whose state of mind led him to com. mit several excesses, I am called upon, as the guardian of lunatic persons, to order proper care to be taken of him. Without imputing any blame to his family, or those who had the administration of justice, I consider that he has not been treated with the humanity due to his situation; I therefore order that Mr. Ludlam shall remain under the care of Dr. Monro, with whom he now is; and that no attempt shall be made to execute the warrant of the lord-mayor, or the order of any magistrate whatever. I trust, when the magistrates find how the court is disposed, they will be satis fied that it is unnecessary to dis turb the lunatic, who is placed with the most proper person to take care of him.” 14. A few days ago, as the Liverpool mail-coach was changing horses at the inn at Monk's Heath, between Congleton, in Cheshire, and Newcastle-under-Line, the horses which had performed the stage from Congleton having been just taken off and separated, hearing sir Peter Warberton's foxbounds in full cry, immediately started after them, with their harness on, and followed the chace until the last. One of them, a bloed-mare, kept the track with the whipper-in, and gallantly followed him for about two hours, over every kap he took, until old Reynard, who was a cowardly rogue, had led them round in a ring-fence, and ran to ground in Mr. Hibbert's plantation. The sportsmen who witnessed the feats of this gallant mare, were, sir Harry Mainwaring, messrs. Cholmondeley, Lay. ford Brook, Edwin Corbett, Daven. port, Townshend Pickford, &c. These spirited horses were led back to the inn at Monk's Heath, and performed their stage back to Con gleton the same evening, appa rently in higher spirits for having had à brush after the fox. 15. At Whittlesea, between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, George Burnham, a lad of about 13 years of age, was most inhumanly murdered by a young villain about 16 years old, of the name of Richard Falkner. The hardened wretch struck the poor sufferer with a large piece of wood, made square at one end, on the left side of the face, which he laid open in a transverse line, down by the nose, completely dividing the lower jaw. He seems to have previously formed the design of hanging the poor fellow; as he had fastened a piece of cord in a situation a lapted to such a pur. pose, at the end of a barn. No quarrel existed between the parties, and no motive can be assigned for this deed, but some offence taken by the wretch at the poor boy's mother, for sending him away when playing near her door, and his own shocking propensity to commit murder. It appears by the confession of a poor boy about seven years old, called Drury, that some time ago Falkner enticed him into his mother's yard, by promising to find him a bird's nest, where having tied a piece of cord at both ends, as being for him to swing on, he took up the little creature, and, putting his head over the cord, left him swinging; but by some means, in his convulsive struggles, he fell senseless to the ground, nor does he know how long he lay there. This circumstance he durst not confess till Falkner was in custody for the recent murder. Bb 2 A charge A charge of seduction has been exhibited against a bantling of the new school, by a frail fair one on the wrong side of 40. The follow ing are the circumstances.-The gentleman, who is a minor, had paid his addresses to the lady three weeks previous to Thursday last; on which day, agreeably to her wishes, she was to be united in wed. lock to her inamorato, at his resi-, dence in the vicinity of Hackney. On her arrival there, the couple were disappointed by the clergy. man; and the virtuosa refused to tarry there unless the nuptial ceremony was performed. A wag, habited in holy robes, was at length introduced as a clergyman, who united the pair by his own gospel. The lady whose feelings were thus tortured, had been the chere-amie of a gallant colonel in the two last summer campaigns, and since October she had graced the circles of fashion as one of the Paphian sisterhood. A pig of the old Pembrokeshire breed, reared by lord Cawdor, was slaughtered a few days since at Stock pole-court: its height was 3 feet 5 inches, girth 8 feet one inch; length from the nose to the root of the tail, 6 feet 7 inches ; and weighed, when alive, 60 score 17 pounds. The four quarters, with the head, weighed 43 score 17 pounds, and the rough fat 45 pounds. The meat was distributed amongst his lordship's cottagers and labourers. There is now living, on St. James's Back, in Bristol, a woman named Mary George, who was born at Ledbury, Jan. 6, 1694; baptized 26th June, 1697; her youngest child was born when she was 56 years of age! and she has walked from Gloucester to Bristol in one day, within the last seven years. She was nine years old when king Wil liam died; and says she recollects meat at. 1d. per lb. cheese at Ss. cwt.; and that queen Anne was poisoned by a pair of stays! Sir Court of King's Bench, Dublin, Feb. 19. Crim. Con.