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tleetth-, tete!' yoirthet•viefeibrlttliWl4444lll6o"
TL law has hecn clearly Italia itif-ylletiiilit'ase ewe.
crinence of the whole Court. • Yrs eta todeigrofigie
vu the Mee, aniehat is your preempt:rim: 'Yet!aare
1-elpeeed to he men who will reminder ylset.dter
cruder the Obligation of an oath, and we ton us WA,
the fame obligation. We cannot, therefraM;tra.aert 3/44
this eldi4ft 4b we are agreed upon 'the late. WWI
regard to the fiats, you are to ) itses 4101 t
,proved, you mull finJ him y oiltyrd ern:2110.44
you 'mitt acquit him altogether. 1 berme,
that pardon rens with a higher fourie ihatt-ne,'"‘ .• •
Mr. Ju dice Rooes.—" The Clowl44Zeille befits"
whatever with and to the law, thereto+
the verdiet mull he—Guilty of klrieder, or a
aclsoiital form want-wf evidence."
Mr. Janice LAIVRIPVCS..-..'s You have heard that
orininp of the whole Conn is fueled as to the law
this !Tint. it is therefore rionsecafery for eta to Itits
mire in particular. i per fselly agree widoehe Iseoen-
ell Judge. who Rated the law in fro 'cigar and abie
manner. If an officer kills a 'moron whom he 'bus. a
right to apprehend upon fufpicion felony. he ig
guilty of murder, eerept in partiiidar crify.ss trim
this man was not even attempting t, run away. fop•
pofinoi it had beep the very perfon who Was guilty
ef.the inifJemeanour. There was, therefrom no es.
cafe fur killing him. Btft though it had been the
pinion who was alarming the neighbourhood. the psi
'inner had nn right to kill him, even if he Ihnitld at.
tempt 'to efcape, for the crime is only a neifdeMcwi
sour. Under every point of slew, this cafe i 5.152
eye of the law, a murder, if it be• proved by the.faea.
Whether it has or not, ie fro yew to determine, auk
return your verdilt 'rise Li Isere,tesee
thur, dared by justice Foller,end Ali the,ll4ollll*
Judges." • , f
T.scoeosa 1 perfectly agree whit the Lam*
Judges who have fpokeu. Geuilsoma.sieroder pair
%erdia again."

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The Jury then turned round, and after a lhallWlr
lunation, returned their verdiet— Guilty. - •

