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Vole!' since Monday hays e improvement, slla fine malting sample! Peen large. a stain in nearly a stair PPIY. In B eans 3114 ,rno. 11. Bd. to 45. 101 re f Monday ; and I'o 4 Lamb is getting mote I. 64. per stone brig ) 5 12u—Pigs 100 1,3 s. 6d. to Ss. Ve . 71. to 7s- 64- 16 ' to 102. &Vl' Ihese Sessions commenced yesterday morning, before the LORD MAYOR. Al.fetMati S , i JOHN PxßnltQ, [fit RECORDRR. S a. d Mr. S:r ea I AHABIN Thelid,!e• to the Corrpnissi , ti ate Lord TENTERDEN, Mt, Justice PARK, a. .1 'Loon GARHOW. OLD COURT. p e .fure the Judge. and a Nliddlesea jury. e Geor emon aged 17, was indicted for assaulting Charles b York. a wilh intent to murder him, or to do him bodily I a rm. on •h I st of Febru iry. Chatle, Y O , k. theprosecutor, stated, that on the day • tolm i„ned in the .ndictment he was in the employment of Mr. Davis. n heel a eight, in J ckey's-fields, Bedford- 1 T ow— . .the I risonet waked in the sane yard. Ab .ut six o'clock in the mm ning a itness was mending the step a cabriolet. The I li-niter took the step out of witness's h an d, and struck him a viole t blow on the head. Witness wrested it from him, and said, " George, why will )ou m t let me do what I was about?" Witness b ega n to work again. when he received a blow on the h ea d winch fractured his skull, and he has been since derange., in the hospital. He could not tell from whom he received tin blow. James Peacock, a farrier, deposed that he was in the imp at the time ut this occurrence. York was employed mending t e step of a cabriolet—saw the prisoner rod Yolk le isting the step between them, but cannot ray w 7 ethe , any blows were exchanged during the, artiggie—the step got into the prosecutor's posses sion, alien the prisoner took op the iron bar now pro duced, and struck him on the head with it—the prisoner then ran away. Cross-examined by Mr. C. PtilLtits---Whilst they were atrugeling, the step was hot, and the prisoner's band WAN seared the next day. limes Carrick spoke to the same facts as those de scribed by the other witnesses.. • Mr. Hadlard described the nature of the wound. The prisoner in his defence said, that he bad been s everely burned, and under the feeling of pain he struck the prosecutor, but did not mean to do him a ny serious injury. Mr. C. PHILLIP* then called some witnesses for the defence, -nd the effect of their evidence went to show that the pio-ecutor bad provoked the prisoner, who merely remarked that the work on which York was employed had not been properly executed. Seve. al witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent charac:er tot humanity and good conduct. Lord TO:TERMS summed up the evidence, and the Jury 'Kuno...) a serdict of hot Guilty. Stephen Ntubbojfeld, and nine others, were indicted for tusk :u.ly aiding and assisting in the illegal landing of fore gn brandy and geneva. The prisoners pleaded Not Gunt ; hut when subsequently brought up for trial, the Lake Officers of the Crown consented that the prisoners should, if they thought proper, retract their former fleAding, and put in a plea of Guilty, which they did. Lord TENTSRDEN—Prisoners, I think it right to in form you, that you are indebted to the humanity of those who conduct this prosecution for permitting you to withdraw your first plea; for, if you had been tried for the offence with which you stand charged in the in dictment, and yes ti bid been found guilty, your lives would have been forfeited. I trust that this clemency will have a proper effect on you and others, and that this system may be suppressed.—The prisoners were then removed from the bar. NEW COURT. Mere Mr. COMMON Stllll3ltAlrl. James Burton, 18, alias Frederick Mandeville, was indicted for stealing three fenders trom the residence of Sir G. FArrant. in the parish of St. George, Hanover ►quare. Guilty of the larceny. The prisoner, who wore a sailor's jacket, and described himself as a surgeon, estaped the capital part of the in• dictment by tf e fact of Sir e. Farrant having left she house in cpiestiiiu, and gone to reside in another, conse quently it could not in law be designated a dwelling house. _ _ James Stott was found guilty of embezzling three small sums of money received by him on account of his employer, Mr. Doubleday, a' coal merchant, residing at Pitnlico. The prisoner had written a most penitent letter to the prosecutor, admitting his guilt.—Sentence not pared. Joseph (looker was indicted for stealing, on the 4th of March last, tour rabbits, the property of a person named Smith, residing in Providence row, Hackney.