Star.
London, England, 1824-08-27 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA.

In the third act of Der Freim:hutz last nil.,ht .Mr
•
r.. came forwatd to apoloBi,e lot Aliss
SrE-
vhc, %vas suffering so much f,oni indisposition
unab.e to finish her p.nt. lie stated that
!;.td exert! herself to the utin.,,,t to complete h
:,lOrtnidace, nut Wood it impussiult: to go on, and
that the andieme would esc,.se her appearing
• that iti&tt. This ..titnouricetnent \VA, of course
vticf Ae.sd of anger, and the pieLe pro-
:L: to its uathout 4 liCtOilie to reward the _Skill

" e are kill)) Announbe that the answer to in-
O.: !width of Mr. SINIAI:Iry CANNLFG, this morning,
tv.is m :cli
EA:: 01 11 Governor of DominicA,
•,:,:•:iveet in

BItI DG has been 1 leased to appoint
WILLIAM IlAvutott, to be his Equerry.
Wetii;Lssidy, August 25, Pi ince l'uLtoNAc gave a
diuta.r in honour of the fele of his-Sovereign,—the Kncg of
"AN, v ; members of the curps dip:orrniique, the Duke of
and many distinguisis'esl Frencit pets:llslooW tesldent
E11t..11, were WirWliC rrestst.

ASSIZE I NTEL LIG EArcE.

mommourii, AUGUST 2. 3 .

I R. Williams, aged 30, and Mary Morgan, alias card!"
Mary, a woman of very ill-favoured and masculine an-
pearance, aged 26, stood indicted for the murder of W.
Evans. They pleaded Not Guilty. The prisoners were
much agitated during the reading of the •indictment ;
the female wept excessively.
Mr. ltussELL said, the prisoners stood charged with
deliberately causing the death of the deceased, and the
Jury would find that the circriewances attending the
death of the individual were greatly aggravated, by the
poor man being hurried to another world at a time when
he was most unprepared for such a transition. The
female prisoner was a girl of the town. On the night
of the 26th of April, the deceased, William Evans, who
sea; upon intimate terms with the prisoner Williams,
had been drinking with him till they were nearly ine-
btiated.—They had been good friends up to that time,
;red there was no so: tof enmity between them. About
eleven that night, NViAiams and the deceased, as they
were going along a street in Newport, fell in with a
woman, named Nixon, and the prisoner Morgan. The
prisoners and Nixon and Evans walked together till
they came near a timber what 1, in which was a saw-
pit. Nixon and the deceased walked together, and the
prisoners were at a short distance behind. Nixon and
deceased turned into the timber yard, and went into the
saw-pit, and in a very few minutes after a large slab of
timber, above 300 pounds weight, by the side of the
pit, was thrown upon them, and the deceased was killed
in an instant: Nixon was seriously injured, and it could
only excite surprise that she was not destroyed also:
the timber was originally the butt of a tree, and it would
be proved that it was impossible it could have fallen
into the saw-pit by accident.. _lt would be proved that
the prisoners knew that Nixon and deceased were going
to the saw-pit, and that at the time the slab was heard
to fall, *which was succeeded by the scream of a fe-
male, a man and woman were observed on the spit, and
the man was seen to go from the end •of the saw-pit
where the cry proceeded from, and pass round to the
other end. He should :rho prove that the female pri-
soner had been on bad terms with Nixon ; that she had
used violent threats against her, because she had given
iertn mation against her before the Mayor for keeping a
disorderly house. When the screams of Nixon were
heard, the female prisoner went to the side of the saw-
pit, and said, " curse her, why don't she come out?"
and when Nixon asked for assistance and for a light,
she went away to her lodging, and smoked her pipe as
if nothing had occurred. He should strew that a girl
named Phillips asked the female prisoner why she did
hot assist Nikon, and her reply was, " Do you mean to
rake her part? If you do, you shall he served the same."
She also said, " it was not intended to kill the man, but
only the girl." the prisoner Williams went to the pit
and helped Nixon out by raising the slid) of timber, and
it was almost impossible that he could have avoided
seeing the deceased when he was lifting Nixon out.—
Williams, however, appeared not to know that the de-
ceased was in the pit.
Eliza Nixon—l and W. Evans went into a saw-pit ;
we left the prisoners talking together near the Red Cow,
four or five yards from the pit ; when we got down it
was dark, but they must have seen us go down, it was
light enough for that. A slab of wood fell upon us ; it
struck me on the side of the head, and knocked me
down; I did not hear Evans speak after he was struck;
I was senseless in the pit, I cannot say how long ; when
I came to my senses the timber was still on me, and I
was unable•to get out of the pit. I called out for help,
and Mary Morgan came and said, " What the devil is
the matter ?'b 1 said, " For GOD'S sake, Mary, bring
semebody here and get a light, and see what's the mat-
ter." She made no answer, and brought no light. The
prisoner Williams, came to me in a few minutes after
that, and raised me from under the timber; he was in the
saw-pit when he did that, and he helped me out of the
saw-pit. A man, with a white smock frock assisted in
pulling me up ; he also assisted me to my lodgings.—
At the time Williams was in the saw-pit assisting rae,
the man with the smock frock, asked Williams where
the man was that had been with me I said I did not
know, I believed he had gone away, which was my opi-
nion at that time. I heard no person near to the side
of the pit at the time the slab fell in ; when I got to my
lodging, 1 was nothing but blood, which had been
drawn by the blow I received on my head.—Cardiff
Mary was in the lodgings when I got thee. She took
ne notice. When I recovered my senses, I said, " Mary,
I'll never forgive you ; it would not have been too much
for you to have brought a light to have seen what was
the matter."—She made no answer, but laughed at
me. She was smoking at the time. I and Mary had
lodged in the same house a month ; we were nut on
good terms, because I informed against her for keeping
a disorderly house, about six weeks before; she never
could speak kindly to me, and repeatedly threatened to
be up to me..

