Star.
London, England, 1819-07-30 00:00:00

WILTSHIRE.

.Robert Watkins alias Robert Tamer Walkin, ane
Eivaard Watkins, were indicted for the wilful murder
of Stephen Rodway, late of Cricklade, in this county;
the first forhaving actually committed the murder
and robbery, and the latter for being an accessary
after the fact.

CAS/MD opened the case on the part of the
prosecution. This mysterious transaction took place
on the 7th of May last.
Phoebe Grecmes lives at Penton Stoke, in the road
between Parton and Cricklade; was on the road on
Friday the 7th of May, at a quarter after ten at
night ; saw a man in the road dead; my horse (I was
riding) took fliet ; it was at a bend in the road ; I
was going from Cricklade to l'urton ; I had passed
the Bell Inn, at Stoke street, nearly half a mile, or.
not so far ; the body was lying on the back ; I rode
back for Stoke and met Mr. Bathe; he came back
with me, .and saw the dead Than.
William Bathe, solicitor of Murton, saw the last
witness, who came to him at half-past ten, on the
'7th of May: went with her to the place where the
body.was lying ; I went to the spot with a person of
the name of 'Packer ; saw the body of Mr. Stephen
Itodway lying across the road upon his back, with
the legs and arms extended ; a person of the name
of Lawrence examined his pockets, there was no-
thing but a few halfpence in the right hand waist-
coat pocket; the body was taken to the Bell, at
Stoke ; Mr. Wells, a surgeon, came and saw the
body ; the body was warm.

William Wei's, surgeon, of Cricklade, was called
upon on the 7th of May, about half-past eleven ; saw
the body on the spot, but did not examine it till it
was brought to the Bell ; there was a gun-shot wound
in the middle of the chest; saw no other wound that
evening. On the Sunday following, about one o'clock,
I opened the body : there were throe wounds, one
large and two small ones, one on each side, about
an inch from the large one. Before I opened the
body, a female attendant-gave me a bullet and two
heads of nails; a brooch had been driven in with
part of the breast bone; and.had ruptured the prin-
cipal ascending artery ; further in I found three heads
of horse nails, one in the spine, another at the end
of the ribs, and the third in the lungs ; the spine
had evidently been perforated in one place by a bul-
let; the ruptures of the artery caused the immediate
death ; the other wounds would have caused death,
but not immediately; Rodway must have been in a
bending position when wounded, as the ball passed
obliquely through his body.
Cross-examined.—Did not examine the body till it
•was brought to the . Bell ; Rodway. was subject to
asthmatic affections, and I supposed he might hat e
ruptured a vessel ; there was no mark of the deceased
having struggled for a moment ; the hands were per-
fectly clean, which. could pot have been the case if
he had struggled. I did not think he had been shot,
till the body was brought motile 801 l ; the artery was
ruptured in three places ; either would have caused
death ; very little blood effused externally, but. the
chest was full ; there was a little appearance of con-
vulsion round the mouth ; the bullet and other things
may have been discharged from a pistol. • .

Hubgood,
,of i'Vharf, married a
daughter of Stephen Itodway, who was a consider-
able salt and coal-merchant ; I managed the whole
business for him ; Itodway went from Cricklade to
Woouon Bassett, about one o'clock, on a black
horse ; lie had a light great coat tied up before him ;
Wootton Bassett is eight miles from Cricklade, the
road branches off in one part, . at the turnpike, to
Purton. A few days before Rodway's death, I paid
him a £5 Bank of England note, and two 1.3 Bank
of England, and several other notes ; this was on the
Sd of May. I had endorsed the £5 note with the
name of John Williams, from whom I had received
it; Williams wrote the name of the person from
whom he took it ; I paid him also two Abingdon
notes, one Gloucester, one Marlborough, one Ciren-
cester ; I marked all the notes ; I marked the Marl-
borough note with the name of Pety, and on the
Cirencester, the name of John Daniels; I should
know the notes again.
Henry Cox, mason, of Wootton Bassett, knows
Robert Watkins; was at the White Hart, Cricklade,
lon the 7th of May, and saw the prisoner there about
eight o'clock in the evening ; has kaown the prisoner
long, he is a labourer ; his wife is lately dead, leay..
ing three children ; the prisoner said he was poorly ;
they drank together.
One of the Jurymen was here taken ill, and not,
being likely to attend throngh the trial, another Jury-
man was put in his place. The prisoners weie newly
arraigned, and My. Justice Bests then read from his
notes the evidence already given.
Henry Cox continued—The prisoner said he was
poorly in his feet he said he should not go home to,
sleep, but should sleep not there but a little further
up in the town, in the direction towards Purton ; he
went away, and left me at half-past eight.;. I saw no
more of him that night ; -he had a great coat with
him, rolled up in a tidy bundle across his knees, as.
he 'sat down in the chair ; I could not judge wheth'er
there was any thing in the hundle ; I know a person
of the name of Blanshett.,

WilliaM Bathe againthi place where the lsodt
was found it two miles and three4inatteilfrout the
White flirt.

