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4 fHE VILLAGE COQUETTE. FROM THE NLW NIONTHLY MAGAZINE. The partner of partners, the belle of the hall, And citing for none, though I smil'd upon all; I flirted a season with all that I saw, The Parson, the Merchant, the limb of the law. The 'Squire and the Captain were fish in my net, Which gain'd me the name of the Village Coquette ! Years gather'd, and robb'd me of swain after swain, Time snaps, link after link, the most obdurate chain : The Parson ador'd a rich widow at Kew, 'The Merchant ran off with the niece of a Jew ; The Lawyer eloped, being rather in- debt, And the 'Squire" stole away" from the Village Coquette ! The Captain, false pirate, for life took in tow A Wharfinger's daughter, at Stratford-le-Bow ; When, lo ! pert and priggish, all congees and shrugs, Apprnach'd to adore me, a dealer in drugs! I shudder'd—l sicken'd—l paid Nature's debt— And died, sad and single, aVillage Coquette ! away he gave him some slices of Amer and - bread for his dinner next day. Cross-examined by Mr. Gotoray.filipuld not suppose they were half an inch thick—they were as you usually cut a slice for eating—the bread was off a half-peck loaf. Re examined.hy Mr. PHILLIPS.—Was the beef you had for dinner juicy or dry ? It was dry, Sir. John Sharp, son of last witness, met William Sharp, his cousin, at his mother's, on the 21st Oc tober last—had boiled beef for dinner, and, on his going away, witness gave him some for his dinner ' next day. Charlotte Eden examined by Mr. PHILLIPS.—Wit ness lived with Mr. Vialls as cook—her father is a coachmaker and wheelwright at Twickenham—as cook, had care of the larder, and always kept it under lock and key. Mr. PHILLIPS —I need not ask you if you recollect the round of beef?—O, yes, very well ; recollects on the 22d of October master desiring her to follow him into the larder with a knife ; she unlocked the door, and her master cut a slice off the round of beef. It might be twelve o'clock, just after break fast; he wrapped it up in an old newspaper, with a slice of bread. He compared the slice of bread with the loaf. Witness saw the slice of bread and beef afterwards, next morning, in his dressing-room ; he unwrapped them, and said he had been walking in the garden, and in the gardener's tool-house he found them there. He said he was sure the gardener could not get it unless some of the servants gave it him.— This round had been dressed the day before, on the Sunday. It was a juicy piece of beef. Witness exa mined them both; the difference was very percep• tible—gave her master her opinion at the time, that one was well boiled, and the other under boilel . -- told him his beef was always kept under lock and key. Witness never gave Sharp ally beef, or any person to give to him—nothing of the kind—told master so at the time. These slices he brought down, laid them on a dish in the larder, and ordered them to be brought out next morning for the setvantsi breakfast, on the Tuesday. Witness had lived with Parson Vialls about two months. He has a hand some house; he keeps nine servants, a carriage and four horses, and is a man of fortune. Cross examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL. — Does not know how long he has resided in that neigh ' bourhood ; witness was not dismissed, but a few days after her father sent for her home. The loaves used by Mr. Vialls were peck loaves ; her master compared the bread with the loaf as well as the slice of beef. Re-examined.—The reason that her father fetched her home immediately, was in consequence of . his having heard that her master had accused her of giving away his beef and bread. Her father is a master wheelwright, and 'keeps his own house. Is now in another place of service. The Rev. Mr. Vialls refused to give her a character. Her father took her away at her own wish. The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE objected to Mr. Phil lips calling the defendant " Parson," It did not be come a man of his taste to use a term of reproach. Mr. PHILLIPS.—Term of reproach, my Lord ! LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—It is :not polite; I don't say it is a term of reproach unless used as such. Richard Andrews, a working labourer in the ser i vice of the defendant, proved that Sharp, the gar-1 dener, usually kept his dinner in the tool-house, and that day asked witness who had taken it. William Andrews, prior to this affair, was likewise in defendant's service; and when witness was suc ceeded by Sharp, he gave him up the drawer in the tool-house to keep his provisions in. Mr. PHILLIPS said he bad other witnesses, but did not think it necessary to call them. