Star. — London, England, 1826-03-17 00:00:00

- TO SPRING. rto brie: aex tv4' t': j M hope of man, enchanting Spring! Thy throne is mode of budding fluwess-- Thy voice is with the birds that sing Among the leaves of thy green bowers! Thy. breath is of that sweet perfume • • Which comes where violets make their bed— Thy chlek is of the mellow bloom That's sprinkled on the daisy's bead! Thine eye is like the sky's deep blue— . . Thy robe is of the grassy mound— :Thy ems are of the morning dew— Thy footstep makes a fairy ground! THE GREEKS. PROM Till ETOILE nP TUISDAy, MARCH 14. CONSTANTINOPLE, F ss. 10. A report has been spread here for these three weeks, that the Greeks had retaken Ttipolizza, but this news seems to be entirely destitute of foundation. Things are still in the same state-at Missolonghi, except that the <Tel ations of the siege on the land side have been inter rupted by the heavy rains. CORFU, Fn. G. It is affirmed that there h is been a naval action in the Gulf of Patras, and the news is confirmed of the destruc tion not only of a Turkish frigate, but of a 'Turkish - corve , te, which was burnt. The accounts add, that a brig and several fire-ships were taken by boarding, and that the garrison of Missolonghi has made a fresh sally, which is stated to have been very fatal to the army of Ibrahim Paella. We learn also, that the two persons who lately arrived from Constantinople at the camp of the geraskier, and whose arrival made the latter uneasy, were plenipotentiaries commissiened to negotiate with the iambi' ants af Missolonghi, who refused to listen to their. Fifa. 7.—Notwithistanding the advantage which the . Greek fleet has gained over the Tusks, it seems that the . action was not general, and that the Greeks did not succeed in wholly blockading . Missolonghi, which is very closely invested by four well armed frigates, which suffer nothing to enter or quit that place. It even seems that the garrison has not been supplied with provisions, as was said, by the Greek fleet; but that, on the con trey, it is in the greatest distress for subsistence, which places it i4er the necessity of making a desperate ef fort, the fatal consequences or which are apprehended. The fact is, that the most distingni-hed persons of the nubility of Ibis country have set on foot a subscription, to of the most prompt assistance to the inhabitants of that town. Four bo4ts, laden with biscuit, are gone thither; two vessels, with similar Cargoes, are waiting at•Cephalonia for a favourable moment to sail. It is Armed that Canaria is commissioned to protect them on their passage by every measure in his power. A steam-boat, which is expected on the 10th, is to depart tor Among, to bring hither a 'person of importance. PA alit, MARCH 13 —The 'Norio di Roma announces, after st.let!er .confirtning- the news of the advantages ob a'ricd by the. Greeks before Missolongbi, that the G vein's:mirk at Napoli di Romania had declared to • M. Stratford Canning, that no proposal for an accom mpdaticin will be accepted from the Porte, unless it has for Lasib the independence of Greece. • Fifteen vessels laden with bones artived at Hull on Saturday and Sunday last from Holland. Fifty thousand pounds worth of gold and silver, are said to be annually employed at Birmingham in gilding and plating, and of course for ever lost as bullion. Mary Stviter was convicted at the late Worcester Assizes for stealing cotton. She offered the commit ting Magistrate five shillings to forgive her. Ilarris, sentenced at the late Worcester Assizes to tranvortation, for stealing lead, had nearly spared both Judge and Jury the trouble of " delivering" the gaol of him, having d; livered himself on Tuesday morn ing, .by . escaping trom the front of the caravan in uhich the pi isoners are conveyed to the Town-hall, at the ai.aleuc his companions were being let out at the back; and, mixing with the crowd, he got off. How ever, he was re-:aptuked early next morning in a wood Kerr I.lfoni.gl . .ove. The average importations of tea by the East India Company for five years prior to 1821, amounted to 26 416,21911 s ;* the prime cost to 1,717,116. The tea c niumed in Europe and America is estimated at 32,000,0001b5. The Police at Madrid have seized a new Proclarna. don, signed by %tam, which distinctly states that the Inal.ahninistration. of the affairs of the country by Ih Alma, renders his abdication in favour of the Infant. Don CARLOS, necessary. old recommends a visit to Rome for the betsefit of his health. CALEDONIAN CANAL.