Star.
London, England, 1827-08-23 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE, AVM= to. •
CROWN SIDE.
Michael Ryan was indicted for violating the person
of Elizabeth Skeer, on the 9th ofJune last, at Chatham,
and Thomas O'Connell and Martin Norton for aiding
and assisting in the same felony.
Mr. LAW conducted the proscution. The prisoners
were all soldiers, stationed at Chatham ; and the prose-
cutris was a married woman, and the mother of two
children, living in the same place. Between nine add
ten in the evening, she was going to the market, at`
companied by a woman, named Hannah Goddard, and
had turned dolvn a lane for a minute, leaving her com-
panion at the top of it, when the three prisoners came
down the lane, and all laid hold of her. She entreated
to be released, sa)ing that she was a married woman.
Two of them then let her go, but the third, Ryan, main.
mined his hold. He dragged her some way further
down the lane, and then threw her down on theground.
The two other prisnarrs had followed, and were stand.
ing close by him. She cried out "Murder !" and strug.'
gled to get up; but Ryan told her " it was of no use,"l
and if she made a noise he would strangle her." After
that she was afraid to scream, or to make further
resistance.

Here the witness proceeded to state, in pretty broad
terms, facts which completely made out the commis-
sion of the offence charged against Ryan; Ryan then
left her, but held her down upon the ground until
O'Conne 1, who, with IsLot in, was standing near, Caine
up, and prnceeJed to treat her as Ryan had,eione ; she
begged him to desist, hut he refused, saying, that he,
would give her a shilling if she would be quiet ;" he
swore he would have his will of her, And was proceed
mg to acts of violence, when she screamed ont murder,‘
and an old Gentleman came up, but was immediately'
attacked with great fury by the ether prisoners, and
forced to retire. He, however, won returned with two
other persons, when the other prisoners ran away, and
O'Connell was dragged away from her by main force,
without accomplishing his purpose; she told the three
persons who came to her assistance all that had hap-
pened; two of them took O'Connell to the guard-house,
and the third Accompanied her home. The next day
the soldiers were, at her desire, all drawn out, and she
immedi tely selected the three prisoners as the persons
who had ill treated her.

This was the statement arise prosecutris. Hannah
Goddlid confirmed so much of the story as related to
herself; but added that she waited for Mrs. Skeer five
mihutrs at the end of the 14oe. and did not hear any
cute► of murder. and that when she told her ►he nest
day how she had been used, she IMrs. S.) laughed, and
said she should no; have cared about it if the men had
not dashed her dons n to the ground so violently.
John„S:telleto, slimes Fisharden, and Thos. Sparkes,
thy Cure persons who had gone to the assistance of the
pet s -cutrix, fully corroborated her statement, so far
AS it refeteed to th. m ; s!te appeated much distressed
and alarn.e.l when they rescued bur, and complained
greatly of the injury she had sustained. The fact of
the plots cut, is having pointed out the three prisoners
among all the othsr soldiers, as the persons who had in-
, ju•ed I er,ssas confirmed by two of the petty officers.
This was •übstanui ally the c •se proved in support of
the prosecuti•sn. The Learned Judge summed up the
case to the Jury, who. Ater some deliberation, found
the prismatic Not Guilty.
O'Connell was the.. teed for an assault, with intent
commt. a rape upon the same female. He was found
Guilty, and seittenc.ql to eighteen months' imprison-
ment and baud labour.

ADo 21.

ItoBURY OP TIM DOVER MAIL.

A izheingale was indicted for stealing, on the
2&h Januai y labt, at Bridge, a bag of letters kocn the
Dover rnail coach.

Mr. Set giant Oranow having stated the case to the
Jury, proceeded to call the following witnesses in sup.
por. of the statement.
(This CAW, from the extraordinary circumstantial evident* ex-
pected to be produced, and the nice question of Identity lovebird
In it, excited the most intense interest. It occupied the greater
part of the day, and did trot terminate till seven o'clock in the
evening. The Court was crowded almost to suffocation during
the whule of the trial.)
M. Etienne Bolineur (examined by means of an in.
t•rpretet). Comptroller at. the Foreign-office of the
General Post-office, at Paris—lt was my duty to make
up the Paris mails for London; I did so on Friday, the
26th of January last; there was an Italian hag ; I tied
it up, and gave it is the proper person to forward to
[undo:. ; I am not sure that I made it up in a separate
parcel ; I gave the letters to M. Avier ; he put them all
into a leathern bag, and scaled it ; he then put it into
one of the pcckets of the portmanteau of the mail ; I
saw him put it in; then it was chained, and put into
the Calais mail coach.

