verpool more than a month, when the deceased, having spilt some molasses, received five dozen lashes by the captain's orders. From that time, September, 1805, till the 31st of March, 1807, the deceased experienced an uninterrupted series of ill-treatment and privations. Every fault, though of the most trivial sort, was visited with the severest chatisement:-He was suspended hours together with a chain round his middle, and left swinging in an horizontal position; he was tied up by the neck, his toes just touching the deck, till he was nearly strangled; he was again suspended by the legs, with his head downwards, his fingers' ends resting upon the hatchways, till the blood having overcharged the vessels of the head and brain, he became insensible. Again he was exposed naked to the weather, and compelled, in the midst of a cold rain, to wring out the swabs, and was employed to empty the tubs in which the slaves deposited their filth. On one occasion, when he had upset one of these tubs upon the deck, the captain beat him with a handspike, and bruised and lacerated his body in a most pitiable way; the blood flowed from his head and covered his shoulders. His daily allowance was a pound of yam or bread, and three half pints of water, and of course his body became emaciated, and his flesh and strength dwindled away. He was also beat over the face and eyes with the handle of a cat, and these various acts of cruelty and chastisement repeated almost daily. The last act of cruelty, however, was when the poor wretch was discovered lying in the place where the pigs were kept. He again used the handspike, and beat him with it from head to foot. The deceased

crawled on the forecastle, where he lay with a mat to cover him, incapa ble of moving. He continued in that situation till he expired about three or four days after. The captain was told of his death, and exclaimed-" D-n his eyes, throw him overboard." The doctor's description of the dead body was as follows:-" The face was so swelled that his eyes could not be seen-his head was also swelled, and his hair clotted with blood-his breast bone stuck out like a wedge-his back appeared to be humped his belly was shrunk in-his whole frame emaciated, and his body covered with bruises."

On the ship's arrival at the island of Dominica, the doctor swore to the entry in the logbook, respecting the decease of Dunn, in which it appeared that he died of extreme nervous debility and exhaustion; but this was qualified by the doctor in his evidence, by saying that he made the entry under the apprehension that his life would be in danger if he did otherwise, the captain having punished him, in the way of a common man, for having in his absence given away a bottle of rum to a mate who had newly come on board. He left Dominica, however, in about a fortnight afterwards, and in two days reached Montserrat, when he made a disclosure to the magistracy of the facts before stated, and he and the witnesses were sent home in the Northumberland, to give evidence against the prisoner. The captain was also sent home in the same ship; and in the way he corresponded with one Evans, a marine on board the Northumberland, the letters to whom were given to Smith, and by him shown to the doctor, and the part of the crew detained to give evidence.

These letters were now in court, and breathed a spirit of contrition on the part of the captain for his ill-treatment of his crew, promises to give each 1001. if they will appear on his behalf at the trial, and contradict the assertions of the doctor :-tells them that his life is in their hands, and that they must assist him in obtaining his liberty.-Assures them that the depositions taken at Montserrat were all destroyed, and could not be brought against him, therefore, if they were all of one mind, and would falsify the doctor's evidence, he might still have his freedom. He concluded several of his letters by hoping to God he should escape through their means, and assured the men, if they behaved generously to him, he would never forsake them nor their interests.

The prisoner, when called on for his defence, gave in a written paper, stating, that he had the misfortune to have a turbulent and mutinous crew, and that he was compelled to have recourse to severities in order to maintain his command. Smith, the gunner, after disobeying his orders, said, he had the key of the magazine, and would blow up the ship; on another occasion, eleven out of twenty-five of his crew left the ship and went on shore; that the whole was a conspiracy to take away his life, and the charge had been made up by the doctor out of revenge, he, the prisoner, having punished him for his misconduct. With respect to the letters he sent, he was obliged to have recourse to that expedient, as the only probable way of saving his life, as he found the whole of the crew leagued against him.

Captain Brown, of the Eliza slave ship, then deposed to the mutinous state of the crew of the prisoner's

ship; and capt. D'Arcey, the commander of a Guineaman, gave the prisoner a good character for humanity!

Mr justice Le Blanc summed up the evidence, and said, it was a question purely with respect to the credibility of witnesses. If they believ ed the facts deposed, they certainly amounted to murder; but if they thought the facts had been overcharged, and the case had been made up from motives of pique, rather than of public justice, then they would take the improbability of the case into consideration, and say whether, under all the circumetances, the prisoner was not entitled to their acquittal?

