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SUMMER ASSIZES.

Trial at Ennis, CoUnty of Clare, on the 27th julY, 0104, be-
fore the' Hon. Baron Sniith, and a Special jury, on an
Mtion for Damages, brought by the Rev: Charles Massy
against the Most Noble the Marquis of Headfort, for Cri-
minal Conversation with Plaintiff's wire. Damages laid
at 40,0001.

. Mt: HOAR a stated the ease for the. Plaintiff.
The Plaintiff, the Reverend Charles Massy, is the'
second son of a Gentleman of high disiinft'ion in
this county, who has been tnoie than once called ro
the representation of it, by a free and honourable
eleEtion ; and not only so descended, but is a person
of liberal ,education, a member of one of the learn.
ed pmfessions, in the prime of life ; a man, not
only of inoffensive manners, and of innocent life,
but a man whose virtues correspond with his sia
tuition in society,. and adorn the profession he has
adopted. In the year. 1796, Mr. Matsy becanie at.
tacked to Miss Rosaleavio..' Mr. Massybeirtg a se.
mad son, and not independent of tte tints, of his
father, poisessed then a Jiving of, but 8001. a year.
Sir Hugh Massy, his father, disapproved a match
which had not fortune to support the'tio;rn of beauty,
and had therefore proposed one with a young Lady of
a neighbouring County, width, be conceived, in:
point of fortune and Of connexion, far more
hle, and on that occasion hail affared to settle niA his
son, the Plaintiff, a tool. 'a year,' in landed property,
together with the young Lady's 'fortune; but, de.
dining the hand of an amiable and accompli had
Lady—refusing an ample and independent establi,h_
ment, with, the additional enjoyment of parental
bounty and approbation—and foregoing all these ad.
vantages—Mr: Mass'y proved, the sincerity and pu.
rity of his attachment, by. a sacrifice of fortune to af.
feEtion, andmarried Miss ROsalesvinain March 1796;
and the happiness of the young couple, for g succeed.
ing years, not only seemed to be, but really was,
• unmixed and unabating, he loving With constant
and manly ardour, she with chaste and equal affeC.
tion ; and during the interval, Heaven had blessed
their union with a boy,. the bond andcement of their
present happiness, the pledge. and promise •of fintire
multiplied felicities. at'shis period, Mr. and
Mrs. Massy exhibited such an example of domestic
contentment and satisfaction to their neighbours,
their relatives, and their friends, as to convince them
that the sacrifices he made were not too great ; that
her grateful and offiftionate returns, to a .con.
dun, so natty liberal, and disinterestedly affection.
ate, were not too little : guilt and treachery had not
yet made their way into the abode of peace and in.
nocence ; all was quiet, tranquil, and happy, till, to
the misfortune of ibis couple, and of this County,
the Marquis of Headfort made his appearance at
Limerick. Mr. Massy happened to have had some
Yeats since a living in the County of Me'arh, where
Lady Bettive, the mother of the Marquis of Head.
fort, was a principd parishioner, and from wham,
during his residence in the parish, Mr. Massy re.
ceived much polite and hospitable attention—from
this circumstance of his acquaintance wish her, Mr.
Massy waited on her son, on his arrival at Lime.
rick; invi:e&t lona to his houie, anditrained his
narrow means to give the still or. Lady Beclive
every ploof of his sense of her former at tentions'and
politeness ; but, whilst indulging the hospitable
spirit of our Country, little did' Mr. Massy think
lie was introducing into hi. house the man who
could 'conceive the blackest and basest designs
against his peace and honour that this stranger,
so hospitably received, and affetti mately cherish.
ed, Was to pour Poison into his peace, and make
him a wretch ; for no reasonable man could sup:
pose that Lord Headf rr, at his time; would ever
disturb the peace of any fainilyhis age (tor lie
is above' fifty), his figure, his face, made such
it -Supposition not only improbable, bur alMost
ridiculous ; yet so it happened, rhi: booty rueteralr,
in Whom, like Atha,' the snow above tiol not
quench the flames below, looked at Mrs. Ws'',
and marked her for lain:. And nothing.. mire
beautiful could he behold, and nothing upon whom
it was more unlikely that such a venerable per,
nonage as ,his Lordship could have made an
improper' impresiion. Lord Headfort spent four
days at Summer. Hill 'on his first visit, 'and
was ihtroduced by. Mr. Massy to the Gentlemen
of the first rank and consideration in the County ;
the Bishop of Limerick, • brother-in-law to Mr.
Massy, and' every other Gentleman and Nobleman in
.The neighbourhood. • I need not, in this most hospi.
table' part of Ireland, mention ,to you the conse.
quence .Lord'Headfort Iva, received, entertained,-
and cherished, ,by the friends and relatives of Mr.
Massy. Whilst Mr. Massy was entleavauring, by:
every polite and hospitable attention in his power,
to render his temporary stay in this country not
unpleasant to him, 'some anonymous letters first
created in the breast of the Plaintiff, not ira
cotrv,:yed an intimation, that the. Marquis of Head::
fort was too:attentive to Mrs. Massy. Too confi.
dent in the virtue of his wife, too generous to credit
iriformation so conveyed, and yet too' prudent
wholly to overlook or disregard h, Mr. Massy pro.
hibited his wife's visits to Limerick ; and this was.
followed-up, by iiitimating to Lord Headtort that
his Lotdshipft visits world 'be dispensed with at
Summer.hill, his (Mr. Massy's) place of residence.
Lord ,Headfort's visits were discontinued. His
Lordship promised:not to repeat them.
The unaffected liyeliness and simplicity of her
manners, the decency of her deportment, her en.
deating attentions to him and het child, left not the
ihadoiv 'of suspicion, on the mind of Mr. Massy,
that she could in .any wise forget her sex, her situa.
tion, or, her duty, match' less thut she ,could run
into the coarse toils spread for het by I,nrt'l Head..