M. Constat.t .%vier—On the •26th of January I was
employed in the Foreign Post-office, at Paris; it was
my duty to tie and seal the mail-bags; I do not know
that there was an Italian bag made up that night; I
took all the bags to the Director of the Calais mail
coach; they were all in one leathern bag ; I don't know
that the Italian bag was in it.
M. Gustave d'Ortelle—l was Postmaster in Cal ,is in
last January ; I received the mail portmanteau from
Paris, on the morning of the 28th; I opened it, and
put in the Calais letters; made it safe again, and gave
it to the Captain of the packrt Henri Quatre, to go to
D.,ver ; I s.w it safe on board myself.
CNA *Margot—l was Captain of the Henri Quatre
pa:ket on the '..8:11 of January; I received the mail for
London that morning; I at rived at Dover; I gave the
p rtmanteau to a sailor to catry to the Post-office, ac-
companied by a revenue offiset. Thomas Dupont was
the man who took it.

Thomas Dupont (examined in Engli,h)—l was mail-
man to 'he Henri Q 'Atte p cket on the YBth Janaary.
I carried the French mail big to Sir Thomas Mantel',
at the Pus -office at Dover. Sir 'l'. Mantell was there,
and Yuilip Riley and a man named Nash went with
me. 1 pened the bag by Riley's older. He took out
the Direr bag, and faitened the bag up again; nothing
else sea, taken out.

Here the mail-bag was produced; hut Mr.Bonneur was
unable positively to identify it as the bag into which he
put the Italian bag on the day in question. He proved.
however, that it was sealed when it left Paris ; mad the
Postm iskr at Calais proved that the seal was unbroken
when the bag arrived there.
Mr. AD )Lrto us objected,that thrie was not sufficient
evidence or the Italian letters having ever been for-
warded from the Post-office at Paric.

The Learned JUDOIL thought there was evidence to
go to the Jury, and therefore refused to stop the case.
John Nash, a Custom-house Officer at Dover, accom-
eamed the maul with D•rpoot from the packet to the

Post-office at Dover. I saw the bag there; It was per
feet then. I saw it opened there, and the Dover bag
taken-out.' - I left the bag there with Mantel! and Riley.
Philip Riley.—l received the bag from Dupont and
Nash at the Dover post-office ; I opened it, and took nut
the Calais bag for Dover I staid in the r ffize till four
o'clock, and returned at about six; I found the door
locked when I returned; thee I took-the bag to the
London m.. 11 coach ; I gave it to Williams, the guard,
and saw it put on the roof of the coach.
Sir Thomas Manrell remembered the arrival of the
mail on the day in question; he saw it orened and se-
cured again ; nothing was taken out but the lettet a for
Dover; after that, it was never distuibed till it was
taken to the London mail-coach.

Mr. Fearne kept the key cf Sir T. Mantell's office ;
saw the mail 134 g in the office : left it locked up while
he was alssent.

W. Williams, the guard, received the bag from Riley,
and put it on the top of the coach ; it was matte fast
there with straps to an iron ; we 1 ft Dover at eight
o'clock in the evening; there was a lamp fixed to the
bag, and a chain across it ; we had three outside passen-
gers, one sat on the box, and two on the roof just be.
hind the coachman ; we stopped betarten Doerr and
Canterbury to change horses; I got down, but did nut
go into the house; I was down three or four minutes ;
I altered one of the lamps, and belped to change the
horses; at Canterbury I got rlf at the Post-office, and
the coach left me Oct e,and wet t on to the Fountain-inn;
I got back to the coach in about a quarter of an hour;
it was then at the coach•office; there were three outside
passengers when we left Canter bur y ; I can't say whether
they were the same three that came from Dover or riot ;
when we got to Lombard street, the bag was taken off
by Badcock and K•rby, and carried into the office; I
saw nothing the matter with it then.
Charles B.sdcock removed the bag from the Dover
mail-coach, and carried it into the office, at Lombard-
street. I lett it in a room there. I was backwards and
forwards for a quaver of an hour. Then I took it into
the Foreign•ofbce, and I left it there. I believe it was in
the same state then is when I first received it.

John Kirby saw the bag taken up by Badcoek. and
put it into the Foreign race. Believed it remaiueJ in
the same state as when it arrived.

James Cowie received the bag from Badcock, and
opened it. A letter•bill came with it. I found the bag
had been cut open in two places, and informed the
President. We both searched the bag, and Lund that
all the interior bags were cut. Many of the letters were
cut into pieces. The hill contained an item of the Ita-
lian letters.but there were no Italian letters in the bag.
Mr. Walton, the President of the Foreign Office, con-
firmed thejgatement of the last witnese.