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, as Counsel for Mr. Vialls, described him to be a worthy Magistrate, - and a benevolent man. There was not the least proof that he had been influenced by a malicious motive. It was not the valtie or the • article •he suspected to have been stolen which induced him to prosecute. His object was to put an end to a species of pilfer ing which, to the defendant's annoyance, as well as other families, was carried on daily. If the Jury be lieved the defendant thought that the plaintiff had these provisions from the other servants, thenthere was an end to this prosecution. • The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE in his charge said, there was no evidence that the prosecution was from ma-' lice, and the Jury would consider whether there Was such want of probable cause in the prosecution as would warrant them in finding a verdict for the plaintiff. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages Fifty Pounds. THE KING V. BIGNOLD. Mr. SCARLETT moved to put off this trial, on the absence of a material witness. The JUDGE allowed the defendant an opportunity to answer to the affidavit on which the application was made. LAIV INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DECEMBER 12. • DAVIS V. TILE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. Last seal Mr. HART applied to the Cuurt for an order to direct the defendant to pay the costs which had attended the issuing of a writ of sequestration against him. The writ of sequestration had been taken out under the authority of an order of the Court, which directed the defendant to pay the plain tiff his taxed bill of costs for having acted as a re ceiver of the rents of the Blenheim estates. The defendant opposed the application, on the ground that the writ of sequestration had been issued against good faith, inasmuch as there existed an understand ing between the parties that such a proceeding should not take place under• the then circumstances. The matter stood over, in order that the parties might fur nish the Court with full information upon this point. Mr. HART now stated that affidavits had been filed on both sides, upon which the Court would form its °OM''n. The VICE-CHANCELLOR, after reading the affi davits, the filing of which, he said, would cost three or four times as much as the sum in dispute (only about six guineas), directed the defendant to pay the cots of the issuing and serving of the writ of seques tration. COURT OF KING'S BENC El, DECEMBER lit. SHARP V. THE REV. Al. VIALLS. This was an action to recover a compensation in damages for a malicious prosecution. Mr. PHILLIPS stated the case. The defendant was a Clergyman of the Church of England, living in opulence at Chiswick. The plaintiff was the Reve rend defendant's gardener. Having paid a visit to his aunt, she made him accept of a piece of beef.— The next day the defendant saw the beef, and sus pecting it had been stolen from his pantry, made the plaintiff walk into the kitchen, where he took down a round of beef, and told the cook that the slice in the plaintiff's possession had been cut off the round. The cook said it was not possible, as she had kept it under lock and key. Beef was to him what ale was to Boniface—his meat, drink, solace, and study; and, sleeping or waking, dreaming or preaching, he could think of nothing, speak of nothing, see nothing, but " Beef, beef, beef." lle resolved to have ven geance; if he relented, his mutilated round swam before his imagination—a feast for an Alderman, which might satisfy the appetite of the whole Com- ' mon Council after a fast-day— " The round was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy !" —He resolved to prosecute this poor man without mercy—to indict him at the Sessions—to have a City Judge for his Counsel, and the Recorder for a Judge, and to get the case called on five minutes before dinner—(A laugli).