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until Friday. Mr. Read inquired of the prisoner || I cannot bear to think of their affliction. May God for ever bless you. I shall ever remember your kindness to me with gratitude.—I am now, your unhappy friend, B. WALSH.

if he had any question to ask, or any thing to say; but, without taking his hands from his face, where he bad placed them during the whole time, he answered, "No, Sir." He bowed respectfully to the Magistrates when he retired from the bar. Mr. Read suggested, that as the prisoner had been searched, and all his money had been taken away, that a small sum should be given || him for present purposes. The prisoner was immediately supplied with four pounds by Sir Thomas's Solicitor. The prisoner was committed to Tothill-Field's Bridewell. This wretched man, on Saturday, Dec. 14, sent the following letter to a Gentleman in the City, from Tothill-fields Prison:"My dear Sir,-Yon are ever the friend in need, and I have no other that I can apply to. Even

has forsaken me, though

to repay the debt I owed him was one motive for the unfortunate step I resolved on. You will perhaps hear the accounts of my conduct much exaggerated; but be assured I have been entrapped most cruelly. The Solicitor who came to Falmouth in search of me, assured me, that if I would give up what property I had, no further step would be taken, and, in addition, something should be done for my family. I executed there, on this assurance, an assignment and a bond and judgment, and freely gave up what property I had. I was never taken into custody, nor did Adkins the officer interfere in the least. I was allowed to send away my truuk without search, which I directed to my brother's at the Temple. This would surely not have been done, if I had been considered a prisoner. We travelled up together on the best terms, and I went in and out of the rooms at the inns just as I pleased; and Adkins now says, that he did not consider me in his custody, as he thought the business was settled satisfactorily. But what a reverse on my arrival in town! I was hurried to Bow-street, without even then an intimation that any proceeding was to take place.-Adkins took me to his house and treated me very kindly, and I thought I was only detained to execute another assignment, which Mr. Jenkyns had said on the road would be necessary: but at the late hour of nine o'clock, after so long a journey and without preparation, with no friend or legal adviser, I was sent for to the Office, where were the Magistrates and my Aceusers in full array against

me.

You may well imagine my feelings; indeed I thought my heart would break.-I am justly punished; but my poor wife and family--indeed

HORRID AND UNPARALLELED MURDERS!An afflicting murder of four persons was perpetrated in the dwelling-honse of Mr. Timothy Marr, silk-mercer, 29, Rateliff-highway, on Sunday morning, Dec. 8, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, by ruffians who unfortunately have not yet been traced.—The following particulars are from the depositions taken before the Coroner, and at Shadwell Police Office, which contain all the information that has yet transpired respecting the horrid affair:-The first witness called was Mr. Salter, a surgeon. He examined the bodies. Timothy Marr the younger (the child), had the left external artery of the neck entirely divided; from the left side of the mouth, across the artery, the wound was at least three inches long; there were several marks of violence on the left side of the face. Cecilia Marr, the wife, had the left side of the cranium fractured, and the temple-bone totally destroyed; she had also a wound above the articulation of the jaw, extending two inches to her left ear; and another at the back of the same ear. Timothy Marr, the elder, had his nose broken; the occipital bone was fractured, and the mark of a violent blow was over the right eye. James Biggs, the ap prentice boy, had several contusious on the forehead and nose; the occipital bones were shattered dreadfully, and the brains were partly protruded and partly scattered about.-Mr. Salter swore that these violences were all sufficient causes of death. Margaret Jewell was examined next, and she gave the following testimony :-" I was maidservant to Mr. Marr. About ten minutes before twelve on Saturday night, my master, who was busy behind the counter, gave me a one-pound note to go out for some oysters. I went to the left, to Mr. Taylor's oyster-shop, but found it shut; I returned by my master's window, and I saw him still busy behind the counter; I then went to pay a baker's bill to John's-hill, but the haker's shop was also shut: I then went to another place to get the oysters, but I found no shop open. I was out about 20 minutes, and when I returned, I found my master's shop and door closely shut, and there was no sign of light: I rang the bell, but received no answer. While I continued ringing repeatedly at the door, the watchman passed by at the other side with a person in charge; about this time I certainly heard a