\Villiam Ilitky;4 the enipl6.viryin.it

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• Mr. reulton, who lives on the road to Paut.on, b'. .
tween Cricklade and il:e M( 07.0 &OA; I was ail4uiß
my master's sheep about `gall fast ni4, at the top of
Parton-hill ;a My called '1 Lomas EagliN; vas with
me: I met somebody between the -small gate that
; goes through the fields and the large gate ; • the
. small gate is nearest to the Bell Lin; not so far:is half
a mile ; he was about twentffne• yards florii the
imall gate, and about a quarter ofa mile fiom %t here
the body n as faund4 he was eh the satre st. C of tbi
road with me, the right hand side gong to Crie6
lade ; he had a great coat on: I did not see his taco,
Ithe hat which he had on was down over the eyes,
and the collar of the coat was up round • the face;
he erdssed to the other side of the road just borne he
came up to n 4.; 1 did rot scic him go out of the :tad at
all; I s:id to him " Good night.' t‘V ce, and v(ceivvcl
no reply; Mr. Vickery she Wed me a great coat af-!
terwards Which appfated in shape, make, •and co-
lour, a good deal like what I saw before; the per.
•son I saw r.ppeared to hayesomething conceared under
the great coat, at the tight shOuleer, but I could not '
tell wlutt.

Cross-wiamined—Th.:rton-hill is allout a half mile
fmm the Ben at., Stoke, which mat be, two tniles
and a half Ilona Purton; Imever was on the road but
once before. •

Thomas Eagles—/ am servant to Mr. Poulton,
who lives between Cricklade and State. On the 7th
of Mar, I was driving same sheep from Cannons
Court Farm towards Wootton•Bassett, between nine
and 'en o'clock ; I was going on first with the sheep
and Hicks was behind ; I saw some man upon the
road, against Stoke; he 'turned up to Stoke street ;
he was about seven or eight yards from me; he
had a great coat oa ; he appeared to have something
against the right shoulder under the great coat; ase
collar was buttoned up, and the hat pulled down ; I
could not see the lace; he came back again Iran
Stoke-street into the read, and kept straight along
the road towards Purton.

Cross-examined—l am sure it was the same Man
that I saw both times. •

Ann Seymour—My father lives in the road from •
Cricklade to Pluton ; I know the spot where the
body was found : it is three or. four humfred yards •
from my father's home; there is a lane nearly oppc-
site to the house, called Bentham-lane: I was stand-
ing at the door between 'nine and ten o'clock in the
evening of the 7th May ; I heard nothing more than
a horse coming up, and the report of some fire-arms
the horse came up about ten minutes after I heard
the report; some mar dressed in light clothes was cn
the horse ; it appeared to be a light jacket or coat ;
he went- down Bentham•!ane,-it was a dark horse.
William Simkins—l live near Beatham•lane;
foetid a black horse there, 100,e,' on the Bth Mayo
Coss-examined—l knotvfthe prisoner by siFirt ;
never knew any person of the name of BlarwAtett i'n
my life; I hive seen a man of the name of Blanketr.
Sophia Cousans—l live at Ilunston, near Chiches-
ter ; I know the prisoner Robert; I live with my
mother; the prisoner Robert was at our house ; I
received three letters from the prisoner, Robert; I
received two on .the 12,h of May ; Hunston is two
miles from Chi Chester; I wrote an answer and evi-
closed a £3 note ; that is the note. It•was enclosed in
one of the letters froth the prisoner.
Cress;eiarnine&-I received a former letter,
.but 1 •
could not •find it; I told the •Magistrates so; I have'
never seen theoptisdriersince ; I* have seen the
aer Write; I have seen him write. •
John Hughes-i know the prisoner Robert ; I have
frequently seen him Write ; I believe that is his writ-
ing; I'am a SherifFs (Aker, arid employed the pri-
soner as an asiistant.• ".: 7 •

Cross-exatitinedl have• known Blaakett many
years ; I hive known the prisoner Robert, from a child.
An extratt of a lettet front Robert Watkins to Miss.
Cousans was read,- enclosing a £5 Bank of England
note, NO. 11:;9, dated the sth August, 1818, shred
" F. Bdtith."