fort. It will shock, alid app4l you, Gentlemen, to
hear the time and nceasino which L trd Headiort,
seletled for the final ,accornolidttnent of his designs
upon the honour of this unfortunate woman, and
the happiness of hi, Itc.na and (riend. The day

was Sunday, the hoer* time or Divine Service
yes, Gentlemen, oat; that day, and at that imur,

set apart for the service of our Creator, whilst

the Reverend Reaor was bending befirre cellar
*of bii Gad, invoking
,blesdog., not only 011 1,115 flack
there 'll4scinbleti, but on ate head of the 111)Ini.

honour : on stich a day, at such an hour, u,}►curl such
an occasion,' did the Noble Aelartiuis Oita prci'ptt.
!O 'commit this honourable breach of hospitable
faith, this high.niinded violition of the little laws
otlyour diminutive Country, this contempt, I would
almost call it this defiance, of the Almjghty
self!

I have to state, what will be prov 4, that art
Sunday, and at this hour, Marquis Headfort took off
Mr', Massy from her husband's house at Simmer.
hill ; they crossed the Shannon in a boat, int into
a chaise in waiting for theirs on the roads find from
thence posted to
,Pallas, eighteen or nineteen miles
only from Summer-hill ; there he and Mrs. Massy,
heedless of the misery and distraftion of her unhap:
py husband, remained in,the same room the *hole
of Sunday night :—the noble Peer did not fiy—no
—he made short and easy stages--snot fearful cif
pursuit, not as a criminal endeavouring to effed his
escape, liar as a conqueror parading slowly through
the country, and quietly enjoying the glory and
hrinour of his triumph. What was his triumph r
The disttadion of the friend he maddened with
agony, the pollution of a .till then spotless and
innocent woman. From Pallas his Lordship put.
sued h 3 roweto Clonmdl, and there rested a night;
from thence to Waterford, then to England ; where
I trust, he will. ever'rem ; Ircause, lam satisfied,
that no advantage to be derived to the Country, from
'the most ample foriune expended heal could coun.
'mail the mischiefs that must tiow.ftoin the ap.
pliCation of enormous wealth to extravagant vices,
and the example ofsUch prodigal profligacy auiongst

