Annuity. Legacy £5,000 10,000 Fitzpatrick, Gen., 15/. 12s. Gordon, Lady Wm., Hamilton, Lady, Jackson, Mark, porter, Ketteridge, John, Lock Hospital, Montgomery, Sir Jas; Montgomery, Lady Eliz., James, Haughton, 1,000 1,000 2,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 5,000 Murray, Wm., Martinville, Madame, 5,000 Roselli, 100 200 200 10,000 one, with benefit of survivorship; if both die under twenty-one, then Lady Yarmouth and her youngest son. Weekly allowances to poor persons in London, Richmond, and New-Market, amounting to 3001. a-year, to be continued, with wages to old Joe, the gardener. DUBLIN.-On Sunday night last, a party of armed ruffians entered the 1,000 house of Daniel Hurley, of Kilmore, and forcibly carried away Eleanor Hurley, his daughter. By his exami5,000 nation it appears, that Michael Ryan, 10,000 commonly called Sclug, a notorious 10,000 robber, and Timothy and Cornelius. 5,000 Ryan, his brothers, were principally concerned, and the only persons he knew. Lieutenant Neville Wayland, of the Ballintemple infantry, having heard of it soon after, took three yeomen with him to the cross-roads near Lacken, in hopes that they might meet the party on their return. In about 5,000 half an hour, hearing the noise of the horses coming at a great rate, he divided his little party two at each side of the road, and desired they should on no account fire until they were fired at. On their coming up, (consisting of five horses and about six or seven men), he advanced and desired them, in the king's name, to stop and surrender themselves, which they instantly an5,000 swered with three shots at the yeomen: one of the foremost presented a bright blunderbuss at Lieutenant Wayland, so near that the flash threw light on 50,000 his face, but fortunately burned pri50,000 ming only, or his head would have been 50,000 blown to atoms. Several shots were fired on both sides, but the yeomen's with more effect, for one of the ruffians dropped off his horse; the others made 50,000 their escape, the lieutenant and his party being on foot, and it being about one o'clock in the morning. This wretch, though mortally wounded, got on his knee, and swore he would have a yeoman's life, but was unable 5,000 10,000 5,000 10,000 1,000 1,000 10,000 50,000 The residue of personal estate to Lady Yarmouth's daughter and Lord Yarmouth's youngest son, at twenty to present his blunderbuss, his arm being broken. He would not tell his name, and desired he might be thrown into a ditch, and the dirt thrown over him, and nothing said about it. He died soon after, and the body was conveyed to Dundrum. He proved to be Edmund Ryan, of Donohill, flaxdresser, a deserter from Sir Thomas Fitzgerald's regiment, and one of the most determined wicked fellows in the country. Vast crowds came to view the body on Monday, which was permitted, in hopes it might have a proper effect on the people. Lord Hawarden, who was at Mr William Cooper's, at Cashel, being sent to early that day, came out, and took a party of the Ballintemple cavalry, with Mr William Cooper, a magistrate, and scoured the country, as far as Cappagh, after the runaways, until a late hour that night, and also the next day, but without success. The friends of the deceased having applied to his lordship for the body, he said he would give it up if the girl was sent home by Wednesday; which not being done, his lordship brought out a guard of the Fermanagh from Cashel, and had the body conveyed to Cashel, and buried near the jail. 25th.-A horrid murder was committed in the night of Tuesday se'nnight, near Causheen, county of Clare, on James O'Brien : the deceased, in company with his son, returning towards home, was fired at by some unknown assassin, who lay in concealment for him, near his own dwelling, when the unfortunate man received the contents of a loaded musket, and instantly fell; but the murderers not being satisfied that he was dispatched, and having heard him utter some sentences, they immediately approached him (the son having departed for assistance), and with savage brutality, before they retired, nearly severed the head from the body. 26th.-On Thursday, a party of the Wexford militia, consisting of a corporal and four men, on their return after escorting a deserter from Clonmel to Fermoy, were attacked in their way to Cloghean by a multitude of country people, some of whom were provided with fire-arms, and the remainder furnished with cudgels, stones, &c. They instantly demanded the arms from the military, and proceeded to enforce their order with all their force, when the soldiery were at length obliged, in self-defence, to fire on their assailants, of whom three were mortally wounded. Early on Monday morning, the honourable Mr Verson's game-keeper, accompanied by two assistants, surprised a gang of poachers in one of the woods of Stainbro' Park, Yorkshire, shooting pheasants. The villains immediately fired upon them, and wounded the three-the game-keeper in his hand, the landlord of the inn at Slainbro' dangerously in the back, and the third man in the arm (so that it has been found necessary to amputate it), and then escaped, A most daring attempt was made by a party of country people at Clonderalaw Bay, to take possession of the American ship Romulus, on the night of the 8th instant. They assembled at about ten in the evening, to the amount of between two and three hundered, and commenced a firing of musketry, which they kept up at intervals for three hours; when, finding a steady resistance from the crew and guard of yeomanry, which had been put on the vessel on her first going ashore, they retired. The shot they fired appeared to be cut from square bars of lead about half an inch in diameter. of these miscreants dropped, and was carried away by his companions. One 27th.