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rilti NEW CROWN PIECE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRICISH PRESS.

- MINT•ITREET, BOROVI:U.

SIR—As T have been etcr an inlimrtr of die
in-
drpendrut principles of THE 8H1T1.,11 l'ars4, and
as L irerceive you have not gulled John Bull wish,
the Mint Circular, I have been induced to give you
a few hasty remarks on the new Crown—should
you deem them worthy a place in your valuable
columns.

We thin k the Dragon too small and infinitely
too contemptible an enemy, for the Grecian Knight
(who, by-the-bye, is so drown in as to be a protect
Dandy) to cope with—haired the horse could
trample him to death, and the warrior's dirk could
never reach it. In the celehreted picture of St.
George, by RAPHAEL, the dragon, matelot of bettor,
under the horse's feet, is by his side, and his bend
nenly on a level with the Knight's knee, who is
attacking him with his sword, the broken spear
lying on the ground : this keeps possibility in view.
Perhaps it might he objected, that placing the
dragon in front of the horse would have required
too cuusiderable a relief; but, as the Elgin Marbles
are quoted as authority for the Mint, we may refer
to them also as authority for milking the whole
group uniform in relief. We think this the first
instance in which two scratched lines and a motto,
have been considered as representing the Garter
perhaps the colour has been changed from blue to
white ire this age of fantastic heraldry. The in-
scription is not to he 'yokes, of after the coins of
CROMWELL, and the petition and reddite Crowns
of CHARLES 11. by SIMON ; nay, whoever will take
the trouble to compare the Crown of GEORGIE IL.
of 174, will iustautly perceive the great inferiority
of this tweeted collar-struck piece—the extreme
breadth and thickness of the letters give it a moat
heavy, crowded, and clumsy appearance, and where
the slightest variation in the horizon:al situation of
the blank has occurred, and this has frequently
happened, the tops of the letters nu one side, and
the bottoms on the other, are totally wasitnig; and
we also think the bust much interior to those of
preceding English Sovereigns, and certainly out to
be compared to that of Lours XVII!. ou the ire
franc piece—there is also a peerliarity eu the latter
which we should have been very glad to have noticed
on the Euglish Crown—the bust bring the ab►olute
lac simile of Lents; whereas, no person iu the
slightest degree acquainted with the person of our
d Monarch, would venture to say, whatever
lie sought write, that this additional specimen of the
inveutive powers of the Mint bears the least re-
semblance to our good old Kist, ; the hair is boa-
ribly stiff and wiery, we might almost supper it
was a wig forged by Cyclops. Why are the letter.
on the surface of the coin smaller than on the
edge ? A circle, we Suppose meant as au Ufildflitla.
surrounds both obverse and reverse— to us it sug-
gests uo other idea than a circle of daggers, and it
has been usual for the English Sovereigns to be
encircled by the hearts, slot the spears of their
subjects—though no unfit emblem cf a military
despotism; by-the-bye, the elegant addition to the
half crown of W. %V. P. is omitted on this per-
formance, perhaps the Right Hon. Worker of the
Mint conceived the word Ptsstrucci to be more
delicate, as well as affording variety. IVill future
ages (as they have been kindly cousidered iu the
Mint Circular) not be likely to impiire whether
Eugland was so degenerate in talent, as to r. quite
are Italian Artist's aid to produce the current cults
of this KING'S reign?

CIOIL Eit.

P.S.—We forgot to state that, as retrestchosent
is the order of the day, ihiti Crown is even lighter
that, two of the uew liolf-crowils by two gruinr.—
Query—ls there au Act of Purbsuieut for this

We have the Wetmore of announcing that Mior
FITZCLARENCE Call 01111(1 Ull his legs. Med huprs
to be able to leave home Us akw days. 11;s tus .1-
tnile and fine spirits never rutfi-red for a mascot
during his long awl painful cossfissetssent.
The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM basurrivrd sit Ws
swots Avington, Hants. from ntowe, Bucks.

Viscount Astittanint lies left Beaumont, Berk,,
for his twat, Castle Durum, Ireland.

Colonel ST A fur left Warren's [lntel, vesterdm.
with (lisp:defies fur the Ilon. Sir TilosiAs Mstl•
LA ND, Hurt. at the Island tn.
The Right Hon. Sir IlEtittY Mit%
stud family have arrived at their house in WintioA• •
street, from • tour.

