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was ordered to receive them, caused the Commanders of
CoMpanies to be arrested; who were immediately delivered
up by some conspirator& At this moment the following
words were heard, " Hear those discharges; 'tis your com-
rades they are slauptering!" At these words ..the bat-
talion rushed out of the.baxracks, and met on their way the
lieutenant of a regiment of Finland, Who cried to them,—
"In square against the cavalry." The rebellion first began
in the regiment of Moscow. Prince Stchapine, after am-
mating his soldiers by a 100 speech, ordered them to take
cartouch balls, mid charge their guns, take the colours from
the grenadiers, and repulse them with the butt-ends of
their muskets. He himself attacked General Frederick,
and wounded hint on the head, General Schonschin, whom
he sabred in several places, and several other :officers, and
sub-officers, He at length got possession of the colours,
and moved on at the heed of his companies to the " Place:
du Senat." Notwithstanding this conduct,.be was said to
have already repented, and that morning rising from his
bed, he uttered the following prayer t—" Oh, my God! if
our enterprise be just:, grant us thy aid; if not, may thy
will be done, respecting us 1"
The regiment of Grenadiers belonging to that body
which joined the companies led by Prince Stchapine, was
induced to revolt by similar means. But the measures
adopted soon put a stop to the insurrection. Anarchy
began to prevail in the ranks of the rebels,thOugh the
most furious continued to signalise themselves by mas-
sacreing all who conic in 'their way. It has been proved
that it was Kahonaky that mortally wounded with a
pistol shot General Miloradowitch, who had received the
stab of a bayonet also from Prince Eugene Obolonsky.—
Kahousky, after killing Col. Sturler, threw down his pistol,
saying., "Enough for to-day—l have two of them to an-
swer for."
Prince Stehttpine first gave the order to fire. A Colo-
nel and several soldiers were wounded ; and William Ku-
ehelbecker dared to aim his pistol at the Grand Duke
Michael, but the sailors arrested his arm.
Of all the conspirators, however, who were to go to the
rendezvous to take the command of the troops, Boulatoff
alone presented himself, as a mere spectator; Yakoubo-
vitch was seen but for a moment; and Prinee Troubet-
zkcoy came in all haste to take the oath to your Majesty,
flattering himself that he would thereby efface 11, portion of
his. crime. After that he fled 'to the
.Austrian Minister,
brother-in-law of his wife, where Count Nesselrode de-
manded him by order of your Majesty. in fine, Batenkoff
hurried without delay to take the oath to your Majesty,
without` bestowing a single thought more on the reform
of the State, the glory of becoming one of the heads of
the Government, and wishing for nothing more then the
immediate arrest of the rebels !
All other individuals who have taken part more or less
iii the rebellion, having betrayed each other reciprocally,
soon' came under the cognizance of your Commission.—
Being arrested and interrogated, some of them made them-
selves voluittury prisoners, and among the rest Colonel
Boulatoff, who became frantic on finding that his name was
made use of to draw his regiment to its destruction.—
The idea that all the soldiers of that regiment who were
found on the Place de Senet were to be put to death had
disturbed his reason, and in a letter addressed totheGrand
Duke Michael, he said—" Every man who shall see my
name subscribed tothe form of oath will there distinguish the
signature of a villain!" But those stormy passions by
which he was so much agitated soon subsided. Boulatoff
was not a villein—at least lie was not hardened in crime,
and up to the moment of his death, which was occasioned
by his old complaint, he ceased to be tormented by the
recellection of his horrible design ; he, however, endea-
voured to appease his remorse by unlimited disclotiures,
and dying, confidently bequeathed his children to the
Sovereign whom his hand had attempted to assassinate.
Ise the South arrests of principal...conspirators are taking
place, in consequence of orders from Taganrog, sent on
account of tile, informatimis of Captain Mayporoda.
Although Pestel promised to make no discovery, he I
has avowed and named his accomplices, who have been
sent to Petersburgb, at the request of the Commission.