-Right hon. Valentine lord Cloncurry v. sir John Bennet Piers, bart. The solicitor-general stated the case, in a clear, energetic, and impressive speech, which lasted one hour and forty minutes. He described the plaintiff, lord Cloncurry, as a nobleman of considerable wealth, great sensibility of nature, and a cultivated mind: the defendant as an ancient baronet, a widower, not very young, and not very old. Very early in life, he said, the plaintiff and defendant became acquaintedthey were school-fellows. At a more advanced period they met on the continent, when their intimacy and friendship were renewed. John Piers, was then labouring under some pecuniary embarrassments; from this situation he was rescued by the liberality of the plaintiff; who took his security, it is true, but who afterwards, when he was obliged to accompany a beloved sister to the south of France on account of her declining health, deposited that security in the hands of his law-agent, with a strict prohibition not to call for payment until it was perfectly convenient to sir John Piers. In autumn 1802, lord Cloncurry, accompanied by two of his sisters, left Ireland; some time in the ensuing December they arrived at Nice, where general Morgan, his wife, and daughter, were already settled, having arrived only a few days before them. General Morgan was a man of distinguished connections, and had served with honour in India; his daughter was lovely in her person, fascinating in her manners, and pure in her principles and conduct. Lord Cloncurry became attached to her; his proposals were approved of both by the lady and her father, but their union was deferred until the settlements could be drawn, and the papers necessary for that purpose be procured from England. Towards the end of January 1803, his lordship proceed. ed to Rome, where the general and his family also arrived early in March. The long expected settlements not having come to hand, the young couple became impatient; and the general, having consented no longer to postpone their happress accepted his lordship's assurances, that he would make an adequate settlement as soon as he arrived in England; while he pled. ged his own honour as to the amount of his daughter's fortune.Lord Cloncurry and miss Morgan were shortly after united by Mr. Burns, the chaplain of the duchess of Cumberland, in the presence of their mutual relations, and of all the English of distinction then at Rome. In Rome they continued to reside until autumn 1805, and daring that period lady Cloncurry became the mother of two children. In the month of October his lordship returned to Ireland, and immediately after, honourably and liberally fulfilled his engagement with general Morgan, by settling on her ladyship a fortune of 1000l. a year, in consideration of 5000l. which the general paid him as her fortune. Lord Cloncurry then retired to Lyons, his family seat, near the city of Dublin, where, happy in the society of his beloved wife and infant family, his leisure moments were devoted to the im provement of his magnificent mansion and demesne. Sir John Piers was then in the neighbourhood. Scarcely had he crossed the threshold of his old friend, when the seduction of his wife seemed to become his favourite object, and many circumstances were remarked by his lordship's domestics indicative of that intention. On the 15th of April, lord and lady Cloncurry came to Dublin, that her ladyship might be presented at the castle. They had left one of their children in an ill state of health in the countryto visit this child, and to inspect his improvements, lord Cloncurry from time to time visited Lyons, where he sometimes slept for a night or two; and it seems to have been during his occasional absence that sir John Piers perpetrated his guilty purpose, as detailed in the evidence. On the 14th of May, load and lady Cloncurry returned to Lyons. Sir John Piers again became their guest, as did colonel Burton and Mrs. Burton, his lordship's sister. Still Jord Cloncurry was confident in the virtue of his wife, and unsuspicieus of his friend; and until the evening of the 24th, nothing occurred to alarm him. On that evening he proposed a walk; but lady Cloncurry pretended indisposition. His lordship, with colonel and Mrs. Burton, went into the front lawn; but accidentally changing the direction of their walk, they came round to the rear of the house; and here, to his astonishment, his lordship found lady Cloncurry and sir John Piers walking together, she familiarly hanging on his arm. Lord Cloncurry had no opportunity opportunity for remonstrance that evening. Lady Cloncurry retired before him, and was asleep when he went to bed; but, upon her waking about four o'clock the next morning, he reproached her with the impropriety of what he had been a witness to. Lady Cloncurry burst into a flood of tears, and sobbed out, in words hardly articulate "Sir John Piers is an infamous wretch; he is determined on my ruin; for God's sake let me never see him again." Lord Cloncurry, not conceiving the whole extent of his misfortune-not supposing it exceeded some improper familiarity offered to his wife, rushed out of her apartment in scarch of sir John; he found him shooting in a distant part of the demesne. His first care was, to get possession of his gun, under pretence of shooting a rabbit; he then said to him, "Piers, don't be angry with me; for God's sake don't drive lady Cloncurry to infamy; quit this place; go, God bless you." Sir