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At a General Conn' Martial, held at tattle' 'liar-
ricks -qn. they-21.4t nflisine, ISM. Captain ItQIIF.RT
l'ittimriTT, Of the Royal Artillery, was arraigned, •
list. For Conduct unbecomingthe anisette of an Officer and
atGentlernan, in making the men of his company to the begin-
, fling of March, IttlSoubscribe to a fund, established in the
' year 1806. by paying two pence halfpenny, per day each, fat
every day they had leave to work, nisminally, for the benefit of
the.marrtedwomen of his mummy, and any extraordinaries that
might happen; and for withholding from gunners Snowball, Ran-
kin, Armstrong, and others, who had subscribed to the fund,
any brnellt whatever from the -nine, and refusing to this time
to give any account of the purposes to which this. money so paid
hid been whet:.
Sid. For conduct unbecetning the character of an Officer and
a Genitleman, in making gunners Snowball, Gillespie, Robinson,
and many others, pay two shillings per week each; from the Ist
of June, 18/0, to the tatter end of September in • the same year,
for leave to be.excused from an duty whatever, excepting church
'pirade on Sundays. •
The Court acqUitteatillifaln TRUSCVTT of the first
charge ; but felt it a duty incumbent upon them, to
remark upon the extreme irregularity both of the
fund and Company's books, as laid before the Coort;
and although no proof had been brought of the Pri-
soner having refuied to give any account of the pur-
poses to which the money paid into the fund has been
applied, it appeared very extraordinary, that no divi-
sion or explanation of the balance, which appears on
the face at the fund book, of the amount of £27. 2s.
60. had been spade to the men of his Company.
The Court found the Prisoner guilty of the second
charge, and sentenced him to be' severely and pub-
licly reprimanded. •
Although the sentence of the Court appeared to
the PRINCE REGENT to be inatfequate to the extreme
irregularity and guilt of the Prisoner, upon a point of
great delicacy and importance to the interests of the
soldier, yet, under all the circumstances of the ease,
his Royal Highness was pleased to confirm the same,
and to command; that Lieutenant-General Lord
Cr %IMES SOMERSET, pr General Officer commanding
the Sussex District, should be instructed to carry the
reprimand and admonition of the Prisoner, Captain
Tel:seem, into execution, in terms calculated, in the
strongest manner, to point out to him the extreme.
impropriety of hikconduct, With the hope, that such
a public expression of the PRINCE REGENT'S disappro-
bation may have the effect of preventing a recurrence
of such improper stoppages from the soldier's pay ;
or of discontinuing such a practice, if it should be en-
forced in any other instance throughout the service.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

DUBLIN, SEPTEMI3ER 14.

Sunday, ARTHUR B. Moist:, and Jon PASLEY,
Eitqrs. Coroners for the County of Dublin, opened
their Court, and impannelled a Jury, in order to in-
qUre into the circumstances that occasioned the death
of the late Mr. PATRICK GOULDING, of Exchequer-'
street.—The Jury, being sworn, proceeded to view
the body of the deceased, which was opened in their
presence, by Cesacx RoOncii, Esq. Surgeon, in order
to ascertain the direction of the wound. The Jury
then retired to a room in the Hotel, when Mr. Roo-
en. was sworn and examined. He stated, that the
deceased had a mark of.a ghn-shot wound under the
right breast, above the sixth rib, which was broken,
and also another about the third rib of the left side,
which was also broken; there appeared a great effusion
of blood from the heart, in consequence of the ball pass-
ing ;:and that the wounds appeared to have been in-
flicted by one shot, which caused instant death:
Christopher Goulding was then examined, stated
he was brother of the deceased, proved that Francit
Tate was apprehended on the charge of shooting th
deceased, and was in the custody of the Police M.
gisnates at the Head Office.
_ The prisoner, on being examined, denied laavir:g
any accomplice, but freely acknowledged that he
had shot a gentleman, who had been walking with
a lady, on the Circular road, the evening before ;
he stated that he knew neither of them, and had no
intention of committing murder, but that having
stopped the herons ith the intention of obtaining
money, he was seized with a sudden tremor on the
gentleman torreng his face to him, and in his con-
fusion And hurry Jo escape, the pistol went off by
accident; he stated that he had two pistols, and
that he was not aware of either of them being loaded,
but admitted that he snooped' it. at the person that
pursued him • prisoner said he was a deserter from
the 23d Light DrAgothis, and intended to have made
a journey with the trifle of money he could make on
the road ; the pistols, he said, he got from another
deserter, whose name he did not know, and expressed
much regret that either of the pistols had gone off,
persisting it was accidental and not designed. -
Anne Wainwright Goulding was then examined.
She stated she was the wife of the deceased, and
that she and her husband were stopped on the Cir-
,cular road the evening before, at a little after seven
o'clock, by the prisoner, Francis Tate, who pre-
sented * pistol to the breast of the deceased and
shot him; her husband eried`but, a Oh ! .it is too
bad, don't murder my wife," Prisoner then fled
towards the hedge, the witness crying out murder
knew the prisoner on seeing hi en secured at the
Hotel the evening before. She did not observe any
person as in accomplice..
James Wilson, of Stacumnie Cottage, county Kil-
dare, identified the prisoner as the person whom he
took immediately after the murder.
Bryan Duffy—heard the shot fired and the cry of
murder ! stop ! saw the prisoner, whom he identified,
running; endeavoured to step him, when he snapped
a-pistol at him; saw him taken by Mr. Wilson, the
last witness.

Martin Hackett stated, that he was sitting on a
mud wall, near Dr. Sneyd's house, when he heard
the shot and stretching ; saw the prisoner with a pistol
in his hand running; desired him to stop, when the
prisoner swore he would blow his brains out if he
stood before him.—The examination here closed.
The Jury retires( for a short time, when they re-
turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Francis
Tuteovho was reconducted to Newgate by Sheriff
Morgan.—Carrici's Daily Advertiser:

James HocAings has been fully committed to the
Devon county gala, for the wilful murder of Sarah
Good, the soldier's wife, who, on the departure of her
husband for Spain, being turned out of the barracks
for some offence, was found dead in a field at Chun-
, ton Tench Devonshire.