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enquiry it appeared, that the latter could not
applied, under the terms on which the office was held,
and the tomer could not be attained. The first sale
had, therefore, become a nullity; and the present
application was made with intent to enable Sir Wit-
kin to pursue the same course. The sale by 'Elver-
tisement was to take place in a day or two; and the
Learned Counsel said, be hoped his Lordship would
not lend his aid to defeat the claims of the just cre-
ditors of Sir Watkin.
Sir S. RoIULLY said, if the creditors of Sir Wit-
hin had been sufferers by delay, they had not been
so much so as he had been, by the cruel persecution
he had suffered for some years past. The delay now
asked would be but for a few days; and it grantedir
would facilitate the object of Sir Watkin's most anti.
ous desire, namely, the payment of his creditors.
The LORD'CIIANCELLOR asked, how it happened
that this application was not made at an earlier pe-
. rind : the time appointed for the sale bad now ar-
jised within a day or two.
Sir S. ROMILLY not being prepared to answer this
question, the Chancellor refused the application.
El-PARTS IN Till NATTER OF JACKSON.
This case, which we merely meotioned yesterday,
occupied his Lordship for four hours and a half to-
day ; Sir S. RostiLLY, Messrs. TROWES, CULLSN,
HottNE, and RAITHBY, being beard on behalf of the
Bankrupt. • At 27 minutes after four, the Lord
Chancellor rose, and to-morrow morning the So-
licitor• General rill reply.

MURDER 4r EPSOM.

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Some further particulars having transpired respect.
ing the atrocious murder of Ely Co:, on Wednes-
day JAMES TROTTER, Esq. JOSEF!! Centeno, Esq.
and other Magistrates, assembled at Epsom, when
the officers, May and Hall, brought before them
three men strongly suspected to belong to a desperate
gang of poachers, whose depredations about. that
part of the country have been very extensive and dar.
ing. Their names are John Jones, William Borer,
and William Jefferys ; bet after along investigation,
in' which the Officers and Prisoners were examined,
the former as to the grounds of suspicion against the'
parties, and the latter in explanation of their con.
duct in reference to the charge against them, the
Magistrates considered that the evidence was not suf.
ficently strong to implicate them in the murder, and
they were discharged.
Hall, the Officer, stated to the Magistrates that he
had a communication to make respecting Thomas
Osborne, the man in custody in ilorsemonger.lane
Jail on suspicion of the murder, which he consider.
ed to be of great importance. When Osborne was
first examined, he and May the Officer searched his
cottage in every part with particular carefulness, but
found nothing that could support the suspicion which
led to his apprehension. Subsequently a baker's
boy having stated that he saw a bloody apron its
Osborne's cottage, when he was delivering some
bread at his door, caused him to make a second
1i
search. and he found an apron in the condition de-
scribed by the boy, in a dark room in his premises,
which caused his committal to prison. Since then,
be and his brother officer went to Osborne's
cottage, and again made search, when a pair of
pantaloons, extremely bloody, and a waistcoat, with
several marks of blood upon it, were found, be-
tween the sacking of his bedstead and the bed, a
place which was searched in the first instance its the
most careful manner, and at that time the bloody
I apparel could not have been there deposited, without
having beets discovered. The pantaloons and waist-
coat were very much torn, and a shirt, .shich ep.
peered to be newly washed, was found by them in
the same place, that was literally torn to pieces.—
The Officer produced the articles, and the Magis.
hates having viewed them for some time with great
attention, seemed to entertain much stronger sus-
picions of Osborne's being concerned in the murder
than they had before.
An order was sent to Ilorsemonger-Inne Jail, that
Osborne should he kept in a room by himself, that
he might not have an opportunity of communicating
with improper persons. Esertions for the detection
of the guilty persons continue to be carried on with
increased vigour, as more than one ate supposed to
have been implicated in the murder.

• . .
APPLEBY, Ann. 10.
This Ail the Assizes for the ceentr of Weitsoots
land will be- opened before the Honourable Sir G.
WOOO, Knt. and the Honourable Sir JOSS BAT.
LEY, Knt.
The Calendar contain/ tflirs. prisoners i—George
Rawthorn, charged on suspicion of felony, for steal•
ing a quantity of Kendal cottons the property of
Messrs. Wilkinson and Beadle, manufacturers, at
Kendal; Thomas Thornton, leo. for feloniously
killing his own son, Thomas Thornton; Richard
Cosopton, for riotously assembling with other per-
sons, on the Bth of July, 1818, at ieudil, and
breaking the windows of certain dwelling•houses;
William Romney, detained on a charge of lunacy ;
and Joseph Mann, sen. for refusing to answer certain
interrogatories under a COOlaiiStioll of Bankrupt
issued against him.
SURREY ASSIZICS, Autattsr it.