us.
The first Witnesa called, was the Rev. Dr. Par.
ker, whoproved the marriage of the Plantiff with
Mary Anne Rosslewin, his wife, in 1796. Mr.
. Massy was then about 23, the Lady 18, lively, in.
(cresting, and beautiful.
• John Scackpoole, ESq. said, he is the uncle to the
Plaintiff, and also uncle to his wife. Plaintiff is
the second son of Sir Hugh Dillon Massy, of Dtinass,
in the County of Clare, and possessed of .two 11y.
lugs, of about moo!. a"year, The Lady being the
youngest of many sisters, her fortune was only about
2001. Sir Hugh Massy, the father of the Plaintiff,
possesses an estate Of goool. a year. Plaintiff has
an elder brother, married, who has only one child,
a daughter; Plaintiff has one son by his wife. • His
marriage with Miss Rosslewin was a love match.
They were a very found and affeaiciriate couple.
• • Patrick Dunn, servant to the Plaintiff, saw the
*Defendant at the time he took Mrs. Mossy away.
It was
,about one o'clock, on Sunday after Chetah
mat, 'When Mr. Massy was at Church. She
tame to the Defendant, into the drawing-room, and
desired Witness to go to her room, and wait fur her
there. Witness went, and Mrs. Massy came to
him, and asked him to carry a bundle and a dressing
box for her,•w hich be did. The Defendant was in
tlte drawing.room at the time, with a pistol in his
bosom, the stock of which was sticking ont. De.
fendant handed Mrs. Massy down stairs, and they
crossed the River ShannOn, in a boar. Witness,
having carried the box to the water side, went back
for. the maid, who followed her mistress. There,
was a carriage at the other side just ready ; a pair
of hackney horses—law Marquis Headfort hand in
Mrs. Maasy--he pit in the maid Haiti two bundles,
and went in himself, and desited the driver to go off
to Limerick. Heard Mra. Massy desire the maid
to make haste. .
Jane Apjohn lived as house maid at the inn, at
Pallas, about January last remembers the Marquis
of Headfott and Mrs. Niassy canning there, and
sleeping together in the same bed.
Here the Counsel fur the Plaintiff closed his case.
Mi. Qv t-No'stated the case for the Defer:dolt--
He insisted that the Plaintiff was a careless and neg.
ligent husbind ; that Mrs. Massy was young, voila.
tile, and giddy ; beautiful and vain, of uncommon
levity of and addiSted to the love of
•
dress, even beyond the ordinary passion of her sex.
She passed, he said, months at the houses of single
:Gentlemen, Unaccompanied or unattended, save nc..
casinnally hl the Plaintiff"; and alGalway in parti.
cular, where she Went on an excursion,- the ;men.
lions of a military man of rank became so remark-
able, and her encouragement sa glaring, that • her
own conneaions found it necessary to snatch her
from the spot, as frOm impending infamy, and bar.
tied her to Limerick. Thus, engaged in fashionable
life, Defendant met her first at the races of Lime.
tick, then at the risen unattended' by
the Plaintiff at either place ; the attentions of a man
of such superior rank were too flattering to be
declined—they passed under public observation at
all placei of public and private fashionable resort ;
the eyes of all companies were fix•ed upon them ; and
her reception cf them bring too obvious to pass tin.
remarked, 'became the aubjeCl of general conver.
swims, She avowed to her • relations her attach.
went to the Defendant, and her determination to go
off with him, •
Cu). Pepper saw Mrs. Massy some time in Sep, '
temper or Wolier last, at the Races of Limerick ;
often met her at the Marquis's, and elsewhere
dined with her at the Marquis's ; doe* not recollea
positively' whether other Ladies were 'always
in company ; but, to the best of his recolleCtion,
dined with her there when she was the only fe.
male present. Mr. Charles Massy WaS not a 1...
ways of the party. These dinners were at the
Earl of Limerick's house, in which the Marquis re.
sided.' He knew Mrs. Missy to remain there after
dinner. Mrs. Massy appeared very hand Ohitea,s.
Witness met the. Plaintiff in company with his, wile
at the Marquis of lieacifort's. The latter paid her
much attention in the husband's presence, and .she
seemed much fi meted by it.. His attentions were
so marked, that they drew the observation of the
Gentlemen at table.
Mr. Geo. PossoNax +nide a, very able speech to
evidence on the part of the Defendant; and. Mr.
•CußtSist: addressed the jury on-behalf of the Plain-
tiff.. • •
Baron SMITH then proceeded to recapitulate the
evidence as it appeared upon his notes ; and, having
done so, closed its charge without any further oh.
nervations no the Law.
.The trial lasted twelve hours.L—sVerdiCi lot the
Plaintiff ao,oool. at twelve.o'clock at night', with.
Costs, • .

