his own reflections so long, sixteen hours, which in such circumstances would appear an age, have been driven to despair, and thus have committed the act of self-destruction? By the laws of England no man is punishable till he is proved guilty! why then treat him as a criminal the instant suspicion attaches to him?

Suspicion and guilt are not always convertible terms, as has been proved by a very decisive fact. A woman [see following article] was suspected, was indicted and tried for child-stealing, and notwithstanding her acquittal multitudes thought her guilty; and at one time, could the mob have got possession of her, she would have been probably torn to pieces :-yet it is now demonstrated that she was perfectly innocent. Such a fact should teach magistrates caution; such a fact should lead the British public to wait for conviction by a British jury before they inflict punishment.

That Williams has been treated as guilty without trial, see the following article.

THE INTERMENT OF WILLIAMS.

On Tuesday the final arrangements were made by the magistrates at Shadwell Police-office, for the consignment of this monster to the infamy due to his atrocious crimes. Mr. Capper, the magistrate, had waited on the secretary for the home department, for the purpose of considering with what justice the usual practice of burying culprits of a similar description, in the cross-roads nearest to the spot where the offence of suicide is committed, might be departed from in this extraordinary instance of self-murder.

About ten o'clock on Monday

night, Mr. Robinson, the high constable of the parish of St. George, accompanied by Mr. Ma chin, one of the constables, Mr. Harrison, the collector, and Mr. Robinson's deputy, went to the prison at Cold-bath-fields, where the body of Williams being deliver. ed to them was put into a hackneycoach, in which the deputy constable proceeded to the watch-house of St. George, known by the name of the Round-about at the bottom of Ship-alley. The other three gentlemen followed in another coach, and about twelve o'clock the body was deposited in the black hole, where it remained all night.

Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, the high constable, with his attendants, arrived at the watchhouse with a cart that had been fitted up for the purpose of giving the greatest possible degree of exposure to the face and body of Williams. A stage or platform was formed upon the cart by boards, which extended from one side to the other. They were fastened to the top, and lapping over each other from the hinder part to the front of the cart, in regular gradation, they formed an inclined plane, on which the body rested, with the head towards the horse— and so much elevated, as to be completely exposed to public view. The body was retained in an extended position by a cord, which, passing beneath the arms, was fastened underneath the boards. On the body was a pair of blue cloth pantaloons, and a white shirt, with the sleeves tucked up to the elbows, but neither coat nor waistcoat. About the neck was the white handkerchief with which Williams put an end to his existence. There were stockings but no shoes upon the feet. The countenance was

fresh,

fresh, and perfectly free from dis coloration or livid spots. The hair was rather of a sandy cast, and the whiskers appeared to have been remarkably close shaven. On both the hands were some livid spots. On the right hand side of the head was fixed, perpendicularly, the maul with which the murder of the Marrs was committed. On the left, also in a perpendicular position, was fixed the ripping-chisel. Above his head was laid, in a transverse direction upon the boards, the iron crow; and parallel with it, the stake destined to be driven through the body. About half past ten the procession moved from the watch-house, in the following order:

Mr. Machin, constable of Shadwell. Mr. Harrison, collector of king's

taxes.

Mr. Lloyd, baker.
Mr. Strictland, coal merchant.
Mr. Burford, stationer.
and

Mr. Gale, superintendant of Lascars in the East India company's service--all mounted on gray

horses,

The constables, headboroughs, and patroles of the parish, with cutlasses.

The beadle of St. George's in his official dress.

Mr. Robinson, the high constable of St. George's. The cart with the BODY. A large body of constables. An immense cavalcade of the inhabitants of the two parishes closed the procession.

On arriving opposite to the house of Mr. Marr, the procession halted for about ten minutes, and then proceeded down Old Gravel-lane, New Ma: ket-street, Wapping High street, and up New Gravel-lane, when the procession again stopped,

opposite the Kings's Arms, the house of the late Mr. Williamson. From thence it proceeded along Ratcliffe Highway, and up Canonstreet, to the turnpike gate, at which the four roads meet, viz:the New-road into Whitechapel— that into Sun Tavern-fields--the back lane to Wellclose-squareand Ratcliffe Highway. The hole, about four feet deep, three feet long, and two feet wide, was dug precisely at the crossing of the roads, four or five feet from the turnpikehouse. About half-past 12 o'clock the body was pushed out of the cart, and crammed neck and heels into the hole, which, as it will have been seen from the dimensions, was purposely so formed, as not to admit of being laid at length. The stake was immediately driven through the body, amid the shouts and vociferous execrations of the multitude, and, the hole filled up, and well rammed down. The parties forming the procession then di spersed.

