The Sun.
London, England, 1811-01-12 00:00:00

OPERd DISPUTE.

Yesterday at two o'clock, there was another meet-
ing of the Sob,cribers to the Opera, at the Tha:th-
cd-Honse Tavern, in St. Jartv_ti`s-vreet, to take into
their consideration the !term of the Committee re-
htive to the prominent. concerns of that establish-
Went. .0 •

When abut forty Noblemen and Gentlemen
had assembled,- Earl Ge)wer moll sly called
to the Chair. On being waled, his Lord-hip in- •
formed the Meeting of the general outline of their
duties; and on.recurring to the letter which he had
received, as Chairman, from Mr. Taylor, at the last
meeting Of the Committee (the reading of which
had been deterred), he further informed them, that
he had received a second letter from Mr. Taylor,
which the writer deemed as more circumstantial,
explanatory, and satisfactory than the former letter,
and that Mr. Taylor ha 4 requested his Lot dship to
substitute the Mcond letter in lieu of the first, which
Mr. Taylor desiird might be reurntd. Lord Gower
observed, that 'he did not feel 'hiinSelf warranted, as
representative of the' Committee, to comply .with
Mr. Taylor's desire.
When the Noble Chairman was going to de-
tail the examination of the CoMmittee, in regard
to the receipts and4liabursernents of the Opera, Cot.
Greville rose to repel the charge which hialotp-
patently, been circulated against him, as to his beiog
an improperperson to sit upon that Committee, inas-
much as thti report implied, if not declared, that he
as an interested past), as he lnid the license of
another Theatre in hi, pocket, aid had actually
trafficked in the sale of a box at the Opera. To ail
these admitted allegatioas.Coloael GreVille made an
oleo and direct reply, that qualitie: their tenor, if
it did not do them woolly away.
When Colonel Greville sat down, Mr..Lancaster-
(as Secretary, we believe, to the Committee) telid,•
audibly and envhatically, the Report of those
Noblemen
.and Gentlemen who bad been:appointed
to examine the accounts of the Opera' House, to
ascertain whether there really did exist, or not,
any imperious necessity, upon the part of the Ma-
nager, to enhance the price of Subsctiptioti for a
box at the Opera, to so high an amount as he
thought fit to demand. -It seemed, agreeably to
this statement, that the general receipts of the
Opera House were commensurate with tilt; aggre-
gate expences, and that there did not exist any ne-
cessity whatever for the reviled advance in the
subscription.
After this material point had been ascertained,
Earl Gower proposed to have Mr. Taylor's Letter' to
the Committee publicly read ; and, in duir.g this,
he gracefully waved the perusal of the mare offend-
ing eristle„ and exhibited a delicacy of manner, And'
a forbeararce in principle, that were truly indicative
of a feeling Gentleman.
. As a Gentleman we!aaking notes at this period
for Mr. Watels (one of the• Proprietors of the
Opera), some Gentleman made a m,)tion, whith
was -6;01)(10, that the short-hand writer shouidne
requested to withdraw; buti on the motion being
put lion) the. -Chair, Sir Henry Wilson, and some
others of the Committee,:. combated the' idea with
such liberal resistance, that the attempt was aban-
doned. A similar Idea was started relative to
!host- Gentlemen who taere resent, and-not üb-
:,oribers ; but this restrittiugedutt wasequally un-
successful. 4P***.•

The substance of 'Mr. Taylor's letter compre-
}tended some serious complanits on h!s part. Mr.
Taylor dwelt with much force upon his being denied
the power to plead his own cause befrle:the Com-
mittee, and of explaining many circumstances'
viva voce, which could not be duly explained by
writing :---he said, that in denying iiim this pr ivy-,
lege, they withheld a right front him to ..then the
west of criminals are counted. He verktured some-
thing like an insinuation moat Colonel Cireville and
Mr.: Lancaster were interested in his diseotnbture,
and, of course, not proper persons to be members
of such a Committee. •He declared that r Colonel
(reville had a liceme for a,Theatre in his pocket,
and that Mr. Lancaster was-a box-broker; but *we
do not take upon ourselves to assert that Mr. Tay-
lor substantiated these charges. Tire Alanag.:r urged
the hardship' of his case in pstlietic terms, and al-
luded to his 'personal responsibility to those foreign
perfOrtners, Whom he. had t:ogtvd to pivgse the
public, and who would naturally and properly look
towards him for subsistence.