— An officer proved that he found the rabbits in the pri soner's house, and that he had kept them safe in custody ever since, in order that they might be adduced in evi dence at the trial. The prisoner, who received a most excellent character, stated that the rabbits had been stolen by his brother in law. Verdict—Not Guilty. Nary Jane Field was convicted of stealing seven spoons nom the dwelling-house of Mr. John Adams, of Kensington court. The prisoner called at the house of of the prosecutor, and stated that she was anxious to procure lodgings f.'r her mistress, an elderly Lady. The prisoner examined the lodgings very attentively, highly approved of them, and desired that tea might be ready for her mistress, who was to come in the evening and take possession of the apartments. On the prisoner's departure the spoons were missed, and u; on her appre• hension she admitted that she had pawned them. There were three other indictments for similar offences against the prisoner ; but the COMMON SIERGICANT 4eemed it unnecessary to enier upon the trial of them. John Young was tried for stealing Lysippus (a bronze figure) and some tools, the property of Mr. Edward Hodges Bally, the painter, of Percy-stteet. Mr. Baily stated, that the prisoner had been a work man in his employ for five months. After he had left his service, he missed a valuable bronze figure of Ly sippus, executed in the reios of Pericles (2,700 years ago). It was found, together with some tools belonging to the prosecutor, at the prisoner's lodgings. His wile en deavoured to conceal the image when the officers came. The prisoner, in his defence, said he found the *gore among the rubbish in the. Mews near Mr. Bally's, anti that he set no value on it, but gave it to his children to play with in the streets. As for the tools, he was to have returned them to Mr. Baily when he got back some of his own which he left at Mr. Baily's; but they were forgotten. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character. The Commis; SIM:MAN r, in summing up, commented on the improbability of the prison r's being ignorant of the value of the image, and on the circumstance of his havin g denied all knowledge of it when inquiries were made ;boot it. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended hie s to met cy on account of his previous good character. Yesterday, an Inquest %was held at the Somerset Coffe e House-, Strand, on the body of John Fleetwood, SSq• an elderly Gentleman (70 yrars of age), who was found dead in his apartment, in the above hotel. His death was caused by the rupture of a blood feud of the head or heart. Verdict accordingly. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL 10, Mr. ADOLPHUS appealed to the Court On behalf of a person named George Dugarde, against an order of affiliation made against him by the Magistrates of Hat ion garden Office. It appeared from the Learned Gentlemon's statement, that the appellant is a mere lad, under 20 years of age, and is the son of a jeweller residing in Claremont-square. The female (Mary Bennett), upon whose charge the order was made, had Jived as servant with the appellant's father, and she positively swore that the appellant was the father of her child. The intercourse, sire said, took place one evening in February, 1827, when the rest of the family were absent. The father and brother of the appellant swore that they had not been from home together any one evening in that month. Other witnesses deposed to conversations with the female, which were at variance with her present, evidence; but the Magistrates con firmed the order of affiliation, eleven being far, and only four against it. Mr. BaODRICK (with whom was Mr. Law) moved an appeal on la,•half of Mr. Phillips, the propr►etor of the Café de l'Europe, Haymarket, against a conviction by the Magistrates of Bow-street, on the information of Johnson, for selling wine without a license. Mr. ALLEY, for the respondent, founded his defence of the conviction on the 35th Geo. 111. which provides, that no persons shall sell ale, beer, or other exciseable liquors, without being duly licensed. Messrs. BRODRICK and LAW, for the appellant, con tended, that he having, by servitude, become a member nt the Vintners' Company, was exempted from that law, as it possessed a Charter granted by James the First, which rendered it' unnecessary for any of the Company to obtain a wine license. This Charter was afterwards recognised- by several Acts of Parliament, and was not nientioned or hinted at in the 32d Geo. 111. which imposed the necessity of a license upon all ven dors of" ale, beer," or other exciseable liquors. They contended, therefore, that wine sold by any member of the Vintners Company was not meant to . te. included, and that it was contemplated that the Company should remain under the protection of its Charter. A com of the Charter, together with the 32d Geo. HI. and the 6:11 (ieo. IV. were, produced in support of this ar gument ; and the Learned Counsel went on to argue, that although any mention of the Vintners'. Company was omitted in the 35th Geo. 111. yet its recognition in the 6th Geo. IV. in esers ed to the Vintners' Company the p ivileges conferred upon them by their Charter. Mr. ALLEY. in reply, contended that the Act under %hie , ' this conviction took - place was a matter of police regulation, by which the Magistrates were enabled to preserve public order and decency; but it would be absurd to give them this power if their authority could be set at defiance by any person, however improper•his conduct, who could plead his being a member of the Vintners'Company, as an excuse for disturbing h whole district by the irregularities of his house. He thought the case so very Oen-, that he did not think it necessary to occupy the attention of the Court upon it. • Mr. 