—A Parliamentary paper has been just published respecting the Caledonian Canal. It is a list of ti.e claims for compensation in conse quence of damages sustained by the cutting of the Canal. We extract two; the first, because such fair and honow able cenduct ought never to pass unnoticed; it is 1114 of JOHN HAULM" Esq. M.P. Mr. Baillie's estimated damage is 851. per annum; he adds, " The compensation for which, at twenty years purchase. amounts to 1,7001. but at this property was acquired by the claimant fora price amounting only to 15 years' put chase of the annual rent, he cannot cosisci:ntiously claim a higher rate of compensation, and accordingly limits his demand to the sum of 1,27'5/." The other is a claim of Glengarry, for a Highland lake, named Loch Oich.. We give his own description of it " The Lod corers a surface of. four miles in length, and varies fiom a quarter, to the sixteenth part of a mile." For this, Glengarry requires only 20.00 N. We mi,take: Ile has already a suit before the Court of Session, for compensation for all that part of the I o: h, which has been hitherto occupied for the Canal, and we conclude, in a like only about three hundred yards broad, t , :l an average, no small proportion of it has heti% so We shall therefore, we conceive, make a petty ample allowance, when 4e calculate the surface h.t. which Covetnment is to pay twrn! y thousand r , unds, at four hundred English acres, which, rating Cie rreposed purchase at twenty years; gives only the I.:( , erate rent of 11. ss. per acre. - NN c have often I eaicl Lye Highlands celebrated for the number of its .key, and we have sometimes heard of the cle.riess of ea- waters, but we never before had a notion that t;ey were so valuable to ae proprietor. • Weduexday evening, a gent'eman, while traveling on the outside of one of the stages from London to Dept ford. lo.t Ins I::tl.ifite, anu tell to the ground. His k'atl yeas great') moused, it , ,d bled coi.aiderably. Fittscti lit TICS .LOYALTY llcit Li NI 112 VAUX. frr lett 'perch in 4 bainlier Deptiii.:s, iiti‘rrve4- 6 . King _Ju44k at id ••,:b 1. grow weary in ti.or pi ke loterritptett by loud cf—" 04 der, etc► : C rye .I'44Asier.." Catherine vein two her by prisod melting _ moulding _ ceiving the officer forcing his way into the vrindo*, she threw all the utensils into the fire, from which they were quickly extracted by the activity or the party, and produced in evidence against her. She has been sus pected for some years, and until this event has evaded the utmost vigilance. The jury, without hesitation,, found her Guilty, and the Judge, Mr. Baron GRAHAM, passed senteobe of death on her. EXETER, MAicti 15. . William Maunder, a boy only nine years br was capitally indicted for setting fire to a rick of hay, the property of Matthias Trood, yeoman, of the of BroadcliA, on the 30th day of August hone she odca•' December, 18124; I with Ge:4- of . the parish , in his wisdom and take possession of her house on the 14th 1825, and to remove her household furniture and her children to the poorhouse. At the time that this extrao, dinary proceeding took place, Mrs. 'Mather was from home. Jackson had, no doubt, adop•ed this .course for the purpose, or ra ther the pretended impose, of preventing Mrs.• Mather from gaining a settlement in the parish of A,hton.— la right of her husband, the plaintiff belonged to the adjoining parish of Duckenfield, to which place Mr. Jackson was anxious to remove her before she had occupied the house at S:ayley Bridge twelve months— a period of time thdd would have made her liable to Ashton under Lyne. Jackson was not at that time certain that she was pregnant; bUt pregnant or not, he was determined to cast .her and her children, willing or '.not tiling, into a poor boost: ! The plaintiff wanted no relief from the parish of Ashton, or any other parish, „aiid was not likely to want any, but Mr. J. was resolved to force relief upon her—that is, he was dereruked to make her a pauper, lest by any possibility, at any future period, she should b:come one. He cast her nativity,' and found she WA$ boin under an unlucky star! When the plaintiff went from home on the 1./th of December, she left the care of the post.office to her eldest daughter. On the evening of this day, the defendants, Jackson the overseer, and Newton ind Standring, two con stab'es, entered the plaintiff's house and sat down.