1 country with a French man and woman who ufed to call on him, but had not been there fince his abfence, for fhe had not feen him; that the key was not in his door, and, upon looking through the keyhole, the obferved the room was just as the had left it. To another witness, who had called on the 2d of June, to fee the count, the faid that he had gone out very early that morning, and that he did not expect him home until it was late. Some doubts, however, arifing from his abfence, a ladder was procured, perfectly with the confent of the prifoner, to look into the room of the deceased; and upon the perfon's calling out that there was a man upon the bed, the cried out, that the would not have remained there last night if fhe had known there was a man dead in the house; and upon which the, in fact, alarmed the neighbourhood. A finith was fent for, and the door forced open: the deceased was found lying on the bed with all his clothes on but his coat; he was wrapped up in the bedclothes, and pillows covered his head: there was a great deal of blood in the room, a wound was obferved in the neck, and the body was nearly in a state of putrefaction. A woman, who lived in an oppofite houfe, and who had obferved the prifoner fhut one of the windows, which prevented her feeing into the prifoner's room, on the day the murder was fuppofed to have been committed, went up with her at the time the door was opened, and observing his right hand pocket was turned out, faid, he has been robbed; to which the prifon er inftantly replied, he did it himfelf; upon this witness making a fimilar remark that he must have been murdered, the again faid, he did it himself and upon her noticing a wash-hand bafon with fome water in it tinged with blood, as if fome perfon had wrinced their hands therein, the prifoner faid, it is not itrange, not ftrange at all, what do you come here to raife fufpicions for? Another neighbour had heard a fcream about two o'clock on that day, but could not fay whence it came. The deceased was feen coming to ward home between-twelve and one o'clock, and as the lodger in the next room went home as early as five, the fuppofition was, that the murder had been committed in that time. The furgeon who examined the body fwere pofitively there was no wound in the fide of the deceased, but that the raised fkin, fuppofed to be fuch, was from the putrefaction; nor would he undertake to fay what was the cause of his death, although a confiderable quantity ར of blood might have iffued from the wound in his neck. Befide this teftimony, which included all that related to the prifoner, it appeared that the deceased's portmanteau had been cut; that there was a knife upon the table, which was by no means bloody; that in his left-hand pocket he had a knife and a key, the latter of which opened a drawer, wherein were feveral pieces of French coin and three guineas; that the deceafed had been poffefied of a very confiderable property in France, and upon emigrating to this country, an agent in the city had allowed him twenty pounds per month but affairs taking fuch a turn there, that pittance had been ftopped, and he was fo reduced, that a friend had forced upon him the loan of four guineas; he having no other clothes than thofe on his back. The prifoner denied the charged generally, and called three perfons to her character, one of whom said she was of so humane a difpofition, that if a worm lay in her way, he would turn afide rather than do it an injury. The jury went out of court àbout half an hour, and then returned a verdict of guilty. She is aged 63. Richard Ludinan, Ann Rhodes, Eleanor Hughes, and Mary Baker, were likewife indicted for the murder of George Hubner. This murder was committed in King-ftreet, Eat Smithfield, in one of thofe obfcure receptacles of debauchery with which this metropolis abounds. The body of the deceafed was found on the morning of Sunday, the 22d of May, fufpended by the neck from a bed-pott, in a room on the fecond floor, with his hands tied behind his back. This unfortunate man was a taylor, and had, it seemed; been in very diftreffed circumstances, which produced a propensity to intoxication when much in liquor, his wife faid, he flept fo found, that it was almost impoffible to wake him. It was proved that the four prifoners were in the house (which belonged to Eleanor Hughes) on the evening of Saturday the 21ft, and next morning. They were feen, and some of their converfations heard, by two women who lived in an adjoining houfe; this houfe was feparated from that in which the deceafed was found by only a lath