Josiah Mayer, bookkeeper to Mr. Wright, the coach-
master at Dover.—On the 28th of January I booked
six passengers for the mail to London, four in, and two
out; one ouOde was booked for Chatham, and the other
for London; the former was dre•sed in black ; I ob-
served him ; I had seen him before; I believe the pri-
soner is that man; I am sure of it; he gave no name
when he took his place.
John Haywood, coachman, drove the mail from
Dover to Canterbury ; there were lour in, and three
out; two of them sat on the roof behind me; one of
them went to Chatham ; he never got oil' the coach at
Canterbury; the other two got down at Canterbury ;
the one that went on to Chatham was the one that was
booked for Chatham; I don't know who he was.

John Minter, proprietor of the mail, living at Canter•
bury, saw the mail coming in on the 28th ; I saw two
men walk from the coach ; they stopped and conversed
sometime; then they walked out, and a third person
joined them, and they milked all three down the street
together towards London ; the mail went by them ; then
one separated from the other two, and they walked
away the other way; I believe the prisoner to be one
of those three men ;I don't mean to swear to him.
Thomas Wilkes, coachman, drove the mail from
Canterbury to Rochester on the night in question. I
saw the mail arrive at Canterburp There were three
outside passengers. The two on the roof got down. 1
have an opinion the prisoner is one of the two that got
down. I can't swear to him.

John Colley, waiter at the Rose. Cinterbnry.—Re-
members the mail passing on the 28th of January; soon
after two men came to the house; they asked for a
chaise on towards London ; they came in and ordered two
glasses of brandy and water; one had a bag ; some tame
after,. I went into the room to announce the chaise ;
Law Irom twenty to thirty letters on the table, and two
or three packages; the men were feeling the letters, and
holding them up to the candle ; one said " damnation,"
and then they both put the letters into their pockets ;
the bag was lying on a table behind them; I put my
hand on it; it seemed to be full of papers; they paid
their bill, and went away in the chaise they had ordered;
the prislner was one of the two men; I took particular
notice of him.

Alice Newington, chambermaid at the Rose, remetn•
bered the two men coming on the eve tins in question ;
the prisoner was One of them.

John Clements, master of the Rose. at Canterbury,
saw the two men that came on the night in question;
had good opportunity of teeing ihem ; the prisoner very
strongly resembles one • f them, but my eye-sight is
impelect ;l Can't su ear to him.

George Starr, lancll ird of the Lion Inn, at o;pring.
—On the 28th oft/A(111v y, at night, two men came to
my house in a chaise; they went on post to Chatham ;
I saw tl.em perfectly ; I believe the pt ironer was one
of them.

James Bassage, waiter at the Swan Inn, at Chatham.
—On the 29th of January, at two in the morning, two
men came to my house is a chaise; they staid half an
hour, and then went on post to Dartford; the prisoner
was one of them.

.f.ihn Bailey, a schoolmaster, was at the Swan on the
night in questi.m, and saw the two men come in; was
in the same room with them half an hour, and obsery
ed them well ; they were much muffled up, and appear.
ed m) sterinus ; they were unwilling to talk; a friend of
mine, Mr. Penn, was present.
:John Penn confirmed the list witness, and believed
the prisoner to be one of the men he then s iw.
W. Woods, post-toy.—On the 29th of „Isnu4ry drove
two men from Chatham to Dartford; did not observe
their persons.

W. Lodge, post-boy.—On th4morning of the 29th of
January drove two m-n from Dartford to London ;
they got out at the corner of Surreysquarr, in the Kent-
ro sd ; did not observe their faces.

George Rutheen apprehended the prisoner oo the
14th of March, at Holloway, near LlnJon.
The prisoner, in his defence, put in a written paper,
string that he was innocent, and that he .should be able

r to prove by twiny Witnesses that We was 200 milts horn
Dover at the petiod when the robbery was committed.
The follow ing witnesses were then called
Benjamin Booth, landlord of the Ge 'rge Inn, at Glass
tonbory—Knows prisoner well; was at my house on
the Mb of January; !eft on the 22.1; appointed to re.
torn on the 25th, and diJ so; M. Baker was there that
day. and saw the prisoner; the prisoner bought a horse
~f Biker; slept th-re Oat night and the next; on the
•27th he went by the Exeter coach to Tiverton ; that is,
away from London; I saw h m again on the 50th; he
went away again the same day; he had a friend with'
him all the time; I never saw him before.
Thomas Baker, an iiikeeiter at Somerton. confirmed
the last witness, And swore positively to basing seen the
prisoner at GI istonbury on the 25th of January.
Samuel Ellis, waiter at the Twee Tuns, at Tiverton,
taw the prisoner there on the evening of the 27th ~f
Janual7; he slept there that night and the next, and
went away 011 the 29th ; I booked his place by the
Bath coach.

