Star.
London, England, 1805-10-17 00:00:00

RPORTIAG INTELLTGENCL

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, Osr.
The Town Plate of Sol. for Syr olds, 7R. 41b. 4yr
olds 811.41 b. Syr olds 811. t tlb. 6yr olds 91e. alb.
and aged 9R. 41b. T. M. M. B. C.
Mr. wyndham% b. e. Tallboy, 31rs
Mr. Panton's b. e. Performer, 3yrs .
Mr. Perm's eh f. by Guildford, syrs 3
Mr. Okay's ch. m. Capella, syn
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Mr. Th-anpl,,::'s cll. f. tCy Ihisitrd.syrs
N;r. R. Boyce's b. c. Merrrma?, 4yrs

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Two to s ageing PertOmer. High odds again&
the reit.

Sweepßakes of 25gs each. Two-yr old CoUrfe.
Mr. Ladbroke's Wormwood, by Young Woodpecker, 81121 b. &
Gen. Gower's Swinley, by Coriandcraft. 'sib. s
Ld Sacksillt's Carts', A. - . - I
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Five to 4. againlt Wormwood, 5 to I agllSwinley-.
Mr. R. Boyce's Sir David, N. 61b. beat Ld F ley's
Captain Abfolute, 811. 71b. From the tinting poil
of the T. M. M. to the end of the Flat, wogs. h. it.
—6 to 4 againft Sir acrid.
Gen. Gower's Agincourt beat Mr. Andrew's Nor.
val, WI alb. each. R. M. sogs.—f to 4 on Agin.
court.

Ld B:Lavine's Enchanter beat Mr. Mellifh's Lady
Brough, M. each. B. C. sags.— tzto 8 againft En-
chanter.

Ld Foley's Czar Peter rec. from Mr. Andrews's
Norval, 811. each. D. I. 25gs.

DRURY LANR...—Mr. ELLISTON bullied through
the charaaer of Waldo, io As roa L ifr h, in a
diewy kind of manner, in which he was ably fup.
ported by Mrs. joaoas, who by the way is become
a rather more fubftantial holafind than the aria text
of the Poet warrants; and Powact. gave, for the
&ft time, a very intending portrait of the venerable
Aldan.

COVIST GAIDEIII.••••MrS. SIDDONSPS Vane Sbore at
this houfe Lit night, 101 l nothing of its ufual aurae.
tiuns ; and Mrs. LITCHFISLD was •wery animated.
though fometimes a little too coarfe, in Aficia..—•
CH•sLE S KSSIBLE and lisacutAva appeared for the
fira time, rather to advantage in Lord Haling: and
Dumont, while the elder KESUILI condefcended to be.
come a mere " Ring of Shreds and Patches." In
the after piece of 71,e tuaker, a Mrs. MAIOEIII/01,
from the country, performed in a pleating manner
the charafter of Floreita, and was much applauded.
Liswou again appeared to very great advantage in
the little p.m of Sokniesa. With the great merits of
'awl:roses steady nur Readers are well acquainted.

On Sunday Lord PUMICE Blomtics gave a
moo fumptuou, entertainment at the Crown Inn,
Rocheiler. to General WYNTARD, Colonels CAPEL,
1311.1114140 ND, SIMSBURY, LAMBERT, &C. &C. and to
the Officers of the tlt Battalion of Guards, to which
he belongs. Among the company we noticed L
Tartma, Efq. of Byfronce.—The dinner was ferved
up in a very fuperior fide of excellence. the wines
were of the Snell flavour and quality. and the deffert
needed any thing of the kind ie.n in that part fora
e confiderable time.

Bury Fair was laff week very falhionably attended.
Three hundred and ft:ty•five perfons h, noured the
New Affemhly Rooms with their pretence on Friday
night, among whom were many of the molt diltin-
guithed families in the county, as well as numerous
others from different parts of the kingdom.

The John armed Blip, with eight fail under convoy,
failed from the Nore on Monday LA for the Baltic.

The Montezuma, -, from Africa for Chafe-
non, wa% captured on the 9th of A.ugua by a Fiends
privateer.
The Albion, Atkinfon. from Liverpool for New
Yoti, is captured on the Banks of Newfoundland.
by a privateer from Guadaloupe.
The John, Facts?, from CharLefton. detained and
Cent into Plymouth, was boarded on the 4th intl. in
lat. 49. 3a• long. tt• by a Ftench frigate. part of a
fquadroo of eight fail of the line, two ftigates, and
a brig : the officer informed him that they had an
Englith 74. ifuppofed the CALCUTTA), and eight or
nine Englith vcifels in tow.

