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London, England, 1828-08-09 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

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FROM Tilt MS/PAGER DRS CDAMDRES, AI'G. 6.
A letter froinToulon cf the end of July gives the fol.
low ing details:
We at length know what we are to think of the ex-
pediu.•n; p sitive ()otitis have been received for the
troops r'f every description to be reedy to embark.—
Their flee is to be increased by two regiments fens
Cadiz. which were landed on the 2Gth, after perform•
nig five days quarantine—by the 29th, w hich is our
garrison at Avignon, and by the 42d, which has jut
been in garrison in Corsica. Toe esped Lion sill sail
-
, in two divisions—the first which will be the stri ngest,
is to be embarked (.11 the 15:1i August. The second,
with which there will be a pa. k of heavy artillery, will
be embarked on the 25th of the same month. Gen.
Durieu, Chief of the St iffef the expedition, at presmt
commands in Corsica. O.re of hs Majesty's ships is
gone to communicate to him the orders of the Nfiiii..try,
and to bring him to All the heads of rise se.
vet al depattmet is of the service are appointed, and
gie.t activity pievails among the troops.
'• for these last ten or iii•teen days w•e have been ex.,
petting something new—for utter old: is were rectiv, d
to sell the provisions which were already collected, a
counter order soon arrived, and then another order to
ckuble these provisions. •
"Io the road there is only the 11 et which has jest
hi-might the gariliOn s f Cads; it will not suffice to
convey half the troop•, but ships are coming fiomßrest
and horn the Levant. which will enable it to convey
at once five o' 6,000 men. with the necessary materiel.
The Jowrnal of' the Upper Garonne contains the fol.•
lowing al title:

" Numerous arrests took place at Madrid :s few days
ago in consequence of the d,scoves y of a conspiracy is •
favour of the Inta; to Don Cal los."

The MoNilemr of WeJne%clay contains the following
paragraph:

" At the instance of the King's Attorney General,
the Gazette de trance, which appeared on Monday
evening at Pais with the date of Tuesday. August 5.
and the numbers of tiAt Journal intended for t'e de•
paitments, bearing the date f WediresdAy, the 6th, cob.
mining an article healed ' the Session of 1828,' were
seized •t the Post (Mee."

The Messager des than:Gres. in a long article on the
Session, alluding to the seizure r f the Gezeltede France?
!•as the f 'Wowing sentences : '" Never were fewer words
einpl,yed to make so inculpatory a recapiiulation."—
', Thirty have sufficed for the Gazette to predict
the great st misfortunes to the monarch), and it de-
clares, vir,th an audacity which excites at thefsame time
ridicule and indignation, th,dt, alter what has been done
this year, 'here will remain bin little to do in the neat
Session, to column's* the re-ests6lishment of the Re-
public.'

FROM THE QUOTID1381:111.
PIIIVATS COKRB..PONDENCIL.
TRILSTki, JULY 28.
Letters from Oulu announce that the Anglc-lonian
Government had received 'scree that the troops on
board the Russian squadron, commanded by Admiral
Siniavin, are destined for Greece. It is added that these
forces, principally composed of light infantry, will first
occupy the defiles of Livadia. It is also said that the
Ambassador, t ie Marquis de Rtheaupterre, has sent a
communication on the subject to the President, Count
Capo Asti ia.
Acco ding to the account of the• Captains of several
mercantile vessels, which have anchored in our port,
(hoe ate neatly fifty Austrian ships navigating the
IStas k Sea with cargoes of provisions and munitic.ns cf
war, declined for the relief of the Tut ktsh f brttesses.
Letters have been received from the Banks f the
Drave, which state, that movements are remaiked
amongst the Austristu troops is Sclavonia. Several lead•
iog personages are named as having frequent comF.u-
nicatuts from that province, with the Scrvian Prince,
Milosch, at Blgrade.
Fencer Fenns—Five per Cent. lost sot. Three per Ceots.
73f. 63e. Rink Aerials, 18821. 51k. Itentee de Naples. 76f. 40c.
Spanish Loan, 4111 f. litcLange on Ltiodon.One Months 231. liSe-
*lhree ditto, Ur 15:.

