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      SXXBCO'S GOUT AWD B . HEUWATXC "BILLS , Only 1 * . l $ d . per boa . TO THE PUBLIC , especially . "to the Gouty and Rheumatfe , I wish-to state that I think no maa has" been more grievously afflicted with Gout and Rheumatic Gout than myself ; such was well known in my neighbourhood . During a lengthened affliction , I took much and various medicines , aad I also gdve a fair trial to some pills wbicb hav « been so profusely advertised , thinldng by the stateraent of cures inserted in sucb advertisements that I should mostassoredlyTeeeive benefit , if not a cure ; bDt in this I was sadly disappointed . Consequently

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      AaSjaH ^^ mmnMHR ^ , No . 60 , Bottom of Templar ' * Street , Leed . =, eon-HB ^ nFyrT ^^^ nffl ^^^ S ^^^ yiB ! tinntr , with unabated assiduity , to eradicate even W fcf JS * JI * 1 k ^ I >>? r * lLT J ^ . ^^ 8 ) specie ? of Infection . In recent cases , a perfect JM ^ HBF ^ BSSSH ^ SSSHBfiSfiHBfi ! cuj « n » completed within a week , or no charge made ^^^^ B \ l 11 * fi | J dTftTk t 9 | Hl ^ M ^ Medicines after the expiration of that period . U ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ BEJ And in those of the utmost inveteracy , where other ^^^^^ BBBBB ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ y Practitioners have failed , a proper uerseveranct in h ^ jlan of treatment insures to the patient , a safe , well grounded , and lasting re-estahlisbment , conm't-d with the greatest secrecy and honour , at his house from nine to one , and from four till nine , and « n Sundays till two . He hopes that the successful , easy , and expeditious mode he has adopted , of eradicating even symptom of a Certain Disease , withont any material alteration in diet , or hindrance of business , and \ ft preserving the constitution in full vigour and free from injury , will establish his claims for support . Aa this Disease is one which is likely xo be contracted whenever exposure takesplace , it is not like many other visitors , once in life , but on the contrary , one infection may scarcely have been removed , when another may unfortunately be imbibed , therefore the Practitioner requires real judgment in order to treat each particular Ca * e invneb a manner as not merelj to remove the present attatk , but tc preserve the CoiwtJtorion unimpaired , in case of a repetition at no distant period . The man of experience C 8 t ) avail himself of tbe greatest improvement * in modera practice , by being able to difttinguish between di » . charge * of a-specific and of a simple onnild nature , which can only be made by one in daily practict * , after due consideration of all circumstance * . In the same manner at birth , appearances often take jilace in children , whieh eall for a proper knowledge and acquaintance with the disease , in order to discriminate their real nature , and which may be the means of sowing domestic dist-ord , unless managed lry the Surgeon with propriety and skill . Patient * labouring under this Disease , cannot be too cautiou * into whose hand they commit themselves . The propriety of this remark is abundantly manifested . ly tie same parry freqnently passing the ordeal of several Practitioners , before he is fortunate enon ^ b to obtain a perfect cure . The following are some « f the many symptoms that distinguish thi * Disease ;—a general debility , eruption * on the head , face , and body ; ulcerated sore throats , scrofula , wellin g * in the neck , nodes on the shin bones , cancers , fistula , pains in tbe bead and limbs , whicb are frequently mistaken for rheumatism , Sec . &c . Patient ? in the countrj , by stating their easel and enclosing a remittance , may have proper remedies * ent to the amount , with direction * « rsimple and plain , that parties of either sex may care thtmselve > - without even the knowledge of a bedfellow .