Ls tr. :3.
TLis, dty job,: attlri s vy.7eight
yc4is of age, was indicted fur stealing,on the 17th
of lily ~two saws, value four shillings, the property,
of. Thomas Purdy ; and William Peaceutell, a mi.
serable-Idoking man, aged 64, was indietM for
stealing a carpenter's plane, the property of j ones
Bateman, and a saw, the property of J dirt Ho igson,
bn the trioh of August. Both were convieted.
The Police Officers who atiroded burl)
proved that the' Prisoners had been t r t ars c ‘ri-
cerned in this t.pecree of Ark, and frequently
charged at the Ptiblic Office,. ‘,
Mr. RECORDER oligviv, 3, that Ow d-0r.,1 it;
committed almost daily upon poor industrious
journeymen carpenters, in this iy, )
obliged to purchase their own tools,„ard ri‘e P -
curions that Caine before that Court, Session after
Session, upon similar ground., m st urge net,
for starve exemplary punishment, to deter toe conit..
nuance of such crimes,
Thomas Sleattr was indietAd for violently assault.
ing Thomas Brient upon the King's highway, neat
Long-Jane, Smithfield, on the 9,b of November
:lag,
_putting him in fear, and feloniously taking Irt'on his
person one Bank of, England 'note for P. an I six
others, for tt. each, his property.
The Prosecutor (who, as well as the Prisoneie
was an Irishman) deposed, that between the Lairs
Hof eight and nine, on the morning above awntionedi
he was passing along the bottom of Ling.-hole,
Smithfield, and saw the .Prisoner, whom he had
known for five years before, • walking on the oppo.
site side, He crossed, and asked tpe Prosecutor
how he did ? and on some further conversation, told
him he 'had been recently over to Ireland ; that
times were very bad both there and here; that he
was out, of work, :and in want of victuals, The
Prosecutor immediately brought him to the White
Bear publicthouse,, adjacent, and treated him with
.plenty of bread, cheese, amt porter; and then pulled
out his pocketbook, ,and took thence a al. bank.
note to pay the reckoning, and received the chang(!.
The Prisoner saw he had with him there a num-,
her of othei Bank.notes, and when they left the
White Bear, dcgged'him all day from one place
to another unknown to the Prosecutor. He had
gone to the Bank, where he remained on bulimia a
considerable time. fie afterwards went to attend
other places, and spent an hour aka public.hOuse'
in the evening, with a friend, and was re turning
between ilk hours of nine and ten at night, to his
lodgings, through Barbican,. down Long.larte, and
'by a back and rather lonely way, which had .beert
the seise of an old brewhouse, where the Pri.
saner met and stopt him,' and demanded the other
Notes he saw with him in the morning ; which
the Prosecutor instantly gave him, and next morn.
ing gave information at the pohlic-Offiee in Lam.
bcth.strcer, with a description of his l e roll); The
Prosecutor said, he had been formerly a publican,
'but had some time retired from business ; that the;
night was star-light ; that he was eerte6ty sober,a,
the time of the, rolOtery.
Brown, an Officer of the Lambeth-street Office,
probed 114 S having apptehended the Ptisnner,.in con.
sequence ot his iostruntons, near Roteliif Highway,,,
at a pi4Wllbr,k,'l'S SIAT, tin the ro h of Jury ; that
on first seeing him the: I:risoner ran fr,,nt him about
too yards ; that when lie apoketo Um at the par
broker's he insointly anweted to the tonne ot &ea.
ter.

The PriSOrlit in his defence adduced no witness,
but said, that the Prosecutor ►v.►s a hard-swearing
man, who would-,,wear any thing, and o►,ly ►►a,,ted,
to, ;Ake his life away; th.kt .meeting Iwo upon
the ini:rning stated, the Prosecutor asked him, it
he belonged. to the press-gang p Tot:
expressipg his surprise at being asked such a
question, said, lie ans►►ered no ; upon uhich she
Posecutor asked him, it he did not know Pot
Dunn, the pressianaster I adding, that be liad lett
his poldic.house to a toast who suit resl it to be
resorted to by all manner of midteight' thieves and
robbers ; that the nig ioLites were on that ac...
count going to take away tht iieenee, which would
be a great loss to him; that all he Wanted was,the
press-gang to come at night, and take a way the
fellows resorting to the ,house ; that he, the PIO.
secutor, would swear they were ail sea.fating men,
and this. would enable hire to .gain his cao,e,
never had been before-called betore.a. Court of Jos.
mice, but wav-an industrious hard. working man,
The Lambeth.street Officers, however, knew him
well, and said, he had been a few years since tried
for bigamy.
The, Jury, after a ',bort consultation, found him
Guillj—Defah•

Tile Prisoner
,seemed a robust `man, al) )ur
feet JO belies, aged about 37, and an intrliigent
Man.

