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was then in his bed in the same room; the witness

then went to her own room as usual, to lie down
till Mrs. Bonar should ring a second time; about
twenty minutes past one the bell rang again, when
witness went into her mistress's dres,ing-room, and j
folded up her clothes—Mrs. Bonar was then in her
bed-room ; in about a quarter of an hour the bell rang
again—her mistress wasin bed, and the witness gave
bar the string which communicates with the door to
c9en it more or less—she then went out of tke room,
b.ing first desired to call her mistress at half-past
seven o'clock : she.lighted the rushlight as usual in
the anti-room, and went to bed, leaving, according
to custom, the doors both of the bed-room and anti-
room wide open : witness on going to bed, waked the
housemaid who sleeps with her, and asked her to call
ber at half-past seven o'clock : the housemaid waked
her as she had requested, and told her there was a
bad smell in the anti-room coming from the bed-
chamber of her mistress : and asked the witness whe-
ther she had lit the rushlight, which was gone, and
whether she had locked the door of the anti-room on
the outside ; at the same time she told the witness
that there were footm.trks in the anti-room. Witness
immei!iately was much .larmed, and cried out (as she
is told, for she was too much agitated to have any
recollection of the circumstance) that there had been
murder. The unusual circumstances which had been
mentioned to her induced her :o think th.it something
ereadtul had been done. She went up sours with
rite housemaid, and knelt down on the floor of the
anti-reom, to see what the marks were, and thought
they looked like blood : she does not know whether
Ihe then looked inm the bed-room ; thinks she did,
and saw the toilet thrown over and some things lying
on the Rocr ; but does not recollect whether this was
tirst or second time of going up : the housemaid
was with her in the anti-room. Witness then went
:o the wash-house, to the laundry maid, and asked her
to go back with her, to see what was the matter;
they proceeded together to the bed-room, when the
laundry-maid went in and opened one of the window-
shutters, when on looking back, she clapped her hands
together and screamed : witness saw the bed-clothes
ant other things on the floor : she then ran. down
stairs, leaving the laundry-maid behind : in the ser-
valits'-hall, she saw the coachman, who made her sit
down, as she was fainting : when she recovered her-
self, she saw the footman, Nicholson., coming into the
servants' hall, with what she thought were bloody
sheets in his hands ' he took a sheet from his bed,
(he sleeps is the hall,) and folded the bloody sheet
es sheets in it: the footman. then said to witness,
"Mrs. Clarke, go to your mistress, she is still alive,
Perhaps she may be recovered ;" she then ran up
stairs, and saw her master's body covered with, she
klieerss a blanket on the floor; her Mistress was in
bed, and still breathing ; did not see her mistress
afterwards, till she was dead; had not seen the fot.t-
-tII since.

Susanna& emit' was next sworn she had been a
bousemaid in the family three weeks last Saturday :
the fnotman was in the place before she came :—she
never heard him express•any angtr or disappointment
against her.master : she put the rush-light in its usual
piacevitt the anti-room .bout tea o'clock : it was
cracked about half-way down; she went to bed be-
tween ten and eleven : she remembered- Mrs. Clarke
cowing to bed, aid desiring to be called at half-Fast
m-ven : she rose herself about half-past six, leaving
Mrs. Clat ke in bed : in passing through the ball she
Observed the house-door half open, a circumstance she
liad never seen before t she shut the door, and then
went to the lawn-door, which was shut, but the shut-
ters were Open. The window-shutters in the library
were all close4l; she then tient into the drawing-roost,

