Litchfield enquirer., 1833-06-27


 The Duchess de Berri, it is confidently sta- ted, is to be transported to Palermo, and that ship was preparing to take her.
 Asen. Ar. Auery-The report of the cOmmittee of ihe MethOdst Conference. lately sitting at Boston, an University at Middles0wn was chairman of the committee. The report is able and ingenious. Few lawyers could have done better ih the same space.-
 ne report :" every part except that which is quoted below, brings Mr. A. qsite Iri1mpantly out of all the clouds and darkness which witnesses and various cnmsia1ces had thrown arOHnd him. Bot in coming Io tne @th of December aS, there is most wonder tn' al!lng on, 90 much % Eat t would almost seem that this part of the report drafted by different committee. The Con ference have re-siatoned Mr. A. at Bristol, and have had the recauti6n to asso ciaie another preacher with him in this small iowa. whilst m the large town of Providence but one preac CT has been stationed. The following is the extract alluded to from the report:+
 "The remaining part of this examination has caused the COmwittee but little delay.- The great difficulty in the case seems to be, that the accused cannot satisfactorily account for himself. on the afternoon and evening of the alleged murder. Could he do this, of course it would be perfectly satisfactory to all parties. But this the accused is no more obli- ged to do, than any other man." The Com mittee have been ready to ask themselves whethet, should they condemn Mr.. Avery for this, they would be willing 90 have the same measure meted out to them. flow ma ny hours of our lives do we spend, of the events of which we could make no legal proof in court of justice. Numbers of wit nesses were introduced. it is true, but none of them could identify the accused. Before the suspicion got abroad that Mr. Avery was fhe author of the death of the deceased, the yer. dict of the coroner's inquest on the bUdy of S. M. Cornell was. Suicide" But after the suspicion was excited, by one of those mys- terious papers already alluded to, a new in- quest was held, and the former verdict was reversed. From that time imagination was awake, and many persons had now seen somebody that looked like the accused; and with such testimony the cause was flooded. But none of them could swear that the man they saw was the accused. They saw some one like him. Mr. Avery says he was on the isl- and, and he gives circumstances and testimo- ny quite as clear, fO say the least, in the opin ion of your Committee, that he was there, as any brought forward by the prosecution, that he was elsewhere.
 :. It would be useless to go into an investi- gation of this part of the subject ;-there is ! nothing on which the mind can rest with any 1 certainty. 1.-the accused was on the Island 1 that afternoon, he was there on an excursion l of observation-a kind of rambling to which, as we proved; he has always been accustom- ed. which led him to call at no house, aud to I make himselfknown to no person ;--a circum- stance not SO extraordinary. certainly, as of l itself to induce even suspicion of Irime.- And if not of itself, is there any thing in the preceding circumstances that would lead to this? The Committee find nothing nay. as has been seen, the hand of another has been traced in the preceding scenes, but not of the ] accused. And the Committee can see no req son for bringing in, to act the principal part io the catastrophe. one who up to that hour. had had, as it W Ould seem, no interest in the plot |; especially when there is no other evidence of the charge than would naturally result from the workings of imagination, in an excited fcommunity.''
 "The Committee might have added that a person found with stolen goods upon him, is not bouad 10 prove where he procured hem-bu this logic will not satisfy the public in like Mr. Avery's. The pub- lie want to hear something from the man with u gun, of whom he inquired about the coal mine, and they want to hear from the boy driving the sheep, of whom he inquired if brother somebody lived in the house wonder, and fl he knew whether he was at home, and by which boy he was informed that he believed the man had gone away from home that afternoon. The public want to know ifis is common for Mir. Avery or for any other preacher to take medative walks on the 20ih day of December from about o'clock in the afternoon till 10 night, without calling at any house.-Ns,o-H Haven Register.
 An attempt was made about a mile this side of Bladensburgh, to rob the great northern mail that was despatched from the post of fee to this city. on the morning of the l9th, might of the l8th.) The straps to the rear boot of the mail coach were severed with knife; the canvass bags which were the only mail bags placed there, were cut; and the packages, containing no other matter than pamphlets and newspapers. were broken opeh The injured condition of the boot was discov- cred at Bladenburgh, and most of the mail matter recovered and taken on to Baltimore {; at which place the mail arrived, notwith- standing this unusual detention. in time to connect with inc steamboat for Philadelphia. The mail driver on the ordinary line, who came into this city from Baltimore early yes terday morning, picked Up in the road, and brought the packages ofpamphlets and news- papers, (about half bushel in quantity,) not discovered the night before.
 The letter mail was we'll secured in the boot under the drivers seat, where it should in eve " instance he carried. In consequence, the villains missed their expected booty.
 Washington Globe. Chesapeake aud Ohio Canal Co.-NIr. Eaton has superseded Charles FensOa Mercer Esq., in the Pres idency of this Company. Gen. Mercer has been long known as among the ablest and mest zealous advo- mE