The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1804-09-12 (London, England)

MURDER.  It may yet be remembered by many of our readers, that in April last, a reward was offered to any person who should give information of Charles Hawkins, who WAS missed by his parents on the sth of that month. Five months elapsed, without any circumstance occurring that should tend to explain the fate of this boy ; though slow, yet certain, is that record of Providence; " whosoever spills man's blood, by m.m shall his blood be spilled." The circumstance attending this discovery, with all its concomitants, are evidently the direftion of an " all seeing Being :" Hawkins lived with Mr. Stoneham, at his mill at Kingston, near Portsmouth, with one Edwards, who belonged to the Paiute Volunteers, and who, aliant a month after the lad was missing, enlisted at Wick. ham fair, into the tr. Ist Regiment of Dragoons Capt. Poulden, to whose company of Volunteers he belonged, consequently sent to his lodgings for his regimentals : on his box being examined, a shit t and uveral articles were found, belonging to Hawkins; this may appear as the dawn of discovery. Hosi ever, on Edwards receiving his bounty at South towton, a person of Portsea, to whom he was indebted, went to him to make his demand; and on his taking leave, Edwards said, " he should never rt•tutn to Kingston again, as there WAS something there which he knew of, but which nobody else ever should know. So far did he exemplify, that  aa %Firth terrors equal, brit not with equal guilt, " The murderer dreatnauf all the blow' he spat." In this concatenation of circumstances, it next occurred that the labourer hired by Mr. Stoneham, in the place of Edwards, was a taller man than Edwards, and was obliged for that reason, from the lowness srf the headway from which he fed the pigs, to reach over, which induced him to require of his master that the shed might be made higher ; this Mr. Stoneham refused to do, but desired that he would sink the ground lower the tubs, in the digging of which, was discovered, in a horrible state of puttescence, the body of Charles Hawkins! The Coroner (J. Grigg, Esq.) instantly summoned a Jury, and, after a long examination, re.urned a rerdift of—lff.(isit Murder against a person or persons unknown. The body was in that decayed state, that it was only upon the mother's knowledge of several articles of his clothes, that it was positively known to be him. A warrant is issued to apprehend Ed,Yards, who has deserted from his regiment. The deceased is the eldest son of Mr. Hawkins, a wealthy and respeCtable farmer near Portsmouth, who has offered a reward of fifty guineas, to any person who will give evidence tending to identify the perpetrator of this foul murder. The author of the inhuman deed, to favour the idea of Hawkins having drowned himself, threw his hat into the Mill-dam at Portsea, where it was found the day after he was missing. In the ardent wish and expedation that the mut deter may in part expiate his offence by the sentence of the laws of his country, we cannot refrain from calling the attention of our readers, in marking the unexpetted discovery of this deed of darkness, to the justly vindillive hand of Providence in disclosing this and similar ai9s of atrocity, that— " Murder, though it has nu tongue, will ,;eak " Willi must miraculous organ." (Hampshire T.legraph.)  A melancholy incident took place on Monday se'nnight. in Carlisle:—Wu. 'swim a kw months ago officiated as an hostler at the Angel Inn ; but on account of extreme mental debility, and by reason of his utter insufficiency to take care of the horses, he was (reluttantly) discharg-.1 ; since which period he occasionally applied liirthelf to labouring, and thereby procured a scanty subsistence ; but daily he became more unfit for every kind of exunion. This unfortunate old man, on Sunday morning, asked leave of Mr. Jon m