The Friendflup, LANOLEY, from Sunderland for
Teignmouth, is captured and carried into Dunkirk
by a French privateer of three guns and 45 men ;
lour other veffels were alto captured.

A Court Martial was held on Toefday; at Ply.
mouth, on board 'the Salvador del Mundo, in Ha-
mo‘ze, on Captain Zacnaity MUDGE, and the Offi-
cers of the ISLA/iota frigate, for the Ina of that (hip,
in an ation with a toper ior force of the enemy, Vice-
Admiral Surrom, Prcfident ; when, after a tull in-
vetligation of the circurnaances. Captain MUDGE and
his Officers were molt honourably acquitted.
The foltowing fperch was made by the Prefident
of the Court Martial appointed for trying Captain
Munoz, on prefenting his fword

" I feel the greatell fatisfaetion and *afore in the difeharge of
this part of my duty, having to convey to you the juft feutinunts
which the Members of this Court eon:stain of your very able and
pliant contituft in the defence made by you of his Majefty's late
fhip Blanolte againft a very fttperior force of the. enemy's Stipa;
and likewffe of the fpirited fupport afforded you by the Officers of
every defcription, as arenas the Seamen and Royal Marines, untie
your command, in the difcharge of their duty; and which needs
upon you and them, on that ocadioa, tike higheft dcgree of suit
and approbation. (Signed)
" On board H. M. & " lona SUTTON,
Salvador del Mundo, fidcnt Of the
Plymouth, Offt. 4,1805. Cam Martial."
N. B. It was proved on the Court Martial, by the
oath of Mr. Hymn's, the Fir& Lieutenant, that the
Topaze and la Torche came into aition together, and
the Department de Landes eight minutes after. Su .
much for Captain BAUDIN'S veracity.
A letter from Bombay of the 17th of April, lays.
" A Ipirit of revolt had manifelled itfelf among the
troops of the Rajah t.f Travancore, intligated, it was
fuppofed, by tome French emiffaries, who had been
landed on the coati from one of the enemy's frigates,
arrived there front the Mauritius, which had obliged
the Rajah to apply to the Madras Government for
*alliance, when a detachment of Europeans and na-
tives were immediately ordered to enter the Travan-
core dominions. This had the cleared effra t—the
principal mutineers were feized and puniated, and
the rea of the troops then returned to their duty.—
The cmiglaries, it was expetied, would be difeovered
before they could reach the Ilion, as intelligence had
been received, that it was their intention to endeay.ur
to get on board the frigate, which Was ibca crui‘itz
offil2c coati."

NAUTICAL IATTELLIGgNOR.

iy.—Wind N. W.

