The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-28 00:00:00

MIRIA POLICE-OFFICE; WAPIIING:

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YE 'l-* E k ISAY Mr. EASTER 13 Y: &re of the Owners
of the trig'. A.dventzte, sunk off Brighton, under.
!Vent Dti examination at this OfEee, -which lasted
from eldiren eeltek tilt two. ThE:MatNe and seve.,
ral others gave evidence, but tLe forbear entering
into patticalaoi as 'the Frisontr'iVoorr,sel strongly
commented on the'rerious ininryi Mr. Eks-rte:l3
thight,.sustain, by pablidlitig.ea,'pezt:te StAierrnts,
• ..che Justice. Room; was Cro:Vded, with uadcr..
writers to hear' the examination'.

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Died, on:lllurs.iu of an apoptedic Fit, Arch,
STQNE, Esq, C.:liisiellur“,

Thomas Cushia was indiEted for petty treason,
charging, that lie being a servant of Spencer,
Esq. did, on the z6th of May, 1793, at Rathan-
gan, in the County of Kildare, traitorously, &c. ,
kill and murder the said,— Spencer, by shooting
him with a gun. There was a second count for
aiding and assisting a person unknown. ,
Jane Moore, examined by Mr. BAR RINnTON,
depose.,!, that ore the day Captain Spencer was
killed, she was in an old building in the yard of the
dwelling house ; -the first thing she heard was the
gate shutting in the court-yard ; Mr. Spencer was
inside his own house ; she saw him about half an
hour or. three quarters of an hour after that ; her
husband and son, and son-in-law, were at the house,
guarding it; she remained in the out-building until
the firing was over ; when the firing was over, she
clesiCel her-daughter, that was with her (Mary
• Watson) to.go down and see whit liad.happened ;
the Witness herself went down. into the house,
where she saw her poor man and her son, and son-
in-law, lying dead, two of them, in the kitchen,
and one by the- cellar door ; they were lying dead
and stripped :"she went out of the hall door, -and
saw Captain Spencer lying dead on the- gravel
walk ;,saw the Prisoner, at the time gling as if.
the house belonged to-him. Previous to the death
of Mr. Spencer, the Prisoner was his Steward and
Clerk ; Mr. Spenber was killed about four o'clotk,
and she did not see the Prisoner until near six in
the evening, he was then getting eating and drink-
..
log; and giving it to the Rebels ; there were no other
persons there ; there were from thirty to thirty.five
Rebels there at the time ; she did not hear the Pri-
soner say much ; she did not hear him express any
concern for the murders, but he might have been
concerned, though he did not express it; the mur-
ders were perpetrated on Saturday ; her husband
and sons were buried about 'nine o'clock on Sunday
morning ; she saw the Prisoner on the Sunday morn-
ing in the house that used to be, called Mr. Cushin's
office; she saw him standing in the office; she re—
quested him to give her a way to carry the three
dead men to their graves : he said he would; he
desired her not to fret, that she should be as well as
ever she was, and, that he would give an hundred
pounds to stock her ground. While she was speak_
ing to him, a man named Neal, a sister's son, came
in, the Prim:tiler said, " such a man came in, and
said, I Must give him five guineas." The other
asked him, " did you give him five guineas ?"-
4, I did." " Then I will go out and have him
hanged (said Neal), for he- never gave an account
of it to our' .men." She did not hear the Prisoner
say any thing to that threat, she did not see him
express any grief, and as she said before,' it might
have been through fear she saw a man thereof the
name of Cassidy ; she heard him say to the Prisoner,
. we shall be all killed—to which the Prisoner
plied, " Hold your tongue, or you will be killed;`
and I cannot save you." She did not seethe Pri-
soner attempt to get Mr. Spencer's body into the
house, but it .was brought in at night. -
On her croSs-exatnination by Mr. PLUNICET, she
I lid she did not see any thing of the murderers ;
there..had been above a hundred persons attacking
the house ; when she saw them there were from
thirty to thirty-six ; she saw come of them with
arms, and considered them all as Rebels • she believ-
ed those she saw to' be the remainder Of those that
attacked the house ; her son wanted to have passed
for one of the Rebels ; they would all have passed
for Rebels to save themselves if they could; it would
not have been safe to have exasperated the. Rebels ;
she saw some of the men bringing straw, and part
of the house was set fire to, part of the house con-
- • tinned on fire after the murders had been commit-
ted ; there was a good deal of exertion to stop the
fire, and some of the persons that remained assisted;
'if any of the persons there had called upon the Wit-
.ness for l rovisions, and she had any, she would be
loth to refuse them : no doubt it would have been
dangerous for any person to have expressed con-
cern at -what had taken place ; Prisoner gave her,a
car to take her husband and sons to be buried : one
man assisted her to bury them; the bodies were

Passed by—the Pitt, Movtrie, from New. Providence ;
Georgians, Clare, from Dantzie ; and the Hanseratc, Wardin,
from- -Atusterdain.'
Sailed—the Columbus, Welting, for Bremen ; Flora,
Robinson, for Rotterdam; Retrieve, Chater„ and Primrose,
Bell, for Dattzic.

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