Leta Catee Baeots.—" The cafe, Caddies,
(hall be reported to his MAJESTY immediately."
The Recoante then proceeded to pronounce the
awful fentence of death upon the prifiner. , who
teemed to be very much affeltad by his unfortunate
lituation. Silence being called, he addrefed hill
nearly as follows :--.4 Francis Smith, you have been
tried by a mod attentive and intelligent jar,. tfi
whom the law on this unfortunate cafe has bees
fully and ably hated, that in all cafes of hopnitide it
is murder, ',niers the PerfOn oczeicmiag the depth
can prove, that t4g aft was done under atelafFitlF
by accident, Pelf p%fervation. or bl a voluntary a&
ariling hem ladder' and fitacierlt prevaeariqe, la
was, therefore, incumbent ots you tot in g, wracb
evidence irs mitigation of yocr heinois ea k„ a.
ar.y (ado proof could pnilibly have beelVadelscsrLsrr.
That ark having been don., the Joey have varlr 65
per ly. and according to law, frond you the
tfie
cart,' murder cf ThomasPlite;ood. the la of
1100 and man is. that itheifoe'ver - '•
blond, (hall atone fik blinigt4b, hip imp,. •
*ironer was their relltetittl; art theuival it;
be erecuted ore Monday nett,: Qtr beating .b
renee, he eras fo mulkagitchtt) thit he ;X'
to walk back to preba wop* Ibe
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of thelteepers. '. ' , - _
This Trial. frith frond tit; finirittisity 4.ltaalso
cure and the important poisits of Law relative to the
crises of Murder which isin,volved, esciistelaw sat
common degree pf cttrioty. The citeutglkanife of
the liamtherfanth 'ChM', hovn:ver ridic iet-iyi
fclf, Slew • that the minds of osdiaary peon are-44
Fable to be terriffed'VV.A.rotoms. and that off n
fit:dines of barbarous ages are not as yst comsseael,
exploded. This occurrence, however, evu I-smite
novelty. was calculated to :melt the attensfria of tits
Public, eager to wi:neli the Trial of a Mats with
whnfe offence a circumllance of this fittularity was
04+nel:fed. The coufespence "as, that Ilse Colart
•as uncommonly crr.aded at an early hoot, and a
very lively interell in every prngrefs of the Trial
might be ohferved to pervade all prefent. With tra•
gard to the Prifoner hinafelf, no perfon cotild wit-
ncfs either his behaviour, or the apparent acetifies
of his feelings, without taking a deep concern in his
fate. He was drcifed in a Inn of black clothes.—
His face was pale, and his fewures fuffered at times
by thole contortions which are n.:tutel to a Criminal
11 in his very awful fau.:i... Aaieiea by Marne and
remote, he was now and then lo ferinullv agitated.
that he could with diffiLulty furtitoit bimicif. When
Called upon fur his defence, his voice faishered, and
his tongue to complexly refuted its oMee, that it was
1 with a confteetahle effort he could articulate a word.
Oa the retiring of the Jut y to refieft on his cafe, and
the return of their 'media. he betrayed filch apprehen-
lions of real danger; as to deprive him of the power
of tutlaining hinstelf withnist die ft iendly aid a. bye-
dander. He then became to &int as to be obliged to
requa leave to go outliers the air, whi:b, with the
accudemed humanity of a B?irifh Court of Itlica.
was granted. On his rimsn he fat down, and Limed
far a long time fo perfealy benumbed and totally
slern:ved of his fences, that it was thought it would
have been necefftry to have carried him out el the
Cs.ie t. When the Jury returned. he made a f.,, of
d-operate effort—ilo.al up. and endeavoured to at-
t.. Ito the vet ,i,ec given. wViten the dreadful words
" ',VALI v or w,t.) sit. reuitoLa !" were pronounced.
he seemingly funk into a caste of flupefattion,eacited
by eefpair. He at Lit retired, kipported by the ler-
want of Kirby. whole humane attention to Prifoners
is already too sell known to moire oar panegyric.
—The Prifoner is a 'hurt but wellssade also, with
dark hair and eyebrows, and the pallid hue of his
countenance during the whole trial, together with
the Coons of contrition which be eshilated.commanded
the fyinpathy of every fpedatsar.

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In the eourfe of the evening be was reipited dos-
ing his MAJILITY'S *elute.

A General Court Martial, of 'which General Bra-
taus h Frefident, fat yellerday .it Chelfea. Captain
Hucm Li.otts, Adjutant of the hiarlboroogh recruit-
ing diftrid, is proteerstnr. Lieutenant Cul. Bova.
Inrpeaing Field Officer of the lime diftria, is the de-
fendant. The charges againft him are—sk. Few
empinying nnn comrollSimed officers, privates„ and
teen:its, in his domellic en:.ceins.—ad. kr snakier
returns. It would be improper to Bate parts.
c claws at peeks,.

PLERKENWALL SE.tSIOAS

Yea.idaf Regan and Dosaghee, watchmen, were
Load iiilty of atranit of the m.NII atrncion, na-
ture. dn..l4r &acne., a baker in Earl 'Freer, Seven-

Dials, add Mrs. Barnet, And Mrs. Walker, on the
39th of D. preSer. It will be unoteeirtry to enter
nto a detail of the evidence given ; we therefore Rate
the cafe as briefly as poffible. Mrs. Welker, with her
shulband and another relation, had been at the
Theatre, and had from thence gone to Mr. Barnet's
bottle. where they flipped. Atter waiting for Tome
tient after fupiser, they departed for their bullies,
with Mr. Barnet, who joined them in company to
• the end of the ttreet. for the [gook of (peaking to
Davis, (a watchmen) to call hint up truly to his bu•
fink, which he bad been accoßnmed to do fur the
Bat fever years. Mr. Walkerhad gone forward with
the relation of his rife, and Mrs. W. was ercorted by
Mr. B. On their arrival at the watch boa, Mr. B.

