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Loan Cocnnaxv.—The following extract of a letter, dated
Callao, December 22, which contains an account of the number
of killed and wounded on both sides, in the affair of the capture
of the Esmeralda, together with some particulars of his Lord-
ship's gallant conduct upon that occasion, which are in keeping
with the character of that brave and enterprising Officer, can-
not fail to be extremely gratifying to his countrymen :
" On the morning .f the 6th November, the boats (14 in
number) of the squadron under the command of Lord Coen-
RAW/4 made a most gallant and successful attack on the Spanish
line of battle, out of which he took the Esmeralda, a frigate of
46 guns, having on board 470 mien, and 620,000 dollars; and a
gun-boat of seven heavy guns two swivels, and seventy men.—
The loss sustained on this occasion was—Spanisb--Killed, ;
wounded, 79. The Patriots had.--Eilled, 9S; wounded, Sl.-
Among the latter was Lord COMMAS% who received a pistol
shot in the leg, and a bayonet wound in his thigh. Lord Coen-
*sue was the first person on board, and attacked the Lieutenant
of the watch of the Esmeralda, whose head be cut off at one blow ;
the frigate was taken out, and, in IS minutes, was all sail set,
under a very heavy fire from the batteries, ships, and gun-boats,
mounting above 800 guns."
• The attention of the Shipping and Commercial
Interest is particularly called upon to attend to a
Bill bronght in by Mr. DICKENSON and Mr. Cuftrus,
to increase the power of the Commissioners of Sewers,
already ample and extensive. The object of the Bill
is to give to the Commissioners of Sewers power
over Navigable Riveis.

Almost the whole fashionable world was present
at the Marchioness of SALISBURY'S rout, last night.
'Bennett and Arlington-streets were repeatedly blocked
up with carriages. The interior of the mansion ap-
peared one blaze of splendour.
Yesterday, the Marquis and Marchioness of STAF-
FORD, and Earl GOWER, with their attendants, left
town for the Continent.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
At the St. James's HotelsJertnyn-street:—T. Banbury, Esq.
from Paris.

At Shelley's Hotel, Coekspur-street :—Captain Miller, from
Sheffield ; Watson, Esq. Turner, Esq. Coplanal, Esq.
Hodgson, Esq. Esq. Weston, Esq. from
Newmarket; Rev. Mr. Virker, aad Reed, ILI.. from. She-
ffield ; Captain and• Mrs. Livingston, and family, and Captain
Phillips, front India.
Dowager Lady Dundu, Moat Yorkshire.

Hanna-Gasaiai.--Yeeteraa „roam c
y arer, a tarwe4lo7, was
charged with soundii4 his horn on Sunday evening, for the sale
of a Sunday newspaper. He was convicted in the penalty of
uos. Not being able to pay the fine, he was committed to jail.
The account of a young woman having been mur-
dered at Fairtnile-bottomi near Arundel, h totally
itl.uut foundation. .

