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London, England, 1827-09-12 00:00:00

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, SETT. 8.
William '.ihornell was indicted for poisoning
Thomas Aspen, at Manchester, on the 9th of July,
and Francis O'Neal was charged with aiding him.
Mr. Aspen, the deceased, lived at Blackburn, a
distance of 24 miles from Manchester; but being a
man of strange religious opinions, and fancying that
he had a call for that purpose, he sometimes tra-
velled about the country, preaching the doctrines of
Johanna Southcote. He was altogether a man of
.strange habits, and suffered his beard to grow an
amazing length. His peculiarities procured him the
nick-name of " Johanna." It was upon an excur-
sion to Manchester that he met the prisoners at a
public-house ; he had a bundle in his arms, and some
silver in his pocket. It has of late years become the
practice of evil-disposed persons to get into the com-
pany of those whom they regard as proper subjects
of their designs, and to mix laudanum in their
drink, in order that they might become stupified,
and unable to protect their property. It was with
this view, probably, that the present offence had been
committed ; but if proved, it would be clearly mur-
der. The Learned Counsel then stated the circum-
stances of the case.

Humphrey Gordon.—l went into the Windsor-
Castle public-house, Manchester, at four o'clock in
the afternoon of the 9th of July, and saw a man
with a long beard, the two prisoners, and another
man and a woman, whose names I do not know.
After I had drank some ale I said I was going to
Salford. The man with the long beard said if I

would go with him he would treat me to a quart of
ale. I agreed to do so, and Johanna (witness
throughout his evidence called the old man Johanna)
and I went out together. He had a bundle and a
stick. The others followed us. When we came to

the Angel; I went away to take home the key of
my door. O'Neal had then on his own shoulders
Johanna's bundle and stick. When I returned, they

had gone down Salford, and I went after them, and
overtook Thornell and the other man. Thornell
told me that O'Neal, the woman, and Johanna were
gone into the Angel, and he asked me to go and
have a glass of beer at the Nelson. When we were
there, I heard Thornell say to the third man " I will
rob that Johanna, and leave him as dead as a stone."
I did not stay a minute after that, but left Thornell,
and went to the Angel and told the old man what
Thornell said. Johanna said he would have his
bundle and go, but O'Neal said he would carry it.
We all went out' and Thornell and the other man
came out of the Nelson, and met us. We then all
went to the Cotton Tree. We went into a parlour
On the left hand. The bar was at the front of the
house, close to the parlour. Two glasses of rum
and a pint of beer were called for. An old woman
brought in the beer, and Thornell, who had been
eut of the room, brought in a glass of rum. The
glass was as full as any body could hold it. He
drew a chair and asked Johanna to drink with him,
and fed him with it. Johanna drank the whole
glass. Thornell continuing to feed him with it,
but drinking none himself. Immediately after
he had drank it, he tried to throw up, but
could not. He (Johanna) then rose to go out,
but Thornell would not let him. I said he should
go out; but Thornell said, I'll be if we won't
have a song first." With much ado I got him out,
and followed him into the yard ; he there tried to
throw up, but could not ; I asked the landlord for
lodgings for him, but be said he had none, and I
said I would take him where he could have them.—
They all followed us, and took him from me. O'Neal
said, " thee, Bost thou want his money ?I' I
answered " No, I do not, and I'll take good care
you shall not have it." We went into the Moulder's
Arms, the two prisoners following, the woman and
the other man having gone away. We went into
the tap-room, and one of the prisoners called for a
pot of beer. I took the landlord aside, and gore him
some caution, and his son came and stood at the
door. I then went out for a minute, and when I
returned Thornell was there; but Johanna and
O'Neal were gone, and I never saw Johanna after-
wards. Johanna pulled out of his pocket eight or
ten shillings at the Windsor Castle.
John Owen, son of the landlord of the Moulder's
Arms—When the prisoners were there, they talked
together in a very low tone. When the old man
and O'Neal went out, I watched them near a mile,
and I saw Thornell join them, and the three went
into the White Lion. I then went for a beadle. I
saw O'Neal, at my father's house, hand to Thornell
a small phial, with something in it of the colour of
porter.
George Hull, a police officer, I went to the
White Lion, and found the two prisoners and the

John Robinson the elder, and Henry Nelson, for
wounding and killing a mare, and wounding other
horses, the property of George Green, were sen-
tenced to transportation for life.
Sentence of death was recorded against John
Kemp.

MONDAY, &UT.

