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London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRES S.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, ism.

It will be seen by an account inserted in another
I part of our Paper, that Driscoll, Weller, and Cash-
man, were exec:liter] lam morning for forgery. In
cau•equence of the recent acquittal* at the Old
Bailey, and the exertions made in favour of these
unhappy men by some humane inilividualv, it was
generally expected that the Royal mercy would
have been extended to them ; and it is distressing
to think that the unfortunate convicts themselves
had, to the very moment of their being led to the
scaffold, entertained hopes to the same effect. With
the infatuation of men hanging upon the verge of
eternity, and clinging to every delusion of the
mind, in the hope of discovering some means of
safety, they could not believe that any Government
sincerely anxious to maintain even the semblance
of consistency in the criminal judicature of the
country, could suffer them to be put to death► at
the very moment that others were discharged of the
same offence, and on the same evidence. The un-
happy men were mistaken, and without impugning
the humanity of the Noble Lord who presides over
this distressing branch of the general administra-
tion, we may be permitted to lament that any cir-
cumstance should have occurred to throw a doubt
upon this boasted attribute of the Noble Lord's
heart, while the apparent impolicy of such an act is
not a l►ttle calculated to render the qualities of his
head no less questionable. It is surprising with how
much indifference men clothed in the fuluen of
their " brief authority" can witness the pangs of
parting life, the feverish struggle between hope and
dread that agitates the bursting heart, and yet
bear to hear themselves called humane and pious !
Whatever may have been the guilt of the unhappy
convicts executed last morning, there at least ex-
isted in their peculiar cases circumstances suffi-
cient to induce a careful revision of the evidence
by which they were convicted. There needed no
indecent hurry to cot the thread of their miserable
existence; and if their conviction ass found to
have been produced by such evidence as was sub-
sequently insufficient to satisfy the conscience of a
Jury, some sacrifice was due to decency and the
appearance of consistency, and not a man in the
country would have quarrelled with the advisers of
the Crown had the Royal mercy hero extended
to these convicts, or had the capital punishment
been commuted to transportation.
It will, we are aware, be urged that a capital
sentence in case of forgery has never been remitted,
and that it would be flange to deviate in any
itistance from this principle. To this we reply,
first, that the peculiar circumstances under which
these men stele convicted, and sentenced, would
justify an act of mercy ; and, vecourfly, that in di,-
playing the Royal clemency the Crown would only
exercise a di,cietion %loch has been assumed for a
considerable time by the Directors of the Bank of
England. Those, thrrefore, who argue upon the
impolicy of all V11.111:4 t he Crown to remit a
sentence, ill case id forgery, allow the BAIA a di*.
cretionary power which they deny to she Sovereign,
• and strip the Rayal authoriV of its ❑oblest pre-

vegative, to invest it in the spirit of monopoly iii
trading Company. If it be the cruel policy of this
country never, under the most favourable circum-
stances, to pardon an individual who has committed
the crime of forgery, why should the Bank of Eng-
land be permitted to exercise such a power ? We
may attempt as n►ach as possible to deceive our-
selves by forms and names, ■nd admit shadows to
perform the part of substances ; but the truth
must finally prevail, and we cannot now disguise from
ourselves that this anomalous power enjoyed by the
Bank arises out of the harshness of the sanguinary
and impolitic rule for restraining the exercise of the
Royal prerogative. The KING could not pardon,
but the nation, including even the advisers of the
Crown, could not endure to witness repeated ext..
cutions. To escape the horrors of this self-created
difficulty, the Legislature interposed, and, without
removing the spell that paralysed the Royal pie-
rogative, they lodged a discretionary power in the
Bank, mud enabled the prosecutors to choose their
victims, who, without a chance of escaping, were
bound and handed over to the ministers of their
offended deity. What uncertainty could be
created by restoring the Royal prerogative, greads.
than must arise in the public mind from this prep
oniony deci►ton of the Bank ? It is well known,
that among the prisoners charged with uttering or
possessing forged notes, the fate of the individuals
is considered to re.t upon chance, and those who
■re selected for death conceive themselves, and are
regarded by their fellows, not as more criminal,
Out as less fortunate than the others. They con-
sequently are pitied by all around them, and,
unfortunately for themselves, meet their fate with
u bitterness of feeling, a hardened desperation, and
an angry frame of mind, ill-suited for those so-
lemn offices which should prepare them for the final
pang of existence. The evil contemplated by tho►e
who closed the stream of mercy has this acquired
a tremendous height, and could not, by the remotest
possibility, hose increased in magnitude had the
blood of Driscoll, Weller, and Cashman, been
spared on this melancholy occasion. The l'at NCI:
REGENT would have tasted the exquisite enjoyment
of giving life, awl 'tramps future happiness, to three
fellow-creatures, while to the public eye the art
of mercy would have appeared to be a sacrificer to
consisteucy, nod a generous tribute to public opi-
nion. We know it has lately Income quite hi-
shionable to despise and ridicule popularity ; hut
though it may prove magnanimity to conteimi t!,e
voice of a people's gratitude, it can never be wit..
dom to seek an occasion of thwurtiii4 the general
feeling of society. There is presumptite evidence
against the volley of a measure a hich has been
disapproved in public opinion.

