The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-24 00:00:00

CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

PERTH, SEPT. 16.—ADMINISTERING
drew Williamson, labourer, was indicted on the 10th
Geo. IV. C. 38, for having, on the Ist July, felouioudy.
compounded with some sugar a quantity of arsenic, which.
was administered among tea to Margaret Mintosh or
Williamson, his wife, Willadmina Young, his grand..
'laughter, and Hubert But•ercase, all and each cf whom
were rendered more or less ill in consequence; or other-
wise, the poisonous substance was administered to the
above persons, with intent to murder, or do them some
gi ievous harm. The prisoner pleaded—Not Guilty.
The facts of the case are shortly these :—Tire panel,
oldan man of 60 years of age, married Margaret
M.lntosh, also well advanced in life, and mother of
two sons by a former marriage, who hid reached man-
hood. The p Ind and his wife, who had been mar-
ried about three years, appeared to live on most dis-
agreeable terms. On the last Friday of June, a quarrel
took place between them, which continued till Monday
morning, in the course of which the panel struck his wife
and bruised her severely. She got up and went out to
milk the cow, but feeling ill, returned to bed. The panel
having taken brose to breakfast, which was rather unusual,
offred her tea—made it, and on her refusal to partake of
it, lie got in a passion, and threw the tea into the ash-pit.
This circumstance, however, di I not excite any suspicion
in the woman's mind, and he went out of the house,
followed by his wife, who went to a neighbour's house.
The panel returned, and was observed by a grand-child
go to a press, and remark that there was no sugar in
the bowl. He took some from ab g, and stirred it in
the bowl with a spoon, and then put some more sugar on
the top, and the spoon above all. He was observed to
have a small paper parcel in his hand on going to the
press, and to have it in his hand on leaving the press,
but he was not seen to take anything from it, and had he
done so, the girl, thought she would have observed it.
He left home that night, stating that he was going to take
another house for himself, because lie could not live with
his wife, who returned late in the evening, attended by her
sons of a former marriage, each of whom came armed with
a gun. Next morning the wife partook of tea as usual,
old one of her sons and the grandchild had one cup each,
and they were soon after affected, with the exception of
the girl, with griping pains. The wife took tea again in
the evening, and was again affected in a similar manner.
Suspecting something wrong with the sugar, she took it to
St.Andrews,where it was analyzed by Professor Briggs,who
found it to contain a portion oldie white oxide of arsenic,and
Dr. Green of Cupar also made an analysis, and obtained a
similar result. The panel, who had not absconded, was
apprehended, and admitted having arsenic in the house,
which be had purchased to destroy rats, of which there
were some in the house. He also said, that if there was
any of it found among the sugar, the poison must have
been placed there by his wife to inculpate him. He like-
wise mentioned where a portion of the arsenic would be
found, and where it was found accordingly. The Jury
unanimously found the panel guilty of the crime libelled.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 17.

At the meeting of the Court this morning, the Advo-
cate-Depute stated that, under all the circumstances of the
ease, he was warranted to restrict the libel in the case of
Williamson; and the panel was sentenced to transportation
for life.

We hear that Colonel Evans, the Member
for Westminster, has either set off, or is on the point of
leaving town for Lisbon, where the advice of this very
distinguished officer, whose military talents are univer-
sally admitted to be of the highest order, cannot fail to be
of great use to Don Pedro, and, through him, to the cause
of Constitutional freedom in Europe.—Morning Paper.
HERNE BAY.—So strong is the rage for
building at Herne Bay that, last week, sixteen acres of
land in the rear of the Ship Inn, for which, about three
years ago, 1,5001. could not be obtained, were sold for
5,500/., subject also to a condition that the building should
be erected on a plan which is to leave a prospect of the
river to other houses that may be built farther from it.

The Dean of St. Patrick's has nominated Mr.
Magrath—who has been for so many years a distinguished
member of the choir—to the full Choral Vicarage, vacant
by the death of the late Sir John Stevenson,—Dublin
Evening Mail.

We understand that the notice of Exchequer
process served on several persons in St. James's is under
the Act of 43J Geo. 111. c. 99, for obstructing the collec-
tors of tate@ in the performance of their duty, and which
subjects each of them to a penalty of 50/.

