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ASSIZES. CIIELMSFORD, JULY VS. SEIIHIGTION.--GROVE V. HARDM Mr. Cui'rry opened the pleadings, and stated, that this was an action 'against the defendant for seducing the plaintiff's daughter, per quod servitium antisit. The defendant pleaded the general issue—Not Guilty. Mr. Goaszv stated the case with much pathos and eloquence, the leading circumstances of which were as follow :—The plaintiff was a respectable farmer, now in decayed circumstances, residing at Watley, in this county, and the defendant had been a Captain in the 10th Foot, and had served in the late glorious cam paigns on the Continent. The detendant was a mid dle-aged man of 40, and some years since had mar ried a Lady of considerable fortune, with whom, it seemed, he had lived for a short time, not in the most perfect state of connubial felicity, for after a cohabitation of short duration, articles of separation were agreed upon, the Lady being provided with a handsome separate maintenance, and the Gentlema being left in possession of an elegant establishment of house and domestics, the result of his fortunate alliance. The plaintiff was the father of two daugh ters, but his means were so limited that he declined almost all intercourse with his more wealthy neigh bours, although he had given his children a liberal education, and so much were his circumstances re duced, that his children had become his domestic servants. It appeared that the plaintiff, at the time of the unfortunate affair in question, was unknown to the defendant, and consequently neither had seen the other at their houses respectively. The unfortu nate acquaintance which led to the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter commenced by the casual civili ties arising from the Lady and the defendant fre quenting the same Church. In the result an inti macy was formed which ended in the seduction of Miss Grove, and the birth of a child, as the fruit of connection. It was pressed as a circumstance of ag gravation on the part of the defendant, that the se duction was effected at a time when the plaintiff's daughter was labouring under a state of mental de rangement. In the statement of the ca - ,e, it was ad mitted that before the acquaintanceship of the defen dant with Miss Grose, the latter had the misfortune to experience an intercourse with another person, who had accomplished his object by violence. Criminal proceedings had been adopted towards that person, but the cause of injury having been compromised by a suitable compensation, those proceedings were dropped. This circumsta:'ce was conceded, as a mat ter of which the defendant might make the most in mitigation of damages, but the feature of the case which pressed most strongly against the latter, was his having taken advantage of Miss Grove at a time when she was labouring under mental derangement. Miss Grove, who appeared to be about thirty, stated all the circumstances of the defendant's court ship, and her final ruin, which produced the birth of a child, now living. On her cross-examination by Mr. MARRYAT, she admitted that her first intercourse with the defendant was effected under very peculiar circumstances, too in delicate to mention. She stated that on one occasion she received a pound note from the defendant in church, and on another, that she received two bottles of Cape Madeira in the same place, which she after wards drank in her own chamber. Mr. MARRYAT addressed the Jury, for the defen dant, contending, under the circumstances of the case, that there could be no difficulty in seducing a Lady who had gone through the ordeal of a previ ous violation, which had never been punished with the severity of the law. The Jury, under the Learned Judge's direction, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £250. KING V. OLDAKRE. This was an action against the defendant for falsely imprisoning the plaintiff. Mr. GURNEY and Mr. CHITTY conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. MARRYAT and Mr. COMYN the defendant's. The circumstances of the case were these :—The plaintiff resides at Barkingside, in this county, and having been robbed of several willow trees, he traced •his property to a chip-hat-manufactory in White chapel, from which he received an account exactly eortesponding with the plaintiff as the person who had sold them to him. He caused the prisoner to be apprehended for the robbery, and he was detained in custody on the charge from nine o'clock one evening until six o'clock the next evening, when the trades man from Whitechapel, being produced to identify the supposed robber, he disclaimed any knowledge of the plaintiff, who was immediately liberated.— Under these circumstances the action was brought. The case went to the Jury, under the charge of the Learned Judge, who found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £lO. CROWN SIDE.