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THE TRIAL OP CORDER.

. , ..410RFOLK CIRCUIT. •
IN CONTINUATION 110 W TUN :MAR TESTARDAT.

BURY ST. EDMUND'S, Avuusr 8.
This morning, at nine o'clock, the Lord Chief Baron
arrived at the Shire Hall, and having taken his seat on
the Bench, William Corder was placed at the bar. The
immense pressure and confusion of yesterday was, in a
great degree, avoided by the Sheriff having made ar-
rangements to admit the Gentlemen of the Bar and the
Reporters an hour before the Court opened for public
business; still the same eagerness was manifested to
witness the termination of this interesting trial. It was
observed, that after the close of the business on Thurs-
day, when Corder returned to the gaol, he was very
much depressed in spirits. If ever he exhibited any
thing like feeling in the Court, it was at the time the
Clerk of the Arraigns read the two letters which he had
written to Marten, the father of Maria; ter she was
murdered, in which he hypocritically pretended that
Maria was then living with him, in good health, and inl
which letters he also censured old Marten for having
neglected to answer a letter which he pretended Maria
had written to him, but which in the second letter he
states he supposed had miscarried, and he would indict
the post-office for the neglect, were it not for the pub
licity be should be exposed to by attending a " Court
Marshalro—for so he termed a proceeding against that
establishment.

At a quarter before•nine o'clock, Corder was put to
the bar. He was dressed the same as yesterday. On
inquiry, it is understood his age is not 40, but about 30
or 32. He rose early in the prison, and was, during the
whole of the morning before he was brought to Court,
engaged in introducing some alterations in his written
de/fence, which were suggested to him late last night by
his counsel. His manner was collected, his complexion
fresh, and he looked around him at times with seeming
cheerfulness He was nor, however, so entirely at his
ease as he appeared to be early on the previous day;
his head was not snerect, and he repeatedly heaved deep
sighs. Immediately on being put to the bar, he put on
his spectacles, folded his arms, and displayed an oscil-
lating and swinging motion cif his body, while he leaned
his back against the pillar of the dock. He hung down
his head frequently during the examination of the wit-
nesses.

During the re-examitratlon of -Mr. Lawton, the sur-
geon, this morning, who produced the skull of the de-
ceased, which was handed from the Counsel to the Jury,
aad exhibited so as to be observable in its fractured
conditicin to whole Court, the prisoner, who had
just taken off his spectacles, replaced them, and beheld
attentively tbis•painful spectacle—he inclined his body
forward so as to command a full view of the skull; but
as if the effort to sustain this attitude, and evince this
expression, had become too great for his nerves, he sud-
denly lung his back against the pillar, hastily dress' off
hit spectacles,aud evidently laboured under the strongest
emotion. In a few minutes, however, he rallied, re-
placed his glasses, took out his pocket-book. and quickly
wrote a memorandum to his leading Counsel, Mr.
Basmatce, who at once wrote a •reply, which the pri-
soner read with close attention, and on the signification
of a movementsfrom the Learned Counsel tore it into
the smallest fragments. His Solicitor, at the same time,
went to the front of the dock, and had a long'consulta-
tion with him.

The Jury having answered to their nomer,
John Charles Nairn was called, and examined by
Mr. ANDREW/3..4 am a surgeon; I received my diploma
twelve months ago, but I have been in the profession
upwards of twelve years; I attended on the 19th of
last May, with Mr. Chaplin, at Polstead ; John Baal-
ham, the constable, was present ; he disinterred a body
in my pretence; I czar:lined the cavities of the chest. •
Mr. atODRICK -here stated that the identity of the
body should be proved before the witness's examination
proceeded further.
James Baalham,thecon,table of Polstead was called,
and be stated—l. am parish clerk of Polstead, as well
as constable; I saw the body found in the barn ; it was
interred in Poltaead Church-yard ; I screwed it down,
but was not present at the foneial ; it was afterwards
disinterred by my men; I was with Mr. Nairn when
the corms was raised ; I found the body in the coffin, in
the same mamas when I screwed it down.