This morning, at eight o'clock, William Robinson,
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posses-
sed of some little property. He was a widower
with four children when he entered into his second
marriage, and we understand his second wife was
possessed of an income of about 501. a-year. It ap-
pears that she was very much given to drink, at
which time she was in the habit of reproaching her
husband with what she had done for him, (meaning
the money she had brought him), which, she said,
was much more than his former wife had done for
him, only she had not brought four rotten chil-
dren into the world. This abuse of the children
of the unfortunate man, who are afflicted with the
king's evil, was urged by him in his defence on
his trial, and he also affirmed that his wife flew at
and kicked him several times on the legs. Mr. Jus-
tice Bayley, with his accustomed humanity, recalled
all the witnesses, and inquired particularly if the pri-
soner had mentioned the latter circumstance before,
or if any marks were seen on his legs, but from their
answer it appeared that no such complaints were
ever made, and that this was therefore an after-
thought to reduce the offence to the crime of man-
slaughter. Both the surgeons who gave their evi-
dence stated, that the bruises could not have been
effected by one blow, but were the result of many ;
that there were marks of pressure on the neck, and
that the blows and the strangulation were each suf-
ficient to produce death. So that it was evident
that the fatal result was not the effect of a sudden
blow struck in a momentary state of passion, but
was occasioned by repeated violence.. In passing
sentence, Mr. Justice Bayley adverted to the CQP'
duct of the wife, which he admitted was very
blameable.

From the time of his apprehension, we under-
stand that the prisoner felt convinced of his fate.
He kept himself aloof from the other prisoners, and
was very attentive to his religious duties, in which
he had the benefit of the kind and zealous attention
of the Rev. Mr. Rowley, the chaplain of Lancaster
Castle.

IDE LING V. DRIIISHAW AND OTIIIII6.

This is an indictment by the corporation of Liver-
pool, as conservators of the navigation of the river
Mersey, against the Mersey and Irwell Navigation
Company.

The case of the prosecution is led 1,7 Mr.
BROUGHAM. The Attorney-General, Sir JesrEs
SCARLETT, (who comes down special,) with, We
believe,
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er counsel,
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interest.c t the, defendant's
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corn-
plaint is, that the defendants have diverted so much
water from the Mersey, that when the tide ebbs
there is a diminution of its power to clear away the
sand and gravel which the land streams bring into
the Mersey.
Mr. BROUQUAM had just finished his opening
speech when our despatch was lent off.

THE FLY BlRD.—This little bird, scarcely
the size of a humble bee, builds its nest in the
hollow of a leaf; choosing the calmest weather
for the undertaking, it pierces the edge of the
leaf with its pointed bill, and inserting a long fine
withered' grass thread, laces the extremities toge-
ther. Within this small space it constructs its
domicile, to which it descends through a small
round hole near the stem. Its eggs are not
larger than those of the ant. Outwardly the
nest appears like a little bag of fine cotton, em-
broidered at the top with a very lovely foliage.

pearanee is beyond the scope
ELOPEMENT.—Deserted from me, Daniel
years, aefear has On few
days
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consorted with me, and has
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to be my wife. The
of my divining. She was always kind to me
while we lived together, and I was occasionally
good to her.
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She is a middling sized woman,
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hair,
No apprehensive difficulty ever oc-
curred between us until the late catastrophe.—
American Paper.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCK PAPERS.

(Prom the Gazette de France, dated Monday, Sept. 10.)
PARIS, SEPT.' 9.—His Majesty's ships Trident,
Breslau, and Provence, sailed on the Isth of August
from Algiers for Milo. The Scipio, destined for
the same place, was on the 19th of August between
Sicily and Melta. The French squadron was to be
at Milo on the 25th of August at the latest. The
English squadron was already in those seas. The
Russian squadron has been seen passing the Strait.
We may calculate that the naval forces of the three
Powers would be assembled and ready to act in the
Levant at the 'beginning of this month.
We already know that an intimation has been
made to the Pacha of Egypt, that they would not
suffer any more reinforcements to pass which he may
wish to send to Greece; and that Russia, on its
side, had signified to the Porte, that the least thing
that should happen to .the Ambassadors or subjects
of the three Powers at Constantinople, would be
the signal for the entrance of the Russian army into
the Ottoman territory. A Russian fleet is before
the Bosphorus in the Black Sea.
MADRID, SEPT. I.—The Council of State has
terminated its deliberations on the general budget of
the kingdom, after having recognized the impossibi-
lity of reducing the expenditure to a level with the
receipts, which the Minister of Finance declared he
could not raise to a greater sum than 450,000,000
of reels per annum.
The Council has proposed to the King, in a con-
sultation held yesterday, to leave to each of the Mi-
nisters the care of making all possible reductions and
I,avings in his department.
Major-General Monet, who commanded the mi-
litary line of Old Castile, on the frontiers of Portugal,
has just been appointed General-in-Chief of the
forces sent against the rebels. He arrived yesterday
at Madrid, from 'Zamora, after passing some hours at
St. Ildefonso.

