some other circumstances took place which induced him to call again at the baron's house, and demand a view of the plate. Upon this occasion the baron was ill in bed, and on being asked for the plate, he said it was locked up in a chest, the key of which he had, but was so unwell that he could not then go to it. This answer only in creased the suspicions of Mr Smith, and he declared he would not leave the house until he saw it. The prisoner then confessed that he had pawned it, and a writ was shortly afterwards issued for his arrest; and on enquiry, it turned out that he had sold the pair of candlesticks first mentioned to Mr Sherbourne, of the Strand, to whom he represented that he had received them from an old lady, who had been presented with them by a young gentleman, for whom she procured a place in the War Office. This story Mr Sherbourne believed, and gave him nine guineas for the pair. He also told Mr Sherbourne, that he had a great variety of other plate, which he was desirous of selling. The remainder of the plate, it was discovered, had been pawned at a pawnbroker's, in Frithstreet, Soho, for 600l. These circumstances led to new investigations, and it finally appeared that the prisoner had made a false representation altogether, having no connection whatever with the Danish government. Monsieur De Ton, however, stated, that he had heard from the Duke de Chartres, that the prisoner had been employed as ambassador for the Danish government in the Circles of the Rhine; that the royal family of France were indebted to him in a considerable sum; and that he was a nobleman of high respectability in his own country.

Mr Nolan entered into an ingenious defence of the prisoner, contending that, from the circles in which he had been in the habit of moving, as well as from the rank he held upon former OC

casions, it was not to be supposed he had any intention to commit a fraud. In addition to this, no proof had been adduced that the baron was not in truth what he represented himself to be, namely, a person employed by the Danish government. It might be said, that if he was so employed, it became him to bring proofs of the fact; but when the unfortunate state of the continent was considered, and the injury which would be sustained by the Danish government, were such a disclosure to take place, from the tyranny of France, he hoped the court would admit that his client would not be authorized in resting his defence on such a ground. Supposing then the existence of some negociation, which was not improbable, it might fairly be concluded that the baron had obtained the plate with a view to meet existing exigencies, with the full intention of paying the debt he incurred, which he would be fully enabled to do from the presents that were at all times attendant on the conclusion of a negociation; and this being the case, was it fair or liberal to apply the 36th clause to his unfortunate situation?

Mr Serjeant Onslow, although he admitted the ingenuity of the learned counsel's argument, could not admit its justice. He was of opinion that the baron had obtained the goods under false pretences, with a view to dispose of them; and not, as he had represented, to support his dignity as an ambassador. With these sentiments, he did not think him entitled to the benefit of the act, and therefore ordered him to be remanded.

The baron is at least seventy years of age, and although considerably broken down by adversity, bears the stamp of dignity in his person.

WARWICK ASSIZES.-Trial of John Oughton and Charles Lee, for the murder of Richard Whitton, at Kenil worth, about twenty years ago.

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Mr Clarke addressed the jury. The subject of this trial was the death of a young man at Kenilworth, in this county, in the month of October, 1790. He was found floating on the water, lifeless at the time it was not known who it was that was the cause of his death, but there appeared to be many marks of violence on his body. During twenty years nothing had transpired to throw any light on the mysterious circumstances attending the death of this unfortunate person, till about eight or nine months ago, when Lee, who had been tried for an offence, and sent to the hulks, in a conversation with a fellow convict, gave the particulars of the whole affair. Oughton was, in consequence, taken into custody as an accomplice; and they were now to take their trial, on suspicion

of the above murder.

Mrs Elizabeth Burbridge formerly lived at Kenilworth. She knew the deceased (Richard Whitton) before she was married; he was a young man. She knew both the prisoners, Oughton and Lee; they were both living at Kenilworth. The last time she saw Whitton was the night before he was found dead; she thought this about twenty years ago. Deceased overtook witness as she was walking at Kenil. worth the night before, about nine o'clock; they walked near Washbrookbridge. Deceased had hold of her hand; but he slipt behind her. There was an orchard near the bridge where he slipt behind her; she walked slowly on, expecting him to follow. She heard him call; he said, "Stop, Barnes," (Mrs Burbridge's maiden name) two or three times; he called in a whispering tone of voice, not very loud; she looked back, and saw him stoop. ing down this was near Lee's house. She heard deceased run over the bridge: she walked over the bridge after him, towards Lee's house, after which she saw no more of him.

