6 NOVEMBER 1830, Page 10

MR. ST. JOHN LONG.—This person, as we mentioned in our

second edition, last week, was on Saturday convicted of manslaughter, after a strenuous effort of Sir James Park to prevent the case from going to a Jury. On Monday he was brought up for judgment, and fined—two hundred and fifty pounds ! It was immediately paid, and Mr. St. John Long walked from the bar rejoicing. It should be stated, that on Satur- day night, when application was made after conviction for Mr. St. John Long's liberation on bail until Monday, Mr. Justice Park said, he could make no distinction between the case of the prisoner and that of any other person convicted of felony ; justice must be dealt out to the same extent to the rich man as to the poor.

FORGERY.—James Blonds, the young man charged with the forgery of an East India warrant for 6141., was convicted on Monday. The Jury recommended him to mercy. Monds attributed the act of forgery to a sudden impulse of insanity, caused by intoxication the night before.

PIRACY AND MUTINY ON BOARD THE CYPRUS.—The trial of Swallow alias Weldon, the alleged captain of the Cyprus after the mu- tiny, of Davis alias Huntley, Watts alias .Williarns Stephenson alias Telford, and Beveridge alias Anderson, came on, at the Admiralty Ses- sions, on Thursday. Popjoy was, as before the Police Magistrates, the principal witness ; his testimony did not materially 'differ from what he gave there. On cross-examination, he admitted that he had been trans- ported for horse.atealing. He had been charged with highway robbery in ihe Colonies, but had proved himself innocent. He bad " buried hi oblivion". till the,charges made againsthim in the colony. At Sydneylie lad stowed himself away, and had also run away from his master. He knew a gentleman named Bryant, at Hobart Town, who made a charge against him of robbing his premises. There were a " few" charges made against him while under sentence of transportation. He was sent to Sydney after the robbery of Mr. Bryant's house. He went as a volun- teer to Macquarrie Harbour, and was induced to go there to get among his " pals." He had two hundred lashes at Botany Bay, but this he considered only a " few." He admitted that Swallow was sick at the time of the mutiny, and that he declared (to Popjoy) that he had been forced to take the command. Mr. Williams' surgeon, who was on hoard the brig when she was seized, gave the following evidence.—" I was on board the Cyprus in the month of August, 1829, while she was on her voyage from Hobart Town to Macquarrie Harbour, with convicts. Research Bay is two or three days' sail from Hobart Town. There were on board twelve sailors, eleven soldiers and passengers, besides thirty-three convicts. The pri- soners Swallow and Watts were two of the convicts. After the long- boat got some distance from the vessel, and that the gun was fired, I heard some noise resembling the clashing of swords ; and the boat there- upon put back, and Lieutenant Carew attempted to get on board, but was repulsed by one of the convicts, who twice snapped a pistol at him. The prisoner Watts was on deck, and took an active part in the mutiny. He even dared Lieutenant Carew to go on board the vessel, and was armed with some sort of weapon. Lieutenant Carew asked for his sword, but Ferguson, who had it, refused to give it him. Lieutenant Carew then asked for his wife and children, and they, with his servant and wife, were put into the boat, together with the chief mate, and the boat was then rowed ashore by a party of the convicts, under the conveyance of the jolly-boat, in which was an armed party. The prisoner Watts took two fowls, and having wrung off their heads threw them into the boat. Swallow came to the side of the vessel and said, " You see, gentlemen, I am a pressed man ;" and added, " I am unarmed, and surrounded by armed men." He repeatedly declared that he was a pressed man. He was about to get me some blankets for the use of Mrs. Carew, but Watts ordered him to throw down the keys, adding that the blankets should be sent on shore." None of the prisoners made any defence, except Swallow, who repeated to the Court what he had stated to Mr. Williams, that he was compelled to go with the muti- neers.

The Jury, after two hours and a half of deliberation, returned into Court with a verdict of guilty against George James Davis alias Huntley, William Watts alias George Williams, Alexander Stevenson alias Tel- ford, and John Beveridge alias Anderson. They, however, recom- mended the two latter prisoners to the merciful consideration of the Court, on the ground of their not being so active as others in the mutiny; and with respect to William Swallow alias Weldon, they returned a ver- dict of not guilty. The presiding Judge, Sir Christopher Robinson, passed sentence of death on all the prisoners, but did not name any day for its being carried into execution. OFFICERS AND MEN.—A seaman named Hawkins was tried at the Admiralty sessions yesterday, for an assault in the Lowther Castle. The assault was struggling with and striking Mr. Hayward, an officer, who was assisting another in forcing Hawkins aft. The forcing of Hawkins aft was stated at the Police-office, when the case was heard, to be contrary to law. The conduct of the officers was thus described by one of them :—Mr. Barton admitted that he had held Hawkins by his

long whiskers, and made his nose bleed by striking him over the face. Hawkins cried out, " Murder, murder," three or four times. He twisted the lanyard-rope round the neck of the prisoner, which made his face black, but not as black as his hat. The prisoner was condemned to two months' imprisonment Bin..—Three men, two of them journeymen shoemakers and one a journeyman tailor, were arrested at Broughton Quarries, near Maidstone, on Saturday. The charge was, that they had addressed violent language to the Magistrates who seized them—the language is not stated. They were held to bail, by the Magistrates, to keep the peace for one year, themselves in 1001. each, and two securities in 50/. each. Now we do not say that these men were not deserving of a twelvemonth's imprison- ment, or more,—for we know nothing of their offence; less do we approve of the riotous proceedings now going on in Knt, by which the poor are playing in the most successful way the game against themselves ; but we must lift our voice against this abominable system, so regularly acted on, of asking from a poor man such an amount of bail as makes imprisonment a necessary consequence of the demand. If the Court of King's Bench were to bind over Lord Grosvenor in a couple of hundred thousand pounds, the whole of England would be up in arms ; and yet that sum would not be as much in the case of Lord Grosvenor as forty shillings in the case of men of whom the Magistrates of Maidstone de- mand a hundred pounds.

CONTINENTAL NOTIONS.—Half-pay Ensign O'Shea was charged at Bow Street, on Friday, with abusing the Police on the previous night, by calling them Gendarmes, and expressing a hope that all the glorious doings in France would be copied out in England ; one of which works, it is well known, was the extinction of the Gensdarmes. He was held to bail, and a copy of the depositions was sent to the Herne Office.