The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-28 00:00:00

DEVOIsr, J Lr 23.

John itrufferd,.. alias John Bright was indicted for the wll
ful murder of Sarah Down, ott the 11th instant, at ..East M'or.
Wigton in this County. The Court and avenues it•atling to It
were crowded to excess, and the trial excited a grertedegree of
interest. It occupied the Court for tour hours. •
It Hodge, who was the principal evidence against the mi.
'soner, went to prisoner's house on:the Sunday., and told him
that there were strong suspicions that he had mule away
with Sarah Down, as she could not be found; and he was
the last person seen. with her, near Airattan Gate ;, prisoner
cried and appeared much troubled, but went ,with witness to
look for the body ; prisoner said that Sarah Down never
told him that she waa,prrgnant by him ; he wished .witness to
go in another direction front the river; whilst they were talking
person came up and said the body was found ; prisoner then
looked like one dead, and cried much ; they then left the body.
Witness asked prisoner where he had put the NAO.? he
plied—in Smith's linhay, which was 13 or 14 land-yards from
the place where the body was found ; witness asked him whe.
they had any angry words; he said no; he then asked him
how he came to dolt ; prisoner replied " that he never thought
of it until the moment he did it, and that he should not have
done it if he had not been drunki" _ _

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A surgeon's evidence tended to prove that deceased came by
her death by. sufthcation.
The J until:. recapitulated the evidence, remarking on the
various parts of it ; . and, after a few minutes consideration, the
Jury returned a verdict of Guilty..
Ills Lotmanle then immediately, in a most solemn #nd
aflixting manner, passed the awful sentence of the law on him,
stating that he was to be.e,xecutedon Saturday, the 26th inst.

CORBETT'S roust Int OPINION OF TITO ES.-111
the year 180 e, Mr.Cobbett expressed the follow-
ing opinion respecting tithes, which, it must be
confessed, is somewhat at variance with hirs pre-
sent opinion upon the same subject :

" The Clergy," says he, " are not paid by the people any
more than the landholders are; the tithes are as much their
proPerty as the rent is the property of the landlord; the title of
the former can no more be destroyed than the title of the latter;
and why the Clergyman should receive as pay what the land-
lord demands as his own, we cannot perceive, A man who
should attempt to defraud his landlord, would be deemed, and
justly deemed, a cheat; yet, we see no loss of character attached
to him who is in the constant habit of defrauding his Hector
• •
or Vicar. The tithes ,do not belong to the husbandman, they
never can he called his, The Clergyman claims them as his
right, unfettered with any conditions whatever, other than those
which he enters into whit God and the King. It has been
fashion, of late years, to talk of abolishing tithes those who, have
lands would do well to consider how they would relish the
abolishing of rents, for they may rest assured that the 'Mitt
will never, be far behind the former. Those who would make
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a set of legislators to-do it for them . . The discussion of
this subject will have one good aro., it w ill roov'ince all reason.,
able men that the (.lergy are not so pampered at they have
been respresented to be : their ease nnd luxury have beetilthe
sititagnauttlining:tilievuticze orf
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exhibited to the pitising croivil in Saint Patil's Chureh7yard
everywit ti itlay for sty
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big-bellied, rosy-wiled farmers,
is to be found in one half of the parishes in the kingdom."