North Wales Gazette

Vi RTU EB LFORE BEAUTY. Would woman rather rrom the throng: relil"d, •Be iov'd bj tine, than be'-by-crowds admir'd; Vt oulrl men, before their hearts are qiiiteresigH'd, Forget their faces; to inspect th- :r mind, Such objects should their fainter charms possess "Would please them longer, -though they please Them less -For beauty's blaze, tbo'. fierce, is quickly past, iove, good sciise, atid virtue, ever last. PaiiAG&XHO'S, -t- j

■CJIIII-ICKFERG US JSSIZES. I r (,.i 21. I 2DF.R OF ALEXANDER M'CUIJ.OCTT. his day the Court proceeded to the trial I );wiei Slevv«ft, David Monlgomcry, and I John Chambers, accused of the murder of I Alexander M'CuUoch, near Tomne, county j Anlrim, on the night of (he 91 h of Nov. last. I John O'Neil lie remembers the night ;>f (be ninth of November, which was that of the murder of Alexander M'CuUoch. Threel days before it took place, Fri- I' bers and Stewart called on him, and they then fixed the night of the robbery. These ,three said they bad been looking a- the house that day, and that they could easily d« It them- sdves, but as '.hey had mentioned it to him, they wished hi n to be theie, that they would not hid him so to the ii»;irie, as the faniiiy knew him, and he should hif?sa full share of what-was got. On the Ürrrd night after this, Hie parly met in a moss near Toome, between eight and niie at night. This was the night fixed upon for-the robbery. When at the moss, Mon'gf inery proposed to go to Toome to buy spirits, and Turner gave him a note to pav for thens. He went, and when he return- ed brought some loaf bread. They returned in the tivess for aboist half an hour, and then they, six in number, proceeded towards < M'Cuiiocli's House. When they came to the foot of his g-ardeti they perceived lights in the house, by which they found the family had not gone lo their bed. They stopped three quarters of an hour longer, and then went to the back of the house, and as they saw no light, they believed the family had gone to bed. They then forced off one of the win- dows.. ivbifi; "•!»« made of lead, and tour of then: -rent iuio 'ho- house; these were An- drew Turner, Daniel Stewart, David Mont- gomery, and Thomas Quia —David Mont- gomery and Andrew Turner had bayonets with them. He, the witness, remained for some short time at the back of the house, and then I went to ilie front. He did not chuse to go in because the family knew him, and lie knew them. When he went 10 a front, window, he tooke(I through, and perceived they had a light in i lie rooil), and observed Montgomery and Turner engaged with M-'Cullocb, who was on the floor in bis shirt. They stabbed him once or twice with bayonets, and then M'Culloch's son rose and endeavoured to give battle to assist his father. Old M'Culiocb being too powerful for Turner and Montgo- mery, and having forced Montgomery down on his knees, Stewart who was in the house came to their aid, and at last they overcame -M'CuUoch, and tied him with a chord. Cham- bers was then at the of the house. Whett lying on the floor, Turner slabbed M'C. two I or lliree times, and said, JOil old re-guc leii ¡ ] where youf moneyi. TSurinjf all this, Quin stood at the room doer and held the cayidle.- i Witness became so shocked with their pro- > ceedings that he went to the door and shook it, and cried that a guard was Coming. He [did this to endeavour to take Ihem off the old man. Stewart then came to the door and told the witness that. he was done for, lhat he was n<? more, they bad killed him. This made him (Ihe witness) shout out murder I mur- der! why did VOII kill him ? They then came away, and brought three bundles of clothes with Ihem. wilh Ihem. Alex. M'CuUoch said, he is son of 1he de- ceased A. M'CuUoch, ofBreckart, and was in ceased A. M'CuUoch, ofBreckart, and was in his father's house in the night of the 9th Nov. last. He went to bed before his father, and tbiirks it was not ten o'clock. His father in another bed in Ihesame room with witness and two of his brothers. He was soon awakened bv the shouts ol bis brothers, and when he started up be saw his father and a man struggling, and there was another man had alight io tberoosn. father was in bis silIri ran forward to assist his father, but a third penwnknocked him down, when withill two yards of his father, who was on the ftoor.-Andrew lie-v a bayonet in his hand. Alter witness was knocked down he crept under the bed, and one said, damn him, tie him. lIe then went to get of the room, and one of them gave him a kick on Ihe breast and forced him into ihe bed, and another man stood oil his breast and forced him to cover his head with the dothes. One of the men asked bis father for his money, but he did not hear his father speak—another of them said, give him another slab or-two— Heard his father say, gentlemen, will give it up, I cannot stand this any longer." There was a desk in the room, wilh some silver in it, and a bidder, as a purse; in which was some gold.

