The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-14 00:00:00

THE KING V. THOMAS BOURNE

Mr. Serjeant PELL prayed the Judgment of the Court upon
the defendant, the publisher and printer of The Dorchester
Gdzette, who was found guilty at the last Assizes for the county
of Dorset, of having, published in that paper a libel upon Doctor

Dupree. -
At the suggestion of the Court, the Learned Serjeant agreed
that the defendant should enter into his own recognizance to
come up and receive judgment when called upon. The defend-
ant having entered into his own recognizances of 5001.,
The CHIEF JUSTICE informed him, that if he should insert
any other libel against the prosecutor, he would be inunedlately
called upon to receive the Judgment of the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MURDER of a CHILD by ITS OWN MOTHER.

WORSHIP-STREET.—This Office continued surrounded by
thousands of people during a great part of yesterday, in conse-
quence of Ann Mounfiford being brought before S. TWYFORD
Esq. the presiding Magistrate, charged with the murder of her '
infant female child.
The wretched woman was placed at the bar; she was confined
by a straight jacket, and appeared to be much agitated.
The following are the depositions, as they were taken before
the Magistrate :
Rohert Couch, of Virginia-row, Bethnal-green, special con-
stable, being sworn, said—" Yesterday morning (Sunday) about
eleven o'clock; •I went to a' house in Virginia-row, and on my
arrival there I saw the prisoner and a man standing together.
The man said he wanted an officer. I said I was one. Take
charge, said he, of this woman, she has committed murder. The
prisoner said immediately liave_done it—l have. committed
,wilful murder.' A brother officer of mine, John Dudley, coming
up, I left him in charge of her whilst I went up, stairs. On my
getting up stairs into the workshop, I saw a child lying with its
head severed from its body; the razor produced, all bloody, was
lying near the body; there were several streams of blood upon
the floor. I immediately went down stairs, and took the prisoner
to the watch-house; when there, I questioned her as to the cause ;
I did not hold out any threat or any hope whatever, but I sim-
ply asked her how she came to commit such a rash act ? She said
that she had been very uncomfortable for several weeks ; that she
had received good things from the Lord, but that she had lost
them ; that she had attempted to hang herself three weeks ago,
and she could not do it. I asked her if she had attempted to kill
her child three weeks ago ? and she said she had thought of it.
Then [asked her if she had attempted to hang herself since ?'
and she said she had—she had tried to do it this morning. I
asked her where she had tried ? She said she had tried to hang
herself to the loom beam. I asked her then how sbe came to
commit this rash act upon this child in particular ? and she said
she took the, youngest because she could do it the easiest."
Mary Ireland.—" I live at Mr. Mountforil's. I keep a straw-
bonnet and dress-maker's shop in the lower part ,of the house,
on a level with the street. Some time before eleven o'clock,
yesterday morning, I observed Mrs. Mountc-md. She knocked
at my door and said, I have done it—l have done it—send for
an officer.' I said; what have you done ? She replied, have
killed my child, I have cut iLs head off—l want to be hung—l
must be hung.' She then shewed me the blood on her hands,
wiping them one against the other, and putting each of them to
her mouth, and she asked me fora cloth. I gave her a cloth.
She went into my room, and took the cover off the saucepan
which was standing on the fire. She dipped the cloth in and
her hands also, and then repeated the words, Send for an of-
ficer.' I myself wanted to send for a doctor, but she said it was
of no use. She conducted herself like a frantic woman,-pulling
her hair and clothes in an extraordinary manner. She also
foamed at the mouth."
Jane illountford, the prisoner's daughter, a young girl, aged
14 years, was next called. She was much agitated, and said—
" Yesterday morning, a little before 'eleven o'clock, I had the
baby in my arms. My mother was in the room dressing herself.
She suddenly•took the child from me, and went with it into the
passage. She soon returned into he room, and took the key of
'the trap door. She then went up stairs through' the trap-door
t%-ith the child. In about two or three minutes she returned
without the child, and went into the kitchen to Mrs. Ireland.
Before my mother took the child from me she seemed white in
the face, and like a mad woman. She' did not speak to me
when she took the child."
Charles Bowen, of No. 29, Union-street, Hackney, surgeon
—" Yesterday morning I was called to attend at Mountford's.
When I got there I was shewn up stairs, and-found the child
lying near the trap-door, with its head severed from its body,
apparently with the razor which was there. The child was quite
dead, but warm,"
The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial. While
remaining in' the parlour of this Office, she shed tears, and said,
" I hope the Lord will bring me through it." Her looks and
behaviour were such as to leave no doubt of her insanity.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—After the examination at Worship-
street, a respectable Jury assembled with the Coroner, JOHN
W. Us WIN, Esq., at the sign of the Turk's Head, Virginia-
row, before whom the depositions of. the several witnesses
were taken and recorded.
The Jury first went to the scene of horror, and viewed the
murdered corpse ;, the head and body were still lying in the
precise manlier in which they were discovered after the perpe-
tration of the horrid deed. On the Jury returning to the public
house, the Coroner proceeded to the examination.
The only new evidence was that of Mr. Charles Laygon, of
No. 3, Princes-place, Virginia-court, who was next examined.—
He deposed—That when the report reached my ear, I went over
to the prisoner's house, and found the passage filled with persons,
amongst whom was Mrs. Mountford, the prisoner, who spoke in
the same manner as already described by the last witness.—ln
the afterhoon I visited her in the watchhouse, and asked her,
in the presence of her father7in-law and others of her relatives,
how she came to commit the rash act upon her child ; she re-
plied with'the greatest composure, " On,purpose to be hanged,
lam tired of my life." She said she would prefer being ex-
ecuted to going home to her family. I asked her if she had any
hatred in her heart towards the child she had slain ? She an-
swered, " No ;" but it had entered her mind to destroy it before
the fatal morning. She also endeavoured to hang herself a few
minutes before she murdered the infant. The prisoner I un-
derstand is three months gone in the family way. I have
knoWn her 20 years, and a more kind-hearted woman never ex-
isted. lam positive she was deranged in her intellects.
On the close of the evidence the Coroner, in summing up,
was interrupted by one of the Jurymen standing up, and de-
claring he could not, without falsifying his oath, return a ver-
dict of " Wilful Murder against the prisoner."