'rite troubles of Vasilkoff arose from the arrest of the
brothers IMouravieff, Who, not 'being guarded with suffi-
cient care, were given up in the night time. Being given
In custody to $OlllO otbu rs belonging to the Society of
Slaves, they conceived the project of Making the regiment
of Tchereigoff rise in rebellion; but this enterprise, which
was begun to be put into execution, was put an end to by
a Jetuchment of the hussars of General Geismas; all the
coas'oiratore were delivered up by the soldiers, or , put to
death ,during the action.
After tecetiong out the character, views, and acts of the
rebellious Losocietionretrains, it only retrains to the Commission
to call your. Is.l-kijoity's attention to the part taken in the
conspiracy by jhose individuak who have been intern,-
gated in the cont.:4e of the inquiry. Your Commission
have endeavoured to ,establi,b, ith st7upttious accuracy,
the different. degrees of culpability, and the informations, •
accompanied by all the documents, more or less im-
portant, relative to this affair, are subjoined to this re-
port, which the Commission have the honour to lay be-
fore your Imperial Highness.
(Signed) Tatischiff, President, Minister of War,
Michel; Master of the Ordnance, Prince Galatzin ;
Privy Counseller, Galenitscheff—Kotouzotr,
de-Camp General and Military Governor of St.
Petereburgh, Czernitscheff ; Benkendorff, Leve-
Parpuff, Aid-de-Camps Generals.

SEIVIMiR • ASSIZES.

tifIREWSUURY,
Mr. Justice Burrougli was occupied:during the whole ni
Friday and. Saturday, till s; late hour each night, in the
trial of a cause which excited touch local interest. It was
an action of ejectment brought by Mr. Richard Walmesley
Lloyd, against Colonel Passinglunn,, for the recovery of
considerable estates in Merionethshire. The family of
Mr. Lloyd had been for a long tune in possession of the
estates until the year. 1794, when Colonel Passingham
and his brother obtained a verdict for' their recovery as the
right heirs of the original possessor, at. the amine for this
county, in a trial before the late Mr. JUstice 'Heath, in
which the late Lord Erskine, then at the bar, was brought
down special for Messrs. Passinghams, and the present
Mr.'Baran . ()arrow was also specially retained for the
Lloyds. The Learned Baron, at present one of the judges
on this circuit., transferred the trial to:Mr. Justice Bur-
rough from motives of delicacy.
Liorr, e. easstsonsm.
Mr. Taunton, with whom was Mr. Campbell and Mr.
Richards, stated the case to the jury. He said that the eject-
ment was brought by the plaintiff in support of his right un-
der the will of the late Aim Catherine Lloyd. In the year
1740, the estate, for the recovery of which the present ac-
tion was brought, was in possession of the late Gowen
Lloyd, Esq. of Hinwr,.in IVlerionethshire, That gentle-
man, in the year MK had married Miss Catharine
NB, a member of die ancient and distinguished family
of that name, in the county of Salop. By the marriage
settlement, the lady had a life-interest in the estate, which
was also settled upon the ifilint of that marriage. Mr. Guwen
Lloyd died hi March, in they ear 074; and his widow
4reved him, in the enjoy of the estate, till the year
1,7b11 when she also died without issue. Mr. Guwett Lloyd
),0 sisters, Catherine and Mary Lloyd, maiden ladio,,
ha t& ti 6
who live,_•l to a very advanced age, and who came into pos.
r t he estates after the death of their brother and
hisi wife, an
C +berine Lloyd, upon her death, bequeath.
