The Cambrian

;'1 "-taQ-'K-Q&m* ■ 1- 4'H" d 1u c. —Letd'asid, Lady LevCT,Rev. Mr..Finch three i\1ísses I'n¡;C\ Rev. Mr. Lloyd, Mr, apd.Mr?. Butler Iter, Air. Sheepshanks, Xvlf. and: Huptc, :iV:lr, Fox Captain Brecon and Carmarthen great sessions hax-e been held thiswfek, but the business had not concludrd t either when "our accounts came away.—Wir are i( jowever, in hemg able tjprescn.tour rpad- 0,5 vyun the charge delivered by IvIt. justice ilar- dinge at Brecon. Gentlemen of the Grand Ju ry, The Calendef wbiclj. is put into my hands, even in its present stave, is almosta peri'e- i-Iank. ivi'yours, I hope it wi 11"c(,.i^:j 1 eitcLy vanish.. It-has indeed oae.'fdany, a'ibefi'uf. caitjc, but which, is likely to be converted Illto a mere. trespass,pi 'Confusion of riglrt. "Here then I should have dismissed yon, (with pride of thanks to you for your exemplary vigilance over the police .which, has brought so hght a Calendar before'.im;)--had it not been for a tuost painful subject upon which a sunseol hunta- nity, as well as of honouxj Comptds me to detain you. Rs illu(..Il, I 'will,'however, spare you as much as I can-we arc fel- low sufferers—I will spare myself too.—The subject fills me with horror! A mother of an illegitimate child,, in the month of last April,"Was tried in this Court," for' the murder of that, child, "4- verdict of perhaps unexampled ..compassion (but it is a fault Which I never can blame) has enabled her to be. alive at this hour. That she had concealed the birth of that child and bad concealed its death was in proof. She is now in prison for the offence of thatconcea'ment. f Imprisoned—(I blush for the Law in stating it)—for two years!-—the severest punishment left tt$for tjiat .oifence, which is the root and these murders. a very few days after this acquittal, another criminal ot a similar description was tried,, in one oi' the bordering counties, was eOnvieted, and was executed. "Itthese two facts were unaccompanied, lhey-would be unparalleled in the history of the iahmd, as far as I can learn it from the annals,of any Circuit, English or Welsh, and would, in that view, be atariniug. But they are accompanied by other circumstances which I he two offenders lived at the time.of committing the oftence within.a, few nules of each other. ,^ost 0{ the leading facts iu the t wo, cases were the same. he offence, I am Sorry to add, is of late more preva- lent ttJan ever in England, in Wales, and iu this part of it the most. I he,difficulty of reaching it by legalproof is increased fdty-fold by anew Act of Parliament, passed upon grounds ot policy, which I dare not, as a judge, arraign, but winch I am not able to fathom; p The peculiar nature of this crime, and of the motives to it, appears to me either oveHooked, or superficially exa- mined • These are the circumstances which call upon me to solicit ■your powerful aid in averting such a reproach from the coun- ty whicluyow inhabit;—which your personal characters adorn, and which you are so calculated by your public, as Well as domestic worth, to civilize into all the virtues that ca.11 be re- quired of the rich or of the poor. If the offence comes: in Judgment before me, I know too wet! how to act upon it, that: is, how to punish it. "But the humane and christian.spirit of prevention, which nips the offence in the bud, will be found the best and surest policy of justice. I said, that in vra were entrusted the hopes to ciniiisc the lower classes of life into virtue.—*Th^ term civilize carries with it a force upon which I mean to lav stress.. "This offence has no root but in the barren soil, of une- ducated nature. "It is the guittof savage ignoranc<S-of unenlightened fcar, or (perhaps in two better wordg) of undisciplined self-low. The savage truly defined, is a merclv and brutally selfish character. I He cares for nothing detached front his otvn personal fi- gure in the whole system of the -world. H iQ thisgene'rous bounty a marl ofaiselfish character is to be found, (which I cannot lieiieve) let hiui refute me if he can, when I tell him, that in proportion as lie indulges that propensity, he approaches downwards to the Indiaa with his torturing scalp in his hand, or to the cannibal ,wito cats the man he had slain. This crime never occurs iii 'the. higher classes of life.