THE IMO a. JOHN Wall:HT.
This was a very affecting case. The prisoner stood Indicted
for the murder of his own son, an infant only five years of age,
by throwing him into the Birmingham Canal, on the sth of Sep-
tember last, whereby the unhappy child 'was drowned..
Sarah Lees.—l live at Wolverhampton—know the prisoner.
In the month of September last he loded at my house. He
had a w'te, but she did not live with him,.. and a little boy five
years of age. His wife was in service; she came home with
her husband on a Sunday, the Sd of September. They all
thought she intended to stop. I came borne about seven o'clock,
and found her in the house. She remained that night, and she
and the prisoner appeared to be very comfortable ;the; slept to-
gether. In the morning the prisoner got up before his wife, and
went to fetch what was necessary for breakfast : he then called
his wife, and they breakfasted together. After breakfast the
prisoner's wife asked him if he was going to work? he said he
wee, and added, ".Well, dear, you'll get my dinner ready ?"
and she said she would. The prisoner was extremely cheerful
sod happy. His Wife, however, went away as soon as he was
gone, and never returned. The prisoner came home to dinner
about one •he said," What, hasn't my wife got me any dlr.-
tier?" I ;aid, " No; she's gone: out." He uarped his foot,
and aald, lam sure.she is.gone..eff again." lie remained at
home woe little. times Sid !Sakti' Wry. wild. He went out in
an uncommon way ; and I said, Where are you going, Wright ;
or what are yots ping to do r He raid be was going to look
for her. 1. was
,nfraid.that he would make away with himself,
from his agitated .and wild appearance ; I had felt alarms of that
sort before. I tried to petsuatiebim to come back, but he would
not. When he cainehome, his clothes were very wet, and I
accused him "Pith havins ittempted to drown himself ; he looked
very stern at me, and denied it, and begged me to say nothing
at all to bins about it. He remained in his clothes as they were,
and would not have them dried. In the afternoon the prisoner
went to fetch his little boy from qchool ; this was not his habit.
He pressed the little boy to his bosom, and said, " Ah! thy
naughty mother has left us again ;" and when he looked at the
child seemed to become more tender, although very good to it
at all times • was particularly kind to the child the whole of the
evening. The prisoner lived very poor in-general, his earnings
being very small: at times, when there would be but little
bread In the house, I'd say, " Wright, have a pint of beer, and
get a bit of bread, it -will be better than nothing;' and he said,
"No I will keep it for little Jem—he can't do without." This
occurred" frequently during the time he was with me. If they
were short of food, he always kept some for the child, and was
particular in having the child wished, and hearing it say Its
prayers. I have offered him money, and he always said, " Keep
it to buy milk for Jem." On the Monday night in question he
asked me to put the child to Ord, which I did. The Inhaler
and the child always slept together; they slept together that
night. After the prisoner went to bed, I fetched his clothes
down. to dry; he would keep his wet shirt on. The prisoner
had nothing to eat that night, but had two half pints of ale,
which I and a neighbour gave him. He got up the next morn-
ing a little after seven, and called the child. Hearing him call
the child, I got up also. When I came down stairs he was
smoking; very soon afterwards he went out with the child; nei-
ther of them had bad any food. I thought the prisoner was
ra-
ther calmer than the evening before. I asked him where he was
goingto take the boy? and he said," To the Workhouse." No-
thing more passed. He returned about ball-past. ten he was
alone. I asked him it he had left the boy at the Workhouse ?
He said he had. I observed that I thought it was a very good
job that he was taken into the Workhouse. I added, " Now,
Wright, you must pluck up your spirits, and endeavour to for-
get her, for she has forgotten you." He cried, and shut& his
' head, ;ltd said, " Ah, mistress !" and trembled very badly.
He asked me If I would go and fetch his uncle Jem? and I said,
" I will just now." He left the house, saying fie would go him-
' self. When he tame from the Workhouse, as I thought, he
looked very ill indeed, and trembled. I thought his Jetting"
were hurt at being obliged to leave the child in. the Workhouse.
I did not observe his clothes. After the prisoner had kit the
house I went to the Workhouse, in consequence of something I
heard from his uncle's wife. I did not lind the child there. I
then returned home. Some time after the prisoner eams in with
his uncle, Samuel Wright. When he came in, I said," Wright,
what have you done with the child—where is poor Jem ?" He
replied, "He is dead, mistress." When be said this he was
crying sadly. I said nothing more; but the prisoner's uncle