A meeting was held on Friday at Bath7 for the
purpose of contributing to the relief of the distressed peasantry
m Ireland. The Rev. Archdeacon Moysey having been called
to the Chair, James Godfrey de Burgh, Esq. made a brief but
forcible appeal in behalf of his unfortunate countrymen in
the south-west of Ireland. A subscription was then propoaed,
and agreed to with alacrity, the amount to be transmitted to
the fund now collecting in London. Bristol and Gloucester
have also entered into the cause, and a requisition is in the
course of signature for a meeting at Liverpool, for the same ge-
nerous purpose. At Chester a charity ball was given on Thurs-
day evening, where some of the principal ladies resident in that
city and neighbourhood kindly collected the money at the doors :
the proceeds were considerable. At Plymouth, large quanti-
ties of potatoes and oats are shipping for the south of Ireland.—
At: Camberwell the Ladies have opened a subscription among.
themselves, their children and their servants, which in no in-
stance is to exceed half-a-crown, but admits the smallest do-
nations.
The Coroner's Jury that sat at Weymouth on the body of
William Lewis, of the sloop Active, who died of a wound re-
ceived by a musket from the Pigmy; returned the following
verdict That the said William Lewis was mortally
wounded by a ball, wantonly and maliciously .fired by some
person on board his Majesty's. schooner Pigmy, and we do
therefore return our verdict of " Wilful Murder against the
Officer then in command of his Majesty's said schooner."—A
Court Martial is ordered to be held at Portsmouth on the 20th
instant to inquire into the Circumstances.

IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK.
English. Irish. Foreign
Wheat
Barley
Malt
Oats
Rye

Beans
Peas

Tares
Rapeseed
Mustard .. ---
Seeds 340
'Flour
Brank
Linseed 960

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130

• • . SEEDS, May 13.
Red Clover (Foreign).. 25s 40s—fine, 48s 56s —s per cwt
Ditto English R. 24s 36s—fine new, 45s 54s 56s
White ditto 3os 46s—fine, 69. s 64s
Rye-Grass ... l4s to 24s per qr.
Turnip Seeds. —s Od 32s to 463 pr. hush.
White Mustard Seed
Brown ditto lOs to 15s 6d
Red and Green
CarraWaY Seeds s6s to 655--fine,67s
Coriander do.

Cinque Fon' 34s to 36s—fine —s per qr.
Trefoil
Ribgrass ... 2Bs 34s—fine, 42s 45s
Canary per qr . —s 38s to 42s Od per qr.
Linseed 485.515-6ne, 54s 56A per qr.
Rape Seed .. 2Bl to 301 Os per Last.
Winter Tares 26s to 30s 0,1 per qr.

• PRICK OF .1101's, per Cwt., May 11.
. .
Pockets, I Bags,
Kent .. ei 18s a4lOs a M Os Kent .. 21 16s a4l O► a4l 15s
Sussex.. 21 12s a 3136 a 31 12s Sussex 21 lOs a9l 189 a3l 6s
Essex —2l 16s a3l 15s a4l 4s Essex.. 21 I6s a3l lOs a4l Os
Farnham, fine, 41 lOs to 71 to 101—Sec., 21 109 to 41 to 61 6s
• Old Doty for the year's growth, laid at 100.0001.

MAILKET.—May 13.
(To sonic the Offal—per Stone of sibs.)
Beef Qs Od to 5s 4d Veal
Mutton 2s Od to 3s Od
Lamb 3s 4d to Ss Od
HEAD 'OF CATTLE THIS DAY.

Beasts 2,362 I Calves
Sheep yi • •
low 1 Pigs ..

150
280

NEWGATS AND LEADENHALL MAttKETS.
• • By the Carcase.
Beef ls Ehi to 2s Btl I Wo,l ls 8d to 4s Od
Mutton... 0.1 to 2s Gd t Pork es Od to 4s Od

Lamb, 3s tid to 4s 4d.

ST. JAMES'S HAY MARKET, May 11..
Hay .. 31 Os Od to 41 4s 40. Clovtr, 01 Os to 01 Os
Shaw.. 11.7 s Od to 11 17s tSd 1

SMITHFIELD.
Hay
Straw
Clover 31 lOs Od to 41 lOs Od--Average, 31 15s Od

WHITECHAPEL.
,Hay 3; Ss Od to 41 Os od—Average, 41 6s Od
New ditto Ol Os Od to 01 Os Od—Average, 01 Os Od
Straw
Clover...— 3l ISs Od to 5! Os Od--Average,- 41 lOs Od.

. . .
Yellow Soap . 76s
Mott led B6s
Curd 904
,
Graves
Good Dregs ss

NI TALLOW CHANDLER'S HALL,
ti, 9s Od —Moulds, tOs 6d.
ed for ready money.

CHEAP TRAVELLING 'Ps DOVER, DEAL RAMS'

GATE, MARGATE AND CANTERBURY.
FOUR•INSIDE COACHES. AND KEEP GOOD TIME,

By S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co.
SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SKINNEWSTREET, SNOW'