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Sarah Smith lived at Kenilworth in the year 1790. She remembered the time when Whitton was found drowned. The evening before, she was going to Mr Dunn's, the brother of her master, about eight o'clock in the evening; it was a very moon-light night. When she got opposite to Mr Lyttleton's, she saw a man come over the Hallybone-style, as it is called; the man was running very fast towards Mr. Lyttleton's factory; she knew him to be Charles Lee: he was dressed in a light-coloured coat, with sleeves darker than the body; his waistcoat was unbuttoned; his stockings were ungartered, and slipped down. When he met her, she said, " Hallo, Lee !"? He held up his hand, clenched, and said, "Hold your tongue, and don't speak a word!" He did not stop at all, but ran on all the way very fast. Witness stopped and looked after him to see where he went, but lost sight of him against Mr Lyttleton's factory. She went on till she came to a small wooden bridge in Mill-end, when she heard a great noise in the water, but did not see any thing. The next morning she saw the prisoner, Charles Lee : she said, "Lee, where was you going in such a hurry last night when I met you?" He said, "I'll be d―d if you met me: I was not away from home after seven o'clock last night.' She was quite certain Lee was the man she met.

Mr Matthew Wilcox was a surgeon, living at Kenilworth, in the year 1790; he remembered being called in to examine the body of young Whitton, when he had been taken out of the water two or three days: from the examination of the body, he judged that the deceased had been strangled.

John Woodcock, Esq., was coroner on the body of Richard Whitton. He received the deposition of Mr Ridges, a surgeon of Kenilworth, but who is since deceased, and who examined the

body, together with the last witness, (the examination was then read,) by which it appeared to be his opinion, that the deceased was partly strangled before he was thrown into the water.

The next witness called was John Clayton, a convict on board the hulks. He knows the prisoner Lee; he saw him on board the hulks at Langston harbour, near Portsmouth. It was some time in January last he was with Lee, and had conversation with him respecting Whitton. About this time newspaper fell into his hands respecting the death of Mr Whitton, and that a man of the name of Oughton had been taken up for the murder. He told Lee of the circumstance; previous to which, he asked Lee if he knew a man of the name of Oughton? he said he did. Lee then told the circumstances of the case : "I and Oughton went to get apples in Whitton's father's orchard. I left Oughton to watch, while I went to the appletree. Oughton saw Whitton coming, and called out to me, he was after us. Oughton ran across a small meadow, and Whitton after him. When I saw them run, I dropped down from the apple-tree, and followed them across the meadow. Oughton leaped at the mill-dam, and jumped into it. When I got to the edge of the mill-dam, Whitton and Oughton were struggling in the water. Oughton called out to me, If you do not assist me he will drown me; he is to strong. up, and jumped on the top of Whitton in the mill-dam. Soon after, Oughton and I left the deceased in the dam."

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His lordship then asked the prisoner Lee, what he had to say in his defence; to which the prisoner replied, "My lord, I have nothing to say, but hope you will spare my life."

Mr Baron Thomson then addressed the jury. He requested they would dismiss from their minds any circumstances they had heard related, or any

thing they had seen in print, respecting this transaction, against the prisoner Charles Lee. With respect to Oughton, his lordship observed, that there was no evidence whatever to criminate him. After recapitulating the evidence with much perspicuity, his lordship closed by saying, it would be the safest way to find the prisoner, Lee, guilty of manslaughter.

The jury consulted for about five minutes, and returned a verdict against Lee-Guilty of Manslaughter; and an acquittal in favour of Oughton.

CRICKET MATCH. On Monday last, the return match between the one arm and one leg pensioners of Green wich Hospital for 1000 guineas, was finally decided at Montpelier Gardens in favour of the one armed players, by 40 runs. This match was extremely well contested. The first and second innings were played on the 8th and 1.5th inst., and was postponed for the third day, in consequence of the wet weather being so much to the disadvantage of the one legged side, who several times lost or broke their timbers, which disaster befel three of them on Monday last. As soon as the match was decided, the victors were convey. ed home to Greenwich in a triumphal car, with the usual trophies of rejoi. cing and exultation. The gardens were well attended each day, and the company highly diverted with the sport.

persons during the last thirteen months. It appeared by the evidence, that the criminal was a wood-cutter, and resi ded six miles distant from the city. Being idle, and desirous of subsisting without labour, he determined to rob all single travellers who passed through a neighbouring wood; for this purpose he used to conceal himself in a high tree, and take deliberate aim at his victim if he fell, he descended to finish his work, and after plundering, buried the body; if, on the contrary, he missed his aim, or the person, though wounded, attempted to escape, he gave a signal to a dog which he had trained, and which effectually prevented that design. The number of persons who had suddenly disappeared while jour neying through the wood, gave rise to suspicion, and led to the apprehension of Angely and the woman, both of whom, struck with remorse, made a full confession of their guilt. Angely and the woman were executed on the 12th, and the dog was shot by order of the magistrates.