On Wednesday the Archduke Maxistit [An
Austria arrived at Oxford. After i Aft . .topeciing iht•
colleges and public buildings of the Uttitri-sit—
and dining with the VICE-Cti A NCRI.LO.R Olt 'rims • •
day, his Imperial Hight:T.4 next day liroCertirti 4,11
his tour to Blenheim, IVarwick, Bitusinghttiti
and other parts of the kingdom.
Viscount and Viscountess Tuareara, (ielot.tl
and Mrs. LESI.ta CENJIING, Lady rut:rust. X. •
and Mrs. FRANKS, %Ir. JARVIS, Nlr.
TON, Rev. Mr. Rattail% Mr. !knurl t, 410 Ni •
POSTER. are in the list of vi4nor. at t;:ntr.
Mr. Mrs. and Kisses CARL ETON, I "Agri
Lady LAKE, Sir J. Hope, Mi..„ )1,-01,44'
ALDAN, and Sir G. PRESCOTT. ate ve
Gitlin:n*6les at Broid4tranis.

I

rHEATRES.

Dar eir-'l. A Itt.
Last night FAiigunaft's comedy of 'I he Recr•it-
iaj beer was performed at this theatre. This
wee, siestwitliatamliog some occasomel pruriencies
which the taste of the author's time permitsed, per.
I►aps in Mae 1111CM1111E required, jenly 11111110 mum%
the most choice preditctious of our drama. It moms
fells not only an intimate acquaintance with hums.,
nature, and the movements of the heort in general,
hut akin brings to view. with great success, the na.
trial variety of the human character, meted on by
similar feelings and 'placed in similes. situations.
Most of the characters in fact are. if we may use
the expression, doplicates, yet with a sulficirot de-
. Kree of difference. We have a pair of Gmillimen
making love, and (what is most rare) feeling it too--
a pair of young Ladies, who receive their addresses—
's pair ofCeptains—a pair of honest clowns, *educed
into the service—and a trio of Justices; yet the
identity is perfectly preserved in every i►►disidual,
and most of them possess the characteristics of a
distinct species. Sylvia is the frank, generous,
affectionate gal.—Melinda, the vain. envious.
tielfiali, heartless coquette—Worthy. the puling,
whining swain, the slave of caprice and pride,
ready to purchase his mistress's hoed at any price.
condere►nding to every art, and hooting after
every arstagem to assist his suit—Plante, who to
his fondness fur his mistress unites respect for him-
!
self, and disdains any thing unworthy of a man to
obtain her person, aspiring slier heritage. But it
is thecompanson of the throsonical. vulgar, impu-
dent Captain Brom, with the easy. Rollout
Captaia Plume. that sets in the strongest light
our author's talent of pointing i►►disiduals of the
some class. It is said that ceder the latter person.
Ng, l►e drew himself—it is a pity he did not give
as the several steps its tea' ' g, the degrees in edu-
cation, necessary to finish • Brazen, as he described
the requisite qualitinitions of a Kite. ✓astice
Baiowee, though reported to have been written in
compliment to an acquaintance, is perhaps thee's*.
recter sketched the least perfectly or amiably of any
iii the group. It must bare been forgotten that he
1 was intruded to be • kind father. when. before he
has yet received the ceding intelligence of the
death of en only son, he commands his sole sur-
viving child to break the bands he had himself as.
tasted to twine round her ham ; and when, in the
►ame ►erne, wherein be learns the sad certainty of
his ►on's fate, his wily expression of morrow is,
°' lie's dead, and I am satisfied," and promise► in a
fiw days to join • set of young &Hoes over a bottle.
Mrs. MAIIIITN, u Sylvia, called into full play
the ease, gaiety, and spirit of the character. She
was particularly successful during her transforms-
lion into Wiffirl, and stuttered and swaggered with
as bold on ay as any young soldier. Bet in other
scenes there was something deficient : we wove not
able to discern the softer feelings, the tope of rani.
hility, the glow of affection, of FARQUHAR'S Syleie.
There was wanting the expression of that powerful
passim', undiminished by absence a►d change of cir-
cumstance—that passim' which prompts her wildest
freak, awl whose m►tvemeaes pervade it throughout.
Mrs. °Ramis Melinda was a respectable piece of
acting. Mrs. A Line very naturally represented the
simple, though iircuniteist and aspiring Rom. Mr.
STANLIV did ample justice to the light-heirted,
Weer, intriguing Captain Plow. We were highly
ittrastd with Mr. Pirst.at'saperfunnance of Ser-
rault Kite. It is to be lamented that Mr. /Atm-
Dim cask) wet press a little more agility and
some youth into the service of Coster Ptomain.
IN elnearight simplicity and credulity could not
hove been more faithfully or humorously pour-
trayed. Equally excellent was the blubbering
grief sod honest friendship of Mr. KlltuuT, in
1 hoods Appletree. Captain Breese was vary ably
represented by Mr. HaaLsv. and Mr. OXIIIIIRY'S
Btillnek should not he plowed over without COIN..
inendatiou.
The play was performed with very considerable
general talent. and went off with eclat. It was
succeeded by the 000-drama of The Falls of
Clyde. The loose wu well attended.

