got the 61. and finished your professional labours? No, Sir, it was too late an hour. It was one or two in the morning. It was after Mrs. Probert had gone to bed.

He did not take the money from his pocket?-No; it was from a sort of note-case. He paid Mr. Probert with a 51. note and a sovereign.

Do you know what he gave Mr. Probert money for?-No, Sir, I do not.

Was there any observation made by Mr. John Thurtell when he paid this money?—No.

Nothing respecting the murder? -Nothing passed the whole of the evening about that business.

You were all extremely cheerful? Yes, Sir.

Did you see a purse?-John Thurtell had a brown silk purse, as well as the small note-case.

What did he do with the note-case?—He threw it in the

fire.

What did he do with the purse? -He threw that in the fire also. Did you see any papers put in the fire? There was a little betting-book put in the fire.

Then it was given to you as your share of the money found? -Yes, Sir.

Where did you hire the horse? -At Probert's, at the Golden Cross-yard; no relation to the prisoner Probert.

Then you do not know from your own knowledge, or from information, what became of the deceased's clothes?—I have not the slightest knowledge.

Had you ever any of the deceased's clothes on your back? Never.

On Sunday evening had you

any other person's clothes on except your own? - On Sunday evening I had a suit of black clothes on of John Thurtell's.

For what purpose did you exchange your dress?-As it was Sunday, I wished to appear decent and respectable.

Were you given to understand the clothes you put on in Probert's house on the Sunday were the property of the murdered man?— Why yes, I have since been given to understand so, for I told the officer where to find them.

Did you go up with John Thurtell, when he went to London ?Yes, Sir.

Was there not a carpet bag put into the gig? When we left Probert's, there was a carpet bag put into the gig, and a boxcoat and a gun, and a powder-horn, with a shooting jacket.

Were there any other things in the gig when he left the Coach and Horses on the Friday night?No, Sir.

If you did not know what these things were, how did you know how to give a description of them when you ordered them to be given up?—I did not say I had not seen them.

Then you knew the contents of the carpet bag? Yes; John Thurtell sorted them up, and put them into my drawers, and desired them to be taken care of. The bag was left in the gig all night, and was brought to my house in the morning.

Probert was brought before the Jury, and entered into a full statement of his connexion with the Thurtells and Hunt. He admitted that he dined with them on the Friday the murder took place, and conveyed Hunt down to his house

in his chaise at the request of John Thurtell; that he put Hunt down a short distance from his house, who said he had promised to meet John Thurtell there; that when he arrived at his gate, John Thurtell met him, and said, "that he had killed his friend, and done the trick;" that he exclaimed "Good God! you have not committed murder?" that the body was afterwards removed by Hunt and John Thurtell to the pond; that he lent John Thurtell six pounds in London, where they dined in Conduit street, and received six pounds from him in his parlour on the night of the murder, when John Thurtell produced a note-case, containing three 51. notes, and a purse containing sovereigns, and said, "This is all I got by the job;" that the body was subsequently removed by John Thurtell from his pond to another place; that he found a spade on his grounds, and that Hunt assisted in removing the body. He then made a general declaration of his innocence of the murder, and protested that he did not know the man's name, who or what he was, and never had seen him in his life.

The Coroner addressed the Jury at some length, and they returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against John Thurtell as a principal, and against Hunt and Probert as accessaries before the fact.

Thurtell and Hunt were afterwards found guilty, Thurtell was executed, and Hunt respited in consequence of the evidence.

SPAIN.

Riego has been tried.

The Second Chamber of the Senores Alcaldes of the Royal

Household and Court have just pronounced the following sentence:

Don Rafael Riego is condemned to the punishment of the gibbet. He shall be conducted to the place of execution, passing through the most frequented streets of the capital. His property shall be confiscated to the King; he is besides condemned in the costs of the suit.

The prisoner has been placed at ten o'clock this morning in the chapel.

Madrid, Nov. 7.-Riego was executed this morning. He asked pardon of the King and the people. An immense crowd assembled round the place, where order was perfectly maintained. convict was not insulted. After the execution, the only thing heard were the cries of "Live the King."

The

The King entered Madrid on the 13th.

squadron is expected in the Gulf of Patras.

