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KINGSTON, APRIL 2.
TRIAL OF MISS JANE' CLARK FOR TREPOISONING OF HER

If OTIIER.

This trial being fixed for ten o'clock this
morning the avenues to the Court were much
crowded, and before the commencement of the pro-
ceedings every station in the Court was occupied.
The indictment charged the prisoner with having
administered a deadly poison, called arsenic, to
Elizabeth Clark, on the 21st of February, in the
parish of Putney.
The prisoner, who, by the direction of the Judge,
was accommodated with a chair in the dock, was
dressed in deep mourning. She scarcely moved her
head or looked up duripg the whole of the period
occupied by the trial; from her manner it would
have appeared as if she hardly listened to the evi-
dence, but as she wore a deep crape veil, it was im-
possible to trace the effects that were produced on
her countenance. Her father and sister, who were
provided with sears in another part of the Court,
were alio dressed in deep mourning, and during the
early part of the proceedings appeared to be labour-
ing under considerable agitation. which, however,
did not prevent their listening with great and marked
anxiety to the proceedings before the Jury.
Mr. Serjeant ANDREWS stated the case for the
prosecution.
Mr. Theophilus Clark—At the time of the death
of ray wife I resided . in the parish -of Putney; we
kept no servant ; my daughter Elizabeth used to
prepare the meals generally ; Jane is the youngest
daughter; all my family was in perfect health on the-
morning of the 21st; our usual dinner-time was two
o'clock; Elizabeth began to prepare the pudding
before I came home; the flour was in a tub ini my
the
room, and I emptied it into a basin ; both
daughters were present then; the milk and eggs
ware in separate basins, and I put them together
with the flour, arid mixed them with a spoon ; this
up about pudding
a
was about an hour before the dinner-time ; the pud-
ding was put into the saucepan by Elizabeth ; 1
can't say whether I went out of the room while the
over it,
i tt,h cal puddingduthe n pute.as
intoiitit intotiie
apwuhhdiacd,hii
nn
jglavntivetah
stanioenhlotidtiheown stairs to make into a saucepan to boil ; there was a surplus of batter,
dum-
pling ; there was not sufficient flour in the tub to
complete the pudding, and more was fe:cherl tip by
Elizabeth in a bag; when the batter that was left
dheemplyudding
was
making.
was taken down by Jane, she mixed some other
flour with it that was below, but I conclude that it
was the same flour,,,f.iotil.l it had
we all
tsaakte(rliowdnowton
stairs from above ; when Jane went below she did
It two o'clock; the dumpling
pudding ; Jane put some butter on the quarter of an hour before
rntwilioianersnteatrka
taken
together, eer
atsis
remarked partook
th
that
tf
dum-
pling, and offered a piece to me; I gave it to her
sister, because I (IA not like heavy pudding; my t svo
daughter; both partook of the dumpling; my wife
'lu,iede end colour of the pudding was very
Laars'„i appearance of batter pudding; my
are
the somebate reo pudding,id i.
ea rstob•:vaelrei
share she
shial tenvtiit
as
taeefq;euria'lvl y d i v i d e d into
unlikelt. ohue r a pp ap r
theet sa,
wife said that it was only the basin that had coloured
the outside of the pudding; I observed, that it did
sea smell very well, and desired my two daughters
to be careful of it and only taste it; after the dump-
brig was eaten, it was that gave us the guard to the
pudding;
and she said that I was always setting them against
their dinners; I said that it was not fit for her, and
that the best thing she could do would be to put it
I tasted one piece, arid there was a great de-
gree
of heat in it, but I proposed to put some butter
uhbuaaikitptwhile I was doing this, ray eldest daughter
also. felt the heat, i would not eat any more;
I thin - at theeattienrileaof
piece,this caoundvmetysa,t‘i,oifne myha
ddaeuag,
eaten
more;
ti
,liwnetahyrvSniellvvehepi
tfaeu n't d i
ts ii;,i,d,i't'hlinfkthmerye ilsvife
afterwards she ate the whole of her share;
when I spoke al,a.nst the pudding, looked
anythinginou gh ti nt
hiet,baysoi nu
COURT—It utnhe puddingT—lt did
nota;v
ayoccur
dt o
have me toi t
e takexl.
ni
wife was of that temper that I always
found it the
whole
dd;itm je ofst to let her have her own way; in less
aJyantehebeeameill ; i.t was wife
dinner ti itngs, whichMy she
than
nt
dtcelonewanirneidngutaatiellv'ss; Elizabeth complained of heat, I
the baker, to let him taste it ; about ten
nii
desired her to take part of my own share to Lay-
ton's,:les after my wife had eaten the pudding she
l
was sick, and went to bed; I attended her, but
:vr:lsa attendedtdteurn g
p;roi‘diurtic.ee‘rdywahldyi when shentattie r
thisettvetahiii
retching
vomit-
ing, iaat
was
me into the garden, at a place
rbiootdyincldarmeeisetod
undressed;
housepa partly
ly taitl
apothecary, and 1 told Elizabeth also
mtjwi nhayhgrno:erwebdnui there
consultingdt a'n thevo
to go to him at the same time as to Layton's s. no-
body
whichpaitly
was about five o'clock ; ley wife was in bed, but
to Jane, who rema. d in
tleMndredWtaodheecra,
me the room where the pud-
ding had been eaten, and was also retching; what
she vomited was thrown away by herself, I believe;
I thought Jane nearly as al as her mother; I opened
the gate to Mr. Wade; he asked im wife if she felt
any path; she said
she did y • k
not; I think staid
with her about three •
minutes, and then left her; he
administered
nothing to her; I asked him the clues-