COVENT-GARDEN.

A serious drums, intitled, Proof Prenr•pliee;
or, The Abbey of Sale Marco. was last night pro-
tium!. It is we adaptation, from the French, h
Mr. C. Kgint.g—but the subject is nut altogether
slew to the met►opolis—the Misiager of the Surrey
Theatre haring, some time other, brought it for-
ward on his boards. The characters were thus re-
preveuted
Mr. M►CtCADV.
Betedie .... Mr. Aintree.
Alberto
Jerome Mr. FAILIIIf.
Magistrith Mr. &active.
Ernestine .. Mrs. FAUCIT.

The Peens is laid te the nelgiemichood of Chamber,.
Romani, a 41-sigaing villain, has iadared Alberto. • Irgall•T
nom of weak and trresutute laird, over whom he has wit-
iainld •curniolete mastery, to accompany him to a gaming
table. He there loses 2,10.1 sequins, fur the greater part of
whrels be gives his rite, payable ou the day aucceesliag
the traetraction. He know. nut bur to raise the totes.
airy sum—and, at the same haw, dreads, if it be rut dis-
charged, that his father, a•ossaa of strictly virtuous post.
riplcs, will discover hir invent/weirs, and cast him off
fur cerr. la great agony of mood, be records, accum-
pauied by Reeve, to the news of the Alolley of San Marra,
whore a consultation betwant the i:estrioyer nod his victim
takts place. Romani preps:wee, that they shall slop ()renue,
a wealthy miser, ebo, he knelt, wool.' piss that road, in
his Way turmoils Chanshery, and endeavour to borrow
(rum him, on their joist note, the necessary suns. They
accost the oil man, bet he peremptorily refuse. the
loos', mail he falls, in cusiseoporuce, by the hand of
Ho-
maui. Alberto, who lied orognially oppu.ed the •pplicati ~,,,
and else aliburied the crime ewumutrd by liossv.ooo, floes in
the almost anzuish of mind, and CIIIICI Als : 6t
the reins of the Abbey. A short time before the nosioderows
art was perpetrated. Ernestioe, the elder of Alberto, accuse-
?mated by her little daughter Virginia, had arrived at the
ruins, iaeited by a letter she had *Petered from her husband
beisaehe. Sin years before she hail, with her mother's
stedsinn, bot reheat her fatlwes knowledge, who, from
eirenolistamees, was averse to the match, privately
wedded Reuantou. He had soon afire juisitel the army
—sad on Ibis fatal evening hr unce inure visited the
place -
trouts