--MALICIOUSLY SHOOTING. Henry Wilson was indicted under Lerd Ellenbo rough's Act, for maliciously shooting at James Gil de:, on the 10th of March last, at Depden, in this county.—The prisoner in this case was a shoemaker by taade, but suspected of poaching and making free with poultry. The prosecutor is a labouring man, working with a Mr. Leverton, and he gave the fol lowing. account of the transaction :—That he had just finished his work about six o'clock, and was standing near a tree in the hedge of the field where he had been working, when he heard the report of a gun, and heard something come whizzing past his head like the whizzing of a ball. He turned round and looked towards the place the report came from, when he saw a man just at the edge of a little cop pice wood, and he immediately ran into it. The man had a light frock and light breeches, and he thought at the time it was the prisoner, but he did not sec him sufficiently near or distinctly to be cer tain of it; lie then turned to look at the tree, and he found a small groove on the side of the • tree next him, which had the appearance of being struck by a ball. Ile told it to several pa-sons, and a few days afterwards the prisoner was apprehended. John Bowtell was next examined, as to expressions of ill-will used by the prisoner against the prosecutor. He stated that he came from the gaol, to which he was committed on a charge of stealing a rabbit. He said he had had a conversation with the prisoner about Gilder's stopping him (the witness) on passing through a close, and examining his basket. The prisoner said he wished Gilder would•stop_him. He would have his head knocked off before he would ' /. 1 I. ' MI ! • tl • 'I • r I el f< 1 it c 1 f P d i ri 1 s 11 _ c i I 11 1: b o a t 2 I I e t s c t t 1 1 i • 1 .'• , , 1 ‘,... . i I . ' , 4 i I • i :t I . I t ' . .. 1 i I i 1 t ; 1 1 k • it k ' r . i 1 . . t I: ' I i l , 1 i / , ~ ,r• . t 1 1 ...,, . 1 7 t i t ‘i. -, i y r 1 r suffer it, and that he would give it to the prosecutor before long. It WaS also stated by another witness, that on the day Gilder was shot at, the prisoner had said that he would give him some pepper and salt before night. The Rev. Mr. Gee examined the place a few days afterwards. The prosecutor shewed him the spot where he was standing, and the place where there were marks of a manhaving been on his knees from whence the shot was fired. Three witnesses for the prisoner proved that he was at home at his lodging from five to seven on the evening of the transaction. • The Jury found the prisoner—Not Guilty. MOUWAY ROBBERY. Thomas Smith, a young man of 20, was indicted for a highway robbery on the 6th July, at the parish of Barktng, and robbing William Haydon of IBs. The facts, as stated by Mr. Haydon and others, were, that on the evening of Fairlop Fair, Hayden, a Mr. Cowell, and a Mr. Jones, with three young ladies, the daughters of one of them, were returning ' from Fairlop fair. A gang of ten or twelve persons appeared to be following them, among whom the prisoner was one; and as Mr. Jones was behind the others of his party, and near the gang, he overheard them say they would rob his friends. He immedi ately joined them, and gave the information, - when they determined not to go on further from the fair, as they would be more out of the way of assistance. The prisoner and his gang then came up, and three or four collared Haydon and demanded his money : they threw him down, and got the silver out of his pockets ; but this was not done without resistance, for the prosecutor and tiis friends fought stoutly.— The women screamed—the prisoner was knocked down, and upon assistance approaching all the party escaped, except the prisoner—he got up and ran . away, but was closely pursued; he took to a booth . near the fair, which he entered, and was immediately apprehended. His person was positively identified. The Jury found him—Guilty. • SALISRUItY, JULY 54. ELECTION RIOTS. THE KINO, ON THE PROSECUTION OP THE CORPORA , TION OF SALISBURY V. THOMAS MACKLIN, HENRI' COLLINS, JAMES MUSSELWHITE, CHARLES DREW, AND JOHN HERBERT TEWKESBURY. This was an indictment traversed from the Sessions for a breach of the peace, and riotous conduct on the first day of the election for Wiltshire, in which Mr. John P. Tinney, the principal agent for Mr. Bennett, the unsuccessful candidate, received a violent blow on the head from a bludgeon, and had the win dows of his house beaten in. Mr. Serjeant PELL stated the case for the prosecng tion. He said, that although on such occasions al lowance ought to be made for the effervescence of public feelings, yet this was a case attended by so many aggravated circumstances, that it would have been improper to have passed it over. Mr. Tinney, no one could doubt, was an able and zealous sup orter of Mr. Bennett, but he had not passed the boundary of discretion. The evidence which he should have to lay before the Jury would shew them that on the evening of the 24th of June, about twelve or fifteen persons followed two of Mr.Tinney's cleiks