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FOUR YEARS in FRANCE; or, NARRATIVE
of an ENGLISH FAMILY'S ausosacs PIERRE
DURUM TWAT PSICTOSk

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tween three and few years lathe thmaise Muse wick my family;
I have wade obaermaisma. Sbelle may be meal t. them
who have the mane plan of residence or travel, and not
less interesting, beds to thorns to dime who are content with
their English Home, dim !ha simmelts of a more hasty tourist.
The care of a hossaelieldr and it dm education of children, brings
the head of a family to she hnowledat of many eircunastances and
combinations which escape the notice of the single traveller; and
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the ease for the prosecution at tonsiderable length. He
opened it sts a case depending entirely upon circum.
Atantial evidence, and, invited the
,most serious and
anxious attention of the Jury to an inquiry so fearful in
Its probable result to the prisoners. After minutely de.
tailing the circumstances from which he called upon the
Jury to draw an inference of guilt, he produced the fol=
lowing only of evidence:
Wm. Russell, the father of the deceased, said he saw
e deceased alive at his own house in the evening of
Sunday, May 7. He was then quite pert, was cheerful,
and in good spirits. Witness lived a quarter of a mile
itom his son's house, in the same parish, at Burwash‘ On
.he Monday morning, about one o'clock he was aroused
from hi. sleep by some dirt being thrown at his window.
He got up, and opened the casement; it was dark.
The female prisoner was outside, and desired him to
come down and let her in. She said that Benjamin, his
son, had dropped down in a fit, or was dead. The
other prisoner, who was immediately behind her, said
the same thing. They appeared to have come toge-
ther, and wished witness to get Benjamin home. Wit-
ness dressed himself immediately, and accompaniad
Leany about three miles into the parish of Brightling;
and Leany brought him to a footpath, where they found
the deceased lying stretched on his back. He was then
dead, cold, andstiff. His clothes werron, and there was
a handkerchief tied round his body. The spot was not
far from the house of a Mr. Holloway, a farmer, about
60 or 70 rods from Gleddish Wood. The deceased was
lying stretched out on bis back straight, the hands close
to the body. The prisoner Leany then said, that he and
the deceased had been stealing some corn from Mr. Hot.
loway's barn, and had divided it into two parcels. The,
sack which the deceased was carrying was the heaviest,
and be complained of a pain at his heart at the time.
Tbe prisoner then °feted to take a turn of his load. The
deceased declined, and advanced up the field with the
loaders his back, and prisoner, oncoming up to him, found
him dead, but he did know whether he had dropt down
in a fir, or died a natural death. -It was then so dark
that witness could not see the dress -of the deceased
minutely. Witness and Lean,' then moved the body
into Gleddish Wood. and placed it on some oat gratton,
or stubble. Witness's motive for so doing was to hide
the shame of a transaction in which the character of his
family might be injured, by its being discovered that a
son of his had been guilty of a robbery. Witness re-
turned home between four and fire o'clock, leaving
Leany to follow him at some distance. In his way he
saw a poison named Thomas Hawkins, and spoke to him.
Witness did not know the cause of his son's death until
the following Wednesday, when the Coroner's Inquest
was held. When examined before the Inquest, he did
not give the same account of the transaction he now
does, because he understood that those who helped to
move the body would be puoished.
John Woodsell proved, that about eight o'clock on
the morning of the Bth of May, he was going into Gled-
dish Wood, and Leany, who told him he had found a
dead man, Benjamin Russell, who had been going
after a tub of gin, and he (Lamy) was to meet him at
eight o'clock. He said he thought the deceased had made
away with himser, but said nothing about robbing Mr.
Holloway's barn.
John Sheathe; proved his having a similar conversa-
tion with the prisoner Lenny about nine o'clock the
same morning. Lenny said he found the deceased lying
on his back. He saw Lean, again about two o'clock
the same day, and asked him did he think Mrs. Russell
could carry on the house the same way now that her
husband was dead ? The prisoner replied, “ Yes ; I
can get gin and beer as well as Ben could."
Samuel Cruttenden, a farmer, proved, that having
heard of the death of Russell, he went about eleven
o'clock in the morning, and found the body lying in
me very high grass, which did not appear to have
been trodden before; he bad the body removed to a
barn ; the temple and collar bones were discoloured.
Robert Boules, a blacksmith, proved that about seven
o'clock of the morning of the Bth of May, he called at
Rasselrs house, and saw the female prisoner; the male
prisoner came in soon after ; she said she had been
greatly alarmed that morning by a noise upstairs, as if
somebody had jumped out of the bed. She considered
it a token of somebody's death, and hoped nothing bad
appened to her husband. She said her husband went
t between four and five o'clock in the morning,
towards Gleddish Wood, after a tub of spirits, and had
ordered Leany to go after him in about half an hour.
The prisoner Leany had lodged in Russell's house about
six weeks.

