THE following remarkable and deeply interesting trials have been collected from all the best sources which the public and private libraries of this country afford; the volume embraces many recent cases furnished exclusively by the London Annual Register, and recourse has been had occasionally to manuscripts where printed documents could not be procured. It is believed that the collection supplies a striking deficiency in the library of the lawyer, physician, and general reader. Much care and caution have beer cxercised in the compilation, to make it not only an acceptable but a necessary adjunct to the books already accessible, and the reader is confidently referred to the table of contents for the evidence of the variety and value of the materials. Should this work meet with public approbation, it is the design of the publishers to issue other volumes in succession, for which the most ample matter has been accumulated; to this end many distinguished jurists have voluntarily offered to contribute the most remarkable cases which have come under their observation. The present may therefore be considered an avant courier of much that deeply concerns the American reader. No expense will be spared in completing a design having for its object the preservation of separate trials, which, by being seattered in every possible shape, are too often entirely lost, or of difficult access, though eminently curious and worthy of being preserved from oblivion. 3 MBTIC It would be unnecessary to detain the reader further than to remark, that this collection will not only be useful to the members of the learned professions, the general reader, and to those whose misfortune it may be to fall under criminal prosecution, but in many instances it illustrates history; and to quote an observation of an eminent practitioner at the bar, who says"Since it is observable that the best and bravest of mankind are far from being exempted from liability to criminal prosecutions, and that potent malice or prevailing faction have too often attempted the most consummate merit; that learning which shows how life, honour, and innocence are to be defended, when they shall happen to be injuriously attacked, will not be considered inferior to that which instructs us how to defend our less mportant rights." CONTENTS. Page 1.-John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the Murder of William Ware, at 2.-Henry Fauntleroy, Esq., for Forgery, at the Old Bailey, October 30, 1824. at Armagh, in a Duel, 1807.,........ 9.-James Stuart, for the Murder of Sir Alexander Eoswell, 1822... 11.-Francis S. Riembauer, for Assassination, 1805. 12.—Eliza Fenning, for an Attempt. to poison Mr. Olibar Turner and Family, 14.-Abraham Thornton, for the Murder of Mary Ashford, 1817...... 15.-Castaing, the Physician, for Murder, at Paris, November, 1817................. 16.—John Donellan, Esq., for the Murder of Sir Theodosius Edward Allesly 17. Sir Walter Raleigh, for High-treason, in the reign of James I., A.D. 1602. 180 18.-James O'Coigley, Arthur O'Connor, John Binns, John Allen, and Jere- miah Leary, for High-treason; at Maidstone, 1798.... 19.-Miss Ann Broadric, for the Murder of Mr. Errington, 1795.. 20.-William Corder, for the Murder of Maria Marten, 1827.. 21.-William Codlin, for Scuttling a s 22.-Joseph Wall, for the Murder of B 23.-Vice-admiral Byng, for Neglect o board his Majesty's Ship the St.Ueo, in Portsmouth harbour, 1757. 235 24. Richard Savage, the poet, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for the 29.-Sawney Cunningham, executed at Leith, 1635, for Murder..... 30.-Sarah Malcolm, for the Murder of Ann Price, 1733... 36.-Trial by Combat, between Henry Plantagenet, duke of Hereford and Lancaster, and afterwards King of England by the title of Henry IV., and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Earl-marshal of England, 1397. 415 37.-Captain John Gow and others, for Piracy, 1729....... 38.-William Burke and Helen McDougal, for Murder, 1828... 39.-Charles Macklin (the author), for the Murder of Thomas Hallam, May, 40.-Mary Young, alias Jenny Diver, for privately Stealing, 1740....... 41.-George Henderson and Margaret Nisbet, for forging a Bill on the Dutchess 441 42.-John Chisle, of Dalry, for the Murder of the Right Hon. Sir George Lock- hart, of Carnwith, Lord-president of the Court of Session, and Member of his Majesty's Privy Council, 1689... 43.-William Henry, Duke of Cumberland; for Adultery with Lady Grosvenor, 46.-Henry White, Jr., for a Libel on the Duke of Cumberland, 1813....... 465 47.-Philip Nicholson, for the Murder of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, at Maidstone, 48.-Mr. William Cobbett, for Libel, in the Court of King's Bench, 1810.... 474 49.-John Bellingham, Esq., for the Murder of the Right Hon. Spencer Perce- val, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Lobby of the House of Com- 50.-Mary Stone, for Child Murder, preferred by her Sister, at Surrey Assizes, 1817..... 488 58.-Rob Roy Macgregor, and other Macgregors, 1700 to 1746....... 59.-Alexis Petrowitz Czarowitz, presumptive Heir to the Crown of Russia, con- |