ditch, he ftruck Hickey on the back part of his head with a ftone; and, when he fell down into the trench, in confequence of the blow, Caulfield gave him feveral ftabs with a knife, and cut his throat so deeply that the head was observed to be almost severed from the body. He then rifled Hickey's pockets of all the money in them, took part of his clothes, and every thing elfe of value about him, and afterwards proceeded on his way to Carrick. He had not been long gone, when the body, ftill warm, was difcovered by fome labourers, who were returning to their work from dinner.

The report of the murder foon reached to Portlaw, Rogers and his wife went to the place, and inftantly knew the body of him whom they had in vain endeavoured to diffuade from going on with his treacherous companion. They at once fpoke out their fufpicions that the murder was perpetrated by the fellow-traveller of the deceafed. An immediate fearch was made, and Caulfield was apprehended at Waterford the fecond day after. He was brought to trial at the enfuing affizes, and convicted of the fact. It appeared on the trial, amongst other circumstances, that when he arrived at Carrick, he hired a horfe, and a boy to conduct him, not by the ufual road, but by that which runs on the north fide of the river Suir, to Waterford, intending to take his paffage in the firft fhip from thence to Newfoundland. The boy took notice of fome blood on his fhirt, and Caulfield gave him half a crown to promise not to speak of it. Rogers proved, not only that Hickey was feen laft in company with Caulfield, but that a pair of new fhoes which Hickey wore had been found on the feet of Caulfield when he was apprehended; and that a pair of old fhoes which he had on at Rogers's houfe were upon Hickey's feet when the body was found. He defcribed with great exactness every article of their clothes. Caulfield, on the cross-examination, fhrewdly afked him from the dock,

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Whether it was not very extraordinary that he, who kept a public-house, fhould take fuch particular notice of the drefs of a stranger, accidentally calling there? Rogers, in his anfwer, faid, he had a very particular reafon, but was afhamed to mention it. The court and prisoner infifting on his declaring it, he gave a circumftantial narrative of his dream, called upon Mr. Browne the priest, then in the court, to corroborate his teftimony, and faid, that his wife had severely reproached him for permitting Hickey to leave their houfe, when he knew that in the fhort footway to Carrick, they muft neceffarily pafs by the green fpot in the mountain which had appeared in his dream. A number of witneffes came forward; and the proofs were fo ftrong, that the jury, without hesitation, found the pannell guilty. -It was remarked, as a fingularity, that he happened to be tried and fentenced by his namefake, S. George Caulfield, at that time lord chief juftice of the King's Bench, which office he refigned in the fummer of the year 1760.

After fentence, Caulfield confeffed the fact. It came out, that Hickey had been in the West Indies two and twenty years; but falling into a bad ftate of health, he was returned to his native country, Ireland, bringing with him fome money his induftry had acquired, The veffel on board which he took his paffage was by stress of weather, driven into Minehead. He there met with Frederic Caulfield, an Irifh failor, who was poor, and much diftreffed for cloaths and common neceffaries. Hickey, compaffionating his poverty, and finding he was his countryman, relieved his wants, and an intimacy commenced between them. They agreed to go to Ireland together; and it was remarked on their paffage, that Caulfield poke contemptuously, and often faid, it was a pity fuch a puny fellow as Hickey should have money, and he himself without a thilling. They landed at Waterford, at which place they stayed fome days, Caulfield being all 3 II 2

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the time fupported by Hickey, who bought there fome cloaths for him. The affizes being held in the town during that time, it was afterwards recollected that they were both at the Court-house, and attended the whole of a trial of a fhoemaker, who was convicted of the murder of his wife. But this made no impreffion on the hardened mind of Caulfield; for the very next day he perpetrated the fame crime on the road betwixt Waterford and Carrickon-Suir, near which town Hickey's relations lived.

He walked to the gallows with a firm step and undaunted countenance. He spoke to the multitude who furrounded him; and in the course of his addrefs, mentioned that he had been bred at a charter-fchool, from which he was taken, as an apprenticed fervant, by William Izod, Efq. of the county of Kilkenny. From this ftation he ran away on being corrected for fome faults, and had been abfent from Ireland fix years.-He confeffed alfo, that he had several times intended to murder Hickey on the road between Waterford and Portlaw; which, though in general not a road much frequented, yet-people at that time continually coming in fight prevented him.