Paris Papers of Saturday lost have arrived at
our Office. They make .no mention of the Legis-
lative Chambers. We perceive with much sur-
prise that the prices of the public funds still cm-
tinue to fall. The 5 per Cents. opened nu Fri-
day at 64( fr. and closed at the low price of 63 fr.
The fall of Bank Stuck is so great, that, did not all
the Paris Papers concur its the price quoted, we
should have been induced to believe iii the occur-
rence of some mistake. On Thursday it closed at
1,545 r., but on the following day it fell to 1,485 f.
The Duke of ANGOULEME arrived its Calais on the
nth, and left it on the following morning. lle is
expected its Pim,. on Sunday.—Hopes sire enter-
tained in Lisbon, that the Prince Royal of PORTU-
GAL will return to his native country in the next
spring, invested with extensive powers for adminis-
tering the Gove tttttttttt of that neglected and miser.
able kingdom. The people of Lisbon are very in.
dignaut at the preference 'hewn by the Royal Fa-
mily to their Trans-Atlantic possessions, as they are
distressed by the constant drain of troops and money
for raising the Br.,zils into a powerful empire. In
the meals time, Portugal is exposed to the power of
the Court of Madrid, exasperated as it is against
the Court of Rio Janeiro, on account of the occu-
pation of Monte while its flag is insulted
and its commerce destroyed by the cruisers of the
ludependent Governments of Swath America, which
capture the Portuguese ships in the very mouth of
the Tagus. A letter from List remarks wills
bitterness, that Portugal loss often beets cocsidered
merely as • British colony ; but if this be true,
never was a colony so neglected by a Mother
Country possessing a powerful navy, and every
means geographical and political for Prot, cting its
interests. lo recousiting an imaginary grievance,
the letter-writer forgets the actual cause of the dis-
tresses of his country.. Portugal is not, nor ever
was a Colony of Etiv,land ; but it is much worse—
it is secondary to the Kingston* of the Br.tztts.

The complements of the ten gnu-brigs employed
on home service ale ordere•l to be increased to their
full war estithltshmeot, which will employ ill lllitih
Lieutenant and nine 'nen in e3cli of them.

We understand that the limo. C. A. RODN EY,
one of the South American C nitwit:osiers, has
completed his report, null Intuited It in to the Pre.
indent of the United States; and are happy to
learn that he is tinequivoc.illy in favour of a recog-
nition of the iistlrpetident provinces on the La Plato.
We wish we could say as much fur Mr. GRAHAM,
who, we ileW*. ridertsigis a diff, rent opinion. A
d11•lomatle missmit to Itm Janeiro is oinw spoken
of r the latter (;slitlemitii. The other Commis-
moiler, Judge lit.%NU, t expected here in * thly or
tau (11t10/11,.4 torWird is 341111110 R ). to 1111'11101 him
st.iteittetot to the liashington City
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ON THE VAILISRE OF ?TIE LAST NEW FARCE, AT COVENT-
GARDEN, ENTITLED, " NIX PIITTICIANN ; Olt, TIM
PATIENT CARRIED OFF."