rattled at it for Davis, but he not being there, the
priihner. Demeghne, came from the•rippefire fide,
aid faddist weld officiate in the room of Div s, and
ioltsady (used Mrs. Walker m the mokbrutal niAn
bet by the threat ps•-and, tearing her clothes from
Iser'beck. (wore vehemently that the fhould go with
him to the watch book Mr. B. reMontirated with
the prifasser on the impropriety of ill treating his
liked, and a repeatable hos& keeper, when he im,
asedistely knocked him down. as he alfo did Mrs.
W. The prifonee then fprung his rattle, and wilt
iamasediatenjnined by Regan even more brutal than
hisafelt Mrs. Barbet, thinking her hulband had
bias lost gem* te the watch box, was on the' link.
sot fee him, when eke beard a mak in the fired, and
Rifieding bee huisand's tetchy, proceeded to the
Otte. There Ike raw both the prilonerb holding her
balkend fall by the collar. and Mrs. W. in a fainting
late soots the door of the watch bog. Mrs. B. of
cosrfe, was alarmed at feting her intiband in caw.
•dy. and begged to know what had been t!.e matter,
when the was alto knocked down by Regan, and on
her recovering. was knocked down a fecond time by
one of the painters, but by which the could not
Arm, owing to her diltrels of mind. Mrs. B. en
treated of them to (offer her hufbund and her friend
to go to the watch houfe in a coach, if they bad done
any thing amifs, and not to be dragged there in fo
welched a hate. This was abruptly denied them.
although a coach was provided by a petfm win
was palling by. They continued dragging the par
tiles through the areets in the moil brutal manner,
frequentby liriking Mt. B.Asster his head on the way.
watchinin In Woad-Oreet..Bt. Giles's. olaferved
their hretal 04468, and on atalinpting to minim-
et!" with the" was ViCslendy knocked down by
whow, be charged at the watch brittle. but
winch the datable of the night would nut um; .c.
Chuilleigh. coachman to Lord Digby,
Who was pairing by At the time, fully wrangled the
eviduni given loy the parties.
As oEcions watchman in the neighbourhood
withed to ininfeinte the naiads of the Jury, by a
lino and fabricatial bey. that the parties had (truck
71111 laltelonee ftveral times% wad, the woman bad
*UMW their faces. Oa bias afeed by the Conn.
ft whit tic watehtneit wets doing during that
bale i be detailed sitheriag, bat declared himfelf
to leanly a beithluyiv's labourer. and no connection
'The peileams made a lees defence. in winch they
dannepand to Marge the perms with the sat atrault,
sad datihred that they Whew IWO' by them prior
• • their taking thews inteteltedr.
*. 11/Isewsaaan destined dilatable die molt dar.
bit and owaitee! Jima be had ever heard of, and
If MI Ifserstdi panelled. would endanger she lives of
*jousts' Palk&
Ivey were hatenced to twelve months imprifon•
meat is Nevrigate, which is three months far each
sauce.

A nototions offender was charged with a daring
"Sank, and obilmfling Rabat Harvey, a peace ot.
ilioar, the execution of Ms duty. On the ill of
IlDreember the prffimer had been tried at the Old
Bailey, for attempting to break into the dwelling.
book ofa rntlensan at Hackney, but having been
acquigpd on that chargs.the prefent bill was found
again* him for the Ain't. He was found guilty,
and fentenced to twelve months imprifunment.

Tlyomas S. who was found guiliy of wilful and
corrupt perjury un Tuefday latl, was brought up to
receive fentenee.
Mr. Mrsotwaritoic addreffid the Prifoner by in.
fordsing him that the offence tor which he fluosl
ennui leti was oair of the mon impious of its kind.—
He had not been urged to his offence by patfion,
but it was el.,ne with the mull malicious and dighai.
weft intent, which would ever mark him with difgrace
and infamy. H- hated having received a letter from
the prifoner (ince his conviction, which makes Lis
crime to him, if poffible, even darker. 'This letter
contained the mod fcandalnus calumny againil the
profecutor, hating him to be %money broker and a
crimp, who obtaitted a livelihood by the moll nefa-
riou► praaices. He was fenteuced to twelve mopths
imprifonment, and to hand one hour in the pillory
at Charing Croft, prior to the expiration of the hilt
=omit.

