name of Richard. In consequence of his story, several of the inhabitants went to assist the family. They found Madelaine Albert walking with great agitation in the house, with a large knife in her hand, with which she threatened to kill any one that should approach her. The darkness of the night, and the terror inspired by so dreadful a sight, paralyzed the courage of these men; they durst not advance and seize her. In their presence, Madelaine Albert took from her mother's pocket the key of a cup ́board, opened it, took out the money that was in it, and went out of the house, with out any of the spectators having the courage to seize her or follow her. It is posed that she is gone towards Riom or Clermont; the gens-d'armerie are in pursuit of her. I have the honour to be, &c. "SARTICES.'

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23d. The Regency Bill finally passed the House of Commons this day, was carried up to the House of Lords, and read a first time.

THE GRETNA-GREEN PARSON.Thursday se'nnight died, at Gretnagreen, aged 79, Joseph Paisley, the Gretna-green parson. He was born at Kirkandrew-upon-Esk, in Cumberland, and early in life was bound an apprentice to a tobacconist; which avocation requiring sobriety and attention, ill accorded with the lax disposition of Paisley. He soon left this trade, to follow the employment of a fisherman, and he was allowed by his contemporaries, from his uncommon strength and agility, to be the most expert man in the use of the litter, for the destruction of salmon, and he endured every kind of fatigue better than any other

with complacency on a celebrated achievement, of which he shared the glory of a great brother drinker: they consumed, without any assistance whatever, no less than ten gallons of brandy in three days. This man could never have gained celebrity, had it not been for the culpable facility with which marriages are celebrated in Scotland; for a more unpolished and rough being in his manners never existed.

the sessions for the trial of offences ADMIRALTY SESSIONS.-Yesterday committed on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, commenced before Sir William Scott, Lord Chief Baron Sir A. Macdonald, and Sir Simon Le Blanc.

Giuseppi Maini was indicted for the wilful murder of Luigi Ferrari, on the 16th of July, 1810.

Several witnesses were examined, the purport of whose evidence was as follows:-The prisoner, the deceased, and several other persons, Italians by birth, being taken prisoners of war in the French service, left Gibraltar on the 15th of July last, on board the transport the Kingston packet, for England. On the 16th of July, in the afternoon, the ship being then at sea, the prisoner and some of his comrades were making soup on deck, in which occupation they were disturbed by the ship's cook, who threw some water on the fire and put it out, forbidding them at the same time from having fire at that late hour. This occasioned considerable discontent amongst the prisoners, and drew from Maini, in particular, strong expressions of displeasure. The deceased, who previous to this was below deck, came up, and reproached the prisoner with being a very quarrelsome, riotous fellow, and that there was no pleasing him; upon which an altercation ensued between them, aggravating words produced blows, and a furious conflict took place, in which the prisoner bit

- the side of the deceased with his teeth, and the latter seized the other with the same weapons by the cheek, which he held for some time, until he produced blood. The prisoner before he was released said to the deceased, that if he would but let go his cheek, they should be brothers, and he would beat him, the deceased, no more; their mutual friends interfered and separated them, and they all went below, the quarrel between them being apparent ly settled. As soon, however, as they got below, the prisoner went to his bed, and seized a clasped knife which had been lying thereon the whole morning, opened it behind his back, and in two, three, four, or five minutes, as the witnesses severally described the transaction, advanced two or three paces towards the deceased, and stabbed him on the right breast immediately under the nipple. The deceased groaned aloud, staggered about ten feet, and fell lifeless into the arms of his companions.

The prisoner put in a written de. fence in English, and denied any malicious intentions towards the deceased, alleging, that having been eating his dinner when the scuffle commenced, he had his knife in one hand; and that when he was thrown down by the deceased, the latter fell upon his knife, and thus the accident was produced. He called a witness, who had been a fellow soldier and a countryman of his in the French service, to prove that he was of a quiet, peaceable temper, and that the deceased was quite of a contrary disposition.

The jury retired for about half an hour, and found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter only; and the court sentenced him to pay a fine of one shilling to the king, and to be imprisoned 12 calender months in Newgate.

24th. The Duke of Queensberry's will only received the seal this day.

The will is dated the 16th of Janu

ary, 1809. His grace devised all his freehold and copyhold estates to Lord and Lady Yarmouth for their lives, and the life of the survivor of them, and after their death to Frances, daughter of the said Lady Yarmouth, then of the age of eleven years, or thereabouts, and the children of the said Lady Yarmouth, born or to be born, and their heirs for ever; and he appointed Sir James Montgomery, Bart., Edward Bullock Douglas, Esq., and William Murray, Esq., executors. He directed all legacies to be paid within three months after his decease, and all annuities to be paid half-yearly; and he directed his executors, out of his personal estate, to invest in their names as much stock as would be sufficient for the payment of the annuities. The will is witnessed by Mr Marrofield, the duke's solicitor, and two of his clerks.

The probate stamp, the highest on the scale, is 6000l. This is independent of the legacy tax of ten per cent., which will attach upon the whole, both of the legacies and the annuities; and the amount of which may be estimated by the following statement of his codicils, which were thirty-five in number.

BEQUESTS BY THE CODICILS.

to present his blunderbuss, his arm being broken. He would not tell his name, and desired he might be thrown into a ditch, and the dirt thrown over him, and nothing said about it. He died soon after, and the body was conveyed to Dundrum. He proved to be Edmund Ryan, of Donohill, flaxdresser, a deserter from Sir Thomas Fitzgerald's regiment, and one of the most determined wicked fellows in the country.

