Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Murder of Miss Hamilton.

Hudson, sept. 28 -On Friday last Patrick Cavenah and D Allan, two Irishmen, late soldiers in the U S. army, were put to the bar at Catskil, before Judge Platt, charged with having murdered the above young lady in August, 1813 The trial of Cavenah had not proceeded far before it was seen that his confessions were so delirious, absurd and contradictory (except as to the manner of the murder) that the Attorney General admitted his inability to support the indictment; and the Judge directed the jury to acquit the prisoner They did this without passing from their seats ; and Allan was also discharged.

The Prisoners are thus acquitted, and the horrid murder of Miss Hamilton remains undiscovered.The " miraculous origin" which has brought to light so many less foul offences continues dumb on this. The derangement of the prisoner, at times, at least, is very evident. In his confessions and conversations, he has declared that Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin, Gen Lincoln, and Gen. Dearborn were with them, when they committed the murder; that he enlisted into the service, for the purpose of being shot ; that he committed the murder in imitation of his superiors, who directed and assisted in the murder of Gen. Lingan; that about a fortnight before the murder of Miss H. he and Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison had murdered three men in north Carolina--this he said was the prettiest affair he had been engaged in ; and went on and gave the particulars as minutely as in the affair of Miss H. The most surprising circumstance, and the most difficult to be reconciled, is the precision with which he described every circumstance which took place in the murder of Miss H. Every particular in his confessions at New York, agreed perfectly with the examination of the body at the coroner's inquest.