tion, " Could it be arsenic in the pudding ?" He
asked me first what it was all about, that my daugh-
ter was ill at his house, and that the Layton's were
ill ; then I told him about the pudding, and asked
him could it he arsenic; I did not at that time know
tha. there was any arsenic in the house.
By the COURT-Mr. Wade brought Elizabeth
home on the'Tuestlay 'morning; he then asked to see
the rest of the pudding; Jane had put it in the gar-
`den, and proposed to go and fetch it, which he did ;
what she brought back was a small piece; Mr.
Wade asked where the rest was ; she said that she
put it into the ground in the garden ; I and Mr.
Wade went for it, and Jane told me that I should
see the earth turned up by the wall; it was buried
about a spade deep; Mr. Wade carried it away with
tbrd; I asked Jane why she buried it, and she sa;(1
she did not like the look of it, or the smell.
Cross-examined—l was present the whole tin,
of the mixing of the pudding; there was nothing
pone in the m;x.ng of the pudding that claimed my
attention ; Elizabeth bought all the materials, and
Jane had nothing whatever to do with the making of
:he pudding; the pudding was in the pot for one
hour; the dumpling was eaten almost entirely by
Any two daughters,—Jane eat by far the largest share;
she also ate about as much of the pudding as Eliza-
beth. The prisoner is seventeen years of age; my
wife and I had not selept in the same bed fort ,Ael..e
years • she was confined in a mad-houSe for one
,
year, and at the end of
.that time she retur ed rather
worse than better, but with a gnat resentment
against me for having her confined; Jane was fie-
quently in attendance on her mother, but not more
that Elizabeth. Jane had of late exhibited symp-
toms which induced me to, believe that she was fall-
ing into the same state as her mother; there was a
decided alienation of mind from her former habits ;
she had sown reserved and inclining to despondency;
there was no religious apprehension ; she had de-
sisted from her usual course of amusements, and as-
sumed a flighty manner; she used to amuse her-
self with babyish pastimes, such as flying pieces of
paper, &c.; she had on more than one occasion
thrown vitriol on her clothes.

Miss Elizabeth Clark—l am the daughter of the
last witness, and the sister of the prisoner.—[The
witness then proceeded to detail the circumstances
of this melancholy case in nearly the same terms as
her father.]
Mr. Alexander Garden—l am a chemist, anti
living in Oxford-spree' ; Mr. Wade brought me
some pudding to analyse; it contained arsenic to a
great extent.

