: vant were examined. The former was burnt nearly to a cinder; the left leg and foot, on which there were a black silk stocking and a shoe, only remained entire. The skull, however, although the flesh was burnt off, remained whole, and afforded convincing testimony of the commission of a most foul and detestable murder on the left side, towards the back, there was a terrific fracture. The body of the woman was next examined, and here, if doubt existed before, it was completely removed. The unfortunate creature lay stretched upon her face; her apparel was partly consumed, and her hair, which was long, was spread in dishevelled locks about her. She was lifted upon a table, and the cause of her death became at once perceptible. A horrible wound, inflicted apparently with a blunt instrument, appeared over her eye, and at the back of her head were three deep fractures, which some imagined might have been produced by a bayonet, or some such weapon. Two men are in custody on suspicion; the one had worked as an occasional gardener with Mr. Parker. The constables in the neighbourhood were upon the alert. Mr. Champion, the high constable of Woolwich, took charge of the premises; Bennett, the Bow-street patrol, and Tucker, an officer of Deptford, were likewise on the spot, in order to gain such particulars as might enable them to go in pursuit of the offenders. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. ROME.-M. Settele, Professor of the University della Sapienzas, had composed a course of astronomy by order of his superiors, and had intended to give it to the press; but as he had taught the system of Copernicus, and the motion of the earth, the censorship refused him the imprimatur. It is intended to ask the opinions of the congregation of the Holy Office, and those of the Index. Pope Benedict XIV, permitted this system to be taught as an hypothetical, but not as a positive doctrine. AUGSBURG.-Notwithstanding the vigilance and activity of the police, the attacks and wounding of women who appear alone in the streets in the evening still continue. As the perpetrator does not consider himself safe in the public street, on account of the patrole set to watch him, he now begins to steal into houses, and then to gratify his wicked inclinations by stabbing women whom he finds alone. . The inhabitants still live in the greatest terror. The boldness of the disturbers of public security goes so far, that, notwithing the increased number of guards set by the police, a girl was wounded in the street the evening before yesterday, and another pursued; and yesterday evening, at 7 o'clock, an attempt was made to assassinate a student. He was suddenly attacked by an unknown person, armed with a stiletto, and only his sudden turning round parried the blow from the heart at which it was aimed, so that it struck the breast, and did not prove mortal; but the young man, in defending himself, was besides severely wounded in the hand. The assassin fled. We must praise the general indignation and tumult among the people, who ran toge ther in crowds in order to seize the wretches who have so long carried on their wicked proceedings undiscovered. This afternoon a notice has been issued by the police, and all the streets and squares are occupied by soldiers of the police, gens d'armes, and military patrols. PIRACIES IN THE MEDITER RANEAN.-Letters from Malta of the 3rd ult. state, that Delano, of Liverpool, the master of the William and his crew, have been found guilty of piracy. The trial lasted three days and two nights, and they have been sentenced to be executed on board the ship in which the crime was committed, and afterwards hung in chains. ROSCOMMON ASSIZES.-Trial of the Ribandmen.-Roscommon, March 1. The Crown prosecutions commenced this day. The first person put on trial was Stephen M'Garry, charged with burglary, with intent to commit a robbery; 2d indictment, for demanding money; 3d indict ment, for breaking into the dwelling-house of Michael Hannally, after sun-set, and injuring the same; 4th indictment, for forcibly exacting money; 5th indictment, for demanding the same with intent to rob; 6th indictment, for appearing, by night, armed. A most respectable jury having been sworn, Mr. Vandeleur, leading counsel for the Crown, addressed the court in an able speech of which the following is the substance:-He said he was pleased to find, that at this awful moment, when the peace of the county was at stake, a jury of so great respectability had been selected. They must be, one and all, aware of the critical situation of the county. The gaoler's calendar was replete with crimes of the deepest die, tending to overturn the consitution, and throw the country into a state of anarchy and confusion. At such an eventful period, the state of the country depended on a manly and zealous discharge of the duty which devolved upon jurors. Every thing that was dear and valuable in life was consigned to their protection. Let not those spoliators, said the learned counsel, seize upon your properties, and devastate the county. You all have experienced the benefits of social order in times of tranquillity, and I am certain you must now feel the reverse, owing to the diabolical