The Nob:e Chairman next arose, and submitted
a• series ut Resolutions for the adoption of the Com-
mittee; some of these were carried, nearly
; and some were tacitly oppesed by live or
six of the Committee. •

That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that the,
Moats iii which Mr. Taylor made his demand upon
the Subscribers, is not less excel)! tonable than the
demand itself; and that
.it requires a tut ther apo-
logy. ..
That such a proceeding on the prt 01-Mr.Taylor
is less excqsable than iLit came hum any other Ma-
nager ; it appearing that be himself censured, in the
strongest teims, the advance tirade io 18.06, by
Gould although
.that rise in the Subscription was
sanctioned by a Committee of Petsons, distinguish-
ed by their rank and situation, to whoa, exationl-
don Mr. Gould had voiontarily suloitted hts
'Accounts.

That even if a sufficient case had been made out
to justify au advance of prim., 'oli dee.iltii
iiicittilsed expenditure in the.tuanagetuent, it IA °old
not have 13,:en a tair'inotle of dealing with the Sub.
fctibers, to select one.part of the, Opera Houseoalone
its chargeable with the whote additional burthea,
without some proportionable charge being borne by
the oilier parts of the satne Theatre.
"rhat the "Trust Deed of 179,2, referred to by Mr.
Taylor, upon occasion of the Subscription being
raised by iqr. Gould, .contains aclausc, that—" It
is hereby declared And agreed, that no person who
now is, or at any time or limes hereafter shall be,
in possession of a fox or boxes, as the Head 'Sub-
scriber thereto, or the . hoprietor thereof, snail be
retnoiable at the will, pleasure, or Caprice of, the
said William Taylor, his executors, achninistrators,
or assigns, except by voluntary surrender or resig-
nation thereof, provided such person so possessiog
a fox does pay tlrtt< full yearly stAbseriptrou e greed
Upon for such Box.

'That it be recomm6nded to thole Ladles in whos4
names the Boxes arc beld,,to wake a tender at the
Opera Office ot., the amount of the:r,several Sub-
scriptions, as paid'for the last season; and in mit= of
such tender being rejected, they are advised to
draw their patronage from the Opera while it conti-
nues under ,the present'manageMent.
That a copy of the proceedings of the,'COmMitic*
beisubmitted to the Lord Chamberlain,'OS Soon as
that office shall'be Riled.

That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to
Earl Gower, for his able and itipartial conduit in
the Chair.' • .

Among' the Noblemen and Gentl,!tren .who wire
presefit of i this occasion, we re,nall; EoT I Gower,
Earl chohnoncieli, the Margni4 oramgl.ls, Lord
Keith, Lord Osluiston, EarlCoApq-, Lord 1)0-ion,
Lord Bruce, Sir Hevry Co!onf-I
Mr. Greville, Colonel O'Kdly, anhl Mr. \\raters. •

IRLLAND.

WATERFORD, JAN. the numerous and
daring outrages by which this country is so often
disgraced, and its tranquility invaded, we have to
add the following recent instance, the details of
which are too well founded to admit of qtiestion ,
or extenuation le:0 days ago, the R v, E.
Hunt received private infortna,ion that !in-! Cx::,
vats had paid frequent visits to
,the villages cf RIJ-
lalty and Red-Aces, situated in the county of K
and lyiog. on the 'road Itorn Meliireleat
Castle-Morris; that they heti giv,:n ord,:ri to the
inhabitants to purchase gonpritsder, commandieg
hem to have it ready for thern on the !tight. te'
Sunday list, and hat they would again visittheriA
an'that night, and that if their direetions Were nor
vel, they would burn their houses. In co!:se-
,, ;, is information, Mr. Hunt, with that
-
firm an.'
gistrate, and with t itt t,,eal in support of the corn.
Mon peace for which he has long been distinguish-
ed, took such measures as prudence rendCred most.
likely, to prevent or punish, the meditated viola-
lation of the law td tl a hind. ACcampanied 'by
his brother, W: H. Hunt, I.l.i'grt. a Magistrate of the
same county, liik4eitarit Hogg, ,and a detachment
of the Roscommon Militia, ten in number, he set
out a little before ten o'clock on Sunday night. At •
some distance from the villages, they heard a slot,
and distinetly saw the'fissh (on a nearer. .approach,
and in exact conformity with,the information which
•they ltd received, they encountered the party of
Caravats, to the number of not twenty, almost
ittunediately atter they had paid their visit to the
abeve-Mentioned places, ell of them orihorseback.,
riding by files With military diseipline, and with,
their leader, advancing in their front. Mr Hunt
called to !bent to stop; and deliver up their arms,
otcNviiich the whole party immt.•li.itelv halted. On
;epeating hi cominand a second tinie, the leader,
threw him Sell off hititorse, and the r• s lit till
party prepartd to do the sable.' On perceiving thisi.
Mr. Hunt ortiored the Roscommoe to fire;, !ha
division 'immediately fired a volitty, W, the
party of Caravats. inaniedtately tied, g .•he of
their number an: one qii-eir horses deacl,npcill titm
spot. Two other, lio,ses htterwardS,, (AVG,
and several hats and Shp.:s were al,;(,s tetinTd" tat,.)'en
the.road. The night was extremely'
cutostaoce Which made pursuit lillpoNftible, nand 'prm.
bably' also prevented a more dreadful execution
from the fire-arms of the Roscommonr(fPater
ford Chroilicie.)