Mr. Nairn recalled—l found the internal parts of the
cheat io a perfect state of preservation—so much so,
that the slightest injury penetrating into the cavity
fright have been detected: one beast was lying divested
slits enveloping membrane; there was a large wound
in the tight ventricle of the heart; that appeased to be
a recent wound; I could-form no opinion respecting
the wound sa hen 1 first saw it ; I subsequently examined
the wound, and.lthen formed an opinion that it was a
recent Wound ; at.detached the heart from its blood-
vessels, and..laid it aside for further examination; I
then examined the internal surface of the ribs; in the
"ice between the fifth and sixth ribs I discovered
wins.scl, about the breadth of three quarters of an inch,
it was nearly an inch ;my opinion was, that the wound
was on of long duration; and not a recently inflicted
one; I did not examine the beam till I returned home,
and then, about two inches from the apex of the heart.
Idiscoveri-d a slight wound ;that wound was given in
a direction corresponding with the eeteinal one, the
wound between the sibs.; that wound appeared to have
been inflicted with a sword or dirk, or some such sharp
instrument; I hare seen the sword now produced by
Lea, the officer; such a weapon as that, in my opinion,
wai the most likely instrument for inflicting that wound;
such a wound inflicted on a live body would have been,
in my opinion, sufficient to produce death; I have since
inspected the head of that body; I have *lied that sword,
to the wound between the ribs since; it corresponds
with the sizeof the wound, to the extent of two or three
inches up the blade; there are apparetitly some marks
oa'tbe buck of the blade which go to that extent; 1 ex-
*witted the wound ih the heart, having the sword with
*se; the wound in the heart certainly might have been
trade by the point of that sword I afterwardseraminerfi
tie head, and discovered .the•Lraek s f a ball, entering
the interior of the upper past of the upper left jaw. and
proceeding to the internal angle of the right eye; from
she site of the opening I should cnnclude•it to have been
made in a small pistol ball ; that wound might have
caused death, but I cannot ear she might not have re
corned from it ; I examined the head further, mid dna
covered a fissure or opening into the spheroidal• sinus;
that-was in the.case of the skull; correspooding with
the veriebste; any sharp pointedinstrument would have
made that fissure or opening ; it extended• about iceppii.
ter of an inch into the spheroidal sinus ; there was no
other sound that I am aware of; the lase wound_ might
have occasioned death. - • • •
aossittliniined by Mr. Throriatar—l eiafirtiids¢ the
body-68 the loth cif 114Ay I'st;* the body hail been bicried
about a month ; rshould think the exposure of the body
to the atmorphare air would sot tend to increase the

decomposition—sot in the condition that body was. in
.;
4 did notahiikk that a body which had lain in the grassed
for twelve months would have bemi so little deem-
poold ; j once saw a body that had ligeas in the grourid
exactly twelve months.
LORD Cuter BARON—Not one that had been buried'
in the earth without a coffin ?
Witness—Certainly not, my Lord: When I saw the
heart, I found it without a pericardium ; it had been
detached, and probably with a knife. From my exami-
nation of the two wounds, I should consider that the
wound on the right ventricle was a recent one, from the
edge being even; I form that judgment merely from
the inspection of the heart, independently of all I knew
or have heard on the subject. From the edges of the'
wound on the apex of the heart gaping, I am rf opinion
it was made before death ; I am of opinion that wound
was not made after the pericardium was removed; I
removed the pericardium from the heart, and used a
knife; the apes of the heart touches the ribs close to
the cartilage; the cartilage .connects the ribs with the
sternum; the cartilage connected with the ribs are
elastic substances, and a wound made in the cartilage
would show the same before as after death; the falling
in of the bones of the head was caused by a wound, and
not by decomposition; I first saw the head in Mr. Law-
ton's possession; Mr. Lauton showed me the head ; I
did not tee it taken off the body ; I took the heart my-
self from the body; a knife would have inflicted the
same wound.

