The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-14 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

YESTERDAY the Session commenced at tlits place
before the LORD MAYOR, RECORDER, City Offi-
cers, &c. and also the Chief BARON. of the Ex-,
CHEQUER, and Mr. Justice LAWRENCE.
A Special Com.mission was opened for the trial
of Governor Wall,- standing charged with murder
out of this Realm, &c-. Pursuant to the prOvision
of the statute of the 33d'of H. VIII. '
The Commission being read, a, charge was de-
livered to the Grand Jury by the RECORDER, who
addressed them as follows

" entleMen of the_Prand Jury, you have been
summoned, by the authority of'a Special Com.:
mission, to try, more instances than. one, the
crime of Murder. If any person is murdered, and
dies Out of the -Realm, such, a killing cannot -,be
tried at common law. But such a.faft, when exa

mined by the
_Privy Council,;.. may, by.the. 33d of
H. VIII. be tried by virtue,of a Conimissiorvap:.,
pointed by, the' King, in any County in England:
So is the preseni'Commission appointed.t6 try one
Prisoner for. Murder,. chatted- to be committed be-
,yond the Seas. To :it Jury so intelligent .as thOse
of the Grand Inquest in
.thijs.City, I shall not go
at large into the laWiaid clokyn in such a
,case re.
spewing that most heinous 'offence. of MU'rder. I
shall content myself with' one' observation only,
which' is, that the la.v ' cif Murder, all circumstances
,considered on that critnii, -will be precisely, I re-
peat 'the word, precisely, -The- same as if it had
been charged' to have beer) committted within the
ordinary.jurisdiftion. ot this Realm. I trust, there
fore, that no difficulty will arise ; should it howf
ever turn out,. that arty difficulty does occur,:lon
will have the assistant';e of this Court. 1 have now
only to request, that„y,ou ,will give to the buin6s
before you, such-reasonable dispatch, as:that justice.
which is certainly due to'afl parties, will, permit."

. .
William,Biisiker, and Patrick 'Merryma&), were
indided for stealing 'sixteen bank-notes, amounting
to the value of 2661., the property of Robert Har-
wood, in his dw citing-house. Another count in
the indidinent stated the. property to have been
stolen lrom the dwelling.:house of another person
besides that of the Prosecutor, to suit the circum-
stances of this carr.
They were fotitid—Gailty of stealing the notes,
but not in the dwelling-house. .

llill;am Pearce, otherwise Benton, was. tried upon
an indittaidnt, for-that he, :with a certain pistol,
loaded with ("un-- powdes- and a leaden bullet,: wil-
fully and •.maliciously did shoot 'at Ann Houghton
'on the 6th of Oitober last, with intent to kill or
maim her. _ _

Aim licirghton swore, that. she• lived at No. 39
'in Eagle-Frtreet, Red Lion Square, and kept a cellar
there : tllat the Prisoner.. vas a person she had
known far some months, seeing him coming to the
next doer frequently, to visit a young woman' he
kept I,sere.; she had 'never had pny quarrel with
the Prisoner,- and did not know that she ever ex:.
changed a word with him ; but as she was standing
on th:: upper step of her cellar, the Prisoner came
out of No. 38, Eagle-street, next door to her, and
shot her. He had a light great coat on, or a brown
one, another on his arm, of the sane colour ; a
striped waistcoat; a pistol in his hand. She
.saw
him by rbe light in the passage ; could not mistake.
him ; was sure he was the man ; hoped not to tee
-the Kingdom of Heaven, nor to breath any more,
if he was not the man : she was perlealy sober ;
had been much distressed that day becauS-e her land..
lord had taken her goods for rent, &c. Sec., The
Prisoner, she said, having gone a few yards into the
street, fired at her, shot her on the head ; the lost
her senses, and found herself afterwards in the HoS--
pital. This was 'about half:past eight, on the 6th
of OEtob:r last.
It appeared, by the evidence of the Surgeon, that
this.poor. old woman Was much wounded, her
skull
was fraflnred and trepanned : in his opinion the
wadding-of a pistol could notdo ir, &c. •
The Prisoner's Defence was two-foh,l—First,.that
he came into his father's bouse at 'zo minutes. after.
eight o'clock that evening ; never went out that
night—Secondly, that the Witness who saw the
accident happen, saw it was done by a man of a
different description from himself. He then called
some Witnesses to support these defences. • -
The Cuter BARON summed up the Evidence ;
and the Jury; after retiring for some time; brought
in a'Verdia of Not

Among the true Bills found by the Grand jusy,
were, we cou!d collel, three against Governor
Wall, on charges of wilful murder.

George Brewer and Michael Doi;le were charged
with a capital. offence, in,- feloniously assaulting
Jeremiah Hagan, on • the King's highway, putting
him in fear„, and taking by force and violence from
his person, and against his will, a silver watch, and
a cotton handkerchief, his property.
It appeared that the Prosecutor, Jeremiah Hagan,
shopman to Mr. Miller, in Ironmonger-lane, had
been drinking for some time. on the evening of Sun-
day, the z7th of December, and between six and
seven o"clock, he went to see one of histompanions.
home, whom he admitted had been 'very much in.
tOxicated : 'they .were met, he said, neat the bot-
tom of Leman-street, in the vicinity of Goodman's
'Fields, by six or seven 'penons, who hustled and
struck hint ; one
.of those most forward in these
proceedings, 'he was positive was the Prisoner
Brewer : the other prisoner, Doyle,"came up in
front, struck him violently in the face, and snatched
his watch from him; saying,. at the same time,
" Damn your • eyes, what do: you want- i"—
When they withdrew, he went to a neightpur-
ing public-house, where he could get no assistance,
there being only an old woman and a boy in the
house, However some of the party passed by,
Doyle was one ; he .rat out and attempted to secure
him, on which he struck him another blow, and by
the assistarke Of his'fellows got offs The Proteu.
tor Was closely cross,examined as to
.the poitt of
his being intoxicated, but he uniformly and earlest.