CLONMEL, DEC. 29.—Last Thursday night, at a
very late hour, the house of Mr. Win. Harvey, at
Coleville, within half a mile of this town„ was at,
tacked by ,a number of roffians,who broke in throno
one of the
.windowsl and comEnined the most wail.
lea and excessive
,drepredations., After sansfyi,g
themselves here, they proceeded to the part of the
dwelling occupied by one Fleming, who had the
care of thp
,placp for Mr. Hai tey,. earl summoling
him to come forward to a window, they iminediale..
ly fired four, shots at him, but fortunately without
doiug him any injury. Fleming instantly returned
the lire from a welldoaded pistol, anti shot one of
these deluded wretches dead on the spot. ,
By the immediate flight' of all the• tarvivors,
leaving the corpse of. their companion, it i 4 natural
toloppose that some paler must have been wound.
ed, as in cases of thiTkind the party uniformly en.
deavours to carry off the bodies-of the fallen and
the likelihood is, that, they removed the crippk in
preference to the cnrpse. The death of this wretched
man .is very remarkable. - A very few hours before
he 'tell a Sacrifice to his transgression, Mr. Harvey
had settled with and paid him off his account for
4ix months' wages, and in Consideration that-tife
fellow was the chief support of, his mother and
ters, added sixpeire a week to his stipulated ‘vages
for the last yeir;' besides which, fie desired
him to continue at his labour. •

But he had scarcely left his Master and banefaam,
when he was enlisted into the.plor-fdr Spoliming his
property, and murdering his faithful servant.' Clear.
, •
ly (this watt his. name) appears to have been armed
with a scythe, the upper end of which was routurtA
as a handle, and the better to conceAt him4cif 'where
he was so well known, his face was compioclv
blackened. Fleming had a•pistol loaded vith
slugs, two of which pay..ed through Clealy'b neck,
and a third through his left breast.

CURIOUS CIRCUSISTANCR.—In drawing. a fish-
pond at Ely last mouth, the tail .of a
,fist was ob•
herxed in the mouth of a large pike, and bringing
:the net to bad, the latter diogore,ed a pike we!ghin
upwards at four pounds, which was irotnediatety
put into another pond,: where he swim ss c.ll, apd ti
supposed titre: still living. The pike who nA,Awfal.
lowed the other we
glied about,
instance unparalleled •in the memory of the otdcbt
fisherman at this part Of thecountrY4
Printed docitinents in' the French language were
last wed dtstributed can board the prisoo-sttirs.
Plymouth harbour, contiming the whole of the e•lr.
respondence between the
,_British and French (3,-

velnmelll4 relating to tht, late negodalions tur
exututo,:e prisQnetl,

OLD

'I',F itti D .ri:~ X. ----JAN. ' I L.