- Mr. William Barnborough—l am a chemist at
Wandsworth ; I remember the prisoner coming to
my shop about twelve or thirteen days before I saw
her at the inquest; she asked 'for an ounce of salts,
with which I served her; I then asked her if she
wanted any thing else ; she said she wanted an
ounce of arsenic to destroy black beetles; I said
that I never sold it to strangers; she seemed a little
confused, arid said perhaps I did not keep it; I said
I did, but could not sell it to strangers.
Charles Collins—l am the apprentice to Mr. Ben-
nison, a chemist, at Wandsworth ; I remember see-
ing her at our shop on the Itith of February; my
master was in the stop; she asked for an ounce of
salts,:and then an ounce of arsenic; Mr. Bennison
asked her if she was aware of the nature of arsenic,
she said " perfectly ;" I had seen her before my
master supplied her with what she asked for, and
wrote " arsenic—poison" on the %%rapper.
William Dixon, police-constable, V. N. 116—I
was on duty hear Barnes on the 28th of February ;
I saw the prisoner about a qtiarter past twelve at
night on the common,, going towards the village of
Barnes; I did not know her; the Inspector bade
me cross over to her, and wish her good night; I
did so, but she made no reply ; a few minutes after
one I saw her again in nearly the same place, coming
back from the village ; I walked by the side of her,
and asked her several questions, but she would not
answer me till I caught hold of her cloak, and told
her that I insisted on knowing where she was going
to at so la.e an hour; she appeared very much agi-
tated,. and told me that she Nva; going to a new
house in the Richmond-road; when she came to
some water which had collected since the rain she
walked right through it, though I wanted her to go
where there was none; I asked her what time she
left home; she said about nine o'clock ,and that she
had come out with a friend to go to Hammersmith,
but had missed her way.
The Jury, after deliberating a few minutes in
their box, requested to withdraw. They continued
absent about a (limiter of an hour, and then, on re-
turning into Court, gave a verdict of Not Guilty.
There was a burst of applause in the body of the
Court at this verdict; but the Learned Judge
threatened to commit any one who disturbed the
Court.

His Lordship then directed that the prisoner
should he discharged.

YORK, ArRII 2. •
RoRSON AND ANOTHER V. DENMAN, KNIGHT.
Thia was a feigned issue, directed by the Lord
Chancellor, to try whether certain persons, under
whom the plaintiffs claimed, were the next of kin
to Samuel Trmtherk.

The amount of property (neatly 200,0001.) at
stake, and the citcums,ance of the Attorney-General
being specially retained to conduct the case for the
Crown, gave ao interest to tke cause, and the
Court was much crowded.
The issue was raised to determine whether Ca-
therine Troutbeck and Barbara Cawthorne (under
whom the plaintiffs claimed) were the next of kin
to a person of the name of Samuel TroutheCk, who
(lied in Lula in 1785, leaving personal property to a
large amount, which he directed by-his will to be
applied to certain charitable purposes. The testator
went out to India in company with a brother of the
name of Benjamin Troutbeck, in 1718. At that
time he was 18 years of age.. The ship in which
the brothers sailed was lost on tho coast of India,
and Benjamin was drowned. The testator reached
Madras, where he married a black woman, and be.
came possessed of some property. He was a man
of saving arid penurious habits, and employed his
money to advantage in loans, which at that time
paid an interest of 14 per cent. By this meens he
ama'sed a large fortune, and dying without children
in 1785, he bequeathed the whole of it to trustees
for the foundation of a charitable institution in Ereg.
land. The will became the subject of a Chaticatv
su;t in 1794, and for 19 years (the last ease M.
Pollock said he hoped that would ever be recorded
of the kind) the metier mai buried in the
Court of Chancery. At last, in 1813, the then
Lord Chancellor gave a dec sion, pronouncing
the trusts of the will to be void. It then became a
matter of importance to ase,rain who were the
next of kin to the testator, as the property in default
of kindred devolved to the Crown. The parties
under whom the plaintiffs claimed came forward and
put in the claim to tho property. Tt,e claim was
referred to a Master in Chancery, nho in 1827 made
his report, deciding that the plaintiffs had not made
out their claim. This decision was come to in con-
sequence of a rejection, 1w the Master of a docu-
ment offered in evidence, and on which the plaintill
now relied. An exception was taken to the Mas-
ter'.s report, and argued before the Viee,Chancellor.
net learned Judge agreed with the Master in think-
ing the document inadmissible in. evidence, arid h;
confirmed the Master's report. The plaintiff' the
apOealed to the piesent Lord Chancellor, and he,
aft& (as it was said) a conference with severe:

Judges, decided that tbe'doeurnent ought to have
been admitted in evidence, and he directed the pre-
sent issue to be tried. The dOcuMent in question
was a manuscript account of the family of the Trout-
becks, written by a Mr. John Ttontbeek, and as bleb
if admissible in evidence clearly made out the plain-
tiffs' title. The pedigree which the plaintiff: new
attempted to prove commenced with Georl!e Trout-
beck, who in the time of the civil wars war, rector of
Bowness, in Cumberland.. The eldest sort ofGeor:e
was named Ralph, and went to Ireland, where he
died, leaving a ,vife and three sons. The eldeq of
these sons was named George, and in his father's
hfe.time was sent to his grandfather at Bowness, in
the neighbourhood of which place he lived and
died. The plaintiff. satisfactorily deduced their de-
scenttith e r fromsonsS
him.
a m Thee widow
to Wapping. Benjamin died without issue.
Samuel married, and had a sort named samuel (the
Samuel
ar‘idido Benjamin,
ojfam Rialli, phr,e‘vmintl‘,teti the
from t.o
testator), and another, named Benjamin. These bro-
thers west to India,Where Benjamin was drowned, and
Samuel amassed wealth in the manner abeady de-
scribed. Aft. r Ralph, the grandfather of the testa-
tor, went to Leland, there was little interconi-e kept
up between the different branches of the •family, and
it appeared to have ceased eniirelY after Ralph's
death. The difficulty in the phi,,tiffs"proof, therefore,
was to show that the S untie' Trotobeek whoa ter
wards lived at Wapping, and who the fath.r of-..
the testator, was the same Sam, el who li,nl lived in
Ireland as the son of Ralph 'l'routbetk • There was
no means of directly proving..this,• except_ by 'the' -
family history, to which allusion has'been .made..,A••
great mass of documentary evidence,-eonsisting of
willi and registers, was then put in, and- evidence on
plaintiffs' behalf.
The ATTORNEy-GENERAL for the defendant, pro-
ceeded to contend that the plaintiffs had not made
out such a ease a: called upon the Crown to give up
to them -that-propetty, to- which, in default of satds- •
factory proof; the Crown was entitled.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDILE summed np the ca.e ;.
and the Jury, after a deliberation of tied( an hour,
found a verdict for the defendant. The' property,.
therefore, remains in the-Crown. •-

TAUNTON, APRIL I.