— These were no candies in the house, and one of the chil dren ;vas. desirous of fetching some. Tbis, however, she was not soff:red to do, lest, as the defendants ob- served, she should, like her mother, run away. One of the defendants then went out, anu fetched two bottles of :urn and a pack of cards. Newton and Standrink, then began to play at cards and drink rum ; and Jaikson, who appeared to be the man of mind, went up to the news-rooru and got a newsp tper to - read. They re• mauled in the house all night, drinkin4 and bawling and frightening the poor children. lbe eldest girl, while these precious officers were in the midst of tbeirl carousals, managed to make her escape. She went to the house of Mr. Wagstaffe, and requested him to go ' with her home. This Gentleman, in company with a Mr. Hutton, a highly respectable medical man, ac cordingly went to the house; and remonstrated with the defendants ; who drank rum and laughed at them.—The defendants remained in the house all night, and the next morning sent a person to take an inventory of the household furniture. Newton and Standring then began to pull down the furni ture, in order that it , might be removed. After many cries and solicitations on the part of the poor girls, they suffered them to retain their bed-clothes, and other wearing apparel, which they were in the act of packing up. Newton their inquired for the carts to carry away the goods. He was told that the carts were at the door ; but the carters, fearing that they should be mobbed by the populace, bad run away. In the after noon, however, they got carters from Ashton. The men stripped the house of its furniture, not leaving a bed for the children to sleep upon. The goods were carried to the poor-house at Ashton. Jackson then got a chaise to remove the children. The poor little creatures, as might easily be supposed, were greatly distressed ; but neither their tears, nor the remonstrances of the neighbours, who frequently offered to take them into their houses, had any effect upon Jackson; he was sleteimined that they should go to the poorhouse ; 66 ror," said he, "if I let them remain here all night, that will make up the time, and they will become parishioners." Accordingly, after a good deal of resistance on the part of the two eldest girls, he and his assistants forced the children, in spite of their tears and supplications, into the chaise. The next morning, however, thinking he had prevented Mrs. Mather from . gaining a settle ment, he took theirs back to the stript and desolate house of their mother. Oo the 23d of Deceniber,Nrs. Mather came home, and found two paupers from the poor-house in possession of the dwelling ; by means of these paupers, the defendants kept possession of the house for the space of a month ; for 17 nights Mrs. Mather was never in bed; indeed she had no bed to sleep upon. On the 14th of January, they sent back the goods, and shortly after Jackson called upon her, and advised her not to throw away her money by going to law. During part of the time they were in pciAes ion of the house, Jackson took upon himself the office of Postmaster, And endeavoured to prevail upon Mr. Whiteleck, the Postmaster of Manchester, to remove Mrs. Mather from her situation ; this Gentleman, how ever, much to his credit, refused to comply with this iequest, and Mrs. Mather still retains her situation.— The Learned Gentleman, after stating the above facts, made a most eloquent appeal to the Jury, and implored them, as Englishmen and lovers cf liberty, and haters of oppression, to give such damages as sllould not only compensate the planintiff for the injury she had sus tained, but also teach men, dressed in a • little brief authority, that if they stept beyond .hat authority, they could not do it with impunity. Several witnisses were then called, who fully established the sae. The plaintiff's daughter, an interestin; girl of about thirteen years nt. age, underwent a severe cross-examination by Mr. Bannon/at. as to the state of her soother, which frequently brolight tears into the child's eyes, but did not elicit