A new-invented printing-press has been constructed at Philadelphia, by a Mr. Wait. The distribution of the ink over the types, as well as the printing, is performed by cylinders, which, with the tympan and frisket, are all operated by machinery, to which motion may be given by a horse, by steam, or by water. The same power can work several presses. The only attention necessary is that of a lad to each press to place and remove the sheets.

The United States ship, Rapid, on her outward bound voyage from Boston to Canton, was in January wrecked on the west coast of New Holland; when 17 of the crew gained the shore; but, finding the place inhabited by savages, they sailed in the open boat to Ballam

bussang,

bussang, island of Java, a navigation of 1500 miles. The hardships they underwent occasioned the death of seven men; but the surviving 10 were kindly treated on their arrival, and removed to Surrabaya. They were strongly solicited to enter the native service, but had refused.

CHILD-STEALING.

30. On Monday the 18th of November in the forenoon, a little boy named Thomas Dellow was stolen from his parents, in Martin's Lane, Upper Thames Street. Suspicion, from some cause or other, fell upon a person, Mrs. Russell, of rather respectable connexions: she was examined repeatedly before the lord-mayor, protesting at each hearing her innocence, and calling other persons to prove an alibi. Some witnesses however swearing most positively to her person, as one who had taken the child first to a pastry-cook's, afterwards to a hatter's, she was fully committed for trial. The populace, ever ready to decide without proper evidence, took up a most violent prejudice against her, not only assuming that she was the guilty person, but would probably, but for the humane interference of the city chief magistrate, have inflicted upon her the most severe and summary punishment. Her trial came on in the December session, and she was acquitted; upon sufficient proof being given of an alibi. The child was not, at that time, discovered, and the public still believed her guilty. The parish officers caused hand-bills, describing the child, to be printed, and circulated through the kingdom, offering a reward of one hundred guineas to the person who should discover the child. This great reward caused much but ineffectual vigilance in the coun

try, until the latter end of last week, when a woman at Gosport observed a neighbour of hers in possession of a boy bearing the marks described, and answering to the age of three years old. She immediately thought it was Thomas Dellow, who had been so long missing: the more so, as she had reason to believe that the pretended mother had never borne a child. She communicated her suspicions to the nearest magistrate, who sent for Mrs. Magnes, the pretended mother. The moment she was interrogated on the subject, she confessed the whole affair, and her motive for the robbery.

Magnes, her husband, who was a gunner on board one of his majesty's ships, and had saved a considerable sum of money for a man in his station of life, was extremely partial to children, and had often expressed his most anxious wish to have a little darling, as he used to term it. His wife, not less anxious to gratify him in this respect, wrote to him while at sea, that she was in the family-way. The gunner, highly delighted that he had obtained his desired object, sent home the earnings of many a cruise, amounting to 3007. with a particular charge that the infant sliould be well ringed, and want for nothing: if a boy, so much the better.

The next letter from his hopeful wife announced the happy tidings, that his first-born was a son, and that she would name him Richard, after his father. The husband expressed his joy at the news, and counted the tedious hours until he should be permitted to come home to his wife and child.

On his return the child was out at nurse, according to the report of his wife. On a second visit he was determined to see the child, and the

mother

mother then came to London, stole young Dellow, and carried him home as their own son Richard. Mrs. Magnes was apprehended and brought to London, and before the lord mayor she told the same story as she admitted was the fact in the presence of the magistrates as Gosport. Thus completely acquitting Mrs. Russel of every part and portion of the guilt imputed to her.

THE BRITISH NAVY.

There are at present in commis sion 746 ships of war, of which 159 are of the line, 20 from 50 to 44 guns, 169 frigates, 140 sloops of war, 6 fire ships, 153 armed brigs, 36 cutters, and 70 gun vessels and luggers; besides which, there are in ordinary, repairing for service, and building, several ships, which make the total amount 1024, of which 261 are of the line.