24th. On Monday afternoon, about five, o'clock, a sailor, in a state of insanity, mounted the lamp-iron upon the centre arch of Westminster bridge, and to the no small surprise of the spectators, who stood and looked on, he took his hat off, flung it into the river, and immediately leaped after it. He at first sunk, but, after a short interval, rose, and swam remarkably well. He was picked up by some boatmen, and conveyed to the Red Lion publichouse, where he partook of some brandy; and when asked the reason of his jumping into the river, he said he did it with a view to drown himself, as he knew he should be hanged, having committed murder, and various other crimes too numerous to detail. In the course of his observations he was found to be very incoherent, and in a delirous state: he was conveyed in a coach to one of the receptacles for lunatics.

POISONING HORSES.-POLICE OFFICE, MArlborough-StrEET.——It will be recollected that certain horses, which were to have run at the last Spring Meeting at Newmarket, and upon which considerable bets were pending, under an expectation that they would eventually beat those horses which were expected to be opposed to them, were poisoned. Suspicion fell upon several persons, and it was shrewdly imagined that the authors of the base and diabolical deed were indivi duals of no unimportant consideration in society; and that, although mean er agents were employed for the bar. barous deed, the emoluments arising from it were to fall into the pockets of men of certain note. How far ingenious investigation has discovered any proof of this, does not publicly appear; but it seems there was evi dence enough for a grand jury of the county of Cambridge to find a true bill against Daniel Dawson, for an of◄ fence of this extraordinary nature.

The bill having been found, Thomas Foy got the warrant for his speedy apprehension; and that officer, with his accustomed assiduity and zeal, found Dawson at Brighton, and brought him immediately up to town. Yesterday he was brought up before Mr Conant, and was fully committed for trial.

EAST INDIES.-BOMBAY, June 24th. -Kitson v. Sterling. When the cause was called on in the Recorder's Court, the defendant and his wife' took their seats near his counsel. The Recorder, Sir James Mackintosh, intimated to the defendant the propriety of Mrs S-'s absence; and advised her to retire into an adjoining apartment. The defendant, however, said, that he could not dispense with her attendance ; that it was as much her cause as his; and that he also required her assistance in taking notes, as he himself was deaf. The sequel of the cause, however,

shewed that this was a mere pretext, and explained the reason of his reluctance to suffer her to leave him for a moment. She was suffered to stay.

Mr Woodhouse, for the complainant, stated, that this was a suit in equity brought to set aside a bond for 20,000 rupees, executed by the complainant in favour of the defendant's wife, on the ground of its having been extorted from him by fear and without consideration. The complainant and the defendant married two sisters, the daughters of a Mr West, of that place, the former in July, and the latter in October, 1809; from which time till the 7th of December, the families of the complainant and the defendant had constantly visited each other on the kindest and most cordial terms. On the 7th of December, the defendant set up a charge against the plaintiff of having taken unlawful liberties with his (the defendant's) wife previous to her marriage, and at length, by a succession of threats, induced the plaintiff to sign the bond in question.

Mr West, jun., brother to Mrs Kitson and Mrs Sterling, gave evidence to shew the impossibility that the liberties alleged could have been taken with his sister on the day mentioned, as he being in the house, not far from his sister at the time, must have known it. It appeared by the testimony of other witnesses, that the defendant had charged several other persons with taking improper liberties with his wife, and had endeavoured by threats to extort money from them.

Mr Advocate General, for defendant, was proceeding to address the court, when the honourable the Recorder observed, that he had admitted the evidence of a charge of criminal connection with Mrs Sterling having been made by the defendant against several other persons, but that he admitted it with some hesitation; be

cause the frequency of such charges undoubtedly afforded the strongest presumption of their falsehood in the particular case before the court; that as this evidence had been received, the defendant would be allowed to rebut the presumption, by proving the truth or even the probability of these charges in the case of three officers, against whom they had been made, and that any reasonable time would be granted to him for preparing that proof, on condition of his immediately specifying the times and places of these supposed offences. The defendant appearing unable to satisfy this last condition, no answer was made on his part to the Recorder's proposal.

Sir James Mackintosh then observed, that he now conceived it to be his duty to ascertain whether certain horrible suspicions, which had haunted his mind during the whole day, were or were not well founded. He called upon Mrs S. to leave the side of her husband and come up to the bench which,

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Mr Advocate General (counsel for the defendant) observed, that he hoped his lordship was now about to do what he had long wished, though from his situation he felt a difficulty in suggesting it-to ascertain whether Mrs S. acted under the influence of terror and violence, and to apprize her, if she did, that by swearing the peace against her husband, she would acquire the protection of the law.

The Recorder then put several ques tions to this poor young woman ; but she was in such a state of indescribable weakness and agitation, as to be unable to give any coherent answers. He then enquired whether her mother was near, and being informed that she was in one of the adjoining apartments, he desired Mrs S. to go to her mother for a short time, that, under her soothing care, she might recover presence