Star.
London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

(Signed)
(Signed)

" Josses Mese;
" Awnixer Jacasoy,
" Major-General C,cermanding.
" Additional articles which are to have the sante force as the
printery, and extended In compliance with what has been agreed
Jpon.

" 1. The name required of the Albans& 044 la Opayhola.
The Costintantiant of this province engages in the name of hls,
zovercment, that the said chief shall never return to the Floridan.•
" Apgroveds"

GENERAL ORDERS.
" tread-quarters, Division of the South, Pensacola,
Jl.ty 2301, 2818.

" Majos►Gcmr:l Andrew Jackson h+a kund it netessary to
take posaewlsalb Pensacola. He haa not batll conirtel

treotore &art' 'NA to *stead the territorial Ihuita of the
Laited States, or &sin or..y uotrionely f,:(Ltig oz the part Or th.—
Arne:feast to th? Spanish Goverrosent.• The Seminec

indians,infiabitlng the territories of Spain, lave for..more than
two years pet, visited our frostier metiers with all the boron',
of savage maisacre; helpless women have beck buakered, and
'the cradles stained with the blood of innocence. These atro- ,
cities, it was repaid, wo.lll h..v.f early attracted the attention
of the Si ak.sh anernment. and faithful to existing Treaties,
Speedy measures adopted for their suppression.
" The obligation to restrain than was LAM/ideated b«r
weakness was alleged with a concession, that so far from being
able to controut, the Spanish Authorities were ofte:i compelled,
from policy or necessity, to isma munitions of war to these
Savages—thus enabling, if not excidcg than to raise the toma-
hawk against us.

" the Immutable laps of self-defence, therefore, compelled
the American Government to take p ;ion of such parts of
the Florida. in which the Spanish authority could not be main-
'mined. Pensacola was found in this situation, and will be held
until Spain can furnish military strength sufficient to enforce, ex-
isting treaties. Spanish subjecti will be respected; Spanish Lives
will govern in all cases ..ffccting property and person ; a free to-
leration to all religions guaranteed, and trade alike free to all
nations.

" Colonel King will assume the command of Pensacola as
Military and Civil Governor. The Spaui.l laws, so far as they
affect personal rights and prOperty, will be enforced. Colonel
slag will take possession of the archives of the Province, and
appoint some confidential individual to preserve them. It is all
Important that the records of titles and property should be care;
fully secured. Ile will cause an inquiry to be shade into all the
landed property belonging to the King of Spain, and haste pos-
session taken of it. The claims of property within the tinge of
gun-shot of Fort Carlos de Barancas will be scrupulously eau-
mined into, and should they prove valid, a rent allowed, but
possession in DeWitt given. This property is necessary to the
United States, and under its laws may he held, an equivalert
being paid.
" The revenue LAWS of the United States will be established
and Captain Gadsden is appoMted to act as Collector, with full
rosette to nominate such Sub-Cilleers as in his opinion will be
necessary to the faithful discharge of the trust imposed on him.
tie will apply to tie Governor of Pensacola fur military a:d In
all cases where it may be necessary to correct attempts at illicit
trade. (Signed) " As DILMV JaccsoN,
" Major-General Commanding:l

" Look out for a squall. The article from Ports-
mouth, under date of June 30, has a ortentous ap-
pearance ! A little cloud like a man'z, ku;:d."

The above is the leading article of the New York
&ening Post, of the Bth ult. The Portsmouth ar-
fide to which it alludes is as follows:
POIZTSMOUTII, JUNE 30.

" AMERMAN FISHERMEN CAPTURED.—By the
schooner Cyrus King, Moore, arrived at Kittery,• we
learn that on the 15th instant, while that vessel, in
company with sevcial others, were in die Bay of
'Fundy, after having paid their light money and ob-
mined the privilege of getting bait in said bay, they
were captured byliis Britannic Majc.,ty's slooß of war
Syren, commanded by Thomas Harper, EN. and
sent into the harbour of Digby, where gle7 were
stripped of their sails, Sze.
The crew of the Cyrus King, thi.the third night
after being-carried in, got the keeper of their vessel
intoxicated, went into the custom-hotre store, where
they obtained a schooner's gib and mainsail, Which
they imarediatoly bent, and by cutting their cables,
and warping out of the harbour, got under way, ;uul
arrived at Kittery on Saturday last.
" The following is a list of the vessels captured"
with the Cyrus King :—schooners Polly, Jenkins, of
this place; Rosana, Spinney, of ditto; ',ink stern
schooner Eight Sisters, of Portland ; and a schooner
belonging to Fox Islands. All the above vessels had
good fares of fish when captured."

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, received this
morning, tiring nothing imrcatant. The French
Ministers have gone to join the IC &NO at Rambuuillet.
Five per Cents. on Tuesday, 77fr. sc.

