experiment should be made. Accordingly, at the time appointed, the sur geon accompanied Adams's father to the bed-side of his son, and there, in the presence of several respectable persons, described to both the young man's parents the nature and precise course of operation about to be performed. Old Adams then shaved his son's head. The incisions were made, the scalp drawn up, and the head examined; during all which time the young man manifested no audible symptom of pain, or sensibility of suffering whatever, until the application of an instrument, with which the head was scraped in a particular part, and then, and once only, he uttered a groan. No beneficial result appearing from this experiment, and as his case seemed absolutely remediless, application was made to his regiment for his discharge.

On Tuesday the 20th, the discharge arrived, and was taken over to Bickenhall by the serjeant. On the Tuesday following, (the 27th) old Adams brought his son down stairs in his arms; and on the 28th, he again brought him down, the son still remaining insensible. Next night (the 29th) he was seen sitting in the poorhouse, with a gun in one hand, conversing with his father; and on Friday (the 30th) he was at Mr Palmer's, a farmer at Thurlbear, two miles from Bickenhall, cutting spars, carrying reeds up a ladder, and assisting his father in thatching a rick! On the next day (the 31st) he was in the barton of Mr Cozens, of Bickenhall, with a dick in his hand, killing mice; and on Sunday (the 1st ult.) Mr Cozens himself met him in a neighbouring copse, gathering nuts! On the morning of Friday (the 30th) Adams walked into the cottage young of Martha Cozens, who lives next door and adjoining to the poorhouse. She expressed great surprise at the suddenness of his recovery, and asked him

how he was able to undergo so much suffering? To which he answered, that he had no recollection of having experienced any. She then asked him, if he did not recollect feeling any pain when the surgeon was scraping his head? To which he replied, "that he perfectly recollected that." The extraordinary rapidity of this young man's recovery, after obtaining his discharge from his regiment, having excited, in combination with other circumstances, an opinion that imposition had been practised, some of the neighbours reported that a press-gang was coming for him. This, it is supposed, having reached his ears, he absconded, and not a syllable has been heard of him since.

EXECUTION. On Wednesday morning, Arthur Baily was executed near Ilchester, pursuant to his sentence, for stealing a letter from the Bath Postoffice, containing bills, the property of Messrs Slack, linen-drapers, and for forging an indorsement to one of the said bills. He was taken out of prison a little after eight o'clock in the morning, and placed in a cart, attended by Mr Melliar, the under sheriff, and the chaplain of the prison, in a chaise. He showed the greatest firmness on the way to the fatal tree; and when under the gallows, he joined fervently in prayer, and addressed the spectators audibly I hope you will all take warning; and," holding a prayer-book in his hand, "I beg you to look often into this book, and you will not come to shame. Be sure to be honest, and not covet money, cursed money! and particularly money that is not your Own. He was then deprived of his mortal state of existence, dying without a struggle.

Shortly after his conviction, Mr Bridle, the keeper of the gaol, gave him a list of several letters reported to have been lost from the Bath Post-office, and which it was supposed he

must have had some knowledge of. On this he wrote "I have clearly examined this list, and there is only one I really know of, and that I have received the benefit of must beg to be excused from saying which.-A. B." On another part of it he adds—“ It has been said I have had concerns with others in the Post-office; now I do positively declare to God, that I had no concerns with any one.-A. B.” Baily had some hopes of a reprieve till Monday, when his solicitor informed him, that all applications to the Secretary of State, the Post-Masters General, and to the judge who tried him, were in vain. As the prisoner before could only be brought to ac knowledge the crime for which he had been convicted, the under sheriff, in consequence of several letters he had received to that effect, thought he might be brought to make a further confession; consequently, on Tuesday morning, after he had taken an affectionate and distressing leave of his wife and six children, had received the sacrament, and being left to himself and his own reflections some hours, Mr Melliar, with much humanity, again urged him on the matter, mentioning particular letters that had been lost; to which Baily firmly replied" I must request, sir, you will not press me further on this subject; I have made a solemn engagement with Almighty God, that I will not disclose more than I have done, which I think would be an heinous and additional sin to break; if I had not made this engagement, I would readily, sir, answer all your questions and remove all difficulties." Afterwards he observed, "I am about to suffer for what has been truly proved against me. All the rest must die with me."

NEW PROJECTS OF IMPROVEMENT. -The new projects for the improvement of the metropolis, are of the most magnificent kind.

VOL. IV. PART II.

1. A plan is drawn for covering 2000 acres with streets and squares, between the New Road and Primrose Hill, on Mary-le-bone Park, and the estates of the Duke of Portland, Earl Camden, Lord Southampton, Mr Port man, Mr Eyre, &c. There will be 20,000 houses in this one undertaking. 2. In the same way, all the fields about Kentish Town and Holloway are to be covered with buildings.