"" the estates to relatives; of whom the
epdieiheenrt
emit"
joiiiietuynt!9lo, remainder-man, and grandson of
right, as. remainder-man, did not
Mr. Gnwcn Lleyd -hen the life-tenant died, who
arise until December, h 4fie Lloyd's will. This
was in *Possession under Cat el- ',intsff fimnded his
Was tbe raa4mer in Which the present, Ph- lin became
e"pq~~sssait u£ ,esi Jonathan and Robert Passing,,,,
'he lgoperty asides very peculiar circumstaih„
after they had tiaceesaled in:their action in the year IVA,
leyrerans which, the learned Counsel said, he would
into
here-
)4oreaPlailh a curium compromise had been entered

between them and the Miss Lloyds, by which the latter,
being very advanced in life, were anxious to get rid of the
plague of litigatjon, and consented to resign a large poi.-
tom of their, landed property to the Passmgheims. This
family (the latter)nhad_in the year 1794 brought their ac-
tion for the recovery of the property, as the real and only
heir at law of the late Guwen Lloyd, Esq., by virtue
of a marriage, said to have been contracted by that gen-
tleman prior to his union with Miss Hill, of which there
was issue, according to their account, one- daughter, who
had married Mr. Passingliam,,the father of the gentlemen
who had succeeded in their action in the year 1794. The
Passinghams, therefore, claimed, as grandsons of Guwen
Lloyd, by his alleged first marriage with Elizabeth Taylor,
antecedent to his knowledge. of the Hill family. Mr. Jus-
tice Heath was a great lawyer, but he was wrong. in ad-
mitting the proof of marriage which was tendered with
Elizabeth Taylor. To the reign of George IL, and before
the passing of the Marriage Act, a scandalous practice had
long prevailed of what were called " Fleet marriages"—
that is, Marriages
~performed in the, Fleet prison, and its
neighbourhood • the Fleet ditch, in houses regularly ar-
ranged for the purpose, where, to the disgrace of the
church, clergymen at the time officiated. These marriages
were then legal ; a registry..of them was duly kept, but the
registry was constantly made the vehicle of every kind of
fraud, falsehood, and imposture, until at length it became
an incontrovertible rule of law, that this registry was not
admissible evidence in the courts of justice. The Fleet
registers were passed from hand to hand by public sale, as
articles of gain, and were held by people for gaining a live-
lihood, though they were made up Heaven only knew
how, and kept heaven only knew where. They were for
years brought as proof of every kind of scandalous mar-
riage. Mr. Justice Heath had unfortunately admitted this
species of. evidence in the trial of 1794 ; but he
was principally influenced in that admission by.. the pro-.
duction- of an attested copy of entries in . the pa-
rish register of the church of St. Pancras, which went to
corroborate the probability of the Fleet marriage. Two
pieces of paper were produced purporting to be exact co-
ies'of a how fide entry in the St. Pancras registry of the
baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth, the wife of
Guwen Lloyd, Esq., and of the death of . Elizabeth
Lloyd herself, wife of the said Guwen. TheSe entries
were dated 1741 and 1742. He was now prepared to
prove, not by attested copies, but by the -identical regis-
tration.book itself, that these entries were fraudulent and
interpolated fabrications—that both the alleged baptism
and burial were obviously in the same hand-writing, which
was not to be found in any other part of the same book—
that the parchment leaves were ground doWn by pumice-
stone, so as to erase the original writing on the leaves, for
the purpose (if substituting these fraudulent entries. He
was compelled to affirth that this fraud ' was practised in
the presence, and with the privity of the then clergyman
of St. . Pancras, Mr. Sawyer, by it man named Kendry
who was at the time in an . attorney's office, with a
member of the Passingham family, and he would.
prove the erasure by , the production of the book
itself, • in which the operation upon the parchment
was plainly visible, as well au by- the deposition
of the parish clerk, who was an eye-witness .of the perpe-
tration of the fraud by the parties already mentioned.—
Elizabeth Taylor, the alleged first wife of Mr. Guwen
Lloyd, was a bar-maid at the Thatched-house Tavern, St.
James's, a tavern then frequented by Mr. Lloyd, and he
would show that that female was buried in the -parish
church of St. James, by the name of Elizabeth Taylor, in
the year 1741. With reference to the St. Pancras regis-
ter, it was a remarkable fact, that since the production of
it, at the former trial, a rough. book in which the loose
entries were first made had been discoveredat St. Pancras.
