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London, England, 1806-04-07 00:00:00


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tot at."—ii Oh, Lord have mercy upon me!" ex.,
claimed the, " whereabouts ?" and he then pointed(
to the fhtitter, and laid, there." When the wit.'
nefs went for the nyfters, the (butters were all f.f.'
tened. The prifoner had told the whites that he
was not well, and fhould go to bed fnon, and there.
fore had defired her to dole the (hinters early.
Weight went for Frail, and left Either and the pri.
Inner in the bottle. Patch laid, he did not know that
he or Mr. Blight had an enemy in the %amid. The
witnefs was not aware that any body nffertd to flay
with Patch that night, and did not hear any conver-
Cation refpe&ling fire arms, as the was in the kitchen.
They then all left the houfe to go to Mr'. Frofi's
for a candle, becanfe the witnefc was afraid to go
alone. They Raid (Owe time at Frog's. After their
return, Patch went to bed, in Mr. Blight's bed, be-
caufe the witnefs would have been under apprehen-
lion to have remained in the main body of the
houfe alone. The prifoner ufually flept in a dif.
rant apartment over the counting houfe.. Her
mailer came home from Margate, on the Monday
following. The witnefs believed, that, is the former
part of the day, the prifoner wore bouts. In the
evening Mr. Blight and Patch fat in the back par-
lour, in which the family did not ufually fpend the
afternoon. At night, the prifoner wore (hoes and
white flocking'; but the witnefs could nut (wear
whether they were ribbed or otherwife. All the gates
of the premifes had been fecured. After tea. the
deeeafed and Patch were drinking grog together in
the back parlour.. During this time the witnefs was
in the kitchen, and fitting by the fire fide ; the was
unable to fee the door of the parlour. About half
an -hour after the tea-things had been removed, the
prifoner came into the kitchen to the witnefs, afking
her to give him a candle, as he had a violent pain
in his bowels, and with it he took the key of the
counting-houfe from the dreffer.. The prifoner went
out of the front door, and the heard him open the
counting houfe, and flam the door after him. The
witnefs likewife heard him walk acrofs the floor very
quickly. She littened to his footileps till he reached
the privy, the door of which he alto fhut.with vio-
lence, and at defame asententfit heard the report of a itjtal.
A few fecnnds afterwards, Mr. Blight came into the
ki•chen, and fupporting himfelf upon the dreller, and
placing his hand upon his wound, exclaimed, "Either
fam a dead man. *. Lord have mercy upon me, I
hope not, Sir," cried the fervant,fereaming violently.
and immediately ran to (hut the houfe door. Before
the could again reach the kitchen, Patch knocked vio-
lently, demanding admiffion. The prifoner was hold.
ing up his breeches, which were unbuttoned, and as
loon as be entered he eagerly enquired what was the
matter, when the witnefs replied, " Oh Lord. Sir,
my wafter is fhot." Parch then alined the deceafed
into the parlour, where he had before been fitting.
Soon afterwards the witnefs was requefted to fetch
Come Alliance, but replied. that the was afraid, and
therefore, the prifoner told her to take care of her
mailer while he went. This, however, Either equally
dreaded, and jumping out of the kitchen window,
ran to Mr. Frog's, who, leaping over the gate lead.
ing upon the wharf, entered the houfe. Before the
witnefs was examined by the Coroner's Jury, Patch
told her, that there were Rrange ideas, that he had
(hot Mr. Blight, and defired her to tell the truth, and
nothing but the truth. On her croft examination,
the Paid, that the did not know, if in the former part
of the day on which her mailer was (hot, the prtfoner
had been frequently to the privy.
Mr. Chrillopher Morgan being called, depofed,
that as he wat palling Mr. Blight's premifes between.
eight and nine o'clock in the evening, he was in.
formed that that Gentleman had been !hot. He
immediately went to the houfe door, and Aced if he
could be of any affiitance in fearching the premifes.
This offer was thankfully accepted by Mr. Patch, who,
pointing to the Carnatic, an old Eaft Indiaman, told
him, and his friend who was with him, to go on board
that relief, as when the former (hot had been fired, a
rumbling noife bad been heard in it. As foots as
this intelligence was given, the prifoner retired with
a lanthorn to a Main part of the wharf, out offight.
The witnefs was the more obfervant of this, becaufe
he thought it grange that a man in the midit of
danger fhould go fo far on the premifes aline. Mr.
Morgan and his friend, however, proceeded to the
edge of the wharf, with the view of examining the
veffel, but found it imprallicable, on account of the
dillance it was from the (bore. The (pace between
the laud and the Carnatic was about 16 feet, and the
tide then being ebb, that fpace was covered wth mud,
fo that if any perfon had endeavoured that way to
make his efcape, he would inevitably hare been
fuffocated. He then, with his friend, returned to the
houfe, and went into the room where Mr. Blight was
laid, and requefted to be permitted to go to Bow.
greet, to procure proper officers to fearch the pre-
miles. Patch, however, replied that he few no ne.
ceffity for the meafure; and laid, that he himfelf was
in as much danger of being (hot as Mr. Blight, as he
had been in imminent danger the Tburfday preceding.
The witnefs, however, remonftrated, and reminded
Patch of the importance of an early enquiry, telling
him, that human nature was not fo depraved as to
(hoot a fellow creature without. any inducement.—
The partner replied, that he had as much reafon to
Banc& the witnefs as any man, and Mr. Morgan, not
finding his ftrvices acceptable, retired from the
houfe.
Mr. James Berry corroborated this teftimony, and
added upon troll-examination, that the gate which
admitted them on the premifes was only on the latch.
Charles Stoned ploduced the CAI and !butter.
which had been pe'lorated by the ball on the preced-
ing Thmfday. The gates had been fattened by
Patch that night, after the workmen left their labour.
It was impoffible that a (hot fired from the Carnatic
could have reached Mr. Blight, becaule it lay (loping
from the Ihore, In that not even a view of the window
could have been obtained from it. On the Thud:
day after the murder was committed, he flept with
the prifoner, and had no cloaths with him but what
he pulled off at night, and put on again in the morn-
' ing. He had no white Bookings with him, or even
in his poireffion. If the print' were to Band below
the wharf, it would be impollible for him to fire at
the window of the room in which Mr. Blight was
feated at the time of the murder. I was preient, laid
the witnefs, when Mr. Patch and Either Kitchener
were together in the kitchen. As I was Banding in
the kitchen along with Mr. Patch and Either Kitch-
ener, drinking a Either,
of grog, Mr. Patch Paid to
Either, " Now, Either, you arc going hi-ore the

