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Quested said a few words, and his counsel called three or four respectable looking persons, who gave him a good character for tempetance and humanity. Wraight put in a long written defence, evidentlydrawn up by his professional adviser. It commenced by con juring his lordship and the jury not to suffer the preju dices that had gone abroad against him in the public newspapers to make any improper influence on their minds. He described himself as a mats who had, by honesty and industry, supported himself, a wife, and seven small children. Ills mother, he said had a small farm, and he had for some time acted as her bailiff.— She had frequent dealings with a Mr. Thomas Baker. On the 10th of February he left his her's house, at Pen!Mee, in the evening, having beets at labotinus work during the whole day, and proceeded so Mr. Baker's, at Fairfield, which was a distance of fifteen miles, and while he was out he thought he might as well pay a visit to another Mr. Biker, at North-lace sonic distance from Fairfield. He accordingly left Fairfield, and went into a public-house, and on quitting it night came on, and he lost his way. He called up a shepherd to direct him in his proper road, who put him in his right course; but he afterwards because so fatigued that he laid him self down on some straw near a hay-stack, and being overcome by fatigue, he fell asleep, hut on awaking he felt himself cold, and rose for the purpose of proceeding on Isis way to Rye, but immediately he got op he heard firing, and a few minutes afterwards he was taken by the officers. He accounted for his having powder and shot its his possession by saying that lie was in the habit of shooting rooks upon his mother's lands. He concluded by saving that he was a poor man, and could not afford to bring witnesses to London. If Isis trial had come on in the country, he could prove those statements by ten times as many witnesses. Martha Wraight, an aged woman, his mother, was then called, and proved that her son went from her house to go to Mr. Baker, and exchange barley for beans for seed, on the 10th of February. Mr. Baker, steward to J. Walker, Esq. of Fairfield, near Rye, proved that he had been in the habit of deal ing with the prisoner Wraight fur corn. Witness re ceived a letter from him on the 2d of Feb. and in con •equence of that lever, he expected him on the 10th.— Ile did not come, hut on the Tuesday following his bro ther came and told him the circumstance of his having been taken up on his way to hi_ (Baker's) know. lie had known hiw twelve years and gave him an excellent character. T. Gwyhampton, Esq. who had known the prisoner en years, gave hint an excellent character. r. Justice Parke stimmed up at great length, and the Jury, after a very short consultation, found Quested Guilty—Wraight Not Guilty. The learned Judge ordered ‘Vraight to be immediately discharged. Tnc trial occupied eight hours of the day. CHARGE OF PERJURY AND ARDUC'TION. On Thursday the following extraordinary and interest ing case occupied the court from five until neatly twelve o'clock on Wednesday evening. E. Mostyn Junta, a young man of respectable family, was indicted for a misdemeanour in making • false affi davit, in order to procure a licence for marriage with Charlotte Lovell, and by that and other false devices, in veighling her from home and protection of her natural guardians. Mr. Adolphus, in an elegaat appeal to the pity, de scribed this as a case of most gross fraud ; and this fraud be said, had been followed up by conduct so base, that it was almost impossible to conceive that a person gifted with a liberal education, and moving in the society which the defendant must have been accustomed, could have been guilty of. The proaecistor in this case was P. H. Lovell, Esq. of Cole Park, Wilts, and the defendant is a capt. in the North Gloucester Regt. of Militia. Mr. L. was blessed with ample property and a numerous progeny, and leis happiness never knew any dimin ution until the unhappy period when the defendant became acquainted with the family. This took place at a review of the North Clouce+ter Militia, at.Cireneester, In June last. Alter a short acquaintance the defendant wrote to Air. Lovell, Irmo sling leave to address his daughter Charlotte, but met with a refusal. This, however, did riot deter him; lie followed her from one place to another, and, having by falsely swearing that the young lady was of age and that lie knew of no impediment, obtained a licence; lie partly by fusee, and partly by persuasion, induced her to clique with him. The marriage, however, never took place. Iu consequence of the death of the Rev. Arch deacon Wilk, (some time before this transaction(, a near relation of the Lovell family, who was repotted to have left immense property, a rumour had gone abroad that the Misses Lovell would have fortunes of 30 or 35,00111. — This the defendant, it was supposed, had beard. When lie at lived