Re-examined—l do not mean any sized wound; I
mean a knife corresponding in breadth with such an in-
strument as that (pointing to .the sword); the wound
was broadest on that side of the rib joining the sternum;
it was broader outside than inside. _ _

Mr. Lawton, the surgeon, recalled—l showed a skull
to the last witness; it was the head which was found
on the body of the corpse found in the Red Barn ; 1
assisted at the exhumation of the body, and took the
head off; Baalham had possession of it for a short time;
I gave it to Baalham the afternoon that I took it off,
and he returned it to me a day or two afterwards, when
I went fur it; it had been locked up all the time; I
know it was the same head ; I had the other parts in
my possession.
Baahlam recalled—l returned the same head to Mr.
Lawton that he gave to me.
Henry Robert Chaplin examined—l am a surgeon;
I have been practising four years—three years in Dis.
pensary prictice, and one for myself ; I saw the body
of the deceased woman at the same time that Mr. Nairn
saw it ; the chest was in a good state of preservation ;
I also examined the hear, and found a wound ; the
first wound I discovered when Mr. Nairn opened the
body, was on the right ventricle; that appeared to be
of a recent date; I afterwards saw the heart, and then
I saw another wound; I examined that wound, and
could not say if it was a wound of recent or of ancient
infliction; I examined the side, and found a transverse
wound between the fifth and sixth ribs, which appeared
to have been inflicted with a weapon which had a
broad back and a sharp edge; I did not see a sword
applied to the wound; I saw them separately ; I con-
sidered the wound in the ribs in connection with the
ore in the heart, and it appeared to be a continuation
of the same wound through Vat ribs into the body; the
wound in the heart might have been inflicted in strip-
ping the pericardium off the heart ; the wound through
the ribs into the heart could not have been inflicted in
stripping the pericardium; such a wound is certainly
deemed a mortal one; all wounds in the heart may not
be mortal. I have seen a head in the possession of Mr.
Lawton; and found a wound there; a bullet appears
to have traversed it through she bones of the face; the
course of the bullet was behind the upper teeth, and
through the orbit of the eye; the appearances could
not have been produced by decomposition; I thpuld
not say that would have been a mortal wound, it might
or might.not ; I found the'mark of another wound, a
thrust in the same eye the ball had perforated ; it was
iollicted with a sharp instrument with a broad back; it
might have been inflicted with the same instrument
that inflicted the wound between the ribs and pierced
the heart.

Cthas.examined--The instrument that pierces" the spheroidal
sinus entered only about the depth of an eighth of an inch; I mean
the spheroid bone, which is situate at the base of the cranium; the
instrument might have been sharp at the point and gradually in.
creased in thickness upwards; it the wound had been inflicted on
the heart while living, there must have been a great effusion of
blood, unless syncope bad taken place instaqily, sod then there
would not. Syncope might have been produced by the loss of
blood; but a shock to the system might have produced syncope;
there were no appearances of blood about the heart; the probability
is that each a wound would ilse followed by excessive bleeding. It
is quite impossible to say if the ball entered or came out of the eye.
Re-examined—The parts being soft, we could not say; had there
been merely bones we might have ascertained. I was not present
when some banes were found in the throat; I paid no attention to
the fracture of the bones of the nose.

