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plenace, repair—lnk hie/al :let% hooLlit.. lie saw his
master fire the pist but slid not see any body fal
AVM the chopper. Had any Byte &Hen hem the head
'ad the bum, he Leonid ant have seen it. In a few Mi.
'eggs after hkhearti a chunour, and st.tne,one called
Xiifltel I btethet I countrymen ! a man of ours is
.Vie builtundasiet within the punchaway
thentielies with guns and swords, and
sai4, a We will kill the ken. gentlemen--none of them
shall escape." It was only in obedience to the Go,
'tart, their master, that they desisted.
buritundasi of the Ponce•Tanuah of
.seYdpoOr, (reposed h:ining dragged the river for the
body, without:being able to find it. .
'l4s)or Imlach, Military Auditor-General; said, he
thought..". the prisoner well tempered, well disposed,
and well educated, and not harsh to his servants."
•
the Grief Justice .(SieWm. Buanoutans) then ad..
the Jury es follows: .
* OStlemen of the Juty—This is one or those de-
plotabk weld numerous cases, in which the natives of
India have lost. their lives,' either from the wanton.
or vi,lful abase of European power, or from such a
total disregard of their lives, as must be considered,
both morally and legally, a little less criminal than
deliberate and intended murder. With respect to
the law of the case, though the charge of tna.J
lice jireeense be laid in the indictment, it is not at all
necessary, as 'yen have often beard—(for.Goti knbits
we have often had occasion, ithin the last few years,.
to explain the law in such cases)—that there should:
be proof of any previous spite or anger against the
particular person deceased, or against any one indivi-
dual whatever. If a person be of a disposition so
wicked and diabolical as to tire a loaded gun. into a
crowd of people, and thereby occasion the death of
one whom he netcr saw before, no man can doubt that
his crime would he as clearly murder, as if he had
given poison for his intimate friend. Indeed, if the act
be of that violent nature, which is likely to produce
death—if it be an unprovoked act, and if a person
dies in consequence of it, then is the accused ,guilty
of murder. You have again and again, Gentlemen,
heard. in this Court, both from Counsel and from
Judges, the loudest complaints and reprehensions of
that wanton and cruel abuse of power towards the
native inhabitants olthis country, of which we have
lately bad so many fatal examples, not only in com-
mon soldiers and among the lower order of Europe.
Ans , but in men tar their superiors. Within the short
space rf two years, sin less, I think, than seven or
eight Gentlemen in the civil and military service of
the Company have been tried like common felons in
that dock, for taking away the lives of natives. It
has often been observed, that the Juries in this coun-
try lean more towards the Prisoner than they ought
to do, in all cases wherein a European is brought to
trial for violence committed against a native inhabi-
tant ;• and an example has been loudly called for, to
check the frequency of enormities so cruel to them,
and so disgraceful to ourselves. But whatever you
may have heard on this subject, Gentlemen, I trust
it will not nperateon your minds to the prejudice of
the individual whom you are now trying." The
Chief Justice then proceeded to detail the evidence,
in the course of which he commented with much
severity on the equivocation, brutality, and total
want of feeling cf the witness, Newton. He then
remarked, that the Prisoner wished, by the testi.
many of his Khidmutgar, to raise a doubt whether
any man had been killed at all. " You have all
heard (continued his Lordship) that there is it
sort of rule in trials for murder, that the body of
the deceased must be found, before any person can
be Convicted of his death. But that rule,. I take it,
is only applicable to cases where- the charge is
supported exclusively by circumstantial evidence.—
There is a case mentioned by my Lord Hale, of an
uncle who was accused of the murder of his niece.—
' The niece had lived in his house, and had been treated
by him with great cruelty. The neighbours had re-
peatedly been disturbed by her cries, and the was
heard to exclaim, 4 Dear uncle, do not kill me."—
The girl suddenly disappeared, and the uncle was
taken up on suspicion of having murdered her. He
protested his innocence, and being allowed a certain
time to find her,p he procured another child of the
same age and appearance, had her dressed up like
his niece, and produced her as such. It turned out
clearly at the trial, that this child was not his neice ;
and on the evidence of these circumstances, he was
convicted and executed.
_Some time after, the child
appeared again, and consequently it turned out that
she had not been murdered, but had fled from his
house, and was still alive. Ever since, Courts and
Juries have been very cautious of convicting for niur.
der, in cases where there is no direct evidence of the
fact, unless the body has been found. But in thiscoun-
try, on the great river, or at sea, what it is in evi-
dence that the body has sunk in the water and has
been seen no more, shall it be said that the body must
be found, before ie murderer can be brought to pu-
nishment ? I cannot think, that under such circum-
stances, either in point of reason or of practice, it is
at all indispensable that the body should be found,
at least where the guilt of the party is otherwise es-
tablished by positive testimony. A search had been
made for the body, but without effect. It was well
known, that the specific gravity of the human body
was very little greater than that of water. The body,
all likelihood, would pot s:nk immediately, but
would be carried down by the current, which all the
witnesses agreed in saying, was very rapid. It might
have been carried on by the current, even after it
reached the bottom. And as to the attempt to sweep
the bottom with nets,• it would depend very much on
the nature of the bottom, and the manner in which
/the operation was performed, whether it was success-
ful or not. The body might have been devoured by
'an alligator ; many causes might be imagined, _quite
sufficient to account for the failure of the attempts to
,recover it.