Jury, you mutt fpeak the truth and nothing but
the truth ;" Either raid the would (peak the truth,
and Mr. Patch faid, they will crofs examine yon,
And alk you a great many queftions ; they will
ornfs gnefiion you, and afk you a good many quef
dons, ■nd if yon fay one Rory,. you mull keep to
that Flory, and no other ; if you do not, you will
get me into prifon. • Now, faid lieetbey will ark yon
whether you have given me a candle—you knew 1
afked you for a candle, and you gave me a candle—
I took the candle out of your hand, and went to the
privy, and you heard me (hut Ole privy door ; and
they will afk you all thelecreftions, laid he, and you
muff tell them.—This was on the evening befit e the
Coroner fat, between ten and eleven at night ; end it
was known that the Jury were to fit the nett day. Mr.
Patch and Either were drinking Come grog. The next
day Either was called before the Jury, and Mr. Pavel)
too. After the prifnner had been examined on the
thquell, he came home, end odd the witnefs, that he
had at near Mn hanged as any thing in this 'world, and if
he bad be jhotdd have ken as happy at he was ;hen. The
prifoner then talked about fome piflols which he
had, and faid, that they were fhort puilols, with which
he could not take an aim, and would give any man
leave to take one, and he the other, and his adverfaiy
Ihould have the firft fire.
George Smith and John Brown gave an account
of heating the report of a pillol, and proved pofitively
that nobody came over the gates, or the rails of that
bottle : if any perfon had, they mull have fern that
perfon.
Mrs. Sarah Blight depored, that the was-the wi•
dew of the gentleman whofe murder was now under i
ennfideratini. The acquaintance of her hulband
with the prifoner, arofe from his coming to vifit his
rifler, who lived in the family of the deceafed ■s a
fervent. He reprefented himfelf to have fled from
Devonlbire, on account of a difpnte concerning
tithes. Patch firft engaged in Mr. Blight's fervice
for his board, afterwards for a falary of 301. a year,
and fubfequently. at that of tool. The witnefs was
unaccinainted with the pecuniary affairs of Mr.
alight, in iBo3. Six months before the death of her
htifband, certain papers. in the abfeace of Patch,
were delivered to Mrs. Blight, to be given to the pri-
Inner in the event of particular eireumllances, viz.
whets the right to the property (hould be queftioned
by creditors, The witnefs never parted with theft,
papers, until after the murdei of the deceafed. When
the intelligence of the affalEhation was received, Mrs.
Blight was at Margate, and on her return to town
the found the-documents in the false Rate as the had
left them. The prifoner did not receive the papers
until the istle of September. Mr. Blight was induced
to come to town, from a letter he bad from Patch,
dated on the aoth of September.
The letter was then (hewn to the witnefs, which
the proved to be the handwriting of the prifoner. It
-as in the following form :

" Dear Sir—l have a'very unpleafant and alarming chromes—
to inform you of. I was yeiterday in the apartment In which
Mrs. B. fits at tweakfalt, and at half pall eight in the evening I
heard the report of a guo, the contents of which came through the
window ucareft the peed gate. When the fervent brought the
light, I ordered her to (but the (butter, and the ball came dimuglr
the window, and through the Quitters; bead's the frame, the blind
was knocked all to *emcee of which (truck me in the head, but
I am happy to fay, It has done me no material damage. I Imme-
diately rab into the yard, but could fee no one, and am at a lots to
judge of the Intention at prefent, but It teems likely to be intended'
for your's or for my life. I hope you will find it accidental, which
will be a fatisfaCtion to me and you; but from the dircelion, I
believe It was done in the wharf, and the party was difappointed
to find the window Out.
" I do not know what enemies you may have, but I have net '
offended any one by word or deed
" 1 have had but little buboes fierce you were gone, and have
very little more to Wert to you, but my WWI* to you and your
family. I Stall be happy to have a few lines, but mush more to
fee you, as you are the only friend I have to confolt
" Your's, See. 11CliAltO PATCU."
Diredted to Margate, and dated the loth of September, egos.
The witnefs then continued. She was aware that aia
amount of wool. was depending between her huG
band and Patch, on a bill drawn at two months data
upon amen named Goom, as it purported, for the'
tale of an eßate, the produce of which the deceafed
was to receive. The payment of this bill was at vat
rious times, and under different pretences, delayertil
and the was ferifible that this circumflance prefred
very Rrongly on the mind of her hutband, and there.
fore, after the murder, on her arrival in town, the en-
quired if the bill had been honoured. The prifoner
informed her, that Goom had been to the bankers,
had paid the bill, and being invited to hreakfalt, had
kept the appointment. Soon after the prifoner had
been examined before the Coroner, the papers et♦
trufted to the witnefs were delivered to him, on hie
Rating, that queflions had been afked concerning the
property.
Mr. Swindle, clerk to Mr. Humphries, Solicitor for
the profecution, proved his having ferved on the pi-
Caner, and on the prifoner's Counfel, notice of trial,
and In produce in Court the draft on Goom for toool.
Stephen Goom Paid, he was a glue-boiler, in Ber-
mondsey; that he knew the prifoner's brother about
ten years ago ; and only knew the prifoner by having
fern him twice or thrice there. He had never known
nor had any connexion with him fince ; nor had eves
feen him till under his examination at Bow-lireet. He
never had with him any pecuniary connexion ; never
gave him any authority to draw upon him for any
Corn whatever. The prifoner never afked his permif- ,
Finn, nor propofed to draw upon him ; he never gave
him any note of hand for cioney ; never made any
appointment with the prifoner to breakfaft at Mr.
Blight's, nor ever went there for filch a purpofe, nor
did he know the prifoner livid there.
Thomas Graham raid, he lived in Mile•encl-read,
sad was a (hip owner. He was acquainted with the
late Mr. Blight ; he called at his bottle on Monday
the 23d of September, and had Come conserfation
with him and the prifuner ; he had called on the Fri-
day at Mr. Blight's houfe, and the ['droner told
him Mr. Blight was gone to Margate. Witnefa had
called for payment of a chip which Blight had bought
of him. The prifoner told him that a fad accident
had happened the preceding night ; that a piltol, or
mulket, had been fired through the parinur window,
and nearly taken away his life. Witnefs afked him
if he knew any caufe ? He anfwered No ; but laid, he
believed it was intended for Mr. Blight; for that it
had paffed in the direction of Mr. Blight's choir,
where he was fitting, and bad (truck part of the Ve-
netian blinds againit hit head. Witnefs afked !rim
what became or the ball ? and prifoner (aid, " it had
fallen midway between biro and the itvittdew." Witnefs
at.nbfdeerxvpedrefirerce.
jrhailsfpfulirnyt,eircseuf the
thalthhleinyds haldyinngotobnetehencflicreanrr.,

