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THE RETURNING WANDER!
rams ma mamma, sot Aram
Tu. those must be the chit of whke
Which Mark tidy salve doles.
Unless a ado &lodes My. Aght.
As it has deer Wont
And huh ! oh yess Weed I hear
The Winking waves resound
Far o'er the beach adieu to fear.
Too, yes, is English ground!
with joy 1 we yogi white peaks hold
No commerce with the skies,
And my glad heart In hope grow bell.
Bora to see woodlands rise;
Vail many an hoer. in early years.
I spent 'wrath yonder brow.
Oh! Nweold repay an age of tears
To fog as I [eel asslr!
Rly Emma, does tit-tame* feed Merl
Beet stiU uncbassged far me?
!rot 'either weal nor wee could part
From mine its faith to t►ee t
Hope whispers that thy sad, sad sigh,
Has echoed still to mime.
And that thee bast, with tearful eye,
Gail watchful o'er ilse 'brim I
This very eve, beneath yen hills.
My agsd pawn's ear
Mall catch each sound bide miter bile.
And joy shall camper fear ;
In his food audio I hope to lad
Each vestal fault forgiven.
And love and friendship thus cesabbled,
Will make of earth a heaven!
Pair frisbee still. propitilias lame.
I long to view the strand,
And, once win, the proud oak tares
Which shade any Native land;
And should, amidst the starlight pale,
Bright Luna abed so ray,
loch glittering orb VII gladly lull,
To galdo my homeward way !

L B.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
TAUNTON, Aran
Mr. William Drowse, one of the panders in the late
first of Cavenagh, Browne, and Co. bankers, of Bath,
appeared to plead to an indictment for embezzling pro.
petty belonging to the estate of that firm, they having
become bankrupts. By an arrangement between the
Counsel, it was agreed to postpone his trial until the
next As.izes. Sir William Chambers Bagshaw and Mr.
James Randolph put in bail for his appearance to take
his trial at Bridgewater, in a penalty of 5001. each, and
the bankrupt in 10001.
islisabeth Viner,ls years of age, was indicted for
administering poison to Mrs. Teresa Eliza Fry, of the
parish of Monkton Coomb, near Bath, (in whose service
she was placed by the parish officers of Bath) with intent
to murder her.
Mr. GUNNING stated the case. Mrs. Fry keeps a
school for young Ladies at Coomb Villa, about two
miles from Bath. About ten months ago she took the
prisoner from Walcot parish, intending to have bound
her as an apprentice. Some sugar .of lead was soon
after this brought into the hstuse for a Gentleman who
lived there. for the purpose of making a mixture to
apply to his eyes. Three weeks before the oboee was
committed (the 4th of December last), the girl brought
the paper of sugar of lead to her mistress, calling it
burnt alum, and inquired if it would not be well to
apply some of it to the child's mouth? Mrs. Fry was very
much alarmed at this suggestion. and told her it was
poison, and wrote upon it N Sugar of load—poison." This
packet was then put en the higher shelf of a cupboard
in the parlour' which was locked op. On the morning
of the 4th of December, Mrs. Fry found herself ill,
and desired that the cook should prepare her some
arrow root. The prisoner brought it to her in a
basin, and said that the cook wished her to sweeten it
herself. Mrs. Fry observed something on the top of the
basin like water, and said, .4 Why the cook has put
water in this?" The girl said she had seen the cook
easke it. and she pot nothing bet milk in it. The pro.
