Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-02-23
NO. .

fetk.
pg Oct. All think. under the pig huafds in
The lfig market in Ssnithfeld Williams a.
woke him and told him 10 come along with
hlni (Willisms,) and the boy walked with
Williams and me to my house In Nova Sao-
iia gardens We TOOK him into my house
and gave him some warm beer, swtetened
with sugar, with rum and laudahuin 10 il -.
tie dtank two OF the cups Gull, aud shcn tell
asleep in a little chair belonging 20 one Of
NY children. We laid bin on the slonF, and
went out for little while and got something
to drink, and then returned. cnriied che boy
TO the well aud threw hlm into II iu the same
way as we had served the other boy and lle
woman. He died instantly In The we'll and
we leit him there little while, 10 give time
for the mxteres we had given him % run out
OF The body
Wa then took The body from the well took
Oft The clothes 10 ine garden, and buried
them theirs. The body we carried TITO ,hs
wash house, and put II inta the sains hos H.
len Il there till the next evening". when No
cot porter to carry II With vs. 10 1T bar
tholomew's Hospital, where | sold IL 10 AIl
Smith for eight guneas. This hoy was ahoug
10 or II years old, said bis mother li,en l.,
Kent street, and that he had not been hons
for twelve month and letter
know nothing OF any italian boy. andwas
Us
Of such boy. Until the transactions befofs
set forth never was concerned in ohtasninl.
a subject by destruction Of the living. hass
followed the course Of obtaining iivti,hee..
as body snatcher for twelve " AIRS, and la,
obtained and sold, | think. from 500 70 IO0
bodies; but declare before God that the
we're all obtained after death, and that, with
the above exceptions, / am ignorant Of any
murder for that or any other purpose
.J0HN BISHOP"
Witness, Robert Ellis Under Sheriff.
Besides the foregoing statement, Bishol,
and Williams, just before going to executions
confessed that they had atienptetito murder
two men by giving them laudanum, but the
dose having failed in both instances they Is.
cared
.NafD. Queen Of Scots : The last number
Of the North American Review contains an
interesting article under this title The fol-.
lowing Is one Of the concluding sentences.
,.Hasing thrs Represented the iacts soaring
on this question. as family as we are able, we
must remind our readers. that II they should
not be satisfied with hlarys marriage with
Boutwell,, it will by he means follow, that she
was guilty Of her husbands death. II that
thorough going fellow did actually gain
place Id her affections fand we see no proof
Of it > il seems impossible, considering the
persons with whom he is now known t. have
been connected, that Mary siIould have rad
any share in that atrocious crime We think
that all her reproach and sorrow were owing
to a base conspiracy to destroy her lie anu
power, which Cecil himself conissses could
not be done without dishonorinB her fatne..~~
She was a woman Of extraordinary talents.
no doubt; but she was cast al once without
preparations, into the midst Of sea Of tf0as
b!es, and Shakspeare's beautiful ahusiotl, il
which he represents this rude waves as grow
ing yiYi al hci song has no more founda-
ton in fact, than the compliments which he
paws 10 the ,estal fame Of Elizabeth The
whole conduct Of the Queen Of England
,sith aspect TO Mary, cannot BE- rcgardedby
any good mind without adherence.
In ibe first place. she abused the power
which accident gave her over rival. IN cir.
canastanses where, il she bad had one spark
Of generosity or common principle, she would
have given her countenancc and protection;
inst ad cf this, she kept her In close confnc,
n1ent, and witt, necessity, the tyfants pisa,
excuses her de,ilsh deeds All the luxuries
OF life we're taken from her one by one, and
az last she was in want Of those comforts,
which the state Of her health rendered ne
cessary Ii was doubtless thought that this
treatment would destroy her, but as her mis-
cradle .istence was still prolonged, Eliza
beth, in a letter which is preserved, desired
her keepers, PauIet and Drury, 10 murder
their prisoner, and complained Of them for
OF having done il before. Assassination Is
not to the taste oil Englishmen and slayish
as they were in other respects, they declared
that The, would not be induced by any con
sidersiion. TO take the guilt Of blood upon
their soul, she then orders Davidson. the
Secretary, to harvard the warrant for AIafy's
execution: and the moment it is done, past
recall, declares, with much affected sorrow,
that il was done in defiance Of her orders
and ruins the secretary for his obedience to
her command II was, however, the only act
OF kindness she had ever done to Mary, who's
though accused OF living ia adultery aud
murder, died with the gentle, sweet, and ho-
" lsrmncss Of a martyr, rejoicing to go ane
appeal to that tribunal, where sovarclgns and
subjects are equal before the King OF
Kings -
The H,mmng Bird Frequently as the
Humniing Bird has been described since st
was seen by Uampier, his account Of this, the
most delicate and lovely OF the ieathered
tribe. Is as fresh and beautiful as when the
Young seaman. charmed with its loneliness
first entered a description Of il IN his rude
iafna: "rhe humrsing bird is pref
~ little Gathered creature, no bigger than
Sfeat oyererown wasp. with black bull nc
biggef than small needle, and withlegs anu
leet in proportion TO his body This creature
Hoes no, wave its wings like other birds when
- fl,as t,st tecus them in A continued QHlcM