44 It only now remains for me, Gentlemen," con-
tinued his Lordship, to repeat once more to you
the questions which you hare to try. In the first
place, you have to determisfe whether Joy Sing be
in fact living or dead 1 In the second place, if dead,
whether he was killed by that pistol ? for even if
it should appear to• you that hie death Was caused
;by drowning, it is neceisery that yen should be
,further satisfied, that the drowning was the effect of
she, shot, and not be fear or accidents for, in the
letter case, I rather think is would be your duty
entirely to acquit the prisoner on this
The next question is one, on which you can have little
or no doubt, namely, whether the pistol was bred by

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the ptizasee -AM then walla tble foutellr. smile*
pquestion, on shich I apprelsitd you!,4laciaion oust
incipally turn, viz. whether he 614 in esch a direc-
tion as was likely to endanger the rives rif the people
in the bloat t that he did, then rut
verdict Meg be ihtetdtr. But it you; believe, as tele
of his witnesses swears, that the lister/le •at the
'pistol .was depressed, that he aimed at the water,
.and did' not intend to infure any. person in the boat,
but merely to excite an Merril, eviathough the bah
did by stimr tinforturiate aecident takeii different
Course, and thereby eatme,the death at the area, his
offence will be manslaughter only. But nearslambter,
at least, k undoubtedly is
The Jury, after retiring about a quarter,of aa hour,
returned a verdict of Manslaughter, and the Court,
sentenced Mr. Soady to be imprisoned in the gaol of
Calcutbrone year, and instead of beitig beittaitt the
hand, to pay a fine of Igo° rupees to the Xing.

At the last Tralee Assizes, the trials of Mirerirt
O'Connor, Erq. - indicted under Lord Eillenborough's
Act, for firing at whh an intent to lyill John•O'Con•
nell, Esq. and of Mr. &Tamil fur assaulting Mri
O'Connor, both Magistrates of the county of Kerry,
took place before the Chief Baron and a respectable
Jury...ln the capital indictment, the case on therm
Of the Crown was stated by Mr. Got" and the first
witness called was Mr.O'Conoell, who was examined
by Mr. S. H, Race, and cross-examined by .bite,
GRADY ; his evidence merely went to state the cit.,
cemstances as they have aleady appeared before the
public; after the cross-examination; the Chief Baron
called Mr. O'Connell's attention particularly to a
question he had put to him of the most materialim-i
port, as it affected the issue of the trial. and which in
purport was—if be believed Mr. O'Connor, having
predetermined on assassinating him, would have gone
in the highly respectable company iwhieh he did,i
when he must have been aware, that each individual
of them would have proved 4m evidence against him?
Mr.O'Connell's reply was, that he supposed he would
not; on which the Chief Baron declared that the in-
dictment could not be supported, and expressed the
propriety of proceeding no further into evidence,
either on that or Mr.O'Connell's trial—a proposition
which was simultaneously acceded to, and issues
were immedlatelrreturned by the Jury in both cases
of—Not Guilty.

BOW-STREAT.—Saturday Jfirrtr and Inifig were
again re-examined on suspicion of being concerned
with Haley White, in the robbery of the Leeds mail
in October last, when the same evidence was adduced
as was detailed on the former occasien ; after which
Jeffries, who was proved to have had the stolen notes
in his possession, was 'committed for trial at the next
Old Bailey Sessions, and Whiffin was discharged.
. Manaoantrou-svaurre—Saturday, being the li-
censing day of the Middlesex Publicans, some A-
rrest harangues took place on the subject of pewter
pots. Mr. Bennet, who keeps the Globe, in Titch
field-street, continues to supply his customers in his
own, pots, us usual, and be was not very cordially
received at the meeting. About four o'clock Mr.
's servant was assaulted in the street by several per-
sons, as he was gathering his pots, who kicked them
about the street ; and at dusk, in the evening, the"
same party, with Seaton, a Constable of St. Pancras,
At their, head, went to the house in a state of drunk-
enness, and behaved in such an outrageous manner,
that they cleared the parlour, when Bennet' pmcured
Constables, and conveyed four to this Office, viz.
Seaton, the. constable, and Britain, klart,• and JcAes,
publicans, in Tottenham-court-road, and its neigh-
bourhood. assaults and riots were proved, and the
parties were ordered to find bail. Jones made hib
escape,-and, after the others had been locked up,
Mr. Bennet solicited. that they might return homelangi
produce their bail on Monday, in which Mr. Baker
acquiesced.