Ili. Lawton recalled—l have the bead of the deceased in my
hand. , _ _

, .
Mr. atnoaews—Now. Sir, point out to the Jury the place where
the Jag:meat pierced the skull.
The witness proceeded to the Jury box with Mr. Baoriatcx,
and the Gentlemen of the Jury minutely examined the skull. The ,
witness pointed out the direction where the bullet had traversed
and the sword had pierced. The prisoner took hii spectacles out
of his pocket. and was very attentive to the examination. The
witness placed the point of the sword in the place where he was
of opinion it had penetrated.
111r.Bnoosace—Place the point of the sword the other way, and
it will correspond as well.
Witness (petting the sword point in the wound the other way)—
' The sword will not 6t this way so well; it will not go through.—
(The witness also showed the absence of the teeth from the jaw of
the skull.) There were two teeth out of the opper jaw—one ap-
%leased to have been drawn out while the body was alive.
Craw-examiee4 by Mr. Ilsooasce--One of the teeth might
have fallen oat through decomposition.
• Mr. Mathews reealled—Maria Marten had an enlargement in
the front of her neck, similar in appearance to a wen.
[liaallibm, the constable, produced the combs and linen found on_
the deceased].
Mrs. Marten, the mother, recalled—( Looks at the articles of dress
(mod on the body taken From the Red Barn). These are Maria')
combs; I saw her with them on her head on the 18th of last May
i twelvemonths. These are the ear-rings she had in her ears at the
'same time ; they are both of them her's. This is the handkerchief
(a silk one) she had round her neck the same day ; this also (the
green one). was one she kad on at the same time; this was next her
throat, and the silk one over it. Thief@ a piece of a Leghorn bat ;
she bad on a Leghoin bat when how her last, trimmed with black
.riband like this, the edges'of widet are the same. These are the
shoes she had on. This is the Wain busk in her stays. This is part
of a pair of itays. This is the sleeve of a chemise, the make of
which is the same as that she bad on on the 18th of May, 1827,
when the went to the Red Bara.—(This witness was so over-
powered, either by her feelings, by the a of the rags, or by the
heat.of the Court, that she was with difficulty preserved Train faint-
ing by the restoratives given her at the close of her examination).
Lea, the officer, produced the velvet big.
Tile Cater Banos—l don't think it is sufficiently traced to come
from any place proved to belohg t%the prisoner.
Mr. Asionaws—The prisoner wfs apprehended in the house In
which his swam was; and id which was a desk, which opened by
a key be himself gave to theolficef ; and In the same room wii
found this bag. •
11se Cm', 8A11011.4 think you had better not press it.
• Anne bfarten;the aster of Mari*. re-called..-This green hand-
kerchief 'is else' same Aar. my sister' went away with. - This silk
isewdierchlef die akin had on it the astne time. These are the same
throe* • This it pert..of 'the 'Leghorn bonnet,' trimmed with Mart
tliarsif. TMs las pi‘trof the boatite she had in the bag when she
.465 out ;
°die but '.ta wan% bet caber-bee% These are like the
eatsby she bad'ier ber.isilt.at the• same tilde_ . ••filte had on a pair
a eiir.rings ; and these are such ones as my steAst, went away with
i in her ears.
a Mr. Aruma stated to the Court that there was found in the

