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THE BELMONT DISTILLERY,

Erected within the last four years, at an expence of nearly
TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS ;

Comprising two steam engines (one of sixteen-horse power)
in excellent condition, two copper stills of 3,500 and 1,500
gallons each; two copper worms and tubs, condensing
copper, copper pans, copper cylinder strongly bolted, and
divided into six chambers ; a large quantity of copper,
pewter, lead, and iron pipe, milled lead, sheet copper, and
cocks, 12 2,500-gallon oak bonge spirit casks, •20 3,500-
gallon fir fermenting backs, four preparation vats, two
composition vats lined with lead, lead and fir .interns, and
receivers, 50 spirit pipes, about 1;000 wooden-bound
casks, 28 fir wash bucks, two fir liquor hacks, cleansing
and cooling backs, under back, two three-throw engine-,,
with rods and cranks, four washing machines, four crush-
ing cylinders, a 12-feet diameter wrought-plate iron gaso-
meter, with apparatus for lighting the premises, sound
brick and iron work ; capital Memel timber, in bearers,
stages, supports, and flooring; powerful jib-crane, count-
ing-house fixtures, and miscellaneous effects, which will he
described in catalogues, to he had (Is. each) of Messrs.
Gatty, Haddan, and Co., solicitors, Angel-court, Throg-
morton-street ; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, Bucklers-
bury, London.

One of the most important Landed Investments in the
County of Essex, Land Tax Ilejeerned.
MR. W. W. SIMPSON respectfully an-
nounces that he haw been directed by the Proprie-
tors, to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, London, some
time in the Meath of August next,

THREE fine FREEIiOLD ARABLE and GRAZ-
ING FARMS, forming a landed Estate equal to any in
the county, and presenting a rare opportunity for the per-
manent investment of capital, and in a property occupied
by tenants of the highest respectability. The Estate,
which abounds with Game, is in a superior state of cul-
tivation, and lies entirely within a ring fence. It is situat-
ed in the parish of Bradwell juata Mare, within 13 miles
of Mahlon, and contiguous to water carriage. It compre-
hends Wymarks and New Wick Fauns, New Hall Farm,
and Battle Lands, containing together, by admeaeurcment,
about

SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY ACRES
of superior arable, pasture, grazing, awl coppice land,
exonerated from the land tax, together with sundry
Dwelling Houses, Shops, and Cottages, situate in the best
part of 13radwell ; the whole producing a rental of about
-£1,200 PER ANNUM.
More descriptive particulars of this valuable Property
will appear in future papers.
Printed particulars may shortly be had of C. C. Parker,
Esq. Woodham Mortimer-place ; of Messrs. Druce and
Son, 13illiter-square ; at the Mart ; and of Mr. W. W.
Simpson, Bucklerebury, London, where a plan of the estate
may be seen.

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Literary Review.

CATHOLIC LIBERALITY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—. May I beg the favour of you to insert the
following short account of a remarkable instance of
Catholic liberality in your paper, for the information
of the public in general, but particularly of such of
your readers as entertain erroneous opinions re-
specting their much-calumniated Catholic fellow-
subjects ?
About the age of 17, I entered the celebrated
English College at Douay, in Flanders, as an avowed
Protestant, yet no " Articles of Religion" were ten-
dered to me for subscription, soy was any oath re-
quired to be taken at my matriculation. I conti-
nued a Protestant the whole time I was in the Col-
lege, nor indeed have I ever felt the least inclina-
tion to become a member of the Church of Rome
from that time to the present period. But though
I have not thought it proper to embrace the Roman
Catholic faith, I highly esteem the Catholics them-
selves, for better people than they are do not exist
in his Majesty's dominions. It is but justice to say,
that though I was of a, different persuasion, nothing
could exceed the kindness I experienced from every
one belonging to the establishment, the members of
which were all Catholics except myself. I declare
most positively that I never received the least insult
on account of my religion during the whole time I
continued at Douay, which was several years.
Would a Catholic have been treated in a similar
manner at any one of our great public schools, or at
either of our Universities ? lam very certain that
had a Catholic boy been placed at Rugby. School,
where I received part of my education, he would
have been made so uncomfortable by continual
insults, that he could not have remained a month.

I must be permitted to add, that it is my decided
opinion that a modern English or Irish Catholic is
by far a more liberal person than a high churchman
of the present day, particularly if the latter is also
an Ultra-Tory.—l am, Sir, your obedient' servant,

JOHN HALL,
Bath, July 24. A lineal descendant of Bishop Hall.

FUNERAL OF THE LORD PRIMATE.

Yesterday the noble relatives of the late distin-
guished Prelate had a meeting at the Palace, at
which it was decided that the funeral should take
place on Tuesday next; and the Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons gave immediate
notice to Messrs. Bywater and Goodburne, the up-
holsterers, in Grosvenor-street, to that effect. The
Right Hon. Gentleman also gave them instructions
to cause the Cathedral at Canterbury—the throne,
communion table, pulpit, and galleries—to be co-
vered with black cloth, bearing the arms of the fa-
mily, impaling those of the See, en Sunday next (to-
morrow); the like solemnities are also to be ob-
served at Addington Church, under which the fa-
mily vault has been made within the last six months.
The Archiepiscopal Palace and Lambeth Church are
also to be hung with black cloth, with arms, &c.
The following is a description of the superb case
that is to contain the leaden coffin with the remains
of the Noble Divine. It is composed of mahogany,
covered with rich purple Genoa silk velvet, richly
studded with gilt nails, and embossed cherubim
handles, surmounted with the mitre. At the head
of the lid is a mitre, and at the foot the key and
crook, and on the inscription plate, which is sur-
mounted by the arms of the family and the See, is
the following :

Charles Manners Sutton, D.D.
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,
Died 21st July, 1828,
Aged IS.
_ _

The coffin, for beauty and richness of manufacture, sur-
passes any that we ever before beheld, and reflects great
credit to Messrs. Bywater and Goodburne.

