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day*cllbd again,W but tte—Vnyer.sation
t Out lmateiisi
cross-eifynilittlen,
o# 2/: the;eash-bobAestdes the
papers. He went alit evening
e at Haeltneyotird returned in ,
Mr. Newsam's residence was at leithgati
was examined before the Lord Mayor;
ies, (not on oath) and finally dismissed irge.
On re-examination, it *as poposed to ask the wit-
ness on *hat giontid the Lord Mayor dismissed the
charge, and what •observations he made on the con.
duct of Mr. Lee; but Mr. SOARLSTT objected to the
question, and the LORD Cuter jUSTICR decided that
it could not be asked. •
Mr. Scancrrr replied. On the first ground of
defence he relied on the positive testimony of Ward,
and on the improbability that a tradesman would
purchase a check for less than its-value, and, after-,
wards confess his misconduct. As to the circum-,
stances of Suspicion, he thought they were mere
matter of taste and personal confidence; some per-
sons might take and some refuse a check, where they
were ignorant of the parties; 'but their free circula-
tion was necessary to the facility of commerce in
this great city:
The LORD CAMP JUSTICE directed the Jury, that
if they believed either that full value was not given
for the check; which he thought had clearly been
stolen, or that it was taken under circumstances which
ought to have excited a suspicion that it was impro-
perly obtained, the defendant was entitled to a ver-
dict. As to the first ground of defence, he thought
that Payne must be mistaken, though probably he
had innocently misunderstood the plaintiff... Asti).
the second, undoubtedly the plaintiff bad acted with
a degree of incaution as to his own security; but the
Jury could say whether they thought that the cir-
cumstances ought to have induced a suspicion, that
the party applying for the change was improperly
possessed of the check. _

The Jury .consulted for a few minutes, and returned
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £7.
WARD V. LEVI.
This was an action by the Captain of an East East
'ship, called the Lady Carrington, against a perspnpf
the Jewish persuasion, to recover £93 had anctte-
ceivtd to his use.
The case for the plaintiff. was, that he agreed with
the defendant to take out a cargo of goods to itidia,
charging no freight or commission, but receivieg
half the profits., The goods were accordingly placed
on board, and the defendant obtained• from, the plain.
tiff's father his acceptance for • £4OO on security of
lhalf the value of the goods; which was Acc9iiliAigly
paid. 'Ultimately, the goods, partly -consisting_ of
gilt watch-chains, - imitation of coral necklace, which
proved to be lumps of sealing-wax, and other trifles,
sold for less than this sum, by .5293, . which difference
the 'plaintiff now sought to recover.
For
,the defendant, an attempt wastnadetts.preve
a partnership in the goods, but •
The Jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff'—. D~t-
mages £93, expressing their belisf, tliat.,Mrl Waid
had been imposed on.- -.1/ • -.4r • .
INSOLVENT- DRl3lO.llB' COUirr, JANUAIIT I.
William Cgole came 04),t0 be heard an his.petition
to be discharged, and was opposed by Mr. POLLOCK,
'on behalf of a creditor named Elbegford
supported-by itcsyn. ••. • ,
Ellingford stated, that in the mouth of Ceptember,:
1821, he ~gave the iosolveet .acAeptance. of ,
John Alderson. and-. Co.'s, at; two months :date, .f q:
4:129, to get discounted, for him ; .and,thAt the .Jl-.
Solvent gave him Isat.t.s9 out a( that eisMii api4 XS*
the remainder.• . • .• ,
On his cross-examination, the witness stated that
he had been the insolvents. servant ; about four years
ago he became ft dealer in marine stores, anci.had
since been. frequently, in trouble, oar as of which „pc-
casions he had been bailed by the insolvent, wbo bid
bailed him the last time the month after he had kept
the money out of Sir John Alderson's acceptance.
James Davy, a broker and appraiser, was exa-
mined in support of 'opposition, and stated, that
the insolvent sent for him about the beginning-of No-
.Vember, 1821, to remove his goods, telling him that
;be meant to f/isit hiiereditors by taking the benefit of
-the Insolvent Att. ' The witness in consequence re-
moved all the insolvena furniture, part of which be
'lodged in a warehouse in his own name, and part he
.took to • his own house; and still retained, till he
.;thould be paid Elo;the price of his services. At the
time hi was • reeipviiirthe'goods, he saw a canvas
bag in theinsolvent's house; half full of gold coin.
• This witness was strictly cross-examined, and stated,,
that'hihad taken the benefit of the Insolvent -Act, by.
Which means hi had acquired sufficient insight into.
the practice tebe able to assist others. He had been•
freqUentliin all 'the, ptisons of London except New-.
gate, which he always instinctively avoided. He was
in the habit of going 'to them on business, to assist
the prisoners, and to itillect rents, &c.