The number of the insurgents continues to in-
crease in Catalonia.. The Royalist volunteers and
the former officers of the Army of the Faith come
from all quarters to increase their numbers. Among
the latter are several who were pardoned inlay
last, after taking part of the first troubles. Eight of
their chiefs, it is said, already wear the distinctive
badges of General Officers.
The Guerillas become more numerous about
Girona, Valencia, and even Figueras.
In the kingdom of Valencia a band of malefactors
appeared at the Chartreuse of Portaceli, and exacted
provisions, and a contribution in money. There is
no indication that this band has any political object,
though it has already appeared at several places.—
The whole country, however, is in a state of fer-
mentation.
The authorities of Galicia have received fnom the
Provisional Governor of the Council of Castile no-
tice, that the revolutionists assembled at Lisbon and
Gibraltar, to the number of 370, intended to attempt
an expedition on the coast of Cantabria ; that they
would embark on board six Colombian cruisers,
which would show as occasion required, with either
French or English colours. In consequence, mea-
sures of precaution had been taken at Corunna, and
al: along the coast of Galicia. It seems that similar
notice had been sent to Catalonia, In general but
little credit is given to this plan of invasion.
Some robberies by armed men have been com-
mitted within these few days in the environs of St.
Ildefonso.

(From the Conetitutionnel.)
CEPHALONIA, AUG. 9.—The number of Turkish
vessels which are stationed on the western side of
the Peloponnesus, including those of Egypt, amounts
to 27, all vessels of war; but the captains who com-
mand them, and who are almost all Europeans, can-
not prevail on the Turkish officers and their crews
to set sail and meet Lord Cochrane, whom they call
in the Turkish dialect Cochrernan, which means
" the valiant," par excellence. They have, besides,
observed that this brave naval officer always appears
alone in his vessel, or attended at most by one or
two persons, and they think that this is a deception
which he practices to make there fall into his hands.
The Turks, whom Redschid Paella bad left in the
provissce of Livadia, had just retired to the town of '
Salona. The Greeks have attacked them on every
side; and as there is no fortification in Livadia, they
have seen theMselves compelled to occupy the
heights in the environs of Salona, which on one
side rests upon the sea, and on the other is environ-
ed by precipitous mountains.
Moreover, all Western Greece has again flown to
arms. The information that the Powers of Europe
have, at last, interfered in the affairs of Greece, con•
firmed by a circular letter, which Maurommatis, the
3.dinister of Finance, has addressed to his country-
men, has reinvigorated the chieftains who, till now,
kept themselves safe in the mountains. They have
all of them now descended into the plains. Thus,
in all Western Greece, there are no Turks except
those who are blockaded in the fortresses of Lepanto
and Missolonghi.
(From the Journal des Debate.)
7.BAncT.Lovii, AUG. 30.—Whilst we are expecting
the troops which ought to arrive to put an end to
the manoeuvres of the disaffected, those wretches
continue their incursions, and never cease inflicting
new evils on this unhappy country. The town of
:sfanresa, celebrated for its mesvidaeture of cotton,
has been taken by them ; 400 or 500 sawn have been
/alien prisoners, with the Governor, and a contribu-
tion of 500,000 francs has been levied. A single
mandasslsser was obliged to pay 60,000 francs as his
share. It is a:Sid, that desertion prevails even among
the few soldiers who have arrived -already. Can
any man be „toeiii,,:d at it? They are badly paid,
whilst the insurgents receive a piecette (about
td.) a day.
The Diario of Barcelona has _published an order
of Count de Villamur, Governor of the district of
Barcelona, which prescribes measure; for stopping
the rebellion. He desires that frequent patrols may
be made in every commune in order to disperse small
parties of rebels. On the day after this order was
published, twenty-five inhabitants of Sorria, a village
an licrues walk from Barcelona, being employed on
the patrol, went and joined the disaffected on the
mountains. A post of four men was placed at the
distance of a musket-shot from the citadel of Barce-
lona, at the burial-plaee of that village, along the
coast to prevent smuggling; it was taken in the night
by a party of rebels.
Numerous families arrive here every day, to be
sheltered from the evils which desolate the country.
Things will be worse after the harvest.
I said one day to some individuals who are well
tu,citointed with every thing that happens, What is
it ;hat the disaffected want's" A good Government,'
' What hope of a good Govern-
was their reply.
meat can vol.' have from those persons, who demand
it
with
armsin their hands, and who; though they
call themselves
can be considered as no-
thing else than robbers
We shall obtain the end,
;
—no matter for the Means ; but at all events they
do wrong to rob, because for long time past plenty
of money has been placed at 46 disposal of their
chiefs.'
This explanation may serve as a commentary, on
the phrase which was recently employed by an Eng-
lish jon:nalist, that the occupation of Spain by the
French would find its limit and its punishment. It
is well known that France deplores these insurrec-
tionary movemesits. Moderate and tranquil people
wish that she would, seek to suppress thew, L'om a
regard to the interest of her troops. I think, on the
contrary, that great raisrhief would arise from oar in-
tervention under such circumstances, because the
greater part of the populastion of the oontry seems
t them
o incline towards the rebels. We should paci4
with difficulty, and at present we bave no cause to
fear the efforts of the disaffected.
(From the Journal of the Lower
The treaties of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814,
November, 1815, left the frontier
between France and the States of Germany to be
fixed in an invariableiii. manner, and the possession of
the the islands in F to be re-established in the
ex,t
same state as it tett at the time of the treaty of