desk, ope illszoitorida she ke'y given by tie petunia -to j.e.datters
rated to , and alsoa passport foe Fri Cot
ter.
The foe-Colr.
The C4ster. relhoughtlit:rtafer Foe to receive evidence of
thip,pspirtially as, in a case of this oat*, all doubtful pelnts ogight.
(tom the importance of this trial to the pristioer, to be decided id
favour.
The prisoner here bowed Ws gratitude to his Lordship.
Marten, the father, re-called.--The soil in the barn is a dryish,
little gravelly, and stony soil. •
Mrs. Marten. recalled, proved that her daughter wore white
narrow tape garters.
Mr. Mathews proved that Marla Marten was able to write very
well.
This was the case on the part of the prosecution.
The prisoner, being called on for his defence, advanced to the
front of the bar, took out some papers, and read nearly as follows
with a very tremulous voice—
" MY LORD, AND GENTAEWEN OF THE JURY,
" I am informed that by the law of England. the.
Counsel for a prisoner is not allowed to address the,
Jury, though the Counsel for the Crown is allowed
that privilege. While I deplore, as much as any
human being can, the fatal event which has caused
this inquiry, let me entreat you to dismiss from
your minds the publications of the public press from
the time of its first promulgation to this hour; let me
entreat you, let me dissuade you, if I can, from
being influenced by the horrid and disgusting de-
tails which have for months issued from the public
press—a powerful engine fur fixing the opinions of
serge classes of the community, but which is too
often, I fear, though unintentionally, the cause of affix-
ing slander upon innocence. I have been described as
a monster, who, while meditating becoming the husband
of this girl to whom 1 was evincing an affectionate at-
tachment, was actually premeditaing and plotting the
perpetration of this horrid crime. With such misrepre-
sentations it was natural, perhaps, to expect that an un-
favourable impression should have been created against
me, and the more so when the accusation went beyon d
the present case, and was connected with other crimes
well calculated to excite prejudice against me. It is
natural you should come to this trial with feelings of
pr, judice; but as you expect peace and serenity of mind
at borne, I implore you to banish from your minds all
the horrible accusations which have been promulgated,
and give your verdict on the evidence alone. Consider,
Gentlemen, that the attorney for the prosecution is also
the Coroner before whom the Inquest was taken; and his
condo t, in refusing my being present at the Inquest, is
conduct which you cannot approve. Since my committal,
the Coroner has been again at Polstead—has got up ack
ditional evidence. My solicitor pressed for a copy of the
drpositions,which were refused...in cor,sequence of these.
Unjust proceedings, r". ever 'heard one of the witnesses
examined, and cannot • therefore-have came prepared
as I ought.to be. The Coroner thus acting in his double.
capacit.•, was likely enough; when meditating to act as
attorney for the prosecution, to have entertained im-
pressions ioconsistent tor the= it discharge of his inqui!
siterial inquiry: and again,"as attorney for the prosecu-
tion, he was liable to be 'diverted from the fulfilment of
his duties as Corcitier ; so_That I was ie this respect, on the
threshold of inquiry, exposed to disadvantages frost
which I ought to have been saved. This, however,
was not all-, my solicitor remonstrated ;
.was" noel
only refused copies of the depositions, but the attorney.
for the prosecution, Without any notice to me, has
visited Polstead, and taken examinations upon oath
of the different witnesses, and come to this trial prepared
*ith evidence taken behind my back, and pruned down
to suit the exaggerations of this case. I therefore. am
brought to be tried for my life without any fair know-
ledge of the evidence against me. In consequence of
this unjust proceeding on the part of the Coroner, how
can 1 controvert, as I might have done were I allowed'
to hearthe witnesses, equivocal facts and highly coloured
statements, of which I am for the first time informed
when brought to trial for my life? Were witnesses to be
privately examined, and their evidence clandestinely ob-
tained? It has been well (shelved that truth is sometimes
stronger than fiction. Never was this assertion better
exemplified than in this hapless instance. In a few short
months I have been deprived of all my brothers, and sly
father recently before that period. I have heard the
evidence, and am free to ray that, unexplained, it may
cause great suspicion ; but you will allow me to explain
it. Proceeding, my Lord and Gentlemen, to the real
facts of this case, I admit that there is evidence calculated
to excite suspicion, but these facts arc capable of ezplane.
Lion; and convinced as I am of my entire innocence, I
have to entreat you to listen to my true and simple detail
of the real facts of the death of this unfortunate woman.
I was myself so stupified and overwhelmed with the
strange and disastrous circumstance, and on that account
so unhappily driven to the necessity of immediate de-
cision, that I acted with fear instead of judgment, and
I did that which any itincicVet Man might have done
under such unhappy citculownces. I concealed the
appalling occurrence, and was, as is the misfortune of
such errors, subsequently driven to sustain the first
falsehoods by others, and to persevere in a system of
delusion which furnished the facts concealed for a long
time. At first I gave a false account of the death of
the unfortunate Maria; I Om' now sesolved to disclose
the truth, regardless of the consequences. To conceal
her pregnancy from my mother; [tank lodgings at Sud-
bury she was delivered of A male child, which died in
a fortnight in the arms of MN Marten, although the
newspapers have so perverted that fact ; and it was
agreed beta eenMrs.Marten,Mar ia,and me,that the child
should be buried in the fields. There was a pair of small
pistols in the bed room. Maria knew they •were there.
I had before that shown her the use of them, and on
returning to her father's she, by some means unknown
to me, contrived to get the pistols into her possession.
It was well known that at that period Maria •was
much depressed in spirit, and was anxious that I
should marry her, although 1 had season to suspect
that she was at the time in correspondence with a
Gentleman in London, by whom she had a child. My
friends objected to the match, and I declined it- at the
time. But although poor Maria's conduct Was not
altogether free from blame, I was much attached to
her, and at length agreed to her wishes; and it was
arranged that we should go to Ipswich and obtain a
license for that purpose. Whether I did or did not
say anything about a warrant having been issued by
the parish officers for her apprehension, I cannot now
pretend to say; but if I did, it must have been be-
cause such a report was abroad at the time. It was
agreed that Maria should go in male attire to the Red
Barn—so often mentioned in the course of the trial.
You have heard from the mother of the unfortunate
Maria, that she and I had had words. As we proceeded.
to the barn she was in tears. To that barn we had oft:n
repaired before, and frequently passed the night there.,
When we reached the barn, words_arose, and Maria flew
into a passion. I told her that if we were to be married,
and live together, she must not gd on so. Much conver.
sation ensued, and on changing her dress, she at length'
told me that if we were married, we should never be
happy together—that I was too proud to marry. her,
and take her to my mother's, and that she did not
regard me. 1 was highly irritated, and asked her
if she was to go on this Way before marriage, what
was I to expect after ? • She again upbraided me,
and being in a passion, I told her that I would not

