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of mind enough to give an intelligible account of her real condition. At the mention of the word "mother," she started, and said, "My mother! I dare not see my mother!" She was asked why? She answered, " My husband forbade me to see my mother.”. The Recorder said to her, "What sort of husband can he be who forbids you to see your mother? Can his purpose be good? Can you be bound to obey such a prohibition?" She faintly repeated," I dare not go !"

Sir James Mackintosh then turned to the defendant's counsel, and said, that if the defendant did not wish that the court should think him capable of any atrocity, he must withdraw this unnatural prohibition. The defendant muttered a hurried and reluctant consent. His poor wife leapt from the bench with all the eagerness of joy. The Recorder led her to the apartment where her mother was, into whose arms she rushed, and crying out, "Oh my mother!" she fainted. The Recorder returned in a few minutes, and said, that though the unfortunate young woman had not yet recovered her serenity of mind; though she was still influenced either by dread, or by the remains of affection for her unworthy husband, she had already disclosed enough; for she confessed that the present, and all the other charges of a similar nature, some of which she had sanctioned upon oath, were false. The Recorder then desired to know whether the defendant had any defence to make?

Mr Advocate General, evidently much affected, in common with the whole of a most crowded court, said, that unless the court should itself think it unsafe to act under the influence of feelings so strongly excited as those of every person present were, and should on that ground postpone the farther consideration of the case,

he felt himself bound to say, that he had nothing to offer which he could oppose, with any hope of success, to what had appeared against his client.

The court decreed according to the prayer of the bill with costs. The Recorder expressed his regret that the honourable uniform of his country should still be disgraced by remaining on the defendant's shoulders, and that he was not standing as a criminal instead of appearing as a defendant.

In the course of an hour, when the young woman had recovered, and felt assured of the kindness of her family, and the protection of the law, she swore that she was in fear of death from her husband, and a warrant was accordingly issued to imprison him, till he should find sufficient sureties to keep the peace.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.-The harvest has been nearly closed within this month, with finer weather and more dispatch than has been known for many years before; we wish that we were able to add with the prospect of an abundant produce. The wheats in most districts have suffered very conderably from the mildew, particularly in the rough chuff lands. It was for tunate, however, this happened so late that the ear was nearly ripe, or the defect would probably have been more seriously extensive. The beans have suffered generally from the same cause, and in many parts the barleys and oats, which is not very usual, have also been blighted to a considerable degree. On a general review, there is too much reason to apprehend that none of the white crops will yield two thirds of an average produce. The wheats of Norfolk this year are superior both in quantity and quality. Potatoes are every where an abundant crop. The later turnips are full of plant, and

thrifty; but the early Swedes are irregular, from having been much eaten by the fly. The hop plantations of Farnham continue very promising, while those of Kent, Sussex, Hertford, and Worcestershire, are so much gone off, as to have lowered the Borough speculation on the year's duty nearly one third. Hay is further decreasing in price, from the large second crops, which have been well got up. The meat markets have also experienced a considerable reduction in most articles. Lean stock of all kinds maintain their high prices, from the quantity of feed with which the grazing counties so generally abound. Colts and horses of the draught kind are scarce, and dearer. Nothing has been done in our woollen manufactures to vary in any material degree the last month's prices. Merino and South Down ewes, of superior quality, are however in request at some more money.

FASHIONS. Walking Dress-A high round robe, with full long sleeves, trimmed with vandike lace at the throat and cuffs, and ornamented round the bottom with a Tuscan border in needle work. A short capuchin cloak of buff-coloured short sarsnet, fastened with broaches on the shoulders, and trimmed with deep Chinese silk fringe of the same shade. A Moorish turban bonnet, gathered into a broach in centre of the forehead, purple ridicule, with gold snap and tassels. Half-boots of buff-colouredkid. Parasol with deep Indian awning, the same as thecloak. Evening Dress.-A Grecian round robe, demi-train of fine Indian muslin or Italian crape, trimmed with silk or silver fringe; a Circassian sleeve, and bosom finished a la chemise. A Roman tunic of Sardinian blue satin, confined with correspondent cord and silver button in front. A neck-chain and locket of silver filagree or pearl, with ear-rings and bracelets en suite. Hair worn flat, waving in curls on the fore

head, and confined behind with a row of twisted pearl; the same placed across the front. An occasional scarf, or cloak, of thread-lace. White satin slippers, with silver clasps. Gloves of white French kid, and fan of carved ivory.

General Observations.-Jewellery is much more worn than usual at this season, but we have not noticed any new device; pearls seem the most admired for necklaces, with diamond clasps, broaches, ear-snaps, with oblong pearl drops; garnets and emeralds are much admired for their cool and becoming effect; watches are not quite so much worn as last month. The prevailing colours are straw, pink, blue, yellow, and green.

