opportunity for remonstrance that evening. Lady Cloncurry retired before him, and was asleep when he went to bed; but, upon her waking about four o'clock the next morning, he reproached her with the impropriety of what he had been a witness to. Lady Cloncurry burst into a flood of tears, and sobbed out, in words hardly articulate "Sir John Piers is an infamous wretch; he is determined on my ruin; for God's sake let me never see him again." Lord Cloncurry, not conceiving the whole extent of his misfortune-not supposing it exceeded some improper familiarity offered to his wife, rushed out of her apartment in search of sir John; he found him shooting in a distant part of the demesne. His first care was, to get possession of his gun, under pretence of shoot. ing a rabbit: he then said to him, "Piers, don't be angry with me; for God's sake don't drive lady Cloncurry to infamy; quit this place; go, God bless you." John, after some confused attempt at explanation, departed. Lord C. returned to the house, and to his wife's apartment; he endeavoured to soothe her; he assured her that the man whom she detested was gone, and that she should never see him more; he also assured her of his own undiminished affec. tion. Struck with his generosity, she threw herself at his feet, and made a full confession of her guilt. Sir The solicitor-general concluded by informing the jury, that, in ad. dition to the loss of the affections of his wife, ford Cloncurry had to Tament another circumstance of a most alicting nature. This adirlterous intercourse had proved fruitful, and a spurious offspring was imposed on lord Cloncurry, to hear his name, and to participate largely in that fortune which had been settled on his younger children. Three letters were read from sir J. Piers to lord C.-In the two first he asserts his own innocence, and calls on his lordship for explanation. The third was written with the manifest inten tion to provoke a breach of the peace. A letter was also read from sir John to lady C. written after the discovery, and which had been interIt is cepted by lord Cloncurry. written in the most impassioned and romantic style; he styles her his own beloved Eliza; calls his lordship a poor tame wretch, alluding to his conduct in the demesne on the morning of the 25th, and proposes marriage to her; finally, he begs to know, is it only suspicion with lord Cloncurry, or if he has discovered all? Several witnesses were called to prove the statement in the opening. The trial was resumed the next day. Mr. Burrows was then heard on the part of the defendant; he spoke for upwards of two hours, but did not call any witnesses. Serjeant Ball, spoke to evidence; and the jury, on hearing the charge, retired, and in about 35 minutes returned a verdict for the plaintiff Damages twenty-thousand pounds! 20. John Holloway, aliàs Oliver, aliàs Long Will, and Owen' Haggerty, alias Eggerty, were indicted at the Old Bailey for the wilful murder of Mr. Steele, in the month of November, 1802, upon Houn slow Heath. Thomas Meyer, brother-in-law of the deceased, Henry Manby, and Wm. Hughes, described the man. per in which the body of the de ceased ceased was found buried near a clump of trees upon the Heath; and Henry Frogley, a surgeon, described the wounds he found upon the body when he examined it; one of which, an extensive fracture in the fore part of the head, he had no doubt, was the immediate cause of death. Benjamin Hanfield, the accom. plice, was next examined; the re. cord of his pardon having been first read, without which his deposition could not have been taken. [The pardon, however, only applied to the offence for which he was suf. fering at the time he made the confession on-board the hulks at Portsmouth.] He deposed nearly as follows: I have known Hag. gerty eight or nine years, and Hol loway six or seven. We were accustomed to meet at the Black Horse and Turk's Head publicbouses in Dyot-street. I was in their company in the month of November, 1802. Holloway, just be fore the murder, called me out from the Turk's Head, and asked me if I had any objection to be in a good thing? I replied, I had not. He said it was ano toby, meaning a footpad-robbery, I asked, when and where. He said he would let me know. We, parted, and two days after we met again; and Saturday, the 6th of November, was appointed. I asked, who was to go with gs; he replied, that Haggerty had agreed to make oue. They all three met on the Saturday at the Black Horse; when Holloway said, our business is to serve a gentleman on Ilounslow Heath, who, I understand, travels that way with property. We then drank for three or four hours, and about སྙ the middle of the day we set off for Hounslow. We stopped at a pub. lic-house, the Bell, and took some porter. We proceeded from thence upon the road towards Belfont, and expressed our hope that we should get a good booty. We stopped near the eleventh milestone, and secreted ourselves in a clump of trees. While there, the moon got up, and Holloway said we had come too soon. Hollo. After loitering about a