Vast crowds came to view the body on Monday, which was permitted, in hopes it might have a proper effect on the people. Lord Hawarden, who was at Mr William Cooper's, at Cashel, being sent to early that day, came out, and took a party of the Ballintemple cavalry, with Mr William Cooper, a magistrate, and scoured the country, as far as Cappagh, after the runaways, until a late hour that night, and also the next day, but without success. The friends of the deceased having applied to his lordship for the body, he said he would give it up if the girl was sent home by Wednesday; which not being done, his lordship brought out a guard of the Fermanagh from Cashel, and had the body conveyed to Cashel, and buried near the jail.

25th.-A horrid murder was committed in the night of Tuesday se'nnight, near Causheen, county of Clare, on James O'Brien: the deceased, in company with his son, returning towards home, was fired at by some unknown assassin, who lay in concealment for him, near his own dwelling, when the unfortunate man received the contents of a loaded musket, and instantly fell; but the murderers not being satisfied that he was dispatched, and having heard him utter some sentences, they immediately approached him (the son having departed for assistance), and with savage brutality, before they retired, nearly severed the head from the body.

26th.-On Thursday, a party of the Wexford militia, consisting of a corporal and four men, on their return after escorting a deserter from Clonmel to Fermoy, were attacked in their way to Cloghean by a multitude of country people, some of whom were provided with fire-arms, and the remainder furnished with cudgels, stones, &c. They instantly demanded the arms from the military, and proceeded to enforce their order with all their force, when the soldiery were at length obliged, in self-defence, to fire on their assailants, of whom three were mortally wounded.

Early on Monday morning, the honourable Mr Verson's game-keeper, accompanied by two assistants, surprised a gang of poachers in one of the woods of Stainbro' Park, Yorkshire, shooting pheasants. The villains immediately fired upon them, and wounded the three-the game-keeper in his hand, the landlord of the inn at Slainbro' dangerously in the back, and the third man in the arm (so that it has been found necessary to amputate it), and then escaped.

A most daring attempt was made by a party of country people at Clonderalaw Bay, to take possession of the American ship Romulus, on the night of the 8th instant. They assembled at about ten in the evening, to the amount of between two and three hundered, and commenced a firing of musketry, which they kept up at intervals for three hours; when, finding a steady resistance from the crew and guard of yeomanry, which had been put on the vessel on her first going ashore, they retired. The shot they fired appeared to be cut from square bars of lead about half an inch in diameter. One of these miscreants dropped, and was carried away by his companions.

27th.--EDINBURGH.--HIGH Court OF JUSTICIARY,-On Monday came on the trial of James M'Arra, iron

slitter, late in the employment of Messrs Caddel and Company, Cramond, accused of the murder of Alexander M'Arra, his own brother, on the 10th day of November last.

Richard Rennie, clerk to Messrs Caddell and Company, deposed that, on the evening of the 10th of November last, while passing the slit-mill at Cramond, he heard a noise, as of quarrelling; and, on going into the work, he found the prisoner challenging Thomas M'Arra, his brother, for allowing one of the furnaces to go wrong. Thomas having gone out, returned again with the deceased, Alexander M'Arra, when the prisoner asked Alexander whose fault it was that the furnace had gone wrong?-To this Alexander replied, that it was no other person's fault but his, meaning the prisoner. On this the deceased immediately sat down on a bench, while the prisoner continued bawling out in a great passion, against both his brothers, respecting the furnace. The deceased then said to the prisoner, that, if he were not his brother, he would turn him out of the place; and, some time after, in consequence of the noise and bawling continuing, the deceased rose up to turn the prisoner out at the door, as witness supposed; but he was prevented from doing this by Caleb Aitkenson, one of the workmen, who was present. The deceased, however, got up a second time, and on going towards his brother, who was still making a great noise, he struck him with his open hand, his other being in his breast, which knocked off the prisoner's hat, and caused his teeth to bleed a little. The deceased then sat down again, when Aitkenson put on his hat, and observed that it was a shame for two brothers to quarrel in that manner. Witness thought, in consequence, that there would have been no more of the matter, but in this he was disappointed; for, after the

prisoner had walked up and down the place about two minutes, with his hand in his vest pockets, he approached the deceased, and said-❝ Sandy, you have struck me; now, G―d d-n it, you'll account for it." On saying this, he went and brought a large pair of furnace tongs which were lying in the place, with which he drove at the deceased, who was still sitting on the bench, and hit him in the belly. On this the deceased attempted to get up, but he was driven back by a second push; on which Aitkenson rushed forward, and while attempting to prevent farther mischief, the prisoner drew in the tongs to shorten his hold, and struck the deceased with them on the face. The tongs being taken from the prisoner, he attempted to strike his brother with his fist, but this was prevented; and the deceased having got very weak, he fell to the ground, tearing, in his fall, the breast of the prisoner's coat, which he had laid hold of towards the end of the struggle. After lying on the ground about 15 minutes, the deceased was carried to his father's house, where he died on the fourth day thereafter. Being interrogated by Mr Jeffrey, for the prisoner, witness stated, that the prisoner and the deceased were both in liquor at the time of the accident; that they were both a little quarrelsome, but the deceased was more so than the prisoner.

Caleb Akenson, referred to by the preceding witness, corroborated his testimony: he also stated, that after observing it was a shame for brothers to be quarrelling in the manner they did, the prisoner told the deceased that he was a rascal and a villain, and almost immediately thereafter, in about the space of a minute, ran for the furnace tongs, with which the mortal blow was inflicted. Being examined on the part of the prisoner, witness stated, that the blow given to the prisoner by the deceased seemed to be a