PEWTER Pcrrs.—Application having been madeby
several publicans in the City, to the LOAD MAvott,to
know how to act in respect to sending out pint and
quart Pewter pots to their customers (some of them
having been threatened with informations), the LORD
MAYOR informed them, that he would not interfere
in the business, nor receive any informations against
them.

CURIOUS Rouse ItY.-A fellow entered the shop of
Mr. Lendon, silversmith, in T aunton, last week, and
requested to look at some watches. Having chosen
one to his mind, he selected a chatn, seal, &c. for its
accompaniments, and while they were being fastemd
on, he looked through the shop window, and begged
Mr. Lendon to be as quick as possible, lest his
horse and cart, which he had left a few doors above,
should go off—at the same time pulling out of his
pocket, and placing on the counter, a canvas Money
bag, seemingly distended with notes. The moment
the watch was ready for delivery, the fellow lookid
through the window again—exclaimed with great
earnestness, that his horse was set off, and, snatching
up the watch, ran out of the shop.. Fur a few mt.,
flutes, Mr. L. presuming on the apparent sufficiency
of the, canvas bag which was lying before him, felt
no suspicion on the occasion; but the man not re-
turning, he ventured to examine his security, which
he found to consist of nothing but scraps of primed
bills torn from the walls.—The depredator got
clear off.

A melancholy and fatal occurrence happened on
Tuesday be 'nn ight to Daniel O'Brien, of Bealnalicky,
in the county of Ennis, and a man named Considine,
of the same neighbourhood : returning, mounted on
one horse, from Kilmacduagh, where they had been
performing some religious ceremony, they arrived
within hall a mile of their homes, when both fell MT,
by which O'Brien was killed on the spot, and the
other so dangerously hurt that little hopes are enter-
tained of his recovery.

Thursday last a fire happened on the premises of
Mr. Stephen Tomkins, at Binbury Farm, in Thurn-
ham, occasioned by a child carrying a firebrand
through the straw-yard, which, in a short time, de-
itroyed two lodges, a tick of straw, and part of a
haystack, but was happily prevented from extending
to the house and other buildings.
Sunday se'nnight, about nine o'clock, a fire broke
out in the farm-yard of Mr. Chapman, of Quy, Cam-
bridgeshire, which consumed a large quantity of do-,
vet and straw, but alt the buildings were preserved..
Same evening a fire broke out at kitting, near New•
market, which destroyed a farm-house and two cot•
cages near thereto: it is strongly suspected that gni
were wilfully set on firs.

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Rev I. Meenotte Me A. Mk)* of Gare 4i, .abe a Clarla
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Fettell .
AOdpy am. wee moil ra-e.l far the Relict r'antre-
;snob aiPliteetWriiiittertt:a Mr. JaaWs rurnliuti, pr her, iimt
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cell tram Cobnaburge,w. fidb he bed Nieddip rtatived.

irANtittfitelf
Aept. 10. A Mos Wslft, Br toitkime-yat d, Lesbian, merchant,
tettotOinbibil
October t. Janus• Maim, We of Brooke-street, }Whore,
MbMigoist,tearpot-war. bouso-tuan. at re: I, at GutWhsq
Nov. 6. o:.a Johnson labi.ot High-street, Southwark, Surrey
Sacking-maker. finder Mid charnah, at teb, at .

llriaali.KUPTCY StlPgithEpti).
Edmund Jones al Nostays Staperipr. Menainatkolaire, banker.