3. Lord Kensington has let a considerable extent of ground, to the left of the road oppositeto Holland House for the same purpose; and Earl Grosvenor's lands are all to be built on.

4. A new canal, to be called the Regent's Canal, is to be cut from the grand junction, at Paddington, to go by the north of Pancras Church, under the hill at Islington, and the New River, by a tunnel, the north of Hoxton to Mile End, and from thence to the Thames at the Bight, near the West India Docks ;

And 5. There is a grand project to turn the river Thames itself into a wet dock, all the way from Vauxhall to Long Reach. This is proposed to be effected by making a new tide river from Blackwall to Gallions, and from Deptford to Vauxhall, by which all the intervening space of the present river would be made a basin.

The improvements which are daily taking place in the cities of London and Westminster are in a general point of view extremely gratifying. There is one inconvenience results from them, which is, that they deprive the poorer classes of habitations suitable to their circumstances, as the new buildings erected in the place of the old houses are far beyond their incomes.

A curious circumstance lately occurred at Winchester, on a trial respecting the right of property in a sloop. A difference of opinion existed among the jurymen, and after having been locked up from three in the after

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noon to nine o'clock at night, they were still far from coming to a decision. It now grew dark, and not being allowed candles or refreshment, and none of them having taking any since the morning, they began to get dissatisfied and uneasy. A few minutes before nine, it was discovered that one of them had made his escape out at a back window from the water-closet; the remaining eleven then grew more and more dissatisfied, and importuned to be discharged, which they were, without coming to any decision whatever. The gentleman who made his escape at the window is a respectable tradesman near Winchester. He, by some means or other, as appeared afterwards, procured a person in the yard to hoist a ladder to the window, and by this means decamped, leaving his disconsolate fellow-sufferers to settle their verdict at their leisure.

10th.-MANIAC.-A most interesting looking female, about 18 years of age, dressed in a style of fashionable elegance, attracted the attention of several persons yesterday morning in Bondstreet, by the singularity of her demeanor. She held in her hand a beautiful work-basket, in which were small bundles of straw, which she exposed for sale to the passengers, asking them, at the same time, if they would buy any matches. So extraordinary a circumstance soon drew a crowd round her, who continued to listen to her ravings for some time, and many from curiosity purchased her little bundles, for which she returned the most grateful. acknowledgments. At length, an elderly gentleman, in great agitation, forced his way through the throng, and catching the female in his arms, he was for a moment lost in the greatest anguish. Several gentlemen offer'ed their assistance, and a coach being procured, the unfortunate maniac was placed in it. To this she made no resistance, but continued crying her

matches. She was driven to the house from which she had wandered, in Baker-street.

An inquest was held at Newcastle, before the coroner, on Saturday week, upon the body of a woman named Moffat, who was found dead that day, at a place which generally goes by the name of the Half-way Home, on the road leading from Brampton to Longtown. It appeared in evidence, that the mother died lately a trifle in debt, leaving behind her a clock, and some other household articles. Anxious to perserve some remembrance of her mother, and consequently unwilling to part with what she probably conceived a kind of heir-loom, she travelled to Morpeth, in order, if possible, to procure from her brother, who resided in that town, a sum of money sufficient to discharge the debt. Disappointed in her expectations, she commenced her journey homeward, but a scanty pittance which she had borrowed on the road soon failed her.-In this forlorn situation, she was permitted by some carriers to ride upon one of their carts; and on their way they met witha cart loaded with brandy, of which they were invited to partake by the carrier who attended it. Having broached the cask, they all, including the deceased, partook. The effect of so potent a liquor on a frame debilitated by two days fasting and two nights want of rest, may be easily conceived. In this situation she was inhumanly abandoned; for being taken from the cart, she was laid upon the bare ground in an excessively damp passage. There being none but children in the house, she remained in this situation for several hours before the people of the house arrived from their work in the fields, when it was discovered that the spark of life had for ever fled !—After a very long and minute investigation, the jury returned a verdict of-Found dead.