Thursdajr, the Landgrave of llEssz CASSEL em.
barked at Harwich for Holland.

A letter from Hombourg, dated July 18, says :
I " Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Princess (ELI-
; ZABLIII) gains the hearts of all who approach her by
her affable condescension. She speaks the German
I language perfectly, as do all the Princes and Frin-
cesses of the Royal pf Great Britain ; and
having been educated with great simplicity, she does
not think it below her diFnity to converse with any
one, however low in situation. She has explicitly
expressed her wishes for the happiness of the country,
and the improvement of thecoudition of the subjects."
The Duke of Roxsueon, who has, for the first
time, been elected one of the Sixteen Representatives
of the Scottish Peerage, is the only Scots Duke, who
is not also a Peer of Great Britain. His. Grace is
now in the eighty -first year of his age, and his sou,
the Marquis of Bra UMONT, has just entered into his
second !

The Courts of Chancery and king's Bench, as
well as both Houses of Parliament, and the adjoining
offices, are now undergoing the procei,s or whitewash-
ing and new mattir.g, under the direction or the
Surveyor of Westminster Bail.
We understand that the translation of the very cu.
rious Anerdates of the Court and Family of Napoleon
'iltonaparte, by one of the Ladies of the Empress MA-
RIA LOUISA, will be published on the. Ist August.
This is .undoubtedly the only Work in which the do-
inestic character of NAPOL LON is properly elucidated.
We are requested to gate, that the third or con-
cluding voltime, in quarto, of the Memoirs (if the Life
and Writings of Dedaniin Fraadin, is now ready
delivery; and the purchasers of the former volumes
are advised to .0.-der their respective booksellers to
I complete their sets as soon as possible, •
Mr. French, of Bermondsey, going from the Bo-
rough to Peckham, on Thursday ni2,bt, about nine
o'clock, was met by two men, who presented pistols,
and robbed hire of 1:7 and some silver. • •

Yesterday niorning, a lad, in the ea:ploy Qf Mr.
Dennetti-grocer, in the Broadway, being in a state
of perspiration, drank cold water he fee•teg hi eigrh
unw ell, wen: 0 bed, and in it short time after mpired.

NAT' 4L INTELLICEINCE.

PORTSMOUTH. JULY In.
Wind W.S.W.—Came into harbour his Mal .y
ships BRAZEN and RI,LIMAN. The Lord C
'reagh, Youmomossaste, passed by, from Bens ii
Eondonl sailed the 22d February: left the Cap: :Le
9th May, and &. He'col the Bth June. The E
MA nom, sailed on the 9th, and the Norfolk, Errs. Ag,
on the 1I th May, from the Cape fur Bengal,
'Golden Grove, ...—..., for Bngland, was to sail frii2
the Cape about the 12th June. The Kingston, B.
Low, arrived at Symonds Bay the Bth 3fay, fr
Bengal: left at St. Helena the Backworth, Phei;
and Mangles, from England. The Anna, new-,
sox, and Defence, .—., had sailed for England: s? 3,
a ship, supposed to be the Union, from Englanda
the entrance of Sanger Roads.

FALMOUTH, JULY s".
Wind from W. to W. N. W.—Arrived last ni%
off this port the shi? Competitor of Whitby, in
days from Jamaica, all well.

DEAL, JULY 31.
Win I S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River to
Mint, Da ,•SDALE, from Jamaica ; the General Kidl,
NAIRN e, from China; the Lord Castlereagh, Your),
HUSRAND, from Bengal ; Neptune, Bet w, from M.
Weltburger, MEtsa, from Bremen, for Il*
Janeiro--the latter rettains.—Came down frojs tlx
River, and remain, the Perseverance, Messev, fcr
-241ev‘folandland ; the Lord Mulgrave, TINIXALA for
thiebec; Newbery Port, Goonftsce, for Baltimme;
Opbelia, PROCTOR, for Gibraltar.--Alto aitived
sad of Spanish transports from the Baltic, which via
veyed the ollisers and crews of the Russian mend
war from Cadiz to Gluckstadt.
WHITBY, JULY 3n.
Wind W.—Arrived the Aimwell. BAXTER, from
Greenland, with 10 fish, and brings the following as of the success of the Whitby ships, vis...-wli.
ham and Ann, 8 fish ; Esk, July 4, 11 ; Voliirt-
teer, June 23, five fish; Lively, June ii. two El;
Valiant, June 11, four fish ; Mars, Jumli, nconsh;
Phccnix, June 12, three fide; Fame, June styes
fish ; Resolution, June 29, 19 fish—Left the kete
6th of July.

GREENOCK, JULY se.
Arrived last night, the Hope, BANNEkfrorn Que.
bec ; sailed thence the 90th ult. On the 10th initzt,
in lat. s'i. 18. N. lung. 27. W. spoke the brig Viula,
—, from Liverpool to Newfoundland, 'all well.