The Explofion of the AURORA Portuguese Frigate.

C.

The following is a Letter from Madeira, dated Sept. 12, 1802, giving the Particulars refpeding the Difaftrous Event of this Ship.

On the 5th inft. at half past 12, A. M.`a more melancholy catastrophe never happened. The Aurora, a Portuguefe fhip, of 500 tons burthen, and 36 guns, lately arrived from Lisbon, blew up. She had about 40 cafks of powder on board. The explofion was dreadful. I was at the moment fitting at my door with my friends, the hip in full view, only 500 yards off. Anxious to render every affiftance in my power to the miferable fufferers, I immediately

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immediately ran down to the beach, procured a boat, and obtaining three men and two boys, put off towards the wreck, which by this time was enveloped in flames.

"Mine was the second boat that arrived. On enquiry I found only two poor fellows had escaped out of thirty-four fouls on board.

They were found on board, and immediately taken, by one of its boats, on board of an English frigate. The quarter-deck, with the mizen and main-mafts, were blown. into the air, and the ship fairly split in two; the ballast and guns, moft of which were ftowed in the hold, went to the bottom. The fhip, by this means, was thrown on her fide; the fire increasing, it became neceffary to tow the wreck clear of the fhipping. One of the English frigate's boats fastened a tow-line to the foremast. We were foon joined by the boats of the other veffels in the harbour, with one or two from the fhore. My fituation was tolerable hot, as you may fuppofe. The night, very fortunately, was perfectly calm, so that not the least injury happened to any other veffel in the harbour.

"The scene during the night was awful; but that which presented itself at day-light was truly horrid. The poor wretches were lying in every pofition on board the wreck, fome with half their fkulls blown off, fome without a leg, and others without arms; feveral of them were actually wafting in the flames. Eighteen of their bodies only were found. About fix I got home, much fatigued and diftreffed in body and mind. Various opinions are circulated refpecting this difafter. The moft prevalent is, that the act was defignedly perpetrated by a desperate villainous failor, one of the crew, who had fworn vengeance againft the captain for having confined him a few days before the event for mal-practices. He belonged to Lisbon, where he had been immured in the condemned hole for murder. He was heard to declare that the ship should never depart from this port; and the wretch

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was fufficiently defperate to facrifice his own life with his hip-mates, for motives of private refentment. The ship and cargo were estimated at 60,000l. fterling."

A.

Memoirs of SIR JOHN DINELY, Bart. one of the Knights of Windfor, and lately Noted for his Wonderful Marriage-Offer, concluding with an Account of the Alms-Knights of Windfor. We are indebted for the DINELY Pedigree to Nah's Hif tory of Worcestershire, and the other Part of this Account to SIR JOHN DINELY, Bart. who has obligingly tranfmitted to us many Singular Particulars.]

SIR JOHN DINELY is defcended from a very illustrious family, who had been for fome time in poffeffion of the eftate of Charlton in the parish of Cropthorn in the county of Worcester, whofe ancient owners derived their name from it. The first of the Dinely family who obtained this estate was Richard Dinely, of Charlton, by marrying Eleanor, the daughter and only child of Sir Simon de Handefacre, lord of Charlton, in the reign of Edward III. Mr. Camden fuppofes this family to have been first seated in Lancafhire; but, in the opinion of Mr. Henry Dinely (a gentleman well versed in heraldry and old records, and who was twice fheriff of Worcester in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth) it came originally " from Dinely in Northamptonfhire." This family continued to flourish in great repute in Worcestershire till the laft century, when they expired in Charlton in the person of Sir Edward Dinely, Knt. fometime juftice of peace and deputy lieutenant for Worcef terthire. His only furviving daughter was married to Edward Goodvere, of Burhope in Herefordfhire, who was created a Baronet in 1707, and was member in feveral parliaments for the borough of Evesham, and fometime knight of the fhire for Hereford. Thus the eftate was tranfplanted to the Goodyere family. Sir Edward Goodyere having died