Julia Palpenon, chambermaid at the same inn, de-
posed to the same facts.
Jane Barlett, bar•ntaid at the same inn, confirmed
the last two witnes.es, but would nut swear positively'
to the pri.onei per son.

The Learned lupus here interposed, and inquired of
the Counsel for the prosecution whether they desired to
press the case fortker? It appeared to him that there
was too much doubt of the prisoner's identity to call
upon the Jury to find a verdict of guilty.
Several of the Jury expressed themselves satisfied
that the witnesses for the prosecution were mi taken,
and that the prisoner was not one of the persons who
had committed the robbery.

The Counsel for the prosecution immediately ac-
quiesced in this suggestion, and a verdict of Not Gaiky
was taken, without further inquiry.

BRIDGEWATER. Assort 21.
Owns Stos-tßrfore Chid Justice Ben►

Robert (Conning was arraigned for stealing a gelding.
value 101. the property of wtlham Bartlett, a farmer
living at a village near Taunton, in this county, on the
19th of April, in the present year. On the prisoner being
called upon to plead to the indictment,
Mr. Sergeant Bu►trus, with whom was Mr. JIMMY.
cotitendeJ this as the prisoner had be•n already ttivi
during the present Circuit at the Dorchester Assize, and
there acquitted, he had a right legally to plead to the
present indictment, ant; efois acquit.

The Curly JUSTICE said, that he could not admit any
such plea.—lt was true that the prisoner had beets tried
and acquitted at Doeche.ter ; but that had been because
the continuation of the possession of the horse had not
been traced into Dorsetshire. It it had been so traced
into any county, a man could be tried in that county
for the offence; for the crossing the boundary of one
county into the other was, in the eye of the law, a te-
newal of the tobbery. This being the case, it could not
be said that the prisoner was now called upon to plead
to the same indictment of uhich he had been formerly
acquitted, and that was the very gi.t of artrefuis acquit ;
for it would be absurd to contend thst, because ;here
was some flaw in an indictment, th,t fls.v c,.uld nut be
corrected, and the prisoner tried ova again. To plead
autreflois acquit, it must be dieters that the previous in-
dictment was good as far as its drawing up went, but
not sufficient to carry through the justice of tt-.e case.
The prisoner then pleaded not euilty to the present
indictment, and was subsequently put to the bar to take
his trial.

The trial occupied a long time, and a great number
of witnesses were examined both for anJ against the
prisoner. The case seemed very doubt! ul, of winch the
Jury gave him the advantage—Acquitted.
William Kearsley, with several aliases to his name,
was indicted for a burglary in the house of Vincent
Stuckey, Esq. the banker, of Bristol, and stealing there.
from upwards of 2001. worth 11 plate, and sundry other
articles, as specified in the indictment.

From the evidence of Henry Parry, the butler of
Mr. Stuckey, it appeared that on the night of the 22d
of July, his master's house at Langport was locked up
quite safe, but that the neat morning, atv of five o'clock,
he was alarmed by a fellow servant, and on getting up,
discovered that the house had been broken into, sod
robbed of a con,iderable quantity of plate. Amongst
other things the mustard spoon, ont of the niustatd pot,
had been taken.

To connect the prisoner with the robbery, a' man
was examined, who saw him at a publ,c-house, near
Mr. Stuckey's, at half past 12 of the night the rob-
bery—an innkeeper, who deposed that the morning
after the robbery the prisoner had acacial pints of beer
at his house, and paid for them in hallp,nce, until the
robbery at Mr. Stuckey's was mentioned, and then he
offered a sixpence to be changed for the next pint.
From Mr. Stu, key's testimony it appeared, that. among
other things a charity box, of which he had'the keep-
ing, and in which there were nearly 20s. worth of half-
pence, had been stolen. And, finally, the landlord of
Street Inn deposed that the prisoner c.tled at his house,
and treated-all the people in the tap-room with beer;
this circumstance, aid that of his having a heavy trunk
with him, excited the landlord's suspicion, especially
as he soon afterwards heard of the robbery at Ms.
Stuckey's. Determined to pursue the prisoner. he took
horse, and riding on the liiistol road, came up with
him, within about half a mile of Bristol, where I.e was
disoting with the driver of a cart. who had given
him a lift, whether or not he should give him a shilling
for the carriage of air box. The landlord %% %%
seeing what was in the box, and on 'lamination it was
found to contain a'sout 1001. worth of the plate which
had been stolen. The test of the plate was discos ezed
hidden in a field, not far from Mr. Stuckey'. house.
The Jury, alter a minute's deliberation, returned a
verdict of 6uiliy, the prisoner having offered no de-
fence, nor called any witnesses.
The CHUM Jusrica then directed the usual procla-
mation to be made previous to his passing sentei.ce f
death, and then addressed the prisoner thus:—" Vs il.
Liam Kearsley, you having bees convicted by a Jury,
who, during this Assize, have given abundant pouf of
the discretion with which they discharge their duty, I
am now called upon to discharge mine."
At this m iment the prisoner dropped down in the
deck altogether on the instant, without uttering any
sound, or giving any previous intimation how deeply
he was affected by the awful sentence that was being
pronounced against him. The Judge paused in his duty,
while a chair and water were brought to the relief of
the prisoner, and a medic t.l Gentleman who was pre.
sent attended him ui. she dock. gin three or four
minutes had elapsed, the senses of tbe unfortunate man
appeared gradually to fftll; 11, but up to the tiros when