p Ind bronchi to tilt 1001, lesikeirokring to discover the wise
of she alarm, he pretends, in the dark. to be a park-heeper,
and, is that calamity, deprives Jerome of his gsoogiviog
him, at the same time, a ring which he had torn from the
Inger of Orono, the poidisciiint of which, at the *riga-
doer, is the meriting, is to lassoe him a nos of money
W the ',had his family Romani sow becomes sespetint—
ad with the fact, tbat le:meshes is possessed of she fatal
sieset•oad. to Owen bee stleoce, he solicits her band ht
marriage. His suit is favoured by her father, hot wholly
riveted by bee. She, however, wears sot to divulge her
hsesseledge of She crime. The body of Ormoso, who, we
shook! hove Observed, war the mole a &naafis, is at
length (nand is the river. As ioquiry takes place, sod ass.
Orion falls cm Resestio sod Jerome: the former having
admitted that he was i.e the mists on the preceding condole.
where Le had dropped a pocket-hook, which was fumed by
a peasant sail restored to bias—sod the latter sot being
able satisfactorily to account for the ling helongiog to
Orsaass, which was discovered on his lager The anspicios
against Bssisatio is rendered still more *trout as he refuses
eo Nate the salary of the pipers rontniised I. the pocket-
book, being still anxious to cosine his marriage from Er-
sestise's father. Every attempt to elucidate the (sets ope-
rates to resider them still more inexplicable, until Benin.
tin, perceiving that Eraestirte knows the aessesios, bat,
loon some extraordinary cause, is prevented from naming
them. boldly avows his marriage, sad, a. a husband, tom-
meads her to state every feet with which she is acquainted.
She immediately accuses RO6lllllll who exclaims, that if he
be the assedeeer, his accuser's beedger, who bad sot been ab-
out from him daring she whole of the evening, must be
equally guilty. Alberto, who had previosaly swallowed
poises inswiedintely avows his criminality. and Romani,
who had seduced hiss from the paths of yids.. defeated its
as attempt to slab himself, is Wooded over to the ministers
of public justice.

This drama is formed from materials similar to
these of which various pieces, of Gallic origin, re-
cently produced, are constructed. Murder and
mystery are its ground-work—and those who de-
light ion the terrible and the marvellous. will find
that their peculiar taste hes been most carefully
consulted. Innocence is placed in the most
fearful jeopardy—vice seems to triumph fur a
moment—but, while humanity shudders fur the
fate of those who are wrongfully accused. un-
looked-for circumstances appear, and poetical jus-
tice is administered to all parties, lit the pro-
duction of trifles of this description, which re-
quire ingenuity rather than • mighty grasp of
mind, our neighbours confessedly have the advan-
tage of us. Give them an isolated circumstance,
and their powers of fancy will soon swell it out to
any required extent. One of their made-dishes,
where there is much of she., but little of solidity,
is no bad emblem of their productions in this line.
The present drama possesses at least as much in-
terest, and as little extravagance, as any of those.
drawn from the some source, that we have witness-
ed. The language is nest—the sentiments just—
and the situations, in general, powerfully effective.
The acting was unexceptionably good. Mr.
MACREADY'S picture of the wily villain, Reasineti—
and Mr. C. littossim's delineation of the 41 fears
and scruples," which first shake Aiken., and of
the horror and despair by which he is ultimately
mailed—were admirable in their kind. Mr. FAS..
LICT.* Jerome was characteristically rough and
rustic. Mr. Anion'. as Ihnesstio. was highly
animated, portitularly in the trial scene—and Mr.
EGERTON. in the Magistrate. played with much
dignity and propriety. Great praise is also due to
Mrs. FAucts., fur her chaste performance of
Ernestine.

The opening scene, a view of the ruins of San
Marco, by moon-light, is exquisitely painted. The
mode of threwhig the shadow of the dilapidated
abbey windows, ea (he nage, is new, and hes a
most charming effect. The thunder storm in this
scene was managed with infinite skill.
The piece was exceedingly well received, mail
its very clove, when some disapprobation was mani-
fested. A curtailment of the exasuisiation, in the
trial scene, which is rather prolix, would be ad-
vautageoua.

The comedy of The We'Maw Day followed—in
which Mrs. T. HILL, from the Bath theatre,
mode her first 'appearance on these hoards, p.
Lady Contest. She is a very pretty woutsu...in
stature beneath the middle sire—somewhat em-
boli-point—sad, iu tier manner, lively and agree.
able. Her voice possesses more strength than
sweetness. She, however, manages her tones with
skill—amp her tnuncistiun is clear, distinct, and
perfect. She dressed the character with much taste
—looked it excel lently--end supported it with coo.
sidereble spirit mud asieeti. We were greatly pleased
with her expression of joy, whets she is visited by the
first Lady Coalest—sod the archness of her de-
meanour, wl►en she introduces the long-lost fair
owe to she almost petrified Sir 4daat, was plea-
sant and wat►sral. Mrs. HILL'S debut was very
socresoful. Mr. W. FAISRIN appeared, fur the
first time, as Sir Adam Conks/. It was a highly-
finished perfo►mance—in no respect inferior to any
of his former efforts. His sudden bursts of pus-
sies, and his almost choking exertions to repel
them, were given with extraordinary vigour and
humour. But the scene in which his " poor
first wile" is restored to him, was ludicrous be.
rind description. His mode of embracing Miss
TlawwxLL (who supported the character, and
whose griefs did not seem to have reduced her [ter-
soil very much) was productive of peak of laugh-
ter. No one who beheld the contra►t between
Air Adam's .pare form and the comely rotundity of
Miss TIDSWELL—no person who marked the rue.
ful countenance which he assumed, when embroe-