partition, perforated in feveral places, and the holes and crevices affording a diftinct view of almost all the apartments of the latter. The manner in which the hands of the deceated were bound with a piece of tape was defcribed in the court. The knot that had been used was what feamen call a timber hitch, and it was obviously fuch money. The information further charged the defendant with faying, in the fame book, that a guillotine was neceffary to be employed in this country, as a merciful mode of deftroying kings and queens, becaufe their heads might be cut off with lefs pain by that machine than by an axe. s could not have been done by himself. There was no direct and pofitive proof of the guilt of the prifoners; but there was a chain of moft fufpicious circumftances pointing ftrongly againt Ludman and Hughes. The lord chief baron fummed up the evidence with great precifion, candour, and humanity. It was on the expreffions used by the prifoners that the proof chiefly refted, and his lordship nicely difcriminated between thofe which feemed to arise from surprise, on the discovery of the fituation of the deceased, and thofe which could be fuppofed to proceed only from a knowledge of the murder. The jury retired about an hour, and re-ed by the archbishop of hell, in order to turned with a verdict, finding Richard Ludman and Eleanor Hughes guilty.Ann Rhodes and Mary Baker not guilty. Eleanor Hughes pleaded pregnancy, to ftay the execution of her fentence. On which a jury of matrons was collected and fworn, to examine her, and report their opinion to the court. They retired with the prifoner about half an hour, and at their return declared her to be with child, but not quick with child.' JULY 4. Mary Nott, convicted of the murder of Le Comte de Laval, an emigrant nobleman i and alfo Richard Ludman and Eleanor Hughes, convicted of the murder of George Hebner, were executed on a temporary platform in the Old Bailey, before the goal of Newgate, purfuant to their fentence; after which the bodies were delivered at Surgeons-hall for diffection. The fame day, the feffions at the Old Bailey being ended, the fame were adjourned to Wednesday, September 14. JULY 5. On Friday, came on to be tried before Jord Kenyon, an information, filed by the attorney-general, against Daniel aac Eaton, for publishing a fcandalous and malicious libel, called the Political Dictionary, in which certain explanations were given for certain words, and, among others, a Crown was defined to be a bauble, which the people gave a million a year to fupport. A King-from the Saxon word Koning, ineant cunning and craft, and would foon be in difrepute in this country. A Niggard-a King who had defrauded his fubjects of nine millions of money. Oh! Mr. Guelph, where will you go when you die? &c. By thefe the defendant had endeavoured to cause it to be believed, that our fovereign lord the king had oppreffed his fubjects and defrauded them of nine millions of The attorney-general explained to the jury the feveral charges ftated in the information. He defired them to read the whole book, and they would find every paffage in it equally libellous with thofe already read to them; they would find in it the groffelt attack against religion, which was defined to be a fuperftition invent deceive and opprefs the people,' &c. Nobility was there declared to be a titled order of men, fo called from their heyeditary profligacy,' &c. Nefafti Dies Modern days, in which it was not allowed to adminifter justice; this was the cafe, fince even lord Kenyon prefided in the court of King's-bench. Upon reading this paffage, the attorney-general paid many handfome compliments to the noble judge on the bench, who was the object of this unmerited abufe. He then declared the whole book was altogether the most fcandalous and inflammatory libel that ever was published, as well as the groffeft attack upon private worth. After Mr. Vaughan had spoken for the defendant, and the attorney-general in reply, lord Kenyon fummed up the evidence, in the courfe of which he defired the jury not to regard that part of the li bel that refpected himself.