- It is the guilt of the poor aloue and almost universally in the pale of domestic servitude. It .springs, from a di-.tc-mpered conscience—a desperate and frantic remorse-a fear of. poverty or of shame. Two principles cover these motives; one of them is a total absence of religion from the mind, the other is a weak- ness, or a perversion of the reasoning faculties, not arising frout the want of capacity, blJt of culture alone. ° <' To meet the offence thus explained, and ie-ocl the mis- cyiet, appears to me no, very arduous task. > "Three word., bind the charm—religion—humanity—sml policc. t I believe it will be almost universally found, that con victs of this crime have been thoroughly destitute 'df^reii f-ious impressions. v. Tne poor creature who perished at Presteigne had nt the taintest image of tiieiii. She,ha<t scarce ever heard of the Saviour's name. i Ot Christianity, as revealing a. future state of judgntrt.uj(,-( and-as redeeming the sins of the wor.d, she had nevcrbi-esji she had no religwvs abhorrence of her crime, till a feiv short hours before site terminated her exigence. .Ot her acquittal by interest she had very sanguine hopes, and had prepared gay apparel IClr the event. Alter the bare statement of such a picture, can one hear (with temper) of objection to charities ior the religious edu- caticn ot the poor ? "From all that J. have yet heard of this devoted creature, f believe), iufuy. conscience, that a feather of religion would have saved fter- life, her virtue, and her character. f< The attendance of infants upon religious duties, if root- ed in early days, becomes a settled habit, which clings to them with admirable effect when they are grown up. L said, that such offenders were generall y servants. "■'Masters wiji do well to reflect- upon the mischief done by (hem to their servants, and through them to the community ,it large, if they are themselves men 01 dissolute habits or ot low pursuits, it they mark their contempt of religious duties, by ail habitual absence from the-temple of their God. "JIuinanity is a most powerful implement in able and li- beral hands.-—It has its limits, or it would not merit the cilice it bears in -the world. it may, surely, in some degree, without offence to the purity of mOral decorum, endeavour to mitigate the shtme of mi diegituuate bh'th.' 1 do not mean that it should reward the penitent mo- ther, end, much jess, that it shc'utd countenance, the mipe!)i- tent. one. But it may Well prompt, in a whisper at least, many Cases 01 seduction, in which it would be the u.'j.i. cruel otall tyrannies to be severe—if the indiscretion is optn, confessed ih terms' of remorse. "Incases even, of a less favourable-aspect,'but short of profligacy in the habit, mercy, within proper limits, would beaf voce religious, humsnCf and polit ic. I think no master of a reputable family should keep a fc- tuaie servartt) in whom it is known,by the other servants, Ulat he has detected her inconiinence—because it would be of bad eSampld to the otJjer servants. But niercy is open still He cculdrecommcndtlte dts- G; rded servant for other virtues, not suprossmg this fault; and many are the humane who would gratefully accept a femaJe se}vG:;t thus recommended, with a generous oblivion of this fault. Many, are the .female servants who hare turned out ex- cellent members of the community^ under circuuisiaacea ;ike these. « Police, Follows up lmmantt'l. H It should be upon the alert; and should give an alarm at the. first hint or sui-piciou of pregnancy. if the fact is beheved, though, it is not proved, every imaginable exptedteut. should be adopted for the purpose of -ncQuragU'g.the disuiosuire, and of dissevering the conceal- :uent. v l'hè penalty of concealment; as tile law now stands, is perfect ridicule. The Act of King James the 'Fb,it,-n-pw repealed, was ad- mirably CiiiculHieci, ior punishnyenl, and for prevention of these murders, by punishing ttke ceneeuhneitt, which is die s lelter and the mo?ive. As great and'ai, good a mfnas this age cr island can- ooa -t, wliose deat'jj a few months age', is a national misfor- tune, wu» an advocate for this law, contemplated by him, in its true .light, as the me.ey c 1 terror by disarming the'hope- to escape trom co.ivict.ioii by the artiiice of concealm'eiit'1 •>eah the celebrated But as that law is no p»ore, additional and peculiar yi'at- Lince Is required lioin you, to guard us against the mischief it as let ILI. Thar m-iscliief ic the tmcculineiit of this "birth and of the death. Humanity and police united will reason ^'itlf a suspect- ed inother of » iiastard-ciuld unborn. 