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Dublin
Av..terford
Liiben

Prorzawer, Ocr. t4—Since my lack failed the
Ilwedifh brig Carin, BRAS R mailer, for Naple,, with
fills ; the Thais, ROSEWALL, for Falmonth ; and the
, Ayr, GRENTL LE, and Stag, THOM rung, for Swanfea.
TORBAY, Ocr. ts.l—• Lail evening arrived off Tor-
bay, the fhip Hawklbory, Capt. CARR, having on
hoard General Paovosr, his Lady, four children,
and fervants, from Dominica. 72 days on their pal:
rift ; they were taken out of the Hawkfbury, and
lorded here lad evening by one of our fifhing boats,
an.l this morning fet off for London. General PRO-
Vf•ST brairght with hilt a quantity of letters and
r. tketu for London, which were forwarded by lift
cv,ujog's mail. His Majetty's !hip Vaarcu•an, of
74 guns, joined the above (hip on Saturday LA, off
I the Scilly !Rands, with about to fail of thehonteward-
bound Jamaica fleet.
FALMOUTH, OTT. 14 —Attired the Banat. BLA•
ose. from Padliow I Vigilant, Ikhiunt.as. from
Cardiff; JAIME, t'ASCOE ; and the Mary Ann; Bond,'
from Swanfe.t ; Ann, Bisaaws, front Oporto; Mary,
Brissconss, from St. Scballian's ; the Amsriean ,
(hip Shipcarpenter, MITER, from Norfolk, with to-
bacco ; American fchooner Mary, Hartwig, from I
St. Ander°, in eight days ; American flip Martin, '
Lirtcrriaco, from Honduras, Taft from New York,
in 58 days, with foremaft (piling, and three topmafls
gone ; IA night fpoke the homeward bound Lee-
-1 wart' Ifland fleet, about eighty fail ; the reft are gone up
the North Channel: the day beforeyetterdayrpokethe
Channel fleet off Ulhant, all well. Sailed the Baretri,
I BLAMER, for Guernfey ; and his Majefly's thip
Aroci.o, Capt. Ft LLow Es, on a cruite.
PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER IS.—Came in the Mary, oil
' Plymouth, Captain Eertwortia, from Dernerara,l
bound to London, laden with fugar, coffee, rum,
ikc: ; the parted from the Iccusrarous; of 74 guns,
with the Leeward Nand fleet under convoy, two days
' ago ± came in alfo the HELENA, of 18 guns, from a
cruize. Sailed the Arocco, of 44 guns, on a cruize.
PORTSMOUTH, Ocr. t6.--rSailed his Majefty's fhip
VANGUARD, Captain Nawm•s, for Plymouth; DIA-
MOND frigate, Captain Ecr marrows, and Lrasarr
i
brig, Lieutenant CODD, on a mire. Went out of
. harbour the AMPHITRITE frigate, to go round to one
of the River Yards to be repaired ; alfo the Da-
tEIIDER gun brig, Lieutenant NOPS ; and Lotto &-
wow armed fhip, Captain —.
A great number of paffengers hive landed here
to-day from the Leeward Wand and Jamaica Fleeti,
and marry of the fhips have put in here, but his Ma,
jelly's fhip Iccusrarous, with the remainder of the
convoys, are Rill off the Ifle of Wight, nor is it ex
peeled that they tan come in to-night, as the wind is
about E. N. E. with thick hazy weather. .
Dovaa, Ocr. 16.—Part of the Jamaica fleet ar-
s
: t.ived off here this morning, and are fence worked
1 into the Downs; the, wind blowing hard from the
I 14. E. prevents the remainder of ti:e (hips getting
up. The Sea Feneibles belonging to Folkflone, tinder
the command of Captain RI CIISTTS retook yeflerday
1
the brig Ifabella, of Sunderland, and lent her into
; I
this bar:tour laa night. She had been captured -On
Itooday night by two French lugger privateers,
tzlnnging to Boulogne.—Sailed the Auroras (loop
this morning on a cruize.—Arrived the S,.•an hired
mined cutter from Yarmouth Roads to refit. Sailed
this afternoon the Basettst gun brig on a cruize.--
Fort. of the Jamaica fleet are now in fight, working
tp, but the wind blows fo hard from the N. E. that
it is doubtful if they will get into the Downs to•night.
Six P. M.—Juft arrived in the harbour the brig
Expedition, of Whitby, Ras. Dusts mailer, retaken
yellerday afternoon by Lieut. STOLE, of the CON..
STAN r gun brig; the French ptivateer took out all
the crew.

DEAL, Ocr. 16.—1 n my laft I informed, that an
experiment was to he tried on a veal anchored off
Walmer Cattle. It was tried, and failed, owing to
Tome deice in the arrangement of the apparatus.
Lail evening it was tried again and anfwered every
end that was intended, the coffer or globe being
thrown overboard from a galley which rowed
athwart her bowr,hooked the cable of the veffel, and
the tide running (lrong, funk under her bottom. Af-
ter the time which it was fet had expired, it exploded,
and flattered the veffel into a thoufand pieces, no
veilage remaining, only the felt covered with the
wreck.—Arrived the TRUETT of so guns, and Oa•
THEIIS frigate, from Dungenefs; la SUFFILANTb
p of war, with a convoy, from Honduras, which
:re failed for the River; and RANGER armed flip,
from bover.—Sailed the FEARLESS, BLAZER) and
DESPERATE gun brigs, on a cruize, off Boulogne;
,he Romt aye floop of war, with a convoy of tranf-
ports, for Leith; and the ROSARIO frigate, fur the
Wore, with ten fail of fire veffels.--Wind E. N. E.
Wows bard.