E■vidence for the Prisoner. James Walls, a prisoner foi, he knows 'O'Neil, one of the witnesses on this trial, lias heard him say in the prison, thai, he •would give'information to save himself. He said so this morning. Witness advised him not I.o any of them if he could help it, bat he said-hc'would Rave himself. Q.. \Vhy<iid Iiii!) not. to give a-t r I thought It a piiy-'o h ang so many for one. Here the whole evidence closed. The'learned Judge-1 hen addressed the Jury. His Lordship recapitulated tbe evidence of the different witnesses in a clear and perspicu- ous manner, and pointed out the bearings of Ihe several parls-ofit, observing upon it will; considerable force and jtoint. After his Lordship had finished hisCharpc, the Jury retired, and in a few minutes return- ed a verdict, finding the Prisoners GUILTY, both t.>f llie minder and burglars-. After the Jury had cefamed their verdict, his "Loid^hip paused for a few minutes, and then in a very solemn and impressive manner, condemned them to be hanged on Friday next, and their bodies to be -afterwards.pub- licly dissected. During Ihe whole course oT'Fhe trial Stew- art was-silent and thoughtful Chambers ma- nifesied less anxiety, and seemed rather in- different..Montgomery exhibited a degree cf y arid insensibility, -vhieh indicated great t'epr-ayky of heart..After tile verdict, while the Judge was addpetssing Ihem, Stewart appeared deeply impressed, but remained si- lent. Chambers was a»ifaled, aud conlinued wringing his hands and imploring for mercy. Montgomery remained unmoved, as if deler- mined to be obdurate; but when his Lord- ship pronounced the sentence of death, which I I he delivered in the most impressive manner, fdonlgomery then appeared to fee!, his conn- teuaiice changed, and he stepped two paces back the dock. He again seemed to summon up his fortitude, and returned to the •front, addressed his Lordship, requesting he might he shot. -Tile prisoner!! were immedi, ately taken buck to gaol, --I:q--

JrliscclUineo us. Lord Erskine has gratified Ihe public w?> he satisfied his own feelings, by an anthoriz declaration in the House of Commons, that a tiol, ev present at the discussion of the odious lIlt sure, to exclude Gentlemen who report I Dehates from their right to be cilied io t. Bar. We are informed (here is no fratSj in Ihe r port of l.he gamekeeper at Chirk Castle havi, been shot at and killed. tfirewsburtf.—The commission for ho!å.;¡ the Assize, for this county was opened on S, tni-day last, before Mr. Baron Wood whoa tended divine service it St. Chad's church* Sunday morning, where a very a j-. p i<j;i'i"' sermon was preached by the Rev. G. N. J Lloyd, the brother of the High Sheriff, fro Psnim aii. 1. Yesterday came on, before a very inlel ■gent and respectable jury, in the Sheritl v'o-.irl, a cause in which Mr. Grant, of th town, -was Plaintiff, and John Wynne, !;> of Garll-uneilio, e, c i't'; I fl. I I The demoiM^yvas fa?-' lodgings sutd ueet-ssai' 10 Mrs. Wyinv t'he deienda-nl's brdjifSSw-hoiri her husham nuder envious!ances of aggravalion into yvliii the learned counsel did not on (his occasi'! think it necessary to enler minutciv, had n fused to admit into his house. Ko defenf was allempted, and the jury without hesiM lion found-a verdict lor 1451. 16s. lid. I;eif' sei for the Plaiutift, Mr. f)auncey and M Eylon, Solicitor, Mr. Paniir, \V„ Humphreys. John Hnmjjbrcys, an James Roberts, I'em(l'cd, by ilabca;; corpc from DolgeIley, charged wilh assanihng an obstruclingtwo excise officers in Iheexecntio of their duty, were found guilty sentence t be passed by the Court of King's Bench. it these assizes Robert Monk, of Pressed' in the parish of Slotfesdon, shepherd and ba, liff to Mr. 