The annexed is the programme of the funeral procession
from Lambeth Palace to the Church at Addiny,ton, in
Surrey, a distance of thirteen miles, three miles to the left
of Croydon. The procession to move at seven o'clock in
the morning precisely.
Four porters on horseback, i❑ silk dresses.

Page I A porter, bearing a plume of ostrich feathers Page

THE HEARSE.
I Containing the Body, drawn by six
black horses, the hearse on either aide
Pages. decorated with escutcheons of the fa-
I
) roily anns,and at the tail the crest and
mitre.
Mourning coach and six, containing.
Pages. Dr. Bayley, Rev. Mr. Lonsdale, Rev.
Mr. Vaux, and C. Hodgson; Esq.
I Mourning coach and six, containiug.
i Pages. some of the Household of the Noble
b deceased, Messrs. Proctor, Cocking,
Lane, and Key. J
The following gentlemen will meet the procession at the
Church, and officiate as Chief Mourners :
The Speaker, Lord Manners, the Bishop of Catliale, and
the Rev. Archdeacon Croft.
carriages of
The procession will proceed up Church-street, Lambeth,
tu Croydon ; then
along Walcot-place, to the Horns at Kennington, then to
the right, through Brixton, Streatham,
fidneisplo'esdited in the ease on Men-
to the left to its resting place.
the relatives The
Messrs. Bywater and Goodhurne yesterday proceeded to
Addington to make the necessary arrangements. mis
processaniodnfrtiveinldl
~boefbtrhoeugxhotb
juepdebceyatseh,ei.
Grace, at the commencement of the year, ordered the
vault to be erected. It jo of a square form, and rather
day morning next.
small,T landeadne no not
cyoeffit properlyii tt -t ll b e

Pages.

Pages.

Page!.

A poor woman named GROVES, an inha-
iitant of Blackinore, was en Friday last safely delivered of
wo boys' and a girl, all alive and likely to do well.
Essex Herald.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ,--.Yesterdry Croup:re",
the proprietor of the well-known metropolitan hell iu St.
James's-street, generally called " Fiehmongers'-hall," came
before Sir GEORGE FAREANT, the sitting Magistrate, in
obedience to a notice served upon him to that effect, tirel# r
a Bench warrant, issued against him on a bill of indict-
ment, found by the Grand Jury, on an information charg-
ing him with keeping a common gaming-house, and en-
tered into sureties for his appearance in the Court of King's
Bench to meet the trial of the said indictment. The sure-
ties required were, himself in iioo/., and two ether per-
sons in 2,50/.• each ; and those who joined him in the re-
cognizances on.this occasion were a Mr. Guy, who called
himself a farmer in Suffolk, and a Mr. Page, who desig-
nated himself a gentleman in Jermyn-street, St. James's.
Immediately after this " Fishmongers'-hall" caw was
disposed of, there came on to be heard the case of Mary
-4'4f/iv, a fisliwoman, who was charged with catching,
not Hats,
it nearly ,iuttin-
g
but sharps,--that is, catching up a keile and with
off the nose of another of her oivn sex, also
in the fish line.
It appeared by the evidence of the complainant, whtfr
presented a hideous aspect, as well as that of several
PPetted to- witness the transaction, that some
war
rnrss whoaltte harcat
leaving arisen between the parties de to
the difficult) of Catching flat lisp at present, and the
city of that species nosy in the London -market, the priso-
ner, who just then chanted to be performing, in the way
of he eels,er
ti'e
at the very' humane operation of skimming
the knife, which she used CII
the occasion,
Plairnints which falling obliquely
on the nose of the latter, nearlY.aevered that organ from its
rsr profession,
o nti blowe
oin with
gore. owner with a Hood of
poslittistin emeend:hheoflavcee:era,ntdhactovtehreedbliot:,
accordin,4,
to the evi-
dence of some ganders by, was not premeditated, but given
on the instant, in the heat of passion, and that the knilf!
was not seized with a view to striking the complainant with
it ; and under these circumstances, the magistrate only
deemed it necessary to hold the prisoner to bail, to answer
for the aggravated ossault at the sessions.; but not being
able to procure • sureties for her appearance, she was
locketur. • • ..