any fact favourable to the defence. Mr. Dammam, on behalf of the defendants, made an admirable address to the Jury, who found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages X3OO, being .elOO more than were laid in the declaration. • , - • LENT ASSIZBIL • . bility. ' upon the house she Wen- .pied at'Phylly Dritirun the 17th of December, 1024; • KutiosTobb Ma= ifter ibis, stir beeame *acquainted with •II Nam was capitally indicted foi_coiigns, tlema9 Qt pEoptity ifl the neighbourhood; of the name two counts; The Charge was bimeght hinne to'nf Witsfatre; by thitGentleman she unfortunately be- y Grossworth, the officer of Unistuffiall, whb sin- came.pfesnant ; this fact coming to the knowledge of her it her house in Lock's-field*, With all her the defenJeit Jackson, who was overseer of the parish ig and moulding apparatus in foil work. On per.' of - Ashton tinJettyne, be thought proper, in his wisdom g the officer forcing his way into the window, she and discretion, to take possession of her house on the all 0)e utensils into the fire, from which they 14th of Decernber, 1825, xrrd to remove her household MUNTER V. WEVDIIAM. This was an action to recover a compensation in damages for the loss of services *obtained by the plaintiff in consevence of the seduction of his servant, by the defendant. Mr. UROUGHAU appeared fur the plaintiff. • Mr. Seximare for the defendant. • The facts were shortly these; the plaintiff is a trades man residing at Burton, and keeping the post-otlice there. Three or four years ago he married the daugh ter of a respectable farmer; and shortly after her sister, Hannah Dunn. came to - re side with them. At that time, she was about fourteen >eats of age. The defendant, an exciseman, lodged in the plaintiff's house; and about ten or elt ven months ago she was discovered tirfal.- preg nant by him. As might be styposed, he was obliged immediately to quit thchouse, and the girl followed him to a place called Silver-dale; alter an absence of a short time, she returned with Lim to Burton,. and was there delivered of a child on the I I th of January la , t. Mr. SCALILETr, for the defendant, contended that this was the most extraordinary case of the kind that had ever appeared in Court. It was not an action brought by the father or mother of the girl, or with the consent of any of her religious, but was a suit cops hsenced by ha brother-in-rawinot to heneSt her, int to sit whatever damages it might produce into his.own pocket. When the lather sued, th • faun of action de manded a proof of service, and the loss sustained by the seduction., Here there was no such thing: there was no evidence to maintain that there had ever been any servitude or breach of contract. The 'plaintiff had not paid the expenses of the girl's lying-in, and there was nothing to chew that , he might not have left his turnkey or alleged service, at any time prevtous to the Nur, complained of. Verdict for the plaintiff—Danuget, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-ST MEET. Peter Nadett and William Leech, the two men ehurgod with at highway robbery upon Mr. John Moulton, a farmer at Pr; .1) Birnet, as described in our paper of Tuesday last, were broi.gbi, before Sir R. Biome, for final examination. - At the first examination the prisontrs protested their .total cence of the robbery, and declared that the prosectowe, whom they confessed having seen at the Orange Tree public house, was ,very drunk. The ch.srge was of so serious a complexion, that lie Chief Magistrate felt it to be his duty to have the strictest inqoity tuted into all the circumstances; and with that view he on Moo.i;:y directed Ledbitter, an active constable of the Ettablishmeot, to re down to Colney Hatch and the neighbourhood, and to lose impair* in ascertaining a/i that was necessary to the investigation. The• prisoners stated that they slept together at Leach's nvither's on the night of the robbery; this Ledbitter ascertained to be false, au he also procured the following evidence in corroboratiOg of:the testi. many of the prosecutor. Lorton Ely, a carpenter, living at Colney Hatch, stated that on Saturday night last, about a quarter before twelve o'clock, the.pro. secutor knocked loudly at his door, and called oat a for Goo's sake * let me in. I have been rubbed and nearly murdered by two foot.' pads." The