•
John Bowles was indicted for the wilful mni der of
bet wife, Anne Bowles, on the eveningeolthe etath
of Deceit:o,er.
The ties witness examined in. support. of the
charge was Elieebeth Bland. She deposed; that
103g,:d in the same house with the deceased, and tee
prisoner, ;,ti the evening specified in t;ft! indidment,
ai No, 17,..1earh street, Seven Dials.-e-The prisoner
carte leen,' about fix F.0:10 intoxicated,
and sat iti• her room ,f,r soine time, his wile tiring
out ; he then teok a candle, and went to his own
apartment. Weness did not see him aeein unt
eight Cdock, when saw him bringing !ionic tits
wife from a wine s.n,lt the heighbourhond, kept
by ri person hauled Rindwin, wbe.ke. he hitt rnon,;
'l),,r, in company" with a %outlet) named suede
to whom he tied vein ceslike, and whose society
.ittee had desired his wife to shun. On arriving
et the
rfeote of the steirs leading to his, room,
he' bade his wife go up, hut she refuaed, and sat.'
down on the steps. The prisoner entnediately
struck her a violent blow on the left side of the
head with his double Gist, and renewed his coni:.
unano,i, that she should ge.'te her room,, but she
eeisieed in her teiusel. Finding she would not
comply with his wisees, lie took her iii his antis,
and carried her up, ~kid on arriving in his apart-
reeve, he steed( her enuther ' blow; she fell, and
lie kicked her abeet the • body: -Witness and the
landlady, and atiother Woman, 'Who were present
thirriog this vielesece, l,egg ed hint to desist' trout
hie cruelty; Which he at length, promised, and they,:
witric43 and' the oilier woUieit, lett the room.
eeeet a ,ivarter ut age hour natt wards they weneup
again, anti, on entering the ape tweet s of I he pi 1-
eoner, they pores-'iced the deceased lying on the
sacking of the tied, deed, Witneeseeted out, "Ott !
Dowles, pee have killed your wife!" Upon •which
he twat hiss, kade that She lea.l 1,. nil io a tit,
and that he bad placed her ou the b d. Mine,
iremeMieely asked, it any of the fai.ulty had Lken
fient tor, when the prisoner, in great agitation, re-
Phect in the negative, and rushed out of the house
without lei'. hat, in s,:areh of a medical geetletuan.—
ahour ten oiinutc, lie returned with a Mr,
' SPewart, a sureepn, who, on examining the body,
and holding a looising.gla3, to the mouth, pro-
financed her dead. non; that t'me until two
o'clock In the morning, the prisoner did not leave
the home : he -wee then taken into . cared), by
Lnikriek; the Odicer. ;The cause of the quarrel
witness underStOdd to haye originated in the deceased
having spent five shinnies in litpaor, which her hus-
band gave her in the morning to purchase a mattress
fOr his eldest dauglitet', together with her being in
company with Mrs. Smith.
A woman, who was going by the house at the
time the prisoner brought his wife home, bore tes-
timony to his having struck her most violently at
the foot cif the stairs,. The street-door being then
shut, she was Occluded trout making further ob,er..
vation.
Mary Togwell, the landlady of the house in which
the prisoner and the cleeeesed used, stated that site
heard the prisener and his wife muffling, wet that
she went to ast.ertain, the cause of the quarrel,
When she saw, this prisoner strike his wile on the
head. He' 4Sked the deceased to go up Stints ;
she refteied. He repeated hie request sue eral limes;
but she still refused. fie, then week her a violent
blow es the head, arid carried tier up Stairs. in lily
films; when I,C got her into the mem, he 'struck '
her again ;• she felli; and he stamped upon her body.
During this violence, the prisoner irtinently.asked
his wire " where the tit's shillingse ern ;" and ap-
peared greatly enraged tit her being With Mrs.
smith. Witness freeptentirentreekd the prisoner
to desist from his,vietecice, which he et length pro.
enised, rind she went dOwn stalls, Ili about a gun.-
ter of an hour site .wear up into the prisoner's room
again, and saw the deceased Iyiie on the bed. The'
prisoner said his wife had had a tit,' and that he had
lifted her:on thehed. Witness said his wife was
dead, which he discredited, and seemed Much agi-
tated. The prisoner then went, fa a surgeon, and
returned with a gentleman named Stewart, who
pronounced Mrs, Bowlee dea4.htet could not say
whether she lid died from the '.violence with which r
she had been treroed, for from fits. Tile le isoner
sheet apprehended at two o'clock the ensuing fliorn-
ing. On her cress-examination, the witness de-
clared that the had. attended Mrs. Brawler pa cue
ticcAttion in a 111.
Mary l'on;ey lodged its the .next room to • the pri-
viler and his. wife. Ott the night on which the
offence described was committed, she beard a noise
in,reowles'e room, and on going to the door, site saw
the prisoner kick ins vine, who was lying on the
floor, in the body. Site begged the prisoner to des
gist, which he promised, and she.,, fats. Bland, and
Mrs. Togwell, who were .present, Went
During the foregeing scene, the child of the prisoner
leas in the room
,crymg violently, ‘/Ituess, while
in her own_ room, atterWards heard the prisoner
•sk his wile What , ehe had (glide willet he thugs he
•old her to buy, to which she leptir,.d, that she had
rawned them. Witness did net know to what this
question referted. , She then heard the prisoner
ettike her again, and her cries were repeated; she
also heard the child in(reat her father not to beat
her mother then, but to beat her again on the en.
suing clay. Witness alterwardi went into the roficn
with Mrs. Toewell and Mrs. Blend, and saw Mien
Ito wles dead on the bed. .Mts. Bland suegeeted the
propriety of sending for a DUCA OT , MI, IS OWICS
411-
medialely rad out without his hat, sod brought
lilt.. Stewart. .The prisoner did not attempt to leave
the house after, until he was apprehended. He
was much ill liquor at the time this violence was go-
tog forward. Witness, train her living` in the next
room, had frequent opportunities of hearing the
deceased cry out, " Pray don't beat me." She un-
derstood that
„the five shillings,. to which the ri-
te-later alluded, bad been given to the deceased by
enie, tr, pnechriee rt mattress for their eldest daugh-
so, who was out at SerViCe.. She believed the pri.