'lamming and Mr. LAW both stated, that they had taken the best legal opinions upon the. Case, and among others, that of the Solicitor• General, which they had then in Court. Ile sense of the Bench was then taken, and the ma jority were against the cobviction. The CHAIRMAN said, that though he differed from the opinions rzpre.sed by the maj lily, he would not oppose them. The conviction was quashed. The Court rose at five o'clock. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TAUNTON, Aran. S. Rickard Gillam was this morning arraigned for the wilful murder of XlAria Bagnell, at Bich, on the 26th of January 14st. The pi isoner, a respectable 'middle sized man, on the indictment being read, in a very firm voice, pleaded Not Guilty. He appeared not to exhibit aay of those emotions which his awful situ4ti•'n would excite. He was also arraigned for the robbery, to which he also pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Got:Onto and Mr. W.FOLLETT appeared for the prosecution t and Mr. Sergeant BOMPAES and Mr.Moomr for the prisoner. Mr. GUNNING —Genthmen of the Jury, the indict ment has told you the nature of the offence with which the prisoner stands charged. Before I proceed in stating the facts, I have to request you most seriously to dis miss from your minds all that you may have heard for or against the prisoner. You are here not to try this case on vague reports you have heard, or spectacles which you may have seen.—(A model of the kitchen, with Maria Bagnell, in composition, has been exhi biting during the Assizes, and in consequence of this circumstance being mentioned to the Judge, it has been discontinued—this is what Mr. G. alluded to.);—. It is a satisfaction to find that a person in the situa tion of the prisoner has the assistance of able Counsel, who will take advantage of every fact sad circumstance which may appear in his favour. The prisoner is a person who was in the service of an old Lady, 80 years of age, living at Marlborough-buildings, Bath. The Learned Counsel went into particulars of the descrip tion of the premises where the murder was committed. The deceased and Mrs. Cox, her• mistress, occupied the best bed rooms, and the prisoner and his wife occupied the front room in the gar►et ; the prisoner has been in the service of Mrs. Cox about fifteen months. About half past two in the morning, the watchmen heard the report of pistols, and a coy of mu:der ; they went to the house, and some one up stairs directed them to go round to the back part of the house, and found the ' doors open. When they came to the house door, they found the bolts and• latches all undone. There was an iron bar, which had not been put up. They saw several sorts of property, some in baskets and others in bundles. They then proceeded up stairs, and heard some one say 44 we are shut in and cannot get out: When they got to the ff :or where Mrs. Cox and Maria Bagnell slept, they saw the prisoner at the bar. The watchmen found a gimlet which the prisoner took away, and it was afterwards tried in a hole, which the prisoner said it was in, and which had fastened him in. They then looked into the bed room of Maria Bagnell, and found that no one had been on the bed that night. They then proceeded down stairs, and found four bottles of wine on the table in the kitchen. They then went is other parts of the house, and on going to which some one said there is a noman murdered. The prisoneTexhibited no symptom of astonishment. They found her quite dead and cold. 'l•he Learned Counsel then detailed other facts, which will be found in the evidence. Ann Specimen, examined by Mr. FOLLETT—I an nearly seventy years of age, and am in the service of Mrs. Cox at Batb ; she is eighty years of age or more. I was living with her in January List ; 1 h ►ve lived with her fourteen or fifteen years. The witness here looked at ti , e prisoner, but did not know him, she said he was so much altered; the prisoner replied he had a great deal to aster hkus. The prisoner was in the service .of Mrs. Cox about fifteen months; he wart butler, Mrs. Gillam was cook ; I slept at the top of the boos P the garret at the back of the house § and Gillam and his wife in the front ; Maria• Bagnell slept on the 131131 e floor with my ntittre-s. The servarus were in thebalit of supping every' night about nine o'clock; I ren eat: Saturday the 26:h of Januat y last, Bagnell stood and had her supper that night; there were two young men