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ed away ;but the prifoner anfweresl, he aithed the-4
Ito remain until Mr. Blight timid tee them. Witness
then aOced him, if lie tut-peeled any one pet fun in
particular who could be guilty of inch an aft ?
the prifoner laid No; but that Mr. Blight had I,me
words with a perfon Pane time before who was form-
ing, nr teparing a dock for him, and that this w;
he only man he could Wise& ;•his ',ante was Clarke.
bloating more particular p.tlT.d on that slay ; but
witnefs called on the Monday mort.ing following.
4nd was told by the prifoner that Mr. Blight aas
come to town, hut gor,e into the city about route
bonnet's. Witnels called nn his return from Green-

land Dock; law Mr. Blight, who, after f tie con•
verfation upon the wharf, afkcd him to take re_
frefhment. The pt ironer came into the room where
they were, booted. and Aflted for Mr. Blight's fpurs.
Mr. Blight pOinted to them in the window, and lail
to the pi ironer, Patch, don't come back witl t 11:c
money," and the plifoncr anfweted he Ilk,uld not
come back until he law the bulincfa fettled.
Mr. Richard Percival raid he was partner in the
mule of Willis and Co. Bankers, No. 76, Llmbard-
lireet, that the prif mer opened an accJunt at their
honfe on the 7th of September lull, and then paid
int“ the honfe a draft fur wool. upon Mr. Goons.
due 01: the 16th. He called upon him the day before
the bill became due, and laid Mr. Doom was not

prepared to pay the draft, but that he wntild fend an-
other in place of it on the next day, which he accor-
dingly did, fonilar, in all refpeas, except changing the
dates. Here Mr. Percival produced the IA draft on
Mr. Goom for toool. but before this draft became

payable, he received a letter from Mr. Patch, dated
the loth September, which he produced. and it was
read, in Court, requelling him not to call on Goom
for the bill; that he was not prepared to face it, and
that he would give them a check for the turn, for
that &stem had called on him, and had given him a
note for the amount.payable in °Sober, which to him
was perfally ratisfatory. On the sod of September
Mr. Blight called at their office ; he had no account
with them,but called to enquire about Go m's draft.
The whoas then produced a Banker's pals book be-
tween his honk and the prifoner, in which the latter
had made an entry of bills to a confiderable amount,
Idefiring them to be placed to account of the teem-
liras of Mr. Blight; and upon this account k appear-
'd that a 'cool. draft on Blight was the laft depofited,
but not being paid, was erafed.
Mr. Willis partner in the fame houfe,corroborated
the teftimony of the laft
Mr. Usateow then called Thomas Webfter (the '
perfon alluded to by the prifoner as the man whom
he fufpated as moll likely to be guilty of Mr. -
Blight's murder) who raid he was a lawyer, and had
formerly worked for Mr. Blight ; that he heard of
Mr. Blight's death the morning after he was thot ; ;
that the whole of the day before he was at work with
a perfon named Talk, his employer, at a confiderablo
dittance from Mr. Blight's, and that he came from
there at half pall fix in the evening to.a public houfe,
where he continued till a quarter before eight, when
be went home Immediately to bed, and was not out
of his houfe until five o'clock next morning. His
fon (whom the prifoner had laid had' abrconded)
was gone a fortnight before to Deal, and was on,
board a [hip in the Downs, and did not return until •
a fortnight after the death of Mr. Blight.
On his crors-eaamination, he 'kid- his yard bad'
been revelled under the authority of a (catch waro
rant Tome time before._ on furpieion of his ham
fome goods there ftolen from Mr. Blight, but no foolfs.
property was found there. It was Mr. Patch toured' •
this fearch, and be never knew that Mr. Blight knew
any thing of the matter. His fon was never nearer'
than Deal to Mr. Blight's during a whole month.
William Weblter, fon of the loft witnefi, corrobo:
rated the teftimony of his father ; as did Harriet
Webiler, the wife.
Jofeph Clarke, the other perfon implicated by the
prifoner, on the furpicion of having affaffinated Mr.
Blight, fisted, that he was from five in the afternoon
on the 'day of Mi. Blight's affailination, until ten at
night, at Poplar, on the oppofite fide of the Thames;
and a perfon named Cox, by whom he was employ.
ed, and who accompanied him, corroborated his ta.
timnny.
Mr. GARROW next produced the deed of agreements
under which the prifoner, in confideration of the funs
of t 3501. was to have onc.third of the profits of Mr.
Blight's bufinefo
Mr. Jones, furgenn, who full attended Mr. Blight,
was (worn. He laid, that on the evening of the ca-
taftrophe, he had converted with Mr. Blight upon
his wharf, from half part five to nearly fie o'clock ;
that he raw the prifoner, Patch, ride in at the gate.
booted ; but that after the misfortune had happened.
on being fent for, he raw Mn Patch again, and raw
him in a kneeling pollute on the bed of gr. Blight,
endeavouring to affift him ; he then had (hoes and
white flockings on. but he did not obferve this till after
ten o'clock ; he could not be certain that he law it
fooner.
Thome. Mufk proved his being prefent at the er•
ecntion of the deed of partnerfhip between the pri-
foner and Mr. Blight, which was produced, and read
in Court.
Mary Salter, laundrers, proved, that the had 4.
cently been employed to wane for the prifoner, and.
received her fecond parcel of clothes to be walked,
between eleven and twelve o'clock on the Monday,
on which the cataftrophe occurred. She underwent
a long interrogation by Mr. Garrow, refpthing a
pair of white ribbed ftockings produced Lilies which
were found in a clofet in the prifoner's apartment.
marked with a thread of coloured worfted, which the
admitted to be her ufual mark; but would not fwear
pofitively, nor to any belief that the mark was ado-
ally het's.
Mr. Stafford, principal Clerk at Bow-area, (worn,
proved that he found thole Ilockings in the clotet of
the npattment, which the prilhner acknowledged to
be his, in Mr. Blight's }inure ; lie found them rolled
up in the ufual manner of clean Itnekings ; hot from
feeling them, obferved fnmething hard in the centre,
which induced him to open them, when he found the
legs tolerably clean, and not at all marked, even as
if they bad been worn with boots ; but the roles of
the feet were covered with mud, as if the wearer bad
walked without (hoes in the dirt. This was on the
3orh of September : and the flocking. were bandit,
over for the infpedion of the Jury.
Anthony, the Bow. ftreet officer, corroborated the
evidence of Mr. Stafford.
Rkbard Mach. a Nightmaa, who bad been ern-
Vane over.