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      In consequence » f numerous applications continually received from Bradford and the Neighbourhood , one of the Proprietors of Dr . Henry ' s French Heroine Pills , will attend every Wednesday and Thursday , at No . 4 , George Street , facing East Brook Chaptl , Bradford . A TREATISE IS JUST PUBLISHED ON THE VENEREAL & SYPHILITIC DISEASES , AND GIVEN WITH EACH BOX OF DR . HENRY'S FRENCH HEROINE PILLS , riONTAINING plain and practical directions for the effectual cure of all degrees of the above com-V plaints—with observations on seminal weakness arisingfrom early abuses , and the deplorable consefuences resulting from the ase of mercury , the whole intended for the instruction of general readers so A » t all ^^ perso nu can ob tain an immediate cure with seerecj and s afety . Prepared and sola by the Sole Proprietor , at No . 16 , PARK SQUARE , Leeds , where they may be consulred as usual . In Boxe » Ss . 9 dL and 4 ft . 6 d . eaeh . With each Box is given directiois how 16 take these Pills , observations on points Wnefieial to-the patient , being hints worth knowing by those who are , or have been , sufferers from thin dreadful and devastating malady . - = That crnel . disease which bas destroyed so many thenwands is now unhappily so well known that a recital of its effects is quitet unnecessary , its malignant influence extending by inheritance from family to iamiry , and wnen ^ the great ^ Doc torHenry became professor to the University , be conferred an invaluable "benefit upon mankind by the discovery of bis grand panacea for the- cure of this deplorable complaint . ThecertaiHty with which the Pills are continually administered can he attested hy many thousands who are annnally enred by them . . Wbatmediciae can be more appropriate than that which has given such general satisfaction ? The French Pilliroot out every particle of the insidious poison , purifying in their Wrogrt ^ the whole mass of ftnids . They not only Temove the disease but they renovate by their action ¦ Hie different fuL « ions of tie body—expelling ike grosser humour , and in a manner so imperceptible as to convince the most sceptical of their astonishing and ' unequalled powers . They neither contain mercury » or any other mineral , and may be taken without the slightest suspicion of discovery ; they require no Testraint of diet , loss of time , or hindrance of business , bat effect a complete cure without the least exposure to tbe . patient . At any period when the slightest suspicion may exiatit will he well to have recourse to the Freneh ^ Pnis ; for when taken before the daseaseliasinadeits appearance they act a * a certain preventive , « a » ovin ^ the complaint effectually and secretly . The deplorable state in which many persons have been trben visiting tlie Doctor { from the use of mercury ) renders it imperatively nectasary to caution tbe nnbb ' c against that dangerous mineral when injudiciously administered . ... The Doctor , after . an extensive practice of Thirty Years , has rendered Ms counsel an object of the utmost consequence to all who are labouring under hereditary or deep seated njaladies ; to { hose troubled ynSt sennnaVweakneffl , hisi advice will be mvskable ; htmdreds have owned bis slull in these complaints . To die youii of botb ^ sexes , wbether lured fromieaiai by the promptings of paesion , or tbe deluKlons of intxperpnee , bis advice is superior ; in bis practice-he unites a mild gentleness of treatment , andpossessing ao thorcagh a knowledge of bia art , tbe most deplorable cases afford no renstanc * to his ddu .. His exten-« rre practice has rendered him the . depositary of many distresnng secrets wbfeb are kept with unblemished lai& aid bononrY to pereomi so afficted , it 8 nighh ^ necessary to observe £ hat an -early application is of &Cgre ^ e 8 ^ unnortance , and ihat with such a practitioner any hesitation in disclosing their disorder , must sqrcnpt to a dehcacy as destructive as it is false and unnecessary . To the neglect of sucn attention , are attributable many of those napless instances , wbicb , while they excite the commiseration of the beholder , should also impress him with the fear , of self-reproach . ; To all such , then , we address ourselves , offering iope—energy—muscnlar strength—felicity ; nor ought our advances to appear questionable , sanctioned an ifcey are by the multiplied proofs of thirtyyeara' successful experience . Letters ( post paid ) inclosing a remttaoce , answered by the retnm of post , and Medicines pnnctnally transmitted to any address , either by Imtiali , or name . Back entrance , WesfcStreet , One Door > om Sl Paul ' s Chnrch . With each Box will be ghen practical observations , gratuitously , on the above disease . ' The Doctor will attend daily at his principal residence , No . 16 , Park Square , from Eight in the xnorning till Ten at night , and on Sunday from Nine till Two , where he will administer advice to any one taiin ? these Pills or any other of his Preparations , withont a fee .

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      ¦ .. .. . ' ¦» ¦ . ... . " . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ SUMMER ASSIZES . —HOME CIRCUIT . MAIDSTUNE , Friday , Aogust 10 . THE LATE CANTERBURY RIOTS . William Wills , aged 46 , Thomas Mears , otherwise Thomas Tyler , aged 29 ; Edwjmi -Wnti g . hr , the younger , aged 33 >; Alexander Foad , aged 42 ; Ecw . Curiiiig , a ^ ed 33 ; Thomas ( Jrijpvs , aged 30 : ki . cba . id retuan , aged 30 ; Charles Hills , aged 4 ?; and William Foad * were indicted , charged with the wilful murder of Henry Boa wed Bennett , on tite 31 st of a , ay , at the ville of Dunkirk . The ptvouer * were charged , in the first count , a * the accessories of Thorns ; aud , iu the second , as principals . The prisoners , having been arraigned , pleaded guilty . Alter a panse of a few moments .

      .. Mr . Clakkson ruse and said , he had the honour of appearing for severnl of the uric oners « t the barfor all , with the exception ol Wills and Tyier , » u , j » ftet the verdict whicn the jury had returned yesterday , aud alter the most anxious aud patient consideration on liis part , and on that ot bis Jearnru friends n ^ arhini , ( Mr . Shee and Mr . Deedes ) as to the course which might be most likely to . promote tlie interests ot the conmry as well as further the gre . it ends of public "justice * tnty had come to ihe determination to recommend the prisonrrs to adopt the course they had just pursued .. Aiu-r Imung heard from the lips of his L » rj * biu the precis lii « *