besides supped there that night ; warmed my mistiest s bed that night, and as soon as I had done I went to bed ; I heard Gillam and his wife come up stairs ; I heard them talking together; I left Maria Bagnell in my mistress's room when 1 went to bed ; I was not alarmed about any thing till ab';ut two o'clock, when I heard Mrs.G. say that there were robbers in the house ; I heard pistols go off; it was after Mrs. Gillam had called me up ; I got up as soon as I could to see what was the matter; I went to the top of the stairs, and saw the watchmen there; I then went into my mistress's room and made a fire; when 1 went into her room she was awake ; I went into Maria Bagnel.'s room ; no one was there, nor was the bed tumbled ; I afterwards went down into the kitchen, and found Maria Bagnell dead; the watchman was there at the time; I cannot say I saw Gillam in the kitchen or not alter. I did not hear hitt. say any thing about Maria Bagnell being murde►ed. I know the back door leading into the garden ; it is la,- tened by two bolts and an iron bar. It was Gillam's business to see the doer fastened. There was a bill hook in the house for chopping wood. Cross•e:amined by Mr. Sergeant BompAss—l used generally to go to bed first, and could not see who fas tened the door. John Trucsler, examined by Mr. GUNNING—I once liced with Mrs. Cox ; I left last October twelvemonths ; I was at the f cruse on the.26th o' January last, and left a little after ten o'clock; Maria Bagneil supped with us on that evening; we had four lorse pistols when I lived with Mrs. Cox ; they were lett there when I left th.' service: John Robins, examined by. Mr. FOLLETT—I am ser vant to Mr. Ballanfine, at Bath. I supped on the 26th of January last with the servants ; the deceased took her supper alongside the fire; these was no quarrel be tween the servants. Lieutenant Colonel Warne called, but not examined by the prosecutor. Examined by Mr. MoonY—Shortly 'before the murder I received some game from Mrs. Cox. It was brought by the prisoner at the bar; some blood was about the mouth of the hare; I did not observe the blood drop down, he carried it in his hand ; he had on a brown coat, and striped waistcoat. Charles Billington, examined by Mr. Totterr —I am watchman at Bath ;. was on the watch on Saturday, the 26th ; at half-past two in the morning I heard the report of file-arms, and " watch," and " murder," cried; this WAS after I heard the report of fire-arms; in consequence of which, I went.up to the street-door of No. 16, .Marlbototighbuildings; I sprung my rattle, and the man •en the. Marlborough stand sprung his rattle ; I tried the street door, but could. not get in ; I heard a noise from the top part of the house, and some Man said, "go round to No. 15 or 16." We went with three other watchmen, belonging to the outskirts of Bath, and went up the road, and came to a wicket-gate.; went in and ran-down the field towards the wall at the back of the houses, and found a garden door open, but met no one on our way there; we went into the garden, and I there, in the middle of it, picked up a white cloth. We then went to the back of the house; the door was open, o hich led us into a large tellar; there was a smaller cellar or too beside ; the house door was open ; I did not examine to see if the door was broken open ; in the cellar I sari a basket with meat and bread in it; 1 then proceeded a tole further, and saw a light; on going up stairs, I saw a pair cf snuffers and extiro ' guisher—oppr.site that a candle on a chair burning ; on my right hand, on the stairs, there was a large bun dle and a case; I then went up and opened the street door at the front of the house ; I was they joined by three or four watchmen; they came in at the street door ;*.a e went up stairs, and I hallooed, " where are you?" No one answered till we went up the attic stairs, and I heard a person say, "we are fastened in it was a min's voice; 1 went into the attic landing, which Is under the larret, and there I saw the prisoner standing on the anding: he turned round towards a closet adjoining the attic landing, the door of which was opened ; there I saw a large chest; I asked him what it was, and he I told me the plate chest ; he had a white night cap on, a short brown fustian jacket, smallclothes nearly the ,same colour, and light coloured stockings; Bedgood, another watchman, picked up on the flrror a gimlet, and the prisoner said, " I suppose this is what we were fao . L ifted in with." We then saw two women, whom I now know to be Ann Spackman and the prisoner's wife. I bad my lantern with me, and over the latch of the door saw a gimlet hole, and said it did not appear to be very ler bored through. The prisoner was there while I was examining the hole. He said something about the • servant maid, but what Ido not knoll. We then went into the drawing room, and saw three or four bottles of wine on a table. Prisoner was o ith us ; we saw evee' al l 