SEPTEMBER.

1st.-SINGULAR INTREPIDITY.The King v. Maurice Noonan.—In this case, tried at the Cork Assizes, the prisoner stood indicted for a bur glary, and attempting to rob the house of Sir John Purcell, at Highfort, on the night of the 11th of March last. The trial excited considerable interest, and the court was crowded at an early hour on Monday. Every body seemed anxious to hear the narration of a transaction, in which, on one side, though the guilt exhibited may be but too frequently equalled, the courage intrepidity and coolness displayed on the other, has never been exceeded, and seldom indeed has it been matched in the history of human resolution.

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Sir John Purcell, who is in adyan. ced life, deposed a most interesting and manly statement, the substance of which only we pretend to report. He said, that on the night of the 11th of March last, about 12 o'clock at night, and after he had retired to bed, he

heard some noise outside the window of his parlour. He slept on the ground floor in a room immediately adjoining the parlour. There was a door from one room into the other, but this having been found inconvenient, and there being another passage from the bed-chamber more accommodating, it was nailed up, and some of the furniture of the parlour placed against it. Shortly after, Sir John heard the noise in front of his house, the windows of the parlour were dashed in, and the noise occasioned by the feet of the robbers in leaping from the windows down upon the parlour, appeared to denote a gang not less than 14 in number, as it struck him. He immediately got out of bed, and the first determination he took being to make resistance, it was with no small mortification that he reflected upon the unarmed condition in which he was placed, being destitute of a single weapon of the ordinary sort. In this state he spent little time in deliberation, as it almost immediately occurred to him, that having supped in the bed-chamber on that night, a knife had been left behind by accident, and he instantly proceeded to grope in the dark for this weapon, which happily he found before the door, leading from the parlour into the bed-chamber, had been broken. While he stood in calm but resolute expectation that the progress of the robbers would soon lead them to his bed-chamber, he heard the furniture which had been placed against the nailed-up door expeditiously displaced, and immediately afterwards this door was burst open. The moon shone with great brightness, and when this door was thrown open, the light streaming in through three large windows in the parlour, afforded Sir John view that might have made an intrepid spirit not a little apprehensive. His bed-room was darkened to excess, in consequence of the shutters of the

windows, as well as the curtains, being closed; and thus while he stood enveloped in darkness, he saw standing before him, by the brightness of the moon-light, a body of men all armed, and of those who were in the van of the gang, he observed that a few were blackened. Armed only with this case knife, and aided only by a dauntless heart, he took his station by the side of the door, and in a moment after, one of the villains entered from the parlour into the dark room. Instantly upon advancing, Sir John plunged the knife at him, the point of which entered under the right arm, and in a line with the nipple; and so home was the blow sent, that the knife passed into the robber's body, until Sir John's hand stopt its further progress. Upon receiving this thrust, the villain reeled back into the parlour, crying out blasphemously that he was killed; and shortly after another advanced, who was received in a similar manner, and who also staggered back into the parlour, crying out that he was wounded. A voice from the outside gave orders to fire into the dark room, upon which a man stept forward with a short gun in his hand, which had the butt broken off at the small, and which had a piece of cord tied round the barrel and stock near the swell. As this fellow stood in the act to fire, Sir John had the amazing coolness to look at his intended murderer, and without betraying any audible emotion whatever, that might point out the exact spot which he was standing in, he calmly calculated his own safety, from the shot which was preparing for him. He saw that the contents of the piece were likely to pass close to his breast without menacing him with at least any serious wound, and in this state of firm and manly expectation he stood without flinching until the piece was fired, and its contents harmlessly lodged in the wall. It was loaded with

a brace of bullets and three slugs. As soon as the robber fired, Sir John made a pass at him with the knife and wounded him in the arm, which he repeated again in a moment, with similar effect, and as the others had done, the villain, upon being wounded, retired, exclaiming that he was wounded. The robbers immediately rushed forwards from the parlour into the dark room, and then it was that Sir John's mind recognized the deepest sense of danger, not to be oppressed by it, however, but to surmount it. He thought that all chance of preserving his own life was over, and he resolved to sell that life still dearer to his intended murderers, than even what they had already paid for the attempt to deprive him of it. He did not lose a moment after the villains had entered the room, to act with the determination he had adopted; he struck at the fourth fellow with his knife, and wounded him, and at the same instant he received a blow on the head and found himself grappled with. He shortened his hold of the knife, and stabbed repeatedly at the fellow with whom he found himself engaged. The floor being slip. from the blood of the wounded man, Sir John and his adversary both fell, and while they were on the ground, Sir John thinking that his thrusts with the knife, though made with all his force, did not seem to produce the decisive effect which they had in the beginning of the conflict, he examined the point of this weapon with his finger, and found that the blade of it had bent near the point. As he lay struggling on the ground, he endeavoured, but unsuccessfully, to straighten the curvature in the knife; but while one hand was employed in this attempt, he perceived that the grasp of his adversary was losing its constraint and pressure, and in a moment or two after he found himself shortly released from it the limbs of the robber were