witness let him in, and saw that be was bleedirg . dreadfully, and in a, very taint state. lie erotic.' and dressed hi 4 wounds as well as he could, and assisted him home. The woken tor appeared to the witness to be perfectly sober. John Jewett, ostler at the Orange Tree, deposed that be sari the prosecutor at that house on. Saturday night last. The two prisoters came in between nine and ten o'clock, and had a pint of porter. Mr. Moulton had some beef for supper, and drank some pofter, but at a very moderate rate. Witness went to bed at a little Otte ten o'clock, and Mr. Moulton was then perfectly sober. The prisoners merely repeated that they were innocent. Leath seemed agitated and tomewhat desponding. Nadas, on the isms trary, seemed perfectly at his ease, and evinced a good deal of levity. The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial. Na den's father, a decent old man, was present, and it was impossible to observe his extreme grief a nd anxiety without foam's of cow. miseration. ATTON-GA R Yesterday a curious ease came 'under the cognizance of the pa. gistrete. It was a complaint made.by an old deerepid man, verging on 70 years of age, named John Harden, and Mary Elizabeth, his daughter, against Willions Turk, husband of the latter complaloaut, for assault and battery. It appears that the defendant has lived for some time past in the house of the old man. The daughter about thirteen months since lost her husband, since which event she has lived with her father. She bad fallen in with a swain named Trimmer, a few weeks ago, and at length he, by his . vows, Made a conquest of " the young widow." The day was fixed for their " nuptials." frocierstr, sues was the " widow's whim," that she transferred her &freedom' fiom her affianced husband to a more sprightly Adistils,_which she dis covered in the person of the present defendant, Turk, wholm,.. ploted her, for the sake or her aged father, as well as the interest of her child (she had a child by her first husband), to become Mrs. Turk, and that he would do for her child. By his fair pro mises to do for her and her child, he induced her to countenance him as her future husband, and every thing was prepared f r the wedding, which took place on Monday last, at Spite!field's Church. After the knot had been tied, the bride and bridegroom, followed by their friends, returned home, where there was a handsome dinner provided. All were seated at the banquet, when the bridegroom began to take liberties with his bride. The latter felt disgusted, and told him there was time for all things, and she should not think of his kintlerence before all the csufspney. Turk felt hurt, and abi-uptly fear— • . ins the festive board, took up his bat, and left the room, saying, 6 , Ve il, never mind,nta'am,notbing has bee n done but vat can be undone, and so here goes." Nothing was seen of him till Wednesday, when he went to old Harden's house, and with a poker demolished four or five looking glasses, all the crockery, and several articles of the household furniture, and assaulted both the old man and his laugh. ter, who went to her father's assistance. His eaclise for hurdling the property was, that he had beep to the Minister that had man. ried them, and to the Lord Mayor, who told bim that all, that belonged to his wife before marriage, now belonged to him ; and therefore he considered be bad a right to do as be liked witis,his ' own property. The wife declared that she would never live with such a rasca4. indeed, she did not consider herself bis wife, as she had never bedded Leith biro . H. had declared he would turn her child out of doors. and she felt satisfied be would make good his promise before mar rage, teat he would do for her and her child. The old man, who was scarcely able to stand from the beating he had received, declared, that be was in bodily fear, and theretbre hoped the Magistrate would hold him to good bail. The defendant said, that be bad been told that it was the inten— tion of blow& to run away with Trimmer, the nun whom she had nude choice of first, and that be thought he had sufficient cause for what he had dune. He was Immediately held to ball for the two assaults, and to give 24 hours' notice. MA RI.BOROUGMSTREP.T. In order to prevent the dangerous overloading of stage coaches With passengers, the Legislature