,soner to be an industrjoustnan, and believed that
the tketm:ied was sometimes liquor.
Mr., Charles Bell, a surgeon, deposed that he
was called in by titrya medical gentlemen, to view
the d,sseetien of
.the body of the deceased. When
he went into the room, the three principal cavities
,o 1 the body were laid open, but nothing touched;
he meant the abdome4, the chest, and the head..
Hi 3 first attention, Was directed.to the abdomen,
where he saw a slight blush or inflammation, and
wit hitt the stonindi he saw a considerable quAntitv
•of fluid, which from its smell;' conceivea to be
gin. Nothing preternatural was observable in the
cl.e,t. On the head were marks of blots, but tin-
der the scalp.oiter the scull theme was no appearance
of frac:titre on the how., and on
.opentug the.scull-
'cap If did not appear to by any injury, tior-Aere
there any symptutns on the. meint»anes, of the
brain winch implied violence. On the surface of
the brain he found strong ethision, and on rens.og
the bran' he discovered a larger coagulum of 0100. n
lI atn•rwards examined the ves.et under the brain,
and found a large transverse wound in onc of the
'principal arteries, lie conceived the cause of the
death of the deceased to be the effusion of blind
which arose (ruin the rupture In the blood-vessel to
which he had alluded pressing on the brain.
On being asked by Baron IvIACDOPI4LD whether
he come rived the vrolenct., with the decensrd
lead Lei) treated, to be the cause of the efftnnoti of
b1,,0d which led to the iatal consequences that had
been described—be ansuetcd, that it was a. clues.
tion of some difficulty. Morn trie state of Life:-
vesconce in which the vessels Were, in consequence
of the great Tallinn y of liquor which had been
drank by the deceased, the serious effualort Ott the
brain might have been occasioned, and flow the
increased action of the fluids arising truth the same
cause, lietoceived it a sloth: approaching to alio-
_ I.lexy. Ctider this circumstance a blight ai,,,i,Jout),
or a blow, would produCeAm etlect' winch would
take place had nut the subject been .11 4 litaio of
If lie bad nut heard ut , violence, lee
sln,uld have ascribed the rupture ut the atm y to a
common case of apoplexy. Ile could not.st
ut e to state, that. the rupture had been occasioned
any one how. II the deceased had !alien down
in a tit, or front any Sather cause, the stoic titte.a
might have been produced.
Mr. Stewart, the Surgeon, who was first• canto
in to the deceased, abto bore testimony to the dis-
section of the body. He examined the head, and
tound fOur tunnies on the outer skin, which, irue.l
their appearance, he .did: not think to have at.scme
irons any violent blows. He was firmly of opinion,
that no one of those blows could have been th-4
cause of the, rupture in the artery, winch has I.
ready bt:eit'alescrtbed. It r4.:ss • hard to say to what
cause the rupture was 4ttributable, whether to in-
, ebriattun or to blows. lie was rather of opinion,
however, that it arose front passion ut' stiug,gliag, as
he could trace no ()vie, external walk of violence to
be the immediate cause of Oath.

The evidence ' tur the prosecution here cloned,
when several ,w itnesses were called to the character
of the prisoner ; amongst whom was his bruther,
who deposed, that the prisoner was a hard working
industtious man, of a humane disposition, a pod
lather, mid an indulgent husband. Of the .de-,
ceaSed, be spoke in very different terms, describ.
mg her to
.be a woman much additted to drinking
spirithous llq so much so, as even to pawn
the bed from under her to supply her, inclination.
Baton MA c D0N,13..n summed up the evidence with
great minuteness, and observed, that the Jury, he-
tote they found the prisoner .gu Ity, must be, snot,.
lied that the Wows which he ban given were the
caow of the death of his wife, it this fact, they
would be enabled to forth their judgment from the
testimony. of the surgeons. , It they bad a doubt
on their minds, the prisoner should, of course, have
the bend fit of it.