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in fact by this time unnerved by death. Sir John found that this fellow had a sword in his hand, and this he immediately seized and gave several blows with it, his knife being no longer serviceable. At length the robbers finding so many of their party had been killed or wounded, employed themselves in removing the bodies, and Sir John took this opportunity of retiring into a place a little apart from the house, where he remained for a short time. They dragged their companions into the parlour, and having placed the chairs with the backs upwards, by means of those they lifted the bodies out of the windows, and afterwards took them away. When the robbers departed, Sir John returned to the house, and called up a man servant from his bed, who during this long and bloody conflict had not appeared, and had consequently received from his master warm and loud upbraiding for his cowardice. Sir John then placed his daughter-in-law and grandchild, who were his only inmates, in places of safety, and took such precautions as circumstances pointed out, till the day-light appeared. The next day the alarm having been given, search was made after the robbers, and Sir John having gone to the house of the prisoner, Maurice Noonan, upon searching, he found concealed under his bed the identical short gun with which one of the robbers had fired at him. Noonan was immediately secured and sent to gaol, and upon being visited by Sir John Purcell, he acknowledged that Sir John "had like to do for him," and was proceeding to shew, until Sir John prevented him, the wounds he had received from the knife in the arm.

An accomplice, of the name of John Daniel Sullivan, was produced, who deposed, that he was one of the party that met at Noonan's house to rob Highfort-house; that there were nine in number, and had arms; that the pri

soner was one of the number, and that he carried a small gun. Upon the gun (which was in court) being produced, with which Sir John Purcell had been fired at, the witness said it was that with which the prisoner was armed the night of the attack. Witness said he did not go into Mr Purcell's house; but two men were killed and three severely wounded, out of the nine of which the party consisted. He said he was induced to come forward and give evidence, upon hearing that two men of the name of Cushing, who were innocent, were accused of being of the party that attacked Sir John Purcell's house. He said he did not hear that informations had been sworn against him before he delivered him, self into custody.

The witness stood a long and rigorous examination by Mr O'Connel; but none of the facts seemed to be shaken, though every use was made of the guilty character of the witness.

The prisoner made no defence, and Judge Mayne then proceeded to charge the jury in a manner the most copious and perspicuous, and at the same time earnestly exacting for the prisoner whatever could be expected from a junction of the purest humanity with justice. He commended with due approbation the bravery and presence of mind displayed through a conflict so unequal and so bloody by Sir John Purcell. The jury after a few minutes returned their verdict-Guilty.

2d.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE.-A soldier of the 1st Somerset militia, having lain in a very surprising state of insensibility from the 26th of April, down to the 18th of July, various means had been resorted to for the purpose of ascertaining whether the illness was real or only assumed; such as thrusting snuff up his nostrils, administering nitrous oxyd gas, electrical shocks, powerful medicines, &c. &c., all of which proved utterly unavailing

in the attempt to arouse him from the unaccountable torpor in which he had lain so long; nor, indeed, did any of these expedients produce in him the slightest symptoms of animation.

Phineas Adams, the subject of the following curious narrative, and whose age was no more than eighteen, on the 6th of June last, was removed from the gaol in which he was then confined for desertion, to the parish of Bickenhall, a small village, seven miles from Taunton, His parents residing at that place, but being unable to receive him in their own habitation, Adams was lodged in the poorhouse; a small cottage adjoining the church-yard. In this situation he continued to lay without exhibiting the least evidence of an improving condition. When any of his limbs were raised, they fell with the leaden weight of total inanimation; his eyes were closed, and his countenance evinced the paleness of death, though divested of

any of the concomitant symptoms of approaching dissolution. His reepiration continued free, and his pulse maintained its character of a healthful tone. The sustenance he received was entirely that of eggs diluted with wine, and occasionally with tea, which he sucked in through his teeth; all attempts, forcible as some of them were, to compel him to open his mouth having been repeatedly tried in vain ; and various experiments were again made to excite sensation without effect, particularly that of thrusting pins under his finger nails.

In this hopeless condition he was visited by Mr Welch, surgeon, of Taunton, who suggested the propriety of performing the operation of scalping the patient, with a view to ascertain whether the fall, to which the illness was attributed, might not have produced a depression of the brain. The proposal was communicated to the parents of Adams, who expressed their willingness that the

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