The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

ABSENCE OF SOLICITORS.

The Seal being now concluded, several Cerise
Petitions were called On, and his Lordship was
egoested to postpone two of them for a short time,
as the Solicitors were not present.

The Lotto CHANCELLOR—I shall Wait for no
man ; strike them bo lm (lilt of the paper. It is
high time tot' me to act determinedly. I shall nut
brile ►hem—strike them Ont.

[F,pr au interesting Law Case, see tilt, First Page.]

CONFESSION JOIIN GALLOP,

1.7:16, Sentence of Death in the Gaol of Dorchester, for the
\limier of Plitsem..% of 'Jere Regis, on the
evening of the 14th May last.

Who sail h, that about a fortnight or three weeks before I
was Imo tied, William Lock came to me while I was sitting
at Mr. it cat's public-house, and asked me what Priscilla
Brow'. le I been telling rue :shout hint ? I told hint no-
thing noire than what he deserved. Lock asked me what
that wis : that how she should tell me that hr did not bide
at home. pi etending that he wts had, anti skulking upon
the parish, and that he, Lock, and ('at. Singleton did go
about at night breaking hedges and stealing turnips, and
that he, Lock, had got her with child in Shittertou IjOUIldS;
that the first time he caught her down strzet he would
give her a drink of beer, and put suote poison in it to
poison her: that on the night of Priscilla Brown's
murder I left my home between eight and nine o'clock
to go to Priscilla Brown's lonise to see Mary Cole, anti when
opposite the house I saw William Lock against Priscilla
Brown's door. and Lock said t•o we, did you see Mary Col,• as
you taint up al.n►g ? and I said, no; then Lurk said, I ant
clad of it. Lock said, come tip into the back lane by anti bye,
I want to speak to von; when I went up int., the back
lane through Day's-lane, I saw Lick sad Priscilla Browndown
against the barn ; I went to them ; I asked Lock what he
was wont:: at; Lock said, I ant going to drench her with a
drink of beer: Lock said, I cannot tin it by myself; if you will
hold leer liars I will drench her. I too!, Priscilla Brown hold by
the lews and held her about two minutes, anti when I let her go
she gave a kick, and 'I left Loch with her, and went away
The reason I did not tell it before is, because Lock said, be
would never tell of me if I would not tell of hint.
The Mark rC ofJOIIN GALLOP.
The abot•e confession was made in our presence, in the Cha-
pel, the 27th July, 1818.
11. W. AVDREWS, Gaoler.
Jon st PALMER, ChaplAiii.
CHARLEs ARDEN, Surgeon.

Dnovewiwc;.—Yesterday morning the waterrnen
nt Whitehall-stairs, oh.erving something float-
ing in the water, went to ascertain what it was,
Vl,l4ich proved to he the naked body of a youth
►bunt 18 years old. it was conveyed to the
%rot khouse.

Mr. FRENCH, Of Bermotokey, going from the
Borough to reckharn, on Thursday night,
about nine /Mock, Was met by two men, who
presented pistols, and robbed hitn of 71, and some
silver.

HUSSEY'S TRIAL. AND CONVICTION

FOR TIIE
MURDER OF MR. BIRD
AND HIS HOUSEK.EEPEit AT GREENWICH.

.VT ASS IZES.