      which the Court had on that pccaMou . laid Uown with reference .. tp < the uu a # fnl purpose lor which those uulortunate and misguided persons wer . assembled , and that it wju . not requisite or ui-c . es .-aiV that the unlawful purpose should be either distiiiCi ordefined , they tound themselves placed iu such a situation as to be incapable ol re . « i ^ ting tlie facts ( in which the jury imi > t eveinuallyc < . me to a conclusion Miuilnr to ti . e one tuey had tmiveu at on the former trial . Under these circuuistaines , therefore , lits learned fnemis ami biiiiaelf had considered that they wereaiuingin the viwncatiou of theina . isrrH .-y aud ol the law , as well i . s aavaucuig the iufereWu , the nnt .. nunHteiudi \ i , jUnls whom ttiey had ad vised

      to ulvad guilty ot the luiraction of -he law , which ot itselt , amounted , as they had yesterday hearu , to the onVnce of inuruer . His L ' . rdslup was Ware that many of the pri > on rs who ac ttntt moment « tO ( Kl before him , had been grievously wounded , thai Hsmany as eight oth , rs had been ii ' ortaUy wouuueii , ana ihnt no fewerthan 100 lives weie dependent on the vxert . on and on the axMstance tn be turni .-be ., by the indivmuals at die bur—uiuiu uals who o . course , weie now rendered helpWs themselves bv ir miract

      uu- ou ot ihe law . He fell , indeed h " knew , that the prisoners were in tie hands of a hi . nnuie and considerate administrator ot the law . and he also was confident Una there was no one wi . o heard him who now entertained the beliel that th . prisoners had ever contemplated tlie crime Of which the madman , Courteuav , who was himself destroyed was undoubtedly guilty , or were iu any way aware that they were violating the law to tue extent to which it had been established , in point of law , they nao beenpuilty .

      Mr . SHEEeiitirely concurred , as the representatives of two ol the prisoners , Wills and Tyler , in what had fallen from his learned friend . He fuijy approved of the course wnich had been adopted . He uad-consideredit to be his duty , ntif r having heard the law laid down by his Lordship , differing as it did uiater . ally from the notion ol lnuraer which had been entertained J » y the prisoners to them that it was iiiipossib . e lor him to hope to succeed in persuading the jury that the law ol murder was in aiiy way diflerentiioiu that which had been laid oowi , y ihe Learned Judge who would pie .-ideou , ihe occasion of their trial . fc . r . tertaiiimg that couvicrioti , he had felt it to be the best course , that he slioulU recommend them to admit their uftcuce , auu lend to the

      p guilty indictment . Mr . i , aw , on the part oi the prosecution , whs sure every person who was at all ac ^ uaiuted with theciicuinstano'sof the ca e , would nave no difficulty iu . diniuing that the Learned Counsel for liie prisoners , in the course they had adopted , had evinced and exercised a sound and wise discretion . Standing there , however , as the public prosfecutor ^ he mo .-t willingly concurr . d m tb > recoiimieiidrtiioii ot nwrcy in ditierent degrees n * it respected the individual * , charged . But lie must confess thac he did ¦ nwi feel that , in ottering such recommendation , ihe should not brt performing his uuty , it , in that recoinmeuuation , he extended his appeal for mercy beyouu a foiieitatiou tnat his Lord » lnp would su" ^ the lues ol Hills and

      Tyler . With respect to the mher pil-oiier , who had been convicted yeHerday , he was happily placed in a different situatiou , inasmuch as tUat person bad uot been presmt at or assisted on the occasion of the second murder . In regar . i t <> that second transaction he was bound to . say that he did concur in the view tak « u by Ins learned ' - irieuds . VV hen blood liud > been sued , anu WlK-n the uuiurtuuute man Nicholas Mears hau been sacrifici-d by the hand of Thorns , ttie assistance , the prisoiu-rs at the bar had subsequently iilKrrded to tnat , . un ' lortuua . e persou had , in hi » opinion , no otuer character than ihat of lnurder , —• murder accompanied with the manitestaiiou oi the most open ti ( sign to use lorce . But at the same time he Mt tlie reasons whicb had been urged ¦ yestfrday

      by the jury m the recommendation * ith which thet hav . iollowe . 1 their vt-ruict , that tue circumstances ol the case were of a most peculiar and pamlul nature . He likewise felt that the degree of guilt was much less to the reuiaiinug prisoners thau that attubuted to the men whose names he had already rcteired to . He was not attempliug to presume to dietate to his Lordship , but merely uoiug that which lie considered to be his duty , by thus drawing the attention of his Lor <* hip to the various circuu ^ tauces of the case , as applicable to the different prisoners ; ami he was periectly certain that , whatever might be the judgment pronounced , the interest !; of the public would be protected from the possitiility of a rec 1 " " - rence of so uuexampled a proceeding aa that-ot which tlie parlies at the bar had been convicted .