A second letter from the same was wholly read
as follows : u wo3tion Bassett, May 10, 16:9.
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" War Ft lend--I hope" the that the not i send you to kipes-
tie dl I wan.s, now vase the note is backed wane names there
is a Des; ute aboute the Nut; t e Man that I tt abet on pin
Olte ab.u.e the Note, and I hope that yeeu wiU return the
Note, aid the Mid has found twenty molt notes aboute him. I
that be glid for yeue to sende the Note bear,- and I w.ll send
anotlrer, or kipet til I comes, fore the man is in Olte ; but if
you will re•urne the Note I will be glade, for it will seave roe
deide of Troble, for r must come after note, for the man is keg,e
in Oire til can receave an.sneer from.you, and if you have paid
the note aways you must Jeate the note again, and please to re-
turne and I wil; t. ;id another. So no more at present fi om
" Your faithfvel " ItotT. Wawsts."

Sophia Cow.ans again.—l do not recollect writing
a letter to the prisoner is May ; perhaps I wrote to
him the latter end of April. This was the Bank-note
I sent back ; I sent it hack in this letter, addressed to
,‘ Robt. Watkins, Post Office, Wootton Bassett, to we
left till called for—Speed." • .
The five'pound note was past in.and read.

Haligood again.—This is the note I gave to
Rodw•ay ; I am certain it is—here. is my writing and
Williams's writing ; I lent Williams the pen after I
wrpte Williams's name, and he wrote " J. Lane,
May I," upon it. • ! •
Robert Harding.—l am Mayor of Wootton Bas-
sett; in consequence of some infcrmation I received,
I went to 'the Post Office, and saw the prisoner's wiie
there ; on the 14th of May, a letter came for the pri-
soner; that is the letter ; I opened it,: and found that
note•in.it. • . .

• Edward Belcher,—.l am adzaper atWootton Bas-
sett; I know the prisoner ; he came on Monday, the
10th of May, and paid zneit4) one pound notes ; I
produced the notes. F epdorsa3 them-44 Robert
Watkins." ~• • : • ,

crowesamined,—Watkins -continued. to live at
Wootton Bassett ttp• to-the ithti. The offence was
publicly known•before I.rectived:sthe notes:
The two country notes were gut in. and read.
- H:thgood.—These -notes I gstve ottthe 3d of
Mar to the decea,o4.• about Alglit, o'clock in the
ever ITT. •
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Robert live atMoptton Bassett; I know
'the, l risoner,- ar.dwhere.-he. lives.. .1 passel by has
house a•few ti:sys;before.liodwal'ssleath. I saw a
pistol in the house,. which:lay lukthe table, It was
a large pistol.
James Smith,/ am a bracksmislratWootton Bas-
sett ; 1 laiow the piisoners•ht lval4A my. shop on the
sth cri.Mayito liare a tx-rew.turne4 le an iron pistol
.rod; I did it fei-him;Lnever.saw the pistol, only the
m&-it was itiong rod... •- • . •

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tected.a one pound note to I:.e paid to his wire ; I was

not at home.
John Vickery.—l have a pocket-hook which I got
from the prisoner Robert; this is it.
Ilughts.—The memorandums in the pocket
book are in the hanJ-writing of Robert Watkins.
rOne of the memorandums noticed the receipt of
a one pound note of the Swindon Bank, from Mr.
Ki bblewhite.]
Again called by the prisoaer's Counsel, Mr. E.
Lewes.
Hughes.— I apprehended the prisoner Robert
at his house on Tuesday, the 11th; he made no resis-.

but canm voluntarily.
Naihaidel.Wiils.—l am Solicitor for the prosecu-
tion; I live at Cricklade; I apprehended the prisoner
oa the II th :44y; 11. g wai not then examined. I
saw him at the White Hart at Cricklade; Kr. Vic-
kery ?rid several o.her gentlernelawere preP"...t; no-
thing was said to induce the prisoner to s ty \Ora he
did. I took the minutes of what he said ;. these are