The Insolvent was examined by Mr. riniTn in ex-
:planation, and stated:that he had, before his last bill
transaction with Ellingfba, procured bills to be die
Counted' for' him, itiiirbad 'pall him the money, as he .
(Ellingford) had Occasion for it, and meant to do so in •
'the last instance, but was 'prevented by his disapT
pointrnents. When he allowed Davy to -remove his
.furniture, he acted so far tinder his (Davy's) advice,
who also advised him-to take the benefit of the In-.
solvent Act, which be refused to do, and endeavoured
'to settle with his creditors by giving everything:up
to them; but failing in firs endeavours, and being
:arrested last November, behad pot all-rho property
he had in the world in his schedule, for the benefit of
all his creditors.
The Comet said, it was there was impurity
on both sides. In the case of the particular fraud com-
plained of by Ellingford, when a creditor -sought to
establish a fraud against an Insolvent At the Mrit of
contracting a debt, the Court mast always take into
consideration how the transaction was viewed hy the
creditor himself at the time .the insolvent', conduct
became first known to him; and, in this cassis ap-
-*and that the creditor, so far-from accusing the in.
solvent of havingaeted fraudulently, continued to live
with him on tern* of friendship, sad had beenbailed
'by him the month after. With -regard iskille ..evi-
4mee that had been; given of the insolvent!. having
.a anted hisistopeety,had it proceeded frost- a-cara-
141111mtviesta, rite Court wsithirsaisitalert ahiach
conduct Severely': bet it was .wholly impossible for
any Court to give credit to the testimony of a man'
who avowed that hi had bees a participator in a ,

NFESSI'

la the STAR of Saturday, we gave an stecotnit of
the execution of this notorious and haidened offender.
It Willthowever,.be seen by the followingparticulars
Whiehistve since transpired, that he Ms made con-
hksitons Whitt may be the means of bringilig to jus-
Xlce theloarsought murderers both of Mrs. Donatty
end' Mr. bird And his housekeeper, at Greenwich.
The ruthless deeds of this M2ll appear. to have ri.
salted even those of the notorious Abershaw, -whose
body was stolen from the gibbet on which it hung,
WiMbledon Common. • •
Some days before his execution, Hartley confessed
io the Rev. Mr. Myren that he had been concerned
in upwards of 200 burglaries in Kent, Essex, Surrey,
Middlesex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Yorkshire,
Westmoreland, Durham, I,itsfolty; and Norfolk. He
had been confined in sixteen different prisons, besides
undergoing several examinations at the different Po-
lice Offices;
.and had gone by the following names:
Robert Stainton, Alexander Ronibollen, Geo.-Grimes,
Robert Wood, William Smith, George Cloggington,,
and Robert Hartley.
Hartley's father formerly kept an inn (the Sir John
Falstaff), at Hull, in Yorkshire. He was put
.to
school in that neighbourhood; But his conduct. at
school was so mat ked with ileinavity, and so conti-
nually did he play the truant, that..he. was dismissed
.as unmanageable. He then,_although only nine years
`Of age; began with pilfering and robbing gardens
hand orchards, till at length his friends were obliged
to send him to sea. Ile soon contrived to run away
from. the vessel in which he had been placed, and
ving regained the land, pursued his old habits,
`end got connected with many of the principal thie.yes
yin London, with.,whom he 'commenced business re-
gularly as a • house4reakerr-which was almost_al-
Wayshis line of robbery,
llartley acknowledged that from his earliest days
he was of a most vindictilre and revengeful spirit.'
He had beie punished when at School, and in reel
verge contrived to get from his bed in thenight and
destroy the whole of the.fruit-trees, and every plant
and shrub in his master's garden. At another time,l
having robbed a .neighbour's garden, he was detected;
and punished; when, in order to wreak his ven-
geance, he set fire to the house in the night, which will
nearly destroyed, together with its inmates. He had
adopted 'a Plan to escape from his father's house in:
the night-time without detection, which was done by
means of a rope-ladder that he let down from his bed-
room window ; and, after effecting his robberies, he
.used to retign 014 room in the same way.
Hartley had once before-received sentence of death,
and was not respired till within a- few hours of the
ogees titue of executiiSn ;. he was then sent -to Botany
Bay, rtgra whence he contrived to make his escape,
and afterwards entered on ;board of one of his Ma-
jesty'a slf!peitt the-East Indies.. Whilst at this sta.