Ctarits Lloyd- was capitally indiaed for burgla.
riously enteritis, in thediiy time, e,iriy in the month
of Aueit, the dwelling-house of Wtlli.,rn Luther,
near" Finsbury .square, and stealing thereout a lace
silk cloak, value ablve $l.
It.appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Euther,
that she met the Pi isoner on clic morning stated in
the indiettrient, coming d.iwn her ataits ; that he
accosted her fatniliarly, .anti departed„ her
a goo.] morning, and went off 'rather hastily ; that
she Suspeding he bad robbed the house, yursued him,
and tried l" Stop thief." In consequence inf. which,
he was followed to a house where he had taken re.
fuse, from which he again ran, and witi pur:oed„
he crying out,, Dirrdett fox
.ever, co
ins I" He was taken, however, and clidri,,,ed with
having robbed the house ; dented, sa)
he was a person ulcotn,equence., Stri-Nillt
of the Sr, Sepulehrc's Vulinlicer Corrs, and call.
boned tlint,e who' seiz.,'d ltr,t bow they dine
tt7 charge him with rolils:!.rt. It did not cip ear
that the cloak s t"ouw.l upon him, but it wo
found 'upon a log of wood in a yard IVlticit he hi
ad
ps.sed in his flight, it 3 if 1111%)Wil 01:rr the wall.
Mrs. Enther identtfled al het own, which
she h4cl EMI 'in her' roottiftlity that ,fflottii,ye anti
her daughter, it child of ten-) e. is old, was bro•Tlit
to prove the locking of thc to m•d.or, hut f itrc
reitive provi, which invaltd-trea the capital
parr of the

Tie Pr►soner, a very fine young lellmw of 25, ansi

"and-4:itated,.that he was indulged with a chair in
the, dock, and twice fainted away, under the Ares.
sure of his situation.- tS,•veral repeCtable
neises appeared to his cliarafter for years past,
and Amongst the rest, Serjeant GlYnne,• of the
Third •Rffgiment of • Foot Guards,, who deposed
that the ;Poisoner had been for above nine' years
aprivate in that Regiment : that he had been with
them in Holland ; was always'a good soldier, and
bravely did his duty itt the Reid of battle; that
though
,he still continued a private, his Command-
ing Officer bad given him leave to aft as Mill Ser.
leant to the St. Septdchres Volunteers, to which
'Witness Act! as Serjeant-M.ijor;* that he h.d
always considered him an honest MAN 'and the Re.
girnent wovid.aga,in gladly receive him. The Pri.
Boner Aso paid, that Lord Banbury had called on
him' since his confir mem, and told him, that if in
town he would atiend on I;is trial, and give hint
; which his Lordship had also de.
dared to a -servant of Mr. Kirby, the late gaaler.
Mr. Justice CUAINt art E summed up the evidence
with great precision and impartiality, and the jury
found the Prisoner Guilty" of stealing, but recum.
mended him to the mercy of His M,tiesty.
Robert Brown Prentice, alias
.7oblißrow,te, was
next [tied upon a capital indiettnent for ,feloniously
stealing, on the 17th of April last, a brown geld.
ing, value t 51. the property of Mr. Chandler-; but
on this indictment be was-4quilted. He was then
tried upon -a second intlittnnent, for stealing, in the
night between the 18111 ar4 rgth of lasr,
black mare, and.a„che,snnt mare, the property of
Mr. Richard Edgar, Fdrmer, at Wrotham, in'
Kent.

Mr. Edgar proved the mares to have been
stalest nn the night stated. In consequence of hair_
ing published some hand-bills, he found that they
had both been .sold in a week afterwards by alter-
-I;att named George. Adking, a horse.dealer, - near
Smithfield, London, to whom he applici, and
who aliedged he had bought them of the Pri-
,
sontr.