the minntes.
Cross-examined.—lle was aske4 to give an :;:courit
of himself,, and this is the account be gave. Mr.
Vickery put some questimis to hilt: I cannot recol-
lect the questions; Lonly wrote down the answers.
The prisoner was asked whether he had heard of the
murder of Rodway? and he said he had.
Re-examined.—he minutes weie read over to the
prisoner ; he was asked whether what was stated was
right? he said it was all true. The prisoner admit-
ted that he was at the White hart at Cricklade on
the 7th of May ; he said he was geing to his uncle's,
but had altered his mind ; he went towards home '2O
minutes after eight, with a great coat voider his arm.
Ile saw the place where the murder was committed;.
he was by about nine o'clock, or a little before ; be',
said he went across a field, which cuts off an angle
toward Parton ; he said he never stopped, but went
straight on ; he met a man and a horse at the black-1
smiths shop at Purton ; the man,with a great coat
strapped on the saddle behind him ; he met nobody
else that he knew ; he went from thence towards
Wootton Bassett, where he arrived at ten o'clock; he
said nothing about the report of a pistol ; but that he
saw a person of the name of Blankett. Ile said he met,
two men coming down Parton-hill towards Cricklade,
near Mr. Perry s School, which was near the black-
smith's shop; the men were 150 yards behind the man
he saw on horseback; that he brought from Chi-
chester two pounds in notes of the Chichester Bauk,l
and some silver, alsout three weeks before. Ile had
been working on the Canal there ; he had changed
on of the notes at Andover, and had the other and
the silver remaining when he returned borne; he had
spent the money upon his family; he had paid one
pound to a hawker for a piece of cloth ; he said his,
wife had received a one pound note from Mr. Kib-1
blewhite a week ago, which she had given to him,
and he had paid it to Mr. Belcher on the 10th; when
the last General Election was over, he had received
two one pound notes from Mr. Kibblewhite, one of
which he had paid to Mr. Belcher, and the other for,
bread; that when at Chichester, he had lodged with,
Res. Ann Cousans, at Hunedon Common ; that he
had received a letter from Sophia Cousans, dated on
the Sd day of May; he received it on the sth, and
answered it on the 6th; he had not written to her
eince....-The witness continued—l was ptesent on the
21st May, when the prisoner was taken before the
ttagiitrates at Swindon; the examination of the pri-
soner was not taken down in writing ; I todk minutes
on that day ; he was cautioned against saying any
thing ; he said *something about a man riding near
the spot where the murder was committed; that he
turned down a lane; he said ht heard a person say
Hallo! and the other answered Halloo! He saw a
man riding away with a gun or a pistol in his hand
down the lane. He said the man was very much
like Thomas Ackwell.
John Vickery again—l am a Bow-street Officer,
and was present la the examination of the prisoner
at Cricklade on the I lth. Nothing was said to the
prisoner; he declared his innocence, and seemed dis-
posed to talk, and I recommended the Gentlemen to,
hear all he had to say ; I think the account given by
the last witness is correct ; I said afterwards, "Wat-
kins, you have heard of this murder, which has taken
place by means of a gun or pistol ;" I said, " Have
you a gun or ristol in your possession?" He said,
a I have not had one for four years, and the pistol I
then had I sold to a man of the name of Blanshard,
for mss, and a pair of shoes." I apprehended Thomas
Ackwell and Parker; they were taken to the White
Hart, at Ciicklade, on the Nth ; I found Henry
Ackwell there ; the prisoner was in the house, but
not in the p:trlour ; they were taken to Swindcn on
the 15th, befiire a Bench of Magistrates; I recom-'
mended that the examinations should not be taken
down. .the prisoner had first said to the Magis-
trate, -" I will tell you all I know about it." The
prisoner said he was near enough to see a man to
know him again tide away upon a black horse, im-
mediately after the report of the pistol ; but did not
krow his name; he pointed to Thomas Ackwell,,
when he was brought -in, and said, " That is the
man I saw riding upon a dark horse," and that he'
turned down a lane about half a mile fro:7lllre place
where he first saw him. I took Ackwell to Oxford by
-order of the Magistrates ; 'I found Ackwell had. been
there on the 7th. The prisoner declared his innocence
d this ofthrtce.
James Kibblewhite—l live at Bltinsdos, in this
county; I know Thomas Ackwell ; I was in the neigh.'
bourhood of Oxford on the 7th of May last, and sacr
Thomas Ackwell there at that time, I have known
Ackwell for ten years; -I am sure it was 'him ; 'I met
him two-and-thirty miles from the spot where the
murder was committed.
The case for the prosecution was here closed.
No evidence was 'offered against Edward Watkins.
The Learned JUDGE then-called upon the prisoner'
Robert Watkins for his defence.
Be said, -that he had rm knowledge whatever of
the murder; that be never had theve-pauad note
in his possession ; and that'be never wrote the letter
to Mita Cousans.
Learned JUDGE then summed up the cue.
made a solemn zed impressive charge. Re 11. •
' the natux of the evidczte, which was, In his
conclusive against the prisOwer. Thepri-
was on the spot, even•by his own account, '.at
, when he might have committed the murder;
been prolled to tare in his.Pcesessioir an ln-
by which the murder. might have been