—The Learned Counsel, acting upon his instructions, attached not only malice, but the most unchat itable motives to the defendant. Mr. Butler, clerk to Mr. Harmer, the attorney, produced the record of the acquittal of James Sharp, the prosecutor. The charge was for stealing four ounces of beef, the property of the Rev. Thomas Vialls, of Twickenham. Witness was present at the pro secution, and produced a note of Mr. Vialls' evidence. SOLICITOR-GENERAL.--Did you take a note of the whole of the evidence?—No. SoLictrolt-GENTatat..—Then I submit this witness' cannot be examined. The witness said, he could repeat the whole from memory. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL persisted in objecting. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE over-ruled the objection. Witness proceeded.—He said, that on the 22d of October, last year, he was walking in his garden. On looking among the tulips, among some cloths used for keeping seed in, he discovered this slice of beef; that he was struck with its appearance, and sup-. BURN V. FARROW. posed his servants were at their old tricks ;he took This action was brought on a clause of the 9th of it into the kitchen, and cut a slice off his own round, Anne, cap. 14, sec. '2, which provides that every per dressed the day before, and, on comparing it, he said son who loses more than 101. playing at cards or dice he had no doubt it came off the same joint, from the at one sitting, shall recover, by toeing within three complexion ; that the man refused to admit he cut it months -after, not only the money lost, but treble the from his round, but stated that he had got it at Isis amount for the use of the poor of the parish where aunt's, at Camberwell; and that Sharp refined to vas' the gaming occurred. tell his aunt's name. Joseph Wilson , his butler , The plaintiff, who keeps the Rising Sun, in Wind called, but could not identify the beef. mill -street, in the parish of St. James, sought'. to re- Mr. PHILLIPS asking the witness weat Wilson said, I cover 191. 16s. which the defendant won at the game The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected. on the 29th December, 18 21 . • Mr. PHILLIPS asked, did Vialls swear it came off l 'I '.'"), rte defendant, who is a shoemaker, not satisfied his round of beet ? with winning the money, made a boast of his success, Witness.—Yes : he said the two slices tallied so ' to the injury of the plaintiffs who on that account exactly, he had no doubt they came off the same ' brought , the action. • round of beef. Mr. Arabin, the Deputy Recorder, i held the brief. i the winning by the defendant at Christmas, 1824 was proved by several witnesses, and the Jury re-. Cross-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.—He I turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, first, said that Sharp refused to give the name of his aunt,' 191. 16s.—secondly, treble the above sum ; amount when he (Vialls) offered to take a drive to Camber- 1 i in all to 79/- ---• " well, and see . the aunt. Mr. Vialls' expenses were in • £l7 2s. Bd. exclusive of the witnesses. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Mr. Webster produced the original copy of the re- 1 Yesterday Thomas Gibbons was indicted for fel°. cp ,: by which it appeared the Rev. Thomas Vialls niously intermarry in g with Mar y Ann Parsons, in the - e only witness. r lifetime of his-la wf u l wife , Elizabeth Gibbons. ,4 ,Ilaldwin examined by Mr. PHILLIPS.—Knows Mary Ann Parsons, of Peter-street, Westminster, 4d ~.,,,,esAbarp; on Sunday, the 21st October, 1821, ! deposed that she was married to the prisoner on the besclisted with witness. 119th May last, at the Parish Church of St. Margaret, .The Loan CHM/ JUSTICE—Are you his aunt?— '. Westminster. 'Yes, my Lord: ' .. . _. .; ~-Mary .Duncan, of Daventry, Northamptonshire, What had you for your dinner P—Boiled beef. - - , roved thesprisoner's marriage with her first cousin, Who else dined ?