LIVERPOOL, JCLY 29.
The Kitty, CourNs, for Cork, received cons:dera.
hie damage at Norfolk 231 ult. and must discharge
to repair. The Aristides, CAttratt, sailed from Liver.
pool for Boston 17th inst. and has put back leaky.
The Sally, CLACXSON, from Wilmington for Dye.
pool, has arrived at Newport, leaky, foremast sprat,
and having thrown her
.4eck load overboard.

Thursday, die Eagle cutter, Lieutenar.t Pucsos,
captured the Aurora smuggling-vessel, belonging to
RozheAer, laden with dry goods to the amt.= at
ElO,OOO.

Tuft BANK having unexpectedly declined to Wee
any more Sovereigns, they crf now becoming as
Sealt of access as the august personages they wpm
sent ; but G. CARROLL respectfully acquaints the
Putillc;that, however scarce they may be, he ;stilly
provided to meet his promise to those who honour
him with their commands at No. 7, Ccznhill, or Pi,
Oxford-street, to pay 2,000 Sovereigns Near Tuns
DAL, when they may be drawn, with the Two Prizes
of £30,000, kc. &c. as all the Prizes are t!uating is
this Lottery ; and in addition to the Gold, the choicest
Claret, Port, and Madeira, may be selected b? tLe
, Holders of the Prized themselves

The present Lottery, which bc•gias drawino Nest
Tuesday, contains Two 31ouey Prizes of 1:40,000;
and whenever the Schemes possess larger Prizes than
usual, then Brnu's Offices have a grexer share of pa-
tronage, as the Public are aware he generally Os
the large Capitals; for it is no doula in iiwir unvl-
lection that he sold the first f. 60,000. the C.30.01q,
the two last 140,000, nine out of the last ti.ir.eta
Money Prizes of £30,000, two Prizes t f I:10.01A) in
the last Lottery which contained Prices v: ;Ilat
amount, the last a:,000, the last .C23,0W, riro last
£5,000, &c. &c.

Sunday night a most alarming and destractive Ere
broke out at New Mills, about a milts from.lrseey,
near Oxford. It commenced about twelve ecl,pck, ard
raged with great fury for two boon and a half, is
which short space of time the wooleu.manafactcr;
of Messrs. EARLY and Co. which but a few years
since was erected and established at a very great
pease, was entirely consumed. The damage to the
owners and occupiers is estimated at 1.:19,009. 'The
owners were partly imureJ, but the occupiers I.:ve
sustained a serious loss in the machinery aud intakir
of the mills. The usual precautions had been takes
in cleanipgar.d oiling the machinery before the rcik-
men :Timed, and every thing was left at rest and
quiet. 'Mete is therefore no doubt that the cola-
gration was occasioned by some diabolical i eceadi try.
General JACKSON, the Ametican Commando: who
took Pensacola, is known among his countryrrxn,
who are rather fond of pompous titles, as the Ha ssi-
DAL of the West. Ile has run an eccentric carers,
having been formerly a lawyer promoted to tl;e Bench,
and• having turned to the military preie,i. n, ter
which, by nature and disposition, he seems v.-.ll:itted.
He is a man of the most desperate courage. groat :a-
cility of address, at times delighting to mingle wit.
the lowest classes, and to converse with ti:e:n tr. t.:ett:
own style; and at other times, and in exerts1
assuming with equal ease the manners of a pehLrl
(ientlernan. He is famous for then nba, s 4.
he has been engaged in, and an anecd.e.e is te...1.,,f
him whi.:ll taelciontly marks his c!iara, tct.
he was a Judge, a criminal on his circuit has! I
from theotlicers of justice. Judge Jar:l:sou ,r.level
the Sheriff to raise the posse -to pursue the ofStr..:-:,
and advised him to stuntucn him (dacusos)
others. The Judge a,:cordint.ly went at
the rase, and shot the offender (who re•lsw.::
his own hand. lie then returned to the ju
seat, received the. report of the resistame an.i,
death of the individual, and gave an order tr.eis
burial in due form. Teem this account of the Itaal
and temper of the 11.ANNis s of the 11e:t.
it is not unlikely that be ins% have been tempted r.'
ther to extend than to contract the boundaries et 241'
discretionary raiw4n: with which he may hare Lau
entrusted. How this may be time evil; skew,

3IURT)EBS AT GIIttNWICI4.