1 hey ca; ■u] lier thai concealment qIpregnancy, endan- gers the-nlai'ii's life that concealment ot the birth is more oacgeroiis and more chiej still. h That murder, t'ho last act of concealment, is the most in- uiscreef as well as depraved. 1 h& shame Can oe rcasajieotout of its madness by topiçsof />» udeuce. They-can be asked, What is the shame of illegitimate, firth to the infamy of its detected concealment, or oi^deatif- for the murder of the new-born child.' Enemy as ram to confessions unduefy obtained, I wquld in that stage of the guilt, rectnuuiead all practicable iniu- .ance—upon hope and fear. ».. "'Deceit would be i'.vb'fne. But niercy is better'still. I a in an habitual adnirer of t^e other sex* and I am uroudot this judicial opportunity for distinguishing a per- son 01 tbat sex, by her claml on the public esteem. told, that a lady, in one of these two cases, interr% tjatca. i'tie mother, advised her to rOnfcss her pregnancy, and L'Toivust'iI ufir not only to support the cliild, but also,to re- coiiiiiiena the mother into a grwd senice. Every generous heart wiil be eloquent in its bondage to Jus huinanny.. Vvas 'I1 t'!e right place, time, and shape, I nave also beard, but I hope it is a niistake, that a pei- L-on, vylio should have prosecuted one of these offenders, abandoned his trust. This inverted the picture. .1 was humanity in the wrong place, time, and shape; humanity, which, ii it could in general prevail, would be a* cuartcr of inipunity for murders iike these. i he seducer should be detested, high or low, and brand- ed with shame. ° The guilt of supplying medicines for abortion should be punished, whether such mcdiciness were vs-:d or no.-It is 1. deiect oi the law, as it now stands, that for this offence there is no punishment. I lie medical tribe should be upon their' guard against the sale of herbs or potions calculated for this effect. It the father should refuse to maintain the child, when born, winch is afterwards killed by the mother, such a refu- sal should be severely punished. It is ift a moral view a constructive murder of that child. f kese are my hints for your better judgment. J he poor constitute the best wealth oftliericft. their love and their esteem is your, proudest inheritance.' On the other hand, it is not their bread alone-, (a.-degrad- ing word) but their immortal joint, their interest hereafter, as well,as here, that is required by them from the. rich, from their liberality, their goodness of heart, and their exa uple in virtue. Tiie poor female infant is an orphan of the community you are answeTablefor the culture of her m.nd—for the 'de- cent habits of her deportment—for the honest Hirectionsof her intercourse with men—for the domestic worth, and lor the dignified (which arc the natural) graces of her charac- ter. I'riday last the 5th battalion of Carmarthenshire Volunteers were inspected by General Gasccvne, who declared them efficient lor any service. The Field Officers of the corps in Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire afterwards met tne General, and adopted,regulations for assem- bling instantly in clise ot an enemy landing. Lust week, Major Genera.1 Guseoyno inspected j Lord Cawdor's fwo troops of Castle martin VCOlnatJrv cavalry, near Pembroie, After havina; seen them go through their evolutions, he was pleased to ex- press himself much gratified with the hi,h state of discipline to which they had attained, the complete manner in which they were equipped, with haver- sacks, feeding-bags, canteens,,and every other ne- cessary accoutrement fit for marching, and the strength of their muster, (one man only prevented by sickness-being