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he following Letter has been issued from the
War Office, addressed to the Arbay Medical Board,
dated Augt•st 7, I§l6, and signed Etwaaarosi:
OrtiTLIM ell —lt being found that the Purveyorl sumbed
is General Ho.pital Estabhshmems .14 not is all cities specify
the armee incurtvd fur 'he 'utters% of deceased men at the
time they omit* their death to the corps to which they beleeg,
am tq acquaint you that in all future instances in which this is
net bee. the Purveyor neglecting so to do, will be bald liable to
bier any loss which may arise in consequence of the men's ac-
Aping having been made up without including any charge for
theleatill. laM further to abtuaint you. that I shall communi-
ide this regulation to the. Conimanditig Officers of Corp.. and
dank ',gibe props, that you should circulate it to the Officers
year Dipinitieult cnncitned therein, with an iodination that I
Tigtliasbn da. duly to miff,/ every casualty taking place among
she army, in any establishment m *hick they are
.kisprged, within no dais after its occurrence."

KING'S THEXTRE.
yesterday the re rale s valuable property took
tone at the Public Sale Room in Southampton-
r, pursuant to the order of the Loan CHAN.
.02402. Previous to the commencement of the sale,
some discussion took place respecting the wardrobe,
imam, music: machinery, and the other properties
of the Theatre, of which it appeared that no account
had been stated, or inventory made.
D'Econas said, from his own knowledge,
'that value of these amides. whea Taylor.
quitted the management of the Opel a, was between
420000 :10 430,000, perhaps equal to the value of
-sate' building stilt.
• Mr. RICHAND WILSoN was of opinion that the sale
shoirld not proceed till such account and inventory
}td been made, and from what he knew of the Lord
Chancellor, be was persuaded his Lordship would
Scot have authorited the re-sale of the Theatre bad
be been aware of this.
Mr. Maui, the Solicitor for Mr. Waters, in answer
to these objections, stated, that if the value of the pro.
iertws of the Theatre when Mr. Taylor left the ma.
sagemetn of etie corker(); was so great, he could assert
they fin:. Much more viluable now; and be pledged
himself, th.st every at title belonging to the Theatre*,
Should b.: delivered to the purchaser, whoever he''
alight be ; And he would direct an account of them to
be taken immediately.
0 this assurance, all opposition to the particulars
of sale was withdrawn, and the biddiogs commenced,
beginning with £5,000. —The principal bidders were
DtiTHIF., Mr. GALT. Secretary of the Caledonian
hsylint, Mr. ENEN39. the bookseller of Bond-street,
Sad Mr..WaTzas, who, at seven o'clock, was declared
the purchaser, at.the price of £70,150, being £29,150
more thau it produced at the former sale:

A few cliys since, as a man was in the act of rob.
ling an orchard, in the vicinity of Higham, in Kale,
he fell from a tree, and broke his neck
A man, a ser‘ant in husbandry, having left his ser-
tice, and gone home to his friends at Holker, in lan-
while, on finding them gone to bed, it is supposed''
he had determined on going down the chimney, so as
sot to disturb the family, but unfortunately be be-
came so fixed in his descent as not to be able td extri-
cate himself : in which situation he was found lifeless
4111$auirday night. A shoe was found in the room
below, which led to an examination of the top of the
thiainey, where his hat was also found come.
newly the wan was broken into, where the body was
fixed ask were into a state of suspension.
Gene resgAin, one of the conspirators, still re-
v-mains in the House of Collection, it not beirg
deemed safe to remove him to Newrite, lest Ire
should suffer from the impulse et that indignation
Which his aSominable conduct has excited.