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rs,erfro examine the privy at Mr Blight's horde in
earth of a pillnl, proved, that he had examined the
(mato trunk which led to the fewer below, and found
flicking in the foil the ramrod of a pillol of confider
it'ie fize. It was found nicking about two inches, by
the si. ~.m.enel, in the foil below, with fume oakum
wadding flicking in the NOM. which was the only
part of the ramind that was foiled, the reit was per-
teltly clean and dry—the foil below was become fn
dry and fnlid, that fcarcely any rnoittrire could pats
it, and that part of the privy obvioufly (hewed, that
no perfon could have reforted there for revere' days,
afthied with fuel; a complaint as Mr. Patch pre-
tended.
Mary Smith, fervent at the Brown Bear, Bow-greet,
Paid, that the was the attendant on Mr. Patch, while
in confinement there, pending his examinations—that
on one of thofe days he anted how his fervent-maid,
( Kitchenet ) wis ? ordered her a glut's of wine; fent
i, compliments to her, and requetted the would not
tier, for that they only wanted to lay whether the
would alter her linty.
The next thing produced in evidence was rhewrit•
ten examinations of the prifoner before the Boat-ltreet '
Magill racc s, on the 28th of September, and the Ift
and 3d of Ottober, which was attelled by Mr. Gwa•
HAM, and the fubfiance of which has been alteady
before the public.
There examinations being read, the evidence for
the erofeentinn doled.
'the CHIPS' BAION'-.." Pt ironer, if you have any
thing to offer in your defence, you have now the op-
portnnity afforded you of entering upon it".
Ps ifoner—" I beg, my Lord, that the paper I hold
in my hand may be read by one of the Gentlemen in
Court."
Mr. KNAPP then read the paper handed from the
prifoner. which was to the following el k& :
Ile eared Ith Memo Maths fell.. ti z piths* lied beta taken
to-prosolt a mikado! wan. r, tbe wither! Owe of
twat. Itheavver stela be the mat the wakes atdea, k
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comment on the timd effeit of ftantial
evidence ; to thew, that, when perfea and cOloplele,
it was 11111 unfatlsfeaorjr. compared with the irrefrag..
able conviaion Of dirge and native proof. A tingle
link, in the long Chain of faits. mull defiroy the ef.
fee of the whole s dot only the faithleffnefs of the
mind, but the inaccuracy of the Memory, of the wit•
neffes was fufficient to render the tellimony nugatory's
and, he fruited, the Jury would duly confider the
difficulty of preferving this conneition and confiftency
In the prolix concatenation of evidence, fuppliei by
1110 fewer than forty witneffes. Circumllannal evi-
dence was alone applied to his cafe; not the (walla
pretension was made to any pofitive teftimouy. He
Then proceeded :
" Referring, then, Gentlemen, to what paired be-
fore the Magiftrates, to Which 1 mull confine myfelf,
it teems that muilt is to be fupported on three
`grotinds— tft. Thatyg I had a fufficrent motive to in.
Attedie an immoral mart to perpetuate the offence.—
idly, That as advantageous oppdrtunity was afford.
ed for committing it; and 3dly, From the peculiar
'Minion of the deceated and myftlf, no other perfon
but the prifoner before you could have been the mur-
derer.
"With regard to the motive to commit filch a crime,
the deftruition of a perfbn with whom I lived in ha-
bits of conflant intimacy, I (brink back with horror
from the idea ; it is painful to me as death to dif
cuts the prapofition, and fuch a thing. would have
never prefenteditfelf to my mind. So far from intend-
ing to take away his life, to fave him from the hands
of affaffin I should have been willing to facrifiee
my own. Such was the fentiment naturally infpired
by his pall ails of kindnefs. and firth was my attach-
ment, that no chilling intereft could impair it ; yet
no fuch clafhing interefl exifted, for the prefervation
of his life was abfolutely neceffary to the welfare of
myfelf and my family. I had recently, although a
granger in there parts, been admitted to a (hare in
his bufinels, which, in the event of his death, was of
P 0 value to me, for bow could I, without his credit
and knowledge, have purchafed the (hips on which
toe fuccefs of our concern depended ? How could I
patibly be benefited by his deceafe ? His reprefenta-
iivcs would in condi be entitled to his intereft in the
trade, and I (hould have bad to fuller all the embar
raliment of thefe new partners, without any of the
advantages refulting from Isis perfonal connelion, his
reputation, and ability.
" It has been reprefentecl, that I was driven born
my native home by the pretfure of poverty. It is
true that my affairs were fomewhat involved by an
importunate demand for tithes upon my ,Rate, but
4 is far from correct to fay that I was reduced to ruin.
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jkad an ,Rate in land, and a well4hxked farm in
tie Country. After f came to Mr. Blight, I fold my
' lick, and in the fpring laft, this ttanfallion was fol-
lowed. by the tale of my ,Rare, fur which the money
was to have been remitted into my hand+. It has not
' arrived.; and after fa/Cling a long impritnnment•
.s(ter teeing the dillrePs of my children 559th parental
anxiety, tam deur is ect even of the pecuniary :sibilance

