CHBON IC LE. 
he heard a person moaning in great 
distress ; he called up two men, who, 
on going below, cried out, **O 
God! a man is murdered!” Others 
came up, who saw the prisoner 
standing, with a knife in his hand, 
which was covered with blood: the 
deceased was lying near him. The 
prisoner made no resistance; but 
when they took him into custody, 
he said, ‘* Me kill Anguin—An- 
guin tell me lie—China fashion— 
me kill Anguin, me kill Anguin— 
you hang me.” The head was nearly 
severed from the body. There were 
two mortal stabs, one of which had 
penetrated the heart, the other the 
loins, There were in all nine 
wounds. The other witness corro- 
borated this account. It did not 
appear that the prisoncr and the 
deceased had any quarrel on board, 
but they had some dispute on shore. 
Lhe prisoper, by his interpreter, 
said he must be hanged by the Eng- 
Jish law, and did not desire to live : 
he said he cut the man’s head off.— 
The jury having found him guilty, 
sir W. Scott pronounced sentence 
of death upon the prisoner, who 
seemed to take but little concern in 
it. He was ordered to be hanged 
on Monday next, at Execution 
Dock ; but his sentence was after- 
wards respited until the Friday fol- 
lowing, on account of the tide serv- 
ing more conveniently for the time 
of execution. 
Richard Curling, John Forwood, 
Thomas Moss, John Sanders, and 
Thomas Reed, were indiéted for 
stealing on the high seas, sixty-five 
fathoms of small bower cable, value 
58], and an anchor, value 101. the 
property of Messrs. Joseph Wales, — 
and C. Y. Bonner. The prisoners 
are all pilots, who resided on the 
goast of Kent, and three of them 
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went on board the Traveller brig, 
captain Ballard, to conduct the ves- 
sel into Ramsgate, from the Downs: 
while on board, a plan was entered 
into by the prisoners and the captain, 
to cut away the cable, and that a 
rope should be fastened to it, by 
which it could be recovered by two 
men, who were in.a boat. ‘This 
was done, and the captain, accord- 
ing to his own statement, committed 
this fraud in conjunction with the 
prisoners, to make the loss more se- 
vere on the underwriters, and con- 
sequently more profitable to the 
owners, who, very laudably, insti- 
tuted this prosecution. The trial 
excited a great deal of interest, but 
our limits only allow us to give this 
abstract. Three of the prisoners 
were found guilty, and Sanders and 
Reed, the men who were in the 
boat, were acquitted, for want of 
sufficient evidence to establish their 
guilt. 
A tremesdous storm of thunder, 
lightning, and rain commenced this 
morning, at eight, in the metropolis, 
and lasted until eleven, without in- 
termission. It excited universal ter- 
ror. The lightning entered a house 
under repair in LKast-street, Man- 
chester-sguare ; the blaze was so 
violent, that every one apprehended. 
that the whole house was on fire, 
but no injury was sustained, except 
the breaking of a few panes of glass. 
‘Two persons, in the house adjoining, 
were forcibly struck with the light. 
ning. A ball of fire fell into the 
area of the lottery-office, in Somer- 
set Place ; it forced open the door, 
and drove Mr. Pearce. the secretary, 
who was standing at the window, 
with a person who was with him, to 
the opposite side of the room.— 
Another ball feli in the Thames, op- 
posite Arandel-sirecet, As M 
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