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Sir GEORGE I'm:Amyl., addressing the Frenchman,
said—Well, what have you got to say against the de-
feridant—has he been striking you ? Complainant—
No, mail he try all he can, but he can do noting
wid me. Ino bring hint here—l no charge him—
mail' he charge me, so we go kits deux to de wash
house ; but de best ting is, van ve get dere, de connetobte
be keep him and let me go.
Sir. GEORGE to the defendant—Well, what do you say'
Ito this? Defendant—Why, I have been speaking with
one of my friends in de shtreet when din man come up.—
I know him not at all, but my friend say, here is one oder
foreigner, you can talk togeder. Den I epsak German to
him, but he speak only French—l no speak French.
Sir GEORGE—Why; then you could not get on et ali,
Defendant—No, but he shtick his ombrella on de iron
sbpike, to take a pinch of shnoff, I suppose. De ombreThs
he fall down de area; den he shpeak English and say, he
shall have goot mind to knock one down after it. I say vet
yell, so we begin ; but de wash come and take bosh to de
'washhouse. Den he say he live just by nine year. 1 say
I live uext door five year. So he have four year de best,
and dims night man let him go.
Sir GEORGE FARRANT..-Well, I think you had better
go out and try if )ou can talk together any better now.
Complainant—Oh ! I shall make him go to get ma parapluie
and my hat, and two handkerchief up stairs from de are'.
Sir Gronar —I think you had better go with }inn
because, you know, he may forget to bring them to you.
Complainant—Yes, mobs I shall take ver good care L'ot to
forget to go for dens. The parties then left the office.
HATTON-GARDEN.—A stripling, 16 or 18 years at
age, of the name of Samuel Osborne, was charged be-
fore the sitting magistrate, Mr. ROGERS, with an indecent
assult upon his mistress, Sarah Denyard, who keeps a green
grocer's shop at No. 5, Speldlitirst-street, Burton-crescent,
The complainant stated that her husband not having
been at home the previous night, she got up early that
morning, and went to the defendant's bed-room to call him
up to open the shop, and having done so, she withdrew,
and again laid herself down to sleep. As it was necessary
for the defendant to pass through the hack parlour where
she slept into the shop, he in a few minutes presented him-
self there, but in a very indecent manner, his person being
exposed, and approached her bed, into which he attempted
to throw himself, but she resiked him, and used every
effort to keep him off, till at length ,he seized hold of her,
intending to effect his purpose by main force, and during
the struggle succeeded in imprinting several kisses upon
her face and neck, thinking to seduce her into that com-
pliance which no violence of his could force her to. She
having now finally got the better of him, he withdrew to
attend his usual business, and no further notice was taken
of the matter till her husband came home in the afternoon,
upon with the complainant disclosed to!hitn the whole of
the circumstances; and a constable having been sent for,
Osborne was given in charge, and taken to Lancaster-street
watch-house.

The defendant denied the charge, flinging back the
odium of it upon his mistress, who, he insisted, had solicited
him to an intercourse with her.

The evidence of the complainant, however, was too
strong and circumstantial to leave a doubt upon the mind
of the magistrate as to the truth of the charge, and he ac-
cordingly ordered the defendant to be locked up, and give
24. hours' notice of bail.

George Atfield was charged by James Tringham, a
wine-cooper, residing at No. S, Vineyard-gardens, Clerken-
well, with an assault. . .

Tthat on Wednesday last, when
returning complainantinghotne he perceivedudi a great number of pertms
collected around his house, and rushing in among them to
know what had occasioned it, he was unexpectedly struck
twice by the defendant, a man whom he bad never but
once in his life seen before, and whose conduct on that ac-
count appeared to him the more extraordinary, as there
could have been no grounds of difference between them.
The defendant, in a very impassioned manner, which
obliged the Magistrates frequently to interrupt him, said
that a son of his, together with his wife and two children,
lodged in Tringham's house, and it was reported that he
(Tringhana) had several times been intimate with her, the
consequence of which was that her husband 'had become
jealous, and suffering The matter to prey heavily upon his
mind, it reduced him to a very low state, and actually
drove him mad. Upon the day in question he (the de-
fendant) west to Tringham's house, accompanied by a con-
stable, to bring his son away, and either procure medical
assistance for him, or place him in some asylum, when he
met the complainant, and attempted—for that be would
not deny—to strike him, he being the cause of his son's
disorder, but was prevented from doing so.
the defendanttness 14%.vaass herefi n edpirnMtre
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The son's wile was present at the hearing of the charge,
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and left the office with the complainant.

MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday two young women, who,
being without caps, and having their hair loose about their
shoulders, looked more like St. Giles's prostitutes than
servant maids, were brought before Mr. HOSKINS, to answer
the complaint of their master, Mr. William Wilson Sleigh,
of No. 25, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
It appeared they held the situations of cook and house-
maid in his fitmily, and on Thursday night they got drunk,
and were so abusive and riotous, that he was obliged to
send them to the watch-house.
The prisoners were unable to contradict Mr. Sleigh's
statement, and Mr. HOSKINS ordered the gaoler to detain
them.

siNaULATt CIRCUMSTANCE—A short time
since, se a boY, in the employ of Mt. STUBBING, at New-
ton Garth, near lied", wtim cutting thistle.; in a field some
distance from the house, he found a swarm of bees which
had slighted on a thistle. This he immediately cut up,
And having thrown it across his shoulder, he carried the
a hive.--hull Packet.
whole colony home, and succeeded in depositing it save in

