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London, England, 1826-03-20 00:00:00

trrived,end after several ineifecttial attempts the room
from which the fire issued was entered and the fire finally
extinguished by the room being deluged with water from
an engine pipe introduced through the window. The pri-
soner was about this time seen returning from his din-
ner: he came and rendered considerable assistance by
removing the goods and taking care of the banks and
papers. A quantity of fustian hat! been stowed in the
room where the fire commenced on (tillages, and the fire
was observed in two plat es when the room was first en-
tered. On moving some pices of fustian which appe 'red ,
to have fallen• from the stillages, the body of the' de-'
ceased was found, the hands and face scorched, and a
coasider able wound on th.t left side of the head. The
body was immediately conveyed to the Infirmary.
Mr. Charles Gressweil, house•surgeon to the Man-
chester In& mai y, examined the body of Mr. Pi ice with
several other surgeons. The head and face weir much
scorched, there was a contusion on the back of the neck
but no'external appearance, and a laceration of the scalp
on the left side about five inches long ; and on the right
several particles of bone had been driven into the sur-
face of the brain ; the wounds examined were amply
sufficient to occasion death. From the quantity of
blood described to have been found on the flour, I
should consider he must have been alive when the blows
were given: if a person had died from cifrocation, in
my opinion, there would not have been so much
blood from wounds i flitted atter death. Before
I heard the evidence, I thought Mr. nice had died
from suffocation; and on the second day, when I ex-
amined the body, from the suggestion of a friend, I got
one of the firemen's axes who had been assisting at the
fire, and compared it with the wound, and it appeared
nearly to correspond. The wound, I think, was inflicted
by an instrument with a dullish edge: a man insensible,
but not dead, might bleed from such a wound as long
as vitality existed ; the wound might have beet inflicted
with a fireman's axe.

Stephen Lavender, ea Ike xff of February, went to examine Mr.
Prica's premises, and afterwards took the prisoner late custody.
' Mary Price, workweman at Mr. Price's warehouse, proved that
'a composition of a red colour was used for marking fustians; seve-
ral pieces had been marked by the prisoner on the morning of the
3d of February.
The coat, handkerchief, and collar, were then produCed, but the
marks on the collar and neckcloth appeared very slight.
The prisoner now presented a written defence, which
was read by the officer of the Court, stating, that he
was suffering from the effects of prejudice, created in
the public mind by reports which had been circulated
against him, evidence that would have been of impor-
tance in acquitting him had been withheld, and that he
should produce abundance of testimony to prove that
Mr. Price had been seen by several persons at a very
late period of the day, and that the lower rooms of the
warehouse, which had been locked by him on gOing to
dinner, and of which he had given the key to Mr. Price,
were open long before he returned from his dinner,
when the house was open to the public attempting to
extinguish the fire; the only presumption there was,
that the murder, if any had been committed, must have
been committed after the hour that the workwoman had
left the premises with him ; and it was more than pos.
Bible that the wounds found on Mr. Price's head had
beep inflicted by the axes of the firemen in extinguish-
ing the fire.
The prisoner then tailed several witnesses, who proved seeing
Ur. Price at different periods of the day up to twenty minutes be-
tore oae o'clock, and that the warehouse was open, and in posers-
sion of the firemen, long before the prisoner had returned from his
dinner, and that the firemen had bean using their saes in the room
where the fire had commenced.

Mr. Justice /Wrier having addressed the Jury on the nature of
the evidence produced, and stated that at the outset the impression
et his mind was unfavourable to the prisoner, but had since been
removed by the evidence in his behalf, the Jury then stared, they
would not trouble his Lordship to detail the evidence, and found
ibe pi isomer Not GM ty.
The Court was occupied with this trial from eight in the morning
till ten o'elock at night.
KINGSTON, Ma atm 19.

Thomas Easton, an Attorney, WAS indicted for felo.
nionsly embezzling divers sums of money, received by
him as Clerk to Mr. Jines, 'Marshal at the King's Bench
Prison. The Jury, after a long deliberation, acquitted
Mr. Easton upon both counts.

SHREWSBURY, Muck Is.

Henry Good, a respectable looking man, about:thirty
yeah of age, was indicted for feloniously steal:ng, on
the 10th of August, 1824, at War field, in this county, a
bank post bill for the sum of 10001. the property of
Elisabeth Elcock, widow.
The Jury found the prboner Gui!tyt and Mr. Justice Pats,
after some suitable remarks on the wretchedness of the prisoner,
in robbing a defenceless widow, sentenced him to seven years'
transportation.