,Mr. Adkins appeared, and proved that- he had
bought the mares as stated, together with a black
horse, on the ,20th of May, fur 401„; and that he
afterwards sold them to the person in whose cus.
tody they were found, line for 171. and the other
two for 251. ; that .he had known the Prisoner: for
a year and an half, during which time he frequent_
Iy. sold horses in Smithfield ; that the Prisoner had
repeatedly told him be was a farmer and hop.
grower, and resided at a place called Chapel Farm,
near Sittingboutne, in Kent ; that he was in the
habit, of frequently buying horses in the country,
to help to draw his teams to town, and afterwards.
selling them in London without profit, as his other
horses weri sufficient to draw back the empty wag.
goes. The Prisorer informed the Witness, that he
had bought the last three hotses in particular, from,
some travellers whOM he did not know, at a plaCe-
called Barons, or Byefrance, in Kent. That Wit.
ness, on understanding the. horses in question had'
been stolen, got a Peace-Officer and took the Pri.
Seiner into. Custody, and brought him to a Public.
house in the City Road, where he desired him to
deel,re' particularly, where and of whom he had
got the hotse!e,mentioned in this case, That the
prlsoner at firseliesitated, and then refused to give
`aly answer, but attempted to run away,. in which
attempt, the Witness, in endeavouring-to seizehim,
tore off the flap of his coat, but again pursued and
apprehended him.
Upon cross.esarnination, the Witness admitted,
that tin stolen horses bad been traced to his Cu,.
tidy, the whole of which, he said, he had bought
of the Prisoner ; that he knew he was himself re,
iponsible to the charge of the thefts, if he did not
prove froM whom he had bought, them ; and that he
understood there 'was a considerable reward for the
convielion of a hotse..stealer.
John Rea. and Thomas Maim', Police. Officers,
proved their being present at the-examination of
the Prisoner before the Magistrates ; and that the
Prisoner had then declared, he bought the horses of
the travellers before mentioned ; but that upon in.
buiry being Made foe hits-residence at Chapel Farm,
ittingbourne, no such person was known there,
but that they traced his lodgings to the house of a
tobacconist in St. Giles's, which they searched,
and found nothing but a few Pawnbroker's Dupli-
cates;

Mr. justice CHAMB RR summed up the evidence
for the jory, who, after.a short consultation,' dcli.
vered their verditi—Guilty—Deark.
Prisoner was a smart, welt.looking young
man, above the vulgar rank, aged 32. He bore his
arraignment with the utmost sang froid, and went
through his trial seeminly coliated, and with
great fi jury came to deliberate
upon the Evidence, when' his mind seemed torn
with violent agitation and anxiety ;
,but on hearing
the verdia,, he retired horn the Bar with apparent
indifference.
Gerll, a man of decent appearance, aged
about,„ 3esy-was next tried, op a capital charge,
stealingin ,a,•dwelling•house, Piccadilly;•-oo• the
3d of Septembwinstant, various articles of wearing
apparel, value forty.two shillings, the 'property of
William Cooper ; aid again, for stealing other
articles of a similar kind, the property of George
Thomas.
• ' -
Mrs. Cooper,. wife of the Prosecutor, deposed,
that_ site kee;-i. the Three kings, in Piccadilly;
that. the. Prisoner had lodged.there several nights
early in the month of July last : he came there
again on the of September, in. the evening;
went up stairs unknown to the family, and •the
Witness saw him come -down stairs with a bundle
under-his arm, and go out at the baek.dooi, •and
,she immediately gave the alarm, •
Thomas Baker deposed, that being near the place,
witil a friend, he heard the cry of ".Stop thief ;"
paw the Prisoner running, and' • the bundle drop,
from him.; he. instantly pursued. him and collared
him, tripped up his heelP, and gave him into the
custody clef the Peace Officers,
,by whom he was
sent to the watch-house,
Baron HOTHAM summed up the evidence, and
the Jury found the Prisoner—Crary of Ibe rimplr
'•/e,

ON Tuesday: last a Lady, dressed in the most
elegant style-, and affeeting the woman Of fashiOn,
went into the shop of a jeweller'in Oxford,street,
and 'being without a hat, she appeared as if just.
stepped out of a carriage, which in faa. was the case;
she asked to look at sane rings, and several were
shiwn'to her.; presently a servant in. livery came
in, and with his hat off, said aloud to her, "Sir
Roativr is in the carriage, my Lady."-L-" Very
well," she replied, " I wilf,be with him in a few
minutes." She then paid for two rings,' left Ole
shop, and got into a post-chaise, which was standi
ing at the door, and. the servant followed 'her into
the chaise, which immediately drove off; this latter
circumstance somewhat surprised the jeweller, but,
on his returning into his shop, he soon found other
cause for surprise, for on examining his stock, he
found, to his very great regret, that " her Lady.
ship" had diminished it considerably, by taking
five:rich diamond rings, and,several other articles
of value, wisLch, in her hurry to attend Sir Rot; EAT,
she had forgotten to pay for.