A-
- t\l IMPItOVEd STEAM COACH.--•A new
steam-coach has been made at Edinburgh by Messrs. J.
and G. IslAvsntrit, the suns of the eminent landscape
painter. The Scotsman, speaking of their invention,
"Y"--" Their steam-coach is now finished so far as regards
the machinery, and we had the pleasure of inspecting it a
ic
fconstruction of the boiler, every chance of explosion is
(:ei ‘ days
pvl e as ergo,
always
i s fo7gine los
comotive o
nt
rie
-leh hi
cilg pressure P
e h t
frontr it
1
more effectually guarded against than in most of those
which are called low pressure engines. The furnace is a
cube of about 30 inches, with two chimmes ; the boilers,
four in number, are placed within it. They consist of iron
lylinders,ia,,b,stin.
about nine inches in diameter, and are placed in
a. verticalThere are two steam cylinders of
about four inches diameter, with the cranks at right angle,.
The whole space occupied by the machinery, which is
about four feet and a. half long, three feet broad, and three
and a half feet deep, scarcely exceeds in size the ordinary
boot placed behind a stage-coach. The vehicle has four
wheels, and is steered by a person sitting in front. A
trial, we understand, is to be made of it in a few days."

MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

".7-,L'LIIER ASSIZES--NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
REDFORD, JULY 24.

John Eastaffe was indicted for the wilful minsder
of Janette Eastaffe, his wife, at Tilsworth,
grove Wood, near Dunstable, on the 14th of August,
1821, by making a felonious assault upon the said
Janette Eastaffe with a knife, and thereby giving let
a mortal wound upon the throat. The oisoner
pleaded not guilty.
This case strongly excited the public curiosity,
from the mysterious circumstances attending the
murder, and the lapse of time (now seven years)
since it had been committed. The prisoner is a
middle-aged man, of dark complexion, and a comae.
Hance haggard and sullen. In the dock his manner
was quiet and observant.
:Sergeant STORKS stated the case for the prsetotioti,
Charles Carter, examined by, Mrs Mat 'l3!'..—'Lives
at Leighton Buzzard, in the count? of Bedford.
Went to London and apprehenrkd the prisoner in
March last. Had a conversation with the pri-
soner as to whether he was a married man, and he
stated he had been marries:i at St. James's Church,
Piccadilly. That tt,e' marriage took place in July
IBsh girll9. That t'..rs wife's name was Jane Lynch,. an
ri
Witness searched the registry iit that.
ehure' s
Attu r s ounu a marriage entry to that effect.
eiot a true copy of the marriage entry, which he
examined with the original.--('lre copy of the entry
was here produced.)
Samuel Bunker, examined by Sergeant. STORKS
_Was in 1821 overseer of the parish of Tilawristh.
There is a place called Black-grove Wood in that
parish. It is a long narrow wood—the lower part
is about half a mile from Tilsworth village. The
wood lies between Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable.
'Witness was at Tilsworth in August, 1821. In
consequence of something he had heard he went to
Black-grove Wood, on the evening of the Isth of
August ; it was on a 'Wednesday, He saw a dead
body in the wood. Dunstable fair was held on the
preceding Monday. It was about a quarter of an
hour before sunset when a gamekeeper .nanied
Rickett, who was with him, found the body.' The
body was found at the bottom of the wood. He
observed, when he saw the body first; that the
bushes on the top of the gate had been knocked
aside. The body was that of a female. She lay
psi the standing wood with her face to the earth.
There was the mark of a blow on one cheek. It
was very much bruised. Isler throat was cut right
across. She was quite dead. Saw blood on the
ground in the riding, about a dozen yards from where
the body was. It must have been dragged into the
zganding wood by some person, as there was blood
in the riding.
Charles Fare—ls a surgeon at Dunstable ; recol-
lects the body of a female being found in August
1821, in Black-grove Wood. The wounds were
sailficient to cause death ; cannot say whether they
wereinflicted by herself or by another ; has seen
wounds inflicted by the persons themselves equally
extensive; does not think it would be possible for a
person who had inflicted such wounds on herself to
move from where the blood was, in the riding, to
where the body was found. It was not the body of
an unmarried woman.
Hannall Roome lives at Dunstable, and is a straw-
hmin'...-L-Maker, residing with her mother : was living
thete with her mother in 1821. Witness remem-
bers Dunstable fair was held on a Monday •in that
year ; recollects also the Sunday preceding: On that
Sunday an application was made to her fur lodgings.
It was about twelve o'clockait noon. Two persons
applied for the lodgings; they were a man and
woman. Witness was at the door, and the two
persons came down the road and made up to her at
the door. The man spoke first ; the woman was
then about four or five yards off. Witness did not
see the man again until she saw him at the Markets
house at Dunstable, in the present year. If she saw
the person again she could not know him so well as
to swear to him. Noticed what sort of man lie was.
Witness fainted away when she was before the
Magistrate arid asked as to the person of the man.
The person who appeared like the man who asked
for the lodgings was then within two yards of her.'.
There were about sixty persons in the room. Wit
ness was looking at one person in particular when
she fainted.—(Witness was here desired to look
round the Court and see if she could recognize the
person again. Witness turned round, and on looking
at the prisoner in the. dock turned deadly pale, and,
pointing to him with the expression of marked terror
en her countenance immediately fainted, and was
carried out of Court. The prisoner turned from her
psis with evident alarm.)
Thomas Rodwelb—Lived at Dunstable iu 1821.
The Dunstable fair on that day was held on Men-
day the 13th. Recollects being in a field of Mr.
Guttridge, on the Sunday before the fair-day, that
is but just out of the town of Dunstable; saw three
persons coming along the road ; there were two
men and one female. They were in conversation
with each other, and were rather jangling (wars:-
hng). Sees here to-day one of the two men. • He
is the prisoner at the bar. Their mariner induced
him to pay considerable attention to them. The
prisoner asked the woman whether " she would not
rather lie in a barn than in a bad bed."- This was
quite close to the town. The next day was Duns-
table fair. Witness was at his house on that day
(the Monday), between 10 and 11 o'clock in the
night. Saw two persons pass his
.heuse at that
time; they were a man and a woman. The woman
was the same he saw with the prisoner at the bar
on the Sunday, and the man who accompanied her
was the prisoner. The two persons went towards
the stile. The woman was not very tall ; she might
be about thirty years of age. Saw the body of the
woman that was found in Black-grove Wood on the
Sunday after. It was the body of the woman whom.
he had seen in the fair, and who passed by his house.
When the prisoner and woman got to the stile they
stopped. He wanted her to go over the stile, and
the woman was not willing. He swore she should.
She begged amid prayed not to go that way ; and he
swore if she did not, he would kill her. The Words he
said were, " me, if you don't go this way I'll
kill you." They at length went both over the stile.
'Witness saw them go about 10 poles along the path,
which was as far as he could see them.
By the JUDGE—Did not interfere when he heard
the prisoner threaten the woman, because he once
got into trouble for interfering
.between a man and
woman, arid resolved never to mterfereagain. Never
saw the prisoner from the time " the job was done"
until the prisoner was examined at Dunstable -
Hannah Roome, the young wornan,•who fainted,
was here re-called—Has seen the person within the
was looking at when she fainted before the Magis-
trate since she came into Court. Cannot Meetsr that
the prisoner at the bar was the man she hail seen
with the WOITLUI on the day in question, but, he is
more like that man than any other person she has
seen.—(Witness here again, on looking at.the pri-
soner, betrayed strong .feelings of agitation.)—The
prisoner is like that man as to. his hair-and Roman
nose. Saw the body of the Murdered woman in
Black-grove Wood, 'and .knew it to -be the body of
the woman who was in company with the man that
asked for lodgings on the day incitieSiion.."
David Pantling, jun.--Lives at „Egginton,, about
four miles from Dunstable. Was at the fair of Dun-
stable. Saw the prisoner at .the: fair. Saw the
body of the murdered woman found Black-grove
Wood. The prisoner was at the Black Horse when
he saw him at the fair. There was a woman With
him. Cannot swear that the body found The
wood was that of the woman who was with thepri:s
sorter at the Black Horse. Witness noticed that
the woman was of a dark complexion, and that she
wore a light gown spotted. She had low shoes and
white cotton stockings. She had a light beaver hat
or bonnet. Saw the woman with the prisoner twice
that day. Saw them the second time afterwards,
they were at the gate on the Hockliffe-road. The
man was on one side of the gate, and the woman on
the other. There is a path from the field, into
which the gate opens that leads to 'Black-grove.
Tile woman was standing on the road-side of the ,

