1 1 country with a French man and woman who ufed to call on him, but had not been there fince his absence, for the had not seen him; that the key was not in his door, and, upon looking through the key hole, she observed the room was just as the had left it.-To another witness, who had called on the ad of June, to fee the count, the faid that he had gone out very early that morning, and that she did not expect him home until it was late. Some doubts, however, arising from his abfence, a ladder was procured, perfectly with the consent of the prisoner, to look into the room of the deceased; and upon the person's calling out that there was a man upon the bed, she cried out, that the would not have remained there last night if she had known there was a man dead in the house; and upon which the, in fact, alarmed the neighbourhood. A fmith was sent 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 opposite house, and who had observed the prifoner shut one of the windows, which prevented her feeing into the prisoner's room, on the day the murder was supposed to have been committed, went up with her at the time the door was opened, and obferving his right hand pocket was turned out, faid, he has been robbed; to which the prison. er instantly replied, he did it himself; upon this witness making a fimilar remark that he must have been murdered, the again said, he did it himself; and upon her noticing a wash-hand bafon with fome water in it tinged with blood, as if some perfon had wrinced their hands therein, the prisoner said, it is not strange, not strange at all, what do you come here to raise fufpicions for?" Another neighbour had heard a fcream about two o'clock on that day, but could not say whence it came. The deceased was seen 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 supposition was, that the murder had been committed in that time. The furgeon who examined the body swore pofitively there was no wound in the fide of the deceafed, but that the raised skin, supposed to be such, was from the putrefaction; nor would he undertake to say what was the cause of his death, although a confiderable quantity of blood might have issued from the wound in his neck. Befide this teftimony, which included all that related to the prisoner, it appeared that the deceased's portmantean 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 pittarice had been stopped, and he was fo reduced, that a friend had forced upon him the loan of four guineas; he having no other clothes than those on his back. The prisoner denied the charged generally, and called three persons to her character, one of whom faid the was of so humane a difpofition, that if a worm lay in her way, the would turn aside rather than do it an injury. The jury went out of court about half an hour, and then returned a verdict of guilty. She is aged 63. Richard Ludınan, Ann Rhodes, Eleanor Hughes, and Mary Baker, were likewife indicted for the murder of George Hubner. This murder was committed in King-street, East Smithfield, in one of those obscure receptacles of debaucherý with which this metropolis abounds. The body of the deceased was found on the morning of Sunday, the 22d of May, fufpended by the neck from a bed-pott, in a room on the second floor, with his hands tied behind his back. This unfortunate man was a taylor, and had, it feemed; been in very distresfed circumstances, which produced a propensity to intoxication: when much in liquor, his wife faid, he slept so sound, 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 21st, and next morning. They were seen, and some of their.. conversations heard, by two women who lived in an adjoining house; this houfe was separated from that in which the deceased was found by only a lath partition, perforated in several places, and the holes and crevices affording a diftinct view of almost all the apartments of the latter. 1 The manner in which the hands of the deceated were bound with a piece of tape was described in the court. The knot that had been used was what seamen call a timber hitch, and it was obvioufly such as could not have been done by himself. There was no direct and positive proof of the guilt of the prisoners; but there was a chain of moft fufpicious circumstances pointing strongly against Ludman and Hughes. The lord chief baron fummed up the evidence with great precision, candour, and humanity. It was on the expreffions used by the prisoners that the proof chiefly rested, and his lordship nicely difcriminated between those which seemed to arife from surprise, on the discovery of the fituation of the deceased, and those which could be supposed 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 money. The information further charged the defendant with saying, in the fame book, that a guillotine was neceffary to be employed in this country, as a merciful mode of destroying kings and queens, because their heads night be cut off with less pain by that machine than by an axe. The attorney-general explained to the jury the several charges stated in the information. He defired them to read the whole book, and they would find every passage in it equally libellous with those already read to them; they would find in it the grossest attack againstreligion, which was defined to be a superstition invent 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 sentence. On which a jury of matrons was collected and sworn, 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; and also 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, pursuant to their fentence; after which the bodies were delivered at Surgeons-hall for diffection. The fame day, the sessions 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 Daac Eaton, for publishing a scandalous 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 support. 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 these the defendant had endeavoured to cause it to be believed, that our fovereign lord the king had oppressed his fubjects and defrauded them of nine millions of deceive and oppress the people, &c. No- After Mr. Vaughan had spoken for the defendant, and the attorney-general in reply, lord Kenyon fummed up the evidence, in the course of which he defired the jury not to regard that part of the libel that respected himself. The jury found the defendant guilty. JULY 6. This day, was tried another informa tion against Daniel Ifaac Eaton, for publishing a book, called 'A Summary of the Duties of Citizenship, written for the use of the Corresponding Society of London. It stated, that the genius of society contained two species of monsters-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 observed, there would be an end of government, and the laws by which society was bound together, if he did not offer publications of so dangerous 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 witnesses deposed as to purchasing 1 the book at the defendant's house, in Newgate-ftreet, 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 house; that he was absent when it was fold, and had previoufly given orders that it should not be fold. He called two or three witnesses, 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 addressed the jury in a few words, remarking the misapplication 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, bookfeller, in Sun-ftreet, Bishopsgate-ftreet, was found guilty of publishing the fame pamphlet. JULY 12. On Saturday last, at the affize at Winchester, an astion 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 30001. BANKRUPTS. From the GAZETTE, JUNE 28. JOR Ohn Ratcliffe, of Liverpool, brasier. Robert Knapp, of Helstone, in Cornwall, chandler. Samuel Elderton, and John Piper, of Godalming, Surry, linen-drapers. Francis Haffell, of Eastcheap, winemerchant. Rachael Biffix, and James Biffix, of Bristol, fugar-bakers. Richard Howell, of Pancras-lane, Cheapfide, warehouseman. JULY 2. Thomas Belsey, of Dover, in Kent, shopkeeper. Elifabeth Harlow, of Pall-mall, bookfeller. 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-spinner. JULY 5. John Smith, of Leicester, hofier. James Knight, of High-street, Bloomfbury, carpenter. Sarah Nafb, of Chipping Sodbury, in Gloucestershire, widow, draper. George Rogers, of Wiveliscombe, in Somersetshire, 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, shopkeer. Edward Rust, of Gutter-lane, Cheapfide, victualler. 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