in London with the young lady, he lotiud that by marrying her with the licence which he had procured lie should not obtain command over her fortune, awl lie therefore placed her in lodgings, and caused balms to be published. In the interval lie ascertained that the young lady's lot tune was Wind. only, and that eot to be paid to her mitil chic was of age, and to test rt to a relation in case of her death heroic that time. Upon this discovery, the defendant deserted the unfortunate young lad), I, aw ing her in such a state, that when at length her father found her, her clothe, were detained by the landlady of the house fin the payment of rent which was due. (I here a loud -mir of indignation ran tleiiitigh the court, bel was immediately repressed with sevele aee i 11l by the learned judge.] Mr. Adolphus having with some further remark, concluded his statement, Mess's. Alley and Andrews look an objection to the form ut the indictment, which was argued at great length uoi both sides, and finally reserved by the court fur mine Mature consideration. Mr. Charlton, from the Vicar general's office, produced the affidavit made by the defendant on obtaining the cence, in which he shore that he and Miss Lord were 21 years of age, ■nd that he knew of no legal impediment to their marriage. The affidavit Was (worn on the 'Ad of Nov. 1820. P. 1.0;eil, E4q. deposed that he was the father of C. Lovell, and Paw the defendant at a review at Cirencester, in June last. About three days afterwards he was intro duced to the family at Cole Park, by Captain Vaughan.— before be weut away, he said to the witness, . 6 I ans at- THE NATIONAL REGISTER deully attached to your eldest daughter, and wish to be permitted to pay my addresses to her." He went on to say that he had property to the colonist of rsool. a year, and the witness said he would make inquiry. lie did so, but the result was unfavourable, and he wrote to the de fendant, declining any further communication with him. This produced a letter from the defendant. This letter was read, and couched in terms of bitter disappointment at the determination of Mr. Lovell, Shortly alter the elopement of his driveller, lie saw the defendant, and asked him if lie had marl ied his daughter P He said lie had. He asked him where ? but lie refused to tell.— Witness told him he must be aware that the marriage could not be legal, as his daughter was not of age, and proposed a re-marriage, and offered terms, which the defendant consented to; but witness afterwards disco vered that he was incapable of complying with those tel from pecuniary disability, and having in the inte found out where his daughter wax, lie determined at all risk, to break oldie connectiou, and to have her back. —He found her at a lodging in London, and when lie brought liar away, her clothes were detained for arrears of rent, &c. Coss.examined.—lle did once consent that the defendant should marry his daughter upon certain terms; hut in consequence of various subsequent discoveries, he altered his mind. Ite-examined.—His dnughter had been more than five weeks abseut before he knew where she was. Miss F. Lovell, sister of Cluirlotte, deposed, that some time after the acquiiiitance, she and her siaer went by a stage coach on a visit to their uncle and aunt, Sir David and Lady Goodge, in Hertfordshire, and on the road they were joined by the defendant. In the course of conversation he said to witness, " I should have thought you were older than your sister Charlotte ;" to which she replied, " Oh ! not; I am between 16 and 17, and Charlotte is 19 years at age." lie left the conch on the road, and sonic days after their arrival at Si. David's, he was seen riding ulung a lane iii front of the house. At length witness had an interview with him at the garden gate. and entreated him to gust the neighbourhood. He implored an inte: - vies• with Charlotte; but she told him it was impossible, and he went away. Ile still, however, continued Isis appearances, and witness wrote a letter to him, dictated by Sr O. and her sistersigned it. The ;airport of it was, to desire him to quit the place, fur she was determined never to marry bins a ithout her friend's consent. This produced a haler from him, bewailing his fate, hut declaring he would, asslre desired it, give her up for ever. In another port of the sheet, however, theme were a few sentences written with lemon-juice (which was not discovered till a month ago), imploring h er to save him from destructinis, and to reward his fidelity by " running away with him l"—On a Sunday, shortly afterwards, witness and her sister being at home alone, a message came that a gentleman was waiting to speak with Miss C. Lovell. The latter went down to the garden, witness followed, and found her conversing with the defendant, the latter messing her in elope. and declaring he had a licence in his pocket, 71111 i would marry her the following worsting at St. Martin's church, London. She begged him, to go away, as she would rev, r lie married to him without h. friend's coment.