NIAIDSTONE ASSIZES, Amy 51.
ibothalf past seven in the morning the Court
oecl in every part, so much so, tbat when the
`4;lnd Officers of the Court entered, they could
tigi•room at the table. At eight o'clock
iiieant LENS took his place on the Bench:-..
401 being sworn,
iiriseg was placed at the Bar; .he looked
•;;T.:::2 amid and placid countenance, and did
:ror manner appear to be such a person as the
oar charged him to be. He was well-dressed,
,;k cod and waistcoat, and grey pantaloons,
?pared perfectly composed. He was arraign.
ithe charge d having, on the 7th of February.
feloniously killed and murdered George Bird
Marc Simmons, at Greenwich ; and also with
.burglariousiy entered the dwelling-house of
13irJ, at Greenwich, and felOniously stolen
several watches, a silver soup-ladle, a
ii,;e7, and several other things, the property
Bird.
OW the Clerk of. the Arraigns put to him the
que,ins,.“ Guilty. or Not Guilty r and how
r be be mcd, he answered with a firm tone,
lite,"na he would be tried. by Goo and his
After his arraignment he was removtd

bar.
rye
proceeded to the trial of Richard
C.'artwhothsras pindicted for murdering, and also.
ely killing and slaying Janes Terry, .in
;di of Teston. The prisoner was game-keeper
Barham, at Barham Court; and the affair
consequence of a dispute which took place
ones the parties on the night of the llthof July, '
',,ham Court. In this case the Coroner's Jury
and a verdict of Manslaughter, bat the
jay after Wards found a true bill for murders,
,that charge he was tried. The Jury found
!prisoner Guilty of Masskaghter.
The Court now proceeded, at about half past ten,
Mal of Hussey. A large model of Mr. Bird's
if-,te, and of the premises adjacent, were laid on
table.
lb. Bet lINS, on the part of the prosecution, open-
Irk case charged in the indictment.
tic.:Serjeant Oust ow addressed the Court. He
/ thought it necessary to suggest, that, as this
4itst had been much discussed in public, the Jury
a to lay out of their minds every thing they had
id. This was the wish of Mr. Bird, who desired
aJ prejudice might be removed from their.
and that they should investigate the murder
jam with, the greatest impartiality. There
iso direct evidence to prove that the prisoner had.
sully committed the muider ; but there were cir,
murices which would appear to be as strong as
evidence. The Learned Serjeant now pro-
cal to detail the facts of the case, and direct the
mien of the Jury to the models that were placed
cce:r, table, Mr. Bird was a very. old Gentleman,
riedfrom business, kept one servant, and lived in
amy lonely manner; the prisoner lodged at a hones
orposim to that in which Mr. Bird lived, called the'
Tiprs Ilead., Mr. Bird was a man of very regular
habits, his custom was to have his slippers brought
to Lira at nine o'clock, then to sup, and shortly after
te go lola When persons entered the house on
tan &elm, they found the supper things ready to
be la.d retie table, and the old Gentleman's slip-
pers lying then; so that the time of the murders
most have been about nine o'clock, just before the
time when Mr. Bird nas in the habit of sitting down ,
to his supper. He nest commented on the account
which Huwcy had given of the manner in which he
got possession of the property found upon him,
aid poiated out, from the state of the premises as
eilibited in the model, how incredible his story must
have been; how impossible it must have been for a
bade to remain for a whole week undiscovered, in
a place to which many persons must have had access,
mil that st a time when Greenwich was like a fair.
Reread two letters from Hussey, in which this story
vagina, and in which Hussey said he had em-
b.r:ed for America, although he was afterwards
Lea in the heart of England. In those letters he
Lithe took up a bundle v.hich he,saw a man throw
any—that he found the things in that bundle—left
fat bundle bid in a corner for some days—afterwards
coy it away, and quitted the place lest he should
be inspected. Hussey had mentioned the places
rite he alleslged he bad been on the evening of the
emles; but it would be proved td the Jury that
le had not been at any of the plaCes. He said he
lid been at the Club of Odd Fellows. Some mein-
Gi that club would be called to prove that he
Ed :At been there. /It would al se appear that his
juin and gaiters had been gained with blood, and
Math account he gave of that circumstance was
ra true. On the Sunday he had been engaged to
cue with his brother at Peckham ; but he broke his
eillgernent, and kept lounging about Greenwich
day, to hear what the people might say about
teL murders. It would be shewn that the pm
foxd on Hussey had been recently in Mr. ;Vs
Puessiss. There was one very material cirenns
rasa in this case; the murders must have been'
committed by a hammer, and in a and near the,
Poises, a hammer tees found, which had been in
lsorkshop to which Hussey had access. The night
ef the minders w:s very foggy, the work of death
ear very short, and a very little time had been oc-
cyred in the robbery. All thesm and many other
uzienstances would be proved. Hussey, in one of'.
613terss said, that William Hazleton knew nothing
tsbont the murders ; how could he undertake to say
634 unless he hin:sull knew something of the busi-
-104? The Learned Serjcant concluded with recom-
4ndinit to the Jury to lay every kind of prejudice
te•st their mitt:ls, and attend only to the evidence.
Mr. Thomas, the first witness, said he lived next
am to the line Mi. Bird, in London-street, Green-''
%:t3. Mr. Bird was about 83 years of age, latterly
caly ;she servant, ?lary Simmons, aged about 50.
Oa Sunday the Sth of February, about 23 minutes
lefore one at n run, the brother of Mr. Bird came'
add gave him sonre information of his being alarmed,
desin2d him to go to the back part of the pre-
mises; !to did so, and they found all the places fast—
!lta ; t's.cy than ce;deavoured to pick the loch of the
usat &or, but could not, as the key was on the in-
s`'; they then broke open another door near the
of Mr. Bird's house, and they went through a
IY-:-.;;;( to the back of the house, they found the