!MOM LLOYD'S LIST.
Gm AVIS CND, nev:ls.--Paffed by the Young William, BUM j
•nd the Scorpion, Dagg,fram the South Seas; Alligator, Wilton.
'torn St. Vincent's; Rae, Harrifon, front Guernfey ; Elblag.
Molt. from Bourdeaux ; Unity, Wilton, from Norway; Cadm-
ium, Cook, from Longfound ; P rovicknee,Firft, from CkrUllana ;
Draw, Mlionald; and the Fodor, Conway,hom
LOILd the Ann. Leefe, for Gibraltar.
Oc masa 16..—Paffeel by. the Loyal Briton, Heath; and the
Fatic. Parmoore, trot Jamaica ; Spy, Fowler, from the Camb-
ric% Paradife, Poole, from Charante; London Packet, Coins-
; Cognac Puckett Natrikm ; and John, Louth:woo. trove

. . ! , •`. ;
'area AMIN, Llysil, feed Idtaleta • 'Atm Vreietida.
Damp; and Sanderagtigheden, from Tenerife.
ARRIVED. ' • •
In the Downs, the Cogniae Packet, from Oporto. At Hoy-
lake, Bornick, Gibfon, from Oporto.. At Dublin, Ann, Green,
from Oporto. At Newry. Endenvogi; Cotton, from Oporto.—
At Cowes, Prefident; letterer)°, front New York ; and the. Po-
mona, —, from Demerara. At Briitol, Rover, Tyrol!, from
Tortola ; and Induttry, from St. Vincent's. At Litermil,
Caledonia, Hodgfon ; Adtive, Leach; Woeitoo,Sheretoodt Bri-
tannia, Leavy. and the Three Williams, from Jamaica ;
Heroine. Jackfon, from Siga ; Caller, Snow ; Neptune, Etheirne,
and the Flora, Brenthall, from New York; Fanny, Cargill;
Frientlilip, Jones, and the Two Sifterr, Artis, from Lifbon;
Shalom), Craven, from Baltimore ; Agnes. Brown, and the Di '
ana, Hillock, from Trinidad; Minerva, Brown; Admiral Nei-
fon, Cafter; Paul, Sir Edward Pelle Adams ; Went-
worth. ---.; melon, Stoddart, and Eliza, blatternthwaite,
from Demerara ; B3hoo, Grayfon, from Nevis ; Theti Jackson,
and Mary Ann, Parke' from Dominica; Mercury, and
Stephen, Bolton, froinTortola ; General Hunter, Hoftopp, socl
Henry. Afileck, from St. Lurie ; Margery and Mary,
and Nareiffua, Cunningham, from. St. Vincent's ;• john, Croft-,
from Montferrat; Adventure. Battiest, from Barbado.s, and
Benger and Elizabeth., ..--, from St Partholonuw's. 13 the
Clyde, Three Bothers, —,from Marfcilles, and Mal'l, Harrinkrl•
from !Album Off Lowcfloff, ZeT•hyr, Milington, frmt Oponn.
At Dublin, Ann, Green, from °rift°. At Newry, Eird..avour.
Carron, from Oporto. At Waterford, Thra, Children, ----,
from Slily. At Crookhaven, Nancy, Ainfworth, from Charld-
ton. At Ncw York, Liverpo.l Packet, Waite ; Mac ---;
Rhoder andlietfey, ; John and Aliec, ; Laura.. —;
'Oliver Elfworth, --, and Telegraph, Moore. from Live a ;
Ann, Chew. and James, Cook, from Hull; /*.odford. Barnard;
Ophella, and Shepherdets, from Peterfburgh.—
At Wilmington, Jane. ---, from Liverpool. At lial!imore.
Ceres. —6—, and Independence. —, from Liverpool At Bor.
too, &trey, —.—, from Liverpool; Independence, Liffey, and the
Hawke, Oordon, from Newfoundland.

VITHITH•VIN, OCTOBER t 5 —The Atlas, S.TOCK'
!MLR. from Jamaica, arrived here yellerday after-
noon ; the Dwyna, Ames, had gone into Dublin.
The rea of the fleet were (de in the Channel a few
days ago.

BOW-STREET.

MURDER OF Mr. ISAAC BLIGHT, SHIP-EREAXER.

