CHP ROO Ne ECE E. 
19th William Clark, the driver 
“of the Newmarket mail 
was indicted for wilful murder. 
It appeared that the prisoner was 
driving the mail coach at a very 
furious rate along Bishopsgate- 
street, where be ran over a boy and 
killed him on the spot. 
sooner drove on, not knowing of the 
accident, but was soon afterwards 
stopped. He alledged, in his de. 
-fence, that his employers were 
under contract to perform the jour- 
Ney within a certain period, and . 
therefore he thought it his duty to 
drive sotast. Thejudge, in sum. 
ming up the evidence, observed, 
“no contract could justify a man for 
driving in such a manner as to en- 
danger the lives of others.” The 
jury retired, and were absent two 
hours ; when they returned, and 
found the prisoner, not guilty. 
23d This afternoon the co- 
~""* — roner’s jury sat on the body 
of a lady in the neighbourhood 
of Holborn, who died in con- 
sequence of a wound from her 
aughter, the preceding day. 
While the family were preparing 
for dinner, the young lady, in a 
fit of insanity, seized a case knife 
lying on the table, and in a me- 
Nacing manner pursued a little girl, 
her apprentice, round the room. 
On the eager calls of her helpless, 
infirm mother, to forbear, she 
Tenounced ber first object, and, 
with loud shrieks, approached her 
parent. The child, by her cries, 
quickly brought up the landlord 
of the house, but too late; the 
dreadful scene presented to him 
the mother lifeless on a chair, 
pierced to the heart; her daughter 
yet wildly standing over her with 
the fatal knife; and the venerable 
old man, her father, weeping by 
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her side, himself bleeding at the 
forehead, from the effects of a blow 
he received from one of the forks 
she had been madly hurling about 
the room. Fora few days prior to 
this, the family had discovered some 
symptoms of lunacy in her, which 
had so much increased on the Wed-~ 
nesday evening, that her brother, 
early the next morning, went in 
quest of Dr. Pitcairn ; had that gen- 
tleman been providentially met with 
the fatal catastrophehad, probably, 
been prevented. She had once be- 
fore, in the earlier part of her life, 
been deranged, from the harrassing 
fatigues of too much _ business. 
As her carriage towards her mother 
had been ever affectionate in the 
extreme, it is believed, that to her 
increased attentiveness to her, as 
her infirmities called for it, is to be 
ascribed the loss of her reason at 
this time. The jury, without be- _ 
sitating, breught in their verdict, — 
Lunacy. 
24th. The melancholy account 
of the blowing up of the 
Amphion frigate, at Plymouth, 
was received at the Admiralty from 
Sir Richard King, by which it 
appears that Captain Pellew, the 
first lieutenant, and fifteen of the 
Crew, out of 220, are the only sur 
vivors left to relate the dismal 
Catastrophe; Captain Swaffield, of 
the Dutch prize, is among the un- 
fortunate victims. The accident 
happened at a quarter past four on 
Thursday afternoon, while the 
Captain and his friends were at 
dinner. Mr. Pellew is dangerously 
wounded, Every exertion that 
could be used was rendered by the 
ships boats in the harbour. 
28th This morning a convoca- 
| tion was held at St. Paul’s 
Cathedral, This 1s a ceremony 
Dis which 