Pointe Orme, Vio;Tatt;•S .—Wednefday
evening a girl of ill ears of age underwent exami-
nation, being char on fufpicinn of Reuling a Norte,
[addle and bridle, t e property of a perfon at prefent
unknown. It was Rated by a tradefman of Ileimal
green, that feting a crowd of people about the girl,
who was inquiring her way to Holborn, leading the
bode, he milted her to whom the borfe belonged ? She
anfwertd. that it belonged to her Luber and that he
bad pm chafed the fame at an inn near L;lndon.bridgc,
sad that the had been to fetch him to her father in
Holborn. The informant, shois a botcher, not be.

lieving her tr.le, procited a eontlable from the Office,
who silo quettioned her, to whom the related the fame
Rory. Being lurched by direetion of the Magifirate-.
fhe began 'o be refrattory, but they found a brafs
nn her :seek, padlocked, engraved with her fa-
ther's nanr and pinee of abode, and in her pocket
a line: halter. :;he would give no account for what
pupae the had it.
She is the fame girl who was examined before the
Lento %vita :nate time ago for divert can vaganees.
She conferred %store the Magillrates having taken the
borfe, which -a at faltered to a railing near the Mn.
mum ; Anil that the bad left ha parents the pc

ceding rentning, an i that ate bad walked the Ilree.%
;tie whole of the tie e. She was committed to the
Houle of Corr, et;on to be brought up again. In the
mean while an ingury is to be made after her father,
as likewife the owner of the bode. _ _

Massion-Hou.s.t—Thurfday /fisa Rood and Aar
"Oen were examined on fufpicion i•f privately Reul-
ing trom the Chop of Mr. Whitehead, lipen draper,
in Hoondfditch, about twenty yard► of printed cot.
ten, o r Wedneiday tall. From the evidence of Mrs.
Whitehead it appeared. that the two prifoners came
in *rler pretence of purchafing a gown, and teemed
to be very difficult to ple.tfe, dcfo ing to fee a great
many patterns ; at lad they fixed upon one, but not
having money in their pocket., the prifoner Afhton
left two fhillings,und was to cal again for her gown ;
but as they left the flhip, Mrs. W. law the corner of
a piece of print appear trom the cloak of the prifoner•
Round. She itoppcd her in the area, and pulled
the remnant of puha from her, which was four yards
and a half; and, after much reallance, they took
her back to the 'hop, where the was teen to drop an-
other piece of printed cotton, of a 6 yard.. Ann
Romid was committed for trial, and Atitton remand-
ed f tUr,her examination. -

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Uterbre -HAL c.—Yelterday Jane rourenre was fully
committed for nabbing France. Ft.tier in various
parts of the body. Site sifts attempted to flab the
officer who went to apprehend tier.
Bow sra stv.—Pt ivate info, ma.ion being received
by Mr. Bose, that S. Goellia, one of t to perfons
concerned in the late forgery on the Dank of Pnnu.
gal, and who was Cent thither a few months ago with
Gillington and Farrel, had cleaned out of the prifon
at Litbon, and had been ken in the neighbourhood of
liethnal.gteerf„ two officers were yefterdar fent in
fearch of hirrio and who brought him to this Oct;ffi
when lie nsa •• a full confeilion of the means ufed for
h;s tape out of the, prifon at Litbon, which he el-
feeleil byan old nail and a chain, with, which he forced
up a plank in the Hoot, :wed made hit way to another
dungeon, whet e he found a cutlers, with which he
opened the door, and having engaged the fentincl in
his favour. they went off together; that he was (even
weeks in making the apertnte in the door, as he was
forced to aa with great caution to elude the obferva-
;ion of the gnat d.
When he ell:apt...l, he went on board the Lord Nel-
fon privateer, and after ensiling about tea days, was
tit away at iu Spain, and remained eight hours
in the tea; that he clung to a piece of wood, and in
that tituation was taken tip by a l'ortugnefe thip,which
alto laved tly.; red of the crew, except four, who
were drown -d. and who landed them at Vign ; that
he got to Bliboa, and from thence to England, by a
Spanifh weird, 'hound for Cork, but which, on ac
count of the damage fhe had Inflamed at lea, put in
at Ilfracombe, in Devonfhire. He was committed
to Tothili fields Btidewell. _ _

tlillingtnn, Farm], and de Barron Were confined
in the twine pril;,ii with him at Lifbon, but had not
been tiled when he came away.

