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die, without cause. The other 

 two children were in a shockingly 

 emaciated state, and the witness 

 tooli them under her roof. 



Mrs. Clark proved completely 

 that the children were all in a 

 state of starvation. She often car- 

 ried them cake and a little wine, 

 which they all ravenously de- 

 voured. 



Three surgeons gave it as their 

 opinion, that the child died from 

 the effects of barbarous treatment 

 and want of food. 



No disclosure of the mortified 

 feet was made until it was found 

 the child could not be saved; and 

 one witness stated that the female 

 prisoner had said they could live 

 better without the children. To 

 enter into a minute description of 

 the barbarities towards the chil- 

 dren would fill a volume. They 

 were of the ages of four, seven, 

 and nine years. The male prisoner 

 was universally allowed to have 

 been a kind tender father and hus- 

 band, until his second marriage, 

 and to such extent that he was 

 particularly noted by many coun- 

 try gentlemen, some of whom spoke 

 on this occasion. 



The prisoners were found guil- 

 ty, and ordered for execution at 

 Ipswich on Monday next, whi- 

 ther they were immediately con- 

 veyed. 



At the Wexford assizes, last 

 week, Luke Green was convicted 

 of the wilful murder of his son ; 

 the prisoner was a sweep, and his 

 son was his apprentice. The pri- 

 soner, on the 3rd of December, 

 came home somewhat in liquor, 

 and began quarrelling with the 

 deceased : the child, to avoid his 

 fury, run up the chimney ; the pri- 

 soner immediately put a bundle 



of straw into the grate, and set fire 

 to it, which burned him in such a 

 manner that he languished for 

 nine days, and then died. Prisoner 

 was between sixty and seventyyears 

 of age. 



Edinburgh, March 23. — Trial 

 of Hugh lii' Intosh, Neil Sutherland, 

 and Hugh M'Donald. — The pri- 

 soners were accused, at the instance 

 of his majesty's advocate, of having 

 committed various crimes between 

 the hours of ten of the night of the 

 31st of December, 1811, and four 

 of the morning of the 1st of Janu- 

 ary. 1812. 



The evidence, which was very 

 long, disclosed a history of the 

 outrages of the night preceding 

 New Year's Day. 



The Court met again at two 

 o'clock on Saturday, when the 

 jury returned their verdict, all in 

 one voice finding the panel, 

 Hugh M'Intosh, guilty, actor or 

 art and part, of the murder of 

 Dugald Campbell, as libelled ; and 

 all in one voice finding the pan- 

 els, Hugh M'Donald, Hugh 

 M'Intosh, and Neil Sutherland, 

 guilty, actors or art and part, of 

 robbing ensign Humphrey Coch- 

 rane of his silver watch, as libelled; 

 and further finding, all in one 

 voice, the said panels, Hugh 

 M'Donald, Hugh M'Intosh, and 

 Neil Sutherland, guilty, actors or 

 art and part, of robbing Nicol Al- 

 lan of his yellow metal hunting 

 watch, as libelled. 



Their lordships, in delivering 

 their opinions, expressed in strong 

 terms the horror they felt at the 

 extent of the guilt and depravity 

 which the evidence on this trial 

 unfolded — at the existence of an 

 association of such a nature, and 

 for such a length of time, as that 



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