GUSH PIHI26TMIAN MATCH Or 1500 Mmes. IN
DATIio—BARNIFT. the Pedestrian, last' night, at
Lir PH nine o'clock, accomplished 46 miles, making
sip, at that time, since his commencement, (on Satur-
nay, at two o'clock), 163 miles. During the greater
tan of yesterday his regular pace. from his starting
in the morning, to his finish, was nearly four miles
an hour, being necessitated. from the intense heat in
tbe.middle et the day, to rest for same time. The
!friends of the pedestrian yesterday had him weighed.
being anxious to know, at the conclusion of this
match, the difference in point of weight. Betting is
begin aii.g to be rather brisk ; and, at present, some
few odds are offered against him, which has been
taken up by his friends, and the money placed
into the hands of Mr. Prestidge. at the Mitre. --•
BARblir is in height 5 feet 2 inches, and remarkably
strong, and having been for many years habituated
to travel the country as a pedlar, his task seems to
hint tri he at present amusement only. He eats but
Sparingly, though every luxury that can be had for
Liao is not only provided by the landlord, but every
delicacy and dainty that can be thought of, have
been within this two days sent him by the most re.
fiectahle families in the neighbourhood, and the
Ladies and Gentlemen begin daily to visit him both
early and laic' this morning, alter having enjoyed
a sound sleep fof nearly six hours, he started off at
que past three o'clock, and had accomplished
hattnast eight o'clock, eighteen miles, when he re-
tiree to breakfast, and set off at nines and was travel-
' ling on in molt excellent spirits.
l'uniusnc Conrt:'ir.—Tuesday last the amateurs
61 the listic art. and many hundred spectators, col-
lected at Hythe Bow, Cueddar, Somersetshire, for
the purpose of siitnesssing a boxing match between
J..Yord, a butcher, of Axbridge (brother to the cele.
bated boxer of that name of Metropolitan notoriety ),
and Simon Bunn, a man notorious for single-suck
playing. It appears that an altercation which took
Pine between the parties on the day before, id COhte.
lance of Fotd having pushed Bunn front the single.
stick Mtge at Cheddar Revel. was the cause which
led to the ecenhat, and nothing would satisfy the
wounded honour of Bunn, but to give his antagonist
a good drubbing. or receive one himself. A good
deal of manly *tins was expected, but the
ode looked looked iu vain for much science on either side.
fat muscular powers, however, of the combatants
were such as insured to them extraordinary manual
"lion- They set to with considerable vigour, and
taught Si rounds in 25 minutes, without drawing the
tisret,on either side, although many tremendous
rsere liberally _dealt out. In the last round
alma gave Ford a violent cross buttock which almost
tied him in a knot his wind took leave of him, he
teak measure fur a grave, and died dung, whilst his
!ftagoniat waved his shallow in the air, and declared
at had not half a belly full. Considerable sums
Item betted on the Kali.

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• imiiiistitisiloit
Yellurd. ai• TrirsdoffissikiEbq. of Ha:1;6004 Ms
charged by Frances Stevens, wife of Ricrund Ste.
yens, a smith. with committing Ai assault with the
intent to ravish her.

Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the cape to the Jury.
Mrs. Stevens deposed, that she and her husband
had been for ten years a tenant' of the defendant's,
who is a. married man, and has several children, par-
titularly one daughter' above 17 years of age. On
the 19ili of December last, between ten add eleven
in the forenoon, Mr. Hinds called at her home when
her husband was from home, and said, " Where is
Dickey)" and on her saying he was oat, he replied,
" very well, I am come to plague you, as 11111.1 a."!
Ha then proceeded to unwarrantable liberties with
her, which she resisted as far as she could t but at
length, he desisted on her making a noise, wad said,
" D—n the woman! she will let all the people hear."
He then went to a grindstone in her garden, where
kis servant and her husband's man were grinding an
axe, and soon after left the premises.
Creu-examirsed.—She declared, she is thitty.five
years of age, and has been married eleven years.
Hinds took some liberties with her nine yens ago, of
which she complained to her husband with tears, and
he said, " it ever he do so again, I'll murder him."
In July, 1815. he renewed such liberties, but she did
not then inform her husband. She saw Hinds once
in her bed room, when he read a letter to her from a
brother of hers, although she could both read and write.
When this assault she now complains of happened,
she did not make any exertions to run off, nor did she
call for assistance, but only gays him a good scolding
for his impudence ; nor did she teU any female of it,
as after he left her, she resumed the-employment she
had formerly been engaged in. .vix. cleaning her
house. She took no steps in redress of her assault,
till after she and her husband had received notice in
March to quit the premises of Mr. Hinds. She de.,
nied having ever said within the last six months that.
a Gentleman at the Bar, whom she knew, was her
best friend. She gave Hinds no blows nor scratches,
when she was thus assaulted. She called for no as.
sistance, although the grinding stone was not twenty
yards off, and she only preferred thircharge last July.
Daniel Hussey. her servant. deposed having seen
Mr. Hinds come to the house that day, having heard
him say, a I)—n the woman, don't speak so loud,"
having heard his mistress speaking louder than usual,
and having heard Mr. Hinds say on Leaving the house
" that d—d woman is mad."