ing his lusty help-mate—could possibly refraiu
(suns juissiog in she general merriment.
The !souse was crowded in every part. at au early
hour.

HORRID MURDEI&

CORONER'S I NOV RV.
..,Yk
esterday morning an Inquisition was held at the
sigh dr the Itockneghaut Arm.' in Newington
Gegainnre, before -- Jemmett. Esq. ms the body
of Wavy lrlaria Hulbert, an infant only row years and
a gimlet em, who was barbarously murdered on
Friday evening last, in Juchau -court. Thomas-
, street. in the Resit-road. by a villain named
Kober Deets, sotto cat the infant's throat era most
shocking winner.
Hannah Hulbert, wife of Edmund Hulbert, and
mother to the deceased (she appeared very much
oppressed and absorbed in tears). after being sworn,
said;-011 Friday last, between six and seven
o'clock iu the evening. her brother. Joseph
hams, with her mother and two children, were in
the room together. In a short time she heard a
knoCk at the door, witness opened it, and Robert
Dean, an acquaintance of her brutheer, entered—.
the door bail been left a little open at the iirne.
Her brother said, " How came you to know I was
here ?" He snide no reply ; he asked him a second
time, but he did not answer. He (Dean) then
went through the front room to the back one to
her brother, and then slimily after they both left
the house together. During their absence her
husband came home, ',parent!y very much fat igoed,
fell asleep in a chair by the hedside, and pulled
a quilt over his face. Dean then returned to wit.
ness's house again, it might have been half ass hour
froin his first going out to his return. He came
alone to the dour. and knocked at it, which was
opened by witness; there were present her husband
sad her mother. and her children, she believes, were
there. He (Deals) came in, sat down, and pulled a
two-penny loaf out of his pocket, which he began to
eat. The deceased seemed to waist a bat s f it.Witneas
heard him jingle something i.s his pocket like cop.
per. Dean said he had a penny for her; hut the
mother of the deceased told him to keep it, as he
might want it himself. for every penny was of use
to him. Dean then got up to go, when witness's
mother said. what makes you in such haste? he
observed. " I suppose the young man has come
home whom I promised to meet." Whilst Dean
was in the room, he took the child in his arms, and
asked her if she would have an apple. " Yee." re.
plied the child. " 1 will." Dean then took the
deceased down the court. Witness became a little
uneasy about the child staying, and said to her
mother, go and see after Mary. and bring her in;
her (witness's) mother went. The child shortly after
returned by herself. On perceiving the child, she
saw her covered with blood. Witness then placed
her hand on the child. and said you are murdered ;
en which she awoke her husband, and said " Mary
is murdered." Witness then left the room very
much alarmed, and SOW no more of the child until
it was dead. She saw Dean cut the bread with a
knife, but whether it was a pocket or a case one,
she could not tell. . Witness had known Dean fur
years, and he used frequently to conic to her house.
and say what a nice little girl Mary was. She
had not seen him after he had taken away the child,
nor since the transaction had occurred.
At the conclusion of Mrs. Hulbert'. examine.
ties, an Officer of Union Heil entered the court, and
informed the Coroner that a coach was driving up
to thedoor with the murderer. surrounded by a vast
concourse of persons. The Coroner, at the time.
was in the act of reading the witness's evidence.
The instant the coach stopped Mrs. Hulbert flew
to the window almost in a distracted state, and vaci.
ferated out. " Let me see him, let me see him,
although he murdered my child !" On perceiving
him, she exclaimed, " that's him that's him," and
fell into hysterics, which threw the Court into the
utmost confusion, and it was some time before site
could be pacified. She was then led out of the
room by several officers in attendance to another
apartment. The Prisoner (Dean) had by this
time been placed in an adjoining apartment. stir.
rounded with police officers, where he staid till the
decision of the Coroner's Jury was known.