HILL, LONDON.
THE following POST-COACHES, MAIL-
COACHES, &c. set out from the above Inn :
.
The " Telegraph," 'DOVER; Deal, Ramsgate, Margate,
Canterbury, FiversLiam, and Sandwich, new Post-Coach--
every Morning at a quarter oast 7 o'Clock.—ln consequence
of the decided preference given to the above Coach, the Pro-
prietors are determined no expense shalt be spared to render
lithe first conveyance on the Kent road.
BROMPTON, Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Stroud,
Sittingbourne, and Rainham, every Morning at a quarter past
7, and Afternoon.
FALMOUTH, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Bodmin, pen-
FALMOUTH,
Ashburton, Totness, Weymouth, Dorchester, Dart-
mouth, and Salisbury, every morning at Seven • through
Honiton, Axminster, Bridpurt, Blandford, Stockbridge, Ba-
singstoke, Hartford Bridge, Biackwater, and Bagshot.
The " Union," SOUTHAMPTON, Lymington, Winches,:
ter, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black water, and Bagsbot,;
New Four Inside Coach, every Morning at Eight; arrives at
the Coach and Horses, Southampton, by Five.—This is a
most delightful Conveyance to the Isle of Wight, Jerscv,
Guernsey, St. Maloes, Havre de Grace, Cherburgh,
The Proprietors of the above Coach hope to receive a con-
tinuance of that support which has hitherto been experienced
since the commencement of the " Union."—No racing with
other Coaches.
BATH and BRISTOL Flying Post-Coaches, through
penharn, Caine, Marlborough, Newbury, and Reading, every
Afternoon atone; arrive at Mr. May's, the Greyhound Inn,-
Bath, and the London Tavern, Thomas-street, and Swan,
Bristol, next Morning.—Coaches to Wells, _Bridgewater,
Taunton, and Plymouth. •
The UMPIRE, a New LIVERPOOL Light Coach, only one
.Night on the Road, carrying Four Inside, sets out Daily at
One; arrives at Liverpool next afternoon at Seven, through
Woburn, Lathbury, Northampton, Welford, Lutterworth.
Hinckley, Atherstone, Lichfield, Stone, Newcastle, Knots-
ford, Warrington, and Preston.
SHREWSBURY, Wellington, and Shiffnal, Post-C.oachr•
every Afternoon.—Guarded.'
The UNION, WEYMOUTU,Dorchester, Blandford, Sal is-
httry , Andover, Overton; Basingstoke, H artford Bridge, Black-
%vatar, end Bagshot; new Post Coach, every Afternoorf,.--
The Weymouth Packets to Guernsey, Jersey, . Cherbourg,
St. Maloc's, &c.
BARNSTAPLE and Southrnolton Post Coach, every Mon-
day, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings at Seven o'Clock.
The " Rockingham," LEEDS light Post Coach, sets
oat
every Afterneon at Four; and passes through Baldock, Big-
gleswade, Eaton, Silton, Greetham, Grantham, Bawtry,
Stamford, Markham Moor, Newark, Retford, Doncaster, and
Ferrybridge, to the Golden Lion, Leeds, next Afternoon.--
Luggage and Packages only id per lb.-=-Notwithstanding the
uncommon Expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to be the
most agreeable and. complete Public Conveyance on the
• North Road, being unequalled by any other.
HARROWGATE and Ripon new Light Post Coach, everY.
Afternoon at Four.
GLASGOW, Longtown, Gretna-green, Annan, Dumfries,
Brownhill, Thornhill, Samquhar-Kiln, Canniock,
and all Parts of Scotland, a Post Coach daily.
YORK, Scarborough, Whitby, Shiekls, Sunderland, No',"
castle, and Edinburgh, New Post Coach, with a .Guar"
throughout ; sets out every Morning; by way of Newar4,
o
Retford, Doncaster, Ferrybridge, Tadcaster, Darlingto,
NorthallertOn, Durham; Mot peth, and Berwick. Passenger'
finding themselves fatigued on the journey, may rest what/
time they please, and then proceed without any additions