Cron-exardersed.—Considered Mr. Hinds, on coming.
out. had a hotter fine than usual.
Mr. ALLEY took a candid review of the evidence,
and contended it was morally impossible for twelve
men of common understanding to convict his client,
because no doubt whatever could be entertained of
the infamous and profligate character of his accuser.
She had concealed former amours from her unhappy
husband ; she had told her story to-day with a front
harder than brass. and which bid defiance to every
feeling of modesty ; she had been assaulted in De-
cember, and had preferred her complaint only in
July. No man, except one whose mind wt.; upset
from its very.lotindations, would doubt she had pre-
ferred this complaint now, from diabolical 'revenge
on Mr. Hinds, for ordering her and her husband to,
quit his premises. He should call no witnesses (he
bad many to call if the Jury chose), because he sup.
posed his calling them would be an insult to the
Jisry, as it would in tact be supposing they doubted
a case which was to every honest mind as clear as
the meridian splendour. A more detestable design
than what this deluded, ill advised, and unfortunate
female had attempted to execute, he had never seen,
except in one case before a celebrated Judge in a
country circuit, where a female, after detailing parti-
culars somewhat similar to the impudent immodest
disclosure of Mrs. Stevens, was asked by the Judge
as to the mode in which the assault commenced, she
said, '• Why, mi-Lord. he admired my ancle first ;
he then said my garter was tied wren 4, and lie fixed
it. as he said, right." 14 Well." said the Judge,
‘, and what did be de next ?" Why," said the
woman, 14 he went ea with his pranks." His Lord.
ship, justly astonished. said N Woman, woman. why
did you not stop him?" " Oh, please your Lord.
ship," replied the jade, “ I wished to see how far the
rogue would go on with his tricks." Ha (Mr.ALuty)
had no hesitation in thinking Mrs. Stevens did the
same ; and he, theretore, sat down with the firmest
confidence in their giving a favourable verdict to
his client.

The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidende, and ob.
served, that there were three points to which the, lug
were bound to attendfirst, her not calling to her
servant, who was so near, and could easily have come
to her aid; secondly, her not giving any intimation
to her female acquaintance; and, thirdly, her not"
bringing this action till after she had received notice
to quit the premises of the defendant.
The Jury, without any hesitation, found a verdict
of Not Guilty.
A. Moak, was indicted for assaulting Sarah, his
wife; and 1. Spice was indicted lor assaulting A.
Dunning.
Mr. BARRY stated the case for Dunning, who was
a man in humble life, a bone cheMter. Spice was net
of mere exalted rank, he was a cameral butcher, and
all the parties lived in Spratr•allty. It appeared,
however, that Mr. Spice, debt:mining to imitate the
tailings and foibles of high life, had cast an eye of
desire on Mrs. Dimling; and, having succeeded in'
gaining her affections, induced her to elope ftom.her.
lawnsl Lord. The loss of hie spouse, was one for
which perhaps poor Dunning would have consoled
himself, but the lady, .being of a onsitot disposition,
took with her as many of her husband's moveables as
she could convey away. These he felt a great desire
to recover, and having trued his ilia partner to the
abode of Spice, he attempted to take bet away, but
the fair one spurned at her loordand husband. Fate,
however, seemed determined to punish her, for her
foot having got entangled in her busbaad's apron,
she fell baeltwards, and now was prepared, it seemed/
to swear that her husband knocked het down. On fal•
ling, she called oat et Murder I" when Spice came to
her, and threw her husband, who is a cripple, down;
and whilst prostrate, junsped spin and kicked him,
seas to disable him from attending to his business
for sone days.—Evideocs was called to prove these
facts, and the lain acquitted Denning of the charge
of assault upon his wits, bat found Seas goihr of the
assault upon Dumb%

10:1114 TEMPER 14.

.wiri4v traffie. Richard listestoa;,
P MINA ;Mae Us& rebid ifaciallt and
David joaliah *ere charged With a misdemeanor;
itt having, with other perms, to the number of one
hundred and more,tinlawiully and riotously assembled
at Liverpool, on the 10th of June last, to disturb the
public peace, and in having, when so assembled,
made a great noise, riot, and disturbance.
This prosecution arose out of the scenes of riot and
Unlink that attended and concluded Mr. Canning's
late Election for Liverpool. Our Readers will re-
member,. that fof several, days prior to the 10th of
June, a great tendency to disorder and disturbance
had manifested itself, and Abet on that day the tu-
mult arrived at its height, that the authority of the
Magistrates was despised, the Officers of Police were
insulted, the procession of Mr. Canning assailed on
its way from the hustings with all kinds of missiles,
the windows of Colonel Bolton's house, where he
lived, demolished, his friends who came to bear his
speech dispersed, and his colours every where ob.
lined to submit to the Green of the opposite party.—
The active part taken by the different prisoners at the
bar was attested, and their persons identified, by
different witnesses. The prisoners were all found
Guilty.—Six Months imprisonment.
Jams, Whelan alias Whelican, and Jobs Cannicial,
were indicted for the wilful murder of James Beaghan,
near Liverpool, on the 22d of June last. Our Rea.
dens may probably remember hearing of this atrocious
murder on the Liverpool Canal at the time that it
happened, and of perusing the accounts of its cir-
cumstances is the public prints. After a long and
patient investigation, it could not be traced with such
certainty to the prisoners as to convict, though, as
was mentioned by the Learned Juoor, there were
strong cirsumstances of suspicion. The Jury return-
ed a verdict of Not Guilty.
Suer. 13.•••••ATIOCIOUS swam.

