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which the deputy-constable proceeded to the watch-house of St George, known by the name of the RoundAbout, at the bottom of Ship-alley. The other three gentlemen followed in another coach, and about twelve o'clock the body was deposited in the black-hole, where it remained all night.

Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, the high constable, with his attendants, arrived at the watchhouse with a cart, that had been fitted up for the purpose of giving the greatest possible degree of exposure to the face and body of Williams. A stage, or platform, was formed upon the cart by boards, which extended from one side to the other. They were fastened to the top, and lapping over each other from the hinder part to the front of the cart, in regular gradation, they formed an inclined. plane, on which the body rested, with the head towards the horse, and so much elevated, as to be completely exposed to public view. The body was retained in an extended position by a cord, which, passing beneath the arms, was fastened underneath the boards. On the body was a pair of blue cloth pantaloons, and a white shirt, with the sleeves tucked up to the elbows, but neither coat or waistcoat. About the neck was the white handkerchief with which Williams put an end to his existence. There were stockings but no shoes upon his feet. The countenance was fresh, and perfectly free from discolouration of livid spots. The hair was rather of a sandy cast, and the whiskers appeared to have been remarkably close shaven. On both the hands were some livid spots. On the right-hand side of the head was fixed, perpendicularly, the maul, with which the murder of the Marrs was com

mitted. On the left also, in a perpendicular position, was fixed the ripping chissel. Above his head was laid, in a transverse direction upon the boards, the iron crow; and parallel with it, the stake destined to be driven through the body. About half past ten, the procession moved from the watch-house, in the following order:

Mr Machin, constable of Shadwell. Mr Harrison, collector of King's taxes. Mr Lloyd, baker,

Mr Strickland, coal merchant.
Mr Burford, stationer;
And

Mr Gale, superintendant of lascars in the East India Company s service-all mounted on grey horses.

The Constables, Headboroughs, and Pa-
troles of the parish, with cutlasses.
The Beadle of St George's in his official
dress.
Mr

Robinson, the high constable of St
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The Cart with the Body. A large body of Constables. An immense cavalcade of the inhabitants of the two parishes closed the procession.

On arriving opposite to the house of Mr Marr, the procession halted for about ten minutes, and then proceeded down Old Gravel Lane, New Market Street, Wapping High Street, and up New Gravel Lane, when the procession again stopped, opposite to the King's Arms, the house of the late Mr Williamson. From hence it proceeded along Ratcliffe Highway, and

up

Cannon Street, to the Turnpike Gate, at which the four roads meet, viz.-the New Road into Whitechapel; that into Sun Tavern Fields; the back lane to Wellclose Square; and Ratcliffe Highway. The hole, about four feet deep, three feet long, and two feet wide, was dug precisely at the crossing of the roads, four or five feet from the turnpike

house. About half past twelve o' clock, the body was pushed out of the cart, and crammed, neck and heels, into the hole, which, as it will have been seen from the dimensions, was purposely so formed, as not to admit of being laid at full length. The stake was immediately driven through the body, amidst the shouts and vociferous execrations of the multitude, and the hole filled up, and well rammed down. The parties forming the procession then disper

sed.

The concourse of spectators, on this awful occasion, was immense. Every window of the streets through which the procession passed was crowded beyond example, but there was not the slighest interruption or tendency to disorder. For the most part a general silence prevailed as the procession moved, being only interrupted by occasional ejaculatory curses. When the cart stopped at Mr Marr's, at Mr Williamson's, and at the hole, there were universal shouts and expressions of execration. A hackney-coachman, who had drawn up near the top of Old Gravel Lane, bestowed two or three cuts on the body as it passed, accompanied with an ejaculation which it is unnecessary to repeat.

From the appearance of the body, Williams is conjectured to have been about 30 years of age. He was near six feet in height, with a strong fierce countenance. When the procession began to move, there were two men in the cart, to prevent the body rolling off; but their assistance appearing to be superfluous, they descended, and the body was then left perfectly exposed to the view of every spectator.

During the last half hour the crowd had increased immensely; they pour

ed in from all parts, but their demeanour was perfectly quiet. All the shops in the neighbourhood were shut, and the windows and tops of the houses were crowded with spectators. On every side, mingled with execrations of the murderer, were heard fervent prayers for the speedy detection of his accomplices.