_ -
EFFECT OF A NAME.—The Bolivar Liber-
talor, an American vessel, was lately refused admittance
to the port of Manilla, on account of her name. The au-
thorities sent her out a few casks of water, and ordered her
to quit the Spanish territories without delay.
The undermentioned depots are, we under-
stand, about to be removed to England, and will be
replaced by a similar number ordered to this country :-
34th, 58th, 61st, 65th, 77th, 92J, 97th, 99tb.—Dublin
Register.

POACHING.—We have been told of a new
system of snaring game which has been introduced
amongst the poachers in this neighbourhood, which we
give, because to us it is perfectly novel. They tie a small
lanthorn on a pointer's head and send him over the fields.
As soon as he pciats, they throw a net over the place
where the birds lie; and in this manner whole coveys are
destroyed.— Stockport Advertiser.

Pt RACY.—A letter, dated Cape Coast Castle,
13th July, briefly describes the capture by the Curlew,
Captain H. D. Trotter, of a piratical vessel, which itnme-
distely blew up. The letter states that Captain Trotter
himself made a narrow escape; that his unfortunate
purser, his gunner, and two men were killed, and several
others of the crew wounded. There was no fever on board
or any sickness but that arising from wounds. It is not
stated whether the blowing up was accidental or intended
by the pirates.

Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, some
woi kmen engaged in forming a new sewer in Charter-
house-square, discovered, opposite the Charter-house
t
from the surface of the carriage way,
gites, several human bones, and at the depth of aloe
complete
in the highest skeleton of a human beingthey 'build ofa preserva-
tion,el state
retaining
their
the
j
the ligaments connecting
adhesive and pliant properties. The skeleton'ui was imbedded
in a sandyupwards
rd ands o
and appeared to be that of a
man
height,who is supposed to have
been one of the victims of the plague, a great number of
persons baying b„n buried during the raging of the
wa f six gravelly
feet e o
inii,
pestilence on that spot. The skeleton, and all the bones
yet discovered, have been again buried near the same spot,
but at a greater depth..

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Having already given all the information
which we ourselves received from Lisbon by
the last packets, and having found in our Lisbon
correspondence no intimation that any proposi-
tions for a capitulation had been made on the
pact of the Usurper, we are not prepared to
place much reliance on the reports which have
reached us through several of the West of Eng-
land papers, that negotiations had actually com-
menced between the two conflicting brothers.
But though- we have no evidence that any pro-
posals of accommodation have been actually
made, or that any negotiation had been solicited,
with the hopes of a speedy adjustment, may
add, that in our opinion, a termination of the
present desolating struggle by pacific overtures on
the part of Don Miguel, is by no means impro-
bable, as it would certainly be extremely politic.
Everything that we stated at the commencement,
and during the continuance of this contest, relative
to the character ofthe country, and the strength and
composition of the parties engaged, is fully con-
firmed by the present posture of affairs. We
stated, as will be recollected, that there was no
public opinion, properly so called, in Portugal ;
that there was no diffusion of political informa-
tion among the great mass of the people ; and,
consequently, that they would allow armies to
decide the quarrel. We stated that on the side
of Don Pedro or of his daughter, the young
Queen, were ranged all those who possessed
any degree of political knowledge, and any

desire for political itnprovement,---that the en-
i.ghtened part of the population, in the two
,hief cities, were his warm friends,—that those
who had composed the Government, the Legis-
lature, and the authorities of the Cortes in