      Mr . Deedes then called the following witne » Be » to speak t « i the character of the prisoners . ' The Rev . C . Haudley . —1 am the vicar of the parish of Herije-hill , and have been so for tk | e last twenty-two years . 1 am acquainted with Alexander Foad , Wraight , Curling , and Gritrgsi all of whom live in my pansh . Foad ha » beeii there about six years ; Curling all his life ; aud Wraight I have known from a boy , be was in my school . » Uj > to th s unfortunate attair , when tbey became involved with Thorns the character of each of them stood very fair . I was present on the day when this outrage was committed , but not by intention . 1

      expostulated with them . 1 endeavoured to persuude them to desist and go home * A pistol was fired either at the major , my brother , or at myself , but 1 cannot undertake to say at which . I have known Foreman for some years , and . have never heard anything against him . : Mr . Edward Curling . —I am steward to some ladies of the name of Lamhert , owners of property at H ^ riie-bill . 1 know all the prisoners , most oi them from their birtbyatid have always been amongst them . They have generally , in fact , been my » ervanis and workmen ^ I have never known ayything wrong of them until this dreadful business with Cqurtenay . . ; . : ¦ - . . ; : ¦ -

      Mr . C . Neave . —I live close to Herne-hili , and have known the prisoner Griggs since he wag a child . Fie has often worked for me ^ and his general character was that of a quiet and peaceable map . ' - . . . - .. ¦ ... ' :. . ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ : ¦ ' :-. ¦¦ ¦ : ; " (¦¦ :- . ¦ : ¦ . , ¦ \ - ' . - - .: ' William Kay . —I am a bailiff to Mr . Snowton , who has a farm , of which I have the management at | Herne-hill . I know Wraight and Curling , boA of Whom have worked for me : the former fo ^^ ome years i » ff and pn . Their character has always been that of quiet and peaceable men . 1 have known Foreman lor fourteen years ; he works for mk and

      w-a very quietly disposed man . I also know Fbad as a neighbour , and have done go ever since he came back to live amoug * t tis ^ He has i little farm of hu own ; I have known Wills , too , for twenty years , and , up to this time , he hag been a very peaceable and regular mani and I have always considered him to be particularly religious incKn »} d . 'j EdwardTofceiV—I live at Ospringe . The prisoner Foad lived with me for some years , and left nif service in 1822 . He rciarried from my house , ^ uitf toot a small farm of me , which he continued to occupy for elevenlyeare . He is an honest , peaceable , and respectable man . ; : r

      . William Glibbs . —I have faioWhWiUs for upwards of twenty years ; He has always borne the character of a peaceable and inoffensive man . He was rery religiously inclined at all times . . > < Twq other whnesse * deposed to the same effect . Lord Denman then proceeded to pass sentence on tjiepnsoners in nearly the following ternw . Willni . Wells , Edward Wraight , the younger , JfaxwAs * goad , Edward Curling , Thomas Griggs / Hichard Foreman ^ Charles ; . ; Hilhj . ' - ; and Williiani Foadi -jqk have been SeveralTy convictedbf the crime of ^ ^ niurder * and the law requires me to nasa the capital sentence

      on you , and that eentencew , that for the felony and murder of which you nowigtand convicted , you and each of you be taken from henbei to tb » place from whence you came , and from thence to some place of execution , and there that you be severally hanged by the neck until you are dead , and that your body be then buried within the precincts of the prison . NoW f having performed that duty which the law imposes on me , I take tbis opportunity of saying t dp not think it right to keep you in any doubt as to Whether that sentence will or will not be carried into execution . Having made up my mind on that sub-

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      ! ^ ^^^ i ^ toy < ^ ^ ir onrllv ^ will be spHred . ( Here the pnson « r , i , who were all bathed ? n ears , bowed their thanks . ) ' The fate thatTouZvl incurred rby reason of the crime which you fe committed , you ^ have inst heard in the se ^ ncef UMveprmuMinced . Tnat sentence is the senS wlnrh- the lawimposes , and it is at the discretion ^ f Lie Court , and perhapsultim » tel y the GovmSn ? wl . « - « : warned lutpfull execution . I have had very great difficulty m con » irigvtaihe result thafit V posMlHe for me not :. ta let the law take its full co , ir « e 1 he offence of which you haw bPen ; ¦ jtnil » i 3 o f ^ enorjnous a description , and I think that , afoug WJ 4 the tanancism and folly flmt have markedyonV «» £ itucr , tht-re has been so mu 'h of bad feelinK ' snddenlT t xcited . so much of absolute clisieiard of the S pmess and reposeof yourfellow-creatores . snchrent lessiK-w and mischief , sucK a ' determined resoluiioi iiotjo prevent when you ^ allsaiw how imminent n ^

      mgntiui me proceedings were , that I really have felt ; t as ; a very strong act on my pakt | q come to th <» re « w U tion thatyour lwes ahpuld hot be made a forfeitftt the law . ; Two arcuitrstrince * have Weighed grlatlT with me jn coming to toe coirdoston tfiat they mar be ^ parHd $ independent ; of ; the recbrowfendalfon & the jury which , yesterday they- pronounced in the Cases of Thomas Meaire , otherwise Tyler , andWm Fnce . One of them w , that a very considerable number of your misguided telu » w-men actuallyfen nuUertieexecnUonof those who were called ou to protect and support the law , and that , in point of lacu they may be talsen to have already paid the forfeit or th ^ law . Those mehV o'' necwssitv , and thereforeiawfully , put to death in the vindica ' tion of