door fait, chef 'raised the s :slt of the kitchen .Indow
and broke open the shale s, and got into the kitchen.
Witness went into a passage leading to the hall t he
opened the hack door to let in sonic light; he then
saw the body of Mary Simmons lying in the passage,
with her head towards the stairs, and her feet to-'
wards the street doors He stepped over the body,
opened the hall window, and saw Mr. B!rd in the
parlour lying dead on his back. He saw a vast
'quantity of blood in the hail near the centre of the
body of Mary Simmons, and some appeatod to have
been.removed by drawing the body ; her hand was
cut, and her ear slit in two ; a part of the bannisters
was broken. A candle was lying there, but not much
of it was bu-nt. There was a candle and candlestick
near Mr. Bird's knee ; the candle was broken, and
between his body and left arm lay his spectacles; a
purse and a lottery ticket were lying on the table;
there was no watch in his fob ; his pockets were un-
buttoned and nothing in them. After the witness
went up stairs, in a little room over the parlour, he
observed a large tin box with a padlock on it, and,
some papers loose &',out the floor. Some of the
drawers of the bureau were opened. Witness went
into Mr. Bird's bed-room, where there was a double
chest of drawers, and every drawer half open, will
the things in them tossed about. On the bed there
were two or three keys, and some marks of blood.—
The bed was made and turned down, ready for
sleeping. On opening the front door of the house,
there was a chain, which did not appear to be hang-
ing on. The lock was a spring-lock, and it was only
on the spring, as a person would leave it on going
out. In the kitchen there was the servant's needle
work, and the table-cloth folded in one corner, as if
it were going to be used for supper ; there was a
pair of slippers on the fender ; there were a t'ew
roasted potatoes, and the tea-kettle was full of water.
Some plate had been taken out of one of the drawers
in the, bureau.
Cross-examined by Mr. NOLAN.—He knew the
hour was near one, because the people were return-
ing from church. The bannists4 appeared broke, as
if the woman had laid hold of it. The wound on the
woman appeared as if inflicted by some blunt and
sharp instrument. Most of the places/in the house
appeared to have been examined.
Richard Smith, Esq. one of the MagiAr!ses resid-
ing at Greenwich, was examined by the Costums
'Szeszasr. He said it was about one o'clock when
information was given him of the affair in question,
and be went immediately to the house. When he
went ii\to the passage, he observed Mary Simmons
lying on the floor ; there was a great deal of blood
spread about the floor, as if the body bad been re-
moved ; the body, where it first lay, would have
• been in the way of a person getting to the front door.
He saw the bannister broken; a candle, of which
very little had been buret, lay on the floor between
the body and the window ; he went into a small par-
lour, and saw Mr. Bird lying dead ; this was a par-
lour which he was accustomed to sit in; his feat
were near the door, and his head towards the fire-
place ; there was a little table upset behind the door;
on another table he saw a pocket-book, Mr. Bird's
pockets had been opened. He observed, on the lintel
of the door, a mark as if caused by the blow of a
hammer, and there was a stain of blood on the mad:.
On the body of the woman he saw several wounds ;
those of the man and the woman appeared to ,have
been inflicted with the same instrument, some of
them with a hammerhead, and others with the sharp
part of a hammer. Long after the prisoner was com-
mitted he saw the hammer which was found, and it
must have been by such an instrument that the
',wounds were inflicted. There was a wound on each
of Mr. Bird's eyes, and a fracture on the ba k of the
skull; one of his eyes was beaten in. Mr. Bird had
a bureau in his fruit room up stairs, and if he were
at any time sitting the: e, a person at the Tiger's
Head might see him ; there was a portable table
with a cleik on i:; many papers were scattered on the
flap of this table, and on the floor; they appeared as
if they had been looked at in a great hurry. Witness
saw a small se:ret drawer in the bureau opened, in
it were found £3l in notes, and this drawer hal not
been meddled with-by the robber. In another room
witness saw some drawers open, there was some plate
there which appeared to have escaped the notice of
the person who opened the drawers ; the things in
the drawers appeared to have been tumbled in a
great hurry. Witness went up to two rooms on the
attic story, and there every thing appeared to be
tumbled about. Nothing appeared to have been dis-
turbed in the back parlour, there was some cake on
the sideboard, and some wine in a glass, but rothing
appeared disturbed. In the kitchen he saw the wo-
man's work, a man's slippers, and a table-cloth. On
the 13th of March, two watches were delivered to
him.—(Here witness produced the watches.)—They
were delivered to him by a man named Godwin, to-
gether with a piece of broken buckle. lie was pre-
sent as a Magistrate when the prisoner was under
examination, when the Clerk took down his 'deposi-
tion, which he afterwardi declined to sign, without
giving any reason.
Cross-examined by Mr. Asouturrs—The breaking i
of the bannister could. not have been caused by a:
person in an erect position ; about a dozen drawers,
altogether must have been inspected ; it took witness
about an hour to examine the different places. Wit-
ness could see Mr. Bird's premises from the top room
and the street door of the Tiger's Head.
Frederick Finch, a surgeon at Greenwich, era-.
mined by Mr. BEARNS—About one o'clock on the
Sunday he went and saw the body of Mr. Bird, who
appeared to have been slaughtered in a most shock-
ing manner; there were two deep indentions, about
the site of a penny-piece, on each side of the fore-
head, and a long fracture on the back of the head,
appearing to have been caused by several blows re-
peated ; from one wound a portion of the brain ap-:
peared to have escaped ; he was of opinion that it
had been done with a hammer which had a sharp
cutting edge and smooth face. He found on the
head of Mary Simmons the nook of a blow on the
os frontis, which alone would have caused death ;
she had besides seven or nine wounds, all appearing
to have been inflicted with the same instrument; they
appeared as if caused by the cutting edge of the
hammer. He since saw a hammer, and one of that
description was exactly the one which would have in-
flicted the wounds ; there was one wound in parti-
cular, which seemed exactly to corres?ond with the
cutting edge of the hammer ha saw.- The jugular
vein had been wounded, and causal a /onsitiug.