The Jury„ alter a short consideration, returned a
ucquittul.
The prisoner was much agitated during the
whole of his trial.

Antonio Car(losa, a Portuguese sailor, Sarah
Biotime,, alias Gouts, Mar:y Rogers, alitis Mills, were
nexttried, on an indiztinent, charging them with
the wilful murder of Thomas Davies, on the even-
tog of the 12th of December.
James Davies, the brother of the deceased, who
was an English sailor, stated; that on the evening
of the day mentioned in • the indictment, he ac-
companied the deceased to the Newcastle Arms
public-house, in Nightingale-line, Wapping. Hav-
ing partaken of some gin, and danced a little,
they deputed. Previous to their leaving the house
they observed the male prisoner sitting in the tap-
room ; they had no knowledge whatever of him.—
Witness and his brother proceeded up Nightiogate-
lane, until they arrived at the corner of Landland's-
:rents, where they saw three women, the two fetunie
prisoners and 'another, The deceased ' took Mary
Rogers round the waist, which she resented by
striking hint on the head with het pattens. Wit-
ness endeavoured to eicuse his brother,- by saying,
that he was groggy, and offered to give them some-
thiniftedrink ; but instead
,of beiog appeased,
rah Browne struck at him with her umbrella, Which
he evaded, and seizing the umbrella in -his hand,.
after some difficulty and resistance, .he got it from
tier, and threw it into a green-stall. In thus scuffle
she fell down;. and, while on the ground, cried out,
" Antonio, Antonio why don't you go fur Anto-
nio?" In a. few Minutes witness saw 'Antonio, the
prisoner, come ow of the NeWcastle Arms, aceom,-
panied by some other Portuguese sonlors, and on
coming up to him, Antonio and another seized
him by the collar; he knocked ono of them down,
and Struggled for a short 11111 d with Antonio, from
whose blows he defended himself and got away.—
Antonio then proceeded towards the deceased, who
.was standing on the pavement, and on arriving
at the spot, Sarah Browne exclaimed, ThAes. the
'7"r"" who need me so ill," upon which Antonio
struck him on the backomd knocked him down.—
Witness shortly atter saw his brother rise, nod run
about forty Yard', crying, " 0 Lord, I am killed !"----
He then fell, and on witness coming tip to him, he

could not speak ; he wt s jai nNiiately sonveyed to
a surgeon's, where he expired-, in two Minutes. On
examining, his back a ,wound was found, to which
hig death was attributed. While the prisoner was
assaulting the dem,e'a, Sarah Browne cried out se-
veral times, Murder don't leave a bit of
'Hie in bim ; all Englis!i -- ought to be served the
same way." It ttas a moonlight night, and witness
could plainly distinguish the countenances of ,the
prisoners. Sarah Browne, it appearA, cohabited
with Antonio. .

Mary Pit:Mind, a servant belonging to the Dun-
dee Arms ptiblic-house, in. Nightingale-lane, de-
posed, thiit on the night in'questiou, about nine
o'clock, site had been out Serving beer, and was re-
turning towards home, when sin, saw three women
scoffling with the, deceased and his brother, and
`heard Sarah BrOwn,, who was thrown on the
ground, cry out for Antonio, whose person she very
'well knew, ts,,d who she shortly atter..aw come
from the Newcastle Arms, in company -with some
other 11101. On his corning up with the deceased,
Sarah Browne said, " t 1 at is the who has
used me thus; murder zinc ; don't leave a bit of
life in ;" and immediately Antonio knocked
him doss;n, and fdl upon him ;• while in that slim-,
tion witness saw something glitter in the priSoner's
•hand, which he plunged into the back of the de-
ceased, and then got op. ',ripe deceased also got
op,..tind tan for some yaids, when he fell. Witness.
:afterwards learned that he was &fact, and on going
to Mr. Bell, tin!: surgeon's Iptusli, she sty him lying
on the floor. She said she had no doubt that the
prisoner had inflided the mortal wound.
John Iron, the son of the landlady of the Dun-
dee Arms, corroborated the testimony of the first
two witnesses. As to the quartet, he saw the de.-
cea,:ed struck, taut could pot stywho gave the blow.
S.nah Rowel knew the prisoner for three years.
On .t he ,oight of the Murder she .saw him approach
r:eccw3ed, knock him down,, and, cAheu down,
in the back ; she could. out sty with
wha .she also heard the ext.lamations of Sarah
Bio.VIIC, aod sa 4' the dt.lceaSeti run, and afierwaed,