foot on the stairs, and I thought it was my master coming to let me in; I also heard the child cry in a low tone of voice; I rang then again and again, and knocked at the door with my foot; while I was doing so, a man came up to me, abused me very much, and used very insulting language to me; I thought I'd wait until the watchman should come; he came at last, called one o'clock, and desired me to move on; I told him I belonged to the house, and that I was locked out; I remarked to him that the pin of the shutters was not fastened; he called Mr. Marr several times through the key-hole, but there was no answer. Mr. Murray, a next-door neighbour, then came out, and asked what was the matter? The watchman told him I was locked out. Mr. Murray went in, and the watchman and I still continued at the door. Mr. Murray came out again and said, he saw a strong light backwards. He then went backwards, got into my master's house, and opened the streetdoor."-[Here the poor girl was so much convulsed by her feelings, that she fainted away; and every effort to restore her was used for a considerable time, without effect.-She was not examined further.] John Murray deposed to the following effect:-He is a pawnbroker, and resides in the next house to that in which the murders were committed. About ten minutes past twelve, on Sunday morning, he was sitting at supper, and he heard a noise in the shop-floor of the next house, which resembled the falling of a shutter, or the pushing of a chair; he also heard the sounds of a human voice, as if proceeding from fear or correction; the voice he thought to be that of a boy or woman. All this happened in one minute. A little before one o'clock he heard a continued ringing at Mr. Marr's bell; this ringing continued till nearly half past one; he at length went to the door to know what was the matter; the watchman said, that the pin was not fastened, and that the girl was shut out; he told

the watchman still to ring the bell, and that he would go to the other side, and make them open the door; he did go backwards, and called Marr three or four times, but got no answer; he then went again to the front of the house, told the watchman that he saw light in one of the backwindows, and that he would endeavonr to get in backwards; he got over the fence, and finding the yard door open, he went in; he went up one pair of stairs, and took the candle in his hand, which was on the landing place; the two doors of the chamber in which Mr. Marr usually slept were open, and through delicacy he did not go in-he called out, however, " Marr, Marr, your shutters are not fastened," but no answer was inade to him; he then descended the stairs, to let the watchman in at the front door, when just at the bottom of them, at about six feet distance, he saw the boy lying dead on the shop floor; his head was freshly bleeding, and his brains were quite visible farther towards the shop-door he saw Mrs. Marr lying dead-her face was downwards, and her head was profusely bleeding-her feet were towards the door. He then opened the door, and let in all those who were outside; he next found Mr. Marr himself lying dead behind the counter, with his head near the window.While he continued looking at the body of Mr. Marr, the girl and others came into the shop from the kitchen, and said that the child lay murdered in the cradle; he went down to the kitchen, and saw the child dead; shortly after he saw a mallet or mall in the hands of a police-officer, which was covered with blood and hair. Mr. Marr had been living in Rateliff Highway only since April last. He was 24 years of age, and his wife about the same; the child was only 14 weeks old.

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We are sorry to say that nothing positive is yet known respecting the perpetrators of this most barbarous and atrocious deed; but we trust their detection will speedily take place.

PROVINCIALS,

INCLUDING REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, &c. IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

CORNWALL.

as Reader to the Jewish Synagogue at Plymouth, MURDER.-W. Wyatt, innkeeper, at Fowey, which situation he lately left, and took to travelhas been committed to Bodmin jail, in conse-ing about the country, selling jewellery, and quence of the Coroner's Inquest, which sat on the purchasing guineas. Wyatt, previous to his latebody of Mr. Valentine, baving, after an investi-ly setting up at Fowey, kept an inn at Plymouth, gation of ten hours, returned a verdict of Wilful where Valentine became acquainted with him.Murder against him. The deceased was a Ger-It came out in evidence, that the deceased went man Jew, and came to this country some time ago to Fowey, in consequence of a letter from Mr.