Richard Hewlett, aged 37, and stated to- be a
tanner, was put to the bar upon an indictment,
which, in thirteen or fourteen different counts,
charged him wiih having, upon the 21st of October
last, in the parish of Congresbury, in this eotinty,
maliCiously shot, and stabbed and tilt Charles Capel
Hardwicke, with intent to murder him, or to maim
him, or to do him some bodily harm.
The first witness called into the box was the pro-
secutor, who deposed as follows am a grazier
living at Huish, in the parish of Congresbury, in
this county. I am also an agent to a wool com-
pany, and as such agent am very often in possession
of large sums of money when I travel through the
country. On the 2lst of October last I attended
the Bristal marker, which I left at six o'clock in the
afternoon for home, having then about 4a50/. in my
pocket. On the road I met the pr souse at a place
called Newland's-hatch, five miles from Bristol, and
seven from Congresbury. We were both on horse-
back. I bad him good night, and from his anamr
perceived that he was a stranger to me. When I
was moving on, he asked me if I was going far upon
that road. I answered that I was going beyond
Congresbury. tie- said he should be glad of my corn-
' patty, as he, too, was going that way. We rode on
together through Congresbury, and over a bridge be-
yond that village, until he came to a pluce called the
Heath, now enclosed. When we got on the
heath, the prisoner dropped a little behind me,
upon my left hand, having his horse's head
about in a line with my saddle, when I felt
myself violently struck on the left shoulder, and
heard the report as if of a pistol, and saw at the
same time a flash of light close behind me on my
left side. My horse sprung forward, and I cried oi•t
to the prisoner, " G rod God, what have you done?"
or something to that effect, and immediately pulling
up my horse, I faced the prisoner, who thereupon
turned about and started away back in full gallop.
I did not see any body on the road at or near that
place, except the prisoner. There is a hedge upon
the right ride of the road, but none upon the left,
which was the direction frem which 1 was struck.
As -scion as the prisoner fled I instantly pursued him,
and came up with him about half a mile from where
I had been. struck. We had rode back through
Congresbury before I overtook him ; I never loss
sight of him during the whole time : when I came
up with him, I received several blows upon the
head with what I thought to be a bludgeon, and
which nearly knocked me off my horse. When I
recovered from the effects of the blows he had ot
some yards farther ahead; I pursued him again
and got near him a second time, when he threatened
me in some words which I did not understand,
called out to some persons who were on the road to
stop him, and continued to pursue him along what
is called the Kent-road. There was n cart on the
road, by which the prisoner attempted to pass on
the right side, 1 being on the left a little behind. Tice
way by the right side of the cart being too uarrow,lte
turned his horse into the middle of the road, and the
horse fell in attempting to make the short turn.
I had come up with him at that instant, and in the
same moment my horse also fell. As soon as I got
upon my legs again, I caught a hold of the pri-
soner, and a struggle took place between us. Ili the
struggle I felt pierced in my left side,and afterwards
received several violent blows on the head. I saw
no other person near me at the time except the pri-
soner. My hat had fallen off when my horse felt,
and one of the blows upon the heal so stunned me,
that I let the prisoner go. He then got upon his
horse, and was on the point of again riding away,
when.l found that I had suffieiently recovered to be
able to seize the bridle. Whilst I held the bridle
he attempted to strike me with his fist, having, as
I suppose, dropped his weapon in the scuffle.
Whilst I had a hell of him some persons came op,
and we took him to the inn at tongresbury. Up
to that moment, from the time when I felt struck
upon the heath, I had never let hint out of my sight.
The
-pro: ecutor's appearance excited universal ad.
miration of his extraordinary 'fortitude and towage.
He is a slight man, under the middle height, and
exhibits no appearance whatever of a robust muscu-
lar conforwation ; and *honed, as we thought, a re-
markably delicate structure about the shoulders and
breast. The only weapon with which he was armed
for so deadly a conflict was a slight sallow rod,wlech
was not much thicker than the handle of our pen.
The prisoner, on the other hand, was a stout lurk
man, above the middle size, well set, with broad
chest, strong shoulders, and all appearances of pos-
sessing great muscular power. He was, moreoter,
armed, as the evidence proved, with a separable
double-barrelled pistol, and a stick heavily loaded
with lead at one end, through which he shot forth
a spring dagger of a high temper, and about eight
inch( sin length. Ile first shot the prosecutor 'with
a ball from one of the barrels, then struck him se-
vela! t mes with the stick on the head, and drove the
dagger into his lungs ; after receiving all which in-
juries, the prosecutor succeeded alone in arresting
and detaining him.

Mr. Se ge—ant BOMPAS, for the prisoner, took se-
veral technical objections to the indictment, but tl.ey
were all 'aver-ruled by the learned Judge, who
summed up the case to the Jury, and they almost
immediately finding the prisoner Guilty, he was sen-
tenced to be hanged.