lb • two. officers who apprehended the prisoner
deposed, that they found hint in his ;thin at his
101.4(ng, getting kilo bed. S.,r.►h was also
in the sank: room, ,and likewise appeared preparing
to go to bed. ,Tlie jacket of Antonio had some mud
upon the shoulder, no t d the clothes
of Sarah BrOwne were co% eyed with shit. When
the officers chel,red the objeet,of their visit, Anto-
nio cried out that he never carried a. knife:about him.
Three per4ms were called to the .character of the
prisoner, who said he was a peaceable man, and had
never been addicted to quarrels,
The assistant to Mr. Bell, the surgeon, stated,
that he opened the body of the deceased, ,and found
that a sharp instrument had been passed between the
AS next the spine, into ihe left lobe of the lungs,
to which wound he attriliuted his death..
When Antonio was called upon for his defence,
he di,clared his innocence in the most sol-Ann man-
ner ; and said that the witnesses had all sworn from
motives of Spite.

Sarah Browee Us° declared her innocence, ob-
serving, that she was assailed by the deceased in the
first instance, and knocked down, when she called
out fur some person, but whether fbr An onio ttr
not, sire could trot say. •
The Learned Jodge, Sir 7,toia Le, BL,4S>NC, than
summed up the evidence with, his veinal periveoity,
dwelling on each tact a* it occurred with.great
nuteness, commenting on the testimony Of the se-
veral' witoeoses with precision, and describingjhe
law of the case in a clear and comprehensive man-
ner. " If," he said, " the Jury were satisfied•that
the male ptisolier had inflicted the wound' under the
circumstances., desciibed by the witnesses, his crime
amounted, in ;he eye of the law, to murder, and a
verdi& of guilty must 61 neeessity follow ; it, on the
contrary, they douched that it wits his baud which
inflicted the fatal wound, then he ;mist be acquitteiL
With respect to Sarah Browne, to establish' her
guilt to the foil extent charged, it. was necessary. it
should be proved that a on fficient time had expired
for her passion to cool, before she instigated Aut:Onio
to the comtnissieu,of the murder.: if the Jury were
of opiaion that she had acted under the impulse of
passion, arising front her quarrel with the brother
of the deceased, which was a natural presumption,
they would find her guilty of tnan-slanghter only ;
br,t i 1 thwy were of a contrary,opiniOn, their verdict
would of course be guided by, that opinion, As to
Mary Rogers, nothing had transpired to implicate
her in the offence. She would, therefore, of course,
be acclitted. With the Jury the matter rested, and
his Lordship had no doubt their verdict would give
satisfaelion to the Court."

The Jury, after a short consideration, returned a
vArdict of Guilly--lieuth, against Autdnio Cordosit ;
they convicted Sarah Browne of Manslaughter, and
acquitted Mary Rogers.
The Het:muffin then passed sentence of death
upon the untortunate man with the usual solemnity,
and condemned hint' to be executed on Monday
morning next, his body to be given for dissection, in
pursuance,olAct of Par►iamernt.
He is a well looking matt, 41 years old, and did
nut seem much ap'k..cted at his fate.

A wild duck having Made its appearance, on Wed-
nesday, on the Thames, between i_Ai.lort and West-
minster-bri,lges, a posse of nearly twenty cockney
sportsmen soon assembled on the spot, and atter
firing about thirty shots, siteeeedtd in killing It.
There was a wedding- a flew days ago in the
nelghbourhood.of Whitehaven, at which all the
dal•'party wore first cousins; viz, the bride and the
bridegroom; the bride's maid and bridegroom's man;
told the parson and clerk,

TUE ' KIN 6 C 1 F FILI\CE.