gate. When Ire saw the tiri3biler4t tie gate, he had
a little bundle nOer hi) arm. ( Witness was here
desired tO Igo C Mond, and he identified the
soder tlte man whom he had seen At FitiestiOn.)
the dead body of the first on the Fri-
day. If it Was the ettltie weinan he saw livith the
prisoner, she had not the same geoWii on. If it was
tlr came woman, her features were straiigely altered.
The stockings seemed CO be 'cleaner thali those worn
by the when bnestabte:
%Main It:Witt, examined by Mr. MALTBY—
at Stanbridge in 1821. It is about a mile
!tom Tilsworth. Was at the Dunstable fair that
year. 'I he fair was on Monday, the 13th. Oh-
'served a man and woman et the 'Allite kart on that
day. The last ttint he saw them it was pretty nigh
!-:jektn ti'etol/41 At night. They were in the passage.
Ike Were talking to each other. They appeared
to be wrangling. The woman had a light small
printed gown on. She had a light brown beaver
hat on. Afterwards saw the body of the murdered
woman. The body of the murdered woman was
that of the woman he had seen at Dunstable.
,Charlotte Church—Was living in London in
1820. Lived at Lisson-grove in 1819 and 1820.
Was then acquainted with the prisoner at the bar.
Recollects the prisoner at the latter end of 1819, or
the beginning of 1820, coming to call on her at
Lisson-grove. There was a female with him. Pri-
soner told her she was his wife. Witness knew the
prisoner from a child. Saw his wife twice, but can-
not say she saw much of her. Thinks-the prisoner told
her she was an Irishwoman, but is not certain. They
did not talk much, but he behaved very friendly to
her. Did not hear him address her by any name.
,When he spoke to her he said, " my mistress."
heard him address her in no other way. The hair
of the woman whom he called his wife was rather
dark. Believes she had false hair. Thinks the false
hair was rather lighter than the other. Thinks her
eves were hazel. Her cheek bones were, to the best
of her knowledge, rather high. Thinks she was
from twenty to twenty-three years of age. When
the wife came a second time to the house of witness
the prisoner was there, having just called in to see
witness. Never saw the wife after that time. It
Was, to the hest of her knowledge, almost nine years
ago. Did not see the prisoner at the bar after that
for two years. When she saw the prisoner at the
bar at that time, she asked him "how his wife did?"
and he said she was dead! The prisoner never told
witness where his wife was buried. Heard the pri-
soner say that he is not married now. Knows a
woman of the name of Emerton. Has known her
for years. Knew Emerton living as the wife of a
person named Henry Burrell. He is dead. Has
seen the prisoner and Emerton keeping company to-
gether for three or four years.
This witness, when first placed in the witness-
box, appeared to be in a convulsive state of agita-
tion. Her countenance was rather pretty, and she
gave her testimony with evident reluctance.
John Morgan, examined•by Mr. M.turnv—Ws
living at Leighton Buzzard, where he is a house-
holder, in 1821. Recollects the murder at Black-
grove Wood. Leighton is about four miles and a half
From the wood. Recollects the-prisoner coming to
his house either in the latter end of 1821, or the be-
ginning of 1822. The prisoner came in the evening
into the shop of witness to see a person named Ri-
chardson, and sat down in a chair. He appeared
uneasy in his mind. He laid his head upon his arm,
and said he had been married to an Irishwoman in
London, and that they lived very uncomfortably to-
gether. lie said there was jealousy between them
—that he was jealous of some other man, or some-
thing of that sort, and that she had put him in a
place of confinement. That he was in prison about
a month, but she did not appear against him and he
got out. 'He said he came down into the hay coun-
try, that he heard she was ill, and 'about a month
after that .he received a letter stating that she was
dead. • He said a deal more that witness could not
recollect. He said that the letter stated his wife
was buried at Chelsea. • He said there was a young
man in Dunstable who knew the same as was said
in the letter, and that letter, says the prisoner, Ri-
chardson, show to you.' After this Richard-
son went up stairs, and something occurred. about
the murder. •The prisoeer said be was reaping for
Smith in Statibuey s field on the day the body was
found, to the best of witness's recollection. Wit-
ness asked him.. whether he had gone to see the
body that was found, and he said, No, 1 did'nt like
to go and see it. He added that' he was not afraid

