The Sun. — 1812-03-31 (London, England)

TINE.  The prisoner kept a public house in Dotk, called the Jolly B.occhus, from whence he removed in Novembet 13st, to the Rose and Crown in Fnwey.— The deceased, a. person of the Jewish persuasion, was in- the habits of intimacy with the- prisoner. About the 16th of _NoVernber, tWi, letters were ad-' dressed to Valentine (then iullock) by the prisoner, desiring him to come down to Fowev, whete he , (the prisoner) had some guineas to dispose tf. Relying on this statement,. Valentine aecmdingly went down on the lgth of the same mouth ; .but on his arrival, instead of introducing Valentine as he had. proposed, to the persons whom he had stated as deal-. ing in coin, the prisoner eontrived r 0 atnese and deceive him, in various ways, until Monday eveni,,g; the 25th of November, when under the pretence of taking him (Valentine) to Captain Best, he led him to•a,place or quay called the, Broad Si p, in Fpwey and pushed him into the water, where he first suffocated, and then-robbed him of 2601. which fie atterwards deposited in a heap of dung on his own premises. No doubt whatever could be entertained of the prisoner's guilt, ftom a long.but a sirong train of cirLurnstantial.evidence; and after a trial of. eleven hours continuance, on Thursda) last, he was found guilty of felony and murder, and sentenced to be hung at Launceston on the following Monday. The unhappy man exhibited the greatest indifference on this solemn occasion, until the Jury fumed round to decide op their verdia, ~ when he became agitated, and seemed to feel the horrors or his awful situation. Soon after the Judge, Sir Alan Chambre, Knt. passed the fatal sentence, he fainted away, and was with difficulty conveyed-bacletothe Nothing else of peculiar interest occurred at these ASSiZe,!!xcept the trial of P. F. Xavier Le Roche, a French priSoner, late on board the San Ysidro, for forging Bank of England Notes. After a most partiZheating, he was found guilty, and sentenced to be executed at Launceston, but at what time is not yet determined. Tne,prisoner went through his trial with unruffled .composure. It was his intention, however, to have destroyed h;triself, after reining to his cell, bur cer tain information being given that he had a twoedged knife somewhere concealed about him for that purpose, he was deprived of the means of selfdestrotlion, and a double paid has been priccd over him since this discovery. The prisoner's untimely fate has excited no common sympathy, as he is ,a,young man of the most promising talent, and his genius had called forth the tesped and adiniratin of (nano.  The trial of John Griffiths,,efiarged with the fill murder of Mr. W, Bailey, of Keth-y, near Wel• lington, can the night of the 31;t January last, took place at Shrewsbury, on Friday se'noight. The, facts of the prisoner having attempted to -borrow money from the deceased ; the deceased having been seen to. go towards the prisoner's house about five on the evening the murder was. Como matted, and about nine the same-evening, the hitter dragging something from a new-buiit_ house (en, which he carried on his trade a, a cooper), arid leaing the burden .on the steps- while he looked up and down the read, then dragging it round the hou,e— were satisfattorily proved by tire concurring testier mony of the several witnesses. It was also proved, that, nponexarnining these premises, melt blood was discovered upon the walls, and on the flu r in the cellar, which the prisoner attempted to account for by saying that part of a horse had been lett there—the walls of the cellar had been scraped, and the floor was covered with sand. it- shirt, evidently belonging to the • deceased, having h initials upon it, was found under the coals in rite cellar; and in the prisoner's house a cooper's adze Was discovered, with blood on it, the edge of which fitted the wounds on the lop of the head, and over the eyes of the deceased; the fractures on the skull corresponded with the hammer-formed part of tt,e adze. The Learned Judge recapitulated the eridenc-, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Lordship in passing the awful sentence of the law, commented upon the varieus circumstances adduced, as conclusive of the wicked intentions of the prisoner in premeditating the murder of the deceased;and, after an impressive address, admonishing the prisonerto prepare,for the. fate which awaited him, directed that he be executed on Monday, and his body delivered for disse6tion.----The sentence was accordingly.. carried into etTeet on Monday last.— Gria hs, after his condemnation, acknowledged his guilt.