following . Communicainm respecting thttoll
Personage, as from a.Corresporaietn Watt Of' 4
for this month.
•In making a tour in June, 18ob. I pas
The wretched town of Woodstock, antl''101:11
went with my family
.to view the .Canttad "Pr'
by the adjoining palace of Blenheim, .
Atter paying the finei Which are impose°
fir three passes on travellers, for atterePill
itify their curiosity in viewing this oatioil4"
we reached the flight of steps leading Or
!hall ; but were told by out condOtor,
'XVIII. the exiled King df France, not,'
ing Blenheim ; and, .finding, that we migot
,party by missing two or three rooms whi(
seen, we gladly embraced the offer, and .1'
:party of Ins Most CIITiStIITTI Majesty.
Entering,: suddenly by a side 'door, in 11,
six or eight, .his Majesty appeared to tAe
nd retreated fYac a moment through an
into another room ; but obseit in that We
vis.ges of Englishmen, lie instantly
..and suiteyed us with much complacency.
-!riceoinpanied by the Duke de Giammonti
!or three other French noblemen, vi hose
'knew hot ; but Many powerful as'iociatiens,
groupe a strong interest with ire.
4 could not but market at thus .rheet;ng
King of France, a. grarid.grand-sert of
in the very palace which 'Ltd been ereciel
Parliarnept of England as a trophy, to the
had so often in the field humbled the.
that ainhttiOns Bourbon. The incident
.rendered more curious firm, the cireums•
sill tbe walls of Blenheim are covered with
representations of the triumphs of "'
Marlborough, und to view these exagg',"l,l
•,intiai ions was a voluniary pen:ince whieo
Nionarch had imposed on lattthelf.
The Ciceroni pertortning this delicate
however, the ordinary showman, dre,Vd
tawit!ry livery of. his Office, flipp trstly
and otlie lt-13oishishtvIsIsirmas iied
thousand:, of the Mutinsherrs thiit Were .
ken prisonett; &c. ace. in every _ Wide.
did I take him aside, and apprize li to that
CetlLiei of hospitality, and the u!):1!q nr
lige,:c:e of hi 4 visitors, rettdertd
,ICI4/C
nations necessary. " I tikes. s3ld f
likes to tell him the troth; "
saute instant, and arniang with ea.ecs*`;-

curio

wh:n he came to the battle of 1,61:11l
entered, into a flourishing thodornont.l3('
v;ist superiority of the Fiend!, awl'. 'I
&c. &c. when Louis, a little piqued,.
Yes, it was a very bloody liattldli."--"
the fellow; 4. 'twenty thoutiand of the
were killed on the spot !"
His Majesty appealed to hare a very' c°‘
in matters of art, dwelt with plcasuie 0"„
Carlo Dolci's, the lichens's, &c.
dently as a compl,meni, to my part!', 13r'
faded groupes of Sir Joshua Reynold',
some matter of fact figures in the utto'u
of tie year 1770. 11;5 condri.f.i and .
made in pretty good Engludt,
intelligence on bionri'eal and other AM
sptilre with evident resc.ree ; 1 hope I.
tisfied that some of the English (4,41'2,
a strong desire to.shew him everypt.6silf•.t,
anti were Atwell affeaed with the vule,ar
Cieeroni. O4l,
At the tomb, ler the ellareli this /clic': ((Oil
than cornm9nly boisterous in nis descrir.
allegories of yict ory, of prostrate 0011°11
exhibited by the scoliitor. But I lost '0"
when, on
.departing, I saw him old °ill
to the Royal Potty, rand receive a fie 3,2',0
On this sabje4l I remonstrated !,stepr.
was " did not get
day, and instead of not paying at all,
they ought to pay bettr than other pcol'o'' I.
PriAile of Louis XVIII. is t
the
XVI. and I do. alit, -'l/10'.
his Whelp contour is very like that 01 11.'",;iel
I-le is very tat ; and waddles us rolls 1°6,f,,
in his walk. He has a piercing 444„/41'14.i'
takes a great deal of snuff his tat!' -(111°1
being chseoloured by it. Hanituri good
years to be the prevailing qt.f.tiity
and he bears no outward sign of ""s,ii-u
cover the fortunes of his family. "
too easy, and too likely to be misled )10,
ites, should think him the very ram? act
a people might liver happy under '
without disturbance from his iil-hainL)ut
bition. diln •
his 01'r )
s o much short,o, 'thetoms
X well-fadVIII.
citizen,eatri es in
nr
Is3:1;;':;:#
geittlemJn, that one. of my sons.;.' a ,ee .0!
SeVen yearn a age, who had been t"ei' 1-11,014,1,01,
tures, of Kings with crowns on
generally drrssed in armour, could "1
be persulded that that gentkruan
he sumeliales amuses us hs
dling across the room, nod
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w
We afterarris met with leis
where he recognized ds, and we lett
Its
same instant, his hlajesty for Gosti-'id,'
tt
my faintly, for London.

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Yesterday morning, the Lady of F. •-• 6
Brunswick.tquare, -of a Daughter.

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