to go into Black-grove Wood, for he had beer there
nutting with .a man named Rigby. He went away
after that from the house of witness, along with Ri-
chardson;, they said they were going to chapel at
Headon Reach.

Cross-examined—;—The talk of the murder came
up in conversation, witness having happened to
mention it. Witness saw prisoner a few days after
the murder at Leighton. The conversation took
place the winter following. Never saw the prisoner
at his house after thartime. The prisoner bore hs
good a character as other persons in his situation of
life.

John Richardson corroborated the evidence of
this last witness.
Richard Church—Lived at Leighton Buzzard in
1821. Knew fripi the prisoner at the bar, before
the murder, that he was a married man. Has had
conversation with witness respecting his wife. He
often said, if hiS wife was dead, he would give
witness a pot of beer or two. He said his wife

and he could not live happy together. It wets
said in the year that the murder was committed.—
_.

'Recollects the prisoner coming to witness after the
murder, about latter end of November. Witness

was 'digging in the garden, and witness came to
him, and said he had received a letter stating that
his wife was dead ; and he added, you can't hinder
me from marrying now ; you did hinder me once
before. Knows a girl named Harris living at
Headon Reach. Never saw the prisoner in her com-
pany. When prisoner told him of his wife's death,
he said he would treat witness with a pot of ale if
he would go and have it; and he said he treated
him because his wife was dead.

Cross:-examined--4-las known the prisoner ever
since he was born, arid he always bore a good cha-
racter. Believed him to be of a humane disposition.

William Webster—Remembers the time of the
murder. Knows the prisoner. Saw him at his
house before the murder. Witness asked hint, after
he had been *there about an hour, John, have you
got married ? He said, yes, I have, and I wish
the devil had my wife. Witness said, volt are
joking. He answered, can you tell me how to get
rid of her ? Witness observed, John, I am sorry
to hear this. The prisoner said, I can't be happy,
for when I am absent my wife goes with other men.
Witne,s said, John, is it so ? He replied, yes, it
I have got another girl in my eye.that I could
have. • Witness asked, who is it ? He said,• it is
Harris's daughter, of •Headon Reach ; she is troubled
with fits, but, perhaps, if she had a child or two,
here fits might leave her. Witness said, I would
advise you to put a halter about your wife's neck,
and sell her at Smithfield. Prisoner asked him,
• will the law stand good ? Witness answered, it
Prisoner then said, when
has stood (rood for many.
I go back try.
Wm. Harte—Lived at Leighton Buzzard in 18-)1.
Recollects the discovery of the murder. The pri-
soner worked with witness on the March before.
Witness is a shoemaker, and prisoner worked in the
garden up to the latter end of June. In the begin-
ning of June he told witness he was going to Lon_
don. At the end of June.he returned to work, and
gathered the peas in the garden of the witness. Ile
said he had seen his wife in London, and she was
suffering under disease; that she was in distress,
and said she would come down to his parish in the
country. And prisoner said, " if she did come down
among his friends, he would be very apt to knock
her on the head."
Jane Smith—Lives in South-place, Somers•town,
London. The priioner lodged at her house some
years ago, but can't recollect the year. Remembers
the Coronation, and thinks the prisoner lodged with
her at the time." He had a bed in her house. Told