-The jury found the defendant guilty. JULY 6. This day, was tried another informa tion against Daniel Ifaac Eaton, for pub. lifhing a book, called A Summary of the Duties of Citizenship,' written for the ufe of the Correfponding Society of London. It ftated, that the genius of fociety contained two fpecies of monfters-Tyranny and flavery; and then proceeded with a variety of remarks upon the regal power of the military, clergy, and law, which we deem it improper to recapitulate. The attorney-general obferved, there would be an end of government, and the laws by which fociety was bound together, if he did not offer publications of fo dan gerous and pernicious a nature to the confideration of a jury. He faid he should produce the fame kind of evidence of the publication of the book which he had lately offered, and which had always been deemed sufficient. Two witneffes deposed as to purchasing the book at the defendant's houfe, in Newgate-freet, of his wife. Mr. Vaughan argued against receiving fuch flight evidence of the publication. He infifted that Mr. Eaton knew nothing of the book being fold at his houfe;. that he 1 was abfent when it was fold, and had previously given orders that it fhould not be fold. He called two or three witneffes, for the purpose of proving that fact, but their evidence by no means feemed to fatisfy either the court or the jury. The attorney-general briefly replied, and lord Kenyon addreffed the jury in a few words, remarking the mifapplication of the law, as laid down by the defendant's counfel to the court for their confideration. The jury found the defendant-Guilty. Jofeph Burks, bookseller, in Sun-ftreet, Bishopfgate-ftreet, was found guilty of publishing the fame pamphlet. JULY 12. On Saturday laft, at the affize at Winchefter, an action was brought by fir Hyde Parker, against major Hugh Baillie, for crim, con, with the lady of the former. The defendant allowed judgment to go by default, and the damages allowed were 3000l. BANKRUPTS. From the GAZETTE. JUNE 28. Ohn Robert Knapp, of Helftone, in Cornwall, chandler. Samuel Elderton, and John Piper, of Godalming, Surry, linen-drapers. Francis Haffell, of Eaftcheap, winemerchant. Rachael Biffix, and James Biffix, of Bristol, fugar-bakers. Richard Howell, of Pancras-lane, Cheapfide, warehouseman. JULY 2. Thomas Belfey, of Dover, in Kent, fhopkeeper. Elifabeth Harlow, of Pall-mall, book. fller. Gabriel Wirgman and Julien Colebert, of Denmark-street, goldfiniths. James Tench, of Bewdley, Worceftershire, baker. William Barton, of Tooley-ftreet, Southwark, Surry, cheesemonger. Humphry Sherborne Haydon, of Whitechapel-road, line-fpinner. JULY 5. John Smith, of Leicester, hofier. James Knight, of High-street, Bloomfbury, carpenter. Sarah Naf, of Chipping Sodbury, in Gloucefter fhire, widow, draper. George Rogers, of Wivelilcombe, in Somerfetfhire, clothier. Thomas Outteridge, of Brenchley, in Kent, dealer. JULY 9. John Budden, of Southampton, baker. Mofes Harris, of Downton, in Wilts, baker. Thomas Prior, of Hillmarton, Wilts, hopkeer. Edward Rust, of Gutter-lane, Cheapfide, victualler. William White, of Holywell-ftreet, St. Clement Danes, mercer. Charles Manly, of Abchurch-lane, London, merchant. John Sheppard the younger, of Bath, butcher. JULY 12. Robert Nettleton, of Tooting, Surry, mealman. William Ripley, of Kingston-uponHull, boot and fhoemaker. JULY 16. William Frathen, of Penryn, in Cornwall, fhopkeeper. Robinfon Shuttleworth, of Preston, in Lancashire, banker. John Wright, of Manchester, merchant. Thomas Seddon the younger, of St. Mary at Hill, London, merchant. Edward Stamford, of Wood-street, London, broker. JULY 19. Robert Sprattin the younger, of Colchefter, Effex, factor. Thomas Barlow, of Manchefter, inn keeper. John Mallard, of Bristol, merchant. Thomas York, of Devonshire-ftreet, St. George the Martyr, merchant. William James, of Swansea, Glamorganfhire, money-fcrivener. Thomas Daw, of Blackman-ftreet, in Surry, dealer. John Bulkeley, of Chefter, wine-mer Edward Goddard, of Mumford-court, AVERAGE PRICES or CORN, Milk Street, Cheapfide, warehouteman. July 16, 1796. ter. John Munt, of Leadenhall-street, hat- By the Winchester Quarter of 8 Buthels. Inland Counties. Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. so de se do so do so do 038 6/24 8 41 026 6 Middlefex Huntingdon Northampton Rutland 176 c 36 618 Leicester 178 10 38 8 22 Nottingham 182 359 84 6 90 8 40 1026 Negro Slaves, a Dramatic Hiftorical Piece, 8vo. 3s. fewed. Pennant's Hiftory of Whiteford and Holywell, 4to. l. is. boards. Gregory's Economy of Nature, 3 8vo. 1. 11s. 6d. Amphlett's Triumphs of War, &c. (Poetry) 8vo. 6s. Pilkington's (Mrs.) Poems, 2 vol. 12mo. 10s. 6d. boards. Eloife de Montblance, 4 vol. 14s. Towers' Tracts on political and other Subjects, 3 vol. 8vo. 11. 4s. Pleader's Guide, a Didactic Poem, 8vo. 3s. 6d. fewed. 6d. Emprefs Matilda, 2 vol. 12mo. 7s. Bean's Family Worship, 8vo. 5s. 6d. Walker's Analysis of Researches into Florian's Analytical Courfe of Studies, 2s. 6d. 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