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procession was led by several other 

 carriages, in which were his royal 

 highness's attendants, and was 

 closed by several parties of horse 

 and foot-guards. 



The concourse of people assem- 

 bled in the park and in the streets 

 was greater than has been usual on 

 similar occasions, influenced, pro- 

 bably, by the fineness of the day, 

 and the universal satisfaction pro- 

 duced by the brilliant successes of 

 our arms and those of our allies. 

 The whole was conducted with 

 the greatest decorum ; and the 

 Prince Regent, after having open- 

 ed the session of parliament, re- 

 ■ turned to St. James's in the same 

 order in which he had proceeded 

 from thence. 



5. An inquisition was taken at 

 . Solihull, Warwickshire, on the body 

 of Mary Bate, who was found mur- 

 dered on the Wednesday preced- 

 ing. The circumstances of the case 

 are shortly these : — The deceased, 

 her husband, and the two brothers 

 of the deceased, the one aged about 

 18 and the other 19 years, resided 

 in a cottage, near Solihull Lodge. 

 The two brothers on the morning 

 of the day the murder was com- 

 mitted, rose about a quarter before 

 six o'clock, and went to work ; 

 the husband, John Bate, went to 

 work in half an hour afterwards. 

 About six o'clock in the evening, 

 the brothers returned, and not 

 finding the deceased, as they 

 thought, in the house, they M'aited 

 near it for the return of the hus- 

 band, who came in a short time, 

 and having struck a light, went 

 up stairs, and immediately ex- 

 claimed his wife was murdered. 

 Tlie alarm was given, but nothing 

 was discovered to lead to a sup- 

 position of any person having en- 



tered the house. Strong'suspicion 

 arose, that the husband had com- 

 mitted the murder, in consequence 

 of the contradictory accounts he 

 gave to different persons, of some 

 money he pretended to have left in 

 the house ; which not proving 

 true, and some blood having been 

 found on his waistcoat and shirt, 

 together with other suspicious cir- 

 cumstances, induced the jury to 

 find a verdict of wilful murder 

 against him ; and he was com- 

 mitted to Warwick-gaol, to take 

 his trial at the next assizes. The 

 head of the deceased was literally 

 dashed to pieces, and it appeared 

 to have been done with an axe, as 

 she lay asleep in bed ; but no in- 

 strument of that description could 

 be found with blood on it. 



6. Waterford. — The following, 

 particulars of the murder of Francis 

 Smyth, esq. who was killed in his 

 own parlour, at Balinaclash, in 

 this county, have been furnished 

 by a gentleman who was present 

 at the inquest. On Sunday even- 

 ing, between five and six o'clock, 

 a servant-man, -vho was outside 

 nailing a board over a broken pane 

 in the parlour window, observed 

 three men in close consultation 

 in a field at some distance towards 

 Ballylaneen. The servant conceived 

 suspicions, and, as they came to- 

 wards the house, he cautioned the 

 foremost that his master was 

 armed ; the fellow opened his 

 breast, shewed his pistol, and bid 

 the man take care of himself: 

 they then pushed him into the par- 

 lour, and knocked him down. Mr. 

 Smyth asked what they were about, 

 and was it whiskey they wanted ; 

 they replied, No : sat down, and 

 ordered the servant out. The man 

 went to the kitchen, where the- 



