406 ANNUAL PxEGISTER, 1805. 



front parlour, while her husband, 

 the prisoner, was excluded from the 

 room, either from some previous 

 quarrel, or from apprehension on 

 the part of the deceased. The pri- 

 soner made several attempts to be 

 admitted ; but, finding it in vain, 

 iveiit at last round to the back area, 

 and drew up the window of the 

 back parlour, with an intention, as 

 it mi^ht seem, of getting in. On 

 hearing this, the deceased immedi- 

 ately ran into the back parlour, to 

 see what was the matter, which site 

 had no sooner entered, than the re- 

 port of a pistol alarmed the Avoman 

 in the front parlour, and attracted 

 the notice of several of the neigh- 

 bours. On entering the back par- 

 lour, they found the deceased on the 

 floor, covered with blood ; and, on 

 examining the body, they found she 

 had received a shot in the left angle 

 of the left eye, which was torn from 

 its socket. Mr. Lawrence, a sur- 

 geon in the neighbourhood, being 

 sent for, declared, that tlie death of 

 the deceased was owing to this 

 wound, and that any attempt at re- 

 covery was i^ vain. On examining 

 farther, they found a couple of pis- 

 tols, thrown among some broken 

 bottles and other lumber, in the 

 back area, one of which seemed to 

 have been recently discharged. 'J'he 

 prisoner was consequently appre- 

 hended, and immediately com- 

 mitted. 

 ^ The facts being thus made out 

 Tery clearly, the prisoner had only 

 to say, in his defence, as he stated at 

 the bar, that he had many times 

 been put out of his senses, by the 

 bad usage of his sons and his wife ; 

 that some time ago they had put him 

 in prison : that his wife had wished 

 Tery much that his two sons should 

 be taken iuto partnership with him, 



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and have the half of the, profit?, 

 with a joint' right to the lease of the 

 house ; and that, because he would 

 not consent to this, he was kept in 

 continual unhappincss. 



Upwards of twenty witnesses 

 were afterwards called, who deposed 

 that the prisoner was occasionally 

 liable to fits of insanity. This cir- 

 cumstance, it appeared, was owing 

 to a blow he had received, several 

 j'cars ago, on the head, from one of 

 their large hammers, from the effectii 

 of which he had never thoroughly 

 recovered. 



In consideration of this large bo- 

 dy of evidence, the jury brought in 

 a verdict of — Acquittal. 



13th. A soldier belonging to the 

 Northampton militia fell from the 

 Clilf, at Dover-castle, upon the 

 rocks below, and, wojiderful to re- 

 late ! has not broken a bone : he is 

 dreadfully bruised, but in a fair way 

 of recovery. 



17th. This day were landed, at 

 the dock-yard, Deptford, five stal- 

 lions and eight marcs, five of thorn 

 cream coloured, from his majesty's 

 stud at Hanover, but last from Swe- 

 den. They were brought to the 

 King's Mews, Charing-cross. 



20th. This evening, as Richard 

 Morson, esq. of Reading, was an- 

 gling in the river Kennet, near 

 Fobney-bridge, he slipped into tha 

 water, and was drow ncd before any 

 assistance could be given him. 



Charles Knight, a very respect- 

 able looking man, who had been 

 found guilty at the INliddlcscx ses- 

 sions of exposing himself immodestly 

 to divers ladies and children, in the 

 fields and neighbourhood of Mary- 

 lebone, M'as brought up for sen- 

 tence ; when he was ordered to bo 

 imprisoned two years in the house 

 of correction, Cold-bath-fields. 



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