—My son; and on Sharp's going . lizalieth• Morgan then a single woman, abqut four , or Sve. years ago. She, knew that her, Amisin.wat gill alive, from having seen her so last night. W. Parsons, father to first witness; produced 2 copy of the register of the prisoner's first marriage, which ' took place on the 28th May, 1817. He also deposed that, before the prisoner was married to his daughter, he had heard that the prisoner was a married man. I Ile taxed the prisoner with it, who denied it. Wit- Iness was not aware, at the time, of his daughter's going to be married, nor did he ascertain, till last month, that the prisoner had a wife living. Robert Duke, a How-street officer, apprehended the prisoner, and told him at the time that it was for bigamy. The prisoner said, " What, have you got Iboth my wives here r Witness answered, " No. The prisoner then went to his box, and to o k ou t the I certificate of his former marriage, which he deli- vered to witness. The prisoiter desired that his first wife might be called, and examined as a witness ; but the RECORDER informed him that, by the rules of• law, this could • not be permitted. The pi isoner then said, in his defence, that his first wife ran away from him r he had frequently mitten to her, but receiving no answer he concluded she was dead, and married again. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty; and the RECORDER immediately sentenced him to -transpor tation for seven yea's. • Sarah Barlirs, a genteel and interesting-looking young woman, was indicted for stealing from Mr. 13eauchamp, silversmith, of Holborn, with whom she lived servant, Bunchy articles of table linen. The prisoner had been about three months in the service of the prosecutor when the articles mentioned in the indictment were missed, and they were after wards found in her box. The prisoner stated in her defence, as she had done at the time of thediscOvery, that she knew not how the things came into her box. Several highly respectable witnesses, with one of whom the prisoner had lived three years as servant, gave her an excellent character. The Jury, after consulting neatly a quarter of an hour, returned a vex diet of Not Guilty. The Court was occupied nearly the whole of the morning in the trial of cases of petty larceny, and other matters of trifling import. At one o'alock all the cases in the Sessions Paper were gone through, and the RE CORDER dismissed the Common Jury. He then proceeded to pass sentence on the various prisoners who had been convicted.— The following sixteen were sentenced to death : John Wait, for counterfeiting a power of attorney; Alexander Robertson, for counterfeiting the stamps on gold and silver plate ; Jorgen Jorgenson, fur returning from transportation ; John Harris, Patrick Foley, George William Henry, William Fry, Martin Bell, William Iferpin, James Gilchrist, Mark Herd, William Watts, James Browne, . and Thomas Fuller, for bur glary ; and Elizabeth Fishwick and John Willis, for stealing property above ens. in a dwelling-house. Thomas. Benton and Charlotte Gibbons, to be transported for life. John Dnwe, to be transported for fourteen years. William Angel, Joseph Knight, Manoel rla Silva, Thipmas Smith, John Southtori, Samuel Pearce ' Thomas Ings, John I)yner, Thomas Lyons, John Barnet, Henry t lnrdatt. James Ifillward, Henry Cocker, Benjamin Gee, John •Sedice; both Wood, Elizabeth Smith, Catherine Baylist• and di t lnnah Boyd—to be transported for seven years. . jr i ; . James Warner and Catherine M'Cabe, to be impiistmed two years; Richard Thomson, : John Smith, Henry Oliver,' ?brit Evans, Catherine Smith, Elizabeth Carter,' Mary 44mb and Charlotte Bantfield, to be imprisoned one yeari James Collins; John Golding, John Harris, Edward Powell ; Thomas James, David Donnell, James Haynes, George Cripps, George Edlam, and Elizabeth Ward, to be confined six months, all in the House of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour. Several were sentenced to shorter periods of con finement and hard labour, some to be publicly_ and others privately whipped. . The Sessions were then adjournedfo Wednesday, the 15th January next. . MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. • Yesterday, Richard Burfit was indicted for illegally destroying game, In the parish of Hamilton; on the Ist of November, at ten o clock at night. Mr. A botßuus stated the case. The Statute upon which this prosecution was founded was, he said, one of great importance, and one which made the person accused of having arms in his possession with-the in tent to destroy game subject to transportation. The defendant was found by a gamekeeper named Pearce, on the grounds of his master, F. Manners, Esq. at night, with arms in his possession, and with a phea sant in his pocket. The Learned Counsel said he would call his witnesses, and if they proved what he had just stated, the Jury would no doubt find the defendant guilty. Francis Pearce examined.