The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-05 00:00:00

• TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER

r..pttue, ilaserilwil It very gnat regard which I enter-
ta,lied tor her, oriplmed lies it, eimseitt to a reconcilia-
tion, and begged s.le would wine isle an eatly answer.
Site serer replied to my letter. tier fatherralled upon
me, and wished that the connexion might be discon•
''heat ciremnstances had an iniksertliable effect
"I",n toy mind; I ssas miserably titiliaup, was incapa-
ble of attending In any business, and ;;at t tilysef entirely
up to despair. 1 endeavoturel to prevail upon her to re.
new the correspondence. I I, It that I could out be happy
it) this wutld without her, and determined to leave it.
Thoughts of a dreadful deseriptiou entered sr) mind,
and most have ',nice( ied from the Devil. I felt that
should leave the world in a state of happiness. at I could
murder her, and determined to perpetrate the deed. I
had been from hunts three clay's, business not beim( very
br sk, and um Friday et ettiog 1 called to see ‘V111.111116,
at Mrs. Albert's anti. we Lout cattle out together and
walked in ciMipativ as far as the Surrey Theatre. We
did not t 2.0 nt ; I iidel IVtlliains that I wanted to see a
gentleman in the Borou,lls, am! should A. that way. %Vr
parted, and I returned to Mrs. Albert's. After talking
in a very friendly manner with the (wilily, 1 asked far a
Ignite, and they suppositig that 1 wanted to cut some
bread. gave me a case knife. 1 took an opportunity of
concealing it miperceived in nty pocket. I shortly after
went out with the child to buy her some apples, which
having dime, I returned to the court. A sudden thought
came over thy mind, that if I 'wintered the child who
War. itinocent, I should not commit so great a crime as
murdering Sarah Longtitaii, who was older, and as 1
imagined had sins to ausuer for. lit a moment 1 polled
the kitife out of any pocket, put the child down out of
my arms, held her head back, and cut her little throat.
In an instant 1 imagined that I was in toe midst of
flausiog tire, and the court appeared to me like ihe
cu-
trance of nell. 1 ran away, not knowing when. I went,
or what I dal ; 1 wandeted about in a state of distrae-
tion until 1 surrendered myself twat the watch-house."
Toe risotto., who, eluting the course of the evidence
above-mentioned, appeared to be at. a kind of idiotic
stupor, tieing called upon to make his defence, merely
laid, in a wild manner, that he was 1101 Guilty.
A great many wittiessts were Well examined on his
behalf to prove a case of insanity, Among others were,
James LOllgtllloll, the father of the voting woman to
whom the prisoner had been attached ; Gorge
a watch-motion maker; 'Ann Keys, Eliza Camp-,
bell, and Maria Iyrrell, !rearms with whom the pris-
oner had lodged ; and 'the tendency of their evidence
was to show that the prisoner, a few weeks recently to
the unfortunate transaction in question, had been flighty
and low-spirited, in consequence of his want of employ-
ment, and having been forbid the continuance of his
addresses to the young woman, Miss Longman.
The case went to the Jury tinder the learned Judge's
direction, and the prisoner was found Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARK pronounced sentence of death in
a most impressive and pathetic manner, and the prisoner
was ordered for execution on Monday next.
During this last awful stage of the proceedings, the
prisoner exhibited a maniac apathy to the doom that
awaited Itim, and lie was removed front the bar in a
state of mental abstraction.

Kingston, Saturday April 3.
CROWN Mg.

This morning the Court was crowded to excess, in the
expectation of the trial of Thomas Osborne taking place,
for the murder of Ely Cox, gamekeeper to Mr. Tessier,
near Epsom, in the month of August last, but it was
postponed, and ordered the first on Monday morning;
31 witnesses were in attendance. At eight o clock Mr.
Justice Park took his seat, and .25 prisoners were
arraigned, they were howeter, most of them !Or trivial
offences, and the only trial itcier% tug attention, this day,
was that ofJoseph lvison and John Owen, mu notorious
characters, who were tried for burglariously entering the
dwelling house of Mr. William Hoare, in Newington,
and stealing therefrom sundry articles of wearing apparel,
his property ; but of this charge they were acquitted.
They were then again arraigned on another indictment,
rhar.ting them with burglarious!), breaking into the
ilsverling house of Mr. Philip de Iloogh, in Wel worth,
and stealing therefrom a tea caddy, sonic silk shawls,
and other articles of wearing apparel his property. The
lams being clearly proved against the two prisoners, they
were found Guilty, and sentenced to transportation for
she term of seven years.
.Mary Wells, who was tried yesterday on a charge
of murdering her illegitimate infant, and found not
guilty of the murder, there being no evidence that the
child was born alive, was this morning brought tip, and
sentenced for the said concealment to three months
imprisonment in the House of Correction.
CIVIL SIDE.
No trial of the least importance occurred this day in
this Court.