absent)such conduct the General observed did them the, highest credit, in conse- quence of whtch he should report the Castiemartin cayah-v fit for any and immediate service. After the General had left the field, Turd Cawdor, witn that affability for which he is sojustiy ad mired, ad- dressed the troops, assuring them, he should ever be affected when they were concerned, therefore he felt hiinseit highly gratified in hearing Major Ge- neral Gascoyne, who had received orders from hi<, Royal Highness the Duke of York to insp troops in this district, express himselî so pert l satisfied with their appearance, and he won.d i"-■■- -commend the gentlemen not to relax, but by assi- duitv and attention, not only to retain, but V pos- (,, to ttic ,,oodI sible to increase the good opmio« the í lcnenl en tertained of them; his' Lordsliip further added, should the moment of danger ever arrive, when his brother officers would lead them into-action, lie leir fully confident; their conduct would then -prove they were not undeserving o:' the encomiums I which had just been paid them.—Th" same dav General Gascoyne inspected the fti-st battaUca o; the Royal Pembrokeshire volunteers, asaTGaptaiu f Manseiii's adepcadont company, aud expressed i himself Highly.pleaded with Aeir military -appear-' ance. v • Oh Wednesday List, the extensive .copper worh at Llajieily, belonging to Messrs..Daniel & Com. which.iyere,only begat} to be erected in 'February last, received two freights of copper ore from Corn- wall, and next week begin their operation of smelt- nig and .refining that valuable article; this is the first eroction of the kind in the countv 0! xJ.irina»% then. We are now surrounded on every side by the bountiful attribute. of the" God 01 harvestand whether we look to the species of grain, constitu- ting the staff of n'ian's life"; to the bearded ce.r, which supplies his most;YvhoJesOme beverage; or to the. bending oatthe chief article of proviuder for his cattle; we are equally filled' with gratitude to the Divine Dispenser of good, for the great plenty of every laud, with which it has pleased him.so I generally to fill our corn-fields'.—'The crops werene- vcr known to be greater, and the weather has hi- therto been propitious to their maturity. I. 1 ue importations of foreign corn coutinue to be immense,-and prices are everywhere falling in Eng- land. In the London rna'keis,. the price d" wheal has declined nearly SOs. per. quarter within a fort- night; flour has also'fallen'10s. per sack; and bar- ley and oats are proportioifabiy The, Welsh markets remain tolerably steady, but wë rpa.y ex- pect a material reduction, vety shortly. There are JicarÎyas niajiy large Capitals in the < present Lottery, fto begin 111 ^eptenibcr) as have been usually given to Lotteries of more than dou- ole the immber of Tickets, and tiie money -allotted to a portion of the Blanks, toother with the Twenty Pound Prizes, have reduced the-risk to little more than tt. o actual Blanks to .a,Prize. ..Musical 1 estietaL—Vve' understand-.that prepara ,txons on the 1 scalc are making 1'o.r the.cele- bration ol the approaching Musical Festival in. .Birmingham. It appears by the advertisement ( see our first -page) that the band, iii point ot ta- letits andrrumbers, will be superior to any. meeting of t.he kind that hati taken place iii. this part of the kingdom, and the superior abilities of the conduc- tor, iVir. Orcatorex, (who is conductor of the King's Concert) must insure the highest gratification to ,the amateurs of harmony, and also the greatest benefits to the useful institution, it is intellCled to support. The nobis patronage under which it will be brought forward, cannot fail of attracting a uu- merous assemblage of the nobility and gentrv. Hereford races on Wednesday se'nuight afforded but indifferent-sport, and the 50l. plate was easily won by Mr. Day's h. rtx. Duchess, beating Mr. Birch's ch. f. Lae-inic, and Mr. Price's b. h: jIidas, Sçarcelyany betdng .taok place.—Thursday the race was contested witn spirit; the heats were as follows: Mr. Birch's c. f: Lavinin 12 1 1 Lord Grosveii; r"s" e. h. Vandtd 2 1-2 [ I I'riday anorded excellent sport, the first hea twas capitally contested, the horses: coming in so close that it was declared a dead heat: the contest was as. follows: I I Mr. BilHngtonVb. g.'Cochspinncr O 1 l ^Ir. Day', h. m. Duchess 0 3 dr. Sir..Price's b. 