—Witness is gamekeeper to F. Manners, Esq. in the parish of Hampton. On the Ist November ; at night, witness heard the report of a gun in the direction of the preserve of pheasants, arid proceeded towards the spot; soon afterwards he heard another gun, he then went fur his master, who, with his two sons, witness, and a man named Low, proceeded to the place where the person was sup posed to be who fired the gun. They then - heardtwo more shots, and witness plainly saw the flash of a gun near the pheasant cover; the party then sepa rated and . surrounded the cover, when witness met the prisoner ; the latter levelled his gun at witness, but he avoided it, rushed upon him, and secured him. His gun was loaded, and appeared to have been re cently discharged. Lowe then came up and assisted witness in securing the prisoner, in whose pocket they found a dead pheasant. Thomas Lowe corroborated the preceding witness's testimorry . in every particular ; after which the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Ch r AIRMAN, after animadverting very strongly upon offences of this description, but •more particu *AT where the offenders level their guns at persons whose duty it is to apprehend them, sentenced the prisoner to seven years' transportation. Mary A nn. Pierce, well known to the police by the flash name of - Lady Barrymore, was brought up at the prosecution of Mary Prendergrass, who keeps a house of. ill fame in-Spring-gardens, for a gross as sault. The comely landlady appeared a perfect pat tern of modesty and decorum, and the abuse show ered•mion her by the accused in her defence, with a volubility peculiar to that portion of the fair sex, had no effect in ruffling the kuidlady's well regulated wind. A smile of contempt was all that escaped her ; and the prisoner was ultimately doomed to three months' imprisonment, and, afterwards to enter into recogni eaoces for two pars to keep the peace. CHELMSFORD ASSIZES, DECEMBER 11. After atteriding divine service; Mr. Baron G RANA it charged- the Grand Jury, and addressed them with topics precisely similar to those upon which he dwelt in his charge to she Het tfordshire Grand JurY,, an d expresmd ids opinion against the necessity of reiv: cuit at:this inhospitable season of the year, attended ' as i: was with.so tunch.personal inconvenience to the Judges named in the Commission, to the Grand Jury, and to the Yeomanry of the county, who were called upon to discharge the duty of common jurors, with. out producing any public advantage adequate to the sacrifices which all persons asqembled on such an oc casion were compelled to make. Abraham Parish and James Parish, brothers, were indicted for feloniously assaulting Henry Golding on the King's highway, at Barking, on the 17th of Nov vember last, with intent to rob him. Mr. JOSEPH was for the prosecution, and Mr. Mu DR ZWB for the defence. . _ . It appeared in evidence, that the prosecutor. wa4 the guard of a common stage waggon from Colches , ter to London. Between one and two o'clock on the morning of the 17th of November, the prisoners at , talked the driver of the waggon near Chadwelliaed insisted . upon . stopping the waggon, for the purpose of robbing it.. The prosecutor, who was asleep - its the waggon, was awakened, and he came to the as sistance of the waggoner. He successively knocked both the prisoner down, but they could not be vailed upun to go about their business. They Loth attacked the prosecutor, got him down, and were trying to rifle his pockets, when two ca , te;s (Arne up, overpowered the prisoners, and they were t.iken into custody. The scuffle and resistance las;ed for nearly half an hour. The witnesses positively swore to both the prisoners. No substantial defence was offered, and hall pri soners were found Guilty. The.prisoner, Abraham Parish, was tried at tlie last Assizes, for a highway robbery upon a female, Under the most atrocious circumstances, hut 'was ac quitted, in consequence of a mi,take in the prosecu• tor's name. The Learned Judge sentenced the prisoners to 1.1 transperted for seven years, being the lull extent ci punishment awarded by the Statute 7 Geo. 11. c. sec. 1, on which the indictment was founded. John Tararass was indicted for stealing on t!:e 31 of November, at Priklewell, a sheep, the property of John Scratten. The sheep in question was one of a fleck of 97, l'e longing to the prosecutor. It was missed on the morning of the 4th of November, and in conccitience of foot-marks on the ground, and traces of Lion search was made in the prisoner's house, and the re , mains of a fresh butchered sheep were found in dif . ferent parts of the cottage. There was also a pair of shoes foutid which corresponded with the - footsteps which led to the prisoner's cottage from the spot where the sheep was slau g htered. The joints of !neat also corresponded with the sheep=skin found iir'the ppon this evidence the case went to the Jury, and they found the prisoner-Guilty—Death. NEW GENERAL TURNPIKE ACT.