mother, and witness saw him draw the knife out of her arm. She ran out screaming. The deceased and Denton had some difference in the early part of the day, because he had struck a woman, named Wright. The deceased ordered him to leave her house, and he struck her on the arm, and

went away.

Cross-examined.-The deceased was a widow, and her husband's name was John Denton also. He died at sea. She did not know that it had been settled between the deceased and the prisoner that they should live together as man and wife, that her mother might still enjoy her pension as a sailor's widow.

J. Doubleday apprehended the prisoner at his sister's, and found the knife there. It was bloody.-Witness asked why he had done the rash act; he answered, "it was love."

Mr Beal, a surgeon, said, the wound had nearly divided the arteries of the arm; it mortified, and she died in con sequence. Witness was called in after another surgeon, and found the prisoner with a slight wound in his side, which he had inflicted on himself.

Ellen Starley, his sister, with whom he lived, said, he was frequently so outrageous, that she was obliged to hide the knives from him. On the morning in question, he struck the witness. Mrs Denton came in, and bade him beat her more till she (the witness) gave him money.-The deceased had frequently taken him out of witness's house to go home and sleep with her. He was so fond of the deceased, that he neglected his business after he had got in league with her. On the 26th of December she went to market; she was not twenty minutes gone, and when she returned, she found him suspended to her bed by an old apron of hers.-She cut him down.

After a few minutes consideration,

the jury returned a verdict of Guilty; and the recorder passed sentence on him, to be hanged on Monday next, and his body to be dissected.

He remained quite unaltered during the whole time.-Executed.

T. Moon was indicted for the wilful murder of J. Larman, by shooting him with a carbine.

C. Grey was working with the deceased in a field near Finchley-common. Witness heard the report of a gun, and Larman fell. Witness saw two soldiers dressed in blue, with a gun each. He ran to Whetstone, and in going passed the two soldiers; the prisoner was one. When he stopped at Whetstone, the prisoner's gun appeared to have been fired off, all the rest were loaded.

Hester Scutchins saw some soldiers, with deserters, going over Finchleycommon, ad two more soldiers following, about a quarter of a mile behind. She saw one of these put his piece to his shoulder, and take two or three steps before he fired. He appeared to her to be taking aim at that part of the field where some boys were. When she got to the field, she found the boy Larman dead, the ball having passed through him.

J. Satchway took him into custody, and his carbine had evidently been recently fired off.

Mr Justice Dampier said, the charge of murder could not be supported, there neither being malice proved nor implied!-Guilty of Manslaughter.

Prague, August 16th.-The Em-, peror of Russia arrived here yesterday evening, at eight o'clock. On the first intimation of this monarch's approach, the Emperor of Austria went to meet him. Both monarchs met under the city gate, got out of their coaches, and embraced each other with the greatest affection, amidst the acclamations of an innumerable

concourse of people. The streets through which their majesties drove to go to the palace in the Hradeschin, were voluntarily illuminated by the inhabitants. The Emperor of Austria accompanied the Emperor Alexander into the apartments prepared for him, where their majesties remained half an hour together. Soon afterwards the Emperor of Russia paid a visit to the Emperor Francis; after which, their majesties and their Royal Highnesses the Grand Princesses supped together in the Emperor of Austria's apart.

ment.

20th.-BANFF.-On Saturday the Right Hon. the Earl of Fife, Lord Lieutenant of this county, arrived at Duff-house, after an absence of eight years, during part of which time he has been in Spain, where he repeatedly bled, in the glorious cause of the liberty and independence of the peninsula. Ón his lordship's approach from Delgaty Castle, accompanied by his brother, General Duff, he was met by the magistrates, most of the principal inhabitants of Banff, and the incorporated trades in a body, as well as by all the inhabitants of Macduff, and from the surrounding hills. As soon as his lordship's carriage appeared, a salute was fired from the battery, and all the bells of Banff and Macduff rang a merry peal. His lordship was met at Duff-house by General Sir James Duff, and a party of his friends. In the evening there were illuminations, and immense bonfires flamed in every street, and upon the summit of thehill of Macduff there was one of such extraordinary size and brilliancy as completely illuminated the whole road from the bridge of Banff to Macduff. His lordship visited both towns, and was received by all ranks with the most enthusiastic joy, and to all he shewed that condescension and affability for which he is so particularly distinguished; in short, seldom has any event

called forth more general joy, than the arrival of this justly popular nobleman.