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necettary to bring up wilneffee from Devenffiire, to
(peak to the ;amity of my charrater, and the extent
of my property.'
" With this property, then, tempted by the ad-
vantages of trade, I determined to acquire the know-
ledge of the binfinefs of fhip•breaking, and with this
view, I placed myfelf with Mr. Blight, and not to
becrnne his lervant. With the money I kilt him, I
could have placed myfelf ii fotne other bufinel-, and
it was by no means neceffary to me to work for my
bread in any menial capacity. My chuffing to be with
Mr. Blight was, than, no proof of my poverty. 1
had more than 13001. and advanced to Mr. Blight
12301. before the execution of the agreement of the
3 tit of Augult, by which one third of his burin& was
tenured to myfelf. The very afllgnment of this (hare
of the concern is a fufficient proof thatlhad the money,
and the unhappy death of my brother is the only rea•
fon why this part of my defence cannot be removed
beyond the reach of all contradiEtion ; while he lived,
no voucher was neceffary, and previous to his deceafe
I had not taken the precaution of procuring arty.
" But there are many circumnances connetied with
there affairs which involved them in myllery. Mr.
Blight had many private expences of which his wife
was wholly uninformed ; he had natural children, and
expended large fans of money on loan women. To
render his accounts fill more complicated, he had
before been a merchant, and had failed. Surrounded
by Courses of embarraffment, he had executed various
inflrurnents to proteft his property; come of them
r.al, others fiaitious, In that from the papers- of
fuch a perfon, no fatisfaetory evidence could be ex.
;steed. Many apparently (ohms inftruments under
his hand were utterly nugatory, and loch was the
alignment of the 15th of July, and all the documents
eonneeted with that tranfation."

[The prifoner here entered into Come Ratements of
the matters of accounts, and then adverted to the
item of moo!. on which he contended, that Mr.
Blight had concerted with hiMfelf a prnjed of draw.
ing this Bill, in order to give a favourable appear+
anee to their banking account with the heti& of
!delfts. Willis, Percival, and Co. He then advanced
to the next propofition on which the charge was
grounded.]
o But they fay, fecondly, that an advantageous op.
portunity was afforded (or committing the offence.—
True it is indeed, Gentlemen, that opportunities I had
imit, if I could have attempted any loch thing.
I have done it when no one was near, and
11411611 no veflige could have remained to detest tha•
criminal. But would a perfon fo fituated have boss
bre& to the folly of doing the all, when whinges,
Wan al the fpot, and with an inftroment which ma*
• unavoidably give alarm to the neighbourhoodfo.o
Whale Is Paid of there opportunities, inftead of being
4* argument for my criminality, is a part of the
its on which I confidently eftabliffi my defence.--.,
, lie who is deficient of fuch opportunities, might_pii.
fibly avail bimtelf of the 6rft moment, aaCiFiho
&ft weapon that came into his hands, but it would
be madnefs in a man to do this, who bad the means
of fulfilling his nefarious defign when his viaim was
pretested to him in a thoufand unguarded intervals.
—The man who murdered Mr. Blight did not know
that the fervent was in the kitchen, and he came
armed with a pined, becaufe be was not aware that
be could approach fo near the perfon of Mr. Blight,
intending, no doubt, to repeat his former attempt, by
fhooting.through the window ; but, contrary to his
expalation, be found the door open, and fulfilled the
purpofe he had wickedly projeolted.
'I Gentlemen, attend for a moment to the fituation
in which I was, and that in which Either Kitchener
mullhave been, and you will find, that it was not
only improbable, but impoffible, that I Ihould be the
guilty man. She heard the privy door Gann, and at
the fame inflant the explofion was dikovered." After
various obfervations on the local and accidental eir•
cumftances, he laid, that all that had been oblerved
on the impoffibility of efcape, if the piftol had been
fired by a &anger, was unfatkfalory, for the affaffin
might, during the confufion, have eafily concealed
hisnfelf among the maffes of timber in the yard, un-
til a favourable opportunity was afforded for flight t 1
and he remarked on the apparent abfurdity of fit ppo-
ling him to be the offender, when he attended on
Mr. Blight in his fatal illnefs, was the perfon aloes
admitted to affill him under his calamity, and in the
laft aft of expiring thought was appointed executor
to his will. It was Paid, that from the peculiar fitu-
scion of the deceafed and himfelf, no other perfoa
but he could have been the murderer. In anfwer to
this obfervation, he reminded the Jury of tome of
the particulars to which he had kill alluded, and com-
mented on various particulars of the evidence, Thew-
'tins cnntradietions in the tellimony of Mifs Davis
and of Wright ; explaining the impoffibility of its
coming to the knowledge of any one, how many
enemies he might have railed up againft him, and
adverting to the hiftnry of the paffions of men, and
the ingenuity they would employ to accompli(h the
moil defperate defigns. He then concluded in theft
words :
" Gentlemen, my fate is in your hands ; by your
decifion I am to live nr die. I have been fo galled
and mortified by the Handers with which I have been
affailed, that looking to myfelf only, fuccefs or fai-
lure, life or death, are to me almoft equally indiffe.
rent. But, unhappily, I am not permitted to think
of myfelf only. I have four children, who will be
thrown on an unchatitable world, in a condition of,
abf•lute beggary. It is true, Gentlemen, that the
reflation nn their rain ought not to avert my defliny
if the proof he _featly and decidedly againft me; but
if there be any doubt, if there be any difficulty in
drawing your conclufion, if there be any .feeble link
in the long chain of evidence, I hope you will admit
that doubt to have its due influence, for their fakes,
if not for my own. In the awful fituation in which
I (land at this moment, I declare molt folemnly my
perfat innocence of the crime imputed to me ; and
with this appeal to ALMIGHTY Gov, I commit my
fee into your hands."
The defence being thus concluded, the witnales to
the charaBer of the prifoner were then called. Many
• names were proclaimed in Court, but the three fol-
lowing perils:is only were in attendance :
Mr.
_Pariah Slee [aid. that be was an ironmonger, and bad known
the prifoner for two years and a half, and, during the due he had
I been acquainted with him, Patch had born a good charaaer, and
ithe witneft never hu .r.l any thing to the contrary.
. Jefiah Huffam, a Ihip-chandler in Tooley-ftreet, denoted, tha-
-1 he bad known tte Minster for shout two years, in the way of but
fines, and had always heard every thing that wee honourable of
him from Mr Etfight, from when be learnt his general•charadir.
ki,hard l'oo:e, a hip-builder of Berasuodky, had known

