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here to save his own neck, and hang his companion.
Witness was nineteen years old last January.
The Jury found the prisoner—Guilty—Death.
The learned JUDGE immediately passed the awful
sentence of death upon the prisoner in the usual
form. _ .

The trial excited a most unusual degree of interest.
The court was crowded to excess.

OLD BAILEY, DEC. 7.

OLD COURT.

Maly Fitzgerald, aged 24, and Catherine Con-
nolly, aged 26, were capitally indicted for having
traitorously had in their possession a plaster of Paris
mould, used for the purpose of coining shillings, to
imitate the current coin of the realm.—Both pri-
soners were acquitted.
Afar) Fitzgerald was then separately indicted for
Laving i❑ her possession a mould for casting six-
pences.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN wished to make an observa-
tion before this case was gone into. He perceived
that the indictment was intended to be supported by
the same evidence exactly as that which had been
offered in the last case, and therefore he should like
to know upon what specific grounds the Jury had
found the verdict which they had just returned.
The Foreman of the Jury replied, that the ground
upon which his brother jurors and himself had ac-
quitted the prisoners, wus, that the mould had not
been proved to have been in the possession of either
prisoner, it having been found by the constable under
the bed.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN said, that it was not at all
necessary, in order to establish a possession, that
the mould should be found in actual operation.
The Foreman—But, my Lord, we were not sa-
tisfied that this mould might not have been placed
where it was found by some other party.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN was very glad to hear that
the reason just assigned had influenced the Jury in
their decision, as, upon any other ground, a verdict
of guilty ought to have been pronounced.
Mr. SCARLETT, under the circumstances, should
not offer any evidence to support the indictment.—
He begged, however, to be distinctly understood,
that the counsel for the Mint by no means agreed
with the opinion expressed by the Jury. If cases
so strongly borne out, were thus to be disposed of,
it would be necessary to apply to Parliament for a
fresh enactment upon the subject.—The prisoner
was then acquitted.
Mary Conway was capitally indicted for having
uttered five counterfeit shillings to Mrs. Davis, land-
lady of the Three Compasses, Drury-lane.
The prisoner was found Guilty.
NEW COURT.

Benjamin Guillois, aged 26, was indicted for stealing a
aaw and other articles, value 10s., the property of John
Bowling; he was also charged with having been convicted
of felony last April Sessions at the Old Bailey.
The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner, who is a car-
penter, was in great distress, and applied to the parish for
relief on the 17th of October, and, in order to relieve him,
he gave him a job, and lent bin► the tools in question, with
which he absconded

TLe certificate of his last trial was produced by the clerk
of the arraigns, and the prisoner was identified by the officer
who apprehended him on that occasion.
The Foreman of the Jnry asked the Court the meaning
of the second indictment.

Mr. Sergeant ARABIN—This, Gentlemen, is a clause in
one of Mr. Peel's recent Ac's, that if a prisoner should be
repeatedly tried, and convicted of petty crimes, the Court
should have a power to inflict a more heavy punishment.

. .
The Jury were satisfied with this answer, and immedi-
ately returned a verdict of Guilty.
Richard Moody, aged IS, was indicted for stealing a
machine for sweeping chimnies, the property of George
Bayley.
The prosecutor, a sweep, residing at Uxbridge, swore
to the machine being his property ; and a master sweep,
of Shepherd's Bush, swore he bought it of the prisoner.
Verdict—Guilty.

IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE FROM CO-

LOMBIA.

(From the Falmouth Packet of Dec. 5.)

By the Duke of York packet, which arrived this
morning from Carthagena and Jamaica, we have received
intelligence of importance from the former place. It is to
the following effect :—Four days before the arrival of the
packet at Carthagena, whence she sailed on the 7th of
Oct., the country had experienced one of those political
disturbances, which are of such frequent occurrence in
infant states, and ill-estal.lished Governments. It ap-
peared from general report, that General Cordova, lately
the companion in arms of Bolivar, the Liberator
of Colombia, concealing his own ambitious designs
of personal aggrandisement, had raised the stan-
dard of rebellion and revolt, under the flimsy prt-
tence that Bolivar entertained the purpose of subvertin.g
the liberties of his country, by converting the republic
into a monarchy, of which he professed to be the founde.
The reason of advancing such a charge against the " Li-
berator," is said to have been, that the army under lt:s
command had offered him a crown, which he refused a's
proceeding only from his troops, and not from the people
in general. Whatever truth may be in this atatetsent,
Cordova, it is certain, took advantage of Bolivar's: ab-
sence in Peru, where he was endeavouring to r, cover
from that republic the expences of the war just concluded,
to leave him, and raising a few hundred men to proceed
to certain fastnesses in the mountains, through which
Bolivar must of necessity pass before he could reach Bo-
gota—and this pass is said to be such by nature, that a
few men of resolute spirits could defend it against thou-
sands, and sffsctually preclude their further progress.
Here Cordova prepared several proclamations, claiming
to himself high pretensions as a patriot, and representing
the conduct and intentions of Bolivar in the most odious
light. These manifestoes, although so plausible and in-
dustriously circulated, did not appear to create much
prepossession in his favour—but on the contrary, the
general sense of the country was against him. With
respect to Carthagena itself, the governor of it is a
General Montilla, an alherent of Bolivar ; and, hence
it may be easily guessed that he would not be slack in his
endeavours to quell the present disturbances. Two days
before the arrival of the packet, the whole disposable re-
gular troops were sent off, partly by land and partly by
water, so that only a few ill-disciplined and worse equip-
ped militiamen, of all colours, black, white, and brown,
were left for the protection of the town. The Governor
himself proposed to proceed to the seat of war in as short
a time as some necessary previous arrangements would
permit.

MuRAT.—It was said of MURAT, by NA-
roixoN, that when he advanced to the charge he resembled
a paladin of old more than a modern soldier. In his css-
tume he imitated the ancient knights. His noble port
showed majestically under the chivalric garb ; add to this
his more than mortal daring, and we shall not wonder that
the very Cossacks raised a shout of admiration when be
approached them. A striking example of this occurred
Sept. 4:—The king, with a few squadrons, had left
Eiatz, followed at some distance by the grand army. In
his march he was much annoyed by clouds of Cossacks,
who hovered about the heads of his columns, and from time
to time compelled them to deploy. This troublesome se-
ries of interruptions at length incensed him to such a de-
gree that he gallopped up to them unattendad, and, in an
authoritative voice, ctied out, " Clear the way, vermin !"
It is a fact equally extraordinary and incontestible, that
these wild eons of the desert were so awed by his manner
as involuntarily to obey the command ; nor did they again
block up the way during the whole of that day's march.
At length the French army reached the heights which
overlook Moscow. Glancing at his soiled garments the
king did not think them worthy of an occasion so im-
portant as that of entering the sacred city. Ile retired to
his tent, stripped, and soon came out arrayed in the most
magnificent of his costumes. His tall plume seen over
everything, the splendid trappings of his steed, and the
inimitable grace with which he mansged the high-spirited
animal as he advanced towards the Cossacks, who were
under the wails of the city, produced a loud p.•al of ap-
plause from those wild warriors. As an armistice had
been agreed on during the evacuation of the city by the
Russian rear, be remained for two hours in the midst of
his new admirers, who called him their hetman, and
pressed round him with tumultuous enthusiasm. His va-
nity was so much gratified with the homage of these
children of the wilderness, that he distributed among
them, first, all the money that he had about him, then
all he could borrow from the officers of his staff, and,
lastly, both his own watch and those of his companions.
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