-EDINBURGH.--HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.-On Monday came on the trial of James M'Arra, iron slitter, late in the employment of Messrs Caddel and Company, Cramond, accused of the murder of Alexander M'Arra, his own brother, on the 10th day of November last. Richard Rennie, clerk to Messrs Caddell and Company, deposed that, on the evening of the 10th of November last, while passing the slit-mill at Cramond, he heard a noise, as of quarrelling; and, on going into the work, he found the prisoner challenging Thomas M'Arra, his brother, for allowing one of the furnaces to go wrong. Thomas having gone out, returned again with the deceased, Alexander M'Arra, when the prisoner asked Alexander whose fault it was that the furnace had gone wrong ?-To this Alexander replied, that it was no other person's fault but his, meaning the prisoner. On this the deceased immediately sat down on a bench, while the prisoner continued bawling out in a great passion, against both his brothers, respecting the furnace. The deceased then said to the prisoner, that, if he were not his brother, he would turn him out of the place; and, some time after, in consequence of the noise and bawling continuing, the deceased rose up to turn the prisoner out at the door, as witness supposed; but he was prevented from doing this by Caleb Aitkenson, one of the workmen, who was present. The deceased, however, got up a second time, and on going towards his brother, who was still making a great noise, he struck him with his open hand, his other being in his breast, which knocked off the prisoner's hat, and caused his teeth to bleed a little. The deceased then sat down again, when Aitkenson put on - his hat, and observed that it was a shame for two brothers to quarrel in that manner. Witness thought, in consequence, that there would have been no more of the matter, but in this he was disappointed; for, after the prisoner had walked up and down the place about two minutes, with his hand in his vest pockets, he approached the deceased, and said-" Sandy, you have struck me; now, G-d d-n it, you'll account for it." On saying this, he went and brought a large pair of furnace tongs which were lying in the place, with which he drove at the deceased, who was still sitting on the bench, and hit him in the belly. On this the deceased attempted to get up, but he was driven back by a second push; on which Aitkenson rushed forward, and while attempting to prevent farther mischief, the prisoner drew in the tongs to shorten his hold, and struck the deceased with them on the face. The tongs being taken from the prisoner, he attempted to strike his brother with his fist, but this was prevented; and the deceased having got very weak, he fell to the ground, tearing, in his fall, the breast of the pri soner's coat, which he had laid hold of towards the end of the struggle. After lying on the ground about 15 minutes, the deceased was carried to his father's house, where he died on the fourth day thereafter. Being interrogated by Mr Jeffrey, for the prisoner, witness stated, that the prisoner and the deceased were both in liquor at the time of the accident; that they were both a little quarrelsome, but the deceased was more so than the prisoner. Caleb Akenson, referred to by the preceding witness, corroborated his testimony: he also stated, that after observing it was a shame for brothers to be quarrelling in the manner they did, the prisoner told the deceased that he was a rascal and a villain, and almost immediately thereafter, in about the space of a minute, ran for the furnace tongs, with which the mortal blow was inflicted. Being examined on the part of the prisoner, witness stated, that the blow given to the prisoner by the deceased seemed to be a hard blow, but it did not knock him down. The prisoner at first had been blamed for the fault in the furnace; but after the death of his brother, it had been taken down, and it turned out that he was not to blame. James Ritchie corroborated the evidence of the preceding witness. Two surgeons concurred in stating, that the deceased's death was occasioned by the blow which he had received on the head. After the prisoner's declaration was read, several witnesses were examined on his behalf, who all concurred in stating, that the deceased was of a quarrelsome disposition: that he had frequently struck the prisoner, without any blows being returned; and that they considered the prisoner to be a peaceable and quiet member of society. Lord Justice Clerk, in summing up the evidence, said, that he could not pretend to know what might be the verdict of the jury; but this be considered himself bound to say, that if they brought in a verdict of total acquittal, as had been called for by the counsel for the prisoner, it would be a sorrowful acquittal for the people of this country. The case before them was either a case of murder, or of culpable homicide of the highest degree. It was only by a minute examination of all the circumstances attending it, that the nature of the crime could be properly ascertained, and it was to these alone the jury were called to look. [Here his lordship entered into a strict analysis of the evidence.] It was his duty, continued his lordship, to tell the jury, that by the law of this country the present was a case of murder. The provocation