3d. Our readers will recollect the melancholy consequence of the overturn of one of the Glasgow coaches, on the road between West Craigs and Airdrie, in the month of October last year, when Mr Brown, formerly hair-dresser in Edinburgh, unfortu nately lost his life, and his wife was so much bruised as to place her life in imminent danger for a considerable length of time. In consequence of this calamity, an action of damages was brought against the proprietors of the coach, and the proprietor of the post-chaise, with which the coach was racing at the time the accident happened, which appeared to be occasioned by that most unwarrantable offence. After perusal of proofs, and a full hearing of counsel, Lord Meadowbank, ordinary, found the defendents in the following sums, with full expence of process:→→

To Mrs Brown, in compensation of damages suffered in her per

L.300

son, To her, for the loss of her husband,

200

And to each of the children, eight in number, 130 each, 1040

1540

4th. RIOTS AT NOTTINGHAM.On Friday night last two frames were broken in Pleasant Row, Nottingham. One more has since been broken in Milk Street, and three others in other parts of the town.

In many villages in the county,

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Consol. Customs, L.912,433.. L.1,306,293 3.964,910...3 948,439 Consol. Stamps 1,273,473...1,241,66) Accounts are received of the loss of his Majesty's ship Hero, of 74 guns, Captain Newnham, on her return to England from the Baltic. She sailed from Gottenburgh on the 18th ult. in company with the Egeria sloop, Captain Lewis Hole, and 150 sail of vessels for England; on the 20th, the Hero and 50 sail only were in company; and on the 23d, the Egeria (arrived at Leith) lost sight of them in thick blowing weather. The Hero was lost on Christmas day, off the Texel, on the Haak Sands, and, we lament to state, with all the crew except eight. The Grasshopper sloop,

Captain Fanshawe, which was in company (drawing less water) beat over the Sands, and, from the damage she received, was afterwards obliged to run into the Texel, where the officers and crew were made prisoners.-Intelligence of this afflicting event has been transmitted to the admiralty by Admiral Foley, who says, that such was the violence of the gale, that the Grasshopper, in going ashore, beat clean over the wreck of the Hero. These afflicting events are confirmed by the French papers. The Desiree frigate has sailed with a flag of truce to the Texel, to obtain correct particulars of the fate of the crew.

The officers of the Hero, who perished in her, were Capt. James N. Newnhan ; Lieutenants James Wilcox, John Allen Meadway, John Mitchell, John Norton, Charles B. Hitchens; Mr John M. Leake, purser; John Meritt, gunner; William B. Watson, boatswain; Mr Thomas Murray, carpenter.

7th. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES' BIRTH-DAY.-The observance of the Princess Charlotte of Wales' birth-day was noticed this day in a more particular manner by the royal family and others than it has hitherto been done. Her royal highness completed her sixteenth year, upon which occasion her royal father, the prince regent, gave a grand dinner at Carlton House, to the queen, &c. who came from Windsor for that purpose. Her majesty arrived at the queen's palace in her travelling carriage, escorted by a party of light horse, at 12 o'clock, accompanied by Princesses Augusta and Mary, attended by Lady Aylesbury. Soon after, her majesty and the princesses were visited by the Duke of Cambridge. About half past one o'clock the prince regent's

carriage, with the coachman and three footmen in their state liveries, arrived at the queen's palace, and took the queen and princesses to Carlton House, where the Dukes of Kent and Cumberland were in attendance to receive them, who conducted them to the prince regent, who received his royal mother with the most filial affection and attention, and introduced his beloved daughter, the Princess Charlotte, who they congratulated on the return of the day. Her royal highness appeared extremely well. The prince conducted the queen and princesses to view his elegant house, and the repairs lately done to it, till near four o'clock, when the royal party sat down to a sumptuous dinner in the crimson velvet room. The queen was attended by Lady Aylesbury. The prince by Generals Turner and Keppel, and Colonel Congreve. The Princess Charlotte by Lady de Clifford. At a quarter past six the queen and princesses left Carlton House by torch-light for Windsor. The queen was conducted to her carriage by the prince, as were his sisters. The day was observed as a day of rejoicing generally at Carlton House.