marryher, and turned from the Barn, but I had scarcely
teached the gate when a report of a pistol reached my
ears. I returned to the barn, and with honor beheld
the unfortunate girl extended on the floor, apparently
dead ; I was for a short time stupified with horror, and
knew not what to do. It struck me to run for a sue.
gem; and well would it have been for inc if I had done
so. iihtt I raised the unfortunate girl, in order, if
pOs..
Bible, to afford her some assistance; but I fund hal
altogether lifeless; and to my horror, I discovered that
the dreadful act had been .committed by one of my own
pistols, and that I was the only person in existence who
could tell how the fatal act took place. The sudden
alarm which seized me suspended my faculties, and I[
wasfor some time before I could perceive the awful
sittation in which I was placed, and the iinsp*inn,'
which must naturally arise from my having delayed.*
make the circumstance instantly known. I, at length,
found. that concealment was the only means by which
I could rescue mys:lf from the horrid imputation; and .
I resolved to bury the body as well as! was able Having
done so, I subsequently accounted for her absence*
the manner described by the witnesses, saying sometimes
one thing to one person, and at other times other things
to another. I may be asked why, if innocent uf the
crime imputed to me, I felt it necessary to &it those
answers? To which I answer, that some persons ate
driven to do acts from fear which others do from guilt
which is precisely the case with me in this instance. et
may be asked, too, why I have not called evidence to
prove the facts I have stated ? but, Gentlemen, 1 putt
to you whether things do not sometimes take plane,
which are only known to the parties between whoa
they happen; and what direct proof can I give, whoa
the only person who knew of these facts is no more?
I can, for the same reason, give no direct proof of the
unhappy woman's having got possession of my pistols.
I say pistols, because I found the other loaded pistol is
the unfortunate Maria's reticule. As to the stabs and other
wounds described by the witnesses, I can only say that
no stab or cut was given by Maria or mystic and I.
firmly believe that the surgeons would never have
sworn to them, were it sot for the circumstance of a
sword having been found in the room in which I was
arrested. If any stab did appear upon t'se body, it must
have been done with the instrument used in disinterring
it. One of the witnesses told you that on striking theist-
strument into the ground, he exclaimed, " there is some-
thing here;' so that the instrument must have entered
the body. Gentlemen, I have now told you all the fact:
of the case, as they have occurred, and I entreat Tout
attention to the few remarks I lave to make upon some
parts of. the evidence. I am charged Kith having basely
murdered the woman whom I loved, and pomised t*
marry. Is there, let me ask, any adequate cause assigned
for such an act? I inigkt, had I ro pleased, have broken off
the connection, on the grounds of the displeasure of toy
slimily, or because of Maria's connection with another.
Where, then,' could base been my motive for the horrid
deed? I ask any man whether, it I had contemplated
the death of the poor girl in the manner de tribes by
the prosecutor, I should have selected tha barn for the
• scene of such a deed? Would I have chosen for such a
purpose a spot surrounded with cottages and persons,
is all of whom I was tnown? True it is that the death
..remained concealed at the time, but that concealment
was purely accidental. None but a madman could have
eirpected concealment in such a place,under such circum-
stances. I put it to you, whether, if I had contemplated
such an act, I would not have selected a better time and
place and opportunity for its perpetration; car. hiving
perpetrated it, might I not easily have made my escape?
Sut you have it in evidence that I remained at bode
until the month of September, when, being' taken ill.
and suffering from severe losses in my famity,l, by the •
advice cf my physician, proceeded to a watering-place.
I went to Portsmouth, and from thente to the Isle el
Wight; from thence I proceeded to London, where I
met my sister. You have heard of a passport for France
having been fund in my desk ; that 'passport was ob-