made a LAW directing that every stage coach should have the number of passengers it was licensed to, carry Inscribed sin the under side of the footboard, in conspicuous characters; so that any person might see whether the coachman was carrying more than his legal member. Fore breach of this very salutary l a w, Eames, the proprietor of one of the Lints• coaches, was summoned before the Magistrates at this office yester day, on an information charging him with having omitted the in scription altogether; but, instead of appearing to the summons try his own proper person, he sent his solicitor, who contended that' the law in question had bra virtually repealed by subsequent Aim; of Parliament, and that the omission of such an inscription Walll3ol longer an offence, The Magistrates were of a different oplabirs ;. but so (Wear was the wording of the different statutes bearing upon.- this subject, that at least two good hours were occupied in argument •.• before their Worships felt justifietpn pronouncing their npialottto be correct; and, having decided so fan, they were under the seas— sky of postponing their final adjudication, because the defend.ro, trusting to " the glorious uncertainty of the law," ha 4 nut thought. . it worth his while to attend. CORN AVERAGES.—IL appears, from a return pre— sented to Parliament, that the Average Price of Wheat for the six years, duling which the British ports have been closed against foreign c,.rn, is as fullowsv+lBlo, 655. 10d. per quarter ; 11121, 545. 5d.; 1822, .48i.36.t 1823, 51s. 9J.; 1824, 625. ; _ 1825; 665. 61-6Ghsing for the aggriigate average o f the siX years, 575. 31 "-, DIED. Oa the 27th of February, at Lisbon, Smog Selnartinn Jae de Varvalho, after a long illness, in the 50th year of Isis Be had NW with hellOilf various (Aces, was the Portussm hthrister. Secretary of &ate for the Department of Finance, and President of 'the Royal Treasury. Tuesday, at bis apartments to the British hlosemn. Weehlom, LLD. F. R.S. Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in diet istabiliheeiot. The 54 instant,. Mrs. Roberts, wife of Lieutenant General Roberts, d Wrexham Ledge, Burks. IL& *IA IL/A--Tilla DAII. *us. m A .. 111. DIE. 1 - )DbRE 1 0I Irmo 1 6 Waterlord 1 0 Hant.lunib 0 0 aluernary so 4 Imp, 1 II Fimallesa • 1 0 Liml Limn* 2 0 Brazil 0 0 Gontzburgli • 1 0 Americo • O 'alts • o Jamitain 0 e Ilullastd 1 0 %e... Airs 0 0 ' al OW" AtEitm LONDON-11111E1431 TO. NI MlbrOir " .. MOlMing ' . MI minutes after 8 Atternm - 1 I() rigours altet 0 ----.-- -..-L-. - ._Ar Immo, * PmegAl and Addiaheel 1.30. IrAitKet. se As hi. a Or r•es Al* 1 Acker& Mu; Tr4Plwlkat. ~'~ LANCASTER, -111Atici John Quinn, aged 48, was indicted, charged with having, at Liverpool, forged and countetfeited a certain certificate, purporting fcfbe signecny the Rev. Thomas Ridd, in order to receive certain prize-money, due to one Thomas Baker, for service on board his Majesty's • ship Dreadnought. The evidence completely proved the guilt of the pri soner, and on his apprehension a paper was found on `him With his own signature, and several attempts in the same hand-uvriting; imitating. the signature of Tlwmas Ridd—Guiley. • Daniel Malan. and Daniel Logai were indicted,, charged with having, on the Bth or March last, uttered at Denton, near Manchestzr, three forged Bank of Eng land notesfor the payment of 11. kno*ing the same to "be forged. The guilt of the - prisoners was clearly established by the usual idild of testimony.—Gitihy. • Daniel Whellari, Daniel Login, James Hare, James . Simpson, John Smith, and Thomas Martin, were then' placed at the bar, in order to receive sentence, having been seitrally convicted of uttering forged Bank of England notes. . Mr. Justice BAYLEY adverted to the prisoners having, at a period of great national distress, taken advantage to deluge the country with a forged and spurious cur rency: a stop must be put to such proceedings. There was a great difference in the degrees of the several of fences. Hare had been strongly recommended to merry, and it was probable he was an instrument in the hands of others. The case of 'Whelan and Logan, who were just convicted, l ivas confined to a single day ; but they were acting together on a concerted plan. Simpson's 'ease was not inconsiderable in arpopt, and be had.been 'littering on two different days; but be was a young Man. and that should betaken into consideration. The . 