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France of Friday.)
Pants, Massie 30.—The Members of the Association
against Anarchy, now in Paris, have just had a meeting.
We shall shortly publish the act of the Association. In
the mean time we can assure our readers that the following
article contains an exact outline of the object which they
have in view.
ANTI-ANARCHY ASSOCIATION.
State creditors, private creditors, landholders, manu-
facturers, merchants, and workmen of all classes, finding
themselves seriously interrupted in their occupations by the
revolution of July, 1830, threatened with entire ruin by
the consequences of that revolution, seeing us yet no power
capable of checking and suppressing these results, so as to
prevent future disasters of a more pernicious description ;
has, therefore, been determined to form a society, and
unite for one common defence, according to the conditions
which shall he announced in the present act.
The object of the Society is by no means to subvert what
rasa established since the 7th of August. They do not
intend to interfere with opinions, their only object being
the care of public interests. They invite to their Asso-
elation every man who is the friend of order and peace, no
matter what opinion he may have previously formed, they
only exclude the authors of a new anarchy, under the
.appell <thin of Repuilic, and what is the same, under a
Republican Monarchy This Association is ren-
dered necessary by the following reasons:—
There are different opinions upon the principle of the
revolution—there is only one as to its effects It
injures the interests of the holders of securities belonging
to private individuals. It ruins the debtors, and of course
hit must ruin the creditors
;proved injurious to landed property; it also lessens the
iinteres•s of commerce and industry. This is not saying
'enough. This miserable state is so great that those Li-
fberals who are really the friends of order and public wel-
fare (fortunately the largest number are now feeling the
tregret of having joined a revolution, which heretofore has
nn,v produced confusion, and added to the lists of the 1113.•
ferru,iate) ; the revolution injures the interests of political
liberty and the interests of religious liberty. In fine, the
revelutse, u injures the first of interests, the first rights of
:man in soCiety—the security of his home, of his domestic
<credit, and of his person.
What has authorised this new subject of terror ?—lt
'was not the Ch'arer of 1830, nor the criminal code of
:instruction, nor the penal code of the empire. This was
not a new law. It is not a new law ; the Chambers were
sitting at the time. So, then, it was without any law and
against every ►aw, at a period when they talked of nothing
else but equality, arbitrary hatred, that a Minister of the
Interior thought fit to bring into action the twelve tele-
graphs of the metropolis in order to convey to every part
of the kingdom directions for violating the retirement of
in iividuala, &c.
Dc those who excite us to war recollect the horrors of
warfare ?----Yes, they are aware of them, but they feel no
shudder at their approach ; they anticipate them, and
seem to least on the mere expectation,
For our part, interested fur the maintenance of order,
either for the preservation of our property or industry, is it
right for us to rush hendlong into the torrent of revolution
which threatens our destruction ? No ; we have the past
to give ns experience, and we shall profit by its instruction.
(From the ilessager des Chambres, dated Friday.)
The following is an extract from a letter, dated Bayonne,
2tith March :—" No more deserters have arrived on these
frontiets fur the last six days. Tranquillity reigns through-
out all parts of Spain. Cadiz, the Isla de Leon, and
Badajos are perfectly quiet. Affairs seem to be on the
point of resutning their old state. The question of war or
peace still remains uncertain, being connected here as
elsewlsere with the extension of commerce."
The Austrians have reinstated the former authorities
at Cento. The inhabitants of Comachio have re-esta-
blished the whole order of things without waiting for the
assistance of the Austrians.
- -

(From Galignani's Messenger of Thursday.)
Yesterday Count d'Appony, the Austrian Ambassador,
had a private audience of his 'Majesty, which lasted upwards
of an hour.
Count Vilain XIV., Member of the Belgian Congress,
has arrived at Paris; he is charged, it is said, with a mis.
sion from his Government.
The following observations on the change of the French
Ministry are extracted from the Austrian Observer of the
224 :—The new Administration decidedly declare
themselves for the maintenance of peace, and the internal
order and tranquillity of their own, as well as of other
states, and against the culpable attempts of a shameless
propaganda. The great majority of the French nation
concur in these principles. All Europe shares them, Go-
vernments and people—for what people would choose to
suffer an anarchical faction in its bosom ? They will con-
gratulate them on the occasion. It is Duly by the pre-
servation of peace, and by the re-establishment of the in-
ternal tranquillity of States, that the evils which now op-
press nations so heavily can be removed, property secured,
trade revived, and credit restored. This is the voice which
is now heard all over Europe. The Austrian Government
openly declares it as its own; and every Austrian wbn loves
his Mona' ch and his country, will render homage to it,"

CHAMBER OF PEERS, Manor 30.
The Order of the My was the discussion upon the law
of elections.
M. de Sesniaisons expressed a wish that all those who
belonged to the National Guard should enjoy the advan-
tages of the electoral law. In his opinion the payment of
rates to the amount of fifty francs, ought to he sufficient.
The Noble Peer, in conclusion, said that he would vote
for all the amendments of the Committee, and for any
thing that tended to ameliorate the law.
The general discussion closed.
The Presi,lent commenced reading the dill-rent articles.
The article amended by the Committee, and which
fixes thr amount of direct taxes at 160 francs as the elec-
toral rate, was put to the vote and adopted:
Marshal Jourdan wished that the military should be
exexm t from the payment of the 75 francs.
This amendment, supported by Marshal Duke of Ta-
rente, was pute to the vote and rejected.