1820, 1821, and 1822 ; together with the large
portion of moderate Constitutionalists in the
learned professions, among the mercantile body,
and in the ranks of the nobility, who kept aloof
from the violent demagogues of that period, but
who hailed in 1826 the charter as a security for
their political and civil rights, were enlisted on
the side of her Most Faithful Majesty, and only
awaited an opportunity of displaying their sen-
timents,—that, to this were to be added all those
who had suffered from the despotism of the
Usurper for the last five years,—all those whose
estates had been confiscated, whose persons had
been imprisoned, whose relatives had been per-
secuted, or whose property had been violated.
The necessity of maintaining a large army, while
trade had declined and industry had been inter-
rupted, occasioned extensive discontent, by
making excessive exactions on the diminished
resources of they country ; and the practice of
forced loans, which accustomed the Government
to measure the loyalty of individual contributors
by the extent of their submission to fiscal rob-
bery, alienated from the Usurper many of the
wealthy capitalists, whose love of absolute go-
vernment did not lead them to grant him an ab-
solute disposal of their fortunes. Even some of
the more enlightened of the ecclesiastical order
were in favour of an improvement in the institu-
tions of their country, and consequently were
hostile to the proceedings of Don Miguel. It
was an ecclesiastic who was President of the
Chamber of Deputies at its dissolution, and
among the persons exiled by Don Miguel we
found an archbishop, a dean, several priests, se-
veral canons, and a whole chapter. That this
liberal party was, and is, very powerful, though
it could not all at once infuse its own spirit into
the popular mass, may be inferred from the cir-
cumstance that it maintained the charter for
more than a year and a half, notwithstanding the
machinations of Spain and the rebellion ofChaves,
—that it had created an army which it required
great art to gain over to the Usurper in 1828 ;
and that it was universally believed the reign of
I)on Miguel would have been tranquil and
secure, had he possessed the good faith and
good sense to keep his engagements, and to
conduct his government according to its princi-
ples. On the other hand, we always stated,
and now freely admit, that Don Miguel had on
his side the great body of the secular and regular
clergy, who exercise a great influence over the
superstitions of the lower classes ; that he was
supported by the great tribe of knaves who sell
justice in all the tribunals, from the highest to
the lowest ; that a great part of the higher nobi-
lity, and a majority of the provincialfda/gos, or
gentry, were on his side ; in short, that the par-
tisans of exclusive privileges, the friends of
abuses, and the enemies of every species of re-
form, were attached to him, as the type of a
Conservative ruler. The present attitude of
parties and posture of affairs are the natural
result of the elements and influences which we
have just described. By the patriotic zeal and
liberal spirit of the inhabitants of the northern
capital, Don Pedro was able to maintain him-
self for more than a whole year at Oporto
against the whole forces of his brother, and
at the end of that time to seize upon Lisbon,
the capital of the kingdom. His cause is en-
thusiastically embraced and firmly supported in
both, because the people are more enlightened
and less under the dominion of their priests and
oppressors than in the country. On the other
hand, Don Miguel, by means of his partisans,
and by the aid of the ecclesiastics, may still cal-
culate on the obedience of a great part of the
provinces, where the people take no interest in
the result of the struggle. But the acquisitions
of the adherents of the Queen are immense, and
may be regarded as quite decisive of the contest.
Cut off from the two chief seats of Portuguese
wealth, trade, and power,—cut off from the cen-
tral part of the empire, where the Courts of Jus-
tice, the offices of Government, the palaces of
the Nobility, the arsenals and magazines of the
State, and the Royal residences are situate,—cut
off from the possession of the only two rivers of
the kingdom through which supplies from abroad
can be received, and having no access to the sea,
or a single ship to traverse it,—Don Niguel
and his army may roam about the country for
some time and live by depredations, but they
can never recover their ascendancy: On the
other hand, with a fleet and army--with money,
trade, and resources—with the good-will and
the recognition of two powerful allies, the Queen
is sure to maintain her present position till her
uncle is obliged to abandon his, and till, the
cause of disunion being removed, the whole nation
submits to her sway. The period of this desir-
able consummation will, in a great measure, de-
pend upon the facility or obstinacy of the usurper,
and upon the manner in which his cause is en-
couraged by foreign despots. It is stated that he
has 3,000 friars in his army before Lisbon, and
though that may be an exaggeration, as the
monks are not so fond of fighting as of good
living, it is certain that he can at least have thy,
contributions of 500 convents to supply his
military chest. Though the country is already
impoverished, he might by this and other aids
continue a partisan warfare for some time, and
annihilate the last remains of a prosperity which I

he has so fatally injured. He has passed from
Oporto to Lisbon, as through an " unresisting
medium," and he may thus, under the guidance
of Bourmont, proceed from one province to
another for several months, and convert Portugal
into a kind of La Vendee; but as this could
only forward the objects of robbers and maraud-
ers, it is to be hoped that he will take counsel
rather of his prudence than of his pride, and
propose terms of accommodation which can be
accepted. To this object the efforts of all the
friends of Portugal and of humanity ought to
be directed. But if the La Vendee system of
bloodthirsty and plundering chivalry be persisted
in by Miguel and his French generals, it is quite
evident that their career, however protracted,
can have but one end, which to themselves will
be as fatal as its ignominy will have merited.—
Times.