Yefterday Mr. Aichard Patch was brought to this
Office, for the putpofe of inveftigating into the caufe
of the death of Mr. Blight in public, AS far as it may
Ise fuppoted by A heating of this nature, that the pri-
toner can by any means be implicated in the charge
of having been its any manner conneaed with that
tranfaeinn.
All the evidence which had been taken in private
examinations of this molt interelling cafe. and re-
duced into writing, was read at full length in the
hearing of the prifoner, who Rands chargkd with the
wilful murder of Mr: lfaac Blight. The Magiftrates
on the Bench Were Sir RICHARD FIIRD and Mr.
GR ANA M.

The following is a &etch of the evidence :
Ann I.ouifa Davis depofed, that on Monday night,
the istth of September, when the event happened,
fhe was coming by the houfe of Mr. Blight, and heard
the report of a gun or pined. She was clofe to the
gate of the houfe I no perfon whatever came out
while fhe was there. It was between tight and nine
o'clock.

Mary Elizabeth Davis, tiller to the !aft witnefs,
and in company with her at the time above-men-
tioned, corroborated thr firft evidence. They were
not more than four yard,. fra,m the gate of Mr.
Blight's lunge, when they heard the report of the
firing. She did not fee any body come put of the
house into the line. It there had, the was potitive
fhe moil hove fern that perfon.
Michael Wrig?it dente.(; that he alf., heard the
repott of a piftol or gun go ~ff; he came up, and he
law Mr. Ntell at the gateway. The witnefs then
proceeded ~. depofe what the priConer f.. d, as to his
having been fired at himitif on the preceding Thior
day. Mr. Froti came alto to the houfc of Mi. Bight
at the time when the murder was committed. Ab to
what Nad happened on the precedinm Thurtday the
prifoner flitted the particulars, that he had been fired
at throuffo h the window in the parlour, while the tir-
vant.maid, Halter Kitchener, had gone far fome
oytiers for him ; that afterwards this fervant
looked for the ball which had been fired, and found
it. The witnefs diked him if he had Obis in t.e
houfe ?he (aid yes but had no ammunition. The
witnefs talked him if he WAS not afraid ? The prifoarr
Paid "no ; he thought it mutt be done by fom-:body
who knew the houfe, bat he did not think be would
come again that night. He did not want any allitt-
ance."

The next head of evidence was on the fejt& of
certain papers which the Pr Weiler had in his perfection
--on which he claimed to be the owner of the pre-
miles belonging to Mr. Blight ; it appeared that he
had agreed to advance the fun] of t nol. in order to
be admitted to one third Mare of the burin& of Mr.
Blight, which MS in the (hip line, of which fum of
12501. the prifoner had paid 2 sot.
It was then depofed, that on the night Mr. Blight
was murdered, the Prifoner Paid he hoped the perion
would be found out and punilbed, and that a perfon
of the name of Clark was fufpeeted. It appeared
that the prifoner had related what was falfe on the
fubjeet of his having paid wool. to a banker to make
up the remainder of his purchafe money for one-
third of the bufinefs of Mr. Blight, and that Mr.
Blight fufpceted that all was not right in that parti-
cular, of which he wrote to his wife.

Mrs. Blight's depofition dated, that, when the pi-
loner came into the fervice of her huffiand, he faid
he catne from the country, and that he had been
under Tome difficulty on account of a complaint about
tythes ; that he offered to work for Mr. Blight for
his meat and drink. He affided for a thort time, and
went into the country, but came back again, and
Mr. Blight took him into his fervice, and gave him
401. a year ; and afterwards advanced it to tsol. a-
year. He received 11. as. 4d. per week, but he was
to board himfelf. Mr. Blignt never had more than
asol. of the hifoner. He was to draw a bill for
payment of toool. to make up the purchafe money
of his one third of the bufinefs of Mr. Blight, and
on account of that bill not being paid, Mr. Blight
came from Margate. Mr. Blight confidered the bill
a good one at &ff.
The next point was, that of the furpicion, which
the prifoner laid fell on a perfon of the name of Clark,
as being likely to have done the horrid deed. And
as to him, the depofition of a perfon of the name of
John Fox completely eflabliffied an alibi, he being with
him at diflant places. Rotherhithe, and Limchuufe
Canfeway, from feven in the morning until pan nine
at night, on the day the murder was committed.-
111 r. Thomas Graham's &politica hated. that he was

