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to St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and 
on the Saturday evening he ex- 
pired ; previous to which, however, 
he said to one Willey, and to Cole- 
man, that he was a dead man, and 
that he believed the man whom 
they brought to the watch-house 
the night before with a knife, was 
one of them that had cut him, and 
the cutting drover another.—On 
being asked if they meant Arnold, 
they said, yes. The surgeon de- 
scribed Mr. Brewer to have received 
three wounds, one at the top of 
the head through the skull; another 
in the left temple down to the chin, 
which went the whole length to 
‘the bone; and a third under the 
blade-bone of the right shoulder, 
three inches long, and one inch 
deep ; these wounds brought on an 
inflammation, that inflammation a 
fever, and were consequently the 
cause of his death. Arnold was 
taken the next day in Smithfield, 
Ryan a few days after on board the 
Sans-Pareil at Spithead, and Dunn 
in the neighbourhood of Cow-Cross, 
Being called upon for their defence, 
Ryan said, conscious of his own 
innocence with respeét to the mur- 
der, he sbould leave it with his 
counsel. Mr. Justice Grose then 
summed up the evidence, and ex- 
plained the law upon the case, par- 
ticularizing the different points as 
far as they were corroborated 
against either or all the prisoners; 
observing also the difference, as it 
appeared to him, there was in the 
guilt of the prisoners. 
The jury, after remaining out of 
courtabout twenty minutes, brought 
in their verdiét—Dunn and Arnold, 
guilty. —Ryan, not guilty. 
. As the recorder was proceeding 
to pass sentence on them, Dunn 
said he had a favour to beg of the 
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court, which was, that as but one 
life had been lost, the law would be ~ 
satisfied with one as an atonement. 
He sought not to save his own life, 
for he had unfértunately for the 
last ten years Committed innumera- 
ble offences ; and therefore, if mer- 
cy could be shewn, his fellow suf- 
ferer was more deserving of it than 
himself; all he could hope for was 
the indulgence of a little more time 
than was commonly allowed in 
these cases, to make his peace with 
God. The recorder declared that 
it was not in his power to grant- 
either, and then pronounced the 
sentence to be, that they be execu- 
ted on Monday following, and that 
their bodies be delivered to the sur- 
geons for disseétion; which was 
executed accordingly. 
éth Such quantities of ice came 
‘down the river this day with 
the land-waters on the ebb-tide, as 
to block up seme of the arches of 
London-bridge. The navigation of 
the river above bridge is already 
much impeded thereby. Such an 
accumulation, on so short a frost, 
is rather rare in this country. 
14th. ,. At 2. common hall, the 
livery of London instruéted 
their representatives in parliament 
to move or support a motion in the 
house of commons, for censuring 
the ministers, for having taken upon 
themselves to send the money of 
the people of Great Britain to the 
emperor of Germany, during the 
sitting of parliament, without the 
consent of parliament. ; 
O lst This morning, when the 
* turnkeys of Newgate were 
preparing to remove the convitts 
sentenced to Botany Bay, among 
whom was the celebrated major 
Semple, who, it seems, had ‘flat- 
_tered himself with the hopes of 
pardon, 