'tiott he'yeas:.rettioVed to the hospital on: shore, air
'Bombay, oikaeconnt .of sickness ; but even in thii
statele could not refrain from thieving. His piniC-1.1
Bice WM to scale the walls of the hospital in the tints.
ing and way-lay the natives, whom he contrived. to
rpla by knockieg shem down with a short stiik, and
thee seizing their turbans,,in which their wealth was
'usually deposited. :
' • Nriile on this station a Gentleman on board the
:hip 'missed a box of-pearls, and suspicion falling on
a native Indian, he was put on shore and dreadfully
tortured, his finger and toe-nails
..being torn out to
make him confess. A few days before:Hat tley's exe-
cution, be confessed that he stole the pearls, and se-
"treted them in a. crevice in the ship's side, whence
:they had slipped to the bottom, and he could ~not
recover them. He wrote an account- of this ciicum:
,Stitece.to.the Commander of the ship, who came:to
Mtudstoue immediately, and recognized Hartley as
having been engaged as an Officers servant on tobard,
and Hartley enured him that-the pearls still re-
inained inalteplake-where he had' secreted theta.
Hartley aCknoWledged that he was-an.accomplice
in the murder of Mr. Bird . a'4 :big hbuiekethper, at
X.reenviich, for Which-murder Hasse* was executed
1818, but that neither himself not Hussey were
,the actual.murdereta: Hartlef obtained- adntission
' into the house by presenting a note at the door,When
himself, with
.Htissey 'and another person whonlhe
-rushed into the house and shut the
Hartley instantly ran sip stairs to plunder the
drawers, and whilst there he heard a 169 d. Cr"! for
Mercy. -He went to tbe top of the stairs, and saw
'.Hussey pull Mr. Bird's housekeeper, to the floor,
whilst struck her repeatedly with a hammer.
—Hartley ran down stairs, and saw Me, Bird lying
'dead On his back. The sight so affected him that he
immediately threw on the table two watches which
he tad secured, aid ran out of the house,and never
saw Hussey aftetavards, nor_ had he any share in.
the' plunder. - . • - . 7
Happy would it have been had his hands always
::been, as free froM blood, as he confessed that he
afterwards met a Gentleman on the highway, and
',shot him dead ; after which he took from his person
a watch and 7.51. • • . •
Hartley was else witness to another scene of /nor—
der which occurred in one of his midnight robberies.
Himself and a companion bed entered the house-Of a
Gentleman, VIM, 'Wilt Aillelied, seized a poker and
made tewardslloii„artMilapped a pistol, which
I -
Missed Are.. `The crentliejaa Miaed him lay thecollar
and dragged hitwio:tbe floor, when Hartky's
panto' n Plunged- keffe-,iato . hie beak, and he
dead *pot- --rdey.. 'Two Ladies bad followed
Gentleman • into 'ase and `4"ttlehOrStl
they instantly falated,.wist Heithey;encl!bil cianpa-
nions made their Wye, He has alsolirmasetly ,--
fessed that the asattlentr- of Min Denattr was
abotelitentitered' -who regrets
a mast blood-4 W intik& •
' Ia owe lf his. saidilightomerileas tttdtfi two
companions, he had a narrow escape *Oki: life.
had packed up the principal part of theplate i
lower rooms; when one of his companions, with

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is, dea Ortseeta alp twat
attempting which, he Vie" snot dead at the side of
fley, who, with his other eompar.ion, taide
retreat. This' circUrristance only ,serveck, 40.
him in iniquity, as. he acknowledged that by
totally- dead 'br ft* of thitiMil Vbfibe fed•
of remorse were, holrevet,>:awakeraeti.a fesi.itaia
his trial, by an airectionateletser frogs la is.
iprrsoned for debt, whom he h.id robbed f*
, by forging's' power of Sittoriley, 6f whieth.ba.
used possession of a Itgacrtitil:L/100,- which had
a *beg tretsthedto her IV •' t relation.
,lie looked forward • t the thie of his meow.
with astonishing coolness; and, in order that ht.,
might have the day continually before him, ba•had,;
drawn a-circle on paper; to form a kind of dial, with
an index pointing to the mislabel-Of days yet resting • .
jug ; and this index he moved daily, as the dap 11'
life decreased. *This monitor he fastened wiustschw
wall of his cell, where it was constandrin viessoa-
He was hut twenty-five years of age, and about 114
feet six inches high.

•••••.6 .m.iihakiiiisallkilb
ATROCIOUS CASE.—A than named /tie riant Gets;
ford has been sentenced tti be 'harmed in Washington
County, Pennsylvania, for the wilful murdbr of his
own son. This is one of the most awful cases a
Wickedness and depravity that weever teed. Craw.
ford, the murderer, had parted with hit wife fob
causes which are not explainedi The son appe
to have protected and befriended his helpless me.
then This gave birth to the most malignant feelings.
in the breast of the father, who; because the son con:
tinned' to support his-mother; resolved on embruing
his hands in the blood of his Offspring. Nor did he
proceed to carry his diabolical purpose into ewe-
loon itt a moment of passion, or particular irritate%
Aftet•citindy informing his. neighbours, who bSd as-
'sembled together on a frolii, it that he would killba
son Henry before night," the. wretch deliberately
loaded his gun with two horsirnails, went out, or.