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pitch glom September twdesseenith and became aeqnsfeted
with big dealing at Mr. Blight's gardi he always eonlidered
hint as as larharious, honeft man. He thbeght him a vcry he-
mane man, as he newer beard him make a bard bargain with any
of the workmen whom be hired.
he Cinsv BARON now proceeded to Cum up the
evidence; but before he entered into the particulars,
he faid he &mild explain its general nature and
hearing. It was true that the whole was circumnan-
thrt, there was nn dire& tellimony whatever ; but,
when thi, was connefted by a (cries of well afcer-
rained fah, it was often more convincing than the
tetlimony of a few witnefres to minute and infulated
pnints. It was polfible for a plain Short Rory to be
told with confidence and addrefs,•and Come inflences
had occurred in which inventions had been pradlifed,
which h.-free-defeated the greaten vigilance of an im-
partial and intelligent jury. When a train of cir-
cumftances were neceffary to eflablint any fait, collu-
lion was generally impolfible, and if the (lighten
diffonance were difeovered in any mate:jai refpeß,
the whole was dentoyed and the prifoner was ac-
quitted. His Lordship then entered into the teftimony
of each individual witnefs, commenting on the dif-
ferent items in his progrefs. He obferved at great
length on the matters of account, and concluded
from the reflimony, that the prifoner bad adopted a
regular fyftern of fraud, the °hie& of which was to
be finally attained by the affaffinatir n of the deceaf-
ed. " If," faid hid Lordihip, " yew fbould be of
opinion that this is one of the mna ingenious and'
befi concerted cafe+ of fraud and crime that you ever
heard or read of, you will find the. prif,ner guilty ;
but you mutt be convinced, before you give ['itch a
verditt, that the whole body of the evidence is con-
("Rent, and that he alone could be the man who per-
petrated the murder; and that there is no rational
way of accounting for the event, bat by the offence
with which the prifoner is charged. You will take
the whole into your confederation, and do junice to
the prifoner, and to the country."
The Jury having retired for about twenty minutes,
at half pall nine, returned with a verdict—Guilty.
Mr. KNAPP then addreffed the prifoner, tecapitu-
lated the nature of the crime, and Rated the verdift
of the jury ; after which, he put the ufual quellion
to the prifoner why judgment of death, and execu-
tion thereon, Ihnuld not be awarded again( him
The prifoner bowed in Renee.
The Learwed Judge then (homily addreffed the pri-
foner, told him that he had been tried by a humane,
upright, and inquifitive Jury, who, after attending
to the whole of the cafe, had pronounced him guilty
of a murder the ,iron atrocious ever perpetrated in
this country. His crime bad commenced in ingrati
tude, proceeded in fraud, and terminated in the foul
affalfination of his friend and benefa&nr. After what
had been already faid upon the fubjea, nothing re-
mained to him, but to pronounce the awful fentence
of the law, which was—That the prifoner be taken
back from whence be came, and from thence that he
be taken to the place of execution, on Monday
morning next, and there be hanged by the neck until
he be dead ; his body then to be delivered to the
furgeons to be diffelted.
The prifoner maintained his Ciro Refs to the lan :
he bore every thing with an invincible intrepidity
and calmfiefs, except during the latter part of the
fentence, when he teemed fomewbat ataken, and ap-
peared to flied Come tears; but he loon again refumed
the compofnre which marked his whole deportment,
and retired from the Court to his cell, without any
apparent dread of the fate which awaited him. He
was heavily ironed, but walked with as upright and
Ready pace. He appears to be about forty years of
age, about five feet nine inches high, heavy, eltnnfily
made, and very round ihouldeted, this a very abort
thick neck, and a florid complexion. Notwithftand
ing his long confinement, and all theeessiety which be
mull have (offered, he appeared in rode health, as if
frefh from the country.
Before the Ouse Radon left the Conn, he relpited
the Prifoner till Tuefday, (Tomeectrier.)