from the White Hart, where Mr. Bennett's Committee I sat, to Mr. Tinney's house, and were insulting them. The crowd gradually increased to nearly 200, who were extremely clamorous in crying—" Wellesleyfor ever! Tro'Bennet!!" Mr. Tinney came out and re quested the mob to disperse; and on the refusal, he attempted to seize Macklin, who appeared to be a ringleader, but was struck on the head by a person from behind with a bludgeon, and taken into the hoase senseless. The fact of the riot becoming known, several special Constables were dispatched, but did not arrive in time to prevent the demolition of the windows of Mt. Tinney's house. The Constables again urged the mob to disperse, and on a further 'refusal, they took several into custody, among whom were the present defendants. The blow which Mr. Tinney received was of so serious a nature that it might have proved fatal, and all the defendants might have been legally considered as guilty of mur der. However, he only desired the Jury to convict of the riot and assault, which they could not fail to do. Mr. Justice PARK—" Brother Fell, there can be no doubt they would be guilty of murder." Mr. Serjeant PELL hoped that this would be well understood in future by such as were disposed to em bark in transactions of this disgraceful kind ; that they would reflect that zeal had its limits ; and that private wishes must be expressed and acted upon under the restraint of the law. He was quite certain that none of the prisoners had acted under the sane , tion of any of Mr. Bennett's competitors, and he was also certain that none of the defendants were quali fied to vote, consequdntly they must have gone upon the impulse of their own evil dispositions. Whatever might be the individual opinions of persons, neither those who were Candidates for a scat in Parliament, nor their agents, ought to have their lives put in danger. The Corporation, who now prosecuted, sought only for the preservation of public tranquil lity, and it was anxiety for that alone, which induced them to seek punishment in the present instance. Mr. P. M. Chitty, and Mr. J. Peru Tinney, spoke to the facts of the risk in the same terms stated by Mr. Serjeant Pell, as did also two special Constables, and Mr. James Sutton, a Member of the Corporation. Mr. GRANT addressed the Court and Jury on the part of Charles Drew, and contended that upon the evidence his client must be acquitted. Mr. MEREwETHER strongly urged that his clients must be acquitted, inasmuch as Mr. Tinney's own conduct in attempting to seize a person in the way he did, prcvoked the riot. Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence, and expressed his opinion, that if the Jury believed the witnesses, they must find the defendants guilty. The Jury, after consulting some time, found the defendants Guilty of the riot, but not of the assault. Mr. Justice PARK observed, that if the Jury found the defendants Guilty of partaking in the riot, they must also find them guilty of the assault. The Jury again consulted, and inquired if they could find a verdict of guilty against Macklin, woo was taken with a bludgeon in his hand, and acquit the other defendants. On being answered by the Learned Judge in the affirmative, they returned a verdict of Guilty against Macklin, and acquitted the others. Macklin was then sentenced to One Month's Imprisonment. POLICE. Bow-erataT.--Yesterday, several personi were brought to the office from the Regent's Canal, charg ed with duck-hunting, in setting dogs at ducks, for which they paid ..6d. a piece ; and also with ether disorderly conduct. They were ordered to find bail. The commitment of the poor man, Patrick Quinan, under that peremptory Act of Parliament for regu lating Hawkers and Pedlars, has excited the com passion of some humane Gentlemen, who have agreed to pay the penalty of i:10, the Magistrate having no power to mitigate it. HATTON-GARDEN.—Francis Emerson and Joseph Priestley, two lads, were brought up in the custody of Baker, a constable, who attends at the Chancery Court, Lincoln's Inn, charged on suspicion cf break ing into the chambers of John Brooks, Esq. Lincola's Inn, forcing open his desk, and robbing the same of a quantity of silver coin, and various other articles. They were committed for further examinaticn. MARLBOROUGH-sratt7.—./ohn Warner was re examined on the charge of having forged and uttered a Bill of Exchange for IDS. 13s. drawn by Smart, and accepted by Smith, with intent to defraud Mr. Moore, cutler, in Orford-street. The case was this day entered into, and it appeared that the Priso ner paid the Bill for a trifling sum, as a security till Saturday last ; but he not appearing on that day, the prosecutor, on inquiry, discovered that the drawer and the acceptor were men of straw, and could not be found.