'HInek, of Kinlet, received fro- the Grand Jury oi the County the sum of fiv guineas, as proposed by their foreman, lb Hon. Thomas Ken yon, for She greal atle-i lion he had paid to his master's properly, an for his skill and dilligence in discerning theft, whereby he sd he guud example of < good and faithful servant. A bill of Indictment was to th- Grand Jury, and by them found a true Bill against Eiizabelii li idfey, for a misdemeanor in having neglected arid refused to provide he late servant, Jane Williams, with snriicieii and necessary provisions, and also for bavins exposed her person to ihe inclemency of th< weather. An extraordinary circumslance happened at Hereford, on the night or Tuesday, the tioili IIISt. As Mr. Bevan, of the Oak public house, at Ross, (who had a horse stolen some weeks agoj and another person, were conveying the supposed offender to Hereford, when the pri' soner had reached the 3d. arch of the bridge, sliver the river Wye, he took the desperate re- solution of leaping into She river, on the up- per side. Be was caught by Ihe skid (If IhL coat, which instantly tearing off, he plunged into ihe stream, and has not since been seCII. fhe nvrr wa9 dragged Ihe following morn- i- :.t vain j as.J ■' "■* supposeu he was d»-yvrH» c i Singular Sport.—On Thursday aftersioooii,- a singular-anmsemenl took place in Ihe neigh- of A labourer having caught a rat about a fortnight before, and which was fed ever since op. young kitl-nsand milk, proposed that the nil should light oil the above day, as many cats as it could, at balf-a-evown each, and that (he person whos« cat. !ílied the rat should he entitled (ooot: guinea. At four o'clock a full grown cat put into the rat, in a vat, where the rat had. been previously fed, which, instantly jumped out of {i!e v;1t? and would not face the rati and singular ii is to remark, fifteen cats were placed to combat this animal, seven of whit-'1 say dead in the vat, and eigiit ran off; but the 16th being something of ihe tiger breed* was. alter a severe round, enabled to kill thfl- rat. If instead of this-sport, the well fed rat had been turned back to its own haunts, pit would have become a famous rat-cather.—f°e( this we have been told is Ihe best tueaus0* ridding premises oi venume.

A W ISH. 'On the gloomyiiro^ of sadness Terror broods ;;nd dark despair, Terror broods ;;nd dark despair, 'Passion fierce, allied to jriadcessj Envy, discontent, and care. •In the laughing eye of pleasure Hope and love and joy reside j And consent—a greater treasure Than the Indies e'er supplied. 1 "flive ire then those gifts excelling All the wealth of human-kind t,, e, -,k,; t t-t i ii a i-u c Balmy- and peace ci mmdt ~JTremadoc.

JBNGLYNION -I GOR PIT Y GAING [Guyn pob nevydi,] Brfynion Deirdd Arfonia, Set li ■i/thor>t— Trijrolion fir GicaUa. lIoTi Ha hair u e ash •lieh ball,—a?i ddeal! jn dda« Corph Y a a iTfGo, hovwgaingc yw i Corph irai'dd, forphora canghersi f g- 1 y' 1, ■I'yrdd o'i ton, i'n wyrion ni l a ti, A d-j.il, P:!e.sg- Rer-nrafteu; n hctf, addled IV m wv,, A pltir weithion ej ffrwyihim. Gvtyn Peri -+--

House of Ccmmoss. ■Wednesday* March 23. SIR FRANCIS BUUDKTT. Lethbridge, in-consequence ufihe tire which he had yesterday given, rose v •a degree «f pain and embarrassment, wh: ■he declared he had never bdore felt, So m. a complaint against one of the Member United Commons of Britain, w in hi-s opinion, had violated the privilege the House. (Tbe Hon. Member then guv :allhe table Cobhett's Weekly Political He Ser of last Saturday.) The Speaker desired the Clerk to pre So read the paper complained of. lie wi 54o know whether the Hon. Member, or other Hon Member, wa- desirous that | -only, or that the whole of the papersh 1>í.. re"iI. The Speaker—" Clerk, read the paper The Clerk accordingly began to read Francis tinrdett's teller to h:s Constitu* l)tit had not finished bait" a dozen senter Vrhen 1\1r Furnner spoke to order. He cohce thru it would be extreri)eln convenient to ) ot tillf, sill,iccl, iii c dr;¡.I ¡ on of I he imporl an L b;lsilJs \Vh i dl ¡¡ foi- Iia( The Speaker, however, declared, that f ing proceeded so,rar, it was hey etui the po t>- any Hon. Member to terminate the.ji ceeding. The Clerk proceeded to-read the letter, the" ArgumenT' wiiicbfoiiowed, ihe whole I •of which occupied near!