John, after some confused attempt at explanation, departed. Lord C. returned to the house, and to his wife's apartment; he endeavoured to soothe her; he assured her that the man whom she detested was gone, and that she should never see him more; he also assured her of his own undiminished affection. Struck with his generosity, she threw herself at his feet, and made a full confession of her guilt. The solicitor-general concluded by informing the jury, that, in addition to the loss of the affections of his wife, lord Cloncurry had to lament another circumstance of a most afflicting nature. This adulterous intercourse had proved fruitful, and a spurious offspring was imposed on lord Cloncurry, to bear his name, and to participate largely in that fortune which had been settled on his younger children. Three letters were read from sir J. Piers to lord C.-In the two first he asserts his own innocence, and calls on his lordship for explanation. The third was written with the manifest intention to provoke a breach of the peace. A letter was also read from sir John to lady C. written after the discovery, and which had been intercepted by lord Cloncurry. It is written in the most impassioned and romantic style; he styles her his own beloved Eliza; calls his lord. ship a poor tame wretch, alluding to his conduct in the demesne on the morning of the 25th, and pro poses marriage to her; finally, he begs to know, is it only suspicion with lord Cloncurry, or if he has discovered all? Several witnesses were called to prove the statement in the opening. The trial was resumed the next day. Mr. Burrows was then heard on the part of the defendant; he spoke for upwards of two hours, but did not call any witnesses. Serjeant Ball, spoke to evidence; and the jury, on hearing the charge, retired, and in about 35 minutes returned a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages twenty-thousand pounds! 20. John Holloway, aliàs Oliver, aliàs Long Will, and Owen Haggerty, aliàs Eggerty, were indicted at the Old Bailey for the wilful murder of Mr. Steele, in the month of November, 1802, upon Hounslow Heath. Thomas Meyer, brother-in-law of the deceased, Henry Manby, and Wm. Hughes, described the manner in which the body of the de ceased ceased was found buried near a clump of trees upon the Heath; and Henry Frogley, a surgeon, described the wounds he found upon the body when he examined it; one of which, an extensive fracture in the fore part of the head, he had no doubt, was the immediate cause of death. Benjamin Hanfield, the accomplice, was next examined; the record of his pardon having been first read, without which his deposition could not have been taken. [The pardon, however, only applied to the offence for which he was suffering at the time he made the confession on-board the hulks at Portsmouth.] Ile deposed nearly as follows:-"I have known Haggerty eight or nine years, and Hol loway six or seven. We were accustomed to meet at the Black Horse and Turk's Head publichouses in Dyot-street. I was in their company in the month of No. vember, 1802. Holloway, just before the murder, called me out from the Turk's Head, and asked me if 1 had any objection to be in a good thing? I replied, I had not. He said it was a 'no toby,' meaning a footpad-robbery. I asked, when and where. He said he would let me know. We parted, and two days after we met again; and Sa. turday, the 6th of November, was appointed. I asked, who was to go with us; he replied, that Haggerty had agreed to make one. They all three met on the Saturday at the Black Horse; when Holloway said, our business is to serve a gentleman on Hounslow Heath, who, I understand, travels that way with property. We then drank for three or four hours, and about the middle of the day we set off for Hounslow. We stopped at a public-house, the Bell, and took some porter. We proceeded from thence upon the road towards Belfont, and expressed our hope that we should get a good booty. We stopped near the eleventh milcstone, and secreted ourselves in a clump of trees. While there, the moon got up, and Holloway said we had come too soon. After loitering about a considerable time, Holloway said he heard a foot-step, and we proceeded towards Belfont. We presently saw a man coming towards us; and on approaching him, we ordered him to stop; which he immediately did. Holloway went round him, and told him to deliver. He said, we should have his money, and hoped we would not ill use him. The deceased put his hand in his pocket, and gave Haggerty his money. I demanded his pocket-book. He replied that he had none. Hollo way insisted that he had a book; and if he did not deliver it, he would knock him down. The deceased again replied that he had no book, and Holloway knocked him down. I then laid hold of his legs. Hollo way stood at his head, and swore if he cried out, he would knock out his brains. The deceased again said, he hoped we would not ill use him. Haggerty proceeded to search him; when the deceased made some resistance, and struggled so much, that he got across the road. He cried out severely, and, as a carriage was coming up, Hol., loway said, "Take care, I will silence the b—r,' and immediate. ly struck him several violent blows on the head and body. The de ceased |