We observe by the country papers that the
Liberals are everywhere hailing with extraordi-
nary delight the inquiries into their local corpo-
rations. Their long and practical experience of
the political and magisterial abuses of these worn
out and corrupt municipal institutions, naturally
excites the deepest interest in the great national
question of their pending reformation. A cor-
responding alarm and a sauve qui pout is ludi-
crously observable among the fear-stricken cor-
porators. The self elect of the Tory Corpora-
tions are in terror for their exclusive power, and
smitten with the fear of that legal retribution
which they well know they richly merit as the
punishment of their manifold sins and offences.
They have, moreover, sagacity to discern the
hopelessness of their case, and that they can no
longer uphold the existing corrupt and close
system of secret administration of Corporate
power and property. An instinctive apprehen-
sion of this result led to their virulent opposition
to Parliamentary Reform, which they well knew
would be their certain death blow. The Com-
missioners are the undertakers who are arranging
their funeral, and the Select, like persons about
to be interred alive, are overcome with appre-
hension. The country Tory press is reduced
to the last necessity of the Conservatives—abuse
of private character. But the Corporators will
not be able to change the venue, or to clear their
own character by blackening that of their honest
enemies, and publishing foul calumnies against
the Commissioners. Extracts of these slan—
derous articles would only obtain that circula-
tion desired by the writers, and our readers
would only be disgusted by the perusal. We
gave a specimen from the Leicester Herald, a
sufficient evidence of vulgarity and personal
scurrility. The subject of corporate reform is
too important to be lost sight of in unnecessary
refutations of local calumnies. Among the con-
venient modes of defence adopted on the behalf
of the Self-Elect, one is die propagation of silly
and unfounded alarms about the insecurity of
property. This was the hobgoblin argument
against the amendment of the representation ;
and we were gravely told, during the discussions
on the Reform Bills, that the nomination bo-
roughs and parchment votes of the Scotch
county electors rested on the common founda-
tion of " private property." The Tories always
plead the Statute of Limitation as a bar to in-
quiry, and as the title deed of illegal possessions.
Time, in their view, sanctions every abuse, and
makes good every wrongful usurpation. But
the times are changed, and the constitution of
the municipal corporations must die with the
Boroughmongers. The Standard once more
ventures on their defence, but shrewdly avoids
the real merits of the discussion. In a long
reply to the Spectator, our cotemporary does
not grapple with one single reason in favour
of inquiry into and reformation of these odious
and obsolete municipal bodies. Does the
Standard mean to aver that the English and
Welch corporations are perfect ?—that the
municipal constituency is sufficiently extensive ?
—that the receipts and expenditure of the trust
property are made public, and that there are no
abuses crying aloud for immediate redress ? In
reply to the observations of the Standard las
week and its tocsin of property alarm, the Spec.
tator truly observes:—

" We do not think that this inferences is a just one.
The Commissioners may inquire into the state of Corpo-
ration property, which has been granted for certain pub-
lic, not private, purposes; and when they find that this
property has been made the subject of a corrupt bargai❑
and sale, may recommend—for that is all they are em-
powered to do—that such bargain be annulled, and the
property be applied to the purposes for which it was
granted. The Corporation, in granting leases for the
benefit of certain individuals, has exceeded its powers.
But the Crown had legally the right to make certain
grants—that of the Abbey lands of Tavistock to the Duke
of Bedford, for instance—for the private purposes of the
grantee. To inquire into the title of the Duke would,
as it appears to us, be exceeding their powers on the part
of the Commissioners ; and if the Legislature were to
resume the grants made by Henry the Eighth, it would
be a gross interference with the sights of private property."
The same Journal ably replies to the Globe,
who, in an amiable and somewhat " Conserva-
tive" spirit, seemed half inclined to take the
City Companies under its protection, under the
excuse of anxiety for the integrity of private
property :
" We think that there is no great use in confusing the
subject in this manner. What the Commissioners have
to ask of the Corporation officers is this—What property
have you ? for what purpose was it given to you ? how do
you apply it? If, upon inquiry, it appears that it is ap-
plied to the purposes for which it is granted, all is right;
but if ❑ot, then the Legislature will interfere, and very
properly, to compel such application. With regard to the
chartered Assurance Companies, Government have always
a right to inquire whether the terms of the charter are
complied with. It is the grant of a charter upon certain
conditions which authorises such interference; otherwise
the partners in an insurance company ought to be as safe
from it as any banking establishment in Lombard-street.
" Let those, therefore, who hold property under de-
fective titles—that is, from parties who have no right to
convey it upon the terms on which they have conveyed it—
' look about them ;' but let the Duke of Bedford and others
similarly situated rest in peace."
The Standard writes a long commentary on
these unanswerable arguments of the Spectator;
and protrudes the danger of innovation on the
assumed fact that it is notorious that all titles to
property throughout the country are defective, an
assertion altogether untenable. But we will not
waste time or paper by reply to such puerilities.
The close corporations are now suffering the
evils of suffocation, and nothing can .save them
from the besom of Reform. Our only fear is
that it should be less efficacious than is required.
We are under no apprehension that the inquiry
should be carried to an extreme ; our only fear
is lest the doctrine of individual property should
he placed as a screen before the Corporate
Bodies.—Morning Chronicle.