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BANKAUPTS.
William Tromp, of Pl}srsou k. Devon, liaen•draper, dealer add
cheptcan, to Fsayrtatlrr October I, at two, O.:tub r j, and •4,
at one, at Guildhall, Laudon. Attorney, Mr. Swan, New
slashed-street, London.
Thodies Me* late of Macre-street, parigh of Sc. Ann, Viddie.
victoelier, dealer and ehapman, September is, onj
October 16. at ten, at °tar bull Attorney, Mr. leyes, Ire. 69,
Cliarlotte-arett,,Ftwirisy-ii;uite.
Thomas Andetioh, of Neleclaile-npon:Tyne, perfumer, toymat,
den et s tl6 taipetin, ltptomber 10, Ire, and October 16, at
eleven, at the George laic, Newealtilmapen-Tyne. Attornies,
Messrs. Bell and lifikfrick, No. 43, Bow-;rite, am-spade,
London; or Mr. Francis Seymour, Nswca,de-upoo- I yne.
EL Sikes, tiitiktlicies I.aacssldtq Inilet-snanu meaner, drairr and
cluionsoebrpc So, Pis and October is, et two, at the mar inn,
Nand ester. Attormies, Mr. Simnel Woodcock, Bury. I.an:.
cashire • or Mr. Blakeiselc, No. 14, Sajoant's-lon, Heti.
Street, l'.oldba.
Thoma. Hudson aid itelph Hudson, of Biihop-Virurnouti,
Durham, coals.Sturs, dealers, chemises, and eoparthors Sept.
IS, 37,.skid Cyder les at eleven, at the hridat inn, Buts*.
wearmooth. Attornies, Mr. Blakiston, Symond's ion, Loudon,
or Mr. Thompson, 84/sop-Wear mouth.
Benjamin Terry, of Doncaster, Yorkshire, oil-inercluton. &Oct
and ebapn an, Sept. *Amts.'', Sept. 30. and October is, at ten,
at the Red Lioh Ina, Doncatter. AttorMes, ?views. Blea•dolh,
Akiender, and Holm*, New Inn, London; or Mr. !karma,
or Mr. Heston, Doocamer.
Josepts Swale. of the pariah of Plytnatock, Devon, miller, &get
• thapniani Seise. is; It, and October i 6, at eleven, at the
London inn Plymouth-Dock. Atiotaies, Messrs. Collett,*tinhorn said • Voiteu, Ilmnerry -km*, Londoir; or Mr.
Clarke Peers, Plymotals-Doch.
John bier', of Wilbcnos., Yorkshire. Innkeeper, wooNdeake
and chapman, Sept. it, 18, and October 16, at eleven, at AM
Woe of Wm. Baynes, vintner; Poterpte, York. Atturairs,
Messrs. Baxter and Mardis, Muradvart-Ima, London; or Mr.
John Baykkin. York.

DIVIDENDS to be alit u GUILDHALL.
October Si Richard liiiilar,•%Vessiwlch, bake, Reit& Otte&lf
2, Joseph blakey Sperater.J•seph Bowman, and James Robinson,
Bearbinder-latie, fattees, at ten. October 2, John Powea, LOD.
deo-Road, St. George:, Petits, haberdatheri at tea. Not. 2.
John Smith, Tabernacle-Welk, merchant, at one. October 2,
itichaid Sergeant, Slistigh, backs," targibter, it fen. • October t.
Jeihn JvaelliAbAlllerd.syMadtvls *ails; ut tea. Sept. 17, Wes:
Rine, Loughborough, &cadence, aceight. Sept. SS, Ji•sieph Cohen,
New Eroadurett. Meer, at tWehle. Sept. SS, Henry Ruleest,
Woolwich, cheesemosgetr at twelve, October 2, Jeans Ad&
ham Graddou, Itussell•street, Coven -Outlets, taylor, at twelve.
October 26, Wm: Add, MU-street, Hanover-square, aped*.
carp, as tea. Sept. 25, George Hardin), and James Cowing, of
Bedford-court, Covent-Garden, woolleadrapers, at twelve.—
Set t. if, Proaptet-place, Lambeth, imurance•
broker, at eight. October S. Wm. Winbolt and Wm. Lukyn,
St. Piers Church-yard, stationers, at ten. October 2, Jeremiah
Shoobert, Morning-lane, Hackney, cover, it ten. October Its
Walter Edward kludgssio and •Jebn Gabb, Crows, Dice ruw,
litnti .1 empty, uteruses, at tett.. Sept. 28,1 hums Mansun, sea
and jun. foltehhouse-e&d, merchants, at ten. Nov. 6, benjantia
Kunsan, late of Bischt:ftbery, afterwards 4 Gotteaborgh,
sigmas Camping, Great Wincbeeter-strert, merchants, at tea.
DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. •
Sept. 29, Stephen Titbit)), *test, Cals:Or, settee Mir, at eleven,
at the Anget, Glanford Biggs. Sept. 29,Georpetivodall, Heide.
moodwieke, carpet-maker, at eleven, at th.. goal wd Mototja
Inn, Leeds. Sept. Set, Matta He ley, Wooilitock, Wm., at sI,
at the Royal Hotel, breshishana Sept. ge. Hairy 1 timer Noah{
totuets,Novon, Iromotteger, at twelve, at rile Whkt Horse Inn,
*l-tverton. Sept. 29, '1 homas llnttun, tihiewslaury, hnen-diaper,
at ten, at the George hm, Nonhainptcn. October 14,'f homes
Liverpool, merchant, at one, at the Star and Garter as
verb Liverpool. Sept. 29, Michael Humble. Liverpbol,
cluing, It ante, * tbeAleorge Inn, Liverpool. Sept. L), Arthur
,blisoyceeroant ItesasiztLateenutodnbe.
Y 7, John Glover' Liverpool, bait and shoe-maker, at twelve, at
Keaton,
me-strerceethalitsZivatetpoomet atsepu
the nice OilUrt.John (Noisome. -