machinations of those disturbers of your county's peace. That county demands justice at your hands: discharge your duty conscientiously, and with manly firmness. The prisoner brought before you stands charged with a series of crimes, almost all of which are of an insurrectionary nature. Accurately and minutely investigate the case, and with all due lenity towards the prisoner; but let not prejudice or terror affright you from an upright discharge of your duty. The influence of terror, indeed, must be foreign to your minds. From what motives those crimes have been multiplied in this county is to me quite inexplicable. Why were they not, in their infancy, extinguished by the magistrates? It is strange how any man could have skulked from his duty when outrage was so prevalent. Apathy must have got the better of that duty, which the magistracy at large were bound to adhere to. It is to this the increase of crime is to be imputed. But the arm of the law is too strong for those nocturnal disturbers of your peace; and as long as the juries of this county shall be auxiliary to that law, those crimes will be put down. Outrage in the sister kingdom was promptly put down; why not also in Ireland? The Irish, taken in the aggregate, are as loyal as the English; but from the apathy and supineness of the magistrates, outrage has made such head in this county, that an auxiliary force was necessary to be sent down for the purpose of exterminating its baleful influence. It must succeed in putting down crime, if you lend your aid, and peace and good order will be once more restored. In the sister kingdom outrage has been most promptly put down ; why is it not likewise put an end to here? Want of sufficient energy is the cause. The consequence is, a hideous catalogue of crimes appear on the calendar of the county of Roscommon. In the discharge of your duty you will have the zealous co-operation of the government, who are determined to put down these disturbances. What object can these deluded wretches propose to themselves? What delusive prospects have they in view? Some examples are necessary to recall them to their duty, and to render them amenable to the law. Let them dispassionately search their own minds-let them pause for awhile, and consider what they could propose to themselves by the perpetration of such crimes, and the result will be, that all is visionary, and that nothing could be achieved by the commission of such outrages. The learned counsel concluded by saying, that he should not trouble the jury any longer on the subject, conscious, as he was, that they would zealously and faithfully discharge their duty, without fear, favour, or affection. Several prisoners were convicted, condemned, and executed. (From the Correspondent.) Troops have been ordered to the disturbed districts in Ireland; which comprehend, unfortunately, in whole or in part, the three neighbouring counties of Clare, Galway, and Roscommon. The immediate object of the disturbers appears to be, to obtain a reduction in the rent of land, as that of the English manufacturing labourers has been, to raise the price of labour. 11. Bow-STREET. FORGED NOTES.-Charles Ross, a young man of highly respectable connexions, his father being a merchant, and his brother an eminent professional man, underwent a final examination, charged with being a common utterer of forged 10. Bank of England notes, to a considerable extent. The prisoner was originally detected in uttering a forged 10l. bank-note at the Key bagnio, in Chandosstreet, and the Fountain bagnio, in Catherine-street, in the Strand. On an investigation of his conduct, previous to his then detection, it has turned out, that he was the instrument and dupe in the hands of a most desperate gang of villains, who were engaged in the manufacture and uttering of such forged and fraudulent pieces of paper, as well as some forgeries to the large amount of 201. each, but the actual forger has not been discovered. They have been traced to a man of the name of Gardner, who keeps a brothel, but with him the trace ends; however, one of the principal of the gang, of the name of Sandford, had a case sufficiently made out against him to commit him for trial. The prisoner unfortunately connected himself as the general utterer, he being well qualified for it from the liberal education he has received, as well as his genteel appearance and accomplished manners. A charge preferred against him yesterday was by Dr. Yates, of Curzon-street, May-fair, to whom he pretended to be unwell, and to pay him his fee gave him a 10. note, which Dr. Yates changed, and which proved to be a forged 10/. banknote. Sir Henry Halford was among the doctors who were plundered by this means. It was planned to take advantage of him at the time he would leave town for Windsor to attend the late king. He was called upon by one of the gang just as he was about to start, and on a 10%. note being given to him, he would change it in his hurry without taking time to examine it. The same system of plunder has been carrying on at schools, under pretence of paying a guinea or two as entrance-money for children, getting change for 10/. notes, and promising to send the children the next day. The prisoner was committed for trial. ESSEX ASSIZES.