It will naturally be expected of us to advert
to the current reports, and we can call them no-
thing else, of Don Miguel having made pro-
posals of accommodation to his brother through
Lord W. Russell. Supported as he is, while
the l'edroites are shut up in Lisbon and Oporto,
we cannot conceive what kind of terms Don
Miguel, who has been in due constitutional
form declared the lawful Sovereign of the coun-
try, could offer or accept from a brother whose

title to the throne, and consequently that of
his issue, was at the same time pronounced lost
and forfeited, particularly when his partisans,
including the great body of the population and
all the privileged orders (very few instances
excepted), would thereby be placed at the mercy
of anarchists and foreign adventurers, unless
(which is impossible) Lord W. Russell should
lend himself as a guarantee. The action of the
sth could not have suddenly changed the King's
position. Viewed with all its accompanying
circumstances, no military man will say that the
object of the movement of that day was not
successfully attained, and as regards moral effect
the Royalists were greatly the gainers. It gave the
Pedroites the opportunity of knowing what
kind of an enemy they had to deal with. It
inch
of them that they must fight for every
of ground they felt desirous of holding, the ex-
perience of which fact had greatly dismayed Don
Pedro's veterans, and convinced them that they
were already engaged in a war of extermination,
of which, after all their sacrifices and privations,
they must themselves inevitably be the victims.
In the interval from the 7th to the llth no
occurrence is mentioned calculated to render the
situation of Don Miguel's affairs worse. We
should think, on the contrary, that the attitude
of the Royalists must have materially improved,
as their reserve would have come up from
Coimbra, and the Aiemtejo army entered upon
its positions on the southern hank of the Tagus.
The combinations for the attack on both sides
of the river we have reason to believe are intended
to be on a large sc:de, and nothing is to be left
to hazard; but all the arrangements contemplated
could not be made before the 13th or 15th. In
such an attitude, then, what kind of propositions
could Bourmont send to Lisbon ? The trial of
the sth betokened to him certain success if he
only persevered. Military men will laugh at the
idea of holding fortified linesspread over a surface
of six miles, and in many places commanded and
flanked from neighbouring heights, with such a
motley force as that at Don Pedro's disposal. The
foreign legions and Oporto veterans will doubtless
do their duty and fight as heretofore ; but the
holiday soldiers, formed out of the shopkeepers
and Lisbon rabble, we confidently assert, will
never stand bayonet work. This Saldanha and
Villa for know, if Don Pedro does not. We
therefore feel inclined to treat the propositions
reported to have been brought by the Echo as
vague and idle rumour. If we mistake not Go-
vernment know well that matters are far from
having arrived at that pitch. In justice, how-
ever, to Don Miguel—and we have the fact
from those who saw him lately—we shall remark
that he never speaks of his brother but in terms
of the utmost love and respect, often with tears
in his eyes. In his presence no one dare to
utter a disrespectful word against Don Pedro.
His youthful associations were never forgotten.
Till the day of Don Pedro's first marriage the
two brothers always slept in the same room,
and there are causes of endearment between
them which time cannot efface from the memory
of either. That Colonel Hare or some one
else may have availed himself of a mutual feel-
ing, and suggested some means of stopping the
effusion of blood, or that Marshal Bounnont
may have sent in a summons which has led to
negotiations, we can readily believe, particularly
as we understand that it had been determined to
give due notice previous to any formal attack.
We may add to time above reasons for discredit-
ing the current reports that, according to our
own impressions, no offers connected with an
ulterior settlement could be made by the Royal-
ists in which Spain had not the initiative.—
Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