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Mary Stone, aged 29, was charged on the oath of
her sister, Harriet Hampton, with having wilfully
murdered her female child, is September, 1816, at
Richmond. •
The Prisoner, a most interesting ',pot% :,woman,
was placed on the seat near the table, as she'appeared
too weak to support herself in the usual place where
Prisoners stand. She seemed dejected and worn
down ; her features, which were intelligent and ex-
pressive, indicated extreme anxiety and emotion. On
being arraigned, she pleaded in a faint nod agonised
tone, " Not Guilty."
Mrs. Hampton was pot into the witnesses boa.
She appeared a fine young woman, about 19 or 20
years of age. On casting her eyes to where the Pri.
soner sat, the burst into tears, and exclaimed- with
great apparent anguish, "0, my sister, my sister !"
The Prisoner fainted daring her sister's agitation,
bat was speedily recovered ; the latter, after bating
been taken out into the open air, was soon well
enough to give her evidence, which she did with lets
apparent embarrassment than might have been ex-
pected. •' M• the month of September, 1816, "she
said," I slept, as was my custom, with my sister.
About two in the morning she said she was in ex-
treme pain, and shortly alter she was delivered of a
female child; it cried, end I wanted to call in as-
sistance, bet she would not let me. Very shortly
after the child was born, my sister forced her hand
into the infant's month, and choked it, and then
thrust the body into a pan.under the bed. She threw
herself on the bed, but got up in a moment•; I then
said I'd call for someh. dy ; my sister replied, that
if I attempted to do so she would kill me, and then
herself. I was so frightened that I desisted. My
sister left the body in the pan that night, and on the
following made up a file in the room, and tried to
burn it, but the flesh made such a crackling noise
that she was sfsaid it would be heard, and she took
it off the fire and replaced it in the pan. The neat
morning she took it down stairs, and burnt it in
the copper to ashes—she then cleaned the copper out,
and threw the ashes on the dunghill."
Cross examined.--I first told this about twelve
months ago, or shortly after I got married. I let it
out one night in my sleep, ■nd on my being pies-
tinned by my husband, I confessed the troth. My
sister kept the house we lived in ; it had only three
rooms, and was thinly partitiontd, so that what
passed within might be heard by the neighbours. My
sister and I slept in the same bed; my sweetheart
then, but husband now, in the opposite room to
ours; a man named Kenyon, and my brother, gene-
rally slept in the third roam. I never said my sister,
who was an unmarried woman, was pregnant, before
this matter took place. I don't know that any body
noticed it. My sister's ill usage commenced about a
fortnight after it happened ; she then threatened to
turn me out of doors. She disliked my Email',
though I never had ill-will to- her, or expressed my-1
self to that effect to any body. I never said to Mrs.
Wilkes that I'd ruin the Prisoner, or that I wished
her dead to get the 5001. out of the Rank. I never
said that as I was not of age, I could not get the
money yet, or hoped that she might die first. I
believe MP are entitled to 5001. which is in the hanks
My sister had e child before this last, it is a grown
boy; has always lived with her, and she treats it
well.
This was the sole witness for the prosecution.

Mrs. Wilkes said, that in September, 1816, she
lived at Trentham, where she knew the Prisoner.
Witness repeatedly heard the Prosecutrix wish for
her sister's (the Prisoner) death, saying that she
wanted her money. She remembered her saying on
one occasion, " 1 wish she was dead, for then I
wouti have the money, and my husband and me
could get into business on our own account."
Mr. Justice ASBOT commented upon the improba-
bility of the whole story ; that no one had obse►ved
the Prisoner to be pregnant; 'none in the house
heard any noise, and that the Prosecutris should
have so long concealed the murder if true, and con.
eluded by observing to the Jury, that if the Pri.
601IPC had really committed the act in the manner de.
scribed, nothing was more unlikely than that she
should have quarrelled, and almost immediately after
the fact, with the person who balanced her life in her
hands.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Na
Mar j Poulter,l3 years of age last January, stood
charged with the murder of her bastard child.—Seve.
ral witnesses proved the birth of this child in a
healthy 'state, on the 2-Ith of Jun.. The Prisoner
seemed fond of it, hut it was Pound dead with her
two days afterwards, and with some livid marks
about its mouth, which the woman who assisted in
dressing it, after its birth, attributed to something
like a convulsion fa.—The chief witness to prove
that the child died a violent &oh, was Mr. New.
I man, a sutgeon, who was decidedly of opinion, that
it met its death by strangulation and fractures in the
head ; but two witnesses, who chiefly remained with
the Prisoner and child, repeated their declaration,
that her treatment of it seemed maternally kind and
ittentive.—Not
Mr. It. Hampton was indicted for escaping from
the Rules of the King's Bench.
- The facts, were merely these :—The Defendant's
debts we're over 500 f. be broke The tales) was It Ham-

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could not be so 1 oft LAND ASSIZES.