— Witness begged him to desist, bat in 'mi.. ; hr said no earthly power should compel blur to forego. There was a gig stand ing close ha, iii the cure of one Realms; lie pulled her down the Line to the gig. W itiaess then made ail appeal to liars lins to assist, hot in vain. He got her into the gig, and witness pulled her out again. She all this time en. d and decd wed she %%mild not go ; but lie swore so power 0111 earth should make bins resign her. He got her again into the gig, and drove oil: Her sister was now in court, litiviag been surspoganed is behalf lit the defendant. Cross —Witness cried, but did not call oat.— She and Iser sister bail both the looping-cough at the time, which was the cause of her staying at home. At rite dupe meta cc nc her sister made Jai iesistance either one way or the other ; she seemed siunne d Captisiu Vaughan, of the Chin-ester militia, swore that lir communicated the WOW iiiii of Miss Charlotte to her father after the elopement, the defendant having disclosed it to him. An interview took place hi consequence between 'dr. L's brother and the defendant, nt which witness was preseal. Mr. L.'s broth, r requested the defendant to give up his niece, and told lion if he would say where she was, im proceedings would be instituted against him. He refused to give her up unless Mr. Lovell would " come down" with is seta. meat, and pity his (defendant's) ilebis! If that were done. he would marry her. Ile added, that he laid but a small 'mimic, and had incurred considerable debts in this " running off." Here the case for the prosecution closed. Mr. Alley, fur the defendant, uddres.ed the Jury with ability. Ile trusted that the young Indy was yet pare and virtuous, (and it bad been c 1111111 l un,cated to loin that she was); ammo lie only [alarmed that the matter should ever have been obtruded upon the public notice. The learned gentleman c 1111 l -laded an elaquent address by staling, Unit the detionlain had evid.•ntly been UlIC411111•CiOlb of committing any offence when he aware the affidavit in questions Ile moist have liela•ved that the young lady wits above the age of 21, and if i ie .11nry thought this, they would give him the Is. neat of that ' such acquit hint. The iiiii WWI Sl'rp`allt slimmed tip the evidence, and the 'Any, after roomult nig fur about a quarter aim hour, eeturned verdict of—Guilty. The Learned Judge then said, he should not pas judgment until the neat aes•iosef, and MC411%411111' Use I t who, hle haul rrtierved would onoet . A.l a full fuomitleriatioll. The iteleilduot this rfore elder tat" recagaigances ; him .It in 2901. and two moieties in IDOL cavil, upi...ar ma the lost day of next to revels.. pavilion. This was mimes dente!" done. 117 f the purpose of procuring a presentation to Christ's Hos pital, for a boy, a friend of his. Dickens afterwards said, in defendant's presence, that more money was wanting, and promised that the presentation should be had in three weeks. Defendant declared in the most solemn manner that he should not be deceived.— • Witness gave Dickens, for defendant, at different times, 161. Ins. Mrs. Le Gros, wife of last witness, stated, that in , consequence of conversations with her husband, a boy,. a friend of her's, was brought from Holland, to be pre. sented to Christ's Hospital. Dickens and the defendant called on her on the 4th of October, and said more money was wanting. She objected to give more till the presentation was made. The defendant said it only wanted signing, and would be with her at two o'clock ; in consequence of which she gave them 81. 10s.—never saw the defendant after. The child was never pre sented. Three persons gave the defendant a good character. The Chairman stated to the Jury, that the facts in this case were hiuch more clearly proved against the defendant than in the former case, and the Jury jigsaw- diately found a verdict of Guilty. Sentence—Transportation for seven years. On Weditesclay,James Allen, a Jew, was indicted for conspiring to defraud John Pritchard. John Pritchard, a barber, who lives in Burleigh-street, Strand, stated, that on the 28th of December a person dressed in livery came into his shop to be shaved, and. brought with hint a bundle, which it afterwards ap peared contained three coats. While he was in the shop. the prisoner came in, and addressing hint, said, " well. I'll give you seven pounds for them." The person its livery said he would not sell them to him at all, and addressing the prosecutor, told him the bundle con tained three coats, as good as new, that his mistress had given them to him for a christmas-box, and that the prisoner wanted them for seven pounds, but he wonld. not sell then to him at all, as he knew him to be a Jew. The prisoner immediately went away, hut soon returned —when the footman, as the other said he was, saw him coming into the shop, took up his bundle, ran into the parlour, and called out to the