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aeqoatated with the late Mr. Blight,. and ehlled on
him when he arrived from Margate, to fettle tome
',linnets. Mr. Patch came in, and then had boots
on, and he anted fur his fpurs ; he was then goilw
about the moo!. and Mr. Blight told Pad] not to re.
turn without the money, and he fi;d be would not,
and when he was gone, Mr. Blight Paid, that fellow
had deceived him, as to the moo' ; but Mr. Blight
Paid to Ruch, he tneert it war at' rigbt, and Pitc!ii.i.l
yet; that he had called at his banker's, and was dif-
appointed, and Mr. Blight appointed the Tim Jay to
fettle wiih the witnels on account of this dirappoint-
mem. -

The Depofitinn of Stephen Goom, the perfon on
whom the bill for wool. was Bated to have been
drawn, trent to prove, that he, Nlr. Goorn, never
direaly nor indireelly, authorifed Patch to draw on
him for any fum of money whatfoever ; neither did
Patch ever apply to him for his permitfi•m for that
purple ; nor was he privy to any I,:ch meature ;
nor had any application been made to him for the'
payment. Patch had no claim on him for any mo-
ney, nor had he any effeets of Patch's in his hands.—
Robert.-Patch, the brother of the ptifoner Richard
P..ltch, bad worked with him ; but he never had any
oconaintance with the prifoner.
Mr. GRAHAM obferved, that, having found the
Rory of the prifoner upon the fuiljea of this bill for
10001. to be an abfolute falfehood, he was led to ex-
amine the cafe as he had done ; and he told the pri-
foner plainly, that he furpeted him ; and thus far
!lid be go only as to what appeared to him to be the
inducement to what had happened, the objeel being
to obtain the whole of the bonnet's of Mr. Blight, a
third of which the pi ironer had agreed to purchafe ;
but out of lasol. purchafe money he ha.l paid only
201.
The next head of evidence to be read was that
which was applicable to the event Kell. He thould
begin with the evidence of the Servant Maid.
Hefther Kitchenet's depofition Bated, that on
Monday night, when the accident happened, Mr.
Blight and Mr. Patch, his foreman, were together
at tea, between fix and feven o'clock, and fat toge-
ther lima about eight. Mr. Patch came to the kitchen
and raid to her, give me a candle, for I mull go to
the privy. She gave him a candle ;he took the key
of the cromting-hoofe, and went with the key in the
one hand, and the candle in the other. She heard
the door open, and heard the door of the privy !hut
to, as if he polled it, and at the fame infiant the law
the &lb, and heard the report of a piftol.
Mr. GRAHAM laid, that it was his duty to proceed
ac he did on this occation, beeaufc if this were cor-
rea, nothing could be more clear. For the faid the
was (landing four feet from the door of the parlour
where her mailer Rood.—On this the fcreamed out,
and raw her mailer leaning his arm on the fide of
the room, and crying,' Lord have mercy upon me,
I am a dead man !" She was returning to the kitchen,
and before the reached the kitchen door fhe heard
Mr. Patch knocking violently at the Brett door (we
think it was) raying, " Lord have mercy, what is
the matter," and Mr. Blight was leaning on his arm.
hlr. Patch raid, " My dear Mr. Blight, what is the
matter ?' Mr. Patch told the witnefs to go for af-
finance, and took hold of Mr. Blight. The wit-
nefs was afraid, and raid lhe would not go. She
was afraid to go into the yard ; hot the jumps out
at the kitchen window, and got into the ilreet.—
The waighand of Mr. Patch's breeches was unbut-
toned.—Mr. Patch faid there was not a man whom he
had a furpicion of.—She gave an aCC./Unt of the time
when Mr. Patch faid he bad been fired at, when the
went for oyfiers, and finding the ball in the room on
the Thurfday, and of Mr. Patch Paying, I have been
(hot at. She then gave an account of rf.e people
coming into the hook, and of an examination of the
premises, and Arid fearch being made by the watch-
man, and no pedal% was difcuvered. She fluted
fomething about bolting the doors to keep out thieves'
and robbers, in a manner which Mr. GRAHAM laid
he confidered to be incontinent ; but the added, that
fhe was fo mach alarmed on hearing the firing of the
pistol, that the did not know, very well what the was
about ; and as to any contradiAion or incnufillency
in her tetlimcny, the prifoner would have the benefit
of that hereafter. She added, that when Mr. Patch
came to the dour his breeches were unbuttoned, but
fhe did not fee that his thin was out. She then gave
an account of a man having been in the houfc that
night; Mr. Patch let hitn in, and the witnefs after-
ward* let him out at the front door, before this event
took place.
• Mr. Jones, the Surgeon, who was fent for after the
Blot took place, gave an account of what he faw.—
He had a converfation with Patch. He wore boots
generally, but he had Aloes on when Mr. Blight was
Ihot. The woman fervant faid, that the had (creamed
out on hearing the firing; the jumped up, and (awl
her maßer from the kitchen door, and heard bins fay,
he was a dead man ! She turned round, and in half
. a minute Mr. Patch knocked violently at the door.
The woman fervant added, that Patch faid to her,
" you mull be particular in what you fay—you mull
fay you heard mein the privy at that instant the pinol
went off." She Laid, " Mr. Patch, I will fay nothing
but the truth." He faid to her, " Speak nothing but
the truth."