Oescqption of the Blood. Hounds of Cuba, some
of which were-carried to Jamaica, for the purpose
of hunting down the Maroons when they :were in a
state of Insurreftion, and who were induced to sub.
mit, in consequence of the terror excifed amongst
them by the introduction of this novel species
Warriors.

(From DATas's History of the 'Maroons.)

" The dogs carried out by the Chasseurs del
Rey are perfectly broken in, that is to ,say, they
will not kill the objed they pursue, •unless resisted.
On coming up with a fugitive, they bark at. him
till he stops, they then couch near him, terrifying
him with a ferocious growling if he stirs. In this
position they continue barking, to give notice to
the chassruta, who come up and secure their
saner. Each. chasseur, though he can hunt only
with twca dogs properly, is obliged to !laie three,
which he maintains at his own cost, and that at no
small cxpence. These people live with their dogs,
from which they are' inseparable. At home the
dogs are_ kept chained, and, when walking. with
their masters, are never, unmuzzled, or let out of
1 ropes, but for the attack. They are constantly ac.
companied once or..Jvvo small clop, called
finders, whose scent is -very.keen, and always sure
of hitting off a track. .1./lgs . and bitches hunt
equally well, andssthe. chaiseurs, rear' no Inure than
will supply the number
~required. This breed of
Jogs, indeed, is not to' proslific as the eoinmon kinds,
"though intioitely'strunger and hardier. The animal
is the size of a very large hound, with ears erect,
which arc usually. cropped at the pdints ; the nose
more pointed, but wideniog very much towards the
after-part of the jaw. (its coat, or skin, is much.
harder than that of most dogs, and, so must be the
whole strudure of the body, as the severe beatings
he undergoes In training would kill any other species
of dog. There are some, but not many, of a More
'obtuse
nose, and which are rather squarer' set.,
These, it may he presumed, have been crossed by
the mastiff; but if by this the bulk has been.a little
increased, it has added nothing to the strengih,
height, beauty, or agility, of the. native breed.
" 'The chasseur has no other weapon than a long
straight antrichet, or couteau, longer than a dra.
goon's sword, and twice as thick, sumethinglike a
flat, iron bar, sharpened at the lower end; of which.
about eighteen inches are as sharp as a razor. The
point is not unlike. the old Rtrinan sword. The
steel of them is.excellent,'.and made at Guanahacoa,
about three miles frOm the Havanna.. . The fuddle
of the muschet is without a guard, but scolloped to
admit the fingers and suit the grasp. These men
are under an officer of high. rank; the Alcade
vinciale, and receive a good pay from the Govern._
mem, besides private rewards for patticular and ex.
trAordinary services. They arc a very hardy, brave,
and desperate set of people, scrupulously honest, and"
remarkably faithful.

CI The a'aivity of the chasseurs no negro on earth
can elude ; and such is their temperance, that with
few ounces of salt for each, they can. sopport
temselves for -whole months on the vegetable and
far in..eious food affurdeci by the woods.:. They drink
nothing stronger than water, with which, s
di.tance.frowsprings, they are copiously supplied
by the wild pine, by the black and grape withes,
which are about two inches in diameter, and .the
roots (tithe cotton-tree. Of the last, six feet junk.
: ed off the smaller part of the root, where it, tapers
to the thickness of a man's thigh,,will yield,several
gallons of water., In the greateit dtought. these
resources geld= fail. For the wild pine they are
obliged to climb trees; bin that they do• almost
with the.veiocity -of a monkey. TMi plant takes
root, On the body of a tree, and the leaves of it are
so formed as to catch the rain, and contuft. it to a
reservoir at the base, where, being! never. exposed
to the, stm, it is found delightfully fresh and cool.
But the easiest method of obtaining water in the
woods, and with less delay on a March, is from the
black andsgrape wither it is done, with .greater ex.
pedition than drinking ail spring; The chassetir,
;catches a pendent withe, which, with his muscher,
he divides about two feet from the ground, and ap.
plies the end ofthe white, as it hangs, to his mouth,
Of to, his dOg's, who kijicates his thirst: he' then
cuts the withe off, alulksix feet higher, keepi'ng
the upper endllevated, when the air beio&adtpit.
ted above,. he receives through the porous fibres of
it near,a quart of delightful cold water. With re.
sped to animal food, if any of them happen to de.
sire it, they find no difficulty,in obtaining it. The
little finder, if set on, but nut otherwise, will soon
bay. one of the wild hogs with which the 'woods
abound ; the animal, retreating for sheltor to the
trunk of a tree,. is immediately transfixed. with a
lance.. The men cure as much of the'fiesh as they
think they will,have occasion far, by scoring it in-
ternally to the skin, sprinkling 'it with salt, and
'smoking it; over
.the smoke they thrOw some aro.
[natio leaves, Which Out only add ro its flavour, but
assist in preserving , it. The meat thus cured will
:keep for, months, and is esteemed a very great
dainty by the most refined epicures. rlt is, in lid,
the jirked hog,
,already mentioned in the account
of the maroon,nnocle of life. The part of the hog
'not preserved is given. to the dogs. The pursuit of
the game is.entircly ;he pros ince of the finder; the
lisiger dogs, from their training, would pass a hog
without without notice; were one of thein to hark at a hog
he would be ,severely punished. The chasseurs
'beat their dogs.-most unmercifully-, using the flat
-sides of their heavy muschets."