This rough book corresponded in every part. with the fair
register, except in these particular pages where the fabri-
cated entries had been made, and such a circumstance at
once flashed conviction upon the understanding. He would
also skew, that after the success which had attended
the trial of 1794, gratuities were distributed by the Pas. 1
singhams among those who 'hod assisted in: accomplishing
theirimrpose. Kendry Was prevailed upon to go to North
America, where the yellow fever was at the tone raging;
he, fortunately, however escaped that scourge, and would
be afterwards found making a variety. of applications to his
companion in the attorney's office, Mr. Passingham, who
was by him assisted. into the possession of this property.—
He would also show what had been the fate of Elizabeth
Taylor, and how unlikely it • was that she had been . ever
married to Mr. Guwen Lloyd, or that her child Elizabeth
was legitimate ; for • that child was sent toe 'poor village-
school kept by a barber,. or his wife, at Teddington, near
London, and -there always known;known;by the name of Bet
Taylor. Mr. Gowen Lloyd was a .gentleman of fortune
and familyi who had married into, one. of the highest fami-
lies of this country. Now it was just possible that such a
man might have married the bar-maid of a tavern ; but
was it likely, though he might have concealed that mar-
riage for obvious reasons, that he would have likewise
Iteglected and deserted his legitimate daughter, he, too, not
having any child by the marriage with Mitts Hill? This
daughter. was permitted . throughout her life to move
unnoticed and in obscurity. • She was reared at the
barber's school as plain " Bet Taylor," .until she- was
twelve years old. ' She afterwards married the, father
of Messrs. Passingham, then went to Bath, where
she kept a lodging-house, and afterwards undertook
the office of. housekeeper to Mr. Birt, a surgeon, near St.
Thomas's Hospital, where he would prove by the evi-
dence. of Mr. Blount, a surgeon of great eminence, near
Birmingham, who had of late years retired from the pro-
fession with a large fortune, but who was in the year 1774
a pupil of Mr. Birt, that the poor woman had always re-
presented herself as 'theillegitimate daughter of a Welsh
gentleman, named Lloyd,. and. had died broken-hearted
when she heard he had not mentioned her or her children
in his will. In addition to the evidence to which. he al-
haled, he had besides, the circumstantial corroboration,
furoished by incidental facts. For instance, on the death
of Mr. GUWIOII Lloyd, a plain tablet was erected to his
memory, in his parish church of Llanbyssell, in the Month
of March, 1774, long before any claim of the Passinghams
was thought of, upon which it was inscribed that he died
" .without issue." After, however, the trial of 1794,
Mr. Passingham had a new inscription engraved for
Mr. Guwen Lloyd, and set up in a monument in the
same place, omitting altogether the fact. -of his having.
died without issue. Now this gentleman, whose epi-
taph was thus written, had solemnly sworn in taking
out the certificate for his marriage with Miss Hill,
that he was then a bachelor, whereas if the account
given by the Passinghams were true, his proper in-
scription would have been wit hover. After this, the
Messrs. Passinghams entered into a compromise with
Mary Lloyd, then above 90 years of age, and long a blind
woman, by which she was prevailed upon to admit the
legitimacy, of the Passinghams, to pay them 7,0001. 114 a
remtmeration for certain sales of property, and to make
arrangements on the expiration of life-i»terests, for the
transfer to them Of certain property. In the year -1806,
however, this fraudulent interpolation in the St. Pancras
registry was detected, and an application was soon after
instrument
of to the. Lord Chancellor, to set. aside the
of compromise between the old lady. and Mr.passinghanh-
Matters however, travelled slowly in the
- the of the
Court of Chan-
cery, and
,it was there determined, that ass act -
Misses Lloyds had been deliberately done, they could have
no relief, In last_December, however, the present plain-
tiff's claim first accrued as remainder-man, and upon it the
present action was brought.
The Rev. Rowland Hill was called,
but all he knew
was, that an emit of his had married Mr.'Outeen Lloyd ;
lie know. nothing of their private affairs.
Mr. Blountiagentleman far advanced in
Years, proved
that in the year 1774 lie was :wal‘ing the hospitals, 81U
residing with a surpon named Burt near. St. Thomas's 1"1"-
pi tal, where lie knew the kne 1
m lute Elilabeth Passingham, who al-
ways described herself as
the illegitimate daughter of a
.;;;;,,Ish gentleman,- whom she had offended by an irnpnl'
dent Mirriftilli
but from whom, for thesake ()flier family,
she had
alwayo
.expeetations alegiwy. A gentleman

named Dill, from Shropshire, had called one morning in
the borough, and said Mr. Guwen Lloyd was dead. Wit-
ness asked him whatproperty was left to her. Mr. Bill said
nothing. The communication of this unpleasant fact had
such an effect upon the poor woman, that she became in-
Staidly deliripus; and three days afterwards flung herself
out of one of the windows, and was killed on the spot.