VIM VIZ LONDON OAZETTS, APIIL 5.
Average Prise of Corn la England aid Woks, from the raturse
iodic* the spa of Moth, 111*6.
Who/ Rye. I Barley. I tOsts. resell Peak.
s. d. a & a. d. a. & s. d. s. '4l.
74 7 44 9 34 7 85 2 40 1 39 9
The avow Pike of Seger, rempeted from the acturns made
In the wok foam April 1,1. 475.54 d. per hooked weight.
3Ei6ootl. idigTEILII OFFICE, LONDON, APRIL 5.
CAIOOLS SOLD. and rateas.
1 • • . Mar. 31. April 6 April 4.
734,174.214 COAL.
D Monday. Waked Friday.
3 48 0
1 algraMala • - 11600 153 o
Croft's Maio , , - 1 45 3
Pigliton Moat 1 46 0
Heston Male '.. t 63 0 4 53 0
ti-phum Maio I 53 0
Kenton Main - 1 111 6
9
Po teror—Wlndfor's I 2 ,5
Tanfteld Moor -
Team -
Temple Main •
Walbottle Moor •
Wall's End
Temple's Wall's End -
Wellington
Heaton and hater's Low Main
Wylam MOOT .
Hartley

Total, Ships 3

50 0

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
MESSRS. E and Co. Surgeons, baring for
IVA along reties of years made the VIiNERFAL DISRASE the
particular objoet of their inveftigation, are now enabled to an.
nounce the dikovery of a Medicine (nutria. to Mercury in the
Cure of that Dileafe. It Is at prefent fufficient for them to obferve
that Its creels are diametrically oppofite to thole of Mercury, for
though it completely eradicates every veltige of the virus In its
molt confirmed thin, yet it does not In the haft injure the coital-
lotion, or alter the complexion ; on the contrary, it renovates the
Ityftem In all its natural fundtions, promotes Appetite, and facili-
tates Digeftlon. Numberlefs inltances arc on recent rec.trd of the
fuperior efficacy of this Medicine, its inherent and fpecific virtues
sating as a perpetual curredive to bodily debility, whether pro•
ceeffing front an excefs of conjugal and illicit pleafure. or from the
more infidinus though not left deftrudthe indulgence In a certain
pernielmas habit. Amidft the melancholy variety of Iliforders
which are the confequence nt this folltarr vice„there are UMW more
afflicting than thole DIFICIIINCEs and osatu rs re that prevent or
embitter the matrimonial nate. The wretched (offerer broods over
his misfortunes, alhamed to reek relief till it has brought him)to
fuch a Rate of mifery as to render life oppreflive. To that tint
happy Perron, It will be a eonfoling refiedion to know that they
may now, by a new and infallible mode of treatment, be reltured
to that greateft of all human bleffings, a nrong, manly, and vigor-
ous Coaftitution.
Melks Currie and Co. may be confutted by Patients of either
Sea, at their Hoare, No. roi, Nation Garden. Perfonally or by
letter (polt paid) Inclofing a Batik Note, when the neceffary ad-
vice and Medicines will be given or fete to any part of the King-
dom.—Patients in the Country are requefted to ftate their age and
general mode of living.
No 107, Hatton Gardcm.

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PORTIIMOUra,
FOR. PUBLIC SALE, at the Star and °after Tavern,
On Thutfday the icth of April, 18°6, at Twelve 0%1..4,
THE FOLLOWING GOODS, for
Ftportstion, viz.
So Cafe* of HAVANNAH SUGAR.
Being part of the Cargn of the American Brig Vs NUS. condemned
u prize to his Majelly's Stip 1111 roa, J. CorLiza, Efq. Cont.
mender.
For Catalogues and viewing the fame, apply two days before
the Isle to JOHN MOYLE, mist.

f. Au/BM/MTH.
FOR PUBLIC BALE, at the Star and Garter Tavern,
On Thurfd tho teth of Apri.„ taco, at Twelve oliock,
THE FOLLOWING GOODS, for
Expectation. via.
as Arad. MULL MADDER.
Edit{ loth of the Cargo of the Visitant/1 A TTTTT It, eta •
Mired to the Crites.
For Cabana's sad viewlng the 'fame, apply two rata befog*:
he fele to JOHN MOYLE, Braker.
By Virtue of a Ommaillkei of Apprallemest Imd:Baik., Maio Oh:
High Court of Admiralty of hncland, &diluted to 24 is.
Rather/. E4+ FUR PUBI IC SAUL
At the Star as Garter raven', Pertfosoudi, on ThitißLit thil '
soth of Aril, tgcl6.
THE FOLLOWING GOODS, for:
Exportation, via.
6o HMIs. Bad t a Balsa Ruda Lemke
t t Mb& of Ron Lear sod Cut s Higatesd Madder
Tobacco . 3 Ditto Orouserha
dd was
t 4 tales Ditto 4 Cals. Bwoird'lnsdiss --
13 Cafe. Ditto a Hhds. Double Reload Illopit=
$ Cafes of Tobacco Plyes 6 Cafes Vitriol - .
3 Cares and t Hiad.Paper and s Diuo Iran Wire . .
_ Q.2lth 6 Cats Hoge !billies
Sting part of the Cugo of the Yr mamas Av cartralt, &Wald
by his Mayfly's gen.hrig DAaINO.
For Catalogues lad Amber particulars apply two days laws
the falc, to JOHN MOYLB.,,Nroher. .
N. B. Th. Saud sod Tabasco to be delivered to the pm:chafes*,
at Cowes. • .

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TO SHIP AND BOAT BIJI
BROADS PAIRS, ISLE OF THAN
TO BE BE SOLD BY PUOLIC AUL _ , _
At &cedillas, in the tile of Thanet, on Monday sod Teerdaytika'
seab and rob days of Aril next, by order of the Angulo of
Thanes White, Ship and Drat builder, a Bankrupy
ALL the valuable Stuck, cnniiniug of 310 Lolls.
of Oak Timber and Planks. Fir Timber Do. Plank and'
Deals,Tumnels, Wedges, and Sundry Utenlib; the Sale east day.
to begin at ten o'clock.—Catalogues to be had at tie Rah hie;
Broodeatrs ; Ring's Head. Ramfgate ; New Inn,lianderkit ; Royal!
Oak, Dover; Footman. Canterbury ; Royal Oak, DWI War
Head, Margate ; and further particulars may be known, by apply.
log to Mr. Richard Collard, firoadilairs, Auftioocer.
NAVAL AND OTHER TIMBER, SPINY AND SOUND.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
Wednefilay the 9th of April, ac 6, at the Racket Public-
• 1111•44 is SherSeld Englith, near Runifey, Haiti, together, or
ALLAN
ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-THREE OAKS,
V of which sot are eumputed to be at shoat 3t Meeting, and
So at tg, with the Tops. Lops, and Bark thereof, growing con.;
venient for carriage to the neighboaring Sea Pons, and is tied?
enabled.
The Timber may be viewed, by appHeation to MC Thome Rot'
beets, of Sherficld Warren Hoof.. and printed particulars had of
him, u well as at the White Hoefe ntt, at Rowley ; the Shoe bal.
at Plaltford ; the Dolphin Inn, at Southamptoe ; the Gangs Inca
at Winebeiter; the Anchor Inn, at Redbridge; the- prideful'
Coffee Honk, in Leedom; and at Shertleid Hatchet.
Ezperieneed itinere see engaged 0 the coda/nary

