The Statesman. — 1818-07-29 (London, England)

ELLENB.OeOtIoti, who, from indisposition, is unable to attend the Circuit:* The business of thise Assize+ appears to he remarkably heavy at the criminal side. The Calendar contains the commitments of 72 prisoner,. among whom are the following on charges of murder : William Hazleton. agent 18, committed by A. Constable. Esq. the Rev.' R. D.'iies, Clerk, E. W. Forman, Esq. and several other Magistrates, charged on the oaths of George Martin Bird and others, on a strong suspiCion of being feloniously concerned, and a party and accessary to the murder of George Bird and Mary Simmons, on the 7th February, at Greenwich, and also in the burglary committed in the dwelling-house of the said George Bird. Daniel Fitzgerald, aged 23, committed by the new. J Jones, on a certain writ of Cabins directed to the Sheriff of the county of Cork, by Sir William Cusack Smith, of and conceritiru a certain felony and murder, whereof the said Daniel Fitzgerald stands indicted at the prosecution of Daniel Byrne, and others.—(Removed to Ireland on the 15th July, for further examination, by order of the Lord Chief Justice.) Charles Hassey, aged 25, committed by A. Constable, Esq. (and other Magistrates) charged on the oaths of George Martin Bird and others, on a strong suspicion, of wilfully and feloniously killing and murdering George Bird and Mary Simmons, on the 7th of February, at Greenwich—and also with having, in the night of the 7th of February, hurglarioutly entered the dwelling-house of George Bird, at Green. wich, and feloniously stolen therefrom several watches, a silver soup-ladle, a aster strainer, and several other things, the property of George Bird. John Hogan, aced 25, Aterander Wardrobe, 27,1 committed by the Rev. S. Watson, D.l). and other Magistrates, charged on the oaths of Cornelius Craw. ley and others, on suspicion of the wilful murder of Francis Lad, upon the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England. James Clements, aged- 25, committed by the same Magistrates, on the oaths of the same persons, on suspicion of the wilful murder of John Macardale, on the high seas, Stc. Alexander Dewar, aged 38, Christopher hiustead, 29, committed by the same, on suspicinir of the ful murder of Lochlin M‘Learr, Daniel M'Cormick, and George Stevenson, on the high seas, &c. ; also charged on suspicion of the ,wilful murder of John Macardale... Dewar further charged on suspicion of the wilful murder of Bryan Kelly on the high seas, &c. There are also Richard Beeching, aged.so, committed by the Coroner, charged with feloniously killing and slaying James Terry, at Teuton ;- lied James Bell, committed by the same, charged with having feloniously killed and slain Wm. Delman, at Greenwich, thelth May. The Calendar further contains a number of charges for burglary, passing forged notes, &c.  A melancholy circomstance occurred at Carmarthen, on Saturday se'nnight. Mr. Richard Biker, a traveller for the respectable house of Sutton and Co , Bow Church-yard, London, arrived there en the above evening faom Swansea, and soon afterwards went to bathe in the Towy ; he swam aerras the river, but on his return was seised, it- is supposed, with a fit of ;he cramp, shout the midst of the atteam, and sunk instantly. The body wee found at three o'clock no Sunday morning, and on Monday the Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. The Duke of Bedford's porter cut his throat yPfe terdey morning, at his Grace's residence in llamatnn.place. lie was taken to St. George's Huspitel with little hopes of recovery. DEAL, Jut.tr the. whole of the out. ward bound) except the Broxbournbury, Oich remains.