The jury retired about 9 o'clock, and remained enclosed six hours. At three o'clock they re-entered the box, when their foreman pronounced a verdict of Not guilty.

At Horsington, Somerset, a pitched battle was fought, between Hazard, a butcher, and Stacy, a shoemaker, two noted bruisers. The combatants entered a large ring, with their seconds and bottle-holders: Tom Hazard, a sailor, seconded his brother, and Clarke seconded Stacy.--The contest continued, with little variation, till the 50th round, when Stacy sprained his wrist so badly, that he could not make a blow with his right hand; and, after nine more severe rounds, and appearing very weak, he, at the repeated request of the gentlemen present, gave in. dispute having taken place between the two seconds, a challenge was given, and accepted; and after the above was decided, they set-to, when another very severe contest took place. After 32 hard-fought rounds, victory was declared in favour of Hazard. Several amateurs and gen

tlemen present declared that in all the matches they had ever witnessed, they never saw two harder contests. The former lasted an hour and 16 minutes, and the latter 52 minutes.

Yesterday, the sessions commenced at the Old Bailey, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Baron Macdonald, Mr Justice Lawrence, Mr Justice Chambre, the Recorder, &c. when 15 prisoners were tried, 5 of whom were capitally convicted--viz.

Isaac Castle, for high-way robbery; Eliza Crosby, a girl of decent appearance, of about 15 or 16 years of age, for stealing 12 guineas, 14 half guineas, and one shilling, the property of Susanah Potter, a widow, who keeps a public-house at Brentford. The prisoner applied for lodging on the 15th, and having stated that she was related to a publican with whom the woman of the house was acquainted, she obtained it. Next morning she went off without paying her reckoning, which excited suspicion, and it was found that she had stolen a bag containing 201. which the prosecutrix had placed in a cupboard, along with another bag of 60%. both for the payment of her brewer. The girl was overtaken a mile from the house, and, fell down on her knees, imploring forgiveness, exclaiming, "Here Mrs, Potter; here's your money." The prisoner was very much overcome, and said nothing in her defence.

George Humphrey and Charles Brown, the one 18, the other 13 years of age, were capitally convicted for stealing in the dwelling house of Nicholas Brooke, shoemaker, Frith-street, 24 yards of black velveteen, value 41.

The recorder made a report to his

majesty of the following convicts under sentence of death in Newgate; viz.

Mary Crooks, alias Viney, for stealing bank notes, &c. in a dwelling house; Michael Brady, for stealing goods in a dwelling house; Jane Mosenau, for a like offence; John Almond, for forgery; Elizabeth Tippett, for uttering counterfeit money; Margaret Norton, for stealing goods, &c. in a dwelling house; and Michael Tuhoy, for a like offence.

When John Almond was ordered for execution on Wednesday next.--The rest were respited during pleasure.

PEDESTRIANISM.

A swift-foot

ed hero of the name of Harding, groom to a gentleman, undertook, for a wager of 20 guineas, to go from Hounslow to Slough, and back to Smallberry green, a distance of 24 miles, in three hours and forty minutes. The pedestrian went something more than seven miles the first hour, and the second hour he went seven miles and a quarter on the heaviest ground. Over this ground he had to return, and he did six miles and a quarter in three hours. He had three miles and a quarter to do in forty minutes, and he performed it with ease in inclement weather.

The merchants in London interested in the American trade sent a deputation to Mr Perceval, the chancellor of the exchequer, to know how far it would be prudent to send out goods to America. Mr Perceval was silent as far as respected offensive measures on the part of America, but expressed his willingness to grant licences to vessels going from hence to America with British goods. In consequence of this assurance, several vessels will be immediately dis patched.

ROXBURGH ESTATES.-Court of Session. The following is a short view of the important case relative to the succession to the estate of Roxburgh, lately decided in the Court of Session:

Robert, the first Earl of Roxburgh, by a deed of entail in 1648, settled his estate and honours upon his grandsons sir William Drummond, and the heirs male of his body, on condition that he should marry Lady Jane, the eldest daughter of his son Henry Lord Ker, who had predeceased him. Sir William, upon the death of his grandfather, became second Earl of Roxburgh, and left two sons; the eldest carried on the line of the Roxburgh family, and it became extinct on the death of Duke John, in 1804, and the second son acquired the honours of the Bellenden family.

Upon the death of Duke John, in 1804, he was succeeded in the honours and estates of Roxburgh by William Lord Bellenden, the only remaining male descendant of the second earl by Lady Jane Ker.

