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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Jan. 



Mr. Heaviside, the surgeon, who 

 had only been attending profes- 

 sionally, was committed to New- 

 gate on a charge of murder. Sir 

 Richard Ford was the committing 

 magistrate, who at that time ex- 

 pressed his determination to com- 

 mit the surgeons, and all persons 

 wlio were present at fatal duels, 

 to take their trials for murder ; 

 and this checked the spirit of 

 duelling for some time. Mr. 

 Heaviside was confined in New- 

 gate for a considerable time and 

 at a very considerable expense. 

 Probably bail to any amount could 

 have been procured for Mr. Hea- 

 viside, but all was refused. 



Mr. Birnie further observed, 

 that he did not know that Magis- 

 trates had any thing to do with 

 Coroner's inquests. 



Mr. Nolan said, if the Magis- 

 trate complied with the applica- 

 tion, no mischief, public or pri- 

 vate, could happen. 



The Magistrate firmly observ- 

 ed, that it was in evidence before 

 him that one of the King's sub- 

 jects had been deprived of life, 

 and upon prima Jhcic evidence it 

 was murder. 



Mr. Nolan again urged his 

 desire that his clients might have 

 a more comfortable lodging. 



Mr. Birnie said he had made 

 up his mind : the prisoners must 

 all be committed to Newgate to 

 take their trial for the murder of 

 Lieutenant Bayley, and he was 

 convinced that the three learned 

 gentlemen would allow that he 

 liad decided right. The gentle- 

 men bowed and retired. 



The prisoners were given into 

 the custody of the gaolers to be 

 conveyed to Newgate. 



The case was decided on Jan. 

 16, when all the three prisoners 



'Of 



the 



were found guilty of Man- 

 slaughter. 



A letter has been received at 

 Whitehaven, dated at Toula, Jan. 

 13 (O. S.), respecting the pro- 

 gress made by the miners who 

 were lately sent out from the 

 former to the latter place, at the 

 particular request of the Emperor 

 of Russia, to search for coal. 

 Before the Emperor left Moscow, 

 on his journey through the pro- 

 vinces, Mr. Longmore, the prin- 

 cipal engineer, presented his Im- 

 perial Majesty with specimens of 

 coal from five different places in 

 the province of Toula. 



li. Washington. — The fol- 

 lowing Message was yesterday 

 transmitted, by the President of 

 the United States to both Houses 

 of Congress : — ' 



To the Senate and House o 

 Repj-esentatives of 

 United States ; 



I have the satisfaction to in- 

 form Congress, that the establish- 

 ment at Amelia Island has been 

 suppressed, and without the effu- 

 sion of blood. The papers which 

 explain this transaction I now lay 

 before Congress. 



By the suppression of this esta- 

 blishment, and of that at Galves- 

 ton, which will soon follow, if it 

 has not already ceased to exist, 

 there is good cause to believe 

 that the consummation of a project 

 fraught with much injury to the 

 United States has been prevent- 

 ed. When we consider the per- 

 sons engaged in it, being adven- 

 turers from different countries, 

 with verjf few, if any, of the 

 native inhabitants of the SpanisK 

 colonies, — the territory on which 

 the establisluTients were made, 

 one on a portion of that claimed 



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