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HAMPSHIRE.
To be SOLD by AUCTIONI by HENRY CRISWICK,
At the Fountain Tavern, in Portfmooth, en Waded:lay, the 9th,
day of April next, at Three &Clock in the Aftanuoo,
A MOST valuable and well-timbered Freehnli
mu, Galled PACKHOUSE FARM, house in the Parik
of LStberington near the Village of Clanfield,tonfifting of a Fame
Hook, with ful;sbie Oat-buildings, end 'bees Ida Ames of Land,
sx at which are Weed, and the refidue Arable. And ado the
Oita Trim of the above Farm and upwards of Two Handed
sod liaty.eight Acres vitiation land adjoining: The above nag
Is caddied to attentive Common Rights in the fleet
Lend Tax is redeemed, and the Peaks* stagy solar se.
set. Catheington Is &tate Is a Filipshus ilooldsy 0111111rg
abounding with Game, dole to a Pack sr =1 Foltii=sil/4
oily Mance from Portfmoudi, BillkoVs W
and Admit's!.
Particulars with Coodifioos, allay bet Wit kile Nw Imfetbia.
!Soden ; the Swan, Alresfordt the Swim it Alton; the Oarnas.
Whiebefter ; the Dolphin, Gairrt ;,aod the priadipat low at
Chichefter and Petersbeld ; at the phet of fide ; did,. Intearidge.
Common Pleas Offite,Teniple ; of Bustard Pugh, Efq. Mr. Novi
and Mr. Todd. and the AaMeaver.-Atedeveit.
Mr. Henry Falter, the Tensest, Gtr- Mow, Carpeatier, at
Hatatakdon, will Omit* Pennitcs.
lIIIV/1,9V/X PARK HOSHIE. •
Within Two hales of Lyn/logien, Haat%
TO be LET, ready herniated. Cwt ing of as
Entrance Hall, with billiard Table, an °Mercator'', a
Dining Rom., a Deffert Rooter, a Library and Gentlemen's Oaf.
fins Room adjoining. two Drawfng Roane, a %dole' five hat
Bed chambers and Teo .Beds' for baryons; with amens, doable
Comb hook, a Hooting Stable. a Stahl, for Coseleherfes. a.
Stable for &waiter is, a Green •nonfe and Shrubbery Welk. and
a Lawn before the Houle of Fifty Aerok A walled Garden and
Hot-haufes
The* Premifes are to he La fur one year certain, renewal& fee
a longer periud,at the mutual quint, of the Landladies! TINISOG
Immediate poll.fGoit may be had.
Application to be made (if by letter poll paid) to Mr Perkins.
Perfumer, at Lymington, who will deliver tickets of admidion to
lee the Houfe ; and to Panne Love, no the fpot, who will Sew
the Pranife.
HAVING dedicated tnylcil to the Rudy, and bees
gratified by the molt confolerable pradia In that branch
which I thought prance to fried. I trult that I have not more noir-
employed my time than thole who, in the extenfive field of the
protelSon, are occafimially jronterfed in UPC rtainty, and cannot
a'ways attain that fuccefs which is acquired by concentrating the
intelleCtual power to me ciao of difurders.
The dif af.a of DEBILITY are peculiarly &taffies, }be they
bring with them a min of concomitant fymptonas, and by a de-
petition of all vital energy, exillence Pfeil becomes embittered....
Whether they arife from the prevalence of ill example, the define.
five habits of fclionlboycor the ledulaences of maturity, they as-
quire the molt Widows prof. Mona (hill ; but by the Ignorance of
uneducated men. tie Iymptonis arc aggravated, and the eon/tits-
don 14 &Brayed.
Asa MEMBER of the ROYAI. COLLEGE of SURGEONS,
ground my pretenfions on regularity of edecalon. and pollefLog
every privilege to pradlice, I feel mylelf entitle! to that confidence
with which I have hitherto been I. liberally ho-oured.
In the firft fenfatluns of local weakticfs, earl% application will
prevent the calamity of a debilitated frame.; but where the (offerer,
from a confeloufnefe of the unmaulin,fa of TUC nice whioh carted
his misfortune, I. fearful of the cone -mut or cenfu re of his family
ployfician, and brands over his infirmity with careful concealmtm,
it moil be fatisfaelety for him to he allured not only or capabio,r
of treatment but alto of the molt invinlabls fecrecy.
r And in recent Venereal Complaints it is poribk to prevent pain.
danger or diltrefe ; in the molt complicated cafes It is the acquire-
(' meta of exelafive experience in th.s.litte to area a fare, certain,
and focal re-eftabillenent.
1 offer the advantage of this taterietwe to thole of either fee who
are alilidted with any kio.l of ur lIICITV. of any fymptoms of
VENEREAL INFECTION, and in all cafes the terms of remu-
neration are Rated on the hit interview.
Patient, in the country are espcdted to Include a Bank note, end
are requefted to fpecify their age and manner of living.
MARTIN BALE,
Member of the Royal e.oll tee of Surgeons, In London.
N.. an. Arundel ftreet, Strand, near Temple Bar.

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Morning 13 minutes after 5
Afternoon • • 36 minutes after 5

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