* an hour and a ht f, The Speaker—'■ Sir Francis Burdet' Loni Folkstoue spoke to order. TheHon. ■Gentleman had meeriv slated, that his Hon. Friend.had been guilty of ag-rosft breach of their privilege*, and had followed that gene- ral statement, hy hying on the table a docu- ment, winch had taken nearly an hour and a to It seemed absolutely necessary* that the Hon Gentleman should point out the particular passages to which he alluded, End explain hi« vie vis of-the -subject, that his Hon. Friend might know with what precise offence' he wagchti-rged. Unless this was done, it was impossible for his Hon. Friend to rise to aa- all accusation so vague and indefinite, I Mr, Lelhbtidge replied, that he had no ob- jection lo.point out the passages which siruck him as peculiarly offensive, He said, thetirst I passage to which he wished particularly to c iii the attention of Ihe House was the com- ir.encemen! of the Hon. Baronet's letter to his Cons: ituenls, (page 421 of -the Register). It 'was iH follows — H The House of Commons having passed a "ote Wilidl amounts to a declaration, thai an Order of theirs islo be 01 more weiht thau :Mana Charta and the Laws of the land, I thmk if my dulj to lay my sentiments there- on before my constiliientf. wtiose character as freemen, and even whose persona! safety, depends in wo great a degree upon the decision of Hits question, a queslion of no k>ss import- a.ice than this; whether our liberty be siili to In* x• currj by ihe hws of our foref-i:hers, 01 be to at the abi»olule mercy of a part of our feiiow-snbjecls collected logether by rueans of is ile appealed 10 the Hm-e whei-in'r tliat |r.!s>s;;ge alone wonUl not lia\e justified him HI r-vin^ii!" the subject under their con«ider;i- t-on ? iif'U", hear IJ — it was foiiovved by others, which he proceeded to rer.d, <ii:d then satd, iie would I rouble the house no fiw tl.er but io say, lha« on Uiese specihe passages he made li»s charge a^amsl I be Hon Laronc. for a vfoiauon ol the pn^ile^es of the House of Commons—(Hear hear ) pause ensuing, ihe speaker remarked, that the comae .<f pr iceednij, was, after a C-»'ii;>laii)t iiiui been made, a >d after the con:- c i)(- p -s ou of lhat complaint had been asoeriam- td, !o hear the Hon. Member against whom it b:sd been preferred. Sir f f'iurdett, in an tinder tone of voire', #i;d lhat the Hon. Member (Mr. Leihbridge) There Wtt to his (;¡rFrancis's') fnintl Ho charge in the extracts which had been read from his Address to his Constituents. That Address contained all of argument that he knew on the subject, and lie could now add nolh'mg to those arguments. The Address was nis. The arguments which it contained were his ? he was ready to see I hem subjected to the most-rigorous iuquiry but tiU he should: hear from the Hon. Member something in -refutation (»f his principles, he could not un- dertake their defence. Was it to be supposed that the siitipie act of oil the power of-tbe Commons v.as a cri-me■? Would n<it the Hoirse endure even an abstract of their pow- ers ? This doubt was the entire of the charge hitherto adduced if a stronger one lay be- hind, it must be brought forward before he could be expected to meet it by ;ra answer. He was willing- to abide by the fact a«id argu- 1 0 ment -of" that paper; be would stand the issue, but if it. "re even the pleasure of ihe Bouse that he should now withdraw, he was ready 10 withdraw." (Cries of A o, No,froNL.the House.) TbeSpeake" uiied, ihal a mailer of com plaint of a bre'ac ?>f privilege had been stated by one Hon. Member against another the \1\ to ;'CL, H# a. t" 7 him if he should niake any mistake, had sub. milted a brief complaint ->o the'Mouse. Ex- ception was taken to the proposition for pro- ceeding with the charge at that lime, and consequently somedap delay took place, after I which the lirtu. Member brought forward his ■charge again, which he prefaced with au ar- gument of considerable length, shewing the grounds upon which lie founded bis accusation. The Right Hon. Gentleman was then henrd at length in his defence, as was also a Noble Lord ( Castlereagh) who was implicated with J him in the transaction, which gave, rise to the charge (respecting the seat of Mr. Did:, then recently vacated). Both theSon. Mem- bers had had the advantage of hearing the speech of II is HOIl. Friend and aner they Lad made their defcnce and withdrawn, -all that remained for his Honourable Friend to -do was, to submit his Motion to the House. The reason of the case, -therefore, bore him out in the course he recommended and he must contend that the Hon. Baronet was m tit led to the fair advantage of hearing the grounds upon which the lion. Member had made his I complaint and charge against him. The Speaker felt himself bound in duty to the House to to the recollection of Gen- tlemen, that in cases