, Hod gave
up times, almot 351., iu ilie mine of NVilliain
%Vrbli, a 0114ker ; these were nrinliicetl before the
Prisoner at the office, in reertice of rl,e %Ants% owl
she sultstiowleollgortl she had given them to gale to
him, till she could call for ihritt ; she 100 l laid not
iii the 1.1101.1 sonic money for attiojeo she
had pnr-
t•hased; Conk rlo.vn in niiiiii4 all else Wild at the
tone.— [lllere witne•• remit 3 wiper, /1.
Mary Arthitrtini le gnawed to ilich ,ral At tlisitt-ti,
a vinitesomili, to Manchester ; she has heron in
fur the tao last )Fairs, and cmisr from Eogl.inil to'sre
her Inroads ; her alltrer trine Lrtltiatt, and lives
141 (::141ertitlio:ny, comity litiJ.ur, tirar I'd. istlrrry ;
Prir.merlefelier father three years hack, came to, low is
laitgira at Portlmil-street ; Itrr I.i•ter %np-
ported her sit that tune; she went to love afterwards
al Alis. Gorman's, NO, 5, (7orii-liii.r.ket, where she
• ••••
St oil for six weeks, then Welit. to Mrs. Fiumrr, of

PRICE SEVEN-PENCE;

77, Tholims•stre..t, and there lived ever since, Ail(
atiprehetided in Ilarrack street; says that NIT..
Flood went out of the cb•llsr ol.th 11.1114 H called the
Iclug T•I'll'r; they returned Hod. drai.k tome •pi-
rit•; Mrs, Flood sent Prisoner 14 the Quayii of
twine; she afterwards %vela out with ILL. 10,,g
Tailor, and another tailor nod his wife, about live
o'clock, and desired the Prisoner not to take cis H.lty
lodgers until the came back ; never yaw Mrs. Flin:d
tiller, or one of die party that went nut with' her;
told Mrs. Connor, the lai.dlably, of the cirrurn-
stirces, and sent Mr'. Flood's blaug'•ter to qre:.t
Charlesssttert, to tell ‘Villiain Flo •d of it ;
toner hid no supper's but what A•lr.b. Flood gave
her; .Ir.. Flood left all her property behind hti;
Seijebnit C 301,01111 and COII4HrUI Allar.t, of the Itit
lancers, came to ere the Prisoner at the celit ; •I:e
took the motley (prodni,ed by the peace offieri)
front a gentleman on Wrlllugtrin-Ittay, on kbt
night fortnight ; the strewed it to the seljetrr, and
gave him tire tenpenny• pieces ; the mite,. were in a
letter which she did Ind reed, or know the direction
on thr: bacg of it; all the ))))) ley taken from the
gentleman the left at 3lrs. %Veldt's, of 11Lrholni-
street • the watch she gave to Corporal 4Hard, the
took from anothrr gentleman about two month* 'be-
fore, and the ring from another gentleman; Pri-
soner is married about nine years; lived ill
cnetter two share previous to her marriage ; work-
ed at Mr. Itioughtubb's factory; slept' between
Miss. Flood's SWII dauilbters the 'bight the. Wait
missed; says that Ales. Hood had no ear-.logs in
her ears the day the went away; Prisoner slept in
a house of ill-faine'the night before the was :pint--
'tended.
Aim Flood again being called, said, her mother
had about 751. tit flank note., 'which 'die folded se.
paratrly, ill a p‘riicular manner ; they writ al of
a very old date.

Ali. Gilbert corroborated this statement, 41111 1,111 l
they were so loci in this particular 10141, that when
opened and lift free on the livid or a table, they
resumed thAt fold without any 'trouble.
The Prisoner wide no defence.