'h; Midas 3 « o John hitaser, Esq; is nominated steward for next year. — 'FhefrJncnxh dfthe chns in Monnid'ut/ishirel-^Qn Sa. turday last one ot the finest elms ever seen in any country was -brought to Monmouth,'where it re- mained for inspection till Monday morning. It re- quired 15 horses to bring it five miles along a good road,contained ? tons 1? feet oftimberinits squared state, and measured 41 feet long oy four feet square at the but, although upwards of 30 feet had been cut off Ircmi the top in order to bring "'it'along the road, so that the whole measure of the tree may be" computed at nine tons and v half.. This remarkable tree was pertecily sound, aful a gt'owiisg state when cut down: it grew iu a meatfovv near St." Mattghaii's cburch, beiangiag-toMr, Jones's farm,1 and was sold, with many others, to Mesi'. BowsLéf Co. or Cnepstoiv, lor nay v purposes. At Shrewsbury n.s'sizc-^ oiy Friday .Jast.. an .issue directed by the Court of Chancery.was trieti, which excited co-nsicler,tl,le interest, in which-John Rich- ard Meredith V\ a;»,er, an infant, and. otiiers. v.-ere' plaintiffs, and J. Waiter,'Esqi and Margaretta his. wife, defendantH. The object was to try tiie-vali^- iyv of the willjol tile late Dr. Ivl^redith, .ofPetitre*- bvchan-ball, Denoigtishire. It appeared on the trial that instrncuons for the wiiUn question had been <ttven by tiio teslator in' May, 1805, when it was admkteo tie was a perfectly competent state of mind. The will however was not executed till the following September, and was then nothmg more than -he originai draft containing numerous alterations, abbreviations, and mtedineatious: be- I twixt these two periods it was urged that the testa- tor had contracted an excessive habit of drinking, and was frequently attacked with violent fits of e- pdep'Sy, and toat his conduct in matiy instances e- vuiced symptoms ot insanity, though" at the time he 1 executed the will he appeared cool and sensible. use was opened by Mr. Dauncey for the plain- tiffs, and answered by Mi'. Dallas, who chiefly re-, lied on a precedent whicn he adduced, where, an in- strument was deemed invalid, executed at a time when the testator appeared perfectly coinpetent; but in that case there h:td belD. a.complete and ac- tual derangement ot ctil, in the present case he contended that the frequent- wanderings oi the testator proceeded not from insa- nity, but from debility and,disease. After a can- | aid and able investigation, it to be the entiinent ot the Court that the verdict, establish- ing the will, was equitable nadpist. The Council ior the plaintiffs" were MesS'rs. D'auncey, ..Bchvoii, Wesley, Wynn, and iveuyon: I or trie defendants Messrs. Dallas, Mills, Jevvis, and Glecd. At Bristol assizes E; *vnitton was convicted of riotously assembling with-a nui.-iber of the tiaviga- tors employed on the Nejv Cut, and assaulting Mr. I 1 :1 Wakefield, a midshipnaan.ia the, impress service at that port, with in tent to resetie one of thpir compa- nions from the press-gang. M ILI f A IIY P^iD-'lvhD T10 NS. Royal Glamorgan iif iitim.—Cswis.'Price Jones, Esq. to he t Captain Wiibi,m attien James Home, gents; Ensign Lew is Jope?, Eloign.1! v^Mfcale, Ensign G Iveil," John Bruce Knight, gem. acd Eusig:i ,ioh;i Keuiye, to be Uoe.tc- nants -Edward. 'iea«dale, Levvj.?.Joues, John O'Neil, and Joseph lJ.-ah.doti,. ge..ts. tooc.Emigus --—William Buy, gent.-1:> be Quarter Master'. 'J Glitmorgun. Rjfierr.in.—^amuei Price Howefs, gent. to be Aiijiiiaui, with i n- ;,1\1;1 ;-n At Wrexham, Mr. .hen Ryienhursf/Lutcber, to?Jiss ut fiu-;c i'f.> t At Ruthin, Mrs. Jones, wiie of the Rev. Thomas Jones, a -respectable;<Ji?setiti»g-M-iiiMyi-ef. At her seat :¡f Dy iiil n-Aied, Denbighshire, Mrs. Yorke, relict ot the late T'inhp Yorke,ot"Erthig. At Hu.iy weli, Flintshire,. jVi r's Simpson, relict of the late ile* John Sim-sO!5, of the kingdom of Ireland. Her dtaih bl; bimented ey a ar.snerous ctrcieof acquaintance.• Airs. f'ryce, ol i'eu-y-llan, I'orden, Montgomeryshire,