Mr. Crofs's depofition Rated, that on the Monday
evening, when this happened, the fervant maid of
Mr. Blight came to his hnufe, held up both her hands
and exclaimed, 6$ the villains have done it at tall, my
Mailer is shot !" He obferved, at the time he
came to Mr. Blight's hoofet that the outer-door was
fi locked on the inde. Patch had hold of Mr. Blight's
hand when the witnefs taw him, but did not obferve
that his breeches were unbuttoned. The %rime!** was
the &ft perfen who came in—and Patch defired him
to go for Mr. Jones, the Surgeon.
tvir. Jones, the Surgeon, came to Mr. Blight's
houfe with Mr. Wright, and found Patch in the par-
lour, defcribing where the ball had entered when he
had blot at, and that Hefiher Kitchener, the
maid fervaot, had found the ball. Mr. Jones of c:d
Patch if he had fire-arms ?-Ikl.l, he raid, he had not,
and they would be of no ufe if he had, for he had no
ammunition. Jones offered to get him fome—he
Paid no, he did not think they would come again,
and that he fhould go to bed. A pesfon of the name
of Webfier was Rated to be fa/petted, and Mr. Patch
feemed to conceit- in the fafpicion. This night Patch
had lbws and finckings on, althou4h the witnefsdid
not recollea feting him before but to hoots.
A pair of flockings were produced which Mr.
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then, and by the evidence of the wailer worms. *to
wafhed for the prifoners there was reafon to fufpett
that they were his flocking:, as his linen was faid to
be marked in the lime war. The time the prifoner
went to town he was hooted and (purred, but at the
time this happened he had fhoes and flocking' on.
The Rocking. produced were dirty on the Poles of
the feet. Some time before this, it rained Co much,
that the ferVant, g out with a letter for her
mailer, was obliged to ae an ornbrella. The prifo-
ner fai..l, that thtfc ftockings were not his flocking%
George Smith, an appre••tice boy, depofed, that
on the Mcatday night, hen Mt. Blight was fhot, the
witnefs was coming over the wooden bridge before
Nfr. Blight's wall ; at half Nit tight o'clock, he
heard the report of a gun from Mr. Blight's premiksi
he was in the paffage near Mr. Blight's gate when
he heard it, and he laid there is lime!) aly trying to
(boot the fhip breaker (mear.ing Mr. Blight). No
perfon came out. If any perfon had come out, he
might hale fe-n that perfon, for there were people
there who had a liglittd torch, or link. He faw
body come out—heard no noife after the firing, al-
-1 though he went under the kitchen window. He and
another boy continued walking on. When he heard
the report he was half-way in the alley, and about a
dozen yards ticm Mr. Blight's gate.
John Brown, an•ltner apprentice, and companion to
the lift, depofed to the fame effed. They muff have
Peen any body if he had come out ; they had plenty
of light, for fire men, only two yards before them,
had lighted torches.
• John Owen, another apprentice, gave an account
of hearing theoeport of a gun or pißol this night
about eight o'clock. He gave an account, that no
perfon could poffibly get over the Hone wharf of the
premifes of Mr. Blight wit/root the witnefs teeing him:
this was on the other fide of Nfr. Blight's houfe. He
gave an account of the fcrvant maid jamyAng ont of
the kitchen window, as had been already Rated by
hzrfelf; but no perfon could come over the none
wharf without his Peeing him, becaufe he Rood clufe
to the port on it.
Chrillopher Morgan depofed to his coming to the
houfe of Mr. Blight on hearing the alarm: he came
to give his aßittance—knocked at the door, and, after
Come diffienlty, got in. Nfr. Blight was then fhot.
Fie afked Mr. Blight if he had given offence to any
of his men ? " No," he faid. Mr. Patch faid he had
been fired at before, and marked and defcribed the
place where the ball fell, and Chewed the ball, with
half of it cut off. Witnefs faid no man could do this
without provocation ; and Patch raid to the witnefs.
" Sir, I may as well rofped you as any other man."
He faid that he had a diforder in his bowels, and went '
to the privy ; he heard the fhot, and went with his
breeches in his hand, and drew them up immediately,
for that he was on the alert, and found Mr- Blight in
the (late he was in.
Charles Overton, the watchman, fearched the pre.
mires of Mr. Blight, after the alarm was given, but
found nobody. He raw the prifoner go into the
counting houfe that night, and come out with a can-
dle, as defcribed by the fervant girl, and go into the
houfe again, but whether he locked the door or nut,
cannot fay: _