THE PIER AT—GRAYESEND.—:Mr. Dridkald, the
Common Councilman for Tower Ward, applied to
the LORD MAYOR upon the subject of the tempo-
rary pier at Gravesend. He stated that during the
high wind the jetty proved to be a most dangerous
obstruction, and he urgently represented the neces-
sity of obliging the promoters of the Fier Bill to
act in obedience to the Act of Parliament, which
was now utterly violated, and violated too to the
great injury of numbers of hard-working individuals.
A few mornings ago the United Kingdom, from
Jamaica, when lying at Nortlifleet, was run on board
by the Queen of Scotland steam-boat, which pro-
ceeded on her way without stopping to attend to
the ship. The ship made a vast deal of water, and
with great exertion was steered on shore on the
Essex side, close on the point opposite to North.
fleet, where she swung up and down with the ebb
and flood tides. She next morning floated off the
north shore, and was taken over to the south shore
by the tide, which carried her close to the peer pro.
jection at Gravesend. The consequence was that
the passengers by the steamers were obliged to get
ashore in boats. If the greatest exertions had not
been made, the vessel must have come in direct
contact with the projection and carried it away.
Mr. Drinkald declared that every day proved how
serious an obstruction the projection was to the
navigation, and complained that the Act of Parlia-
ment was transgressed in other respects.
The LORD MAYOR stated that the Navigation
Committee had gone down to Gravesend to examine
the projection, and had given directions calculated
to prevent accidents, as far as prevention could be
accomplished in the present state of the jetty. His
Lordship thought it necessary to state publicly that
the Committee had given a recommendation that,
unless the Corporation of Gravesend proceeded im-
mediately with the erection of a pier or jetty he
(the Lord Mayor) should take such measures as he
might deem most expedient for the removal of the
existing pier and of the decked barge moored outside.
THE PRIZE RlNG.—Joseph Parish, the pugilist,
who some years ago fought the well-known eccentric
coalheaver called Jack Scroggins, and was notorious
for what is called fighting on the cross (selling a
battle), was brought before the LORD MAYOR,
charged with having robbed a Mr. Cookson of his
watch, in Thames-street, on Saturday.
The pri►oner was committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—Thomas William
Barnes, a respectable jeweller and goldsmith, re-
siding in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, yester-
day attended in consequence of a warrant obtained
against him by the Solicitor of the Lady of Lieut.-
Colonel Hampton, of the East India Company's
service.

Eliza, the wife of Lieut..Colenel Hampton, of 9,
Prince's-street, Hanover-square, sworn.—ln July
last a female was living with me, named Vicars, as
lady's maid, and I received in that month 3501. from
my husband, who is abroad. I received a cheque
from my agents, Barclay and Co., Lombard-street,
raiti)(tl obtained,
of h
with t others,
e in cash for it, three 501.
(es. Two notes W
ere
given to Arnie
Vicars to pay Madame Foley, my milliner, that
being between the 15th and 22d of July, the receipt
now produced for 1541. 13s. being the amount of
money I owed her, and for which I gave Anne
Vicars the two notes to pay the. balance of.
Madame Amadine Foley, of 49, Conduit-street,
swore that the receipt now produced for the 1541.
was not her handwriting, nor had she received any
part of that bill. She did not in the month of July
last receive a 150/. note from Anne Vicars, nor any
other. _ _

Mr. Rothche, clerk to the bankers, proved that
.he house to which he belonged paid on the 13th

of July a check for 3501., drawn in favour of Mrs.
Hampton by the firm of Gregson, Melbourne, and
Wright, India agents. The check at their house.
was cashed in three. 501. notes, 1,419, 1,448, 1,247
besides other small notes. The note now produced,
1,448, by the mark on it, passed through their
house that day.
Mr. Thomas Mort iber, of No. 8, Newman-street,
Oxford street, jeweller, swore that he received the
501. note, 1,448, now procieved from Miss Fanny
Barnes, the sister of the prisoner, on. the 17th or
18th of July last. He received the note in pay-
merit of a debt of 101. due by Mr. Barnes to him.
Mr. Wm. Tufnel, of 116, Regent-street, London
—I am an examiner of accounts in the Audit-office.
I was at Margate With Mrs. Hampton, and left
London on the last day of August, returning last
-Friday. On Tuesday evening, the 4th inst., I was
desired to open the box of Anne Vicars, who is now
in Dover Castle, committed to take her trial for
robbery, and in that box I found fifty duplicates and
some letters, now produced. On Wednesday morn-
ing, the 11th instant, Anne Vicars, who had been
absent, returned to Margate, and I had her appre-
hended, when she was remanded until the Saturday,
and then committed. On the day she was appre-
hended I received the letter I now produce, directed
" Mrs. Vicars," and marked A ; it came by post,
and I opened it. The first part of it is a copy of
my letter to Mr. Barnes. The direction of the let-
ter is not in the same hand as the inside. On
Thursday morning the prisoner Barnes came to Mrs.
Hampton's house at Margate, as early as seven in
the morning, and I then was about to take him into
custody. On Saturday, the 14th, Anne Vicars was
examined on the charge of felony, but the prisoner,
who wanted to be present at that examination, was
refused by the Magistrate.
The prisoner's solicitor said that allusion was
made to Mr. Barnes's letter and the direction, but,
it appeared to him to have nothing to do with
the charge of receiving a 501. note with a guilty
knowledge.
Witness resumed—The letter now produced,
marked B No. 2, is one which I found in the box
of the servant Vicars.