—Cross-examined by Mr. Notath—Witnees did. not
,think that ar.y instrument, but some species nfliam-
,nrdr could have inflicted the wound.
Mrs. Kesiah 801 l examined by the Comsroe S ER.•
TEA NT.--Witnes,lives at Greenwich, aad is a washer-
woman. She used frequently to go to char.?. and
wash at Mr. Bird's ; his wife died two years and four
months before the murder; nine o'clock was his
usual hour of supping; sometimes he sapped on po-
tatoes; ten o'clock was his general hour of goiag to
bed; he usod to pull off his shoes after supper, :nal
his slippers were left for him after tire supper-cloth
was removed. Witness had been washiag there on
the 'Monday before the murder ; she washed cill-
- shirts ; after the murder she saw two shirts and
a handkerchief produced by the constable; she was
sure she had washed those two shirts on the Monday,'
and the handkerchief she saw resembled that of Mr.
Bird's. They kept cake and wine in the house.
Cross-examined by Mr. NoLAN—When Mr. Bird
bad company, he sometimes sat up later than ten.
Mr. Thomas was again called, and in answer to
several questions put by Mr. NOLAN, he said there
was a fire in the kitchen nearly burnt ,ous, and not
quite extinguished. lie was surprised at seeing the
fire still burning; but he could not judge how long
before that time fresh coals had been put on. The
impression on his mind at the moment was, that some
one was in the house.
• Mr. Smith here observed, that it could hardly be
called a fire ; fof the middle part was burned hol-
low, and might have been the remnant of a fresh fire
laid on the night before.
Mrs. Hannah Cooper lived on the Woolwich-road,
about half a mile from Mr. Bird's house; on the Sa-
turday evening iu question, which was very foggy,
she left her home at eight -o'clock, and in about 20
Minutes -after passed by Mr. Bird's house; she saw
the door open, and a man was outside the door, talk-
ing to a woman who was inside with a candle in her
hand, and whom she supposed to be Mr. Bird's
housekeeper—the saw Mr. Bird at the same time
coming from the hall towards the door. She after-
wards passed the door about a quarter before ten,
and the house was shut op. She made no observa-
tion on the person of the man; his back was towards
her, and his clothes-appeared dark. . •
John Letton lived at a house callecLthe Greenwich
Academy ;he and-his wife occupied two floors of the
house; he is a cooper by trade; at the time in que;-
tion was employed as a patrole, and was accustomed
to go out at eight o'clock. He knew the prisoner,
who left a Lox at his house when he quitted his place;
there were two staircases in the house. lie and bis
family generally went up the larger staircase: there
was a smaller staircase, through which a person
might pass into the room where Hussey's box was
deposited, without being discovered by his family.
Hussey often came backwards and forwards to his
house. Witness was not in the habit of locking his
doors when he went out at night as a parole. There
were two privies to the house, which adjoined -Mr.
Smith's. premises. Near one privy there was a place
where his and other children used to play; in that
place he never recollected to have seen any matting
_or rubbish; there was nothing on the day of the mur-
der which could have concealed a bundle. There
was a dark cellar close by, where a person could'con-
ceal any thing; the door of it was always open; near
this place there was a cistern, with water always in
it ; this was near the staircase leading to the room
where Hussey's box was; there was always a pump
in the kitchen, which was not used by any one. A
person might go there without meeting any part of
his family. He kept his cooper's tools in the lower
part of the house, near to the kitchen that was not
used. Before Mr. Bird's murder, he had a coopsra
hammer in this place; before the murder he had
missed the hammer; he left it there about four in the
afternoon, and missed it next day; it was about ten
days or a fortnight before the murder was commit-
ted ; he inquired for the hammer, but could not find
it; it was a pail-rivetting hammer; he saw this ham-
mer since in the possession of Mr. Bicknell's Clerk ;
before this he had described it to the Magistrate ;
when he saw the hammer since he knew it to be his.
This prisoner used to come frequently to his box; the
witness once saw the box open and there was hardly
any thing in it ; when Hussey first brought it, it was
secured by a packthread; witness took the box away,
and then it was secured by a stronger cord ; he took
the !sax to a Mrs. Goddard's, in Deptford, and left it
there; this was about ten days after the murder; the
box then appeared to be a great deal heasier than
when it first came to his place. Ile knew the priso-
ner when he lived with Mr. Stephenson in Vansittart
Terrace as a servant ; the prisoner used to wash his
master's gig near the pond where the hammer was
found, from which pond he used to get the water.
The lane which ran by his house communicates with
Mr. Smith's grounds, and the pond was ie these
grounds. Witness heard of the murder on the San.
day afternoon; he saw Hussey the same afternoon;
'he came to his house about half-past three that day ;
a relation of his was with Hussey ; he stayed until,
about ten minutes after five, and then went away,
saying he was going to his brother's, at Peckham ;
he said he had promised his heather to dine with him
that day, but had dined athis washerwoman's; when
he came that day, witness observed to him, that he
was quite groggy, and he replied, that he had been
at the Tigers Head the night before, where he had
'been drinking ; he said he had been drinking in the
morning at the Ship and Last ; that he dined with his
washerwoman, and could not do less than give hat
something to drink. After this conversation, he left)
the room for about ten minutes, then returned, askedi
for something to drink, and sent for some porter.,
Witness saw a pair of gaiters produced before the
Magistrate ; he thought they were the gaiters of the
prisoner. Some time after the murder, Hussey and
Hazleton came together, and he was putting on a
pair of gaiters, which he said he had bought of an
hostler at the Prince of Orange for four shillings.—
On cross-examination, witness said he had known the
prisoner some time, and had a very good opinion of
his character. Witness never took much notice of
the place ivhete the matting and rubbish was said to
have been laid ; there might have been some there
without his noticing it. The place where he kept his
tools we; not locked; his children might have ac-
cess to it. •
•Maria Leann, wife of the last witness, saw Hus-
sey', box when it first came ; there wee- only a few
clothes in its After the murder about a week,llus:
ey requested she would deals 'her husband to take