erected ; and notes, the property of the deceased,
were traced to have been in his possession lmlneJi-
ately after the crime had been committed. If she
Juty could entertain any doubt, that doubt should
torn the balance in favour of the prisoner ; but if no
doubt rtraitted in their minds, they must of neces-
sity find the prisoner, ilobertWatkins, guilty ; for as
to Edward Watkins, no evidence had been offered

against him.
The Jury, in one minute, returned a verdict, Guilty.
Upon Proclamation being made by the Crier to
know why the sentence of the law should not be
passsed upon the prisoner,
Mr. E. LAWES moved the Court in arrest of judg-
ment, on the ground of one of the Jurymen having
withdrawn in the courf,e of the trial ; and that as
probably some suggestion may have arisen from that
single Juryman which might have induced the rest
to alter their opinion, the prisoner had not been fairly
tried according to the directions contained in the
Statute. The Learned Counsel argued at very con-
Siderable length, and was as shortly answered by the
Learned Judge—" There is nulling in the objection."
Mr. Justice BEST, much affected, then proceeded
to deliver the awful sentence of death. He solemnly
expatiated upon the enormity of the crime which the
prisoner had endeavoured to increase by the murder,
through the medium of the laws, of the innocent
person Ackwell, whom he had before charged as the
real murderer. The same Pnovinesce, however,
'which had interposed to shield the innocent man, had
interposed to bring home guilt to :he guilty ; for
where would have been the innocent Ackwell, if he
had been unable to prove :the utter impossibility, by
being thirty miles off, of his being the criminal? He
charged the prisoner to occupy the small remaining
portion of his time in this world, in seeking a recon-
ciliation with an offended GOD; and more particu-
larly, by making a confession of any other crime he
may have committed. His Lordship concluded by
pronouncing the awful sentence of the law 7-" That
you be taken to the place from whence you came,
and that on Friday morning you be removed to the
place if execution, as near as possible to the place
where the murder was committed, and there be
hanged by the neck until you are dead ; that your
body be delivered to the surgeons for dissection, and
GOD have mercy upon your soul."
The criminal himself was the only person in Court
Vlb remained unmoved. At the conclusion of the
sentence, however, which condemned him to death,
the prisoner, who had remained fixed, and apparently
composed during the trial, except by challenging'
two of the Jurymen, exclaimed--. I am no more
guilty of the murder than you, my Lord." He then
impudently put on his hat, and was departing, but
turned back, add said—" I have a great coat and a
bundle here, I suppose I may have them." He was
going away again, but returning a second time, ob.
served—" There is a pocket too which somebody has
got, and I shall want it." Mr. Justice BEST, his eyes
• swimming with tears, shook his head. The prisoner
again repeated—" I am no more guilty than your
Lordship of this murder;' but added, "I am ready
, to die for it, and I don't care." He then leisurely,
and with apparent composure, withdrew.
Edward %Vatkins was of course acquitted.

BUCKINGHAM, JUL% 28.

ATROCIOUS ASSAULT, WITH INTENT TO MURDER.

Thomas Mitchell, aged 26, was capitally indicted
for having wilfully, malidously, and unlawfully
stabbed and cut Elizabeth Rowls, spinster, on several
parts of her neck and body, with intent to murder.
It appeared in evidence that the parties lived in the
parish of Burnham, Bucks. That on Monday even.
ing, '
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thebt of March, about eight o'clock the prose-
earl: was sitting alone inthe house, her fother having
gone from home ; that the prisoner Mitchell, whom
-ale had known from his infancy, and who had lived
servantwith her father, came to the door and knocked;
on her inquiring who was there, she was answered
TOrn Mitchell," on which she opened the door, and
admitted hjn.. lie requested to have a file and a
pair of hinges, which she gave to him, but he said
they would not do, and that he must have a larger
pair ; she searched for a larger, but could not find
any, on which he said he knew there were larger,
and she again looked. While so doing, she felt a
sensation as if she was shot, and fell down. The can,
dle went out, and while nn the ground she felt a cut-
ting at her neck and throat, on which she cried out
" Murder" in a feeble tone, and said to the prisoner,
I never injured you." He threatened her to be
quiet ; her cries, though feeble, brought a Mts.
Lovell, who lived to the next house, to her assis
tance. fdrs. Lovell easily gained admittance, and
while groping for the prosecutria, came in contact
with a man whom she laid fast hold ()land called to
her husband for assistance, who was proceeding to the
spot with a light ; the wind blew it oat, and while
going back the man disengaged himself and escaped.
Previous to this, however, Mrs. Lovell asked the pro-
secutrix, who was bleeding on the finor,if it was her
father who had beat her ? on which the prosecutrix
answered—" No, leis Tom Mitchell ;" on which the
prisoneor etclaimed—" How do you know it is Tom
Mitchell ?' it was quite dark at the time, and Mrs.
Lovell said, you have betrayed yourself by your
voice. The ptisoner, however, as we have before
stated, escaped. The prosecutrix was then taken by
Mrs.:Lovell to her apartments, and a Surgeon was
seavfarlWho dressed the wounds, and she recovered;
one of the wounds was eight inches in length and two
deep. The prisoner then absconded, and was traced
through Reading to London, where he was taken'
into custody.
• The aboie facts were clearly proved in evidence.
The prisiatter made no defence.
JudgebaLLAX summed up the evidence with great
perspicuity, and the Jury, after a short consultation;
pronounced a verdict of guilty, and the Judge imme-
diately passed the awful sentence of the law.
the prisoner during the time of the trial behaved
in a very indifferent manner, and when he was found
guilty, and while the Judge was pronouncing sen-
tence, he appeared quite callous, and was taken to
the jail laughing.