soeuttiz then tasted it, and found it very sweet. She
then said-4, I thought you told me the cook had put
tothing into it." She first found it very sweet, but
afterwards it turned acid in her mouth. She then said
she thought there was cream of tartar in it. The girl
said nothing. On the cook's being sent for. she said
she had put nothing into it but arrow-root, and took a
spoonful of it herself. She was soon afterwards seized
' with violent pains in her stomach. This alarmed her
mistress, and the cupboard was searched for the sugar
of lead. as also for some oxalic acid which had been

left in the cupboard some months before. They could
find neither, Mrs. Fry then desired her husband to
carry the basin to her doctor, Mr. Day, who told him
he had no doubt there was something of a noxious qua-
lity mixed with the arrow toot. Medicines were then
administered to both the females, and Mrs. Fry was ill
for some considerable time afterward's. The prisoner,
on being charged with putting poison into the arrow-
root, denied it, saying—a, I wish I may be struck dead
I know any thing about it." Afterwards she began
to et y a great deal, and told a relation of her mistiess's,
who happened to be in the house, that she could tell
her all about it. They went into another room, and
the prisoner said she saw the cook take something out
of a paper, and put it into the snow-root, after which
she threw the paper into the grate in the kitchen. She
afterwards mixed it all up together with milk, and boiled
- in a saucepan. This statement she repeated in the pre-
sence of the cook, and she offered to attest the truth of
it upon her oath. On the following Wednesday, in
the evening, she went into the breakfast parlour, and
falling down on her knees, confessed to Mrs. Pry that
she had put the sugar of lead into the arrow-root her-
self ; but said she had not seen anything of the oxalic
acid. Presently after she also admitted that she had
taken both the parcels of poison; that she had put one
of them into the arrow-root, and thrown the other away.
Mrs. Fry could only account for this wicked conduct of
the prisoner by supposing, that as the girl bad been
suspected of some petty thefts, which she had spoken of
to her in the presence of a friend, who had said it should
be found out, and that they would apply to the "Cun-
ning man," who would point out the thief in a glass,
she had been influenced by revenge. As the prisoner
was going out of the kitchen a ith the basin of arrow-
root from the cook, the latter heard her say, " If my
mistress eats this, she will base a pod breakfast of it."
The cook had eaten what was left in the saucepan, which
was very good, and bad produced no unpleasanteffects.
The inference was, that the poison was put into the
basin on its passage from the kitchen to the position—.
Mr. Gunning added, that he was, however, bound to
state. that some chymist of Bath bad afterwards ana-
lyzed the contents of a basin which was brought to
him (but whether this was the sense as that which Mrs.
Fry bad first sent to Mr. Day be could not say), and
that his opinion was that it contained no poison.
Mr. Justice PAIL said, it would be best to try if
the basin could be traced out, as, if it were the same,

ther:
and contained no eiik in end to the'
pt oteaution.
Mr. Cuff, ehytnist, of Bath, 'progrell that a basin was
brought to him by Mr. Fly, that it contained arrow-
root, that he enalyzed it, and that it did not contain
any sugar htlead or oxalic acid. From the evidence
of Mr. and Mrs. Fry. it appeared that the basin had
passed through a great many different hands from the
time it was taken brill Mrs. Fry to that at which it was
analysed by Mr. Cuff, so that it was impossible to say
that the contents were the same.
Mr. Justice PARK stopped the case, observing, that
after this it would be impossible to arrive at a legal
conviction, and it would be better at once to acquit the
prisoner.—Tbe Jury acquitted her.
Mr. Justice PARE told the prisoner that she was a
very wicked girl. and had narrowly escaped for the
present an ignominious end. Her mistress was happily
still living; but notwithstanding this, if the case had,
been clearly proved, he would have felt it his duty to
leave her for execution, in the hope that others would
be deterred by the example. •

Joke *forgot, a gentlemanly-looking man, was in-
dicted for feloniously assaulting Themes Smith, on the
fifth of December, near Stokes Croft, Bristol, and steal-
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from his person SOL in Bank totes. He bad been,
ed, and surrendered to take his trial.
Mr. HORAOS TWISS stated, that Smith was a farmer,
living at Heubury, and was in the habit of attending
the corn-market at Bristol. On the 7th of December,
e went to Bristol. put his horse up at the Black Horse,
.- • es Croft, and went to the market, where he cold
• sheep and two beasts, for SU. to a Mr. Hunt, who
'cl him with one 501. one 101. and five 51. Bank of
: ngland notes, he giving Mr. Hunt one pound in, change.
ith put the notes in his pocket-book, which he carried
'n an inside coat piscket, and afterwards went to the
Blackball Tavern, Bristol, where he passed the remain.