her he was mvtitd to an Irish girl; that " she was
as fi, gitl as ever stood in two shoes ;" but she
%,s so acquainted with the soldiers at Knightsbridge,
that he could not live with her. Witness used to
be very much disturbed by his hallooing out at night
about his wife, and thought it was in consequence
dl' their ndt living comfortably together. Witness
asked him often to bring his wife to her house, but
he never did. lie told her she was about her (the
witness's) height.
It being now seven o'clock in the evening, the
trial having -lasted from nine in the morning, and
there being several witnesses to call on the part of
the prosecution, the Learned JUDGE considered it
impossible that the trial could be concluded to-night;
and, lest 'excessive fatigue might render the Jury
incompetent to the satisfactory discharge of their
duty on so solemn an occasion, his Lordship ad-
journed the Court until nine o'clock to=morrow
morning; and a bailiff was sworn to take charge of
the Jury in the mean time.

SECOND DAY.—Jura 25.

Mr. Justice HOLROYD came into Court at nine
o'clock. The prisoner was placed at the bar, and
the trial proceeded.
Charles Carter recalled—l saw the body of the
woman at the public-house, and I wrote on paper a
description of the deceased. .1 have the paper.—
( Witness read it.)—" On Wednesday, 15th of
August, 1821, between the hours of seven and
eight o'clock in the evening, a female was found in
Black Grove Wood, near Tilsworth, with her throat
cut, and answering the following description :
Small in stature, dark brown hair, but wearing false
curls of a much paler colour ; hazel-coloured eyes,
her teeth large, bad-coloured, and pointing rather
outwards"; she had a small hand ; on her right, the
first joint of her little finger was crooked and en-
larged ; she had remarkably small feet, high insteps,
and her toes pointing a good deal inwards. From
her general appearance, supposed to be about thirty-
two years of age, and was dressed as follows :
Black velvet low shoes; cotton gown, small pattern
of three colours, lilac, blue, and red ; white petti-
coat, and cotton stockings ; her bonnet, cap, and
shawl were taken away, which it -is supposed she
wore at the time of her unhappy fate." Witness
continued :—ln March last I saw the prisoner at No.
50, George-street, Battle-bridge; he was living
with a female who passed as his wife, but I did not
see her ; I bad a conversation with the prisoner con-
cerning his first wife ; he first told me that she was
dead, and buried at Knightsbridge ; I wrote down
what the prisoner said, and he told me if I would
burn the paper, he would then tell me the real
truth : he told me afterwards that he did not live
with his former wife above three months, and they
separated : he said his former wife was named Jane
-Lynch ; he said that he thought he had seen his
wife about four years ago, and be had been told that
she had got married; I told him that if he would
tell me where his relations were, and I could find
out the truth of his statement, I would get him set
at liberty again ; I asked the prisoner if he was at
Dunstable Fair in 1821, and he said he was not
there ; I asked him if he had any relief of the parish
of Leighton in 1821, and he said he had not, for he
had plenty of work; he told me that he had married
his former wife at the parish church of St. James's,
Piccadilly, and told me to inquire of Mr. Lynch, at
Knightsbridge; he also gave other addresses where
I made application. T asked the prisoner where he
was at the time of the murder at. Black Grove
Wood, and he said he was reaping wheat that day
for his brother Smith, at Gig Hill; Gig Hill is a
short distance froth Leighton, and live miles from
Black Grove Wood.
By the JUDGE—I was not present when the
mother of . the prisoner's wife- was examined at
Hatton-garden.
, -
Elizabeth Morecroft—ln .1821 I lived at Leighton,
and knew the prisoner;' I -recollect the murder at
Black Grove Wood; the prisoner lodged at our
house before' the murder; heard him say he had a
wife; this was about March, 1821 ; he told me that
he should go and see his wife in London, Ivlio was
not very.well he told me that he did got like hi;
wife, and he said one day, " if a man did not like
his wife he had X right to put her away ;", he was
reading a passage in the Scripture at the time, and
had a Bible or Testament in his hand at the time;
I understood his observation was, that a man had a
right to put away his wife if she committed adultery.
Cross-examined—He was a mild well-disposed
man; I do not recollect how long he remained at
Leighton after the murder, but it was .a very little
while.

James Cosby—l remember the Spring of 1821;
I saw the prisoner about Lady-day that year ;he was
on the road to London, and told me that-he was go-
ing there; we were talking on the road,together; we
had been on very friendly terms, in fact, companions;
as we were going along, I said, " John, how could
you come for to go for to think to have another wife,
iF they found you out they would transport you?".—
The prisoner said, " why, she is a bad one, and how
to get rid of her I don't know, but have heard say
the lawyers in London would do any thing for four
or five pounds, and I would get her divorced away if
I could, for live with her I can't, and, how to get rid
of her I don't know."