A Yorkshire Clergyman has been deprived of his
Curacy (which he held far above etcp years), in the
CcTsistory Court of York,, for his.prugi,gate life and
conversation, drunkenness, and neglect of his minis-
terial s4ties! The sentence was delivered by the
Anctunsuor of the Diocese.

.ROBBERIES. AND OUTRAGES AT WEST-
END F.4m.

• nowdaTatra--Xesterday the investigation of the
daring outrages committed 4 this Fair was resumed
before tir NATHANIEL COMA E and Mr. BREEETON.
Nothing can hesompared to the scenes described, but
an enemy's array let loose to plunder the defenceless
inhabitants of a .conquered town.
A Young man, who had been extremely ill-treated,
attended to endeavour to identify some of the wretches
in .custody, who attacked and robbed him. Hov:ever,
there was very little chance of success, as the villains,
blindfolded hw eyes to prevent his seeing them,:
pushed him into a pond in a field adjoining the Fair,
and then dragged him through it, robbed him of his
hat, his boots, watch, and handkerchief; their treat-
ment of him was so barbarous and cruel, that be ex-'
pected to be murdered before he escaped from them.
They pushed another Gentleman into a ditch, after,
inflicting upon him every kind of indignity, and rob-'
bing him of all his property even to his boots and
hat. To a third Gentleman they shewed even a
more gratuitous inhumanity and cruelty. They rob-
bed him of all his propel ty, beat him, and as they,
could not draw eff his boots, cut them off. A fourth,
was not only beaten and robbed, but stript of his,
clothes and left in a state of complete nudity. The
audacity of the ruffians was increased, and their force
rendered irresistible by numbers and concert. They
were formed into gangs, and committed their ,
rob-
beries or barbarities at the instigation and under die
guidance of acknowledged leaders. They seemed to
have a regular organization, and to act on a previ-
ously arranged plan. Their leader; were respectably
dressed from the fruits of former depredations. They
were all armed with bludgeons, or other more effec-
tive weapons. The j'rkctes, if they may be called so, ,
of the gangs who are in custody, appear to be of thel
lowest description—the moot despot to out-casts of
society. Among them are sailors, men cif colour,
Jews, and gipsies. The Office yesterday presented a
curious assemblage of complainants to be conironteill
with these-savages. Many of them had been wound,
ded, bruised, and maimed. Some were lame, and
some half blind. There is a long list of wounded
still unable to attend. It is fortunate that there is
none on the list of killed, though some are missing.,
Sbme are so dangerously wounded, that fears are en-
tertained for their life. The strength of individuals
was no protection : a soldier of the Life Guards, six
feet high, and strong in proportion, had no chance,
but came off bruised.
Townsend, the officer, was pre.,ent yesterday at the
Office, and declared, that during his long practice of
forty years, he did not recollect such a numerous as-
semblage of thieves, and such daring and outrageous
conduct.—The following is the substance of the ex-
amination of those brought from different Watch-
houses yesterday morning :
Henry Hancock was identified by Lieutenant Ed-
mund Oakes, of the Royal Navy, who stated, that Oli.
Monday evening he, accompanied by his brother,
went to the Fair between nine and ten o'clock ; he
was attacked in a field by a number at persons esti-
mated to be upwards of fifty, near the entrance to the
Fair. The ruffians contrived to muffle his mouth, so
that he was unable to call for assistance. They for-
cibly and violently robbed him of his hat, and the
contents of his pockets, and separated him from his
brother. He was sure the prisoner was one of those
who robbed him.
Walter Oakes, Esq. the brother of the last witness,
appeargd with a bandage over his right eye, and con-
firmed the statement of his brother. lie believed
the prisoner, Henry Hancock, to be one of the gang
'who attacked them.
• Sir NATHANIEL CONANT addressed the prisoner,
' and told him lie was charged with a very serious of-
fnce, and committed as it was in such a riotous and
tumultuous assemblage, and in such a daring and
Outrageous manner, no matter whether he actually
committed it or not, if he was aiding and abetting
those that did, he was equally guilty.
Joseph Innnan4el, a young man, was identified at
the door or passage of the Office, as being one of a
'ging at the Fair on Monday night.
Thomas Limnis, a dealer in milk, of Little Carter-
lane, Doctors Commons, stated, that on Monday even-
ing he went co West End Fair, where he was at-
tacked by a gang of fifty or sixty men,' armed with
'sticks, who knocked him down, and most cruelly
beat him ; they afterwards robbed him of his watch,
bat, handkerchief, and one shoe ; they used so much
violence in taking his watch, that they tore out his
fob with it. Some of them called cut fo murder
him, as he knew several of them to be bad characters,
who reside in Old-street. The prisoner denied being
at the Fair, and said,thataluring all that night he had
not left the house of his master, who is Mr. Rufale, of
Bloomsbury, except to take some things to the Mas-
ter of the Rolls, in Chancery-lane, and he only came
to the Office to see some persons.
His master afterwards came to the Office and of-
fered to bail him, hut be was int.:xi:fled it was not a
bailable offence, except before a Judge.
George Ireland, Henry Dorrington, Joseph Bell,
and William Oliver, were charged by George Dur-
rell, a Special constable, who apprehended them with
a disorderly assemblage, at five o'clock, on Wednes-
day morning in the Fair. On the prisoner, Ireland,
were found two pockets of nankeen trowsers or
breeches, which had evidently been cut or torn out.
George Coomics was charged with attempting to
pick several pockets in the Fair on Tuesday evening.
MARLSOHOUGH-STREET.—Yesterday J. Reid and
J. Duwu, two youths, were charged with picking
pockets at West End Fair. Samuel Furzeman ap-
prehended the prisoners together in St. Giles's, after
their return from the Fair on Tuesday evening. Upon
Dunn he found thirteen silk handkerchiefs.—They
were both remanded till Friday week, for the hand •
'kerchiefs to be identified.
West End Fair was very orderly on Wednesday,
from the thinness of company, arising from the depre-
dations committed on die first two days. An extra
slumber of constables attended from London, besides
some stout country fellows, who were sworn in as
ear as. The officers routed the known thieves from
, the Fair before dark.
Doo-swattro.—Yesterday, H. Paxton, a groom,
was charged before the LORD. MAYOH, at the Man-
sion-House, with stealing a valuable terrier dot, be-
longing to a gentleman named Bland.—Mr.
stated that the dog was enticed away from his house
some weeks ago, and after soaking every possible en-