-(Child Murder.)-Rosalie Curchod, an interesting female of great personal beauty, a native of Switzerland, was indicted for the wilful murder of her new-born male illegitimate child, at Barking, on the 20th of December last. The circumstances of this unhappy case were peculiarly affecting, indeed pathetically romantic. The prisoner, a lovely and interesting creature, was the daughter of a highly re spectable family at Lausanne, in Switzerland. A young gentleman of that town had paid his addresses to her, contrary to the wishes of her family, who had forbade him the house. His attentions, however, were clandestinely continued for a considerable length of time, until mademoiselle Curchod's health becoming seriously affected, her friends, guessing the secret, determined to remove her far from the cause of her indisposition, hoping that, by change of scene, and absence, her health would be restored, and that she would forget the object of her attachment. England was resolved upon as the place of her sojournment, and she took leave of her friends to come to this country. The prospect of so painful a separation naturally produced the strongest sensation in the minds of the lovers. An opportunity for a stolen interview was found, and in the tumult of ardent passion, excited by feelings of strong attachment, the sense of real honour and virtue was forgotten; and, unhappily, that event occurred which eventually plunged the unhappy object of ill-fated love into the deepest affliction, and even subjected her life to the peril of an ignominious forfeiture. What occurred at this unfortunate interview was, of course, unknown to mademoiselle Curchod's family. She left Switzerland with the fond hope of her parents that absence would efface from her mind what they conceived her unfortunate predilections, and prepare her to receive the addresses of a more worthy suitor. With letters of introduction she reached England; and the friends to whom she was recommended being apprized of the cause of her removal from home, thought that, by employing her mind, the purpose of her friends might be more effectually accomplished, and they therefore placed her at the boarding-school of a lady named Siffkin, at Barking, in the capacity of French teacher. There she continued until the month of December last. In the unhappy interval she experienced the progressive symptoms of approaching child-birth. On the 20th of December the pains of parturition came on, and she was delivered of a male infant unknown to the family. In three days afterwards the consummation of her unhappiness was accomplished-what had happened was discovered, the dead body of the infant was found in a pan in her bed-chamber, and in the result, after a coroner's inquest, she was consigned, in the prime of youth, beauty, and finished accomplishments, to the horrors of a dungeon, to await the doom of that divine law which proclaims the most penal denunciations against the crime of mur der. The author of her suffer. ings, a young man, equally conscious, as it should seem, of the unhappy situation in which she was placed, had been informed of the consequences of their illicit intercourse (but before they be came exposed), and had set out for England, with slender means, intending at all hazards to unite his hand to her's in marriage. He had arrived at Paris in pursuit of his journey; but his pecuniary funds being exhausted, he was detained so long, that he did not reach England until three days after the wretched victim of his attachment had been committed for the offence charged in the in dictment. This being the day appointed for the trial, it is impossible to conceive the interest which the case excited. At a very early hour the court was crowded to excess by male spectators, the nature of the inquiry being such as to exclude the other sex. The unhappy prisoner, during her seclusion in the gaol, had been treated with the utmost delicacy and tenderness. At the hour appointed for her trial she was conducted into court with the assistance of some female attendants. Agitated in every limb, and overwhelmed with grief, she was almost carried into the dock, and seated on a chair, She was attired in deep mourning, and her face was completely concealed with a veil, which, if even removed, would not have been enough to satisfy the brutal curiosity of some individuals in court, whose unfeeling anxiety to behold the beauty of her countenance called forth the indignant animadversion of the judge, who checked the apparently inhuman indifference to her awful situation. Her head, during the whole time, was bowed on her bosom. Nothing but the contour of her elegant person confirmed the opinion entertained of her charms. As soon as she was placed at the bar, Mr. Knapp, the clerk of assize, addressed her in very good French, and stated to her the substance of the indictment, demanding whether she was guilty or not guilty. With great difficulty she sobbed aloud, in French, that she was not guilty. Being asked whether she would be tried by a jury of half foreigners and half English, or all English. Mr. Walford, who was retained as counsel on her behalf, interposed, |