. O‘prod. the Private belonging to the 3d Regiment
of Foot Guards, who was tried several times for re_
pealed desertions and .other improper condal, and
sentenced to he shot, has, received Hts 1111/..mirras
most gracious pardon, upou..co'ndirion-or fits being
itaivipoited for life to New South Wales.
The dwelling.houre of W. P. STANYARN, Esq,
Upper Harley:street, was entered. by four villains on
Tuesday night, the-last of whom- was observed to
enter the first fliot window, by the watchman, who
give tl,e alum, and one of them was secured., The
other three decamped tvithour their boots',

-; rya LC • OF•PI t POW.. PR ET. IV'. COll S •
.quence of a riot that took pl ice on SUlltlAy after.
noon, at St. Giles's, respettipg.the apprellensionOt
some deserters, •and in which C.ipt. SHAW, 1/I.le
2 3(1 Fusileers, and some other • persbns, -were much
hurt, warrants were issued by. Paw ARID, El.
to search three houses in St. Giles's, suTeaed ut
harbouring deserters, and which were put in exe;
cutiori early'yesterd,ty- morning, when upwards of
io persnns were taken into cUitody, and ex unined
at Bdii.itreet, before the abo%;e Magistrate and.ED:
WARD REID, E.g. Several other 'persois tt ere,
identified as being alive in the riot, and diet
were committed, to prison for trial at the present
Sessions. Two being swoin to as deserters, *ere,
Committed to the Savoy.

IS44.4IIQROUCH-sTRi two. youni
men, Clerks in a house of respettability
were tharged With breaking the peace. tinder the
lOwing circumstance. They had 'emiinotited
-fthe Lady's bressing.maid, and severally. and 1.11 c•
cesidully paid their addresses to her. The yowl'
woman was partial to bkh, and received their Fru
*mations alike, until a jesloosy arose, and it ,t'at
determined on, in her presence, that the victor, in a
4ghlt, should be the 'fortunate hero.--=They 'coifed
to Hyde Park on'Mondly afteinnon for that pur-
pose, and aim' fighting in the Lanca,hira ttylcs
chip fly un'ilie ground; for half,ati hour, during which
time. they had marked each tither' wi!h ~'me
stvere-kicksl they were taken into cibtody at the
interference of their empl.,yer. They were held in
sureties ttikeei) the peace.

INSOLVENT DE sToß*.—i-he only case Of a re!. •
son.ramanded at Clerkenweit Sessions, on Wed"cs'
day,- worthy notice was, that of a man c ot.fined
ire
New gate' under an action commenced against him,
some time since, by a young woman in. the serda
many years of a respeetable faMily at Hampic";ll
for a malicious defamation of her chatatl.w for t'iten
purpose of preventing her. settling in marrhge
which he was convicted in damages and costs,o,,.
Att:Er,' the Counsel fur the Plaintiff
opposed his release under the 39th Clause of the
AZI, which expressly precludes malicious culprits
from any benefit under the same; and the Magi
strates having with a laudable attention fully•IFII;
vestigated the Record and proceedings of the aftio •
miller which he was committed, were Unani:(ll°Usi
of opinion, that he was'. expressly 'excludedfrom an
rrlief under the intelvent At:t.

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'and.ridiculed one Of the Soldiers, who,
irritated at such an insult offered tO him while under
arms,' seized his musketi and. struck Biggs a violent
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