—The Magistrate, dismissing the know ledge of forgery, committed the prisoner for fraud, be having neglected to pay for the goods on Satur day, for which the Bill was left as a security, and without which the prosecutor swore that he would not have parted with the goods. UNION HALL. —Yesterday Townsend, a constable of Lambeth, was charged with assaulting the soldiers on duty at Astley's Amphitheatre. On Wednesday' night, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were at' Astley's Theatre, and a military guard of honour was stationed there. Orders had been given by the Ma.' .nagers, that no person should be suffered to intrude into the lobby, or near the entrance, that the Royal couple might have free ingress and egress. The pri soner, Townsend, was found in the lobby, by Oddy, an officer of Bow-street, and ordered to leave the place ; he peremptorily refused, and Oddy was com pelled to force him towards the door ; he resisted, and made his way back, and Oddy was obliged to call in the military to turn him out, when eprivate soldier took him by the arm ; he seized him by the stock which was round his neck, and pressed his knuckles against his throat, so violently, that he was compelled to drop his arms ; the Serjeant of the guard and several police officers came up, and took Townsend into custody. He was ordered to find bail, to answer the complaint at the Sessions. The Adjutant stated that it was his determination to pro secute Townsend for the assault. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SIR—As your report of the proceedings at Bow street, on Thursday last, was inaccurate, 1 trust you will allow me to explain that I was not taken there in custody of any officer whatever, but appeared there voluntarily to answer to a charge of doing that which I considered perfectly legal ; and that such was the impression on my mind, it only need be stated that I had previously taken an opinion as to its legality—that it was not done clandestinely, but most openly, it having been advertised in 130 diffe rent Newspapers. It appears, however, now, that the Secretary of the Lottery Office entertains a diffe rent opinion, and has judged it expedient that a de cision should settle the point of its legality ; accor dingly I assented to a verdict, having no wish to continue a practice which he considers not allowable by the present act ; but the nian itself was framed with a view to the benefit cdthe public, and I have letters from various parts of the kingdom speaking of it in the highest terms of approbation.—l am, Sir, your humble Servant, RIDDING. No. 1, Conala, and 2%, Holborn. Rousenve—Thursday evening as Mrs. Tower, of Bethnal-green, accompanied by a female, was going by the end of a court, near the turnpike, in Shoreditch, a fellow rushed upon them, and snatched from her a bundle containing two new spencers and other ar ticles. She seized him, when a man, who said he was a constable, came up, and pretended to take him into custody, and also took the bundle from her.— She thought all was right till next morning ; when she could not find either of them. Sunnily SESSIONS..— Yesterday, Michael Brignell was indicted for having, on the 10 th of May -last, stolen from the house of Mr. Frederick Crabb, of St. George's, Surrey, one mahogany table, and six ma hogany chairs, value $)1. 10s. his property. The prisoner went to the house of the prosecutor, and stating that he was in want of some furniture, selected the articles named in the indictment. He appeared particularly chaste in the selection, observ ing, that although he did not wish to have splendid or costly goods, he was exceedingly anxious they should be neat. Ile then desired that the goods he selected might be taken to a house in Great Suffolk street, and that change might at the same time he sent for a 101. note. His orders were obeyed, and two porters instantly dispatched with the table and chairs. Having arrived at the house, they found the prisoner ready to rezeive. them, in rather an obscure room, where tl.ey deposited the goods.— Having done this, tiley demanded payment, and pro duced the change for a £lO note. The prisoner af fected surprise, and said it was change for a 5:10 oote, and not for a £lO note, which he rewired ; ad ding, that his note was one of the Cambridge Bank. This conduct produced surprise, and the servants of the prosecutor having hastened to give information, steps were taken to circumvent the manifest object af the prisoner. The parties, however, upon return ing to the 'house, found that he had escaped by the back way, havhig previously locked the r ent in which the furniture was placed. A search warrant was immediately obtained, the door forced, and the property regained. A point of law VritS raised by the prisoner's Coun sel, as to the nature and extent of the crime imputed to him, namely, " constructive felony r but it was overruled by the Court. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to seven yeas s transportation. THE mAnICETS. NRIVCRTRAtto LEIIDENIIALL MARKET', (By the Carcase.) Beef Zs 4d to 4s 4d I Veal 4l Od to Mutton Od to Is ed I Pork rs od Lamb 4s. 4d. to es. Od PRICES or HAY Aro STItAW YIiSTERD,LT-- er. 