quiry, he had given it np for tort, when, Ise erer.
cident, he discovered it without its collar, t:1-.; ;;
an obscure corner of a stable, belonging .0,
soner's nia.,ter. The prisoner was in the stag;;,
he found the dog, and he instantly accused 'Lira
having stolen it, and at the same time detranoe,
him what be bad done with the collar? upon
the prisoner immediately produced it from his poc;
observing, that he had found the ar.it-nal, and
hoped there w6uld be nothing the mater.—Tye
soner :,aid nothing, in his defence; but his maitq‘,
gentleman cf property, in the City, gave him
cellent character.—The P:ino MAYOR observe;,
his having taken off the collar, was a suciic4lt
of dishonest intention ; but, in consideran cf
good character given him by his employer, he •,5e
only order him to Tay a penaltl of T.,:en!2l Fc .
instead of committing hlrn to prison for six me
He was ordered to be detained until the fine 11,

FATAL. ACCIDENT.—At four o'clock in tl.e
ing of Sunday sennight, three young aernee
.longing to Iteniiington, near Alnwick, naTne.?
Bowie, aged ; Mary Bowie, her sister: ani
sannah llraidford, .aged 19, went to lealrein to
-at Craster. On arriving at the scaeside, Mary Ile
.feeling a little frightened, deciined bathing, °et
two others fearlessly entered the water. They ~
it appears, unacquainted with that part of tne ,1184
and stepped into the sea at a kart where the re
becomes very abruptly of the depth of three or
f ehoms; they were consequently immediately
Cleir depths. The sister who was left on the stet.
at first took their smuggles for diversion, be
canting alarmed at the v.iice of Susan being sac:
by the water gushing into her mouth (Eliza ..
spoke after she telteeed the water) endeavouttf
catch hold of her sister, who was then driven bs
waves near the shore. She succeedded in cat:
hold of her hair, and landed her body on a
Not being able to reach Susan, she ran and alamf
the fishermen aD Craster, about 300 yards cron'
place: on their arrival the men soon breght
body en shore. Life, in be th of them, was uelal
extinct. It was supposed, from the surviving so
account, that they had not been more than ten
nutes in the water, and that if proper means
been used in time. life might have beta rc
They were decently interred at Renoing;;;:, on .1
day last ; and being both highly respccteu, :heir
lancholy death has caused a very great senseti:
that neighbourhood.
May s,l'imizikt, a young mm of the name of Megan,
19, was unfartrn4tely drowned in the river Esk, at Longter.,
whilst bathing.
Wednesday afternoon, an Inquisition was taken
the King's Bench Prison, on view of the body
Escher chards, commonly called Generel V-
! cher, a Frenchman, who had served under Bon:
It appeared in evidence, that the deceased ha:
for upwards of two years a prisoner for debt ; ht
been for some time past in an ill state of health,
received his principal support front the Mar ha:.
not only supplied him w:th a weekly allowar
money, but contributed wine and jellies for hi
port. The Jury returned a verdict of—Died