—It may be rase 44,0:Trustees, &c. of the Turnpike-roads to. be in formed, that the •Act of the 3d GNI IV. cap. 1`2 7 6, which received the Royal Assent on the 6th of :August last, repeals all the former Acts, and consolidate s the -several regulations into one Act, which takes effect on the lsecifJanuary, and that the 37th and .33d sections enact, that on or before the Ist of January, 182.3, the Trustees are to put up, on a table of tolls (painted with black letters on white ground), the name of the gate or toll-house at which the same be affixed; and a list of the several gates, which arc N% holly or par tially cleared by the toll pstid at the gate at which the table is put up; and that the tickets delivered upon paying the toll, are to express the name of the gate at whiCh the same is delivered, and also those of all other gates freed by such payment. The tolls on wheels of different breadths are revised, and are to be expressed in the new tables of tolls. TI e pro visions. of Local Acts, which have been, or ma,. be passed, are to be subject to the regulations of the present Act : and several other provisions are esta blished which require the early attention of the Trustees, &c. of the Turnpike-roads in general,. Batt Dec. 1, at Mitbrook. Ilants, the Lady of Major-General Sie Patrick Ross, of a SOU. June 25, at Madras, the Lady of David Hill, F.sq. one of the • I Secretaries to Government, of a daughter. MARRIED. • .- Yesterday, at Mary-la-134mne Church, James Ifenryllitchell, F.sq. of Moreland, in the Island of Jamaica, Esq. to Jane, youngest daughter of the late David Mitchell, F. q. • DI ED. • Tuesday evening, at his residence at Walton, the Blight Hon. Charles Earl of Tankervilie, Baron Ossulstun, &c. IL, lord ship was born Nov. 16, 1.743 ; succeeded his father, Chases, tie late Farl, October 27, 176 1 7; married October 7, 1771; Emma, daughter and co-heiress of Sir James Culebrooke, Bart. by who:" he had issue eight children. lie is succeeded in his titles ai estates by his eldest son, the llanourable Charles Augustus Lo Ossulston, in consequence of whose accession to the l'err4 , , vacancy takes place in the Representation for the TOQn ui wick-upon-Tweed • At Droughty Ferry,Dundee, aged •105,Mr.Thos. Abbott. lie was born in the reign of King George I. and has seen four of that name on the throne. lie never used spectacles, and IL I4 scarcely known a day's illness until his death. Nov. 22, at SpeddochMill,liolywonsLat an advances! ;17,e,11rc. John Callender. Mrs. C. had children, grand-children, and gt...a grand-children, amounting to 45. Sunday, Clara, third daughter of Joshua Mayhew, of M borough-street, Esq. and ninth child, aged 14 months, who dud from convulsions occasioned by the cutting of her teeth. Nov. 18, at Selkirk Manse, Mrs. Robertson, wile of Lit ut.- Colonel Thomas Rol-ertson, of the Bengal Engineers, Dec. 8, at Croydon, Mr. George Bell, formerly of Seething lane, wine-merchant. Dec. 1, at F.alinburgh, Hugh Hutchinson, surgeon; MN. April 18, at Chinaurah, Bengal, Captain John Cordon, '2Bth Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, only son of iieorlle "- don, Esq. Inspector of Taxes, Ktlanburgh. b 1 A LLB: Ami. nu s. . • - Al‘ 4l . Dug- Dublin 1 0 . irtance . 1 0 Waterford 0 1 tianiburgb . 0 Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Flanders . I a Lisbon 0 1 Malta ' 0 0 Hollund 0 1 Ilottenburgb U '-'• Leeward Islands 0 0 1 Brazil . , 0 0 CO A LS. KIESLMIEN OF IHZ RIVER TYNE.—This useful body of men, we are happy to state, have at length re turned to their employment. Upwards of twenty who o,re i ti custody, have been discharged by the INlagistratu . s, n¢ the .ii placation of their employers' LONDON: Primed awl published by Livia hake, i'l‘a , "" . Iratple- Bar