      legal authority , may be considered , I think , as uer . sons whom the law has already sacrificed , and made examples to others of the awfui consequences of acts like those in which you were all enKaged , be-CHuse the finng on those men , which unfortu * natHy became necessary , would have been , itselt an act of murder , and have subjected the parties to suffer punishment , if the acr that \ oa were ail at that time committing had not of itself authorised that proceeding , and Vo the law has be » -n anticipated hy the individuals Who fired at y < . n . I here is another circumstance that has greatly weighed with me in arriving at the ccint-lusion . f ^ anng your lives , and that is , that the relations ai . d tneu . ls ot the uufortuunte Young mauthe officer

      , who was > . hot b y the leader whom you thou » i ' t proper to maintain in the \ iolation of the law , and of » ll nj-hi . and »> f all feeling—tho ^ e relations have stated that it would be the greatest aggravation of their -urterings at the loss of tiieir son il ai r more l > loiid . wasto be spiltiu cousttqijeuci ' of this i n » happy attair ; and 1 do tVel that there is much ms -t-o . t oue to those unfortunate persons whose nearest and "dearest , relation has become the sacrifice to Ins own seme of duty and his courage iu puttine down this most atrocious and horrible attempt . a the part of the person Courtenay and his followers Now ; , those things have led me to think that it is not iinpi s « iWe your lives may be spared , and I may luen . tioii now , that upon great consideration , and

      nitt-r much consultation also , it appears to me , that the course which has bem just been taken , iind whicii has the sanction of the Counsel for the Crown , and has not met with any disapprobation on the p-. trtof the court , —I mean your pleading gnilty to tin- heinous offence of which you have been justly i-harged , is not by auy means witi out ^ precedent . It has occurred on former occasions , iu cases where the law w as perfectly clear , as it is uridoubteoly in this case , and where the facts also admitted ofb . iiig proved l . y the most oveiwhelming and convincing evidence lrom numerous quarters ; and where it was perfectly clear before thetrial commenced what the tate must be with regard to every indiridualchiirged . As we have the meaus of judisiiig frnm the dep" ^ - tio and f what

      ns , rom passed yesterday of the hat ore oi the transaction , it nh > ht appear to be a w ^ te of valuable time , and also dweiiuig too much on circumstances ol a most painful character without necessity , if we had gone over again all those facts It ink , therefore , that the course which has bfen taken is thi-most proper course tohaye aijopted , and I have toiuforinyou that you are to cou « d « r that the liistpunshmentofthelaw will not take effect upon jou . But at the same I must slate that 1 had come to the conclusion , before the observations were addn-fsed to me by . tht ; Learned Couusol , that it is really an effort which one ought to tie reloctantto make , to prevent the last examplefrom being given to ljinoranj persons at larger of what they must

      expect if they think proper to indulge iu courses like that of which you have been guilty . And it is absolutely necessary that the next example in poiiit ot seventy should be made in the instances of some of those who appear before me at the bar on th'ii himeutable occasion . There is one among you , I mean ' 1 homas Mearc- , otherwise Thomas Tyler , who was not only extremely active in exposmg tiiH unfortunate many his n ar relative , to the suotthav had theeffect ot depriving hiirn of life in the first iiiBtaiice , and afierwards ^ soj for one day at least , remained and continued in the company of Lis fanaticle-ader , eiicouritgin ^ and maintaining him in all the violence wbuh he knew he was so capable of - comn it * iiu >; . With regard lo Thomas Mearu , othervii ^ e Thomas

      Tyler , therefore , it is perfectly clear that he ought not to remain in this country , and that lie ought to be made an example of theseverest " character short ol taking his lile . He cahuol , theiefore , t . ' e permitted to remain longer in that society where he has made himself unfavourably kiipwiy ¦ and where the example of his going on in the same course ot life as be was in betbremight of itself be extreme-V . m . schievous . The nattiest WiiJs ba < l aim been meiitioiii'd , and , 1 am sorry to say , from what came out yesterday , and from what 1 observe in the depositions , ttiat , althocgh . he may have been a m » n of respecUble conduct before tlr . s untonuuate affair , there hrt » been au indulgence , toaverygreatex ; eu :, in the bad feeHugs that were excited by the urdceed , ni !! i .