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be was taken away he thawed nose of that ulf•pnwee-
sioa which he had maintaired throughout the o ial.

The CHIMP JUSTICZ continuedLNothing can be
more distressing to me than to perform the duty which
now calls on me to sentence a man in the dreadful si-
tuation in which you now are; but I should be deceiv.
iog you were Ito give you any hope. All that I can
dofor you is to intreat you to make your peace with Gov.
This case, as tar as it applies to yourself only, is an es.
ttemely bid ca,e, but it is quite clear that there has been
more than one concerned, and you will do well to let
the world know who were your companions. That you
have r•Red thi • house from one end to the other is hut
too clear, and no one can doubt that it has been done
by one who either knew or had received ample 'direc-
tions as to where the most valuable things were to
be found. I shall always think that when any crime
becomes very common in a county, that I am call.
ed urn to do all in my power to stop that crime;
and that it is common in this county the present
calendar too well justifies me in saying, for there are on
the list no less than twenty-one for burglary; and
fifteen for housebreaking. It is necessary that an at-
tempt should be made to stop this, by allowing the law
to take its course in some cases, and I hope that I
shall find none so bad as the one of which you are
cnnv'cted. I therefore implore you to make your
peace with GOD• repent of your sins, and make such
amends as you can, by confessing those offences which
you have committed, and disclosing the names of those
who have been your companions. Y-as will do them
an act of kindness, for it will arrest them in their wicked
pringress; and you will do the best and only act in your
power to evince the truth of your repentance. No.
thing remains for me now to do, but to pass on you the
awful sentence of the law, which is, that you be taken
from here to the place rom whence you came, and
thence to the place of common execution, and there be
hanged by the neck until your are dead ; and may the
GOD of al, mercy have.mercy oti your soul.

The prisoner was then borne out of the dock by four
men, moaning more than utter ng sounds, v. hich prayed
for rneicy to be :hewn him. The whole Court was in
the most profound silence during this scene, and most
persons present were evidently affected by the dreadful
manner in which the prisoner recei►ed the passing of
the sentence.

HEREFORD, Accuse 21.
CRIMINAL Covar.—Before Mr. Baron VAVONAIL.
BANE Or ENGLAND FORGERIES.

Anne Maria Morgan stood charged with uttering a
forged and counterfeited Bank note, purporting to be a
n Is ot the Governor and Company ot the Bank of
England, she well knowing the same to be forged.
The prisoner is about forty years old, and is the wife
of a respectable tradesman in the town. The case es.
cited very great interest, and the Court was crowded in
every p .rt to excess.
. Mr. Peake—ls a butcher, and knows the prisoner ;
on the 17-h April she was indebted to him 21. for bor-
rowed money, and ?J. odd for meat, which on that day
she called to pay, and tendered him a 51. Bank of Eng.
land note, out of which he took the debt, and gave her
the difference; about two days afterwards witness ti.ok
the hoie to a neighbour, named Morris, and got him to
change it.
Cross-examined by Mr. CAMPERLL—He did not
mark the note; he had no other Bank of England note.
Mr. Thomas Morris, grocer, deposed to having
changed the note for Mr. Peake, whose name and the
date of the transaction he wrote upon it. The note now
oduerd is the identical one he received from Mr. Peake.
Cr. ss.eaamined—He endorsed the note within three
minutes aft r receiving it.