Elizabeth Elliott proved having been at Russell's house about
one o'clock on the Bth of May ; both the prisoners were present.
Mrs. Russell said her husband had been in bed with ber till between
five and six o'clock that morning.
Hilder, a labourer, proved that he went with
the female prisoner to see the body of the deceased the
day it was found. She said on the way, she supposed
,she would be forced to buryhim on Wednesday, as s!:e
expected he would be very much swelled, because he
had eaten so hearty a dinner and sapper on Sunday. Oa
their return to her house, witness asked her what time
Leany went to bed on Sunday night? She said, why,
Udder ? Witness said, " He was not in bed here, was

Robert Ellis, headborough of Hawkesboroagh,
when be apprehended Leany, be found him and Hannah
Russell sitting close together ; be said, nobody could
swear that either he or Hannah poisoned him (deceased);
when witness was taking the prisoners to Horsham,
Leany said to Mrs. Russell, " Don't you say any thing;
if you don't nobody else can." Mrs. Russell said, "
try and clear myself."
'lbis was the case for the prosecution:
Richard Soden, a little boy, proved that he saw the deceased
in the Sunday afternoon; he complained of a paib in his thest,und
said he did not aspect to be alive on Monday.
The prisoners said they had nothing to state in their defence.
The Jury, after a few minutes deliberation. found the prisoners
Oisitty. Mr. Baron Gamut then passed sentence of death en them.

Sambas'.
Friday eveez:::, Mr. Baron Gianau; in pa:chive*.
tenee on Resat and Benjamin Lawry, for-the
wilful murder of Benjamin Russell, had, in the anxiety
of t%e moment, omitted to fix the day for their ezecu.
(ion. They were therefore put to •the bar again this
morning, when his Lordship fixed their doom for Mon-
' day, at Horsham. Since the conviction, we understand
that Mr. Baron GRAHAM has entertained some doubt of
the propriety of the verdict as to, the female culprit,
inasmuch as she was charged by the indictment as a
principal in the fifst degree, whereas from the evident.
it did not appear that she wit present aiding* and
abetting the alleged murder. Oil this ground, it -is
understood that the woman is to be respited, in order to
a more advised consideration of the case.
In the course of this morning it wits currently reported that the
wretched. culprits bad made a full confession of their guilt, and
that they had administered the poison in the house of the deceased,
at Burwash, and after it had taken effect, bad carried the body to
the place where It was found, in the parish of Brightling.

It is stated, in a letter from Alexandria, that a part of
'the PASHA'S squadron bad entered that port.
POPULATION OF THE NITHIIRLANDB.---.The. oOp‘la-
Non of the Netherlands appears to be Increasing. The kllowing is
the state of the population for six consecutive years a-I.lllllto,
5.642,552 ; 5,410.323 I 18221 51767.038 :PM 4111111,111.3 s
5,915,326;1841. 1625, 5,8!2,666. The proportlon of 'male to
ifamaiebtrthsts much the same as in England. In the Ntilhertsods,
it Is as 1.000 to 950; In England. as 1,000 to 947 ; to France, as
13100030 937; and in Naples, as 1,000 to 051.