The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-18 00:00:00

Daniel Reading, labourer, aged 31, was
dieted for ti►e wilful murder of John Dwyer, by
inflicting divers deadly and mortal wounds upon his
body at Deptford, on the 14th June last, of
wounds he languished and died on the 25th June
at Brentford, in the county of Middlesex.—Verdict,
Not Guilty.

appeared that, the day before she was found dead in
his stable, a person of the mime of Haunt,ll saw the
prisoner standing in the road by the houSe of the
prosecutor; the pig came out of her owner's yard,
and as soon as she got into the road the prisoner was
observed to throw something More her of the size
of an egg, wrapped in a piece of skin or bladder,
.which the pig immediately snapped up and swal-
lowed. She was seen quite well on that evening,
and on the following morning (probably the bladder
or skin which enclosed the poison had not then begun
to decompose), at eleven o'clock she was discovered
dead, and in the state he had described. Some time
afterwards, the prisoner, being taken up applied to
one ILdl, and offered him 50s. to swear that his
(Hall's) horse had kicked the pig, and that she had
died of that kick. This, of course, the man refused
to do, and the prisoner requested him to tell nobody
of his application,—a request which the man did
not accede to, as be on the next day told the cir-
cumstance to the wife of the prosecutor. This was
the general outline of this singular ease ; be bad
stated the facts simply and impartially, and, without
comment, he would leave the Jury to draw their own
cln..clusion from them.
Twalairers gave the a goad character
for honesty, and said they had known pigs who died
of the gorget turn black.
The CHAIRMAN then carefully and most impar-
tially recapitulated the evidence, and the Jury, after
ten minutes' deliberation,• found the prisoner Not
Guilty.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

At the Court at St. James's, the IGth day of July, 1829,

PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act, passed in the sixth year of his
present Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to regulate the
trade of the British possessions abroad," it is, amongst other
things, enacted, that certain ports, therein particularly
mentioned, in the Nand of Jamaica, and in the pro-
vinces of Nova Scotia, Canada, and New Brunswick, and
in the island of Birbadoes, shall be free warehousing ports
for the purposes of the said Act ; and it is further enacted,
that it shall be lawful for his Majesty in Council, from
time to time, to appoint any port in his Majesty's posses
sinus in America to be a free warehousing port for the
purposes of the said Act ; and that every such port,. so
appointed by his Majesty, shall be a free warehousing port
under the said Act, as if appointed by the same, in as full
and ample a manner in all respects as any of the ports
thereinbefore mentioned are free warehousing ports ap-
pointed by the said Act.
And whereas his Majesty doth deem it expedient, that
the port of St. John's, in the island of Newfoundland,
should be appointed a free warehousing port, for the pur-
poses of the said Act, his Majesty (loth th;refore, by and
with the advice of his Privy Council, and in pursuance and
exercise of the powers in him vested in and by the said Act
of Parliament, order and appoint, that the said port of St.
John's, in the island of Newfuundland, shall be a free ware-
housing port for the purposes of the said Act.
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his
Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Hon. Sir G. Murray,
one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to
,give the necessary directions herein as to them may re-
spectively appertain. C. C. GREVILLE.