•
*Ufa were edit biii-oise in the ceotiei
which Wei Wide Open I the windows are IoW, and only
raised one itet froth the laien • . She went up stairs, and
folind the tints-moth lot*, with the key outside: she
opened the &or; and saw foot tniarks on the floor, and
the rush light gone froth Its stand i she thought that
perhaps Mri tliike hid been there i the bed-titim
door was nearly wide open: she then Went into the
roans hen the bed-room : there Was a dreadful smell
in the place: she left the room, and *went down
stairs. and after cleaning the dressing-room and the
brary, she went again Info the anti-room to take away
the dust. She then repaired to her own room to call
Mrs. Clarkd, to whom she told the circumstances of
the appearance and condition of the anti-r00m....
Mrs. Clarke exclaimed in great alarm and agitatiotii
Then my master and mistress are murdered !"--
She helped Mrs. Clatke on with her gown, and they
went together to the bed-room. Mrs. C. was afraid
to go in, and witness did not go in, as she had never
been accustomed so to do. They knelt down and ,
siw that the footsteps were bloody. They then went
together to the pantry. Witness did not go up again
till after the footman came down with the sheets.—
The footman tried out for assistance, saying his mis-
tress was not )Ict dead. She saw him with the sheet
or sheets covered with blood, which he wrapt up in
something, she does not know what. The footman
left the bundle in the hall, and said he would go to
Mr. Astley Cooper, and for his master's partner, as
he said he was the properest person to know what
had happened. He then went down the yard with
the coachman. The poker in the•bed-room lay be.
tween her master and the blanket, on the floor. She
had never seen it before. All the pokers belonging
to the house were in their place. Had never seen
any thing particular in the footman's conduct. Saw
him both before and after the discovery in the morn-
ing ;he appeared sober. He looked rather sharp at
her when he first passed, but that was usual with him
when any one passed him.
Penelope Fold: had been laundry-maid in the family
fifteen years. She rose a little after four o'clock ea '
the Monday morning, and soon after the washer: ,
woman came, who let herself in by the laundry-door.
About half-past seven Mrs. Clarke came to witness in
the laundry, and said she was afraid something was
amiss; and asked witness to go up stairs with her.
She did so, and went into the bed-room, and opened
pan of one of the window-shutters. She saw her
master's body lying on the floor, and blood on her
mistress's pillow. She came down stairs and went
up again, when she saw the footman covering her
master with a blanket, and then stooping, as if med.
dling with the clothes on her master's bed : she found
her mistress still breathing. She afterwards saw the
footman wrapping up the sheets, taken from his mas-
ter's mom, in a sheet pulled from his own bed : he
had not been desired by any one to do so : he said
that Mrs. Bonar was still alive—he was the first who
made this remark, it was not made to him : he said
he must go to town, though she desired him not to
leave the house without a man in it.

William Evans, the groom, had been in the service
of the family since December ; he was in the
hall when the footman put the sheets into a sheet
pulled from his bed; witness does not sleep in the
house, but over the stables he was in the house
till after twelve o'clock on Sunday evening, sitting
with the footman, and never saw him in better hu-
mour: he had never heard him say any thing disre-
spectful of his master or mistress, except now and
then an angry expression at being overworked, such
as,—" D—n the old woman ! she wears me r,ut."—
When the examination of this witness was finished,
he begged to state a circumstance which lie had just
recollected. He said, that he saw the footman daub-
ing the sheets in the blood at the foot of the bed.—
Being pressed upon this point, he said that the house-
maid, who was in the room at the time, could tell
more about h.

Susan Curnick being called, said, that she never
Was in the room with the footman, as stated by the
gloom ; she said also, that the groom had exclaimed
at the toot ot his mistress's bed, with a dreadt
expression,-44 this comes ot keeping company with
the Jews."

The Groom, in answer to a question` from the Co-
roner, said, he had not seen the butler (Dale) from
the time he left the service till yesterday.
IV. Randall had been coachman in the family for
eight years ; slept over the stables ; came to the
house about half past seven, and went to call Nichol.
son ; found him sitting on his bed side ; almost im-
mediately heard the cry of murder from the female
servants. It was not long before-he saw Nicholson
come down stairs with bloody linen, and wrap it up
in a sheet in the servants' hall. The footman was a
very quiet, good fellow-servant, but used, when he
had money, to get drunk. The rest of the servants
observed, they could not have handled the sheets as
Nicholson did. Nicholson was very anxious to go to
London, and would have a horse. Coachman
,thought Nicholson wild-looking whin he went away,
and appeared as if he could not ride, though he had
been in the dragoons.
quirks King had been a labourer for seven years in
the family ; slept in Green-lane, Chiskehurst ; came
to.work at between five and six on lvlonday morning.
The washerwomen were up ; he came to the house
about 20 minutes after six, got into the house by the
laundry, went into the hall, and found the front door
open. Phillip was then in bed ; he went to him and
said, how is it you sleep with the door and window
shutters open ? He answered, " I did not know
that they were open." I am sure he was in bed with
his shirt on. _

Williams, a washerwoman, came to the house
about four in the morning. The hall windows were
all i'pen.
Philip Shillington, the gardener, got up between
three and four o'clock. About four o'clock observed
the middle drawing-room window open, which he
did not shut.
Nap Nicholson was then called, and asked what
he had to state. He replied, nothing but what he had
said before the Lord Mayor. The windows of his
bed-room were shut when he went to bed. No far.
Cher questions were asked of him, and he was ordered
into the custody of Lavender.
Mr. Smith, another witness came over on the morn-
ing of the murder, and saw the bodies and bent poker.
He then went to the servants' hall, and found a bun-
dle, which he opened : it consisted. of two bloody
sheets, the one fine and the other coarse, which was
the most bloody of the two : they were wrapped in a

