the spot on which the vessel was a-ground. Having got the boat off with the assistance of several persons who were on the beach, five men proceeded in her; and certainly in such a night, in such a storm and such a sea, the mere description of which could not be read without terror, this was a service of extreme peril and difficulty, rendered by a set of men accustomed to face danger and to contemn it, with spirit and with activity. Almost immediately on their quitting the boat, which swamped but was not lost, the danger to the ship fortunately ceased; therefore, as for 18 other men who came on board afterwards, and certainly performed severe labour at the pumps, he could only look at their services as labour, and not as of a salvage nature. After a review of the various points of evidence, he finally decreed 360 guineas to the five men who first boarded the Asia, as salvage money; and 350l. to the other 18 men, as the price of their labour. Salvage to be paid on freight in proportion; that is, 70 guineas Being as the proportion of its value (6,000l.), was to that of the cargo (30,000l.), or as 1 to 5, and 10%. for damage done to the boat. Thus the whole sum given by this sentence is, 8117. 10s.

indicted under Lord Ellenbo rough's act, for feloniously and maliciously stabbing and cutting George Gibbs, with intent to murder or do him some grievous bodily harm, on the 15th inst., at the parish of Storrington, in this county.

George Gibbs, a youth about 16, the unfortunate victim of the prisoner's ferocity, appeared in the box, dreadfully emaciated and still labouring under the effects of the outrage which he had suffered, his wounds being yet green, and gave the following statement: His father was parkkeeper to lord de la Zouch, who lived at Parham-park. In the evening of the 15th of March, about eight o'clock, his father sent him with a message to the Crown public-house, a short distance from Parham, when he met the prisoner near the end of his father's garden. The prisoner had a stick over his shoulder, and although the night was rather dark, he could see him by the light of a lantern which he carried in his hand. The prisoner was then alone, but appeared to have parted from another young man, named Duke. When the prisoner approached him, he was about to wish him good-night, when the former struck him over the head and face with the stick which he carried. He was nearly stunned by the blow, which being repeated he was knocked down and from the violence of the blow; the stick was broken.. The witness immediately cried out. "Oh! Jemmy Gibbs, don't murder me;" and begged for mercy. The prisoner then went round him, and immediately pulling out a pocket

a pocket knife cut him twice under the chin; but his sanguinary design having failed by these means, he stabbed him behind the right ear with the same weapon. Witness struggled to get from him, and in doing so disarmed him of the knife; and in the scuffle the prisoner drew it through his hand and wounded several of his fingers. The prisoner then took him round the waist and dragged him to a gatepost, and endeavoured to swing his head against it. Witness cried out for mercy and called "Murder!" upon which the prisoner caught hold of him by the throat, which he griped with both his hands in order to prevent his making any noise. He immediately afterwards let go, but seized his throat a second time, and then the witness lost his senses and remembered nothing afterwards; when he recovered he found himself with his friends. He swore positively that he never had any quarrel in his life with the prisoner; that they were name-sakes; they were not related; that he had known the pri soner as a passing acquaintance and had seen him occasionally; but he was by no means intimate with him. He could in no manner account for the prisoner's attack upon him.

George Whale proved, that he heard the cry of "murder" on the evening in question and went to the spot whence it proceeded, when he saw the prosecutor weltering in his blood, and in consequence of the alarm which he gave, the prisoner was pursued.

Wiliam Moore proved, that

he was attracted to the sanguinary scene in consequence of hearing the prosecutor cry out "Murder;""Jemmy Gibbs, don't murder me!"

Daniel Duff stated, that he apprehended the prisoner between nine and ten the same night on Wracklan-common, and saw the prisoner running from him and endeavouring to escape.

John Braby was present when the last witness seized the prisoner: his hands and face were very bloody.

Daniel Nash picked up the pocket-knife, which was smeared with blood, and a stick, resembling a broomstick, broken in two or three pieces; which articles he produced, and which were proved to be the prisoner's.

Mr. Dennett, a surgeon at Stonington who was called in, described the wounds which had been inflicted on the prosecutor. The knife being shown to him, he said it was dull on the edge and in his judgment that circumstance prevented the wound being fatal.

Here the case for the prosecution closed.

Mr. Justice Bayley asked the prisoner what he had to say in his defence.

The prisoner said, "I don't know that I can say any thing."

John Gibbs, the father of the prisoner, came forward in a state of pitiable agitation, so much so, that he could not stand, and stated, that he was a labouring man, that his son and he were in the habit of working for Mr. Emery, a farmer at Parham. On the day mentioned in the indictment, after be and his son had performed

performed their daily labour for their employer, they came home to do some work in their own garden. He observed that there was something singular in the behaviour of the prisoner, who seemed not to work with his usual cheerfulness. At supper time in the evening, about seven o'clock, the prisoner seemed lowspirited and ate very little food. He kept back from the fire, instead of coming forward as usual on such occasions to join in the humble cheerfulness of their meal. About half-past seven the prisoner went out and never returned. He did not know of any quarrel between the prosecutor and his son.

Sarah Gibbs, the wretched mother of the prisoner, also in an agony of grief, stated, that she observed something singular in the behaviour of her son during supper-time of the night in question. He ate little and sat quite behind from the rest of the family. His aunt was present and was about to go home; he was asked to accompany her, but he made no answer and stood dejected against the cupboard of the room. Witness knew of no quarrel between her son and the prosecutor. They always appeared to be on good terms with each other. The prisoner was a quiet, affectionate and industrious lad, and worked early and late, and was not given to gusts of passion or ill temper..