Mr. Nathaniel Morris—ls brother to the last witness;
he found the note in the till on the day in question, and
took it to the Hereford Bank, where he was told that,
in their opinion, it was a forgery; they refused to cash
it ; in consequence he took the note to Mr. Peake, who
referred him to the prisoner; he sent his boy to her
house with the forged note; the boy brought him four
good one pound country notes back. The remaining
pound not being paid by the following Tuesday, wit-
re►s called on the prisoner, who theta paid it to him,
observing that it made no difference to ber, as she had
taken the note from Mr. Holme, and would go to him
in the evening and get it changed.
_ _ _

Ctoss•esamined—Dues not know that Mr. Hulme
had recently paid her a large sum of money; she did
not say she believed she took it from Mr. Hulme, but
that she was certain the did, The note was returned
to her; she had abundant means of destroying it if she
had pleased.
William Fox—ls apprentice to Mr. Morris, and took
the forged hole back to the prisoner ; he told her it was
a'torgery, and that his master had 4.en to the Hereford
Bank, and had these seen another note of the same
date, number and value; he gave her up the note, and
she gave him four one pound notes, and promised to
send hum the remaining pound the following day.
Csoss-examined—She took the notes out of an open
cupboard ; there were three persons portent at the time.
Mr. Theophilus Hulme deposed that he had pur-
thased eight freehold cottages from the prisoner's hus-
band, and had on the 10th and 17th of April paid the
prisoner different sums on account, amounting to 471
He gave her no SI. Bank of Englund note; the note
produced never passed through his hands ; she never
called to complain of having received a forged note
from him.

Cross•examined—He kept no account on paper of
what kind of notes he made his payments in; on one
occasion he paid her six notes of 51. each, but they wire
all either of the Ileieford, Worcester, or Ross Banks.
Charles Allen—ls an apprentice to Mr. Ridler, of
Hereford; one of the prisoner's sons is his fellow ap-
prentice ; on the 4th of May he was going on an
errand, and was met by the prisoner, who asked him
to go t , a draper's shop known as the London House,
and purchase some corduroy and calico for her ; she
gave him a 51. Bank of England note, and told him,
it they asked who the goods were for, not to say fot
her, hut for someboay else; witness having to pass
Mr. Miles's shop, went there instead, and having bid
the goods cut, tendered the note she give him; on
being asked who the goods were for, be said Mr.
-Floyd. Mr. Miles dcired him to walk with him
down to the Hereford Rank, whither he was going
to• see whether the note was a g. od one; while
witness was walking there I e met the prisoner, who
beckoned • jot on one ad and bins w; ere the
note was; he told her Mr. itf.le s Lad g. t it ; she then
asked whose note 'he hsd said it was; he re., lied, Mt.,
Floyd's, and she called him a fool, ~nd added. i•
s,„„ whose it was;" wi rtss becan e Alas med„heeouse of-
reing mentioned Mr. Foltd". name, who was one o.
his asaitties most particular customers, and watching

an opportunity he ran away; be did nittarlusuli tts.Verf•
lord until a fortnight after ; on his return he eille4 on
the prisoner, who gave him some bread and rbeese,
and desired him n Ito mention that he had the note of
her; he was to have had two shillings for galing the
note chang,d; he had changed a note for her before. On
going back to his master's, he was a •kell about the note,
and he said he had found it ; he had been instructed to
say so by the prisoner.
Cross-examined—The prisoner did not instruct him
to mention Mr. Floyd's name; that was a lie of his own
invention ; he cid not know that the note was a f .rged
one; he will swear that.
Mr. Miles ideniifi .d the note sworn to by Mr. Perike
and Mr. Morris, AS being the same that was tendered us
him by the last ',hoes,.
Charles Allen recalled—Deposed to having, on the
24th of April. at the instance of the prisoner, passed
another 81. Etink of England note, at the shop of Mr.
Hornhy. The prisoner desired him to give a fictitious
name, and assigned as a reason, that she owed some
money, which, if her name were mentioned, they would
stop.

Mr. Hernby proved, that the note thus received was
a forgery.

The Inspector of the Bank of England deposed to
both notes being forgerie•.
The prisoner, on being called on for her defence, de.
dared that she was wholly ignorant of the notes being
forgeries.
A host of witnesses were called to character. Among
these was a woman who had lived with the prisoner, as
she said, for 15 years, and always considered her a
woman of unblemished character. On her cross-exa-
mination, howe►er, she admitted, that during that
period the prisoner had been tried at the Old Bailey,
but was then acquitted.
The Jury, after short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty, liut recommended her to mercy.

The Learned JUDGE told her, in consideration of the
humane recommendation of the Jury, her life would be
spared. Judgmei.t of D-ath was then recorded.

CLONMEL Aims: 17.

As the trial of Grace, for the murder of Mr. Chadwick,
was known to c,,me on this thy. the Court was crowded
to excess at a very early hour, and at the time that the
Hon. Judge BURTON arrived (at halt•past nine), every
avenue leading to it was completely blocked up.