prisoner, that it was all of ou use, for he would not sell to him at all. The pri- Solla hen whispered the prosecutor, that he wished to gel the coats, as they were a bargain; and if the prose cutor could buy them for him, for 71. he would give him 11. for his trouble, telling him he lived in Holy well -street, and would come in again in half an hour, and also pulling out of his pocket a number of what alyeared to be country batik notes, which he offered . the prosecutor to pay for the coats. The prosecutor be lieving all the prisoner said, undertook to make the pur chase if possible, but refused taking the bank mates, lest i as he said, any of them might be had. After the pri soner went away, the prosecutor found no great difficulty iii making a bargain with the footman, to whom he gave 41. Ins. being all that he then had, and was to give the remainder of the 71. when called for. Neither the prisoner nor the footman came to him after. A tailor, proved that the value of the three coats was 10s. each. The jury immediately found the prisoner platy. The chairman said, there were seven indictments against the prisoner for similar offences, but intimated t that it would tint be necessary to bring him to trial on any more of them. flue prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned twelve months, and to rind security for his good behaviour,. himself in Intil. and swo sureties in bill. each. J. (mood was indicted for defrauding It. C/Flaheny. It appeared by the evidence of NI r. OTlalierty, who is a wine merchant in Fenchurch-street, and of his porter, that on the 26th of J nmary, the prisoner went to Mr.. O'Flaherty's counting-house, and bought two dozen of w , ne, which he desired should be sent, with change of, a RA. note, to his address, which he gave. Nlr. O'Flalierty in consequence sent the wine and change by his porier, who delivered them to the prisoner, front whom lie received in payment what purported to, be a Bath batik-mite, payable iii London for 101. The porter asked the prisoner to indorse the note, but he said . his finger was sore, and desired the pellet to write on it Mr. Gardin, which he said was his name. ‘Vhett the note was brought to Mr. o•Plaherty, he suspected a fraud, and immediately took the note to the place where it was made payable. Ile found there was Ito such person as it was addressed to, and that many ' such notes had been lately passed by swindlers. Ott en tinily at the house where the wine had been left, it was ioniid that the prisoner had °illy taken the lodging that day, and had decamped with the wine as won as it caie. Tile prisoner WWI iminerlimele found guilly, and sen tenced to he transported for se‘cii yrara. Mary Ann Hills, Elizabeth Duty, Margaret Forest, and Ilan iiali Cato, set rc indicted for coospiring against J.rse•pli Whates, alichm-smith, 31 Raiclitte, who was prii.ecitted on S.iiiirilay I tor cruelty to (Lorge Sharpless, tits iliegmmate child. Air. Broderick opened the case for the prosmtion.— Mr Aili.lptitit for the deft !ice to. k 11:111e legal objections 10 the vviirdiii.t of the indictment, which, alter much out each side, WWI held by the chairman (\J r. Dickenson, who otliciated tin Mr. Guest.) to be Lila' to the case, consequently the delentlatits were acquitred and it was understnoil .hat Whales would hr diwhaeged mit of emiody, upon finding sureties, 1 self iti I`ool. and two multi, for 001. each, for his appearance next sessions to receive the judgment of the court. On Tuesdiy lasi, P. NlVan was executed at Armagh, for a burglary and robbery, committed in the house of Francis Fordo, of Duncrevey, Esq. lVith an atulohle voice he declared his innocence of the crime for which lie had been sentenced. lie admitted that his habits and conduct had been of such a nature as to justify she supposition that he had committed the offences with which he hail been charged. Ile had been thrice cons mined to prison, and twice tried for roblwries of which he ,vas guiltless. Of his guilt no rational than can. CIL•k tenant a doubt. I • , _4 - i I%III)DLEEX SESSION'. N1(11111ily.1111111. Nlorrison W 33 indicted for a fraud Nlr. Bolland stated the case lor the pruNecii . Toe indictment, lie saol, charged, that the defendant hub pretended to one Alexander Gate, 111.1, he cuu'd procure nom Sir IVatkin Lewes and Sir James Shaw, a prc seotation for a child to Christ's Ho,plial, where he had himself bet n educated; in eintseipnlice of which lie procured f Gate, tin the 20th of S l itember, a slim of 1-11. as being necessary to pay expencts attending the pie•etitation. The Jury, after consulting for sonic. time, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The oefendant was immediately put on his trial fur defrauding Peer Joseph Le Gros, uu a false pretence sttuilar to that iu tne last indictment. Peter Joseph Le Grua stated, that D:ckens intr o duced him to the defendant about August, befOre which time he had advanced Dickens four pounds, to be applied to - ~; 1 _llha..