Visitation of GOD.

Saturday evening last, a little before nine o
the stained paper and floor-cloth manufan
Messr. BOSWELL, Bachckw's-Walk, Dublin, was
fire by the workmen incatitionsly overheating
finder for drying and pressing the stained pap(
floor-cloth. The warehouse in which the fire
rated, was speeiily burned to the ground; three
in communication with it, shared the same fate.
was nothing saved out of them.
Monday se night a fire broke out at Carlctoi
New Buckenham, upon the premises in the of
tion of Mr. CHARLES DODD, which entirely con:
the dwelling-house and the greatest part of till
niture in it, supposed to have been set on fire b,
wickedly disposed person. The premises we
insured. Two persons have since been commi
the Castle on maspkion of the crime.

BIRTHS.
At. the Lord Chancellor's, in Stephen's Greet), Dublin,
Macners, of a still-I orn child.
At Stuart Hail, county of Trtone, the Countess of
Stuart, cf a daughter.
The 25th it st. it, Shandwick-place, the Lady of
glas, Esq. of Lockerby, of a daughter.

MARRIED.

Monday, at Aston Clinton, Bucks, Thomas Tyringh•
card, Esq. third snn of Sir Scrope Bernard ?Worland,
Sophia Charlotte, only daughter and heiress of the late'
Williams, of Sarratt, Herta, Bart.
At Kilkenny, I.i,seer.ant-Colonel Gregory, 44th Rega
Ilarrirt, fourth of John Ile!sham, Esq. of that
At St. Cut! beres \VOL., J. Fredand, Esq. ut. P
Mary Palmer.
In the Parisi] Church of Lk-utr.'hallyr.inky, the Rev.
of the parish of Tartraaghan, to Wet ianne, only da.ir.
late Major Purley, of the York Light Infaatry Volum

DIED.
Friday, much regretted, at her house, Maltiand-street,
burgh, :hiss Helen Wrigl.t, only surviving &opine: ."
Dr. Peter Wrijht,-cf Clawm.
Ir Ilardwickel,Lce, Dublin, Ws, Eliza Leahy, await":
this Rev. JaKA Leahy, Vicar of Manor Hamilton.
Of a rapid decline, at Hawthorne Ledge, nea,- Cast.
14 years, Miss O'Malley, only daughter of Charles'
Esq. Collector of Excise.
Monday se'nnight, E.ssel, Henry Bond, Esq. at Lis
leys, near Brentwood, Lesex, late Carta.!n of the 'X
Indiaman.
July 8, after a short illness, the Per. Andrew 1r...
72d year of his age, and 34.:h of his Ministry.
July 18, at Fettercairn, Mr. David Bertram, third se;
taro Bertram, of the Forfarshire Militia.
July 20, Jessy, fourth daughter of S. Davidson, surp
burgh.
July 20, at Ilolyrood Hot:se, Miss Murray, dough'
late Hon. and Rev. Dean Murray of Kilialoe, Ireland.
At Kersesvell, Willi::m Bertram, F.sq. of Nis:lt t.
of this excellent and useful country Gentleman will b,
lamented in the district of country in which he resided
half a century. After having acted for several years .
nant-Colonel of the Lanarkshire Csva:-:y, Colaael 1k
that Hegirr.ent bring disembodied, retired to his p
estate of Kerstwell, to the cultivation of which he st.
devoted his time and attention ; and his t elds aad
judiciously cultivated and disposed, allord la,t.ng pr.
taste and judgment, and .dp.w how much may be do:
severance in combating and gubduing natural obstacle

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