Cross-examined—The prisoner bore a goo
character, no man abetter, and was mild and humane,

Mr. David Lee Willis—l am a solicitor at Leigh-
ton Buzzard; I have searched the burial registers of
the parish church of Knightsbridge and Chelsea,
from January 1821 to January 1826, inclusive, and
the names of Janet Lynch or Eastaffe, were not in
the register.
John Durham.—lti 1821 I was high constable of
Manshead, which includes Black Grove Wood, and
Tilsworth ; I recollect the murder ; an inquest was
held on the body at Tilsworth ; the clothes which
the body had on were put into my custody; and I
have kept them ever since. I produce a gown,
petticoat, shoes, and handkerchief. The gown is
not in the same state as when taken from the body,
small pieces were cut off by me, and persons were
sent to different places to try to ascertain where it
,was purchased. The shoes are of black cotton
velvet.

Cross examined—On the handkerchief which I
produce, which was found round the deceased's

Week, are the initials T. S. No. 1.

There were no

marks on the rest of the clothes. The clothes are

those-of a pretty well dressed persongood of their
kind, and not the "dress of a person in extreme
poverty nor wealth. They are not the dress of a lady.
Hannah Itoome recalled (looked at the gown mid
shoes)=l•notieed the gown and shoes of the woman
who came to my house in. company with the prisoner,
on the Sunday morning; I remarked that, her shoes
were black velvet ; I noticed particularly the gown ;
I believed this to be the gown, from -the pattern,
the bottom, and the make of it; I noticed the' make
of the gown particularly •that Morning observed
the woman's featureg; she had high cheek bones;
her mouth projected; and her teeth rather stood out ;
I noticed hlrr hair; she bad'a false curl in front of a
brown colour ;, her. hair was darker Iliad the false

curls,;. saw the falsecurls that were en the corpse,
and they were the same she wore when she came
to my house with the prisoner.
William Tewitt recalled—l observed the dress of
.the female that I saw with. the prisoner at Dunstable

Pair, in 1821. The grown produced is exactly of
.he same pattern which she wore.
Mr. Sergeat STORKES—That is my case, my Lord.
Mr. Justice HOLROYD said, it was to be regretted
:hat the mother of Janet Lynch, who had been ex-

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unlined in London, and had_ given very important
evidence, had not been produced as a witness on the
trial. There did not appear to be satisfactory evi-
dence that the woman found murdered in the wood
was the daughter of Mrs. Downing, otherwise Lynch.
Et had been laid down in two very memorable cases
by Lord Hale, that in case of murder, it was indis-
pensible that there should be a body found, and also
that the body should be identified to he the indivi-
dual mentioned in the indictment. Had the mother
been brought forward, she could have given better
evidence than had been elicited by the other wit-
nesses as to the identity of the female. If Janet

Lynch should be stilt alive, and should, after the
conviction and execution of the prisoner, appear,
what a dreadful condition would he and.the Jury be
placed in. The female found in the wood might
have been robbed of her bonnet and shawl, and
murdered.

Mr. Sergeant STORKEs thought there was preg-
nant evidence to go to the Jury, sheaving that the
female murdered in the wood was the wife of the
prisoner, and that he murdered her. The descrip-
tion of the person of Janet Lynch corresponded with
the female found murdered. There was evidence
given of an admission the prisoner made, that his
wife was coming from London, and that he should
be ready to kill her if she did. There certainly was
• no evidence how she came down to Dunstable : but
there was evidence of the prisoner having intro-
duced the woman as his wife, arid that he asked for
lodging for himself and her. There was no motive
for the prisoner murdering any other woman ; but
there Wilt an apparent motive for his murdering his
wife, if the witnesses were to be believed, who had
spoken to threats the prisoner had used towards her.
[Mr. Sergeant Storkes was interrupted in his address
to the Court by a most extraordinary piece of evi-
dence. Mr. llawkin, a solicitor, was examining the
shoes of the deceased, which the last witness had
produced, and he found the initials " I. E." in

both shoes on the lining.]
The Learned Sergeant informed his Lordship of
this discovery, and proposed to give evidence of it.
Mr. KELLY objected to it, as the case had been
closed ; but his Lordship said it was admissible.
Mr. Durham re-called—l have had possession of
the shoes and dress produced, ever since the mur•
der, sealed up, and they are now precisely in the
same state ; I did not examine the inside of the
shoes at the Coroner's Inquest, nor• have I noticed
till the present moment the initials inside ; I see the
initials are " I. h." on the lining of both shoes.—
[His Lordship and the Jury examined the shoes,
and the marks were quite plain.]
Mr. KELLY contended, that there was not legal
evidence of the identity of the deceased, and it was
quite consistent with all the evidence given on the
prosecution, that Jane, or Janet Eastaffe was still

alive. He contended that the best evidence of the
identity of the woman ought to have been given by
the prosecutors; and if they had called the mother,
she could have stated if her daughter had a crooked
finger and a protruding mouth like the deceased,
and that evidence would have put the question of
identity beyond all doubt. He also objected to the
misdescription of the deceased in the indictment ;
she was described as Janet Eastaffo, whereas the
evidence given proved that she was called June.
Mr. Sergeant STORKES replied, still urging that
there was sufficient evidence of the identity of the
deceased to go to a Jury.
Mr. Justice HOLROYD said, that he would reserve
the point taken by Mr. Kelly, as to the misdescrip-
tion of the deceased, and send the case to the Jury,
and if a conviction took place, Mr. Kelly might af-
terwards move to quash the indictment on the ground
of misdeseription.