Duke William succeeded to the estate at a very advanced period of life, and it was unknown to him whether there was any person who could claim the succession under the entail. In this situation he executed a new deed of entail of the whole of his estate upon heirs of line of the marriage between Sir William Drummond, the second earl, and Lady Jane Ker. The gentleman called by him to the succession in the first instance, was Mr Bellenden Ker, the great grandson of that marriage, and son of the Hon, Mrs Gawler, his cousin, german.

After having made this disposition of his estate, two claimants appeared as heirs under the entail. These were Sir James Innes, a descendant of La

dy Margaret, the third daughter of Henry Lord Ker; and General Ker, of Littledean, claiming, as heir male of Robert, the first earl and maker of the tailzie, whose ancestors came of the family in the 15th century. The duke did not know upon what authority the pretensions of these gentlemen were founded; but, in order to secure a provision, as far as in his power, to his relations, he exercised the unlimited power conferred on him by the old entail, of granting feus upon the estate in favour of Mr Bellenden Ker, and making provisions for his other relations.

Upon his death, in 1805, a challenge was brought of the new entail by the above gentlemen, upon the issue of which it was found, by a considerable majority of the court, that Duke William had not sufficient pow. ers to alter the order of succession established by the old tailzie; but reserved all objections to the pursuers' titles as heirs under that deed.

The validity of the feus granted to Mr B. Ker came next to be discussed, and this important point was determined also on the 11th curt, when seven judges were for sustaining the feu right, under particular exceptions as to parts of the estate, and seven for reducing them, and which last opinion prevailed by the casting vote of the Lord President, who had declared it to be a very doubtful case, and that he should be satisfied which ever way it was decided.

The whole questions which have occurred in this most important case are now appealed to the House of Lords.

A mail from Jamaica has brought a report of a committee appointed by the house of assembly, to inquire into the state of the sugar trade.The report, after stating that the

price of sugar, to afford a reasonable profit to the planter, must be higher than that stated by Mr Wedderburn to the committee of the House of Commons, observes, that there has been a gradual depreciation in the value of sugar, whilst the duties on its importation into England have been encreased. That, owing to these causes, the planters have been losers by the cultivation of sugar, and that many of their estates were, in consequence, on the point of being abandoned."

The committee proceed to state, as a remedy for these evils: 1st, The blockade of the enemies colonies; 2d, The opening the ports of the British colonies to neutrals; and 3d, A modification of the duty on sugar, so that it should always bear some relation to the price, from which this effect would result: that when sugars were lower, the planter would not be so much oppressed, and as his produce increased in value, his contribution to government would only increase with his means.

In a committee on the state of the island, Nov. 4th, the following resolutions were agreed to:

First. That, on a constitutional application to his honour the lieutenant-governor, this house did, in the last session, grant a bounty on the importation of fish from the British colonies in North America, in British vessels, freely and voluntarily, to evince our anxiety to promote the navigation of the empire, and give a decided preference in our markets to the commodities which could be furnished by any part of his majesty's dominions.

Second. That the attempt of his majesty's ministers to compel this house to grant a bounty on fish of certain descriptions, by prohibiting the im

portation of fish in ships or vesselé belonging to the subjects of any state in amity with his majesty, whilst the necessity of such an intercourse is recognized, is oppressive, and unconstitutional; and that nothing but this necessity, with the protection and care which we owe to our slaves, whose comforts and lives are wantonly hazarded by this regulation, could induce the house to continue the bounty, which was cheerfully granted when applied for in a constitutional manner.

Third. That it is expedient to recommend to the house to grant a bounty on the importation of fish from the British colonies in North America, in British vessels, for twelve months, and after the same rate, and under the same regulations, by the existing law allowed and established.

OLD BAILEY, 14th.-John Coates, aged 16, and Robert Badger, aged 14 years of age, were capitally indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Doward, haberdasher and hosier, No. 5, New-street, Brompton, on the night of the 5th of January, at eight o'clock, and stealing therein one piece of Irish linen, containing 26 yards, value 41. two silk handkerchiefs, value 10s. and one muslin handkerchief, value 3s.

The following were the circumstances of the case:-Doward the younger heard a noise at the shop window, as if pease were dashed against it, but took no notice until a neighbour came and told him what had happened. He then went out, saw a pane of glass broken, and some blood upon the window-frame, after which he missed the articles stated in the indictment, and informed his father. Mr Doward set off in pursuit of the youthful depredators, and