" Throw physic to the does," said Ned,
(As 'net), he retired to bed)

Willi *event hitter, keen, and surly ;
We cannot wonder, sore, to see,
When six pity:irking takes fee,
The " Patient carried off" so early'

TARTAR.

ON MR. M BEING CALLED ON TO PAY, A ArcoND
TIME. ♦ TIIOVSAND POUNDS DAMAGES, RECANTLI

♦WARDED IN • CRIM. CON. CAM.

Copt amore, when BRAIIAM ad liGilura sing.,
Wanton CUPID. delighted, A' Ilut►ers his wing',
And lenity rails out fur some more;
A fhvutotolottcri sole, appear many too few,
Then eon it be derma a rare thiltz, entre note,
That the it; DGES demand an encore!

TARTAR.

FASIIION.4IILE ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES.

CITY BUSINESS.

Yesterday s Court of Aldermen was held at Guil 'hall,
which was attended by the Lord Mayor, several Aldcrtneu,
the Sheriffs, City Officers, Asr.

The Lord Mayor reported the election of Richard Roth.
well, Esq. to he Alderman of Cheap Ward, in the rimin of
the late Mr. Alderman Goodhchere, and he attending, ac.
compacted by oevei al of the Ge' otiemen of the Ward, was
introduced into Court in due form, and took the accustomed
oaths and his seat accordingly.
An maanimons Reomilit:ou of Condolence Rod Sympathy to
his Royal Highness the Mee Regt nt nmi the other brandies
of the Royal Faintly, Num d crag of ii.r late Majesty,
was agreed to—(For which vie )
A few bars of gold were sworn off fur exportation.
Sundry ',croons were sworn mid allowed, and othtis di..
charged, brokers.

The CuntinissionerA of the Court of Rrqnrsts fir the
tnnuth ofismotty next werenopuoutil

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The Inquest of Farring,lou-Within attended, and presented
Bunchy ruinous houses, noiareeturn,

Sundry, bills were ordered for payment, and no Mho- [isi-
nags of importance was transacted.

EXECUTION

CASHMAN, DRISCOLL, AND WELLER, roe' TORGED
NOTES; •ND WILLIAMS, roe' BURGLArtY.

These convicts underwent the i4O manitite of the
law, last morning, 111 the prest•oce of all immense
concourse of spectators. No execution, of a r.celit
date, has so mucu engrossed private and publi:• at..
tention ; and some exertions were made to obtain
mercy for three of the unhappy delinquents.

John Driscoll was tried before Mr. Justice
Bayley, on Monday, the 14th of September,
but he had previously pleaded Guilty before
the Common &dean', who, after much trouble,
prevailed upon hint to retract that plea. The
chief circumstances against him were these :
(ln the 11th of July lie went to the shop of
Mr. Sporston, No. 29 Bedfordhury, and pur-
chased a gateway of velveteen, which came to 41. 71‘..
is payment of which he tendered a V. note, which
afterwards turned out to be forged ; lie gave a ficti-
tious address. He also uttered another forged 51.
note to a publican bring ii. Fashion-street, Sitital.
firlds; and at his lodgings in Lamb's-court, White-
cross-street, a rolling-pin was found, the top of
which screwed off, and in the inside of it were
found five other 51. notes of a similar description to
those which he had passed. Weller and Cashman
were tried before Mr. Justice Burrough. and the
brief circumstances against them were these
woman named Fears obtained an itoroditction to
them at the Coopers' Arms, in flatti!.l(l.stri.et, and
after a deal of caution and a variety of tnaine Ayres,
she secceeded in purchasing ten 1/. tui:es lits them
at 7s. 6d. each. She obtained others, in exchange
of a watch ; and a police officer also, named Sellera,
purchased from them four 51. notes, at 2/. each,
and ten 1/. notes, at gs. each, a!I forged. The
offence of which John NVilliains wt.. eotivicied,
was for a burglary in the tiwellinghmuse of Mr.
Deboust, and atedl.ng plate and wearing apparel to
the amount of 701. and upwards. Mr. 1). lived at
Edmonton.