'Notes, apparently like tea caddies, and several different little things open. 1 gave the cloth which was picked up in the garden to the pri oaer ; what he did with it I do not know ; we then went down to the parlour ; I called out, 46' Mind below," and heard a r man's voice say; "Did you see the murder ?" I said nu; we then went into the kitchen; the prisoner I was with us; I cannot ray that he went into the i l kitchen with us ; in the kitchen , we saw a a man lying in a gore of blood; her head was towards the kitchen fire place r and on the left hand side a large , stick ; more towards the fire place there was a woman s cap: she was dead ; 1 did not touch the body. I then went out and saw the prisoner .outside, at the kitchen door, and pointed to the ht.ndle, and asked him if he knew that? he said it was his, or his wife's handkerchief that the bundle was tied. up in ; he opened it, and bete is my wife's pelisse,..and pulled out a coat, and said,. this is my coat. I then .pointed to the case, and asked him what it was? and he said it was a tea urn, and used to stand on the plate chest. He _then said, Come along with me, and I will show you something else;" we then went down another flight of stairs into the cellar, and I showed him the basket with the bread and meat; he said that was theirs. I went out into the garden, and be went with me; I said I had seen enough, and did go not into the kitchen again; the pri soner did not go up stairs with me. Cross.examined by Mr. Sergeant BOMPASS—The back of the houses is open fields to a considerable dis. tance ; we might be a couple of minutes cr. 'more going round; I was the first that came to the back door. Benjamin Bedgood, another watchman, examined by Mr.GUNNING—This pet son corroborated the former witness, and added, that the handle of the gimlet•put into the hole would not touch the door; a bullet bole was in the garret stair door. The p ironer said he had come down and found the latch fastened, and went up., stars and. loaded three pilots, and discharged our through the door ; he then up stairs again, and dis charged one pistol at. the back oh the house, and th o her in the front. I have stood on the stairs Aiken the garret door was shut, the door trot close ; ',could see through the door; it is a very slight one. • Lin. Mr. MatsbaWexAmined--Had been a Chaplain 1. and Curate 23 years; resided at Bath ; at the requanf last witness. went to see the prisoner, who t withed M. to pray with him and read to hints Afie in a state to do so himself; on Mr. M. ezrreising trio sorrow at finding him in such a situation, he said-: r He knew he was a sinner, and should soon die;". Mr.. • M. asked him how he knew this; prisoner maife an:wer •••" He had been told so at the Hall. for taking the goods from his mistress;" prisoner sat down, and began rrlating that himself and wife were about to s• ttl 'and had . purloined a few things flogs, their misties-; Mr. M. conjectured from the pertuibA and di.tres,ed state of the prisoner's mind, that there was something still • more heavy on his conscience ; prisoner said he was " a sinner as other men, and was aware su• picion fell upon him as the murderer;" Mr. M irshall replied, if he was innocent, to maintain his inn'cence; but if net, warned him not to add sin to sin by dissembling bent e Goo. During the conversation the prisoner was wa'k ing hurriedly about the room, at one moment playing with his finger, and at alother ricking up bits of . cinder from under the grate. Mr. M. read a portion of the Communion Sea vice, after which he thought t!.c prisoner had something to communicate, and was alccd if the gaoler should be sent for? prisoner told Mr. MArsh4ll he wished now he bad never sent "for him ; Mr. M. then took his leAve, with a request from fh; prisoner that, he v. °lt'd rttuin. (A chair was here orderei for the prisoner, Oil appeared somewhat fatigued with standing.) At the second interview, Mr. M. >tared the prisoner did it t Attend so well as at first, and told him that (inks: I.e had confessed him self before GOD he could no , pr ay will him, or afford him any conics a:ion, which it was his rattle t wish to do. After long conversation relative to the confession of his sins, it was evident some impression had been made on him. Mr. Bout% e, the gaoler, was cafe., a nd gave e% idence of what had passed, after the Rtv. Mr. M. had had some interviews with the pi i.oner. Witness said, " I have seen your wife, and what I said to you in the - morning is correct. I find by your wif.: that you did go down stairs a sec , nd time after meeting Maria Bag nen, and that you rem lined below a considerable chile, and that when you returned you were very cold and much alarmed. On getting into bed yob told your wife io lay farther from you, for you u ere not very sell." This, prisoner's wife told witness, was the first time be omitted kissing her on getting into bed since they were. married. Mr. Sergeant BOUPASS and Mr.Mooor now