12th. Sunday night, between the hours of nine and ten, the house of Mr Pryor, boot and shoemaker, 72, St Margaret's-hill, Borough, was entered by two men, who picked the lock. The servant-maid was in the cellar, and on coming into the shop saw a man, with a crape on his face, taking down the boots. The girl took him for her master, and asked him if he was going out? The man directly said, if you speak or move I'll cut your throat. The girl called murder, and flew to the door, and shoved one man out, and shut it. The man then seized the girl and cut her throat about an inch, gave a cut on her arm,

and then knocked her down, after which he made his escape. Mr Pryor came down, but being in the dark, was alarmed, and went back for a light, and when he returned found a great many boots packed up to take away.

Sarah Wilkins (the servant-maid above-mentioned) is declared out of danger.

13th.-George Hatton and Moses Clark were, on Friday, apprehended by Collingbourn and Glennen, on suspicion of being concerned in the outrage at Mr Pryor's, on Sunday evening last. They underwent a long private examination before Mr Evance and Mr Hicks, at Union Hall, but, Sarah Wilkins still continuing in too weak a state to be confronted with them, they were commited for re-examination. The parish of St Saviour has offered 501. reward for the apprehension of any of the persons concerned in this atrocious outrage.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH.-His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch died at Dalkeith House on Saturday after a short illness.His Grace was Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Marquis of Dumfries-shire, Earl of Dalkeith, Sanquhar, and Drumlanrig, Viscount Nith, Torthowald, and Ross, Lord Scot of Eskdale, Douglass of Kinmount, Middlebie, and Dornock :Also Earl of Doncaster and Lord Tynedale in England, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Edinburgh and Roxburghshire, Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland, &c. His grace was born in 1746, and succeeded his grandfather in 1752. He was the only son of Francis, Earl of Dalkeith, by Lady Caroline Campbell, eldest daughter of John, the Great Duke of Argyle. In 1767, his grace married Elizabeth

Montagu, only daughter of the last Duke of Montagu, by whom he has issue, Charles William, now Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and Henry James, Lord Montagu, and four daughters, viz. the Countess of Courtown, Countess of Home, Marchioness of Queensberry, and Countess of Ancram; all of whom have families. His grace is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Charles William, Earl of Dalkeith, who married Harriet, daughter of the late Viscount Sydney, and has several children. His grace succeeded at an early age to a princely fortune, which gave him the means of indulging his natural disposition to public spirit and private liberality; to which purposes, accordingly, a considerable part of his immense funds were known to be applied. He was exceedingly affable in his manners; and, what deserves to be recorded of a person so greatly exalted both in rank and fortue, was a real friend to the poor. As a landlord, his liberality was well known; he was easy of access, and always ready to take an active part in any scheme of benevolence and humanity.

LIEUTENANT HAMILTON CROFTON.-At the Portsmouth Sessions, which commenced on Wednesday last, a true bill was found against Mr Hamilton Crofton, for purloining sundry articles of value from Mr Bradbury, and some gentlemen, at the inns in Portsmouth. Mr C. was accordingly put upon his trial; but, on the prosecutor being called, nobody appeared in support of the indictment, and he was consequently acquitted.

14.-EDINBURGH.-HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.-Yesterday came on the trial of Alexander Cain, alias O'Kane, accused of having, on the even

ing of the 11th of October (the day on which Anderson and Menzies, two thieves, were executed at Stirling, by sentence of the Circuit Court of Justiciary), with one or more persons, attacked, in the town of Stirling, Archibald Stewart, cattle-dealer in Dalspidle, who had just arrived from Falkirk Tryst, where he had received a sum of money, and of having struck and wounded him severely on the head, and other parts of the body, to the effusion of his blood, and loss of his senses for the time, and of robbing him of one thousand and ten pounds sterling, chiefly in notes of the Falkirk Bank Company.

After the jury were sworn in, the counsel for the prisoner stated an objection, that the notes of the Falkirk. Banking Company, charged in the indictment as taken from the prisoner, were not lodged in due time in the hands of the clerk of Justiciary, to be shewn to the prisoner's counsel. The court repelled the objection.The witnesses were then examined for the crown.

Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, Bart. Sheriff-depute of the shire of Dumfries, swore, that the notes of the Falkirk Banking Company exhibited, were taken from the person of the prisoner, in a small public-house in the town of Dumfries; some of them were concealed near the waistband of his breeches; and also two twenty'pound notes, which he endeavoured to conceal in his hand, while they were searching him, and several others were found concealed in the chimney of the room where he was.- -Sir Thomas, and William Rae, Esq. Sheriff-depute of the shire of Edinburgh, identified the declarations emitted by the prisoner, some of which he refused to sign unless they were written over again and altered.

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