The Sun. — 1822-05-14 (London, England)

JOHN W. Us WIN, Esq., at the sign of the Turk's Head, Virginiarow, before whom the depositions of. the several witnesses were taken and recorded. The Jury first went to the scene of horror, and viewed the murdered corpse ;, the head and body were still lying in the precise manlier in which they were discovered after the perpetration of the horrid deed. On the Jury returning to the public house, the Coroner proceeded to the examination. The only new evidence was that of Mr. Charles Laygon, of No. 3, Princes-place, Virginia-court, who was next examined.— He deposed—That when the report reached my ear, I went over to the prisoner's house, and found the passage filled with persons, amongst whom was Mrs. Mountford, the prisoner, who spoke in the same manner as already described by the last witness.—ln the afterhoon I visited her in the watchhouse, and asked her, in the presence of her father7in-law and others of her relatives, how she came to commit the rash act upon her child ; she replied with'the greatest composure, " On,purpose to be hanged, lam tired of my life." She said she would prefer being executed to going home to her family. I asked her if she had any hatred in her heart towards the child she had slain ? She answered, " No ;" but it had entered her mind to destroy it before the fatal morning. She also endeavoured to hang herself a few minutes before she murdered the infant. The prisoner I understand is three months gone in the family way. I have knoWn her 20 years, and a more kind-hearted woman never existed. lam positive she was deranged in her intellects. On the close of the evidence the Coroner, in summing up, was interrupted by one of the Jurymen standing up, and declaring he could not, without falsifying his oath, return a verdict of " Wilful Murder against the prisoner."  A meeting was held on Friday at Bath7 for the purpose of contributing to the relief of the distressed peasantry m Ireland. The Rev. Archdeacon Moysey having been called to the Chair, James Godfrey de Burgh, Esq. made a brief but forcible appeal in behalf of his unfortunate countrymen in the south-west of Ireland. A subscription was then propoaed, and agreed to with alacrity, the amount to be transmitted to the fund now collecting in London. Bristol and Gloucester have also entered into the cause, and a requisition is in the course of signature for a meeting at Liverpool, for the same generous purpose. At Chester a charity ball was given on Thursday evening, where some of the principal ladies resident in that city and neighbourhood kindly collected the money at the doors : the proceeds were considerable. At Plymouth, large quantities of potatoes and oats are shipping for the south of Ireland.— At: Camberwell the Ladies have opened a subscription among. themselves, their children and their servants, which in no instance is to exceed half-a-crown, but admits the smallest donations. The Coroner's Jury that sat at Weymouth on the body of William Lewis, of the sloop Active, who died of a wound received by a musket from the Pigmy; returned the following verdict That the said William Lewis was mortally wounded by a ball, wantonly and maliciously .fired by some person on board his Majesty's. schooner Pigmy, and we do therefore return our verdict of " Wilful Murder against the Officer then in command of his Majesty's said schooner."—A Court Martial is ordered to be held at Portsmouth on the 20th instant to inquire into the Circumstances.