At half-past seven o'clock the rimer and
Under Sheriffs arrived at the Ceiirt-eme•e,
shortly afterwards proceeded to the Pretts-yiiril, into
which the unfortunate men were soon introilaceil.
[What tratiApired here we cannot say, us the She-
riffs, contrary to a rule observed for these last five
years, precluded the presence of our reporter,
and all other persons except their own friends l]
The three unhappy men for peptise; forged notes,
until u few deys before their execution, were !mov-
ed up with the hope that their sentence would be
commuted to transportation. Weller was young
used excessively ignorant, and has spent the greater
part of his life in crime; and at first he appeared
to despise all kind of religious consolation, but
as the fatal moment approached, he became so-
licitous to join in prayer. Driscoll was a Ca-
tholic, and has all through evinced a lamented
degree of hardihood ; he was attended by the
Reverend Mr. Devereux, the Catholic Priest,
but to the last moment. denied the justice of his
sentence. He was the first who mounted the plat-
form, which he did in a most hurried manner, but
with great agitation. Having ascended it. he gazed
wildly around upon the spectators, and once or
twice pushed his cap from his mouth. Weller was
the next ushered to the ecatfuld, and he exhibited a
considerable portion of firmness. Williams bil-
lowed, and his conduct throughout has been moat
exemplary. He admitted the justice of his piiiiish-
inent, and his whole time has been devoted in pre-.
paring his soul for an awful eternity.
alias Emanuel, fur this we understand to be his
name, was a Jew, and by the tenets of the M sale
religion he was not permitted to sleep during ine
night ; he was attended by a priest of his own per-
suasion, and a Mrs. Ripley, a celebrated Quaker
wares', who manifested great anxiety foe his future
state. She accompanied hint even to the scaffold,
but there her feelings overcame her, and she burst
into tears, The priest who attended him furnished
the executioner with a peculiar kind of cap, which
was substituted for the ordinary one used utrin
such occasions. The Rev. Mr. Cotton attended et
an early hour, and administered those religionist
consolations which alone are capable of rendering
the human mind tranquil under great a weight
of suspense and affliction.
By a quarter-past eight o'clock al; the unfortu-
nate malefactors were duly tirratit4e(l, Driscoll la-
bouring under great emotion and agitation. The
Mosaic priest, the Mr. Devereux, and the.
Rev. Mr. Cotton, continued far a few minute* ad-
dressing prayers to the wretched delicquerits„ when
Mr. Cotton gave the fatal swisl, th.ss they
were doomed to eternity.

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Immediately upon the enfortuniite
being launched oIF, t!
ihpu:,tre 4t•
" Shame Shunde !—Alurder ! Mauler !! I"

After hanging the t,roilllie their bailie' were
cut down, and given over to their friends for into-
went.

HERRING FIMERY.-F-A tiNli.cora list been i
di, ted to atrial trial before the HO Court of J
licitly, on the 2 t.t curt. fur the crime of fol.rlt., •:.
&c. pretentiog the same herrusgs. in &firma
barrels, to he t‘% lee branded, for the Govereroet.t
bounty, and of waking two false oaths relative
thereto.

OK eta

IP V, to

MURDER OF MR. TAYLOR
AT HOWNSEY WOOD.