'Agee. wurre.:Lost... 1iay...51 10s Ed to El ?Cs, NI 1 / a y...61 10s od to 21: Slraw 21 os al to 21 les old Straw SO ICs od to z 1 Clover7l Os 04 to 8t lili Od Clover 71 Cs 44 to El NEW SAGS. 1 Kent 1.51 Nto 181 00.1 Kent ... Sussex --LSI Os to 171 Cs Susax ... Essen OOl Os to COs N E ► ez .... Foreign ti os to 01 Os rarni_ain %Tv! lIVXIrII. t. 151 too L ,r4l Cntco6i )1 14 to RAW HIDES. Best Heifers and Steers (per OrEry ...es Cd t. 2 : steel) ...... 2; 6d to Ys lOd idln Market Calf Ils Od to 01 Middlings ...Ys 4d to 21 ed Eng. Home Ps Od to IV Sheepskins--Polled, Os Od :o Cs Od—Downs, Os 0(1 to r bhearlings, is 2sl to Cs CZ—Lunt% :".s al Lo .:..s Li PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP, awn CAYDI.7.S. St. James's Market 4s 641 1 Town Taney ...„,...... Qare Market. Os Od Yells", Russ.: .........._ Whited:ape! Market 4s Sd I Wbite ditto .. . (per stone of Stb) 1 Soap ditto.. ............ .. Yellow Soap, lots—NlA:led, 116s—Curd, lioa—Pael Candles, per doz. ISs 6d—Moolds, IS: Od. COAL MAIIKET, JULY 24. Ships at Market. Ships Soli. 60 Newcastle 21 Sunderland I Welsh Coal I Cinders I Colin 35 13 0 0 1 Mt 33s 64 to Si* Od to - Cd - Gd to Gd to COUNTRY lIARICETS, Uzaamot, July 23.—Wheat, per load £l7 15t to LY fkuiey, per quarter, 43s to 5 , 6t---43ats eti u SOSi 6011 to 80a—Peas, to to SOL SAVOURY, July 63.—Wheat es. o . to 101 to lOS Od—Vetches, Os Od per lausbeL—Barley, 4QI to --Oats, 5111 Od to 480 Od per quarter—Bread, eat'''. I peck—Flour, Ofts to 001 per sack. ORFORD, July 26.—The price of a Bushel of Nrceat ' —Tho Italf-peck Loaf, Who:Lien, Os Od.—lloasauld, Nca'atrar Battu, July s 3. —, Vheat, 54. to atio—, 46s to 66o —Outs, 7.50 to 455--Beaus, 541 to to 605.--Beead, is tiid to is 11{d. per Gal/02. Many of the farmers in the neighbour'; Cashiobury Park, and about Watford, sr occupied yesterday in carrying 'wheat. • • The wheat harvest has commenced tlso; Somerseuhire with every prospect of abut:dam The harvest has pretty generally been berm neighbourhood.of Ipswich: we believe th‘ e . ci stance of Wheat having been cut so early as tl July, has not occurred during the last 20 year Mau:tare. July 23.—Our harvest has commenced. deal of oats, peas, and rye is already hosed. The w other grains never promised a nacre prol:fic crop thua t and it is confirmed by the oldest people :Lax such a plea vest has not been known for many years. The hams gan snerally throughout the county of Kent. Saturday, as a poor woman named Kni , s , gathering cherries in an orchard at Woodchur: Canterbary, the branch on which the ladda suddenly gave way, and precipitated her ground. Two of her ribs were broken, and othervri.e so much injured that she almost is I expired. About eleven o'clock, on 'Thursday night, entered the house of Mr. Anseil, a gardener nington, and pFesenting a pistol at the head Ar.sell, he commanded her to be quiet, and the house of what he pleased, with which the made off. A dreadful whirlwind was experienced in burbs of Chester, on Sunday last. It arcs noon, at a point due east from the town, an, circular direction towards the north point. ted so powerfully on that part of the river De is situated in the vicinity of Boughton, as t the water to rise nearly a foot. In its pro f carried off great part of the roof of t found . several hedges, in the same township, tore large fruit trees in the garden of Mr. Spark! same place, and five. poplars of considerable opposite male Lead-works. The devastati in the gardens of several individuals in . brook and the neighbourhood, was very gre: violent gust was followed by a severe wand: accompanied by a heavy fall of rain. DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS! This adage cable to those who have lived - rather gay, t the eve of Matrimony, and who are doubtft consequences of au ill cured contagion; ant afford consolation to the afflicted to know' have the best advice at the Medical Board lotto lions! Great Charlotte-street, opposite the Rev Hill's Cha p el , BUckfriars-Itoad, and at Woadar Woodstock-sent, five doors from Oxford-strte:. particularly claims the attention of thote ieeid Strictures, Fistulas, Cancers, ScropLuias, Nervous arising from warm climates ' juvenile in , li:creticin , dons on the head, face , and body, ulcerated threat. bead and tiniti, frequently mistaken for rleutn_ti:7 , the Olin-bent., are synytotot which appear years consci i tienc . . , " of Improper treatment. Messrs. C:e of reedi:nl and surgical celebrity, after forty ran t this Meuupoils. are Los:milked (Lily at both houses • night, ar.d th, purr have advice (Lr. - >tis) oa Tt.eacta• an d Sendzy taa rnings, until twelve o'elock.—Ali e.irected to Charlotte blouse, 131.cl:friars road ; which do not eantuirt a eassultins l'Ady of Mail BIRTH. Vaunt, 54th Reffnert, cf MARRIED. At Bannber, Francis Enraght, Esc. to rracr, James Mould, Esq. late of the Medical Stzlf. 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