Wyatt, informing him that he had" buttons," (guineas) to sell. He of course put np at his friend's house. In the evening of the 25th ult. Wyatt and he went out together to take a walk on the beach. Soon after, two lightermen, who were waiting for the ebb-tide, near the spot where the deceased was found drowned, heard a man repeatedly exclaim, in a foreign accent-" Oh! Mr. Wyatt, for God's sake, let me go." but they did not proceed to the place to ascertain the cause. Wyatt, in returning to the inn, was seen as he went through the church-yard by two boys, who remarked, that the new landlord must have been in the water, as his boots squashed. Immediately on Wyatt's entering the inn, a Jew, who had accompanied Valentine to Fowey, asked him where he had left his friend. Wyatt's answer was— "Have you not heard that he was drowned; I I tried to save him, but could not?" Whilst they were talking, the body of the deceased was brought in, only 20 minutes having elapsed from the time of his quitting the house. Wyatt was immediately taken into custody, and on his premises being searched on the 27th, notes to the amount of 2601. belonging to Valentine, were found in a dunghill. They were identified as the property of the deceased, by Hebrew characters on the back of each note. The only defence made by Wyatt is, that Valentine went into a privy on the beach, that he fell into the water in coming out, and that he made every effort to save him, but without effect. Valentine's body has been brought to Plymouth, and interred in the Jewish burial-ground. Wyatt has throughout life borne a most excellent character. He was formerly a shipwright in Plymouth Dock-yard, and afterwards, for several years, kept the chus, in Fore-street, with great credit.

therefrom Bank-notes and silver to the amount of upwards of 501. With this booty, and an old horse pistol and great coat, they got clear off. A reward of 100 guineas has been offered for the apprehension of the offenders; but they have hitherto eluded the most spirited and diligent search.

HAMPSHIRE.

EARTHQUAKE.-Saturday Dec. 7, at about twenty minutes before three in the morning, a shock, resembling that of an earthquake, was felt very generally in the towns of Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport, and their vicinity. It was instantaneous, and caused such a tremendous motion in many houses, that as many as twenty fa milies were awakened by it, and sprang out of bed to ascertain its cause. Similar effects were felt at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, at Arundel, Midhurst, and Petworth,

STAFFORDSHIRE.

STAINED GLASS.-The principal windows in Lichfield Cathedral, have lately been adorned with stained glass, by the generous assistance of Sir B. Boothby, who, travelling through the Bishopric of Leige, visited the dissolved Abbey of Herchenrode. Sir Brooke bargained for its glass, consisting of 340 pieces, each about 22 inches square (besides a large quantity of tracery and fragments) for 2001. and generously transferred the purchase to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral. The Peace of Amiens afforded an

opportunity of safely importing this treasure, which, (accounting by the rate at which glas, taken from the ruined convents in France has been since sold in England) may be valued at 10,000l. whereby the total expence of purchasing, Bac-importing, arranging, and repairing this glass, and of fitting the windows to receive it, was only about 1000l.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE. ROBBERY.-On the night of Dec. 3, between ten and eleven o'clock, three meu entered the turnpikegate-house at Tewkesbury on the road leading from thence towards Gloucester, when one of them immediately ran and pushed an handful of snuff into the mouth and nostrils of the gate-keeper, and with great violence threw him upon his back, in which position he detained him, while the other broke open his desk, and stole

WESTMORELAND.

MURDER.-On Saturday evening, the 30th ult, as a Mr. Minshull was returning from a matrimonial excursion to Gretna, in passing over Shap Fell, near Kendal, with two young ladies in the carriage, they were attacked by two ruffians, armed with pistols. On Mr. M.'s resistance, one of them discharged the contents of his weapon into his breast, and robbed him. Mr. M. soon expired.

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