Luneville. Commissioners were appointed in 1816
and in 1817 by France and the Great Duchy of
Baden, to fix boundaries. The towing-path of the
Rhine was the natural line of demarcation, and was
pointed out by the treaties; but the variation of its
course rendered it difficult to be drawn.

General Guilleminot was appointed Commissioner
of the King on behalf of France, and the Baron de
Berckheim, Minister of the Interior for the Grand
Duchy of Baden, was appointed by his Sovereign to
take care of the interests of his country.
A mixed commission, at which the Commissioner
of the King presided when it met on the left bank,
and at which M. de Berckheim presided when it met
on the right bank of the river, was appointed to dis-
cuss all the questions to which this great operation
might give rise. These questions became the more
complicated as they were often mixed up with the
interests of private property, which both the Com-
missioners equally wished to favour. General Guil-
leminot, in concert with M. de Berckheim, had al-
ready got rid of a great part of these difficulties,
when the war in Spain called him to the side of the
Prince Generalissimo, as Major-General of his army;
and after the peace, the confidence of the King
made him undertake the important Embassy to
Constantinople. After his departure the negotiations
proceeded very slowly : they even took a turn which
made us afraid that they would be interminable. The
absence of the Chief Commissioners, and of persons of
the same rank, rendered the discussions not very ami-
cable, and much accommodation rather difficult. The
Government of the King, to put an end to all these dis-
putes of commissions without chiefs, gave full power
to M. Esmangart, Councillor of State, and Prefect
of the Lower thine; the Baron de Berckheim was
accredited anew, as he had been before; and the
Commissioners, who were made to understand each
other, once more resumed their conferences.
The members of the Badenese commission took
up their residence with Baron de Berckheim, at
Strasburg; and with a negociator so able and so
conciliating, a good understanding was very soon
re-established. The conferences followed one ano-
ther with rapidity—the numerous materials left by
General Guilleminot were collected with care—
every thing which had embarrassed the discussions
during his absence was got rid of; and in a short
time the Commissioners, agreeing upon every point,
drew up the concluding paper of their negotiation,
and signed it on the :30th of January last. This
treaty, which was to await the ratification of
the two
,Governments, was ratified by the King
on tile Ist or, last August. An estafette des-
patched to M. Esmangart, has just brought him
that ratification, and in a few days the exchange
of the treaty will be made at Strasburg between the
Chief Commissioners of the two States. This
treaty, which was unsuccessfully undertaken and dis-
cussed from 1'169 to 1788, and which was again set
on foot at the peace of 1815, will be an important
benefit to the inhabitants of both banks of the Rhine.
It fixes, in an invariable manner, the boundaries be-
tween France and the States of Germany. It frees
proprietors and districts from the restraints which
embarrassed them in the exercise of their rights of
property, when, in consequence of the meanderings
of the river, their property passed into a different
sovereignty. It limits the right reserved to both
states, to cut fascines mid wood, for the works of
the river. It secures to our communes, rights, which
they had not, or which they lost, when the change
of the towing-path made them pass into the do-
minions of another Sovereign. It releases their
property from certain Royal rights—such as free
warren, piscary, washing of gold, &c., which the
Badenese communes, that were the proprietors of
the islands on our side of the river, enjoyed, and
which our communes did not enjoy with the Bade-
nese : it permits in full freedom the exportation of the
productions of the islands to the territory where the
proprietor of them resides ; it secures the power of
making in future, without interruption, the works
necessary to the repair of the banks which may be
falling, and prevents any works from being made upon
one bank that can damage the other; it puts an end
to that paltry; warfare which was carried on during
proftitind peace, without advantage to any body. It
will maintain, it is to be hoped, a good understand-
ing between the inhabitants of both banks of the
river, for it will put an end to the principal causes
of quarrel between them. Measures of administra-
tion in conformity with the treaty have been taken,
it is said, to make both banks enjoy all the advan-
tages of the treaty; and the inhabitants of Alsace
will not be long before they discover that even in
that respect nothing has escaped the solicitude of the

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