CO*oltell'S INfitlMlTagity homisition we% taken yrs.
tehjay sherncon, before TMOM.O STIRLING, thiq. Coroner,
at the Hornsey Wood House, on the body of 111 ho Thomas
mho., a medical gentleman, who wax atop .1 on lliureulay
night last, on the iron Write of the New 'leer, by 1101145
villeins and basely robbed, murdered, ai thruwii into
the river.
Thu: Jury being rmpannelled and sworn, took a view of the
Ire is of the decea.ed ; there appeared violent air k• of
st -,,,otlation ahasit his neck, a knife was in his waistcoat
ma ku., and a cola riu,e, upon lii• norrer, shirk the diabolical
viaams who minute,' a him, in their hurry, dol not take from
hook The following evidence was afterwards taken :
ti Thomas Thorpe, of Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, de.
peed as Cullom% : I was a particular friend of the deceased;
he "as at my house on Tuesday last; he was then in good
healer amt sp4i is. On the following Thuroulay I was at his
how% and he was then from borne ; his brother called on
the following morning (Friday) upon me, and inquired if I
ha l seen, or hail any knowledge of where his brother (the
&erased) might be found, as he haul not been home since the
preceding morning. I iuformed him that I had not seen
him eines be called upon me en Tuesduy. The deceased's
brothet went from my house to Mr. Norrntt, of Gray% hos
and made Inquiry, and there learned oohing at all sat nadir-
tory as to his brother's abseuce; he afterwards went with
Mr. N. to Guy's and Si. Thomas's Mini tale, to make inquii-
rie: there after the deceased, and was informed that he had
not been there since be was at the Lectures on Wednesday.
In the evening I went to the biome uf the deenteri, awl re-
mained there with his friesoh, in anxious saapense uatili I I
o'clock; the brother of tbe deceased, air. Noreutt, Mr Grit.
gas, and myself, determined upon proceeding ill SIIIMINCSIS;
we set uIT, mot went to the Lower-road, Islington, as far as
Mall'. Pond ; there we met three of the Row-street patrule,
mud made inquiry if they had beard any thing of a person
hying subbed ur murdered, they inform. .1 us that they had
j,tat returned Ciotti ibe Green Lauer, and that nothing of the
kind had occurred the night previous, or they must have
beard of it ; we then returned to Mr. Taylor's house, iii ex-
pectation and hopes that the deceased might hive thrived
there, but upon our arrival we found be hell nut ; between
four and five o'clock the same (Saturday) morning:, Mr.
Taylor, the bristlier of the dereaacil, myself, and Mr. Nor.
cult, resolved to go to Southgate ; upon our arrival deer,
we foam! that the deceased bad been at the house of a friend,
Mr Pearce, and had taken tea on Thin softy evening, and he
left them hi-toren six and seven o'clock in excellent spirits;
he stia to Mrs Pearce that be hail promised to meet a f. trod
at the Justly Ris.cherr, in the Green Lanes, at seren o'clock ;
Mrs. Pearce invited him to sleep at her honer that night, as
she considered the journey very lonely and dangerous ; he
stated ilia he could not stay oat any •ectuilit, as he had nut
left word at his house of his having any intention of remain-
ing from home all night.
Sirs. Pearce !wise aware what uneasiness his element*
might occasion to his friend% did nit press hint further to
stay, but advised him not to eu home through the wood,
II- reuslied to her advice, that "he had always been anus.
timed to go that way, and li • was not aft ,id of outing
stopped by any body, soil that it was his nearest road to
town. 1 and my friends afterwards proceeded to the Jolly
thatchers, at Wo,ol Green, from the house of Mrs. Pearce,
lad aecertained of the landlady that the deceased tMr. Tay.
hurt wars there un Thursday evening; he arrived there about
siren o'clock, and took tea again at tle? house, in the bar;
he made inquiries if any one was then wading Cie hits? He
was informed that nu one bad been there. He took a small
quantity of spirits and water, and waited for the arrival of
the person whom he expected, until between It) aud 11
o'clock; he‘xpeessed great disappointment that the person
had not met-him, aud deem left there, as he said, with the
iatentoin of oroceeding directly home. The landlady ad.
ruled him to put the chain of his watch out of stets., which
he immediately did, bade her omil night, and went away.
1 and my friends having gained the above information went
eau the way which the deceased must have travelled towards
AO home. and made frequent inquiries on the road whether
each a person as the deceased bad bees mess or beard of,
and u 1 nits !Staler/ or murder had been committed in that
to ,ellrooktited. The first Information we gained 115015, that
cu ies of murder had been heard near West-Greets on Thum
day aught, and we were told if we went to the Black Roy we
lined obtain more particulars upon the subject. We pro-
ceeded there, and found that there had been an alarm in
tonrequenee of the cries of murder, about ten o'clock un
l'hurselay evening, and that three men had entered into a
house, with intention to rob it, but the family not being in
bell, gave an alarm, and the robbers decamped. We then re-
turned towards the tile kilns in the Green Lows. crossed a
field, and made fur the wood ; we traced some footsteps at
the foot of the bridge, fur 100 yards, which the brother of the
deceased said were much like his brother's, whom we were in
rearrh of; at the centre of the bridge we lost the trace of the
footsteps, and we suspected that he had been murdered
there and thrown into the river. Mr. Taylor's snot/sienna
were particularly excited by the marks of the boots being
straight, and not right and left, as are more usually wore,
because his unfortunate brother had on when he left his home
boots of that description. We thee inquired at the Homey
Wouddiunse and at the Sluice-boo,', if they bad any drags,
or if they had dragged the river recently. They informed
ii: they had no drags, nor had the river been dragged fur a
4.ol.llderable lime. We made several bigamies, and was iu-
f rutted that a hat had been found at the Sluice. 1 and my
f, :ends requested it might be sbewu to its; and the man ask-
. d as what was the name of the maker? We replied," Wil-
son and Waugh" He asew.ved, that is the name in the
hit, and he immediately produced it, and we found it to be
111, hat of the deeraard, Mr. John T. Taylor. We intake-
it. tole sent to the Half Noon for the dispe, sod employed
r es-oo to drag the river. They continued dragging freak
/4 .tur,lay until Sunday morning. I went on Smock,' MUM.
ill: with my friends again in the New River; six of my
men were dragging, and an alarm was mule that the 1)04
was i,uund. I alighted from my chaise and saw the body
brou4lit up; it was perfectly dead, and appeared to have
been in the water several days. The flap of the small-
clothe, was unbuttoned; the watch which the deceased always
carried about him was not its him fob, and there was no money
shone the deceased's person, and he never went oust without
taking money with him; his pockets were turned nut, and
the re were appearances of strangulation, and a black mark
eel the side of the neck. I know the deceased hid a watch
wilt, gold chain and seals when be left borne; he was a very
high..pirited young an, sad from what 1 know of him, he
sound not tamely submit to he robbed. He 11311 a practice
of ',voting his watch pocket after he put his watch in ii, sad
I hive frequently heard hint say, that he would defy any
thief to rots him, fur if they took his watch, they must also '
take Ms pocket. 1 ant of opiotort that the 'Mattes who mar-
dered the deceased unbuttoned the dap of his smallelothea
for the ;melow of untwisting the fob pocket, mud taking the
watch. In his pockets remained the followitig trilling *di-
rt. s :—,t %faith key, Akenside'a poetical works, a pair of
eluee9, -ilk handkerchief, peuknife, mid a stick of black seal-
b.': ie,•a. The body was carried to Hornell, Wiwi., House.
IS., nruhre Ile, which the ileense.l had with him on Thursday
"izht, was .lootail MI the iron bridge, which was torn te-
tchily. !ruin its appearance. From the deep marks an the
hank *bete the body was found, I am entwine/al that Ise
meat great r-sistauce ; some of the heel masks are several
int'o-i in depth in the ground.
%Ire. Sarah Wilson sworn—sl keep the Jolly thrtchera, at
itno.l Green, Tottenham Parish. 1 knew the deteased be-
f 'le In came to my house on last Thursday evening; It was
beta,. n six and seven o'clock when he towed iny house;
I io, sled him into the bar, as he was aceputinted with my
5,!,.. ...lien he went to 'chew!. I asked him to lea, sod he
otrd, and sat 11l Sgy liar until between ten and eleven
n'u lock at night ; he had three small glasses of brandy and
"-"", ; he ltd not drink half the liquor himself, 1 and my
bon drank with him; there were no y11%14..11 in the house
all the reciting. Te deceased had a watch in his pocket
"II .tote money; he paid net four shilling% fo the Istplui,
ay. ; it was a bunting watch, with yellow chief awl seals,
whir lu I supposed to be gold, and 1 advised him ti, bole them
i•loir, hi, clothes, as they might attrict dee attest of ill-
doo••• d persons whom he might meet, and he anal.' he
nob), 11, Sled I saw loin pot th,nt and,. the bottom of his
waistcoat. IThen the decent 4 first cape into the bar, lie