considera ble time, lolloway said he beard a foot-step, and we proceeded to wards Belfont. We presently saw a man coming towards us; and 'où approaching him, we ordered him to stop; which he immediately did. Holloway went round him, and told him to deliver. He said, we should have his money, and hoped we would not ill use him. The deceased put his hand in his pocket, and gave Haggerty his money. I demanded his pocket-book. He replied that he had none. way insisted that he had a book; and if he did not deliver it, he would knock him down. The deceased again, replied that he had no book, and Holloway knocked him down. I then laid hold of his legs. Hollo. way stood at his head, and swore if he cried out, he would knock out his brains. The deceased again said, he hoped we would not ill use him. Haggerty, proceeded to search him; when the deceased made some resistance, and struggled so much, that he got across the road. He cried out severely, and, as a carriage was coming up, Hol. loway said, Take care, I will silence the br, and immediate ly struck him several violent blows on the head and body. The de 1 6 ceased ceased heaved a heavy groan, and lining over it, threw it into the stretched himself out lifeless. I felt Thames. alarmed, and said, John, you 6 The witness was then cross-exa. have killed the man :' Holloway mined. He said, he had made no other replied, that it was a lie, for he minutes of the transactions he had was only stunned. I said I would been detailing, than what his con. stay no longer, and immediately science took cognizance of. It was set off towards London, leaving accident that led to his disclosure. Holloway and Haggerty with the He was talking with other prisoners body. I came to Hounslow, and in Newgate, of particular robberies stopped at the end of the town for that had taken place; and the Dear an hour. Hounslow robbery and murder be. Holloway and Haggerty then ing stated amongst others, he inad. came up, and said, they had done vertently said that there were only the trick, and, as a token, put the three persons who knew of that deceased's hat into my hand. The transaction. The remark was hat Holloway went down in was circulated and observed upon; and like a soldier's hat. I told Hollo- a rumour ran through the prison, way it was a cruel piece of business, that he was about to turn nose," and that I was sorry I had any hand and he was obliged to hold his in it. We all turned down a lape, tongue lest he should be ill used. and returned to London. As we When at Portsmouth, on-board the came along, I asked Holloway if holks, the compunctions of con. he had got the pocket-book. He science came upon him; and he replied, it was no matter ; for as I was obliged to dissipate his thoughts had refused to share the danger, by drinking, to prevent him from I should not share the booty. We divulging all he knew. At last he came to the Black Horse in Dyot- was questioned by sir John Carter, , street, had half a pint of gin, und and soon after an officer arrived parted. Haggerty went down in from London, and he made a full shoes, but I don't know if he came confession. He admitted, that he back in them. The next day I had led a vicious life, that he had observed Holloway had a hat upon been concerned in several robberies, his head, which was too small for and had entered and deserted from him. I asked him if it was the several regiments. He had served same he got the preceding night. in the East and West London mili. He said it was. We met again on tia, had enlisted into the 9th and the Monday; when I told Hollo. 14th light dragoons, and had been way that he acted imprudently in in the army of reserve. He added, wearing the hat, as it might lead to that he was ashamed and sorry at a discovery. He put the hat into. what he had been, and would en. my hand, and I observed the name deavour to mend his life in fu. of Steele in it. I repeated my fears. ture. At night Holloway brought the hat After some witnesses had been in a handkerchief, and we went to examined, in order to bring the Westminster Bridge, filled the hat two prisoners and the accomplice with stones, and having tied the together about the time of the rob. bery a bery and murder, and several police. - passed : Haggerty—“ Where did officers had been called to shew that he say we parted after the mur. they were all three considered to der ? Holloway-" At Hounsbe of reputed bad character, and low." Haggerty—“ Where did he connected; ,say we had the gin?" Holloway Justice Nares was examined, who 66 At the Black Horse in Dyot. gave an account of the several exa. street." Haggerty—“ We must minations the prisoners underwent have had the gin there.” before him. In those examinations A deal more of this conversation Haggerty denied any knowledge of was given in evidence, which only Holloway, and said he had never went to confirm the knowledge seen Hanfield, the accomplice, in all the prisoners had of the transaction; his life. They both denied ever and the hat, shoes, and bludgeon being at Hounslow in their lives, or found upon