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CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE

... CIRCUIT IN FELLIGENCE, ~ L N I Ll-JIvt~ r-, STIRLING.April 4. The Circuit Court of Jufliciary was opened here this day, by the Right Hon. Lord ARXA-S DALE. William M'NIcl was brought to the bar, ac- cufed of cutting down and (fealing young oak trees from the Duke of Montrofe's woods. Up- on the motion of the Advocate-Depute, Lord Armadale deferted the diet againfl the pannel pro loco et ...

MURDER AND SUICIDE

... A moit fbocking, and aimer unprecedented at&0 oi murder and fuicide, was cormmitted on Monday night latf, about eight o'clock, in a yard near the bottom of Cecil's-gullut, betwveen Litchfield-flreet and Stafiord-ftreet, Birming- haml. During the fervitudz of her huibarn in the armv, a woman of the name of YeomLns, had cohabited wvith john Jee, a fleigrieder, who refided in the place above m ...

YORK ASSIZES

... .YORK ASSIZES . J. DeCxSOF, _ESQ- qk. y W. RLLtUONI . M. -oni ?? 3. 1xEts., PETEK Vl~g;, J. L. LtDAeoX -: s ID W5M. SKART. .- th ASsaULT AND ?2ALST 5515AM tt7. ii Itappeared from MbY Parlvs opening, that[ tis at- ti6 4as brought by the plainiff, ?? Malor-General in the Eafi tndh Cmpia-n fervice. agn e te 1 anis, for-arreffing h by'niftake, foraotherpront col thea ElliR', one of the dfenclantA ...

ATROCIOUS MURDER AND ROBBERY

... ATROCIOUS MURDER A1ND ROBBERY; r . f.. On Thursday last,' about three o'clock in the afternoon, ALEXANDER WlLLIAMSO'N, topsman to JoGF% CoRsON of Dalwhat, on his way firom~ Dumfiies to -Kirkcudbright, stopped at Drun- john, in the parish of Eirkgunzion, to'look upon- some cattle, and having gone about a quarter of'a' mile off the high road, for that - purpose, he war most barbarously murdered ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH

... COURT OF XING's BENCH. TUESDAY, JULY S. LORD F. S. OSBORNE, ?? HON. - COVENTRY, ESQ. This vas an issue of Chancery to try the va- liditv of a codicil affixed to the will of the late Lord Beaulieu, which the defendant, one of the next of kin, asserted to have been made biy his Lordship, at a time when he laboured un ler a mental derangement. The question, therefore, Was, whether his Lordship ...

HIGH CUp OF JUSTICIA

... RY. , WE X~onday'came on before this Cour4t as men- be( ioed jn our last, the trial of JOHN MACINTYRE, ANDREW STEWART, and ROBERT STEWART,. in csed of breaking into the -workhouse of PETER MORE , calico-glazier, in Skinner's Close and pai stealing therefrom 30 pieces of cloth of different kinds; and several articles of wearing apparel._ the Thle pannels pled notguiltg, and no objection were ...

FRANCE^ ■TRANSPORT

... HAL I F AX— June S- ?? great public ard private I _-_ietv, and ns her unfortunate f .lpwre.lt is now af; j c'vit.ined, we have endeavoured, as far a. pc-Klr, to It will he a f--iefae!ion, though a ir.cler.chd!>- cr.e, to tl.e Kends of the unfortuna-Vfeiterers, to !. . in. ...

HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS

... The following is a copy of the report made to the Court of Common Council, on the 3oth ult. by the Cornmitte; appointed by the Court, on the 25th of April, i8 oo,, to take into confsideration and report if any and what remedy can be applied to remove the extravagant high price of every necelfary a;ticle for human fultenance. .tal the Rigsht Ho. the Lord lZayor, lderm:en, and Com- rons of tbi ...

WICKLOW ASSIZES

... ._ . I One capital conviaion took-place; it was of a-man who appeared to have made it is pradice to carry great quantities of forged bank-notes, to put off at country ?? the inftance for which he was tried, he had paffed 38 guineas in counterfeits in a payment of forty. Thewhole of Friday was occupied in the trial of Mr Edward Sankey, Lieutenant Colonel, and Meff'. Reed, Darby, and Difneyi.. ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH—Nov. 21

... A,'a OCO Fii ?? BENCH- Nov. HS. .I - 'UELIC SUBSCRIPTION Cdr4PANIES. The ATToRiNEY-G.ENiKAL moved f.r.a rule- to ?? an infirniation. sh. ,d notlbe, granted.-aggs t *a person of the, naiae; of Ralph Dodd, upqn it h statute of 6th'George I'ch i8. which prohibits certain subscription societies.- The number of speculaoions~of that sort.. whikh iave. been Proposed witljin thelas twelve months,- ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... HIMOV COURT OF JUSTICIARt. a1'-rsa u rJUL Ur JUblICIARY. We mncntimn.i iii olur laft, that the trial of JAE Tr HAMILTON, wife of Robert Paterfon, farmer in North Commonfide, Renfrewfhire, and JAMIS CAMPFELL, tailor in Wheelburn, in faid county, accufed of wilful fire raifing, had commenced before the Court. The indiftment being read over to the pannels, they pleaded Guilty. 'The ufual ...