The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-19 00:00:00

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THE HON. MRS. PELHAIII.

AHighly-finished ENGRAVING of the HON. MRS.
PELHAM'S MINIATURE, painted by Mrs. ROBER-
SON, which excited so much general admiration at the Royal
Academy last season; and a LANDSCAPE VIEW by DANIELL,
R. A. of GOODWOOD, the SEAT of his Grace the DUKE
of RICHMOND,' will be given in the COURT MAGAZINE
for SEPTEMBER.

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Kingdom. Bull and Churton, Library, 26, Holles-street, Caven-
dish-square.

COMPLETION OF HALF THE BIBLE.

WESTALL AND MARTIN'S
ILLUSTRATIONS of the BIBLE.
PART VI. (on the Ist September) completes half the Bible.
" This is a marvellous work, when we consider that each Monthly
Part contains Eight Engravings, after drawings by Martin and
Westall, R.A., with description, for One Shilling. Never was
there a work more likely to get at once into the palace and the cot-
tage than this ; it has in it every quality of interest, human and
divine, to secure it a sale of millions."—Observer.
Bull and Churton, 26, Holles-street, London ; Bell and Brad-
fute, Edinburgh ; W. F. Wakeman, Dublin ; and all Booksellers
and Newsmen through the Kingdom.

Boulton's ; that was the only time I sent for laudanum•
Jane Rice recovered a perfect state of health in May, and
was not ill all the rest of that year. The Magistrates asked
the defendant how he could be so exact as to the time, and
he said by cutting a notch in a stick every week. By cal-
culating the " 18 months and a week last Wednesday," it
cones to the 19th of October, 1831. My housekeeper
never had a child in the night in my house. I never poured
anything into a child's mouth in my life. I have read the
deposition made by the defendant, and it is false in every
particular.
'Cross-examined by the defendant—l never took new
sacks of other persons and marked them with my own
name. I never changed Mr. Bryant's wheat. I never ap-
plied to you to commit perjury on two different occasions,
nor on any occasion.
Miss Jane Rice, a very lady-like girl, said—l remember
the defendant coming to ask for a character, and using bad
expressions because it did not state him to be honest. I
never had a child in my life. Mr. Lawes never murdered
a child in my bed-room. Mr. Lawes was never there at
night, nor was zny newly-born child ever there.
A model of the first floor of the prosecutor's house was
produced, and it was quite manifest, upon a view of it, that
a person standing where the defendant said that he stood,
could not have seen any part of the bed in Miss Rice's
room.

Mr. Boulton—l am a surgeon. Some laudanum was
fetched from me for Mr. Lawes's family early in the year
1831--certainly not in October.
Cross-examined-4 never said that there was a child at
Mr. Lawes's, and I did not know what had become of it.
I never said any thing of the kind.
Mr. Robert Ball said—l was at the prosecutors house
on the 19th of October. Miss Rice appeared in health
just as she is now. I know the day by reference to my
books.

George Coleman said—l live at Wick. I heard the de-
fendant say he would be the death of Mr. Lawes, if he was
hung for it the next minute.
The defendant asserted, with much vehemence, that he
only stated the truth, and that the witnesses came to swear
falsely against him.
Mr. Richard Ashley said—l recollect the defendant
coming to my shop in 1833. I asked what he had said
about Mr. Lawes. I said it was a very bad job. He said
Mr. Lawes had been telling lies of him, and he would tell
lies of Lawes, and if Mr. Lawes cut his stocking, he would
cut Mr. Lawes's leg. I said you do not consider what you
are talking about. You talk about cutting his leg, it will
cut his neck. The defendant replied. " That's what I want."
Cross-examined by the defendant.—l never knocked you
down with a piece of iron. I never struck you in my life.
The Defendant.—He came at me with a knife, and said,
at his father's, that rather than I should take Lawes's life
he would murder me. _

The Witness.—Nothing of the sort ever occurred.

Mr. Hellings, the solicitor to the prosecution, proved that
the day mentioned by the prisoner in the deposition would
be the 19th of October.
The defendant, when called upon for his defence, said ha
had told nothing but the truth, as he had seen Mr. Lawes
destroy the innocent child in the manner described. He
concluded with saying that he was as innocent as the child
unborn.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up the evidence, and
observed that if the defendant's statement had been be-
lieved Mr. Lawes and Miss Rice might have been executed
for murder. If the jury were of opinion that the defendant's
deposition was untrue, it was beyond all question perjury.

Verdict—Guilty.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said that the perjury, of which
the defendant had been convicted, exceeded in malignity
any thing that he had ever met with. From the model of
the house alone, even without the evidence, it was morally
impossible that the defendant could have seen what he pro-
fessed to have seen ; and the evidence was, besides, as strong
as it possibly could be. His Lordship sentenced the pri-
sober to be transported for seven years.
The Prisoner.—" Thank you, my Lord."
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16.