the hot to. Mrs. Collard's ; in the place near the
.privy there was not :ere matting, or rubbish sutfi-
dent to conceal a bundle. About half-east three on
the day the murder was discovered, Hus.ey called on
he. Tiley made every possible search for the Iliani-
nv-r, and could not find it. Sho had not heard of the
murder when Hus-ey called, and not until she went
out or get some poi ter ; there was a great crowd thee
about, and the people could have seen the cc.r.er
where the rubbish was said to have beea laid.
Letton, nephew of the last witness, recol-
lected the Sunday of the murder; he went to los
uncle's house ; wheu he knocked at the door, Hussey
carne round from the side, :led they went in Loge.
tiler; as witness stood at the door, Hussey came on
the left side ; it was about half past three &cheek ;
witness did not stay long at hi; nocle's.
Jane Goddard, the next witness, appeared greatly
affected, and was allowed a seat; she said she lived
at Deptford, and was telated to the prisoner bf mare
riage ; she recollected a box having been brought to
her house on the Monday after the kith of Februdey,
it stool in the shop three weeks or a month before is
was opened ; the box was opened by her husband;
the first things she took hold of, were a silver ladle
and some sheets, but did not know how many; sage
some old clothes in the trunk ; the things were again
put in.o the trunk, which was again corded up.—
About two or three hours after it was opened again,
she believed in the presence of Hodges, the constable.
The day after the box was brought, Hussey came
and Opened it. She thought she should again know
the articles that were in it.
James Goddard, husband to the last witness, spoke
to• the box having been brought to his house, and
placed behind the counter, standing on-the end. Ile
opened it, and found in it a large bundle, containing
some sheets, a silver ladle, a pair of dank
panta-
loons, a wine-strainer, a waistcoat with sleeves, suet
as -is worn by gentlemen's servants. ki. S. B. were
marked on the sheets. He afterwards corded up the
trunk, and sent it to the pri,oner's brother at Petit-
ham. He had no instruction not to let aey one go to
the box; it had lain three weeks before :hey ere...
mined it. When Ilussey came, he did not say aoy
thing about it.
Thomas Hussey, brother to the prisoner, said he
lived at Peckham, and is a hair-dresser. His hi-O-
ther came to his house on the Sunday of the murder,
at about five o'clock. He was to have dined with him
that day at one o'clock. He staid all eight with wit-
ness. Ile was dressed in a black coat and waistcoat.
The next morning he saw some bicker' pieces of
buckle fall out of the prisoner's pocket. He did noe
say how he came by them. He asked witness if he
had heard anything of the horrid murder at Green-
wich? Witness said he had not. Prisoner then told
him that an old gentleman and his housekeeper heti
been murdered, just opposite where he lodged. The
reason he gave for not coming to dinner was that of
the murder ; and that Greenwich was liice4,l47r.
His brother had received a legacy of LOU, the Wed-
nesday after the murder.
Thomas Smith, constable, cf Greenwich, had re.
ceived some pieces of silver buck.es from Thomas
Hussey ; he afterwards spewed them to the prisoner,