Upon calling the names of the jurors, the agent of
the prisoner, Mr. Gleeson, challenged a great number of
them. At Length, as respectable a Jury as ever sat in
Clonniel were enspannelled, when
Patrick Grace was arraigned for the wilful murder of
Richard Chadwick, Esq. on the 30th of Jurie last.
Philip Mara, a mason, examined by the
GlNZRAL—Witness lived in Holcroyd parish, and is by
trade a mason ; was employed by the late Mr. Chad-
wick, just before his death, to assist in building bar-
rack at Rathcannon. On Saturday, the 30th of June
last, met him at Rathcannon, about eight o'clock in the
morning ; laid oat the foundation of the house, and set
about twelve men at work; some of the people em.
ployed were tenants of Mr. Sadleir ; between twelve and
one o'clock, Neil. Gleeson, and witness, went towards
Holycross with" Mr. Chadwick. Gleeson had gone about
85 yards, when he was tent back by Mr. Chadwick, who
said he wool.' agree with Gleeson for burning lime for
the house. Mr. Chadwick then desired Neil to go back,
as it was near one o'clock, and the men would be soon
from dinner ; Neil turned back in consequence—and
Mr. Chadwick led his horse towards the cross of Bor-
nacrusha, Mr. Chadwick being nearer to the left-hand
side of the road, and witness close to him. After
Neil left us, a man jumped out FA' the ditch, about
three yards before us, with a gun in his band. and
desired us to give ourselves up; be kept the gun
partly levelled towards us. He then turned himself
mere towards deceased. and said, " You rascal, give
yourself up." I then said to Mr. Chadwick, give
yourself up; and then stepping between them, raising
my hands to the man's shoulder. said, " Don't mo-
lest the g' n:leman, and whatever you want he will give
you." hat man had no disguise on his face ;
had a full opportunity cf seeing him; I had seen him
before, and knew him well. Mr. Chadwick turned
round, and as soon as he did I heard a shot; then
looked at Mr. Chadwick, and saw him bleeding, and a
man standing before him. Mr. Chadwick then said,
"Oh, Mara, Pm killed;" and I said, " 1 believe yoz are."
The man was quite close to Mr. Chadwick ; it was then
I first perceived there were two men; when Mr. Chad-
wick said he was killed, I stooped down and got out from
between them, and instantly heard another shot; when
about five or six yard from them, I turned round and saw
Mr. C. on the ground, the two men standing Over him,
and his Forte standing near; 1 was much alarmed,
and ran on to Bornacrusha, about 300 or 400 yards off,
in a straight line, where there were a good many people,
men; women, and children; a woma s asked me what
was the matter? and I said Mr. Chadwick was shot.
They did nor go down; I rather think they went into'
their houses. 1 then went to the Rev. Mr. Lloyd's, and
next to Captain Wilson's. The witness proved that the
prisoner was the person who jumped out on Mr. Chad-
wick, and one of those who inflicted the mortal wounds.

Sergeant Patrick Maher proved the arrest of the
prisoner, and ident'fild a 1/. note found upon him.
James Roe, Esq. brother-in-law of the deceased, prov-
ed the endorsement of the deceased upon the Bank-note.
Some witnesses swore to an alibi, and others swore
that the prisoner was not one of the two persons that
fired at Mr. Chadwick.
The vial did not terminate till five o'clock in the
evening, when the Jury retired for a quarter of an hour,
and on their return into Corn t pronounced the prisoner
Guilty.
Immediately after the verdict of Guilty was handed
in, his Lordship put on the emblem of death, the black
cap, and in a most feeling and impressive manner, pro-
nounced the awful, appalling, and ignominious sentence
—that he should be hanged on Monday, and his body
given for dissection to the surgeon of the County Infir-
mat y.—When the unhappy -culpiit descended to the
lower part of the dock, where the prisoners were in
numbers, many of them shook hinds with him, and
others put their hands round the neck of the miserable
man.— Waterford Mir fora

Monday nigh,. between eleven and twelve 9.clock•
-s Mr. Samuel I.itt, of Causton-street, Westminster,
was returiong home near the islillhank Penitentiary,
two tarn came up to him, and pushiug their hands into
hicbteeches pocket, in an instant snatched his piirLe.
.ontainitig lour snveteigns and some silver; they like
ivi.e seized his hat, with which they ran cif and made
their escape.

. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
•
kl A NSTON-HOTJeff.
Capp, the person who was charged in Saturday. with having
stolen some silver spoons in eoffve.houses in the City, was yesterday
brought up for another examination. The Justice Mom wa.
literally crammed with coffee-house-keepers, tavern keeper., pub-
licans, and waiters, a report having gone abroad that the prisoner
had made what is sometimes tailed a most respectable livelihood,
by walking places of public entertainment. Several who could
not prefer charges against him recognised him as a visitor, imme-
diately before they missed their property. Upon being conducted
to the bar, he died his eyes upon the ceiling. and erected to be
absorbed lir serious meditation. He had amused himself in prison
with copying some of the Nelms of David, in a letter to the Cler-
gyman of the Compter, whom he requested to tate care of his wife
and tiro babes.
After the rohhatt in Baker's Coffee-house, and that In the George.
and Vulture Tenets bad been investigated,
A Pawnbroker stepped forward, and produced a spoon, which
he swore the prisoner had pawned on the 13th inst. This spoon
was marked" Lamas," and was proved to be the property of Mr:
Lomas, who keeps the hotel opposite to Amity's Theatre. The'
waiter of the hotel stated, that be had missed two silver table spasm
one day, and he believed that produced to be one of them. He'
did not know the prisoner.
A Gentleman stated that he observed Capp shifting about as if
be wanted to get rid of something, and throwing down a News-
paper on a table where there lay three table spoons. Witness soon
afterwards saw four table spoons on the table, one of which wee
matted George and Vulure Tavern."—He was fully cont.nitted
for trial.
A hackney coachman, named Sparks, was summoned by a Ur.
Hall, a traveller, for a violent assault, and also for having refused to
take a fare when disengaged.
Mr. Hall stated, that on Friday evening last, at about half past
eight o'clock, he and three other Gentlemen were on Triwer,hill.—
He proposed, in the defendant's bearing, that they should take a
coach to Cheapside, as the fare was no monnbiletelghteen.penee.
and he called to the coachman, who said tint *mid see them
d—d first. and called them by opprobrious mass, Witness asked
him whether he was engaged? to which he replied le the negative;
but he added, that he would net drive a set of barber's clerks. Wit-
ness expostulated with him ; but he was too indepeodent to bear
even expostulation, and he wreck witness a violent blow, knocked
him about, destroyed his hat, struck his friend, and need towards
all of them the most revolting language. The whole company of
Gentlemen thought that the best mode of punishing such a fellow
was by committing hint to the correction of the Chief Magistrate.

Th; coachman, in his defence, spoke in the most civil iota ima-
ginable. He said that he had assured the Gentleman that he was
engaged, and coati nee take them ; but they insisted upon taking
pessenion of his core►, and that in defence of his coach he might
I have shoved spinet one of the Gentlemen. As for bad language,
he never thought of such a thing.
The deputy steward of a steam-vessel stated tint he had engaged
the defendant to convey the passengers to the steam-vessel in the

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morning.
The LORD Maros—But this was in the evening.

The Coachman—l was engaged in the evening too. Wasn't
master ?

The deputy steward replied in the affirmative.
The Loan MATO& (to Mr. Hall)—What did the coachman ray
to you upon being asked whether be was engaged?
Air. Hall--. That he was net engaged.
The Loan Maroa—l fine the defendant 40s. for having refuse&
a fare when disengaged; and he must give substantial bail fur Lis
appearance till the Sessions, to answer foc the assault.
Bail was then given, the fine was paid, and the prosecutor sea
that be should certainly indict for the assault, for the sake of the
public.
BOW-STREET.
jo our Pollee Report, front this Mee, on Saturday last. we men-
tioned a case of alleged seduction, under moat atrocious circum-
stances- but we have since ascertained that the facts were misstated,
and the public are therefore requested to suspend their judgment
until the case has been investigated befere the proper tribunal.
John Maser was re-esandaed eo seepicion of having committed
various frauds. In consequence of the publication of the former
case against the prisoner, Mr. John Brooks, a stationer, in Oxford-
street. came forward and substantiated a fresh charge of fraud
against the prisoner, who entered Mr. Brooks's shop en Tuesday
week, and requested that two reams of the best paper,and ewe
writing desks, might be sent to Ms master. a Gentleman esidine In
Great Portland-street, who would pay for them upon delivery.—
Mr. Brooks sent the desks and paper by his shopman, who was
accompanied by the prisoner; and when 'they reached vat Port.
land-street, the prisoner went into a Mews, and shortly afterwards
came out, saying that his master was not at home, but they might
find hint at a house in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, where they
accordingly proceeded, and the 'prisoner took the desks, att. from
the shopman, ander the pretence of i*wing them to his master,
but he never raturned.—The prisoner 41d he was not guilty of this
charge; bat the parties swore positively to Igo, and be was com-
mitted far trial.

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