lects stumbling 'over several things in the crowd, but what they were she could not tell ; at last she fell on a woman who lay on her back; could not tell whether the woman was dead or alive. The witness was very much bruised. The coro. per, with great humanity, offered her a note to go to the hospital as an out-door patient; which witness accepted.

Thomas Ramsden, esq. surgeon, belonging to the college, Warwicklanie, stated, that he attended the Hospital, when the bodies were brought in, and gave directions for assisting the sufferers; sixteen were recovered, and 27 so much injured by compression, that assistance was unavailing. Witness took upon him to say, that the preservation of those who recovered was attributable to the promptitude with which the professional gentlemen and their pupils afforded relief. The deaths of the sufferers were occasioned, in his opinion, by pressure and suffocation.

The coroner then adjourned the inquest.

Several witnesses were examined on Friday, who threw no new light upon the unfortunate business; and Mr. Shelton then proceeded to address the jury. He was of opinion, that the pressure of the crowd at the entrance of Skinner-street was so great, as to bear down all before it. He stated it as his belief, that when the cry of "Hats off!" prewailed, there was such a falling back of the people from the scaffold towards the opposite houses, as to determine the particular time when so many of the unfortunate sufferers lost their lives. He also thought from the evidence he had heard, that the number of carts and car

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riages of different sorts must have narrowed the passage, and contributed to the danger. He then read over the opinion of Mr. Ramsden, the surgeon, and concluded his charge. The court was now cleared, it being near 11 o'clock; and at a little before 12 the doors were opened, and the verdict was read as follows, viz. That the several persons came by their death from compres sion and suffocation.

After this, a formal verdict was drawn up, which was very long, but in substance the same as the above. At 12 o'clock precisely, the inquest was dissolved, after sitting four days.

24. This morning, Mr. Marsham was found in his bed-room, at his lodgings with Mrs. Oliver, in Char lotte-street, Pimlico, with his throat cutin a most shocking manner. Ile had spent the evening on Monday at the Magdalen public-house, in Pimlico, as was frequently his custom; where he appeared in perfectly good health and spirits, and went home to bed about ten o'clock. He was accustomed to rise about eight o'clock in the morning; and not making his appearance at his usual time, on Tuesday morning, at tea o'clock, Mrs. Oliver and her servant went to see the cause: they knocked at his bed-room door, but received no answer; they, in consequence, opened it; when they discovered him lying on the floor, with his throat cut, and a most horrid spectacle, occasioned by an uncom mon discharge of blood. A surgeon was called in, but to no purpose, he was dead and cold. No cause can be assigned for this rash act, but there was reason to believe he had been slightly deranged for some time past. Ile had been frequently

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heard to say, the devil was in him, and that he could feel him in his throat. Two wills were found, one in his pocket, and one upon a table in them he directs, that his body is to be opened, for the purpose of finding the devil. He was about 60 years of age, and by profession a merchant. He was from Scotland.

27. An inquisition was taken at a public-house leading from Hindon Hill to Uxbridge, on the body of James Richard Sanders, esq. who met his death by the bursting of a gun. The deceased, who was extremely fond of the diversion of shooting, and known in the sport ing world, was practising long shots at pigeons, in a meadow not far from his own residence, preparatory to a match taking place between him and a Mr. Goddard, when the fatal accident befel him. He has left a wife and several children. Accidental Death.

The following is the list of gentlemen pricked by his majesty, in council, to serve the office of sheriffs for the year ensuing :— Bedfordshire-Sir Philip Monnoux, of Sandy, bart. Berkshire-William Blane, of Wingfield Park, esq. Buckinghamshire-J Backwell Praed, of Tyringham, esq. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire-William Squire, of Knapwell, esq.

Cheshire-F. Duckingfield Astley, of Duckingfield, esq.

Cumberland-John Tomlinson, of Briscoe-hill, esq.

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Suffolk-Thomas Mills, of Great Saxham, esq.