Susannah Haresd was put to the bar, charged with
three murders—with the wilful murder of her hus-
band, at Ashton-under• Line, by administering poi-
son to ,bim on 'the 15th day of April, of which he
died on the 18th; as also with the murder of her
own son, a boy. of eight years of age, by the same
means; and of Ann Newton, as infant of aboat
fifteen weeks old, by the same means, and on the
same occasion.

Mr. Cams. Counsel for the prosecution, stated the
law applicable to this case to the Jury, and gave an
outline of the evidence by which the charge WAS sap-
potted. The deceased, Matthew Holroyd, followed
the trade of a weaver, and bad the misfortune not to
live on good terms with his wife, the prisoner at the
bar, by whom he had three children, the last cf
whom was mentioned in the present indictment. The
prisoner w►as in the habit of nursing illegitimate chil-
dren, one of whom likewise she was now charged
with murdering. About a month before she exercised
shil unrelenting cruelty, she had a very extraordinary
conversation with the mother of this infant, who re-
sided in the•bouse with her. She told Mary Newton
that she had had her fortune read. and that in the
worse of one week, and within six weeks tram the
period on which she was speaking, three funerals
would go from. her door. One of the destined victims
was her husband, another her son, and the third the
child of the person to whom she was addressing her.
self. She did not delay her purpose, however. till
the six weeks of the fortune•teller had expired ; for,
in about a month afterwards she went to a chymist's
shop and purchased an ounce and a half of arsenic,
to tile the prophecy. This happened on Saturday,
the 13th of April,, or Easter-eve. Next morning her
husband bad some coffee for his breakfast; and soon
alter became ill. To restore him, she prepared him
some water gruel, and in it she mixed the poison`-
The wretched man immediately felt that the gruel
had an uncommon, taste, and refused at first to drink
it; but she urged bias so strongly. by telling him
that Nit was the last gruel ever She would prepare
for him," that he complied with her entreaties, not
knowing the enigma bid under these expressions. As
be grew worse, she called in Medical assistance, the
better to allay suspicion, and was instructed by the
medical man with the remedies m he administered ;
but she refused to administer theist. saying, it was of
no use for N her husband would die." After the

death.ot the deceased, the prisoner was taken into
custody, and before the Coroner made a.. full conies.
sion of the murder, which, as it was signed by. her,
would be given in evidence. There were two counts
in the indictment respecting Matthew Holroyd r the
first charged the prisoner with petty treason, in
making an attempt on the life of her husband; the
second with administering poison, of which he died.
It was necessary to have these two, as on one occa-
sion, where the latter was omitted. and the former
could not be proved. the Judge felt himself obliged
to direct the party to be acquitted, though there was
so doubt that the deceased died by poised.
John Taylor, a chymist at Ashton-under Line,
proved, that he sold an ounce and a half of arsenic
(or mercury, as the common people call it) to the
prisoner, for destroying rats and mice ; that he re-
fused at lust to sell any, unless the prisoner would
bring a neighbour along with her, to vouch for the
I purpose for which it was to be applied; and that
upon such attestation he sold the quantity in question.
Mary Newton had lodged with the prisoner for ten
or eleven weeks previous to the murders, and had her
child, Ann Newton, about 15 weeks old, in the
house with her. She remembered Matthew liolroyd
becoming ill on the 14th of Apiil,and he complained
of a tire or a burning pain in his stomach. His son
sickened about the tame time. When his wife gave
him the gruel, the witness heard him say, " Busy,
you have put pepper in this gruel," which she de-
nied, and he persisted in deitlacing. She threatened
kits with cooking uo more fur him while he lived, ii
he did not drink it. He died on the. Faday morn:ing,
at six o'clock, after a week of severe agony ; and his
son survived him only six beers. The child of the
witness. which was under the care of the prisoner
when witness went out to work, died bn Tuesday, at
•.ix o'clock in the evening, with violent retching*, con-
vulsions*, and vemsmog. like the hosbend and son of
the prisooer. This witness recounted the story of the
fortune-tellingsna stated above. There were no rats
or mice in the boom to justiff the purchase of arsenic.
John Swindels, who 'medicine at Allows-
under-Line, deposed, wu teat for by the pri.
ions, to her husband i that be complained of violent
t (Wu itoSitirr slim he gave hip* an emetic,