A witness proved it to be the hand-writing of
the prisoner, together with two others marked C.
and D. On the evening of Monday he saw a letter
in the hand-writing of Anne Vicars directed to the
prisoner in London.
A discussion arose amongst the gentlemen as to
whether it was evidence.

Mr. CHAMBERS said, there was not the least
doubt of the connection and intimancy existing be-
tween the prisoner and Anne Vicars.
Mrs. Hampton was recalled, and a long bill for
articles of silver and jewellery to an immense amount
was placed in her hand. It had been found in the
box of Anne Vicars, and was sent from the pri-
soner. Amongst the other articles were four silver
teapots, and the most elegant articles, all of which
Mrs. Hampton swore she had never received any
account of; nor did she see the present bill until it
was found in the box of Anne Vicars. She had
not had the teapots, and very few of the articles.
The bills of Mrs. Hampton were usually paid by
Anne Vicars, her servant.
Mr. CHAMBERS —What do you remember of the
emerald and brilliant necklace charged 170 sove-
reigns for ? Mrs. Hampton—l remember that it
was brought to my house in London for me to look
at, but not at my request. I returned it and the
other articles to my servant to convey to the person
who brought them for me to look at. They were
not in my possession ten minutes.
Mr. CHAMBERS -- They were sent up to you ?
Witness—Yes, to look at; and I was told that Mr.
Barnes was waiting below for them.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Did you ever purchase a diamond
and emerald necklace of Mr. Barnes ? Mrs. Hamp-
ton—No, I never did ; nor did I pay him the sums
as part of the account marked received on his bills.
Mr. CHAMBERS then read over the bills, and
reckoned, by Mrs. Hampton's statement, that
31!. 19s. had been received only, instead of 600!.
or 700!. worth.

Cross-examined—Arme Vicars had been in my
service two years. I did not deal with Mr. Barnes
before she came in my service. Mr. Tufnel did not
lodge at Dover in the same house with me. He
was on a visit, and did sleep there occasionally.
Anne Vicars usually paid my bills for me. I be-
lieve gave her 18/. arid 221. to pay the prisoner at
different times. I never, with the exception of
these and one sovereign more, gave her money or
directed her to pay Mr. Barnes. I have directed
Anne Vicars to pawn articles for me on one or two
occasions. I don't think I have much oftener. I
don't think I have a dozen times. I don't know
that the ear-rings I now wear were ever pawned.
I never sent them to be pawned. I did not direct
her to pawn any teapot. I repeat, I swear that I
never had a silver teapot of Mr. Barnes. The ar-
ticles were pawned at Dobree's and at Greaves's.
I never directed that things should be pawned at
other places. The diamonds which I afterwards
sold to Mr. Barnes my servant, without my consent,
pawned at Cotterell's. I did keep her in my ser-
vice afterwards. She did not give me the money
at the time she ought for them. I was extremely
angry with Mr. Cotterell for taking the diamonds
in. I never stated to Mr. Cotterell that whenever
she came with things they might take them in for
her. 1 have frequently threatened to turn her away.
I paid the two 50/. notes to Madame Foley, as I
supposed, and the receipt purporting to be Madame
Foley's was so badly written that I made some ob-
servations upon it.
The prisoner's Counsel expressed himself willing
to meet any case that might be brought forward.
Mr. CHAMBERS stated his determination to com-
mit Mr. Barnes for trial, and said that the propriety
of taking bail should be considered this day.