Ifill/STotifl., Friday Night, Jttly 31.---The in-
terest which this case excited was so great, that
so early as five o'clock in the morning the Court
was nearly filled by persons who were anxious to
he present at the trial. Among them were a
number of fashionably dressed Ladies.
At eight o'clock the prisoner, Hassey, was put
to the bar. He was dressed in black clothes, aml
his general air corresponded with his dress. He
scented to listen with strong anxiety to the terms
of the indictment, while he was arraigned ; bat
he betrayed nothing like a want of firmness, nor
did he evince the slightest emotion.
The Clerk of Arraigns read the indictment,
which chatged him with the murder of George
Bird and Maly Simmons ; and the prisoner on
being called upon for his plea, in a loud and firm
tone of voice, and without the slightest appear-
ance of tremor, replied, " Not Guilty." He
looked around him-, as if anxiously expecting to
recognize some acquaintances, and his manner
was that of a person quite aware of the unfortu-
nate situation in which he stood, but at the same
time perfectly collected, firm, and undismayed.
his appearance was that of a genteel, and rather
an intelligent looking young ntao—his com-
plexion rather fair, bit with good datk eyes ; he
looked attentively at the Jury while each indivi-
dual aas sworn, but betrayed nothing like that
conscious feeling of guilt which ail ordinary ob-
server expects to find ill the demeanour of a man
charged with so dreadful a crime, under all the
imposing circumstances of judicial investigation,
and loaded with such an accumulation of circum-
stantial evidence, and the consequent weight of
public opprobrium. He seemed, as might be na-
turally expected, embarrassed, but not in any
strong degree.
Mr. Bicknell, the Solicitor for the Prosecution,
entered the Court at an early hour, and, with the
assistance of the servants of the Court, placed on
the table a large square wooden box, containing
a very complete model of the late Mr. Bird's
premises, at Greenwich; and also of the Green-
wich Academy, where Litton lived, and of Mr.
Richard Smith's grtaunds, which adjoin the
Greenwich Academy.
Nearly at the same time with Hussey, Richard
Beechin was arraigned, for feloniously killing and
slaying James Terry, at the house of Lady Bar-
ham, at 'result), in the county of Kent.
The evidence was very diffuse, but it resolved
itself into the mere circumstance of a quarrel in
the servants' hall. The deceased challenged the
prisoner to fight, and they went out, the ptisoner
carrying a gun with him, which happened to be
in his hands at the moment, with which he gave
the former a sudden blow on the mouth, which
threw him on the ground, by which his skull was
hurt and his death caused. Both parties were
proved at the time to have been in violent anger.
Verdict—Guilty of lianslaughter.—Sentenced
to a fine of Is. and 12 months' imprisonment.
At 11 o'clock Charles flosey was again put to
the bar, and his trial commenced.

Mr BEREKs, on the part of the prosecution,
opened the case charged in the indictment.
Mr. Serjeant ONsLow stated the case to the
Jury, and in a speech of considerable length de-
tailed the whole weight of circumstantial evidence
apinst the prisonerms it appeared in the following
evidence, and applied it with great force and in-
genuity to the facts of the case. The public are
already aware of thecircomstances of this case. The
new facts detailed by the Learned Serjeant were,
that from the tap-room of the Tiger's Head, where
Hussey usually lodged at Greenwich, there was a
direct view of the room at the opposite side of the
street in Mr, Bird's house, where he usually wrote
and kept his money, and where he might occa-
sionally be seen arranging his Bank notes. Ile
said it would he shewn, that there was every pro.
of the murder having been committed be-
tween eight and nine Web). k 011 Ole eVtllllll' of
the 7th of February. He described the c'rctini-
stances of the deceased's brother being induced,
at one o'clock on the Sunday, on seeing the win-
dows closed at that limo., to get iii through the
back door, where he found Mary Simmons lying
dead, wiih the appear :nee of having vomited, and
that sot t of mark 'ti the head which usually de-
notes a fracture. The late Mr. Bird was also
found lying near a table, which was overturned ;
it would seem from the situation in which he lay;
that he had been advancing towards the female
servant, who appeared to have gone towards the
door. It was also, lie said, clear from the marks
on the deceased persons, that the wounds were
inflicted on them by all instrument like a
hammer. To spew the time of the murder, it
"as only necessary to state that a Mrs.
Cooper, about eight o'clock, saw Mary Sim-
mons standing at the door talking to a strange
man, and also the late Mr. Bird, as it ad-
vancing near her. The deceased was also in
the habit of supping at nine o'clock pre-
cisely; and his supper, which consisted gene-
rally of baked potatoes, was found on the
Sunday still untouched in the oven, and the
slippers placed where they generally were for him
to put on at supper time. The Learned Serjeant
stated the particulars of the suspicion having
fallen on Hussey, an:l the circumstance of his
clothes being found bloody, and marks of vomit-
ing on his gaiters, arid the rings being found up-
on hiin, which were the property of the deceased.
11e also stated the confession of Hussey, which
had been reduced to writing by Mr. Bicknell.—
This was the statement—that the ptisoner had
found the bundle, after seeing a man rim (al from
near the spot where it lay. That the time of the
robbery and murler was short, was perfectly
clear, for on the floor a Bank note was found;
the plate in the parlour remained untouched, and
therefore all that remained was for Hassey to ac-
count for his movements between eight and nine
o'clock nu the Saturday evening. How also could
lie say, in the postscript of the letter, that " Ha-
zleton knew nothing about the matter ?" If the
prisoner n' as not connected with the transaction

himself, how could lie know who was or Wig
not ?—The Learned Se) j• roncimi,:d Sri h
commending to the Jury to lay every kiud of pre-
judice out of their minds, and attend only to the
evidence.