Considerable alarm was excited, on Tuesday last, to the inhabitants of St James's-square, in consequence of the sudden departure from their dens of two royal hunting tigers, which were lately sent over to this country as a present to the Duke of Norfolk, and were deposited in the stables belonging to his grace. It appeared that they had broken the door of the den, and made their escape into the hay-loft over the stables; but their flight being soon afterwards discovered, a domestic of the duke's was dispatched to Mr Polito's Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, to have two of his quadruped keepers to attend, and, if possible, to secure the animals, which was at length effected, after two days incessant labour. 18th. GLASGOW.-TRIAL OF JEAN LAPSLEY FOR MURDER.-The pannel, about two years ago, had a natural child, a fine boy, who lived with his mother. She was extremely poor, and lived in an apartment, in Renfrew, along with four other persons, one of whom had been discharged from the army, on account of being afflicted with the Walcheren fever. This individual, the son of the person who let the lodgings, had been greatly annoyed by the child crying during the night, and had repeatedly made his mother threaten to turn their unfortunate lodger, Lapsley, out of doors. In order to avert this, the poor woman bethought her of giving her child laudanum, to induce sleep, and appease the clamours of the sick soldier. For this purpose, she applied to a person of the name of Carswell, who sold her a pennyworth of the anodyne, and jocularly asked her, if she meant to poison any person, and was informed of the purpose for which it was wanted. In administering the medicine, the prisoner did not appear to be acquainted with its fatal qualities, and gave it in so great a quantity, as to occasion the boy to fall

into a long sleep, and ultimately to produce his death. The pannel, alarmed to find that the child slept so long, and could not be awakened, went, considerably agitated, to consult Doctor Carswell, from whom she purchased the drug, and requested him to call and see it. He refused to go, and assured the poor woman that her child would recover in a short time. A second application met with no better success; and in a few hours after the child expired.

Upon being cross-examined by the pannel's counsel, the doctor said he had no degree, but thought he might get one if he pleased: that he could do no good, as it was too late to give an emetic after the child had slept for so long a time. His medical knowledge did not suggest to him that any thing else could be prescribed except an emetic-has never known an injection applied in similar cases. practised medicine for about forty years-was several years in Lancashire, some time in Paisley, and for the last three years in the town of Renfrew.

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In answer to a question by one of the jurymen, said, he did not think he would have gone to see the child, although the parents had been in affluent circumstances, and even in the prospect of being paid for his trouble.

The conduct of the witness Carswell, in talking so lightly of murder, and his gross inhumanity, in refusing to visit the child, whom his medicine had poisoned, received an extremely pointed reproof from the court; and, with a view of securing the public, in future, from the deleterious effects of his surgical practice, instructions were given to the sheriff of Renfrew to institute an enquiry, how far the charters of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, or of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, en

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titled them to prevent this person from following the medical profession in fu

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Lord Hermand in charging the jury, directed them to find a verdict of Not Guilty, and lamented that Carswell was not in the place of the prisoner.

The jury unanimously found a verdict of Not Guilty.

20th.--OLD BAILEY-Yesterday the Old Bailey Sessions commenced before Mr Justice Heath, Mr Justice Bayley, the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and City Officer.

Robert Roberts was indicted for, breaking out of the House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields, while imprisoned there, by virtue of three different warrants under the hand of Nathaniel Conant, Esq., one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex, and escaping therefrom without the licence of Aris, the jailor of the said House of Correction, to whose custody he had been committed

Mr Gurney, in opening the case on the part of the prosecution, stated the circumstances connected with the escape of Roberts, and then proceeded to observe, that being again apprehended, afer some time, he had made certain im portant discoveries against other persons, in consequence of which he had not himself been brought to trial for the offences on account of which he was originally committed, but was admitted an evidence, and had actually already given evidence against others, who had since been convicted on his testimony, and had suffered. It was a fact universally known, that, on account of suspicions entertained by the magistrates that the prisoner could not have effected his escape without the connivance of the jailor, Mr Aris had been removed from his situation of keeper of the House of Correction. The learned counsel could not complain of this step, for undoubtedly a person in the situation of keeper of a prison

ought to be above suspicion. It was for the purpose of doing justice to himself, and of shewing to all the world that he had no hand in the escape of the prisoner, that the present prosecution was brought by Mr Aris, the result of which would shew, that the escape of the prisoner was not attributable, in the most distant degree, to negligence, far less to connivance, on the part of his keeper.

Mr Conant proved the warrants for the commitment and detention of the prisoner to have been granted by him, and to bear his signature.

Mr Knapp, for the prisoner, took an objection that two, at least, of the warrants were on suspicion, and that as to the other, the guilt of the prisoner had never been attempted to be substantiated.

Mr Justice Bayley, who tried the case, was clearly of opinion that the guilt of the prisoner, as to some one of the offences for which he stood committed, must be proved before he could be convicted of a crime in breaking out of custody. The jury accordingly found him Not Guilty.

Previous to the trial, we understand Roberts was desirous of pleading guilty, and for that purpose had written and sent to Mr Aris the following confession and narrative of his escape; but Mr Aris deemed it proper to have all the facts brought before the public, in the hope that the minutest investigation would have taken place on the trial :

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