22d.-A most atrocious murder was committed at Portsmouth, about four o'clock in the afternoon: the particulars are briefly as follow:A waterman, named George Brothers, was plied by three persons to take them to Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, of which he agreed, and set sail for that purpose; but before they had started more than five minutes, a scuffle was observed in the boat, and the waterman thrown overboard; he was soon after picked up, covered with stabs and cuts, and quite dead. An alarm being given, the wherry was followed by a boat from the Centaur, and several other boats. The Lieutenant of the Centaur's boat, finding that they scarcely gained on the wherry, put two men into each of two other wherries, which were also in chase, conceiving them most likely to succeed in the pursuit, and the result proved he was perfectly correct; for, just at sunset, they ran the wherry alongside, though going at the rate of ten miles an hour, and secured the three men, but not till after a desperate resistance. They were landed amidst the execrations of an almost ungovernable populace, and examined at the Town Hall, when they acknowledged themselves to be prisoners of war, and to have escaped from Forton prison, at two o'clock in the afternoon. It appears that they had been enabled, from selling toys, to purchase entire new clothes, by which they eluded the guards at the gate. Brothers has left a wife and two children, and the shock of his untimely end occasioned her to give a premature birth to a third.

The Hants Courier communicates the following additional particulars :— "Three French prisoners, Francois Relif, Jean Marie Danze, and Daniel Du Verge, having effected their escape

from Forton depot, engaged the wherry of the above-named George Brothers to take them to Ryde: when off the Block-house, (according to their own assertions) they proposed to the boatman to take them to France, promising ample reward, and liberty to return immediately; but he, not to be corrupted by promises or reward, resisted their proposition, and in consequence they stabbed him in sixteen places, (three of which were mortal), and threw him overboard. The Frenchmen im mediately directed their course to sea, and were promptly pursued by several wherries, in one of which were Lieut. Sullock and three seamen of the Centaur, at anchor at Spithead. In consequence of a heavy swell, and bad management, the Frenchmen were overtaken after a run of about 15 miles; one of the men belonging to the Centaur leaped into the wherry among the Frenchmen alone, when at the distance of several feet, armed with nothing but the stretcher, with which he knocked one of them down: they then surrendered. They were taken on board the Centaur for the night, and on being searched, a large sum of money was found about them in silver, and three knives; one of them was very bloody; and on Thursday morning they were delivered into the hands of the civil power, and landed at the Sally-port. They were taken to the borough gaol, where they were again examined. They confessed that Brothers was killed by two of them, but that the third was no further concerned than in lending his knife to the other when the waterman resisted them. More money was here taken from them, one having actually concealed in his pantaloons under his boots thirty-three 5s. 6d pieces. It appears, that by the manufacture of lace, toys, &c. the prisoners accumu. lated a sufficient sum of money to procure a suit of genteel clothes each,

(besides the sums taken from their persons,) dressed in which they mingled with the crowd of visitors that were walking in the depot, eluding, by their metamorphosed appearance, the vigilance of the turnkeys and military sentinels.

25th. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.-A successful debut was made at this Theatre on Thursday night.— The serious opera of " Artaxerxes," compressed into two acts, was performed for the purpose of bringing forward Miss Stevens, a pupil of Mr Thomas Welch, in the character of Madane. Her voice possesses the richest and most affecting power, and she sings and acts with graceful simplicity. Miss Stevens has a full, but elegant form, an easy and dignified deportment, and her expression has the diffidence of sensibility. In the commencement, though encouraged by the warmest welcome, she could not sufficiently exert herself fairly to display her talents, but she acquired strength as she proceeded, and in the exquisite airs, "If o'er the cruel tyrant Love,' and "Let not rage thy bosom firing," she shewed the purest and most clas sical taste; while in "The Soldier tired," she displayed the powers of her execution. She was encored with an universal voice, and indeed somewhat cruelly in the last instance, where it required so much exertion; but she went through it with unabated energy, and without being flat in a single note. -We sincerely congratulate the Theatre and the public on this most splendid acquisition to their musical entertain

ment.

27th-When the last packet from Gottenburgh sailed, a dreadful fire, which had consumed a part of the town, was still raging there. It broke out on Sunday se'ennight, and a great quantity of merchandize and other valuable property had been consumed.

About 200 houses, principally of wood, had been burnt down before Monday evening, when the packet left the harbour. Some warehouses, with grain, leather, and colonial produce, became a prey to the flames before the proper

ty could be saved.

28th.-Another of those dreadful calamities, the blasting of a coal-mine, occurred at the Hall pit, at Fatfield, in the parish of Chester-le-street. Upwards of thirty men and boys were killed.

