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the lioott, that the *ettial Wing who had so es-
pl d them was apprehended.
lßrock and Pelham, two •of the Officers who ap-
prehended the prisoners, and who were bound over
to appear upon their trial„ had absented themselves,l
and. had forfeited their recognizances. In conse-1
quence of the above circumstances, and others which
arose upon the trial, the Judges directed that a spe
cial investigation of the affair should take place be-
fore the Louts MAYOR, and the following evidence
tran spis ed
John Berry was now brought up, and charged with
conspiring, with several others, in an attempt to take
away the life of the three forementioned persons.
Mr. BURG= stated; that although Pelham and
Brock were aware of the circumstance, they had not
yet come into Court. These persons he had seen in
company a, considerable time in the morning, with
G. Vaughan, the Officer, about Guildhall.
The Loan MAYOR ordered two of the Marshalmen
to repair to the spot, and acquaint them of the ne-
cessity of their attendance. Pelham only, however,
Could be found. Vaughan and Brock had retreated.'
P. M,Donnell then deposed, that in the month of
May last, on the morning of the day the three Irish.
men were taken into custody, he was standing at the
usual place in Cheapside where they wait for work,
when Berry came up, and after some conversation
engaged them to go to a house in Angel-alley, Moor-
lane, for a job. On Saturday last, when witness
went to the Old Bailey to hear the trial of the men
employed by the prisoner, be saw the latter waiting
at she doors, when he gave an alarm, and he instantly
Bed, but was overtaken, and secured.
The Loan Maros inquired of Pelham, what he
knew of Berry, and how he received information of
the prisoners being employed as coiner: I
Pelham replied, he knew nothing of Berry.
He was then asked why he fled from the Old Bai-
ley, and forfeited his recognizances, at the time too
when Berry was apprehended I
Pelham replied, that seeing Brock go away, lie fol-
lowed ; besides, a man at the door of the Court told
him he would not be wanted.

The Lonn Matron said, he bad little doubt of the
present case proving a conspiracy against the lives of
innocent men, and he was determined to exert every
means in his power to probe the case to the quick.
He therefore ordered Berry and Pelham to be con-
veyed to Newgate, to be kept separate, and again
brought up for examination to-morrow (this day).
MARLSOROVOIVIITIMM—Yesterday Jame: Ryder,
alias Hawker, was charged by W. Morgan, clothier,
of Duke.sueet, Bloomsbury, with fraudulently ob-
taining from him, on Saturday last, a suit of clothes,
value 4; which he stated was for his wedding suit ;
and said if he would send his son, a youth about 14
years of age, with them, he would send the money
back. Mr. Morgan said he would go himself and
carry the clothes, and went accordingly, as he sup-
posed, to the prisoner's lodgings, No. 38, Rathbone-
place. He went into the house with the prisoner,
who left the bundle in one of the rooms, and said he
would go over to the public house and pay him.—
They went to a public house in the neighbourhood,
and the prisoner said he would go to the bar and or.
der some liquor. He went, and Mr. Morgan having
waited a considerable time, was surprised he had not
returned. He went to the bar, and learned the pri-
soner had been there, but decampod.--David Tho.
mas Morgan, the son of the prosecutor, having heard
a conversation between his father and the prisoner,
suspecting him to be a swindler, followed them at a
distance,and saw them going into No. 88, Rathbone-
place, and afterwards tnto the public house. In a
few minutes after he saw the prisoner leave the pub-
lic house, and going into No. 38, bring out the bundle
with him, winch he ran away with very fast. He
followed him, crying ont—“ Stop thief !" and ke
was secured and lodged in Mary-la-bonne watch-
house. Mr. Morgan not knowing any thing of this,
and 6ndng the prisoner did not return, repaired to
38, Rathbone-place, and found it to be a Coffee-
house ; and that the prisoner had left the, bundle and
again returned for it, but that he did not lodge there.
The prisoner was fully committed.

The circumstances which led to the unexpected
reprieve of Joseph Perm, the Spaniard, (who was to
have been executed yesterday, for the murder of
Benjamin Twigg, a soldier in the Guards), are re-
ported to be as follows :—On Saturday two women
applied to the Sheriff, and stated, that had they been
examined on the trial of this unhappy man, they
could have proved that the deceased was the first
aggressor, and that what the prisoner did was in his
own defence. On being interrogated as to the cause
of their not coming forward before, they said they
were alarmed lest any ill consequences should result
to themselves. In a case of such importance, the
Sheriff considered it proper that no time should be'
lost, and therefore got these women to make affida-
vits of the facts which they stated, which he witness-
ed himself, and carried to the Secretary of State's
Office at a late boar in the evening. On Sunday the
subject was taken into consideration, and the affida-
* ens as well as all the other circumstances attending
the case, were referred to Mr. Justice PARS, who
tried the man. The result of their efforts was, that
lan order was sent to the gaol of Newgate at the hour
we have mentioned, of which the following is the
substance : •
.“ Let treads' be stayed on Joseph Peru tin Wednesday,
the 17th day of July, for which this shall be your sunicient
au-
thority. " 3055 PH PARK.
" To the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Gaoler of
Newgate, and an whomsoever it may concern."
The wretched Peru, from the moment of his re-
ceiving sentence, expressed a perfect resignation to
his fate, but denied that he was guilty of the crime
imputed to him. • He solemnly declared, that what
11 he had done was in his own defence.