of complaints against' Members, there were two sorts of proceedings resorted to hy Ihe House, which might ac- count for the difference of opinion on this question. One of these proceedings waa, a coir,plaint was founded upon ». wrilte-n paper, or other document; \Vhea that was the case., the paper on which the complaint wos founded was given in at the lable, after which the Member, the object, of the charge, was heard in im defence iron) his place, and 1 ben required to withdraw. The House, upon 'hat, uniiormly proceeded to discuss the me- rits of the charge, and jciims to a final deci- sion upon it. The other course was that kvhsch was followed when a Member could have no notice of the charge against him in which tile Member bringing forward the charge was bound to clear the grounds of his motion, and state the lIalure of the charge. Mr. Leihbridge continued. He assured the House that he had many reasons for being concise in his address; the principal one of which was his being little accustomed to speak to a public assembly. Painful and difficult as the tank was which he bad suddenly been call- ed upon to execute, tie had this consolation, thai the matter was so clear that it required ao elucidation, He should propose two Jie solutions, ftn3 he trusted that they would be adopted by the House if they wished to pre- serve their own character, and that of Old England. He spoke from the bottom of his heart (and he wished that the forms of the House did not preclude the Hon. Baronet from hearing him) when he dectared it to 'be his firm opinion, that if the House was desirous of saving its character from utter destruction, it was high time that a stop should be put to practices such as he complained of. He had heard it asserted in that House (and the as- sertion made his hair stand on end), that in point of character the House had not -a leg lo stand on." He trusted that the House, in justice to itself and the country, would put a slop to siicil proceedings, and concluded by moving two-resolutions-:— 1. That a letter, signed and a further article, entitled an Argument, inserted in Cohhett's Weekly Register of the ,21st of March, 1810, is a libellous aud scan- dalous paper, reHeding on the rights and pri- leges o! the House of Commons. 2. That Sir Francis Burdetl, Bart, who had permitted the letter, and further article lo be printed with his authority, had violated the rights and privileges of the House of Com- r. Ponsoiiby had never heen inclined cvTa disrespect for the-character of-the e, but he thought the subject, required ravest and most serious consideration, to HI tbat they might come to a satisfaclory usion. The Hon. Gentleman had caused y long paper to be read, in which he had ed out So]Tie parts. The e must be-aware that-to judge from some of a long document of the-whole paper, 'at comparing the various parts, was difficult, more especially when it involv- Joint of law. He would therefore move, amendment, that this debate should be rued to lhat day se'unight. e Chancellor of the Exchequer had no lion to oppose the adjournment of ihe ct, but lie was averse to its being ad- c i tiiiie. He wished it ad- | ed hH lo-morrow, í ha.¡:Hwy may have to give it a paiiani examination, and by that lime they 5 eon Id do -so,-no one douht. He concluded by moving as an dment, tlvat tile d be substituted for 'hat daw-sen'night. rd Fe!k-s!one had no -expectation of an ninn-iii being proposed, bufne rejoiced I reposition, as it gave lime lo Us vest i- ihe subject -r.nd ha would venture to that the more'I he subject was inquired the more it would redound lo Use credit i Hon, Friend. He was for a-djourniug h;\tc tin that day sè'¡¡n¡:hL C- W. Wynne, adduced the cases of Sir Nir. Erskine, and Major Scott I pporl of the adjournment till Mon'day, ¡ > he considered necessary. Maddofks said a few words, softer i the'-House-divided on the Amendment •5 Chancellor of the Exchequer, on which ambers were, I Tor the Amendment J98 .Against it MS Majority 50 augers were excluded for a considerable I during which there, was a <e,c<»nd divi- I, o« .'le question, who!he: the further ,ihi *i» id beacon liiJUuil t.rat evening, Met < u l> i-to-morrow, v>hen thc-t-iuifi- ver: ver: For (he-.Postponement. 211 -For the immediate discu.;s;o». 138 Majority. -'73