said, "He has drowued the child in the lock. The prisoner
said nothing.
The prisoner, on being asked by Mr: Baron GA ItilOW whether
he had any questions to put to the witness? said, " None at all."
' Mary Anderson.—l live in the Hampton Lock. On the
morning of the sth of September I had been for some milk,
and was returning. On getting over a gate I saw a man stand-
ing in a field, with his back to me, and facing the sun. A child
lay On the grass by the side of the man. .1 made up to bim,
asked him if be had had the child in the cut ? The child w,is
dressed, and wet. He said, " Ay." I said it was a good job
that be had got it out again. 'lnc prisoner was that man. .1
afterwards saw the child carried by my house dead, on the same
day about one o'clock.
Other witnesses deposed that they had seen the priioner with
the boy, in a similar manner.
James Wright.—l live at Wolverhampton. lam uncle to
the prisoner On the sth September last the prisoner came to
me about half-past tdh, and said he wanted to speak to me. I
went out with him, and at going towards thcWelnall road he said
to me, " Uncle, 1 h.tve drowned the Lid." I said, " I hoped
It was not true." fie said, "It is too true,". and added, " I
wish to see my uncle Samuel." I went with the prisoner to
look for big uncle. We met him close by the Red Lion ire.
When we met him, Samuel said, " John, what is the matter
with you? I see something very horrible in your countenance."
I told my brother what had passed. The prisoner looked very
wretched; he was all of a tremble. My brother said, " Whet
shall Ido now?" I did not hear the prisoner make any reply.
I told my brother I would take him down to the George inn,
and give him a drop of drink to revive him. I did so. I took
part of one pint of ale with him, and my brother sent fur me.
I left the prisoner at the George, while I went to :ny
My brother afterwards went for the prisoner to the George, a.. 41
'we went in search of the boy by the desire of the prisoner, who
said, " 171 go and thew you what lock I put him in." The
prisoner seemed very much confused before he could find the
lock out. lie went to two locks before he found the. right; he
was very melancholy. The third lock he came to he went and
looked at a particular place, and said, " This is the lock I p•t
the boy into." This lock was in Bushbury parish, in thiscounty.
I asked hint if he was sure ? he teld use he was. 1 stripped
myself and went in search of the hoy. I found the boy.abcut
12 or 14 yards below the lock ;are, in the pc:4ld. After I tech
the bedy from the water, I laid it on the bank-side: the pri-
soner snt beside nisi brother. 1 afterwards asked leave to put it
on the cabin of a boat going towards Wolverhampton. As the
boy lay on the cabin, the pri•oner jurap...d to him, threw himself
on the body, kissed it, and said, " Poor Joni !" The prisoner
Was very melancholy, and hardly knew what to.do with himself.
Samuel Wright, the br.rher of the Lust witness, stated, that
his brother haul informed him of the drowning of the boy. The
prisoner proposed to deliver hin:selt IT to ingice. Ile said his
wife leaving him, end his er_treme poverty, had driven him to
madness. He said, " I made for the Wednesfield Copal, and
I there threw the child into the water; seeing the child sang-
gßug, I relented—jumped in, and took the child out of the
water." (Here the witness was. greatly affected). I then said,
• Where did you go after this?" and he said—" I made to a coo
cage In order to dry the child's clothes, and take It home. The
woman of the house refused my request, and I was ashamed to
take it home in that condition, and resqlved again so effect my
purpose of throwing it into the water." I now said to him,
" If it be True that you have been in the water this morning,
your clothes must be wet." I felt them, and they were so. L
then giddy " What did the child say to you after it had recovered
from its first throwing into the water r and he said. the child
said to me.—" Father, what did you throw me in for? do nog
throw me in again, and I will not cry any more." I could say
nd morel at that date but at length asked him, by what way

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be came from the Wa kes6dd Clnna to where we then were
—The witness osteoberated what was stated by his beadier
about Reding Ilse child.. •
Witnesses vserecaped to 'Wive the dissedered state of mind
es the pat of the prisoner; aid the evidence of a yr.
Btake-
well, a Medical Gendemas, who was present en the trial, Was
admitted. He gave his opinion, that the **wiling of the boy
was a complete act of insanity.
Mr. Baran Gaastow delivered a verb feeling and discrimi-
nating charge • and the Jury, after a kw minutes' consideration,
returned a verdict, 44 That the prisoner was NA Guilty, because
he had committed the act imputed to him when in a state of
insanky."—The prisoner was ordered tube detained till his Ma-
jesty's pleasure shoald be known respecting him.