• of the day with a friend of the name of Webb, until
10 o'clock, when he paid the reckoning with one of the
Ave-pound notes, and took four IL notes and some silver
lie change. Webb and be went out of the house toge-
thee end parted, he setting out towards the Black
Horse Inn, for his,horse. In his way there, however,
he met a young woman, whom he treated with drink,
,in a liquor shop, where hos pulled our, but did not open
:his pocket-book, and from thence he proceeded to the
. Black Horse lan t' but thinking it pt udent to put the
money in hi, fOb, he retired into a lase at a small dos-
lance from Stokes Croft, and close to the Inn, and there
took 501. of the notes he bad out of his pocket-book,
when suddenly a person whom he (Mr. Horace Twiss)
was instructed was the poisoner, made a snatch, and
seized the notes from hint. He caught hold of the per-
son, but by the biting of a dog, was forced to lose hie
hold and tell down. He, however, immediately got up,
and without losing sight of the man, ran after and
caught him, and dragged him to the door of the Black
Horse Inn, where they went in together, and he desired
a constable to be fetched; but the landlord, slt.Wagg,
interposed many obstacles to the appsehension of the
prisoner until finding Smith resolved to have him taken
into custody, he did at last direct a constable to be sent
for ; bat in the mean time began searching the prisoner
himself, in such a manner as by the interposition of his
body to prevent the prosecutor seeing what was doing.'
and he .finished his pretended search by the time that'
Meredith. the constable, came in, who re-searched the
prisoner ; but, as might be supposed. did not succeed in
finding any thing upon him. The prosecutor was most
positive that the prisoner was the man who snatched
die notes, which be bad never seen since.
•-• Wm. Webb-.. 1 am a farmer at Henbury. Smith and
I were at market together at Bristol, on the 7th of Dec.
last: we dined at the Blackhall Tavern, and stopped
till near ten, when we went out together, and separated'.
he going, as I understood, to the Black Horse Itust
about a mile and a quarter off, Ise his horse.
Coneyezatoined—.Smith had been drinking, but was
't able of taking care of his property.
Thomas Smith, the prosecutor, proved that he had
received the 544 as stated in the opening. I left Webb
at ten o'clock to go to the Black Horse Inn, Stokes Croft,
out of the city bounds, for my horse. There was a
young woman at the corner of Nicholas-street, she asked
me to treat her with a glass, and two sailors by, said I
might as well treat them. We went to a liquor shop.
and I treated them with a glass a-piece, and bad myself
some gin and water. I pulled out my pocket-book
with the intention of changing a note, but did not open
it, and put it up into my inner side coat pocket, and but-
toned up my coat and great coat. I did nor pay the
reckoning that night, but paid it another day. The two
sailors went out first, then the woman and myself, but
Ido not know where she went. I proceeded directly
to Stokes Croft, and went up a lane, the first turning
past the Black Horse. There was a lamp at the
corner. When I was a little up the lane, I took out my
pocket-book, and from it took fifty pounds out in notes
to put them into my fob, when they were snatched out
duly hand. I caught the man with my left hand; he
was coming towards me apparently down the lane, and
had a bull terrier dog with him, who got between my
feet, biting at my legs. I loosened my hold, and fell
upon my bands and knees, and the man ran as fist as,
be could to Stokes Croft. I followed, and without
losing sight, overtook him at Wagg's door, which was
shut, but was very soon opened, and we both went in.
We neither of us had our hats. Wagg opened the door.
I said “ This is the man that has robbed me," and laid
hold of the prisoner, and would have kept him, but was
prevented. I demanded of Wagg to send for an officer.
He would not do so, but beat saying he knew that man
had not robbed me. I insisted for nearly two hours'
that he should. during all which time the prisoner said
be had not robbed me, and I said he had. Wagg did
at last send for the constable. Wagg went out to look
after the bats, I keeping the prisoner in the room, and
returned with two bats, one of which was mine, and
the poisoner claimed the other. Wagg searched the
prisoner. My face was towards Wagg, my back to
the door, and Wagg's back was towards me. I did not
see any money on him. Wagg advised me to let him go.
but I would not. Wagg at last directed one of his ostlers
to go for a constable,and it was after that that he searched
him. I desired him not to search, but I would not leave;
the door, for fear the prisoner would escape. At last.,
Meredith. the constable, came; he searched the prisoner,
but did not find my notes on him. I have no doubt,
bat am sore, the prisoner was the man who sobbed me•
Cron-examined—lt was nearly two o'clock when I
went to the Blackhall Tavern, and I left it at ten. I
had two small jugs of beer and two pipes. I was quite
sober. I am twenty-seven years old. When I went cut
i found my bead a little affected. I did not quarrel or
bffer to fight with either of the sailors, nor did either of
'them say, " I had rather drink with you than fight with