'dered the girls who were sitting at-the door to sit
around, took aim at-his son, end shot him 4. Thesle. '
ceased was about nihe steps from the house, and had
no suspicion that-his father meditated the barbarnin
deed. What adds to the atrocity of the crime is, that
the unnatural monster exidted after he had murdered
the unsuspecting youth, and told him, with an air of
triumph, just as he was closing his eyes forayer,
44 Now, Henry, I told you I would kill you ;" and on
some one proposing to go fir a'' doctor, he opposed
it, saying that he had got doctoring enough._ As a
, climax to this fiendlike, transaction, the wiutobed
.1
man brought liquor to his house, and Tequested tte
party to dri4. Beforebe*started for. the jail he said,
4 Success to you, Henry; I hope you "have gone is
hell." He went off singing, and on the way, bewail 1
he had killed him, and he would do it again if him
to be done ever. For the honour of human naturs,l
we hope that such another wretch doeS not exist esiL 1
det.the canopy of Heaven.
.
• lanugsr.--Ttsesday an Inquest was held' at lit
Union, John-street, Ostord-street, on the body a
new-born infant found with a .handkersilief.
round its neck in the waterfcloset of Mr. Elli
smith in that street, which proved to be the offs
of the female servant, who entered the house only
the preceding day, and, of whose pregnancy
de!
was no. suspicion. After a Minute _exam inatiaa "di
Jury returned a verdict44* g‘ Wilful Murder again'
'Elizabeth Atienders,.thernother," who is now in Mar
la-bonne 'Workhouse, and from whose knowledge the
verdiatli if present concealed.
iMPOILTAIIT DISCOVIUIT IN ,TUR COMPOSITHTh 01
TllR•liiiisOSir EVERS lip Wax, in delivering bii
introductory lecture' en the physiology of the blood,
on-Tuesday, at' Sr4Seorge's Hospital, explaindl 1
discovery made' by him on the component pearl(
the, blood, in the year 1818, s fact-which is kdo*
bat to few of the profession. Sir Evenano's :nip
theory is, •that carbonic acid gas forms a larger*
' portion of the blood, and that this fluid is of a tub*
hat structure. The innmoltal•Hanver' the discesear
of the circulation, and. Hawses ancl_HUNTeis who
have most studied the composition of the vital dfaid,
failed to make this important discovery, and shoeY
time, • the only test of train.. prove the justness ofshis
new theory, Sir EVIRARD shaikbe ranked among the
first physiologiits of the day.- He asserts that lad-
l'boine acid goses,isis in theiAilood in the large prop''
tion of two cubic inehei tO.an ounce, - and thatits*
given out in 'bite quantitiei from the. blood of a pie
son after a full,meal, aid Yorlr inhale4oo tbs._
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of a feverish person. The fact. Get)* appearatmew
the tubes passing damn* every particle of the bloPd
Sir ETERARD was fed to discover by observing the'
growth of a grain:of , wheat daily through a, aticp.
scope; he first saw b Idobi and- them! ;i tube pqs
from it; the blob was the juice of the plant, and the
tube was totaled by the-extrication ofearbooic acid
gas. Reasoning from enalogy, he examined a .110-
Oule of blood, and found it composed of similar *bpi
which he was enatited-to inject under the exhariseld
recedes of:an air-ponip.—Uit disonvery, trillin4t
May appear, Will probably ka4l,tp important
Sir Evraasta:is entitled to great credit for thisos ossii!
nal discovery; faeik stag uzzaatiz adders;
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Wednesday, iimiary 'O, at b 1 rldifianatia
.John Pratt Hefts= Saq. In the loth yrattor=gret:
long and afiliedng
Oa the tith ,instant, hs the 24th year.'.er
George, the youngest son of Edirard ~a ii Al 4
Bedfordshire. • 9
Friday, the 3tl inst. at hialsousa
Pb.o .aray Tsars Cosamandscin;t3l,Jatikahlr, --
_Op tbs-erl istst. in London, gag a kikgrg, -
nelope. rife of Lieutenant Yohts George,
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sisidtimb . 010 hint a very prmper tat on i41(10, EIVP- - Far tler
thechecit !Sod Lei • .the discretionarl powi. • , in' kAtikeilfirhSasty e
to his fiitheere• -section of the ACt, and was only sorrythat it could! harden I
i the morning, not include the binker,7 who vrtskjerlutps the•ractie .*as tots
gate. Mr..-Lee guilty per ion„. in the *one punishment. The judp ings of 1
7, who heard the *rent of the Court was, that the Insolvent should be before I
Sled the charge remanded for six Months, fitm the date of filing his ter',_ imi
I to ask the wit- Petition. * £'eloo, I
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