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inquired if a GeraleMan laid been there for him
Wheal, set off frnm our house, it was a fine bright
light t. The bridge steer *kith the deceased was f it
malith nearest way huge; Ise bade toe good night, and was
in extant spirits whets he parted.
Joist. Wilton, • youth about 11 yeses of age, sworn-1
am the eon of last witness; I went its &shoot with the de-
erawil ; he called at my mother's homer on Thnraday evening,
soil said that he had been on a Vila to Mr Pearce, of South-
gale, aa he was going to write to a College at t:inihridee, to
Mr. Pearce's son, and wished to know if he had any thine
to communicate to him. The deceased said that he had
promised to meet a gentleman at our house, on his return
from Mr. Pearce's, and he expressed surprise at his nut hav-
ing kept his promise.
Mr. Thomas Evans. 24, Old-street, anrgeon, stated-1
knew the decreed abuut five or six years ; we were fellow
pupils at the Finsbury tilispeneary ; I have 1101 seen him for
near a fortnight, and then be was is good health and spirits,
and I am satisfied that he was nut ender ally kiwi of divalent
or derangement of mind, do I believe that hr would have
put an end to his mimeo heard he was mowing, and
last night that his body w and. 1 saw the body of the
deceased this day, shout two o'clock, and in my opinion he
was undoubtedly strangled previous to his being thrown Imo
the water; I form that conclusion from various appeartocri
on the body, the mark r.pund the neck Is nut all 1 form my
opinion from; the tongue is forced through the teeth; there
is a mark also under the tar; and the licensed was an ex-
cellent swimmer, and had he fallen into the water by acci-
dent, he timid have saved himself. The teeth of the ile-
meted were darted, sod the tongue was forced, in my
opinion, between the teeth by the violence its stranglitr.;
him
Mr. Richard Henry Major, surgeon—l never sow the dc-
remelt before hi. death but aut.., and that was a consider-
',hie time ago. I sa• the body this day, and nay opinion is
precisely the same as Mr. Brass's; that he was strangled
eanuot admit of a doubt, and be must have been nearly dead
befor he was thrown into the water. 1 have seen numbers
of persons who were strangled, particularly Bellingham,
and other notorious murderers, and all had the same %Weal
mice of strangulatioss. lam sure the deceased 1111161 have
lust all powerof defeat* before be was thrown into Inc
river ; be even appears now to retain the posture of self.
defence.