'rise of Martin and Smith, who had carrier . ' their traffic tou.considerable extent, was a very bad one indeed; it was exceedingly painful to make a selection. Smith hid beep previously convicted and punished, and an ex ample must now be made, a dreadful example, which ironld show that this practice- of uttering forged notes could not be carried on without subjecting the parties to the severest penalties of the law. The public must be protected ; and the only punishment which appeared to extend security to the publtc,. was the punishment of death. His Lordship then, in drat usual manner pro nounced the awful sentence of death.' Logan (an Irishman) earnestly supplicated for his Ufe, and to be sent to serve hie Majesty. Menlo, in intense ageny, exclaimed, " Save as 1 awe us, my Lord ! Transport us for life." Mr. Justice Barair...-Yes, but we know that transportation is thought nothing of. AU the prisoners, except Logan, raised their clasped bands, and with tears implored his Lordship to save their lives—" Anything but death ! Save us! save our lives : we are not fit to die!" Chars: Woodlaad, aged 44, and Charles Tossers, aged 22, the latter Of a singularly powerful form, were capitally indicted for the highway robbery of William Paige, at King's Stanton, on the 15th of September last. The prosecutor said, he was, on the Jay in question, at a public-house at King's Stanton, where he had a glass of ale, and where it appeared the prisoners had been in the course of the day. About one o'clock in the afternoon, be set off on horseback; and shortly afterwards, on k common, which led to a plantation, he was stopped by the two prisouers, who were dressed in smock-frocks, and who demanded his money. They were armed with bludgeons, and threatened to knock his brains out if he did not deliver. They took his watch, a sovereign, some silver, and a pocket-boo k, crastaining four Totuess Bank-notes ; but, at his request, they returned him the pocket-book. They then sent his horse on, and went into the plantation. Pursuit was raised, and they were overtaken at some distance the same evening. They had then taken off their smock. frocks, which were found in a bundle. They resisted the country people, who captured them, very stoutly; but on being secured and searched, the prosecutor's watch was found upon one of them. together with . two black crapes, evidently shaped to cover the face. The singularity of the case was, that the prisoners com mitted this robbery in the open day, without using the crapes. They made no defence; and the Jury having re weed a verdict of Guilty against both of them, they Were addressed by Mr. Justice GAULRE who (attire suitable comment on their d 'ring conduct), told them, that they owed the sparing of their lives to the fortu nate circumstance of their not having actually com mit t. d any personal violence on the prosecutor; though there appealed to be little doubt that they were fully determined on their purpose in case the., had been resisted. Whenev. r a robbery of this description was attended by personal cruelty, the law would invariably take its course; but as the prisoners hid the good for tune not to have committed any on this occasion, their lives would be spared, tl.ough they must prepare them selves to leave this country never to return.—The pri so• ess seemed to be very well satisfied with the result of their is ial. M iTSIER V. JACKSON AND OTa Mr. Sca atm stated the case to . the Jury. This was am action brought by the defendant, a widow woman, with five female children, against the defeadants, to tecov:r compensation in damages for owe of the liana unageous acts of oppression ever practised in this or any other civilised country. him Kobel was the KAtmisttess at Stayley bridge, near A.ll - under Lyre, as well as the keeper of the News. rooms in that plate; she had lost her husband about four yegna previous to the occurrence whith led t..) these proceedings. That she was a—respectable and ts airworthy woman was clear, from the situations which she held ; she had five daughtees, the eldest of whom was fifteen 'years of age,'depea,dent epos !ter for their surpolt, and up t , , the time of the transaction com plained ct, she had supposted them with great re‘pecta- fu J~ Stu Si