Fare.
MARLBOROUGH and Swindon, new four-inside Coach;
through Aldbourn, Reading, Lambonrn, Purton, LydingtOn,
Pewsey, Wootton Basset', Ramsbury, Hungerford, New boll,
and Maidenhead ; every Morning.
BItIDGENORTH, Walsal, Shrewsbury, Salop, and flair
head Four Inside Coach, every Afternoon.
BOSTON, Spalding, Peterborough, Stilton, and Hunting,
don Royal Mail Coach, every Evening, to Spilsby, Louth
Grimsby, and Hull, -Afternoon at a Quarter before Six,
CARLISLE, Penrith, and Whitehaven Post Coach,
with Four Horses, and a Guard all the way, passes throl4s
Brough, Appleby, Greta-bridge, Richmond, Catterich, 13c
roughbridge, Wetherhy, Aberford, Ferryb ridge, New 3.
Doncaster, Grantham, Statnford, Bawtry, Greethain, a"
Stilton. Sets out every Morning, and performs the journey
with the greatest facility. Passengers detained on th 51103...
by business or pleasure, have ttie peculiar advantage of the''
Seats-heine secured in the next Coach.
KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lonsdale,
Chorley, Or msktrk, and Garstang Post Coaches, every Aftev'
noon.
LIVERPOOL, Warrington, Knutsford, Stone, Stafford:
and Litchfield new light Four Inside Post Coach, Cool) '1"
* 0
Night on the Road), every Afternoon at Three o'Clock ; arrni:.e,;
at the Saracen's Head Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool,
Evening.
WAKEFIELD Post-Coach, every Morning.
Nampt-
CHESTER, Newport, Whitechurelt, Tarporleli
wich, Nurthwich, and Micldlewich Post-Coach, every (lite".
noon. every
SUNDERLAND, Stockton, and Yarm Coach,
Morning, to the George Inn, Sunderland. isair
MANCHESTER, Winslow, Congleton, Newcastle, Veva A A
f,
and Wolverbanipton new Four Inside Post-Coach, every
ternoon.—Only One Night on the Road.
SHEFFIELD and Rotherham Post-Coach, called the "et'
S
son," every Mornkg. st
BIRMINGHAM Post Coach, sets out every Afternona,t,
Three o'Clock, carrying Four Inside only; and passes throtilte
Warwick, Leamington, Southam, and Daventry, to the
racen's Head, Bull-street; Birmingham, next Nlorniog -
Half-past Seven. Test
HULL, Lincoln, Northeave, Howden, and Doncaster,,ol.
Coach; every Morning, to the Cross Keys, Market-place, P
HERTFORD, Ware, Holdesdon, and Cheshunt
every Morning. • eye?
El
TOTTENHAM and Edmonton Coaches daily, at
Half-past Two, Five, and Eight. rerda
'V Luggage and Packages to Leeds, Doncaster? and -
bridge, at only ed per pound. heir
S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. respectfully acquaint t_ far
Friends and the Public, that they will not be accountable of
any Pareels, Passenger's Luggage, Writings, Plate, g";',10.-
more than. Five Pounds Value, if lost, stolen, or damaged' if,
less entered as such, and the Insurance paid' for according
at the Asti sceit's Head Inn, Snow-hill, London. _Jo

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ROBBERY AND MURDER.—We find the full- e;
,ng brief notice of a horrid and unusual crit'Y
in the Bristol Mercury of Saturday :--gc A `cAs4(l
e;ts
gon, going from Cirencester to London, 13,"
with broad cloths, and to which a guard "n",l
been attached, was yesterday attacked by a "0
of robbers, who murdered both the driver re° be
the guard, and plundered the waggon•
robbers have not yet been discovered."
Mr. KENT, the water pedestrian, has tin- td
taken, for a wager of one thousand guineas
walk across the sea from Dover to Cala's*
(Morning Paper.) tfirof.
Sunday night, a young Gentleman passing -ea
Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, was attac
h,
by three fellows, who robbed him of his watcio
Early on Tuesday morning last,a woman,
state of temporary derangement, left her housed
the South Ferry, Dundee, and having reach° at
precipice, flung herself into the sea. Her b°
P, &e. pea 1121b.—May io. I was found soon after.

BIRTHS. Dirt'
Near Bruton, Somerset, the Lady of Captain lidward
R.N., of a daughter. . the aclici
On the 11th inst. at Broughton Rectory,
the Rev. Edmond Probyn, of a son.
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MARRIED. wooer*
On Monday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, IVID—I- %f m''
Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law, only son oc;04. to
Turner, of Chapel Izod in the county of Dublin/
,r'' regi
Maria Elizabeth Frances', daughter of the late John Met'
of Eastington,in the county of Pembroke, Esq•