Sarah Wright, who had been maid fervent in the .
family of Mr. Blight; gave an account of the place
where they ufed to fit in the parlour, andante where
the pißols hung.
Richard March, a labourer, depofed to his examin-
ing the privy, and finding there the ramrod of a pif-
tol Ruck in the foil ; the rod was quite clean, and
Ruck about two inches in the f3il ; there was no ap-
pearance of the place being ufed by any one who had
auy pain in the bowels, the foil being quite dry and
hard. Witnefs afterwards heard the prifoner afk Sa-
rah Wright, who had been examined, " DILI not
fome perfons ark you queßions ?" She faid "yes.
He raid, " they have no proof againft me."
Mary Smith, fervant at the Brown Bear, Bow.
beet, depofed, that while Patch was there, he or-
dered the Witnefs to give the fervent maid, who was
in cufkody there alfo, a glafs of wine; and he told
her to keep to her Rory, for that they had kept her
there to try her. She faid fbe would keep to the faros
Rory, which was the truth, and that fhe would do fp
if they were to hang her up to a tree.
The prifoner made no other defence than that of
Rating, that he was aanally a partner in the bufinefs;
he was ill at the time the tranfaaion took place
aod at firft his cool-orlon was fo great that he imme-
diately ran to the fpot where he fuppofed the injury
to have been committed, without looking after the
perfon who had difcharged the gun or pißol.
Mr. Glarus*, the Magiftrate, then addrelTed the
Prifoner thus : " This is all I have agairdt you, and
I think it amounts to fo much as to make it a duty
incumbent on me to commit you for trial. You con-
traded with the deeeafed for a third fhaie of his bull-
nefs, for which yon were to have paid 123(31.-25as
of which only has been paid. The Executors have
no objeition to returning you that money, which I
take it for granted you will .be very glad of, as the
bufinefs was carried on upon the footing of that part-
nerfaip only from the 3oth of Auguft to the 13th of
September. I leave it to you to confider, whether it
would not be prudent, on your part, to take the asol.
and relinquith all idea of any further right to the pro-
perty which you might be entitled to for the profits
of the bufinefs for that fhort period—but here is your
Attorney to advife you."
Mr. FLETCHER addrefTed his client, the prifoner,
and faid, he mull now be removed to wail in Surrey,
where he would have to remain until March neat, be.
fore he could be ttied, for bail was out of the quef-
lion now. Care thould he taken of his property ; a
fufficient, but no more than a fufficient fum fhonld be
laid out for preparing his defence. He faid he ffiould
be entirely guided by the advice of his attorney whom
he empowered to aft for him.
The prifoner was then committed to bike his trial
at the en fuitig affixes for the County of Surrey, which
will take place at Kinglion, in the month of March
next. Mr. Savage, the officer of Rotherhithe Farah,•
who was one of the Coroners, was ordered to Prof.-
cute, and 31 witneffes were bound to give evidence.
The prifoner paid the greatell attention to every
thing that paired, and teemed to coofider each wit.
nefs's teflimony more with the air of a chic obfervet
who was unconnefted with the cafe, than with the
feeling of a man whofe life was probably at Raker..
The examination idled from twelve to three.

The Duke of Sow' was prefent the whole time
and flood elate to Sir RICKARD Foapp lilleain will;
great atteation to thc,procsaliNte.

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