who said they were some of the things that had been
in the bundle which he found ; and, at the same time,
he remarked that they had been in the tire.
Mr. Smith, the Magistrate, said, that Thomas Hus-
sey had, on the I Oth of March, loought him si:paiiv
of bmkies, which he said be had found in his too-
ther's box.
mix. Godwin, sister to the prisoner (wiles seemed
greatly affected) said she lived at Peckham ; there
was a box belonging to her brother at her house ; it
was about the end of February %%hen she fist saw it
the prisoner had access to the box; she believed he
came only twice ; the first time was three weeks after
the murder. She opened the tux, and found in it'
two watches, which her husband and her brother
Thotrets took. Siee saw a watch caper, on wlsieh
was the name of Bird.
Mr. George Bird, the son of the deceased, iden-
tified the tortoiseshell watch which had been foiled
upon Hussey. He said the watch was his mother's„
and after her decease it used to be hung up. ' Ire
father also constantly wore a metal watch, •whie
had been found in Hussey's Sex.
Thomas Larkin, a Constable of Greenwich, fcnid
at the house of Mts. Goddard a trunk, which- was
now produced in Court. •It was fastened by cords •
he found in it two shirts, two sheets, a soup Ladle,
ilvcr wine strainer, a pair of gaiters, and a pea
sinners ticket, with c name of Charlet Hossey upc:
it. titre the witness produced the articles found
the box. horn these it appeared that Hussey hai
been a merine. Witness was. at the house where dr
murders had been committed abont twenty minute
after one. The trunk was delivered to the seinen
on the. 14th of Aiarch ; the gaiters then appeared
have marks of blood, and marks of vomiting up
both gaiters.
Mrs. Letton being again called, said, the gaiters
Court were of the same colour with those which e
longed to the prisoner ; and be had sewed a stl:
which sewing was like that on the present gai..er ;
was only amending, and not an original sewing.
Mr. Letton was again called, he could net pee
Lively say that they were the same gaiters that le
longed to the prisoner ; they were like them in color
• Kesiah Bell being again called, shewn the ;ea
found iu Hussey's. box, and she positively swore f.
it belonged to .Mr. George Bird.' It had on ice
marks (s. S. B. Mrs. Bird's name was Sarah.. to
were the marks of Mr. Bird's sheets.
The articles of silver, the shirts, and sheets v.-1
then proved to be the proper,/ of the deceased,
also the notes found in the box left by the ;nix,
at Peckham.
• Richard Hodges, the Constable, deposed to
other articles contained in the box deposited at Gi
dard's, which had remained in his possession c'
since. The wine strainer and, the soup ladle Mr. Bi
(the sun of the deceased) could not identify, but I
said that such articko had been missing ever situ
the murder, that such articles were in the posses*
of his father before the murder, and resembled the
he hid seen in his father's house during his life.
Bank Notes were identified tb be indorsed by
&titer, some of theni with the letters " G. B."
" January 12," and ." July 18, Bank," with otl
marki on other notes. On every one of the notes
the signature of the deceased. The witness (Hod'
saw the hammer, found on the Ist inet..io the p
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