• CEILTIfICKIIS, iarr.ll.s.
Thomas Cox bast Coker, Somerset, niftier and balker. lobo
aaltsr, Litton, Cott,
cipoon-manufacturer. Wm. Totaig,
Great Cantwell, Birks, dealer. Thomas Wilcock', k zdir, tat-
low-shilidkt. Thomas Titus Brofritisate, Bath, men:. Georg*
Heston, 'Osorgr-strter, TovreAsiil, broker. John Milan, of
Shelton, Staffordshire, china-manNiactursr.,

BIRTH.
Weddeaday, it Highritorth, Wilts, the Lady of the Rev. £4.
ward Rowdeth of a daughter:.

,On the 12tk of jaimary last, at Calcutta, Captain Was. 11.
Wood, of the first European Bengal regiment, Mfittary Secretary
and Aid-de-CAMP to tieutenant•Gerrernor Raft ii, of the bland
ofJava, to Amelia, eldest daughter Of the late Major lotto
deitou.
Atha Tritgoowell Napier, Rheter of Chettle, In the county of
Dorset, to Catherine,ygungest daughserof Mrs. Skinner, of ked-
brook:Haiti.

•DID. ,
At Great Bromley, Essex, the Rev. H. Yeomans, Rector d
Little Wigborough, and•iate of Pen Awake College, Oxford.
Wednesday se'nnight in Edinburgh, Cecilia, fifth daugbter et
the late Charles Sharpe, Esq. of flodtions.
Lately, at Woodbridge, aged 59, the Rev. John Black, Perpe-
tual Curate ofFilutley and Rat:Ashok
August 26, at his house in Dover, N. Ladd, Gent. aged 93. He
was formerly a Captain in one of-his Majesty's revenue cutters,
and one of the oldest Freemen of that town. •

rtiomAs TAVLON
tBt Leave to inform you,,that ever since the year
1790, i had be to afflicted % ith the I.ues Venerea; which from
its obstinately resisting every course of Medicine prescribed by the
most eminent of the faculty here' and undergoing several *veers
courses of salivation and twice drscbarged from the Hospital, with
little relief, would appar to be bf the most inveterate nature. la
the spring of last yosramy disorder had got to such a bead, as
nearly to put a period to my extitence. In this state, I was re..
commtnd6d by Mr: /^..'fhompton, (who received to great a cure
by tbenishere,) to,take your I.eake s Patent Pills, which I began
to do on the 26th May ; id the course of a fortnigh I began to
receive benefit. In lito more than a month 1 became, by
your liberal advice mid medicine, perfectly free from my for
complaints, have recoiered rity former spirits and strength,
and ambecbmeriolly and fat, in which state having continued
many months to the astonishment of all who knew me, I an
at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but beg you fot
the good of other suffering month, tb make this my case as
public as possible, as I shall on every occasion—in so doing yen
will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful obedient very humble ser,
Viet
_ _ ALEX. MURKEIL

Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh.
Prepared and sob{ by the sole Proprietor, Thomas Taylor,
Member of the Royal College of Surged& in London, at his house
N 0.9, New Bridge-3reet ;
They are also sold b 9 his appointment, at the Perfumer's, No.
VS, St. Alta A's-street, Pall Mall ; the Toy-shop, No. 14)3, Os.
cord-street ; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, flap-street-hill, nearlyop-
posite the Monument ; and by one persnO th every eonsi4kr.tble
town &e. iti boles only ifs. 91 emelt, sealed up with
full and plain direetions,.wherebg persons °hither sex may curl
hemselves w'th ease and secrecy.

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