Eleanor Phillips—l am a single woman; I lived at
Thomas's, in Friar's-6,1d, Newport, in April last, with
Cardiff Mary and Nixon ; on the night of 26th April, 1
went to my lodgings about eleven ; Mary Morgan, and
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were there; she was sitting by
the the smoking; the first words she said to me were,
" Are yi.ti alive !" I said, " Did you bear that I was
kilt?" She only laughed, and said nothing about
E. Nixon. Nixon came in about a quarter of an
hour after, she was all bloody, every bit. Oh,
LORD, says 1, What's the matter. Nixon said, " Oh,
Mary, you have- served me pretty well to-night—l
would not serve you so—it was not so much for you to
bring a candle to see what was there."—Mary said,
" What ! do you think I would go there to be kilt myself ?"
I asked Nixon, in the presence of Cardiff Mary, " What
was- the matter?" She said that she went with a man
into the saw-pit, and somebody had thrown timber
upon her. I said to Cardiff Mary, " Where were you?"
She replied, 6' I was not far from there." " Did you
See somebody about the saw.pit ?" says 1. Yes," says
the, " I did.' " You know 'em ?" says I. " Yes, I
know 'em well," says she. " Tell me who be they,"
says 1. .4 I won't tell you to-night," says she, " but 'I
will tell y ou to-morrow morning." I afterwards went
out that evening with Mary Morgan; I asked her,
• Why did you not go to the saw-pit on the girl call-
ing pL Sic replied, " If you are going to take her part
yOu shall have the same yourself, for that is nothing to
what she shall have—that is only beginning." 1 saw
the prisoner Williams when we came out of the house,
and he asked me " How is the gill noss ?'' " You know
something about the girl?" says I. .6 Yes," says
he ; " I. went to the saw-pit and helped her from there."
About a fortnight after this, and Mary Morgan were
in prison at Newport.- I said, We have brought our-
selves into a pretty hobble nom* " Yes," says the;

" elrough Betsy Roper" (meaning Nixon, who at times
went by that name),- I said, " Did 310bn not tell me !h it
you k•iew them that were about the saw-pit ?"
replied, " I thought so, and it was nnt their intent to
kill the man, but to kill the girl." Cardiff Mary' and
Nixon were not friends before this. Cardiff Mary was
always against her. I heard Cardiff Mary say, the Sun-
day before this happened, that she would be upside
%snit Nixon. They many times had words and quarrelled.
Evidence was gone into as to the finding Evans next
morning dead in the pit, with his skull dreadfully frac-
tured, and the slab of timber upon him.
The Jury found Mary Morgan Guilty of Man.slattgb-
ter, and she was sentenced to fourteen years transpotta-
tron. Williams was acquitted.