ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



and missionaries, assisted by a 

 force dispatched with the utmost 

 promptitude by major Chisholm, 

 commandant of Goree, but a small 

 part of the cargo was saved, the 

 rest being plundered by the na- 

 tives. Every attention h as paid to 

 the missionaries in their distress by 

 major Chisholm, and by lieut.-col. 

 M'Carthy, governor of Senegal. 

 One of their party died, and was 

 buried in Goree; and the rest 

 hired a Spanish vessel to convey 

 them to the Society's settlements 

 in the Rio Pongas, whither they 

 were bound. 



York, Jan. 7. — This evening the 

 grand jury came into court, and, 

 after stating that they had no 

 more bills before them, inquired if 

 any more were prepared ? Mr. 

 Parke said, " I shall, with leave 

 of the Court, answer the question 

 put by the grand jury." Their 

 lordships intimated assent, and 

 Mr. Parke proceeded : .«' My learn- 

 ed friends and myself have exa- 

 mined the different cases which 

 have not been presented to you ; 

 and, considering that many of 

 these people have acted under the 

 influence of other persons, we 

 have, in the exercise of that dis- 

 cretion confided to us by the 

 Crown, declined, at present, to 

 present any other bills before you ; 

 and I hope this lenity will pro- 

 duce its proper effects, and that 

 the persons on whom it is exer- 

 cised, will prove themselves, by 

 their future good conduct, deserv- 

 ing ofit. Butifitbe abused, pro- 

 ceedings against them can be re- 

 sumed. 



Leeds, Jan. 9. — Execution of the 

 Murderers nf Mr. Horsefall, at 

 York. 



Dm-ing the whole of the trial, 

 and even while the solemn sen- 

 tence of the law was passing, not 

 one of the prisoners shed a tear ; 

 but their behaviour was perfectly 

 free from any indecent boldness or 

 unbecoming levity. The proceed- 

 ings of the court were conducted 

 with unusual solemnity, and the 

 behaviour of the spectators was 

 strictly decorous and becoming. 

 From amongst the numerous rela- 

 tives and friends of the unhappy 

 malefactors, an expression of an- 

 guish frequently reached the ear, 

 but it was deep, not loud ; and in 

 that part of the auditory that was 

 connected with them only by a 

 common nature, abhorrence at 

 their enormous crime was not un- 

 mixed with commiseration at the 

 premature fate of these early vic- 

 tims of a lawless confederacy. 



At the opening of the court on 

 Thursday morning, the jury re- 

 commended Thomas Smith to mer- 

 cy ; and an application was, we 

 understand, made to the judges to 

 have the sentence of the law, on 

 such of the murderers as they 

 might think proper to order for 

 execution, carried into effect, not 

 at the usual place of execution, 

 but on the spot where the mur- 

 der was perpetrated ; but we 

 hear, that it was not thought ex- 

 pedient to comply with this appli- 

 cation. 



In the interval between the trial 

 and execution, the prisoners be- 

 haved very penitently, though they 

 refused to make any confession 

 cither in the prison or at the place 