addressed' the Court, and put it to his Lordship whether it war an , act of justice, that the contessian of the prisoner, ex toi ted from him by religious hores and fears,' and in stilled into his mind by the Rev. Mr. Marshall, could legally be brought as evidence against him ? Mr. Justice Gilbert, Judge Best, and Lord Eldon, were cited as. pricedents in not allowing such evidence; and the wisest Judge which England had ever produced (Sir Michael Foster), bad declared that confession by such-means was more liable to contain falsehood than with; and was of all evidence tl.e very worst. Mr. Bourne re-examined—Prisoner said, " I'll tell you all about it." Witness cautioned him as to a con fession. Prisoner said, it was tine he did go down stairs again, and that he found' Bignell in his pantry ; that she began quarrelling with him ; that he took up a stick and struck her repeated blow, till she fell; 'he kept screaming, and said she would have him hanged. • He by some means or other found himself upon Bag. nell ; he knelt upon her, and took a knife from l is waist coat pocket and cut her throat ; he took away her purse, with - some halfpence; he put the halfpence in his waist' coat pocket, and put the purse where it v. As found can .he following mot fling. He then washed his hands and • knife, and went up stairs, took out the wine and spirits from the cellaret, and drunk some, and threw some of it away; left the bottles as they were found.- Every thing that was packed up, ihe tetuiiro and bread, he also placed where they were lound. He hen weurio bed.. Tug well, E•q. Mayor of IL It, examined—Was-. Mayor in January last ; recollects g. ing to the g -, al nn the 2d of February, accompanied by Mr. Gee rgr, ere town clerk; he saw Gillam in Bourne's swim; profit - Ter said he did the deed ; did not take this down in wriiiig --(The confession of the prisoner befere the i ate. was then read in Court).—The confession was read Over to the prisoner by , Mr. George, who asked 'hies it he had any objection to sign it ; he said his hand - shoolc so he could not write his name, but it was•all true. George Wilcox took the prisoner to the County - goit, on the 3d of February; on the road the prisoner said it was a horrible thing, but he could not help it ; he said . he heard the deceased running out against himself aid wife, and that his blood was'boiling. Prisoner s.id he did the deed at eleven at night, and was not more thm three minutes about it. Afier he had committed the deed, he found his mind quite relieved. The state c f the premises (it will be recollected, they were found as if they had b.eu broken open externally) a as occasioned by himse.f. He broke open the. di.or with a hill honk, and he brought down the u•n from a plate chit, and I scraped the walls with . a spade, to make it appear that somebody had got over the wall. The evidence for the prosecution closed at a quarter past seven. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, merely said he was innocent. About a quarter to ten, the Jury, after ten minutes' consideration, re tained a verdict of Guilty His Lotdship immediately proceeded to pass the awful sentence of death, whhoux holding out the slightest prospect of meicy. Ile was ordered to be executed on Thursday next, and his body to be given over to a surgeon ft+ dissection. • The prisoner's countenal ce, during the trial, undo. went very little variation ; but on receiving sentence be. held down his head, a death-like paleness• came upon him, and he appeared to be at once labouring under the woe kings of an overburdetiedtonscietice, and a sense of his dreadful situation. A respite was sent to the prisoner at the gaol, and he. „ ill not be executed until the opinion of the Judges is taken on the point iesetved bj Mr. Justice Lrrrceoa c; which was as to the leg ality of admitting in evideccp• the prisoner's confession. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, Aran. 7. . Before Mr. Justice BAYLiT and a Sp.cial Jury. . DODSWORTH AND OTHERS V. INGHAM. . . Sir JAMES SCA R LETT (who was spectaily retained on Te part of th e . p l a i n tiff) stated the cite to the Jury. he question which the Jury would have to dutet mine was, whether there existed a custom within the ,seke or manor of Wakefield, which bound all persons tesident within that manor to have their corn giound at the anke-nail? The l ight chinned by the plaintiff was of 'sly . ancient.ungur, aritidepeoded on the s.:nir law As regu• dated the right to sailer uesciiptions of prope.ty. It bad been eiected.ky the Lord of the Minor, svi.o in granting lUtids had Aipul.H.Ed Liar the tenant .a. uld do suit and sr rvice to the mill as- part of the co.tdition or the grant—ju , t as *bievier of the present day was in the tr.ibit,of inorting a clause iii the lease t a public.. !ruse, by which ho b..iind the. teiaint to pur chase beer astly ,tron . bui -14ndlottes brewery. 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