which. was iCatielY stained. 'fie genie to ivied
b oody Sheets to a servant cane& t4vieetapple; to take
to Mt. *liar's loom. A candlestick in Mr. B.'s
room viaibent and broken. There Was a Small spot
of White paint on the poker.
/*elide:, the Bow-street °Meet, ftated, that he ar,
rived on Monday about one o'clock : he foutid a pair
of shoes by the side of the footman's bid, Which he
compared with the traces the anti-room, and, as
he thought, the impressions corresponded with the
shoes: the shoes are not fellows. A night-cap was
found on the, Nathan's bed, with some stains, appa-
rently bloody.
Foy, of Marlborough-street, compared the shoes,
which he hAd found yesterday morning is a closet in
the servants'-ball, with the foot-tracles, and found
they tallied; the shoes were odd ; one common.
heeled, and worn at the toe ; the other with a spring.
heel, as was the; case with the shoes which Lavender
found ; there was blond both on the soles and the
upper-leather. He had just shewn them to Nichol-
son, who acknowledged them to be his, and said he
believed one of them had slipt off in the room from
which he fetched the sheets. Foy found them toge-
ther in the cupboard. Nicholson had also acknow-
ledged the night-cap, and said he supposed the bloody
stains came from the blood on the sheets.

The groom was called again, and said he found the
shoes this morning, in the closet where he went to
look for a stick to beat Mr. Bonar's coat ; he saw
they were bloody, and shewed diem to King, and
then put them back again.
King confirmed this statement.
The Conk, who made the servants' beds, and Ni•
cholson's among others, was called : she had seen the
sheets in the custody of the officer, and believed them
to be the same with those which she had put on the
footman's bed.

The Laundry-maid did not recollect seeing any
sheet on the floor when she first went into her mas-
ter's room.

The poker was then produced : it is bent in the up-
per part : it has been new bitted, and seems never to
have been in the Ere : the other part is old, and a
new top has been rivetted on': it is a common kitchen
poker, about two feet four inches long, and the bit is
about nine inches long.
The Jury retired about twelve o'clock, and, after
a long and patient investigation, returned a verdict of
Warm. Muitaza against Philip Nichsh on the Footman.

THE EVENING STAR

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We have reason to believe that Government are in
possession of Paris Papers of the 27th and f..lBth ult.
in which the particulars of the tremendous battle of
Bautzen are detailed. It is s tic' to have continued,
without intermission, for thirty-six hours—viz. the
whole of the 20th, and the greater.part of the 21st.
The advantage was in favour of the Allies during
the whole of the 20th ; but next day BON APARTZ is
said to have brought up an overwhelming reserve,
which outflanked the allied- a: my opposed to him,
and a crmplete defeat was the cons,.quence. The
confl;ct is represented as of the most sanguinary de-
scription ever recorded—even more destructive than
that of Borodino : the French admit a loss of twenty-
five thousand, but they state that of the Allies at
forty thousand Men !—These are French statements,
it is true, and we shall be Lappv to contradict them
upon better authority : it would be fool-hardy, how.
ever, to refrain from expressing our fears on thc oc-
casion, although we are not disposed to think that the
A Hies were completely overthrown.

it is said that after the battle, BONAPARTE offered
an armistice to the Allies, but his flag of truce was
sent back without any communication being made
in answer.

It will be recollected, that the first intimation of
the battle of Bautzen was received through the me-
dium of the letter from our Dover Correspondent,
which we gave in the STAR of Monday, and which
announced a heavy firing on the French coast. Upon
the same authority, we think it highly probable that
another battle has been fought subsequent to that of
the 20th and 21st, for another firing has been heard
along the coast.
BONAPARTE will, no doubt, represent every affair
with the Allies as terminating in victory ; but if his loss
at the battles of Lutzen and Bautzen is any thing

like what may be reasonably inferred from a com-
parison of similar military occurrences, ,he cannot
obtain many more. On the other hand, the Allies
are falling back upon their resources, and most as-
suredly they will have it in their power speedily to
outnumber their opponents. It appears by General
SmvAar's dispatch, in the Gazette of last night, that
the new Prussian levies alone already amount to forty
thousand men.

The following are the letters from the coast, which
mention the firings subsequent to that which at-
nounced the battle of Bautzen :

DOVIT.R, JUNE 1.

44 There has been some heavy firing again this
day on the French coast ; between ten and twelve it
was particularly heavy, and apparently from Bou-
logne ; for about an hoar after noon the firing was.at
a greater distance from hence, as we could but jest
hear it.

" Sift P.M.—No more firing heard since ten o'clock."
HARWICH, JUNE 1.
CI Many reports are in circulation of a great battle
having been fought subsequent to the 20th, in which
the Allies are represented as totally defeated :---GoP
grant it may prove untrue ; be that as it may, a tre.
mendous firing has been distinctly heard since day-
light to-day oil the opposite coat, and the sound of
the nuns are so very distant, that we must suppose it
is a rejoicing for * victory, and not a naval action."