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garret to the yard. This instru- 

 ment accorded with the wounds, 

 and was bloody. In further proof 

 of her guilt, it appeared, in ex- 

 amining of the bed in the first 

 moment of the discovery, by IMrs. 

 Turnbull (a midwife) and another 

 neighbour, that only one person 

 had lain in it that night ; there 

 was no second impression, and 

 the deceased was lying in the 

 middle of the bed, perfectly dead 

 and stiff; and from the appear- 

 ance of the blood, must have 

 been dead some hours. Mrs. 

 Huntingford, upon this contra- 

 diction to her statement being 

 observed, acknowledged she had 

 not been to bed, though, in the 

 first instance, she stated she had 

 jumped out of bed on the first 

 appearance of the men in her 

 room. Upon her person there 

 was not much blood ; upon her 

 pockets and one of her petticoats 

 there were some small spots. The 

 deceased's pockets had been 

 turned inside out, but were not 

 bloody ; and a small box, in 

 which the deceased at times had 

 kept money, had been opened, 

 but without violence; no money, 

 however, was in it, nor could any 

 be found upon the wife. It ap- 

 peared this wretched woman had, 

 previously to this shocking dis- 

 covery, pawned some spoons and 

 her husband's best coat, which he 

 had that day asked her for ; and 

 as she had been long addicted to 

 sottish drunken habits, it is pre- 

 sumed the fear of detection, from 

 having made away with his 

 property, and the hope of finding 

 money in his box, led her to the 

 perpetration of this most deprav- 

 ed and horrid deed, which must 



have been effected shortly after 

 they had retired for the night. 

 The prisoner, formerly, many 

 years kept a grocer's shop at 

 Portsea. The deceased had been 

 upwards of sixty years a ship- 

 wright in his Majesty's Dock- 

 yard ; he was of a remarkably 

 quiet inoffensive disposition ; they 

 had been married upwards of 40 

 years. It is not the least shock- 

 ing part of this horrid transaction, 

 that the woman throughout the 

 proceeding, showed the most 

 callous insensibility. 



24:. IVoohvich. — His Majesty's 

 ship Dorothea, Captain Buchan, 

 and the Trent, Lieutenant Frank- 

 lin, have arrived in Gallions from 

 an unsuccessful expedition to the 

 North Pole. The crews of both 

 ships are well, which is rather 

 surprising, when the Dorothea is 

 viewed ; for on the larboard side, 

 from about 2 feet before the 

 main-channel, and the length of 

 about 15 feet aft, the ice has 

 stove in the side so dreadfully, 

 that had it not been for the steady 

 and seamanlike conduct of Cap- 

 tain Buchan, assisted by Lieute- 

 nant Franklin and their ships' 

 companies, who rendered every 

 assistance at the pumps, while 

 the carpenters were stoking the 

 great hole made by the ice, they 

 must have been lost. There is 

 hardly one bit in the sides or 

 deck but what has opened, some 

 three inches wide, others more 

 or less ; also a great number of 

 her timbers have broke quite 

 through, so that they were obliged 

 to place large planks upon the 

 broken part, and well bolt them 

 with extra beams, and planking 

 inside. 



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