Sir G. Keith, after expatiating on the great good, both national and moral which the society would accomplish, seconded the motion. A long list of subscribers was then read by the secretary, at the head of which stood an annual subscription of 501. from his majesty. This announcement was received with loud applause, The earl of Darnley in a few words moved the thanks of the meeting to the right rev. chairman, who returned thanks, and the meeting, which nearly filled the great room, adjourned. - 10.- Funeral of the Princess Elizabeth. This morning, at a quarter past seven, the coffin was put into a coach and six belonging to his majesty, in which were two gentlemen of the duke's household, and set off for Windsor. Only one mourning coach and six followed. The procession was escorted by a detachment of the 10th hussars. The procession reached Windsor chapel shortly after two o'clock, and the body was buried with the usual solemnities in the royal vault. Extraordinary Horse Leap. The bet that an officer of the 3d dragoons should produce a horse to carry his rider over a six-foot wall, in a sporting-like manner, was decided on Friday 16, in the presence of a great number of spectators at Inchinnan, near Renfrew. The horse, which is the property of Mr. Green, of the above regiment, cleared his leap in an easy and gallant style, without moving à stone, though rode by a heavy dragoon. Considerable sums were depending on the issue.--Glasgow paper. Lately at the Stafford assizes, a case of so peculiar and affecting a description occurred, as to entitle it to a particular detail. King v. John, Wright. This was a very affecting case. The prisonerstood indicted for the murder of his own son, an infant only five years of age, by throwing him into the Birmingham canal, on the 5th of September last, whereby the unhappy child was drowned. Sarah Lees.-I live at Wolverhampton-know the prisoner. In the month of September last he lodged at my house. He had a wife, but she did not live with him, and a little boy five years of of age. His wife was in service; she came home with her husband on a Sunday, the 3d of September. They all thought she intended to stop. I came home about seven o'clock, and found her in the house. She remained that night, and she and the prisoner appeared to be very comfortable; they slept together. In the morning the prisoner got up before his wife, and went to fetch what was necessary for breakfast; he then called his wife, and they breakfasted together. After breakfast the prisoner's wife asked him if he was going to work; he said he was, and added, "Well, wench, you'll get my dinner ready," and she said she would. The prisoner was extremely cheerful and happy. His wife went away as soon as he was gone, and never returned. The prisoner came home to dinner about one; he said, “What, hasn't my wife got me any dinner?" I said, No; she's gone out." He stamped his foot, and said, "I am sure she is gone off again." On the Monday night in question, again." He remained at home some little time, and looked very wild. He went out in an uncommon way; and I said, "Where are you going, Wright, or what are you going to do?" He said he was going to look for her. I was afraid that he would make away with himself from his agitated and wild appearance; I had felt alarms of that sort before. I tried to persuade him to come back, but he would not. When he came home his clothes were very wet, and I accused him with having attempted to drown himself; he looked very stern at me, and denied it, and begged me to say nothing at all to him about it. He remained in his clothes as they were, and would not have them dried. In the afternoon the prisoner fetched his little boy from school; this was not his habit. He pressed the little boy to his bosom, and said, "ah! thy naughty mother has left us again;" and when he looked at the child seemed to become more tender, although very good at all times; was particularly kind to the child the whole of the evening. The prisoner lived very poor in general, his earnings being very small: at times, when there would be but little bread in the house, I'd say, "Wright, have a pint of beer, and get a bit of bread, it will be better than nothing;" and he said, "no, I will keep it for little Jem-just now." He left the house, he can't do without." This oc- saying he would go himself. When curred frequently during the time he came from the workhouse, as he was with me. If they were I thought, he looked very ill inshort of food, he always kept some deed, and trembled, I thought his for the child, and was particular feelings were hurt at being obliged in having the child washed, and to leave the child in the workhearing it its prayers. I have house. I did not observe his offered him money, and he said clothes. After the prisoner had "keep it to buy milk for Jem." left the house I went to the work He house, house, in consequence of something I heard from his uncle's wife. I did not find the child there. I then returned home. Some time after the prisoner came in with his uncle, Samuel Wright. When he came in, I said, " Wright, what have you done with the childwhere is poor Jem?" He replied, "he is dead, mistress." When he said this he was crying sadly. I said nothing more; but the prisoner's uncle said, "he has drowned the child in the lock." The prisoner said nothing. The prisoner, on being asked by Mr. Baron Garrow, whether he had any question to put to the witness, said, none at all." 66 Mary Anderson.-I live in the Hampton Lock. On the morning of the 5th of September I had been for some milk, and was returning. I had got to get over a gate. On getting over I saw a man standing in a field, with his back to me, and facing the sun. A child lay on the grass by the side of the man. I made up to him and asked him if he had had the child in the cut. The child was dressed and wet. He said, "ay." I said it was a good job that he had got it out again. The prisoner was that man. I afterwards saw the child carried by my house dead on the same day about one o'clock. Other witnesses deposed that they had seen the prisoner with the boy in a similar manner. James Wright-I live at Wolverhampton. I am uncle to the prisoner. On the 5th September last, the prisoner came to me about half-past ten, and said he wanted to speak to me. I went out with him, and on going towards the Welnall-road, he said to me, "un cle, I have drowned the lad" I said, "I hoped it was not true." He said, "it is too true," and added, "I wish to see my uncle Samuel." I went with the pri soner to look for his uncle. We met him close by the Red Lion inn. When we met him, Samuel said, "John, what is the matter with you? I see something very horrible in your countenance." I told my brother what had passed. The prisoner looked very wretched; he was all of a tremble. My brother said, "what shall I do now?" I did not hear the prisoner make any reply. I told my brother I would take him down to the George-inn and give him a drop of drink to revive him. I did