The Attorney-General, who was brought down special,
opened the defendant's case on Saturday morning, (Mr.
Russell and Mr. Alexander were also for the defendant),
and in a speech of considerable length,reviewed the whole
of the legal proceedings which had taken place, in this
cause, from the trial in 1794 to the later Chancery pro-
ceedings, and referred elaborately to the speech arid opi-
nion of Mr. Erskine, respecting the justice of the claim of
the Passingham family, the present defendant, Colonel Pas-
singham, having served in the American war, and being
known and respected by Lord Erskine' who had himself
served in a military capacity before he came to the bar,
of which he was afterwaols- so illustrious an ornament.—
The Passingham family were now, he said, called, upon,
after thirty years' possession of the property at issue, to
answer the charge of being the spurious descendants of
Mr. Guwen Lloyd. The Attorney-General, with great
ingenuity,othere
the validity jury that the question was
tion of the St.-Pancras regi-
ster,limpressed
or upon of
fabrication
r thec a
which he dismissed in a word as inapplicable from its
evident mutilation; but whether Col. Passingham was the le-
gitimate heir of Mr. G.Lloyd by the marriage with E. Taylor.
He urged very forcibly the reasons which would operate
to induce Mr. Lloyd after his alliance with the Hills, to
conceal his antecedent marriage with a person in the
humbler walks of life, which was always whispered as
having taken place in the neighbourhood of the Fleet
Prison, where, in former times, such marriages were un-
doubtedly legal, and where clergymen constantly attend-
ed• to celebrate them, although, according to what fell
from Chief Justice Abbott, in the cause of "Beere and
Ward," even the assistance of a clerFman was not deemed
indispensable for theirperformance. They were, no question
of it, as legally binding as those marriages still celebrated at
Gretna-green. Indeed, so common was their occurrence in
former times, that the father of one of the greatest men of
his day, the late Mr. Fox, one of the' great lights and
ornaments of his country, had been married in the Fleet, or
its neighbourhood, to a daughter of the then Duke of Rich-
mond. Mr. Guwen Lloyd, who was a dissipated man of for-
tune, had met Miss Elizabeth Taylor, not as a bar-maid
at the Thatched-house tavern, but at a lodging-house, from
which he married her, and as she was in very delicate
health, removed her to Kentish-town, where she died in
16 months after her marriage, leaving an infant daughter,
Elizabeth, who was sent to Teddington, not to school,
but to nurse, the mother's health not permitting her to
perform that duty. This child was always, in early life,
acknowledged by Mr. Lloyd, but disinherited after she
had eloped from a boarding-shool with Mr. Passingham.
Several witnesses, among whom were Mrs. Vivian, the
widow of Colonel Vivian of the Guards, deposed that they
knew the Misses Lloyds, the old Ladies, who had been so
long in the possession of this property, who had always
spoken of Colonel Passingham and his brother as their ne-
phews, since the year 1794; and the will of Mary Lloyd
was put in, affirming that degree of relationship, and in-
trusting to the Colonel the superintendence of paying cer-
tain legacies. A school-fellow of Elizabeth, the daughter
of Mr. Guwen Lloyd, and Elizabeth Taylor, proved, that
she was always known, not as Bet Taylor, but as Miss
Lloyd, and treated with respect.
These witnesses_ also deposed to the report in the
family that there had been a Fleet marriage, the register of
which was tendered, but refused in evidence by the Court
on the present occasion. • .
. Mr. Taunton, in reply to the, defendant's evidence, dis-
claimed imputing the commision of any fraud, to Colonel
Passingluun.
Mr. Justice Burrough was engaged in charging the jury
from half-past five till past, tune o'clock on Saturday
evening.. The jury had not swan their verdict when the
coach left Shrewsbury at hulf-paet ten e'eloolc on Satur..
day night.
It is understood that this verdict will only affect a small
part of the property.
Mr. Baron (Jarrow, finding it impossible to obtain the
attendance of Counsel in his Court, to proceed with some
causes, as they were so mush engaged in the cause of
" Lloyd and Passingham," in the other Court, struck se-
veral causes out of the paper, which must stand over as
remanets.