Mr. No►eutt, of Gray's-lam, being seronli said _N lent
the dressed an erahrella when he was at my bowie, and the
one found upon the iron bridge of the New River is the
save I lent him ; it was not torn when 1 lent it to, him ; the
rent in it apppeara to have been newly made, and in my
opinion was dune ix the straggle with the peewee who at.
tacked him. The hat produced lam sere is the deceased's,
and must haw* floated down the river to the male at the
Sluice-house. I made particular inquiries ..t West Green,
at the Black Boy, and learned that a gerithresaii's house was
rubbed iiu Thursday melt, about the time the deceased left
the folly Butchers, and I have nu doubt, from the direc-
tion which the thieves took, and the road the deceased went,
that the thieves went serum the Gelds, earl met with the de.
ceased on the bridge opposite the tile kilos.
The Comer 11411111111efi sip the widow,. and said, that he
bad hopes when the investigation roMmeneed. that the death
of the wituruinnin young gentleman was produced liv meri-
diem, but after the emderice whiele had been received, he was
sorry to say, that there was proof adductd that the deceased
came to his demh by tbs violeut hands of murderers It x
clear to hive that the deceased was met in the field* by the
villains who took away his life, and that be strugeled with
them until they arrived at the summit of the bridge, aheu he
was rubbed nod thrown into the water. That his death was
cowl by the violence of some persons, nothing could tic
more cunclasive than she evidence of the aorreteqa

The Jury in•tuatly returned th.• irokiumtu upeairt
" Vardar sobs! rows person or patrons ininvores,
eke direaseot haring Mrs, in 11 opinion, etvorgliod, robbed
and /Aim info Me Nov River
A large reward has been offered for the discovery of the
murderers.

Tlie &yawed was the 900 of slr. Taylor, the sumo'', of
Gworrit•striret. His body was resound yesterday iu a lwanie
to his falba?* boobs. The premature death of so excelktit
yawls swan, has prediscod ohs wettest sfilictiou to his aunt
respectable relatives and friends.