tained by desire of my wife, who was anxious to visit a
relative at Paris ; but I objected to the journey, on the
ground of the expense. Articles belonging to the valor-
innate Maria are proved to have been found in my pee
session. Would I, had I been the guilty man I am repre-
sented to be, have retained those articles—or would I not
for my own protection. have at once destroyed theta
I can prove, that while in town in December last year.
I publicly advertised the sale cf a house belonging to
my wife, and in that advertisement I gave my name
and address. Did this look any thing like guilt, or
a desire of ,concealment ? If I had courted seclusion.
would I have lived with my wife in a public establish-
ment? Surely no man can suppose use so careless cf
life as to do so. I have now, Gentlemen, stated t e
case exactly as it *ands, and I hope I have convirxed
you that the only fault of which I have been guilty is
the fault of concealment; or should any doubt ...till lin-,
ger in your minds, I hope you will extend so me that
generous principle of the English law, which 11.1.1 s a
Man to be innocent until his guilt is clearly establishes'.
Gentlemen, whatever may be the result of this inquiry.
my conscience tells me that I am innocent, and 1 im-
plore you not to send me to an ingnonaittious L'esth.l
have no more tosay, but that my life is in yrur hands.'
The prisoner occupied a quarter of an hour in reading his achke4
Wm. Goodwin examined-1 live in Plough-lane, Sudtni:•y; d.
'prisoner came to my house and took lodgings in the Intl it
VW ; he afterwards came with Maria Marten, Who lay an owe:
the prisoner visited her two or three times a week before and ahor
her accouchement ; they had a room tc themselves.
Mr. BRODIUCK—Did they seem fond of each other? Witness--
I cannot say to the contrary ; I remember before Maria ;liana
was confined; the prisoner went out with her to Mr. Harcourt"
the guemaker, of Sudbury; when they left my house, they vel
in a one-horse chaise; she lay in ea the 19th of Alarzh, and .li
on the 16th of April, taking the infant with her.
Cross-examined-1 cannot say how lug they were event et, tk
day they went to Mr. Harcourt's.- Maria Marten afterwards/vitt
of baying been at Harcourt's with the prisoner.
Mary Ann Goodwin examined by Mr. PILINDCRUA3I.--1 feu
,
Plough-lane, Sudbury; un the 18th of March, ISO, Maria liste
with me ; the prisoner brought her to my house; she wad 0114001
at my house; the prisoner Irequently visited her ; sometimes oia.
a week, and sometimes oftener ; they appeared very muck aaschei
to each other; she was in bad spirits ; I heard her say, she rerr
after the pistols to the shop where they were; she went at ;.c...
left orders for her to fetch them against be came tor them, ands? -
she went and fetched them. 1
John Hardy—l was in Mrs. Corder's employ in Fels. lc:, _
saw the prisoner•cleaning the pistols; I remember 'Erin "" 1,',.v _
Marten on the 13th of May; she was walking with Corder ~ic
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the yard towards the stable; I went -away ; there are two WON/
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in Mrs. Corder's house; two persons might go up niln of the s:r
cases to Corder's room without Mrs. Corder knowing any t 4
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Lucy Ilialham examined by Mr. Ilanuiticx—l Deod ifl:,es_}".. g
Corder's service last year ; I lett her on ;he 11th of last Octoti
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had lived with her 11 montiss; I had seen pistols in. the spt,iuni:
that year in Corder's bed room—sometimes in the iti•nli: and
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times on the outside of the prisoner's box ; the 'primmer s.on
to live at his mother's till within ifPnut a fortnight of the
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Mr. Edward Javan; examined—l am . a surgeon at -‘ll_. in a
about two miles from l'olstead; I have attended the prisol,erst
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medical capacity; I advised-the prisoner about this tin.w_
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mended the south coast; his health 'required IC, as he was "
threatened with codsumption.
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