LEICESTER, FatuAY, Juts
(cgowN Coo wr.--Before the Loan OBEY JUSTICE.)
William Moore, Isaac Cooper, Henry Crofts, John Richard-
son, Thomas Lichfield, W. Stunt, Charles Williamstm,Rivers
Morris, and :Michel Smythe, were severally indicted, and the
indictment stated that they had riotously assembled on the 14th
June last, at the parish of St. Martin, in Leicester, and unlaw-
fully and riotously disturbed the peace of our Lord the Ring, and
that for the space of two hours they had continued thus unlaw-
fully to conduct themselves.
The prisoners pleaded "not guilty." The prosecution, which
has arisen out out of the proceedings at the late election, was at
the instance of the Mayor and Corporation of Leicester. It was
conducted by Mr. Setrant VAVUHAN and the Recorder (E.
GouLetiax, Esq.); Mr. DENMAN appeared for the defence. The
facts of the case are too recent to require repetition.
Mr. Sergeant VauanAx addressed the Jury; after which the
first witness was called and sworn, when
The Loan Cnur JUSTICE said—lt appears that the object

the corporation has m view, is not punishment, but example.
Whether the facts charged will be proved or not, it is impossible
for me to tell. What I should propose now is, that the prisoners
should severally he found guilty of this offence, and enter into their
own recognizance' in 1001. each, to come up and receive the lam-
Sence of the Court when called upon, and to keep the peace for
three years. If theyconduct themselves properly, they will never
be called upon to receive sentence.
Mr. Sergeant VAUGUAL—Your Lordship has stated that
the object of the corporation is to prevent a recurrence ofsimilar
evils, and we yield at once to your Lordship's suggestion.
Mr. DINMAN.--I purposely abstain from saying one word as
to the charges preferred against the prisoners. Ido think, how-
ever, that they are infinitely indebted to your Lordship for the
suggestion. They fully understand it, and prisoners, if you are
advised by me, and especially you, Richards, whose feelings on
this point I fully know, you will earnestly accept the offer now
made to you by that great and good Magistrate, the Lord Chief
Justice of England.
The prisoners severally thanked his Lordship, and entered into

the proposed recognixances.
The Loan Cum Jusnez.—Attend to me, young men. De-
put this Court in peace, and let nie impress on you that you
owe much to the lenity of the corporation. Let there be no
triumphing on either side, but go to your homes and behave well,
and like good citizens.
The prisoners retired.
In the course of the evening, Mr. Denman wa• drawn oul
of the town in his own carriage, by a large portion of the people,
His progress was cheered in the most enthusiastic way, and h
turned this manifestation of popular feeling with much affectionate
Fratitude. We are convinced that his interest here will bh deeply
increased by the excellent discretion be has exhibited., He had a
noble theme, but he scorned to increase his new popularity by any
risk of his clients' safety.

GUILDFORD, FRIDAY, Jura' 21.
citowra- SIDP.
Edward Edwards was indicted under Lord Ellenborough's
Act, for wilfully and maliciously cutting and stabbing with a knife
Richard Pople, a police.oflicer, at Bermondsey, on the 22d of
June last.

The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found the pri-
owner Not (ruilir,, but he was ordered to be detained for the
moult until next Sessions.
Samuel Perry was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth Ann
Tully, a child of ten years old, at Lambeth, On the 21st of June.
with a certain outrageous intent. The Jury, under the Learned
Judge's directions, found the prisoner Guilty. Hs was sentenced
to two years' imprisonment arid hard labour in the WM* of Cor-
rection. The Grand Jury bad found a hill against the prisoner
for a capital felony, but upon consideration of all the evidence, it
was thought advisable to proceed for a-misdenielninur

•
Jut 22.
rit 3,7 m, v. .1011 X JACOBS.
This defendant had been convicted at the last Assizes for this
county, before Mr.
'Baron Graham, of feloniously intermarrying
with Catherine. Fitzgerald, his first wife, Dorothy Thm»psOn,
being then alive. Upon the trial, a queetion, arose as to the va,