Joseph Williams being sworn, deposed, he ■t
present resided with his sister, Hannah Hulbert, in
Jachau-coert, Kent-road. On Friday he went
so the Custoes-liouse. from thence he went to
No. 5, Church-passage, Aldgate, where he had
slept the night before; it was shoot four o'clock
in the afternoon, and Monied shortly slier. He
'then went to a public-house in Eastcheap, and had
some refreshment, and left there about a quarter
before five, and went to a chair-maker's in Bran-

das-row, in the Borough, where he staid wear an
hoar, and proceeded then to his sister's. Witness,
mother, sister, and two children, were sitting down
to tea at the time—Mary, the deceased, was one of
them. When he went in, he said, " What ! et tea
now ?" they asked him would lie hare • cup • he
said he had taken his, but took a cap with them.
He then sat down and shaved himself; while he
was sitting down witness observed, " I wonder what
has become of poor Robert, lie has not slept at
home last night (meaning Robert Dean), neither
hove I seen him sines last Thursday morning ;" the
account was he had gone for • soldier (he had been
a soldier Wore.) Witness's mother said. " Pour
Robert, I am sorry for him, poor man." Ili, sister
said, she thought it was the best thing he could do,
as he would have something in his adage ; she also
observed he had been of great hurt to him (witness),
but he replied, he had always acted as a friend
towards him. He went into the back room to wash
himself, and was brushing his shoes when he heard
a knock at the door. and on its being opened he
heard • voice, which he knew he be Dean's, and
said, " Is that you. Robert r before he saw bitlt
lie went to the back-room to witness jolt es he was
coming out. Mines' said, " What bronght you
here at tins time of night ?" He sat down, sod
made no answer. My mother, sister, and the two
children were then in the room. I said. " Robert.
we thought you had gone for • soldier, we were just
talking about you.' He (Devi) replied, " How
could you thiuk of that ?" when I said, " How

nett. Vintnets then ilia. nihere hare yest hen all
day ? lie replied, he had been to his sister',.
Ells. Allen, in Viiisbury-plsce, who had chided
him fur not coming oftener to see her; from
thence he came to see him. Witness mini, .. How
i could you think of finding me here at this hour ?"
I Dean sail, •• I thnnght I might inert with you." 1 Witness then said to hi, mother, " It's time to go,
where is my trousers ?" and asked Dean to lenil
him an haudlterehief to pint them in, which he ay.
conlingly did ; it we, a red one. I then said,
Is Good night, I MIMI go." mod bid them Al flue-
nt% The deceased was ',hying on the A fior at the
tittle. Witness then left the house, Dean followed
after hint, and they walked together sit Lir as the
gate opposite the Surrey Theatre. He then said
to witness, " I suppose vow are going to Cheap-
sole r-" Yes." he replied, " to be sore I inn, sod
you had better go with stie."—" No," said he. .. I
must call on Mr. Dallintore (or Davenport), in the
Borough." Witness observed. " Don't go at this
late hour." Dean then turned himself round, ne-
ver wished him good night, nor has he seen him
since.