pleaded was not such as to justify the weapon that had been made use of. Had the prisoner struck with his fist, or had the deceased, in the scuffle, fallen back upon the furnace tongs, and in either way met the deadly blow, it would then have been a case of culpable homicide only; but, considering the nature of the provocation; that the impulse which actuated the prisoner was not instantaneous; that he had time to cool and think before he seized the fatal weapon-the conduct that followed could only be attributed to revenge, to a foul intention to commit murder. As to the plea of self-defence, concluded his lordship, there was not the least ground for it, as it had been distinctly proved that, before the prisoner seized the tongs, the quarrel with him and his brother had ceased, and therefore, he had no occasion to fear any bodily harm-the only plea which could be urged with success in a case of this nature. The jury returned a verdict of culpable homicide. This day the Lord Chancellor and Mr Perceval had an interview with the King at Windsor. His Majesty, upon their entrance, delivered himself to the following effect: "I am glad to see you, my Lord Chancellor, and I am happy in saying, that I can see your features almost as well as ever I did. I cannot see Mr Perceval so distinctly; but I observe his back is to the window." Upon approaching the window, Mr Perceval turned, and a full light falling on his face, his Majesty is said to have added, "Aye, now I see Mr Perceval's features distinctly." 28th. On Monday last, an inquest was held at Benwell colliery, near Newcastle, on the body of James Heron, pitman, who was killed in a quarrel by John Walton, on Saturday' se'nnight.-The deceased and Walton had assembled along with other pitmen to be bound, and in the course of the afternoon they had been disputing about their work. Going home towards the evening, and still quarrelling, when they came to the door of Walton's house, they had a scuffle, which lasted till they got into the house, and then Heron getting clear of Walton, snatched up the poker, and struck both him and his wife. Walton, enraged, asked his wife for his bayonet; but it not being in the way, she imprudently gave him a large knife, with which, in his passion, he stabbed Heron. The jury, after an investigation, which lasted from half past nine in the morning till half past seven at night, (10 hours) returned a verdict of wilful murder against John Walton, who is committed for trial. On Friday forenoon, while a poor labouring man was assisting in taking down one of the old tenements in the Luckenbooths, Edinburgh, part of the building gave way, by which he was so much bruised, that, although medical assistance was instantly procu red, he died in twenty minutes after he was carried to the Royal Infirmary. He has left a widow, who is now pregnant, and eight children, the eldest of whom is about twenty-two years of age, and is insane, and the family are in the most abject poverty. A subscription for their relief is set on foot. Bow-STREET.-On Friday evening a young female of very interesting appearance, and from the elegance of her manners, and style of dress, apparently of high rank and fashion, underwent a final examination on a charge of shoplifting. The circumstances of her detection were as follows: On Tuesday afternoon, soon after 4 o'clock, when it was dusk, she went to the shop of Mr Geare, silk-mercer, in Hollywell-street, in the Strand, and purchased silk to the amount of sixteen shillings, in payment of which she tendered a one-pound Bank of England note. As the shopman was turning round to get change, he observed something move on the counter, which excited his suspicion; and giving her the change, he charged her with ha ving taken something, but she denied it. So convinced, however, was he of the fact, that he insisted on her being searched, and for that purpose went to call the housekeeper. As he was going into the back room, he observed the young lady stoop down. He then got her up stairs into the dining-room, where the housekeeper searched her, and reported to the shopman, that she could not find any thing upon her, except the silk she had purchased. He, however, persisted that she must have something which she had stolen upon her. The housekeeper proceeded, in consequence, to search her under her clothes, and found a roll of silk. On this discovery she burst into tears, fell on her knees, and entreated for mercy. A messenger was dispatched to Bowstreet for an officer. Humphreys arrived in a short time, and proceeded to search her again, and found in her bosom a 21. and a 11. bank note; but nothing of a suspicious nature. She entreated forgiveness in the most pathetic and distressing language, assuring them it was her first offence, and that she was of a respectable family; the prosecutor, however, told her she was in the custody of an officer, and she must go before a magistrate. A most affecting scene then took place: she fainted, and fell on the floor. Humphreys could not move her till he threatened to carry her out. He conveyed her to the office in a coach. On her examination, she said her name was Willes, and that she lived in a court in Holborn. Humphreys enquired there for her, but was informed no such person lived there. At her examination, on Friday, Mr Nares reprobated her conduct, in giving a false name and residence: when she acknowledged the charges in a flood of tears, and said she had done so to avoid the exposure of her family and herself. There being nothing, however, to bring the charge home but |