      1 lierefore , in the case ot Wm . Will ^ and I should > ay mote particularly owing to his / being a man in s rather more respectable station of life : thaiithe other * , 1 tear it will be im / os ^ ible not to enuie to the sauje conclusion with respect to hiih . Aa to all the rest «< f you , your caBes will be lookedin to with the moat scrupulous care with reference to the facts iu which you nave been severally and respectively concerned and engaged , and the sentences will be apporiioi ^ d as it may be to your geveral degrees of offence . But 1 think 1 ought not to conclude without remarking that many of those , I belief halt , who were committed tor this crime have not been brought to trial ; not that their crimes were not easy of prool , or deserving of severe punishment , but because it hai

      seemed just ' to those who conduct the piosecutibB not to » arry the law to its extreme effect , but to make a selection , humanely , niercilully , and considerately from those who might have been , every one \ of them , victimB Of the law , aud whose tauiilies must have severely suffered if any degree of punishmeut had been inflicted . Let it hot , however , beiSupposeu that there is any fear on the part of any one iu carrying the Ihw iiito effective operati oii | but let it be assumed , aud publicly aud generally kuowot that the law having been carried ; into effect , aim vindicated by th « apt which took place on the di *» pei-siou of the rioters , it is not thought necessary to pursue any farther the remedies which the law n « - Mgns , andthat it is thought on all hands to be

      Sufficient that those persons who now stand before niJ should undergo tue severest degree of punishment short of death , and which I shall aiijuoge to them belore I leave this place . But although it ba » been deemed sale to abstain frumprusecuDUl some ot those who have been less guilty in tLs transaction , I trust there will be no teeliug oi triumph , and uothing approaching to a notion that the Jaw wiU not be carried into Uie fullest e «* cution where it shaiV be violated : ' and that tie course which has been taken ou this occatdou will have the effect of showing ^ iat however ptrsoud ma / beiuflaencedmparticulHrmoroeutsbyr oadiie (> s , lio ^" ever confident they may ibe of the ,. bd W er thisy holdifl their own hands , and however they may exqll and iudnlgeincome iof xhtdnworst fuelinuH in AUiouiai ^

      of such temporary power , ttiat the law is toostruiif for them , and will , be ptic into lnD force and oj »* ation according to the exigency of the case , wheu » has been outraged and insulted ~ ap it has been in ^ present instance , for the protection of all her M 4 * f ty ' s-subjects ; every one of whom might other * * be aithe mercy of a maddepedi and infuriated moo if preceedingB like , these were n 6 t to be put do * n b ? the strongest hand in the first place , and by the be « xecution of the law i » the second . J tiust iu » detenniuation will be d ^ inctly understopd , andtM * itwillactas a good example nptpnl y ¦ to the peojW in ; tiis coun ^ i butTto the inhabitants g « ierallj « her Majesty ' s dominions , yrith these obserratwM you win retire irpm that bar ; someJelt yonu «* undoubtedly retiring fromfit and ttpxA yourn » o »* cquntry , which yoa will see no inore j otherjj'f * bably to be sent to distant parts , where you *»» ^ for along time at leasV removed from your de ?™* rnnTiPPhnna . and some , of VOU . DerbaDs . eWOWe

      with , less punishment .: I confessjl ace withgr * compassion , that some ofyou who have been OBtn * occasion carried away : by feelings of the most cnlj * ble description , are now evidently most teiem suffering , newr , perhapv , having dreamt of M possibility of your being placed m $ e ffltuatwa * which you at thia moment stand . ' Ko doubt if j * had seenlyour own share of guiltm thu ' pfoceeduij ypu would have abstained from taking any p ^ 'S the transactions . Th ^ t coririderation 1 hoj * w » operate upon others . But person * 'poght tofca * that every one of himself is responsible to hweoao tafy for lot own acts and deed * and that be inn 8 * take care so to conduct himsetf that others may n ° beendangered , annoyed , and slaughtered by reaJOB of his indulgence of any momentary feeKng or tst pulge . You may now retire from that bar , . J hope the fate which has awaited you will haveV * woper effect on all others . , :

      ¦' ; The prisoners , all of whom were bathed in tears , were then removed from the dock . Mr . Shee now handed in a memorial from the coroner ' s jury , giving the prisoners a good charactwf and strongly recommended them to the mercy of «• Court .

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      thirty or forty yards distant . At one place , called Baddab , no less than 250 dead bodies were counted by the spectators . Females , with their jewels ori ^ lie dead and untouched , the pucrid smell being too offensive , and considered infectious by the surviving villagers , so as to deter them from approachipg these corpses , many of which were in a state of nudity , with the jackals and vultures feeding on them . The convicts dig large holes in the earth , hurl the dead bodies promiscuously into them , and then cover them up . Native superstition ascribes ihe scourge to the curses of a lakeer , who asked for some charity of these villagers , and was refused by alt , except one old woman , whose house has consequently escaped the effects of this tempest . SurAaru , April 20 .