29th.-SHADWELL.--An investiga. tion at the above office into a dangerous riot among the Chinese Lascars, in which three men were killed, and about seventeen wounded, terminated this day with the commitment of some of the ringleaders. The following is an abstract of the most material evidence:

Abraham Gola, superintendant of natives of India, stated, that in a place called King David's Fort, there are about 500 Chinese in the barracks belonging to the East India company. Of these there are two sects, one called the Chenies, the other the Chin Choo. On visiting their barracks, about eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th inst. he found them in a state of hostility; one sect fighting the other with knives and implements of every description. He immediately directed the gates to be shut to prevent the offenders from escaping. He then sent for and procured the assistance of several of the police officers, on seeing whom approach, the contest in a great measure subsided. The officers immediately proceeded to disarm them of their weapons, which, by this time, they attempted to conceal. On searching their chests and hammocks, all their knives, &c. were taken away. One man was found dead, with his bowels ripped open. Seven were carried to the London Hospital, severely wound

ed; two of whom are since dead. The Chenies overcame the Chin Choo by superiority of numbers. The witness was informed that a cutler on Towerhill was employed to make instruments for the Chinese. He found his name was Cramer: he acknowledged that he had recently sold two sets of large knives to them, and had been commissioned to make them a further supply, which his workmen were then executing. These the witness saw: they were large knives, with wooden handles, the blade about the size of a common cutlass. Cramer being apprised of their intended use, promised they should not be delivered. Several of the Lascars were afterwards stopped at the Barrack-gate, in the act of bringing such instruments with them, which they delivered up, not without some struggle, and an attempt to use them against the officers for making the seizure.

The origin of this affair appears to be thus, by the evidence of the parties:-A Chenies being at play with a Chin Choo, they quafrelled about 1s. 6d. which one had lost and refused to pay: they came to blows, and on a subsequent day they renewed the combat with knives. Too Sugar, a Chin Choo, now in the hospital, is alleged to have begun the contest, by calling to his sect to come and fight the Chenies. Hence it appears each sect caught the contagion of quarrel from these two, when the rencounter became general.

Of those in custody, three have been discharged for want of evidence. The following are to take their trial, viz. Appui, Appong, Chong, and Peu

AGRICULTURAL REPORTS. ENGLAND.--The new wheats are found to rise well and fine in quality, and the increased number of thrashing machines have thrown large quantities on the markets, occasion

ing a considerable reduction of prices, which the foreign imports will, for some time, assist in keeping down. The oat harvest is closed in the Fens, affording the largest general produce that has been known for many years. The barley crops are expected to turn out finer in sample than large in quantity, not exceeding an average crop. The northern counties are late with their beans, which, however, prove abundant. All the accounts from the principal corn districts of Scotland state the produce of all kinds of grain to be large, and to have been early and well harvested. Clover seed is likely to be a pretty general crop, except up on light soils, where the continuance of dry weather has proved injurious to it. The turnip counties have abundance of free-growing food. The hop plantations of Kent, Sussex, and Farnham, have bagged a much larger weight than was looked for; but those of Worcestershire and Herefordshire have not yielded half a crop, and where the cyder produce has also partially failed. The cattle markets in the midland counties have had large shows of lean stock, but the prices are still kept high from the prospect of abundant seed in turnips and coleseed. Smithfield has been well supplied through the month with prime mutton, beef, and veal, on lower terms. In the wool markets there has been little or no variation since our last report.

LOTHIAN.-There is no manner of doubt that this has been the best September month within remembrance, as it has been dry from the beginning until the end, without any untoward circumstance to injure or retard the important work of harvest, which is nearly finished in this district, and in the best possible condition.-The ears are heavy, the quality fine, and of bright colours. There will be more benefit received from fodder this season, than for many bygone, being so early and

well preserved. Considerable quantities of wheat are already sown in excellent order, and in many instances appears in full braird above ground. Grain markets, which gradually declined last month, have rallied a little again, particularly barley, in the prospect of early distillation from grain. The old crop being mostly exhausted, causes a greater demand on the new for present consumption; and there being food for cattle in the fields for some time to come, the farmer is the less anxious to thrash much at present, being busy with the wheat seed.Lean cattle is in demand for winter feeding, while the butcher markets continue to be fully supplied.

Harvest commenced about the middle of August in the lower districts, and, by the beginning of the month, became general throughout the country.

As the weather has been particularly favourable, there not having been more than two or three days at most, when the reaping was interrupted by showers, the important operations of the season have been carried on with a degree of regularity and dispatch rarely experienced in this variable climate; of course the shearing may now be said to be about finished, the only exceptions being in some exposed situations in the higher district of the county, and even there the greater part of the white crops is already in the stack-yard; while, along the lower district, the only thing in the fields consists almost entirely of beans and pease, all the wheat, barley, and early oats, having been secured some time since in the finest condition, and without the smallest loss either from wind or rain. Wheat, barley, and oats, are found to yield well in the barn, and the grain of superior quality; the first samples of wheat already weighing about 16 stones, and the barley above 19 stones, per boll, of 16lb. to the stone, and best potatoe oats yield at