so, I took part of one pint of ale with him, and my brother sent for me. I left the prisoner at the George, while I went to my brother. My brother afterwards went for the prisoner to the George, and we went in search of the boy by the desire of the prisoner, who said, "I'll go and show you what lock I put him in." The prisoner seemed very much confused before he could find the lock out. He went to two locks before he found the right; he was very melancholy. The third lock he came to he went and looked at a particular place, and said, "this is the lock I put the boy into." This lock was in Bushbury parish, in this county. I asked him if he was sure? He told me it was. I stripped myself and went in search of the boy. I found the boy about twelve or fourteen yards below the lock gate, in the pound. After I took the body from the water, I laid it on the bank side: the prisoner sat beside my brother. I afterwards asked leave to put it on the cabin of a boat going towards Wolverhampton. As the boy boy lay on the cabin, the prisoner jumped to him, threw himself on the body, kissed it, and said "poor Jem!" The prisoner was very melancholy, and hardly knew what to do with himself. Samuel Wright, the brother of the last witness, stated that his brother had informed him of the drowning of the boy. The prisoner proposed to deliver himself up to justice. He said his wife leaving him and his extreme poverty had driven him to madness. He said, "I made for the Wednesfield canal, and I there threw the child into the water; seeing the child struggle, I relented,jumped in, and took the child out of the water." (Here the witness was greatly affected.) I then said "where did you go after this?" and he said "I made to a cottage in order to dry the child's clothes, and take it home. The woman of the house refused my request, and I was ashamed to take it home in that condition, and resolved again to effect my purpose of throwing it into the water." I now said to him, "if it be true that you have been in the water this morning, your clothes must be wet." I felt them, and they were so. I then said "what did the child say to you after it had recovered from its first throw ing into the water?" and he said, the child said to me, 'father, what did you throw me in for? do not throw me in again, and I will not cry any more.' I could say no more at that time; but at length asked him, "by what way he came from the Wednesfield canal to where we then were?" The witness corroborated what was stated by his brother about finding the child. Witnesses were called to prove the disordered state of mind on the part of the prisoner; and the evidence of a Mr. Blakewell, a medical gentleman, who was present on the trial, was admitted. He gave his opinion that the drowning of the boy was a complete act of insanity. Mr. Baron Garrow delivered a very feeling and discriminating charge; and the jury, after a few minutes' consideration, returned a verdict "that the prisoner was not guilty, because he had committed the act imputed to him, when in a state of insanity." FRANCE. By an ordonnance of the 27th ult. Louis XVIII. has created a royal academy of medicine in France. It consists of titulary and honorary members in medicine, surgery, and pharmacy, and associates and non-resident associates. The titulars named in medicine amount to twenty-two, chiefly of the most distinguished physicians in Paris, including the well-known names of Chev. Portal, Esquirol, (whose inquiries in. to the subject of insanity, translated into the literary gazette, did him so much honour,) Orfila, Royer-Collard, &c. &c. the honoraries of this class are fourteen; and the list presents several celebrated names. In the class of surgery there are fourteen titular, and five honorary members: in pharmacy, nine of the former, and six of the latter. The associates in Paris amount to ten; and in that number includes Count Berthollet, Count Chaptal, Cuvier, Gay-Lussac, Count Lacepede, the Duc de Rochfoucault, &c. &c. The non-resident associates are medical men in the principal towns of of France, and amount to thirty- tober, have been received from two. PORTUGAL. In the sitting of the 17th a deputation from the island of Madeira was received, who gave an account of the revolution in that island, which was listened to with great pleasure by the assembly. An amnesty has been decreed and published for all those Portuguese who since 1807 have left their country on account of their political opinions or conduct, whether they were persecuted, or feared to be so; or whether any process has been instituted against them or not. Another degree abolishes all parks or preserves for game (contadas abertas) as detrimental to agriculture, to the rights and property of the environs, or to their tranquillity and security: all offices and employments relative to the granting and management of such parks or enclosures are abolished; the officers to receive their pay till another decree shall decide on their future destination. The walled parks are not comprehended in this decree. A new volcano has burst out in the highest summit of a ridge of mountains near Leiria. This extraordinary phenomenon occurred at the period of the high rise of the Douro, mentioned in most of the journals. The volcano was in full action when the latest accounts came away, but had happily taken a direction which threatened to do little damage. The country is sterile, and it may be recollected as that through which Wellington passed in pursuit of Massena. Canton, announcing the death of the Emperor of China, and that the event had been succeeded by a contest between two of his sons for the imperial diadem. Several of the provinces are said to have been in a state of revolt in consequence of the dispute for the succession. To add to the distraction of the Chinese empire from these causes, we learn that the cholera morbus, that fatal epidemic, had found its way thither from Bengal, and was producing the most fatal ravages, the inha bitants dying by thousands. With every precaution, its effects had been severely felt even among the crews of the British ships at Canton. AMERICA, AND THE WEST INDIES. A bill has passed the house of representatives, to reduce the army nearly one half in number, and more than one half in expense. It was under consideration by the senate, where it was expected to undergo some modifications; but not of a nature to involve a higher scale of expenditure. The committee of ways and means, in the house of representatives, have made their report, in which they express their opinion, that the future revenue of the government of the United States will be equal to the expenditure; and that, should no change occur, it will be sufficient, before the first of January, 1825, to repay both the loan of last year, and any loan that may be requisite for the service of the present year. HAYTI. We learn from Cape Francis, under date the 25th December, Letters, dated the 18th of Oc- that president Boyer, after having CHINA. organized |