      Indian Hurricane .-The magistrate of Zillab 24-Pergunnabs has despatched Serjeant Lloyd , with a party of convicts , to proceed to the villages devastated by the late storm , and to bury the corpses of the persons who were killed by the hurricane , t'he bodies , we learn Irom persons who went to see these places , lie strewn about in all directions ; some with their arms carried away , some being minus a leg , &c Cows and bullocks had been driven po strongly by the force of the storm , a » to have their boras driven into the earth , and man } he dead in that posture . Brick-built huildings have been thrown down , and the bricks themselves hurled to a great distance by tbe tempest ; and large cocoa- ? not trees , &c . rooted from their original situation , and buried four or five feet deep in other places ,

      Five Hvndkbd LiYES Lost . —A report has reached Elizabeth town , in Tennessee , stating that the steam-boat Knoxville , in descending tbe river Tennessee , laden with Cherokee Indians , burst her boiler , and five hundred of these unfortunate beings lost their lives . —National Intelligencers Hook , Aug . 3 . —A great misfortune has befallen ourtown to-day . At one o ' clock in the afternoon the alarm bell was Bounded , and the inhabitant * learned that the great church was on fire . The

      wind being high , all the endeavours to interrupt the flames were in vain . At two o ' clock the steeple fell on the burning church , and the whole edifice , ; with some adjoiniug buildings , were . soon reduced to a heap of ruins . How the fire could break out in such a building , in the middle of tbe day , is an enigma ; some pap . r » of value and the communion plate were saved ; but of the many masterpieces of a--t . the steeple , with the bells , the organ , &c ., nothing remains ; and this magnificent work of our ancestors presents only a scene of desolation . —Geriiian paper .

      Advices from Viennv of the 31 st ult ., announce the arrival in that capital of M . Muhlendorf , ihe first American Minister accredited to the Court of Austria ,

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      Extract of a , letter oi th . e . 21 stulbiroui OdesV « : — " General Count Woronzotf is inspecting sill the troops under his command , consisting oi ( JO , 000 men . He has also mustered tbe petty corps , called the corps of the DanuhP , composed of Moldavians and WallachiaiiH , who are generally considered a tint body of men . Some cadets , who have arrived oi . leave from the army of Georgia , state that tlie Georgian ^ though ; forming a brilliant military force ; want practice , and that their organization is not making progress ., Some nobles had been arresteu on suspicion of haying a understanding with tht-Circassians , who resisted all proposials of peaceand

      , helrt out on all sides , so that the Russians are gradually exhausting their forces without gaining the slightest advantage ; they have certainly sustained several checks since the opening of the campaign . All the regular Cossacks . of the Black Sta have been assembled , and the rtst have been removed , as the \ were accustomed to retreat at the first onset of the Circassians . The Dragoons ; themselves have acted little better , notwithsUnding , the example bo frequently given to them by the superior officers . Count Wornnzoff haa received orders to seud reinforcements . 'T ,,. ,

      Jamaica . —The House of Assembly of Jamaica have passed a bill by which the negro appreuticeship Kyptem is declared to be abolished Irom and after the 1 st of August . The onl y West Indian colony now from which we have not alread y received Accounts that similar acts of lreedom have been passfrd ia Demerara , where a bill to that efTect however , was on its passage through the Legislature with every probability of complete success .

      The Ausburg Gazette publishes a letter from Constantinople of the 18 th ult ., announcing that the Snltan had ordered the Capitan Pacha to atrack Mehemet Ali ' s fleet * wherever he met it . " This order , " adds the letter , " has terrified the whole corps diplomatique , who now consider war as inevitable .

      The Courrier Francuis states , on the authority of letters Ironi Buchorest of 18 th ult ., that the General Assiembly of VVallachia had been «» udde : ily dissolved after a session of only a few days , and that the Government ordinance'did not mention the period at which it was again to be convoked . A letter from Berlin of the 2 nd in * t , observes , that travellers who had lately returned from Russia ' spoke with admiration , but , at the same time , with considerable uneasiness , of the extraordinary activity displayed by the Government in placing on a formidable looting the colossal forces of that empire .

      By the Express packet papers have been received from Jamaica to the 8 th ol July , from Barbadoes to the 7 th , and from Demerara to the 3 d . They do not generally possess much interest . Some unpleasant differences existed between the Colonial and the Jamaica banks . The former held , and had presented for payment , in doubloon * notes of the latter establishment to the extent of £ 34 , 000 . The subject of the intioduttion of Hill Cooties from the Eust ludies was occupying public attention , and the recent arriyaU of the two cargoes , formerly

      alluded to , at DemPrara was noticed as worthy o 1 imitation by the Jamaica planters . Advices had betn received at Kingston from Santiago de Cuba , dated the aoth of June , which mention that an insurrection had broken oat among the slaves at Trinidad in that island ^ which had , however , beeu .-upprefsed without loss of life . It was statrdto-. bt the intention of the authoritien of Cuba to interdici all con \ municati"n between the southern parts , il not the whale , of that island and Jamaica after tbe l > t of August , the day when the complete emancipation of the nrgrbes takes place .

      Accounts fi 6 m Hayti of the 17 th of June , b y Her Majt sty ' s ship , Champion , state that strict regulation * ., had been adopted by President Boyer with respect to the , arrival and departure * jf persons from tbr Republic . Twenty-two persnnR had been arresud , and tried before the Military Council as accomplices in the late conspiracy , and the sittem ^ t at assassination of the Secretary rGeneral Ingiiiac ; nine were found guilty , and thirteen acquitted , but condemned to a strict surveillance .

