The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-16 00:00:00

him-for a quarter of an hourlo,enaMe him t) make
up his mind on the subject, and on th it return
'bey were have brought with them :soma -other
ignafures of Ragi.uleau, to compare;. with those'
which they expected to extort from him, and if
found correct, the widow was to have immediately
thrown a cord over his neck, and strangled him.
The corpse -Was a have b...en put into a sack and
conveyed out of the house at night, and then thrown
into the 'river, or Jet in some open. ficld.
Thus minute in all i;s prepa.kations was this ?ha'.
boiled scheme arranged, when the Pohce had intel-
hger.ce of it, and took the necessary steps to kureit
thet widow Morin, and her accomplices.
Raga.uleati had accepted the invitation Of the-wi-
dow to breakfast, as at ianged, on the 21 o, 010-
ber. He declined eating anything, znd proposed.
to set out irnmediltely tOr the country. Ti 6 party
got into the coach, and proceeded on their journey.
They were stopped on their' ivay by the Otii:et at"
police, and. arres ed. The officer took Chem
him to the house in which the bloody atA ,w,,s to
have. been perpetrated. The house was At Clign,n-,
court, and had only been let to the widow Muria
about fifteen days before.. Ail the preparation; and
implements were found there. The cedar was
completely blocked up, so that what was doing
within could hot be heard without ; this was proved
to have been done at the orders of the widow Mu-
rin. A small table was found there with ligh ed
candles, pens, ink, and paper,• and pistols loaded
with ball. The slake too, to which R;gouleau was
to have been bound was found, with the chair,
Chains, radlock, and every'
.other "implement ne-
cessary to carry the horrid plot into execution.

Lucie Jacotin and Nicolas Lefevre were the men
engaged by the widow rtrorin to second her in. her
diabolical scheme ; and immediately after the arrest
of tlie principals, they were seized. Lefevre was
found in the cellar, where c indles had been burnfng
for three days previous to the. arrival of the police
officers.

On these fats were the widow Morin, her daugh-
ter Angelica Delaporte, Lucie Jacotin, and Nicolas
Lefevre, arraigned. - The two latter pleaded
ranee of the inien lions of the former.

The two women, in their defence, di4played
great and interesting, ingenUity, but the jury found
them guilty of conspiring to the signature• to
the bills from Ragouleau, but acquitted then) of the
intention to commit murder. The widow Morin
and her. daughter Delaporie were, in consequence,
condemned to twenty years hard lab Our in toe gal.
lies,-and to the pillory.
Jacotin and Lefevre Were acquitted alto ether, on
the ground that no proof of intention to extort
Could. be made good against them.

At the Lincoln Assizes, John Fieldsent, lat-!or
Driby, Who voluntarily surrendered hintsTlf into-
custody on the gth of March inst. was tried fOr fe-
loniously killing Joseph Faulkitigder, on the 7th of
May, 1810. The deceased, it appeared, was a
yonth about nine years of age, in the ser% ice of t!
prisoner's father. For sonic offence the prisoner
severely whipped.the lad, who however vient home.
eat his supper Ilea: lily, and made no complaint ;
but in the night complained of one of hi, knees,
grew drowsy, and died without being suspected to
be very ill, in two days. On exami,,ing the body,
it was found much- brui,ed and discoloured about
the loins and thighs ; and, on being opened lay t wcp
Surgeons, they gave it their opiuipu that he had
died from-the absorption into the, systeth of extra-
vasateil and mortified blood. The Jury, however,,
from the' peculiar cirAtrnstances' of the case, ac-
quitted the prisoner, who it is to be observed, had,
at first gone to Artierica, but as it, unable to rest
there, had returned, and delivered himself up to
take his trial. / .

A serjcant in the Berkshire Militia received on
Monday 400 lashes at the barracks at Nottingham
for derer ion he had also been very aaive in swin-
dling the towns-people of almost every class. He
proves (says the Nottinghaat paper) to have been
Freneh officer, who broke his ,parole Of honour in
Devonshire some time ago.

•
A new method of preserving pork has recently
been. discovered. A piece, which is represented Js
having been at sea five months, and as being eaten
by the ship's company in preference to pock salted
after the usual method, has been sent to the GJM-
inissioners frit- Victualling the Navy, for their in-
spection., The pork, it is stated, is boiled fresh in
large pieces, then put into a tight cask, and fi11...A
up with vinegar, and closed quite securely, so as
CO 'prevent the admission of any air. The flavour
is far from being so Unpleasant, or so sour, as might
be expected ; while the pork cuts out quite firm,
without beinAt all hard, as is generally the case
with. that which is saltecL

•BIRTII.
On Friday. in Ceorge-stree4 TOwer-hill, the Lacly of'
NV. Reynolds. Esq. of a Daughter.

MARRIED.

• On the 3c4 inst. at. Guernsey, Mr. Mark Smith, son of
Sinith. Esq. of Portsmouth; to Miss Delisle,
daughter of the late Nicholas.Delisle. Esq.
On•the sth inst. at Mtukstown Church, near Dublir.,
Charles Put and, [Sq. to Constance, eldest daughter'of.the
.11on George Massy, of Avondale, hi the County of Dub-
lin.- , • -

On Thursday morning, at Ashby St Ledgers, Nnithatrp-
tonshire, Thotn.is Hall %/mightn't, Esq 4 eldest son of lkoger
Vangliton: Esq. of Ashfullong-Ilouse. 'Warwickshire,. to.
Anne,, youngest, dau,thter of the late Captain Kelsick, of
Workington, Cumberland.
The same day, at St. Gelrges's, Hanaver.square, 'Au-
gustus Pitcher, Esq. of Charles-stmet, Covent-garden, to
r.iiss Amey, i.f

. On the ‘111) inst. at Greenwich, Henry Walsh, Esq. of
of Oxford, to Susann Ali, d:ingliter of the late Charles Sant-
ways, Esq. of Fuw...y, Cornwall.

On'the i4th inst. :it Morten, Benjamin Burnett,. Esq. of
the Crown-Oflio4 to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Bur-
n.tt, of &lotLien-Hall, Surrey.
The" same day, at Kensington Church, Major Wil
Napier, of the 43d Light Infantry, to Caroline, the youngest
(laughter of the late Hon. Gcneral Fox.