Surrey James Newsome, of Wandsworth Lodge, esq. Sussex-John Micklethwaite, of High Ridge, esq. Warwickshire-M. B. Wise, the Priory, Warwick, esq.

Wiltshire

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Thomas Calley, of

Burderop, esq.
Worcestershire-Thomas Bland,
of Ham Court, esq.
Yorkshire-R. F. Wilson, of
Melton on the Hill, esq.

SOUTH WALES. Carmarthenshire-John Morgan, of the Furnace, Carmarthen, esq. Pembrokeshire-John Colby, of Fynore, esq.

Cardiganshire-Thomas Smith, of Foel Alt, esq.

Glamorganshire-George Wynch, of Clementstone, esq. Breconshire-Sackville Gwynne, of Tuymawr, esq.

Radnorshire Thomas Thomas, of Penkering, esq.

NORTH WALES. Merionethshire-R. H. Kenrick, of Ucheldren, esq.

Carnarvonshire--Hugh Rowlands, of Bodaden, esq.

Anglesea-Paul Panton, of las Gwyn, esq.

Montgomeryshire-D. E. Lewis Lloyd, of Maydog, esq. Denbighshire Simon York, of Erthing, esq.

Flintshire Samuel Mostyn, of Nantgwelun, esq.

MARCH.

1. A young man, clerk in the Bank of England, put a period to his existence, by shooting himself through the head. He had applied

to his mother for pecuniary assistance, and requested 301., having got into embarrassment: she said she could not give it, having done so much for him already, and that she really could not spare it; upon which he retired abruptly into the next room and shot himself.

2. John Andrew Nardi, who was tried at the Old Bailey in last December sessions, for the murder of William Broad, in Long-Acre, but who was acquitted by the jury on account of insanity, received his majesty's pardon, on condition of his quitting the kingdom within se ven days, and not being found therein during the term of his natu ral life; and was discharged from Newgate accordingly. Nardi is the Italian who killed a man in Long-Acre in the course of the late Westminster election.

5. A court of common.council was held at Guildhall; at which were present the lord-mayor, the recorder, and aldermen Watson, Anderson, Combe, Eamer, Rowcroft, Smith, Williams, Annesley, and Hankey. The business of the day was " to take into consideration the proposition of lord Howick, for introducing into the Mutiny Act certain clauses, by which Roman Catholics will in future be permitted to take rank and hold commissions and stations in the army and navy."

Mr. deputy Birch said, he rose for the purpose of proposing to the court, that a petition should be presented to parliament against the proposed measure of admitting Pa pists to hold commissions in the army and navy, and to allow them to exercise their religion under the protection and security of the law. The propriety of this proposition he

enforced

enforced upon two grounds; first, that the Catholics kept no faith with Hereticks; and, secondly, that the pope had the power of absolving Catholics from their allegiance.

Mr. S. Dixon seconded the mo

tion.

Mr. Quin spoke at great length against the motion.

Mr. Alderman Combe saw no danger, that was to be apprehended from the proposed measure; and, indeed, it was nothing more than had been extended to the Catholics of Ireland as long ago as the year 1793, when an act was passed, admitting them to hold commissions in the army of that country.

Mr. Slade spoke on the same side.

Mr. Alderman Roweroft spoke at great length against the motion. After some further observations, from Messrs. Waithman, Sharpe, and Wood, Mr. Bell moved the previous question; upon which a division took place.

For the original question, 3 aldermen, 31 commoners, 2 tellers-36.

For the previous question, 7 aldermen, 44 commoners, 2 tellers

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Majority of 17 against Mr. Birch's motion.