the Heath, were prothat they had ever entered the duced in court. Black Horse or the Turk's-Head Holloway, when called upon for public-houses in Dyot-street. his defence, said, that Hanfield was Another head of evidence was, a stranger to him, and he was to prove that they had been seen at innocent of the crime alleged a. both the public houses mentioned, gainst him. He said, Hanfield had and that they had also been seen in accused him, to get his own liberty. Hounslow and its neighbourhood. He then pointed out what he called The next and principal head of contradictions in his evidence, and evidence was that collected from called Mr. Nares to witness for the prisoners' own mouths. It ap- those contradictions. Mr. Nares peared, that they were confined in could see nothing like contradiction separate apartments after their in the story told by the accom. separate examinations; but as there plice. was only a slight partition betwixt Mr. Justice Le Blanc summed up them, they were enabled to con. the evidence in a very clear and verse together. An officer had ta perspicuous manner, making some ken the precaution of placing him. very humane observations upon the self in a situation where he could nature of the testimony given by over-hear their conversation, and accomplices. He was near two by that means became possessed of hours in bis address, and left no every thing they said to each other. point either for or against the pri. They deprecated the villainy of sovers unobserved upon, leaning at Hanfield, and flattered themselves all times to the side of mercy. that the crime could not be brought The jury.retired for a few mi. home to them, and that it was pose' nutes ; when they returned a versible that Hanfield might suffer for dict of Guilty against both the prihis perfidy. They confided to each other, that they had. denied ha- · The recorder passed sentence in ving any acquaintance with the ac- the most solemn and impressive complice, and, in fact, recapitulated way, and the unhappy men were to each other the whole of their ordered for execution on Monday examinations. In one of these morning. conversations the following colloquy They went from the bar, protest. soners. ing their innocence, and apparently careless of the miserable and igno. minious fate that awaited them. They were both ill-looking men, particularly Holloway, whose. appearance was the most brutal and ferocions that can be imagined. A few days ago, Mr. John Lup. ton, of Linton, purchased the wife of Richard Waddilove, inu-kceper, of Grassington, for the sum of one hundred guineas, and gave one guineas in earnest. The following day he went to demand his bargain, and tendered 99 guineas to her hus band. She, however, was obstre perous, and would not be delivered. Waddilove had the good sense to retain the carnest-money. A few evenings since, Mrs. Beauchamp, of Trevince, Cornwall, a maiden lady, 78 years of age, was burnt to death, as she sat in her parlour. It is remarkable, that apprehensions had been long en tertained that such would be her fate, as she had once before set fire to her clothes while reading; and a servant was retained to be always with her, to guard against such a dreadful event. This servant had not been out of the room a quarter of an hour; when returning with the footman, they found their mistress's clothes on fire, her person dreadfully burnt, and in a state of suffocation from which she never revived. outside of the log, which was about 25 feet in length, and 18 inches square. The cavity was about the centre of the log, six feet in length, and about three inches in diameter. 23. At ten minutes after eight this morning, Owen Haggerty, one of the murderers of Mr. Steele, was brought out ou the scaffold for execution: he appeared to bebestremely penitent; with a pale and steadfast countenance, he joined most fervently in prayer, along with the rev. Dr. Devereux, a clergyman of the Roman Catholic church, who attended him; he was so resigned to his fate, and so in-. tent upon the last endeavour that he was capable of making towards effecting a reconciliation with the offended Deity, that he did not seem to be at all conscious that several thousands had crowded round on every side, to gaze at him in his last moments; but, though he was a Roman Catholic, and was remarkably fervent in his last act of devotion, we are informed that he did not confess his being guilty of the crime for which he suffered John Hol loway, on the other hand, shewed such indifference as to the terror of death which then stared him in the face, and the ignominious manner in which he was to suffer, as, for the sake of human nature, we must hope could not possibly have any real existence in any hu man breast, however depraved it possibly might be:+With even an affected cheerfulness of, countenance, he jumped upon the scaffold when he had ascended the ladder; his arms being pinioned with a rope behind, as usual in such cases, he got his hat between his two hands, and, as well as he was able, bowed to the crowd repeatedly, turning round |