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      DISTURBANCES AT THE CAPE . We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 10 th of June , from which we extract thr following : — ( From the Graham ' s Town Journal of May 31 . / Intelligence ha ? been received within these last few days Irony Natal , by an overland route , via Haforlaud , up to so late a date as April 26 . Vke havet . everai letters iiow before us giving particulars of the various occurrences which have transfiired iu that country , and of which but vague and unsatisfactory accounts had before reached the . colony . From these accounts we shall endeavour to give a clear and connected statement . It appears , that after the treacherous massacre oi the benevolent and ili-fated Retsef and his brave

      compatriots , and the subsequent butchery of moi e than 300 wpmirnand children at the emigrant camp , the farmers resolved . to take the field , to enter the Zoolu country , aud , if possible , to avenge on the head of the ruthless Dingaan , the author of all the bloodshed , this wanton slaughter ot their htlpless

      couu rymen . Accordingly , it seems , from these accounts , that on tbe 6 th of April a force of between 300 and 400 mouiited men marched from tbe encampment , under the command of PietUys and J . Potguter . On entering Dingaan ' s territory , they found the country abandoned , and it was not till they came near Unibunginglore , the capital and principal residence ol the King , tbat they met with any obstruction . They arrived in the neighbourhood on the morninu ot ^> tbe 11 th of April , and found the Zoolu army drawn up in three divisions , and advantageously

      posted on some rocks ' , which formed a half circle . The road to the royal residence lay through a mi rrow pass in this circle , and on each side of . this i > penirig the enemy were waiting the attack . The third division lay in ambush , with the intention ot closing in upon the farmers in the rear , should they enter the eircle i and so preventing their escape . Notwithstanding the immense disparity of numbers , the farmers resolved on an immtdiate attack , They divided themselves into two nearly equal divisions , and at once opposed themselves to two divisions of the Zoolu armyv of

      One account states ^ that one division the farmers had not filed more than 16 shots when they shamefully fled ; but this is explained in another account as follows : — One division on the first onset was completely routed . It appears , from the noise made in beating their shields , and by the shouting of the warriors , the horses of the farmers took fright , and they were thus thrown into confusion . The division under Piet Uj s was thus left to sustain' the rush of ' the Zoolu forces , and it nobly did its duty' by a steady

      welldirected fire * The . farmers bad thrown the enemy in j to some cpnfuHion , but from this : they recbvere .: and the gallant little band aoon found themselvts hemmed iu on every side . Every man fought desperately ; the fight had continued an hour and a half , when the farmers , finding their danger becoming more imminent , directed a steady fife to one point ol the cii cle , and having made a line c « mpletely through the enemy , they eflVct ^ d thei r retreat , leaving at the very lowest eoniputationj from 500 to 600 of the Zoolus dead on the field . At the commencement of

      the engagement , when the Zoolus were thrown into confusion , the commander , Piet Uys , accompanied by twenty men , rushed gallantly upon the enemy , followed them into a kloof , and were there hemmed in by an immense biftdy of Zoolus . Uys fought in the most heroic manner , but fell with : nine of his companions ; and bis son , a boy of twelve years of ige , fell fighting brayely by hi « father's side . It appears tJiat on : the very day on which this severe action waa fought , tbe Natal settlers , under

      the command of Mr . Biggan , marched from the port to co-operate with the farmers . On the morning of the 17 th of April they at length came into c ontact with the Zolu army , nu 8 hed with the victory at > they conceived , which they had just before gained over the farmer * . The Natal force consisted , it is said , of 800 men , Sop of whom were armed with guns and supplied with powder and ball . The hostile forces immediatel y came into action . The conflict must have been most desperate and blbttdy , as the result was most disastrous . Two hundred Natal

      settlers are said to have fallen ; amongBt them are 13 Europeans andlO HottentoW . ' . ' ¦•¦ : c > Fortunately for 'the settlers still at Natel , on tie arrival ' of this diBastroua ; intelligence , - the bri g ' Comet watt still in the harbour , having been delayed by tbe illness of the master , Captain Hadden : here they found refugey V . ' ; . ' ' \ The accounts state , that since the defeat of the Natal settlers two Dutch farmers had arrived With a message from the emigrant camp . Arrangements had bntn made for mutual protection , and a promise had been given that 200 farmers should be sent to the port , for the protection of the place . From a later account received there , 200 men had arived . Shortly alter the defeat the Zoolus poured down upon the settlement at the port : they remained there

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      . etr dajt-, anU swepi it lit : emy > head o ; eatile . Th «* n " arive settlers hod Hid-to" the hush , and the tnoveable property w ; is cpnyey . r . d on hoaid the brig . The houses at Natal had not hetn destroyed by the Zoolus , a > they were deterred fiqm appro bfhingthf -hore by a shot being occasibnali y discharged from ihe "Vessel . . ; ; .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 18, 1838, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1019/page/2/