Anne Price, the prisoner's aunt, observed his conduct at the supper-time above-mentioned; his behaviour was very different from what it usually was; he appeared very low. When he was nursing

witness's child, he threw it up in a great flurry, and not with his usual and tender care of the child, of which he was very fond. The prisoner was mild in his manners, dutiful and attentive to his parents and extremely diligent in his employment. On that night the witness asked him to see her home, but making no answer he stood silent and dejected. He used to see her home at night on the like occasions.

Mr. R. Emery, a respectable farmer at Parham, stated, that the prisoner worked for him three or four years. He was an extremely good workman and a very industrious attentive lad: he always bore the character of a civil, kind-hearted young man, and was never known to quarrel with any body.

Mr. Justice Bayley then summed up the whole of the case with great minuteness, and adverting to the defence which had been set up, told the jury, that if they were of opinion that the prisoner, at the time he committed the dreadful offence imputed to him, was possessed of sufficient reason to distinguish right from wrong, he was answerable to the law for the act he had committed, and the penal consequences which must follow a conviction for that act must be visited upon his head.

The jury, after a few moments deliberation, found the prisoner Guilty.

The learned judge immediately pronounced the awful sentence of death in a manner so impressive and pathetic as to leave no dry eye in court, holding out to the prisoner no hopes of mercy

KINGSTON,

KINGSTON, APRIL 2. Crown Side.-Murder. Robert Dean was put to the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Mary Ann Albert, a little girl between four and five years old, on the 16th of October last, in St. George's-fields, by cutting her throat with a caseknife.

The following are the leading circumstances of the case:- -On Friday evening, the 16th day of October last, between six and seven o'clock, the prisoner, who was a watch-engraver, went, as he had been in the habit of doing, to visit the mother of the child who lives near the Elephant and Castle, St. George's-fields, and she asked him to take tea; while he was there he nursed and played with the child until about six or. seven, when he went away with Mrs. Albert's brother, Williams, with whom he was intimately acquainted and had been fellowapprentice. They proceeded as far as the Obelisk, when they separated, and the prisoner returned and took the child again into his lap, and put his hand in his pocket to get some halfpence, and said he would go and buy some apples for his little Mary; he then took the child up in his arms, and asked her if she would have an apple and many other trifling questions, such as, do you love me? do you know who I am? &c. He then went out with the child, but being absent rather long, the mother feeling alarmed, went out to see after them, and on going into a court near the house she met the child, who reeled towards her,

and on her taking her in her arms, the blood gushed from her throat and the child appeared as if she was expiring; a surgeon was sent for, but his efforts were fruitless, and in about an hour it died. The prisoner wandered about for three or four days, and although every diligence was used to find him, it was unsuccessful. At length on the morning of Tuesday following, at about five o'clock, he rapped at the door of the watch-house of St. Andrew, Holborn, and said his name was Dean and that he was the murderer, and he was of course detained and taken to Giltspur-street compter.

Mrs. Mary Albert, the mother of the little girl, was examined in support of the above statement. When she beheld the prisoner at the bar she burst into an hysteric scream of horror, and was for a long time incapable of giving her evidence, until she was relieved by a flood of tears. The prisoner seemed evidently affected by the agony in which she appeared to be. On her crossexamination she gave a very favourable representation of the temper and disposition of the prisoner, and that he was extremely fond of children, and particularly of the unfortunate infant who had lost her life by his act. On the evening in question she observed the prisoner to be very uneasy in his mind on account of his want of employment, but he spoke in a rational and collected manner.

Mrs. Sarah Williams, the mother of the last witness, on her cross-examination described the conduct of the prisoner on the

evening

evening in question, as indicative of an uneasy mind, arising from his distressed circumstances. She gave the prisoner the highest character for kindness to her grand-daughter, and said that he had always been on the most friendly terms with her family.

Joseph Williams, the brother of Mrs. Albert, deposed to the circumstances connected with the above outline of the case. On his cross-examination, he said he had been fellow-apprentice with the prisoner, who had always conducted himself in the most friendly manner towards him and his family. Witness and the prisoner had lodged together for a long time; he knew the prisoner was unhappy in his mind on account of a young woman with whom he kept company, whose father had forbidden any further intercourse.

Joseph Myatt, the watch-house keeper of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, proved, that early on the morning of the 20th of October the prisoner surrendered himself to justice at the watch house. He appeared in a state of great agitation, stating that he had been induced to surrender himself in consequence of his having heard a sermon at the Tabernacle in Moorfields; that he had wandered about ever since he had committed the horrid deed, and was unable to hold out any longer. The prisoner was afterwards taken to Giltspur street compter, where he begged he might be allowed a Bible. The witness's description of the prisoner's demeanour at the watch house was strongly indicative of remorse, but of sound intellect.

John May, a police-officer of Union-hall, proved that he removed the prisoner from Giltspur-street compter, and by the direction of the magistrate of Union-hall took him on the 20th of October before the coroner's inquest, which was then sitting on the body of the deceased child. When they got to the place of sitting, the prisoner requested to speak with the witness in private; and being left alone, witness, at the prisoner's request, took down the following statement in writing, as he gave it in his own words :

"On Friday evening last I met a young man named Joseph Williams, with whom I had long been intimate, at Mrs. Albert's house, in Jacques-court, Thomas-street. I had long been acquainted with a young woman named Sarah Longman, daughter of Mr. L. at the Grapes, Church-row, Aldgate; my affection for her was extremely great; I had for some time corresponded with her. A dispute unhappily arose; I wrote to her upon the subject, expressing my regret at the unfortunate rupture, described the very great regard which I entertained for. her, implored her to consent to a reconciliation, and begged that she would write me an early answer. She never replied to my letter. Her father called upon me, and wished that the connection might be discontinued. These circumstances had an indescribable effect upon my mind; I was miserably unhappy, was incapable of attending to any business, and gave myself entirely up to despair. I endeavoured to prevail upon her to renew the correspondence.