DECEMBER.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Polygamy.-A man named Matthews, who has for the last year been employed in this city as a journeyman bell-hanger, having contracted an intimacy with a young woman, a servant, whom he understood to possess a little money, gained at length her affections, and they were married at Bristol. Previously to returning home, Matthews went to an ironmonger's, where he selected some articles to stock his intended shop, which he desired might remain till sent for, when the money should be remitted; but took with him knives and forks to the value of 51. They then returned to Bath, and at the expiration of about four days, Matthews pretended that it would be necessary for him to go to Birmingham to make purchases, and prevailed on his wife to give up to him great part of her money: he then left her, and has not since been heard of! The poor young woman, after waiting some time for his return, applied for information to the persons with whom he previously lodged, who informed her that he had left Bath entirely, and was gone home to his wife and family at Birmingham. This atrocious conduct is but part of this wretch's villainy he had actually but a few days before married another young woman in Bristol, whom he abandoned in a similar manner. was likewise in treaty of marriage with a young woman of Devizes, who gave up a good situation with the intention of being married to him.-Bath Herald.

He

There are at present building in Sunderland nearly 40 sail of ships, principally about 200 tons register, and upwards. Forty-five new vessels have been registered in the port during 1823.-Dumfries Courier.

A meeting was held to receive the report of a Committee who had undertaken to investigate the project of Mr. Williams, for making sub-ways. It appeared that Mr. Davies Gilbert, Mr. M. A. Taylor, and Sir William Congreve, had considered the plan, and did not think it altogether impracticable. On the suggestion, however, of Mr. Alderman Garratt (the chairman of the meeting), that the details were not sufficiently matured, the meeting adjourned for three months.

Discovery of a Roman Town, &c.[From the Caledonian Mercury.]In the parish of Strathmiglo, Fifeshire, there were lately dug up, within four feet of the surface, six bronze vessels of different capacities, from 1 mutchkin Scots, to 10 pints Scots, or 20 gallons English, unquestionably of Roman antiquity. These, however, have proved to be only a presage to still greater and more important discoveries recently made. A Roman town, the Urbs Orea of Tacitus and Ptolemy, so long the object of the most anxious researches of the zealous antiquary, has been also discovered at a short distance, consisting of about 30 houses, in three rows, whose foundations are yet distinctly visible, with the fragments of three or four different specimens of urns, found about these ancient ruins. About a mile west, nearly 40 bronze Roman military weapons of different kinds have been found all lying together. A

little to the north, a Roman urn, and two Roman coins, have been recently picked up, one of them the Emperor Domitian's coins, in excellent preservation, which, with one of the foresaid vessels, and four of said military weapons, are now in the possession of the writer of this article. What appeared to be most remarkable about the new discovered town Orea, is a stupendous triangular table, cut out of the freestone rock, upon a pedestal and pillar, and standing, with little alteration, as the Romans had left it. This seems to have been a table to the Sun, and an inseparable appendage to all the Roman towns.

20. Between the hours of five and six in the evening, as Henry Medlicott, Esq. and his lady were returning home to their house in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, he was accosted by a man who craved assistance of a pecuniary nature, in terms of urgent importunity. Mr. Medlicott, from the fellow's appearance, did not by any means conceive him an object calculated to excite much compassion: he was young, hale, and hearty, to all appearance equal to any ordinary labour, and he therefore told him that he would not relieve him, and said, that if a man was inclined to work, he need never want employment in London. The fellow continued to press for some aid, alleging, in reply to Mr. Medlicott's remark, that he had sought work at several places, but could not procure any, and that he was willing to do any sort of labour sooner than beg or starve. The gentle man, however, declined giving him money in a very peremptory manner, adding, that he need neither starve nor beg, even though he did not work; he should go to the

parish officers, and they would relieve him, but he considered that it would be very wrong to give promiscuous alms, as it encouraged idleness by contributing to the support of an idler. Mr. Medlicott and his lady had just then reached the top of London-street, when the wretch struck Mr. Medlicott a blow on the back part of the head with a stone, or some heavy weight, which was fastened at the bottom of a bag or stocking which the fellow carried in his hand, no doubt prepared for the purpose. The gentleman fell, stunned by the stroke, and his lady dropped beside him, almost equally insensible. When Mr. Medlicott sunk on the ground, the villain snatched at his watch, which being suspended from the neck by a strong steel chain, the tug was ineffectual as to the article itself, though a great part of the chain (a gold one), together with the appendages of seals, keys, &c. became the prize of the robber, who ran down London-street, and crossed Tottenham-court-road. Mr. Medlicott and his lady were taken home, and the wound being examined by a medical gentleman, he pronounced it of no very great moment. For the lady, however, his apprehensions were more strongly awakened, as she continued in hysterics and intermittent faintings for nearly an hour. was far advanced in pregnancy.

She

21. At eight o'clock, according to annual custom, a large quantity of bread and cheese was distributed at Paddington church amongst the populace: the assemblage was immense, and the scramble to obtain it was beyond conception. former years it used to be thrown from the belfry of the church amongst the crowd; but owing to

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