Sarah Williams. widow, mother to Mrs. Hulbert,
stated, she was at her daughter'. house the time
Dean came there ; it was between six and seven
o'clock on Friday last. He knocked at the door.
and was let in as a friend; hewn, her son, Joseph
Williams, say, " How came you lucre ? where have
you hero ?" as he had not been at home : he said,
to Pimlico, after a situation as an officer's servant ;
they behaved very kind to him, and pressed him to
stop. The witness then asked him (Dean) if he had
enlisted for a soldier? hr said No. Alter some little
conversation together they both went out. In about
0 minutes after Dean returned alone. knocked at
the door, and was let in again : he (Dean) said to
witness's daughter, " If you please, I will sit down
fur a quarter of au hour, as I am going after a
place ;" all this time her son-in-law, Mr. Hulbert,
the father of the infant. remained fast asleep. Deau
then took the little boy on his knee, and took
some bread out of his pocket, and cut a slice of it.
Witness said, " I am sorry we have nothing in the
house to ask you to eat," and then the boy was
taken from him. Deceased's mother then said to
the witness, " Go and fetch Mary in, it is getting
late, and tell her that Dean is come." She came
in immediately, went behind his chair, but her
mother took her away. • The child went there
again, and Dean said, " Mary. I have a penny for
you." Witness's daughter said, " Dean, you can't
afford it." He got up and went out ; the child
followed him. Her daughter observed she heard
Dean talking to the child as lie went up the court ;
at this time he had the child on his arms. Shortly
after her daughter said to witness, " I urn uneasy
about the clidtl; I wish you would seek alter her.
for fear she should be lost." Witness went and saw
Dean standing at the end of the court, with the
child on his arm ; it had an apple in its hand. She
was going to take the child out of his arms to bring
her home, when he (Dean) said, " Mrs. William%
will you go and get sac a little tobacco from Mr.
Penny's shop ?" She said Yes, and lie gave her
twolsenceshalfpenny. Mr. Penny's shop is oppo-
site the court, but before he could serve her she
heard the cry of " Murder!" Witless never saw
him after. She then went into the house of her
daughter, and found the deceased standing by her
father, covered with blood. The witness then laid
hold of her, and said, " My dear Mary. is it Dean
who Itaa done it ?" The child looked iii her face,
but could not speak. She took her iii her lap, and
held her there till some medical person arrived.
The child lived about an hour and a half. There
was no person passing or near the court at the
time.

Mr. W. R. Western, surgeon, of Brighton-
place, Kent-rood, deposed, he was applied to by a
spectator, about eight o'clock on Friday evening
last, to attend on the deceased ; he went there, and
slaw the child; he observed a great quantity of
blood about her; he minutely eitaniiued from
whence it flowed, and found a considerable wound
in the neck, about three inches and a half io length
and three quarters in depth. end the windpipe
completely divided. If the windpipe had not been
cut, the hemorrhage would not have killed the
child. The wound iu the windpipe was the cause
of the child's death, which must have been effected
by a sharp instrument. The child was alive when
he (witness) arrived, but died iu his arms through
suffocation ; he endeavoured to put two or three
stiches in the neck.

Joseph bliotty an officer of the parish of St. An-
drew, Holborn,deposed, that about live o'clock that
morning (Tuesday), a man, who and his name was
Robert Dean,_ crone and knocked at the watch-
house-door, and told witness that he came there to
surrender himself as a malrdervr, as he could not
hold out any longer. Witness asked him how he
should know that, and inquired 'litho what murder
lie had committed. He said he had murdered a
child over in the Borough. He seemed much
agitated, and requested to warm himself by the lire,
which he did. Witness said he should go with him
to the Compter. Ile said he understood the gaol-
keepers were very severe. He also told the officer
he had been about the ounce of Bow-street the
whole of the previous day,in hopes that lame per-
son would recognize him, but that mot being the
case, he left there and proceeded to the Tabernacle,
in Moorfields, where he heard a sermon preached
which had such an effect upon him, that he torn-
dere(' about until he was rewolved on surrender-
ing himself into the hands of justice. Witness
asked him, " What could have induced yon.
Dean, to commit tier deed ?"—He answered,
" The Devil stood seer hint, as he loved the
child." Witness agsin questioned him, " %Vete
you in liquor at the bate?" tie replied in the ne-
gative.—Witness thinks he was in his proper segues,
as he talked in a veey rational manlier.

Acuity dolt 'the dicers tneceetled, er. severe
r.truvgle, in clearing the room where tile PAbouer
bad been rtetionril. On this being accomplirned,
Robert Dean are there Ordered to enter the Jtory
room; he was escorted by a bee of police Ai.
err,. The Coroner then addressed him thus:—
" Kihert Omni. yon have been found guilty by the
Jassy of wilful murder against Mary Mama Huh.
Bert." He did not utter a *mil, but wept bitterly.
He was then conveyed to a hackney-coach. and
carried to flortetnonger-lane GatA, amidst the este-
em, ionr and hOotoomm of the butrOOothog multi' nth-.
Hr is a genteel.hmking young ►n in, and was
dressed isr black.