Baron GEORG; charged the Jury, alto, w'stliont
leaving their box, gave in verdict of
ifty.
Tim • BARON then addressed the Prisoner with
great feeling mill 'solemnity. He told her ie was
convicted, on the clearest %oil oriu.t satisfactory
evidence, of one capital crime, that lei! to Om
stroligest and most conviticilig that
she must Gave firm guilty Of a mare liri,s6lB* floe
in its accoMplishmetit. There could he oo re.i-
sonable doubt, after the evidence !Wry had lieuril
00 this trial, hut that she was guilty of the tour.
der of the poor and ulifortucuti woman whoi.e
petty she hsd plundered. lie conjured her ta eii•
deWvour at some atniainent during the short linty
she had to live; by making a full coi,fe,s.oit of !Ur
crime, and the manner in which she
of the tinily ; reatiniiing her, that this wan it,.e
,lance mitre, to inill;mis that have hero
the watchful care of Almighty Priietilroce in
to light the ili;okest and 'mad hiddi
Murders. His Lordship then prolinunctd the fill
sentence of the low.

The Prisoner, a coarse and masettline looking
woman, about 35 or 36 years of bore lierspli
up with great composure and fortitude, moil sl.e
heard the dreadful sentence of deinh, when she
sunk overpowered on the raised flior of the dock,
from which she was lifted by some of the gaolt•r's
assistants, who cituclucte,l her imated,ately to her
cell in the prison.
The daughter of the deceased. Mary Ann
Flood, who was examined, is a very interesfink;
loOking girl, of about seventeen.

Putrid; Dogherty, Patrice Blaney, and %lomat
Adderly, for a burglary and robbery tit tine hnu.e of
Dennis,Scully, E q, on the night of the 12th of
October la.t, were also citintall7 consietetl, god
riei•ived seatence of Detail.

Yesterday Julia Murray was capitally convicted
of a rubbery 'in the house of 'Chortles htevling
Berry, Esq. and receiver♦ sentence of D,uih.
Arthur ;11•Getity was also capitally convicted of
feloniously personating a 'Blame of the mime of
Win. M,Loglilin, to obtain prize-money due to
IMO, the said M'Loglilin, fur services on board the
Alert frigate, and with intent thereby to (It fratt:l
the Governors of the Royal Hospital tr;
o. ~.rechwich•
AAR Leahy, fur bigaitiy.—The Coutisvl for the
prosecution finding that this charge could nut
sustained, grive up this indictment, and proceed. it
against the Prisoner un • second one fur a viol, rut
assault on Mary Ann Ask well, Ins brst wife iif
It appeared that the prisoner's treatineist rit this
fortunate w 1111 l ass was bridal in the extreme, and
the Ju?y found him Guilty.

FOREIGN INThLLIGENCF.

HAMBURG!' ANU FLANDERS MAILS.

CONhTANTINUPLE, CEPTtNIBFR 25.
The Silikdar (sword-bearer to the Sutun) h,a
hist Ina Poet m COtowfloritce of Nit ir h.L.I
the misfortune on the way to the 11loscitie to k tiot k
the tut boo Irmo the head of the Suites', anil this in-
cident, which the "ILlik4 cunaider as a bad iniiru,
caused Min to Lie liatiisind.

CUPE%UAGEN. OCTOBER ea.

The Atomic Company so stow fitting out 101 tX•
ittiliwon for the F.mmt bilee. Our fitgefr th‘:
Aymph, Cmpt.tot 110 per, arrived limit yrrterkiry
from the Nletlitermovar.
!'otrie fishermen V. were epgagt•il iu the herring
fi,M,y, caught DIA 'lolett 414141 k ,411,1:11 111411 Wit
in their nets. It it m g. 01le, hot
;venom 3001 ht. and is eight fret 1011. The tiOier-
men 'Mew it for mosey, which %rift pay theist for t.
damage dour to their nett, people brio?: rely eager
to see a >h si rare!), caoglit to these mother.' sear.

crocKtiot.m. UCIUUI

On the 18111 an exttaiminctry entrit.ntnnent %,,aa
given to the g,arnanai w inettitny of th, battle of
Lt 11St C.
The hJLIg has (mitred 200 curds of fire wow].