6. About five o'clock in the morning a fire broke out at the Globe Public-house and Chop-house in St. Saviour's Church-yard, adjoining Green-Dragon-court, South wark, which was attended with me. lancholy circumstances: Mr. Sims, the landlord, let out several of his apartments to lodgers, and nearly thirty persons slept on the premises every night. His own family consisted of a wife, a daughter, two sons, and his wife's sister; the lat

ter acted in the capacity of nurse to Mrs. Sims, who for some time had been confined to her bed, and was in the last stage of a consumption. The fire was supposed to have originated in the cellar, or vaults, where some people had been at work the preceding day; and was first discovered by the sister, who hearing the crackling of wood, and smelling the fire, alarmed the land. lord, who ran down stairs in his shirt, to see what was the matter; when he perceived the flames burst from the bar, which he supposed had forced their way through the floor.-Greatly agitated, he hastened up stairs, procured a wet blanket, and immediately repaired to the bar, in the hope of being able to extinguish the fire; but he found it had made too great progress to be overcome by his efforts. Feel. ing for the situation of his family, and the poor lodgers at a distant part of the house, he called as loud as he was able, "Fire! fire!" and wrapping a blanket round his helpless wife, with great difficulty rescued her from the flames. In the height of his agitation he could find no better place to deposit her on than a butcher's block. Having left her, and returned to his house, he found it entirely enveloped in the flames; and supposing the greatest part of his family had perished, he gave himself up to despair. He was soon relieved with respect to his daughter, and sister-in-law, who had both escaped by leaping out of a window in the first story into the court, and, though somewhat bruised, were in no danger of their lives. As for his two boys, he gave them up for lost. It fortunately happened, however, that they both had escaped through a trap-door at the Cc 2

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top of the house to some of the ad. joining houses, which way they were well acquainted with, having often resorted to it for their amusement. The relation the boys gave of the scene of horror and confusion which took place among the lodgers, was truly distressing. Before they quitted the house, they saw the stairs fall, and all means of retreat cut off from the street-door. They several times called upon the inmates to follow them, and they would conduct them to a place of safety, but none of them would take their advice. Two persons leaped out of the higher windows after being severely burnt, and were nearly killed on the spot. One of these unfortunate persons, a plumber, was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital? he stated, that when the flames first caught him, he had with him his son, about ten years of age, and his wife-they both struggled to get to the window to follow him, but in vain, and be. came the prey of the furious clement. A Mrs. Burrow, and child, were among the sufferers, as was also a waggoner. Two more persons, making in all seven, were dug out of the ruins the next day, but in such a state as not to be recognised.

6. Hertford Assizes. John Harris was indicted for the wilful murder of Benjamin Stapps, on the 24th of September, by giving him several violent blows on the head, of which be died. The body was found in a well. It was proved, that the prisoner had an interest in the death of the deceased; and that some of his clothes were found in the possession of Harris.

The learned judge, in summing up, told the jury, that in almost every case of murder they must be

contented with circumstantial evi. dence, as murder was generally perpetrated in secrecy. But their first inquiry would be, whether any mur. der had been committed, or whe. ther the deceased had thrown himself into this well? From the evidence there certainly was great probability that the deceased had been murdered.

that there was any one falling The surgeons

It was proved, great difficulty in down the well. proved that he had received blows both before and behind, on the head, but none on the top of the head, where it was likely he would have received one, if he had fallen down head foremost. It was, however, in proof, that the well had a chalky bottom, and such bottoms usually had irregular flint stones. There was no evidence how this was, though it seemed a desirable piece of evidence to have been obtained. He then recapitulated all the evidence, remarking on it as he went along, and left the jury to say, whe ther they thought the circumstances weighty enough to pronounce a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner.

In his defence he only said he was innocent. The jury found the pri soner Guilty.

TRIAL OF SIR HOME POPHAM. Friday, March 6. A signal being made for the admirals and captains of his majesty's fleet then at Spithead and Portsmouth, to come onboard his majesty's ship the Gladiator, lying in Portsmouth harbour, they accordingly assembled at nine o'clock, and commenced their proceedings immediately. The names of the admirals and captains on-board according to their rank and seniority, were called over by Moses

Greetham