The repairs which have been making at the old
ellablithed Market Hnufe in Newport MatTket are now
completed ; and the Market Houfe was opened this
day. The centrieal titration, the noble height and
fize of the building, and the ingenuity with which
the improvements have been made, cannot fail of
rendering the Market a very great acquirition to the
neighbourhood, and to the whole of the well end of
the Town.

On Saturday two artifis of cnitliderahle eminence
met At Chalk Farm, in order to fettic a difpute which
originated in the f..llowing whimsical ciicumflances
A perfon Aced one of the above Getalemen." What
is put opinion of your brother ITIA?" tic very jo•
cofely replied--" I always c,tifhlered him as a very
*Aegis: fellow!" The words were taken upon the
wrong and worn folk, and confewien.ly a challenge
enfued ; but owing to the interference Gf their fecouils,
the affair was amicably fettled•

Dolt. EX TRAORimimor.—LAII week a duel was
fought at Maneln:iter, between a copper coloured
Trumpeter of a Rifle Corps, and a l'iivate in the
Manchetler Volunteers. The difpute :irofe over
their cups, and the parties met in an adjacent field
the next morning, without feconds, each having a
cafe of large• hoi le pidols, and being provided, ac-
eording to agreement, with eight rounds of ball car.
tridges. The ground, nine paces, being meafurcd,
they toCed up for the fiat fired which was won by
the Pi ivite, who, difcharging his pitlol, grazed the
Trumpeter's leftlip, and made him jump a few paa.
ces out of his place ;—he inflantly fired and hit his
ataagonill in the hat. The parties then doted to
lie that each other loaded fairly. The Private now
fired a fecond time and nut Ted, lie th:n exclaimed,
"Stop, Jack, there's two to one againfi you; don't you
fire and I'll give you a bellyful of This propo.
rho', was immediately acceded to, and the parties
re:ired hum-feel amity from tae field to the nest ad-
joining tap.
Wdenefday morning a private belonging to the
Third Regiment of Foot Guards, receiced 3co lathes
in tlit llirdcage•waik, St. James's P'rk.
A Court Martial atternloled on the 9:h infant at
Sheernefs, and held by adjournment till Tuelday, on
board his Majetly's bomblreffel FURY ; when they
proceeded to try Jacob Johnfon, a tearrnui belonging
to his Majefly's ilo•p LARK; on fulpicion of being
guilty of a fpecics of the mnft wanton and deliberate
treachery, In that of cutting a (hip's riding cable in
a gale of Wind, which was accomplithed on board
his Majelly's (loop Lae K. whim lying in Lowellofte
Road, on the evening of the ifith of December loft,
and for recommending the cable to he nicked.—
The Court was of opinion that there was fining pre-
fumptive proof of the Primer having cut the cable,
but that the charge of nicking the cable was fully
proved ; and the Court adjudged the prifiner to re•
ceive
•lathes on his bare back, and to be pot in
folitary confinement for one year in any of his Ma.
jelly's gaols the 'Aids Commauners of the Ad-
miralty asould &red.

The soft refpellable modern private Dant i ig Aca-
demies, for Ladies and Gem Jensen of .iny age what.
ever, who have neglated toaegoire that aecomplith•
meet, and with to learn patrieu:atly pt.sate and
erpeditious, am, at No. 9. 81.ertard-itreet, Goleen.
fnuarr, and No. to, Great Grindmae'a
held,: the ialrultion, ate by Mr. A Lt.. N. :Ailed by
Mars. To rti.ns•• N and Manua, nn a pun as eat,.
rs the I:sle is elci,Ant and litflui,,;.A e Piano
Jt LC Ated Ilatp, ars: rlltt taught