The National Register. — London, England, 1813-08-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. A IiaUST PROVINCIAL _ASSIZES. DEVON. • The As.ises for this county cummenced on Monday morning at the Guildhall, Est ter. TI.AXM4NT V. WHITE. Serjeint Lens staled, thAt the plaintiff (Dia beth Flaxman) was a young woman, who, for a ttii giber of years, had lived in the service of 1r4., Bailey, a respectgibl:• lady, and bore a very fair character; the def e nding (White), Is wilier at an inn, emitted her for a ronsideralde time, and promised her . marriage. Having acquired some hundreds of ruinds, hy a !iterative situation at a tm , ern, nt Plymouth, he was deter mined in settle honsell in life, and contracted lot a public•house in Exeter, from whence he wrote to plaintiff in come to him to be married ; however, on second cansiderati,in, when he had actually taken the house and stock. hr frgund it would he a none advaingtoeous bargain to be ac ooniniuddird wi•h the daughter of the : he theretore fraturd an excuse, and wrote a letter (s. hich letter was produced in Court,) saving, that ois mother on her knees I ad bogged he would not hue the plain'itf; th at her e o n ionution was notedual to the business, and there fore he total') declined an) Griller coml. vim' with her, and was con- Seciae 'lv mar led to his new choice. Nine lung love-letters we r e produced in Court, abounding w nig thee most ardent protestations of Mr. Justice Gibbs observed to the Counsel, that he could not go through such a volume of letters, and therefore directed sumo of the prowittent !irides to be read. These extracts clearly deorsoslrlted the defendant's sttscbment, and proim.slx of marriage ; ititeswi were also ex amined, who proved cirettto•tiotees %Wolir to the letttbrs. The Judze, in sinn,,,ing on the evidence, said he entertained a very favourable opinion Of the plaiilt itT, on accutmt ul her living 12 or 13 years with her loi•tre.s. which intik:died her good character Atil !Meta.% , and thought her entitled to damages ; whilst he dia not wish they should be to great it% lib rum the young wan. The Jury, Mier clmsulling alscut fire minutes, brought in a verdict of damages fur the plaintiff 1501. 517 bis perqpi, and in Opy r.svige, where he had attempted to secret him, ell. were seven t.)I. no es, such us he had been passing, and a blank note (nthigrad) rolled up. Three if these notes, together with the blank, and the other three which had been eselranged, were , produced in Court, and all purporting to he of Johnson and Eaton's bank, called errot,ouslv the Stand rd and ,Rutlandshire, instead of Rutland, bank, were pronounced by Mr. fat tit, one of the parmersi to be forgeri: a. Mr. Eason stated, that he had deemed it incumbent to give full vend tOr the three note, pa•sed awry by Spreadbury to the holders, were in Court, and identifi..d their notes by marks which they had made upon them. The prisoner made no defence. The Judge, in tumming up, observed, Om. the cha-ge was satisfactoaly established, and the Jury brought in a verdict of guilty. 1 he unhappy man received sentence pf death, and was to fairer am iday last. At Lincoln As•izes, an action was tried, brought by the Ateiter of ti e Bull Inn at Market Deepi,g, against the Cornet of the Nes, V u . looteers, for the expt-nses of a dinner and liquors for 54 of the corps. The party sat down to dinner about half past four o'clock, and mostly' I etited before ten. The quantity of liquors charged was a% fullows One ?limited and twrnta-six boats of port. forty eight of Aerry, sing. liner hay:crown bowls ff punch, and twenty of negia, besides ale old p rter. Bacchus hinetelt nrot have been Foreman of the Jury, fro ti.ey gnve a verdict in lavf,ur of the Liukeeper, with only taking us ts %pence pet bottle cir the port wine. At the Assizes for the county of Rutland, held at 0 ikhate, on rri thy Ae'nniglit, Elizabeth holland, collector of old iron, and women of till triodes, 70 years of age, sv.is tOund guilty of breeking into this * house of Mr. Fluitharn, farmer, at Inethorpe, on the preceding Moo; day night, and sentenced to two years imprisonme n t in the county goal, l'he old lady lord mounted on a lad !er early in the miming, and was found a:it king in an aperture which she had made by knocking our the lattice-work in a whlow, attracted by some cheese that lay near. Thus awlv,serdly .itunted, the associates of the Lady of-the. Lathier being observed, they made a precipitate retreat, leaving her: to the ultimate unpleasant consequence above. Sty' - -The following trend was practised at Kingston Fair last week, up!, two unfortunate Wvlchtneti, who were there with a number of beasts fo. sale. Two men, apparently farmers, came up to them, and having ele,sen sixteen bents out of a Ines drove, a price was agreed upon, and MI. paid as a depoeot 4111. more wits to be paid leo soon as one of them should have disposed of a hrsrse on which lie was riding.) and for which he had several times been bid money in the I.ir. For the renminder of the money they gave a draft upon a gentleman in the town, payable at sight ; and the barguin being hilly a:ranged, they adjourned to a public-house in the fair to drink. Whilst there, one of the farmers sugee.qed the propriety of the %Vele/linen • eeing to the house of the gentlemen on whom tie draft was drawn to escertuiti if all was right, and offered to go with them. The offer was acceded to, and they ~e ht out for that purpose, but were soon sepa rated by the crowd in :he fair. The Welchounn coninurd his way to in the gentirmaio's house, and, on inquiry, soon ascertained, that the ..rats was not worth a farthing : lie hastened back to the public-house, expecting to find the parties there, but found .no one except his ovnz from tid, the other farmer being gone into the fair to sell his horse. Under these ciicurustatices, they hastened to the pot, where they had left their beast) undo r the care of a boy, determined toot to put with one of them till they had better security. This determination, how. ever, came ton hoe ; sixtevii of the best of then) were gone. Th o poor met) imom diately applied to Ulennon, the utlicer, and by his ac• tivity eight of the sixteen were intercepted on their road for Sink& field, where they were no doubt Ong to be, re-sold. The persons of the chief performers in this Welch Tragedy, however, are not unknown at Urtion ; active search is making alter them, and it is to be hoped they wit soon make their appearance before the Magistrates in their proper persons. Batanast, duo. 10 —The Coroner's Inquest sat on the body of Cie poor woman who was found inotrdered to to lane here, last w, elf ; and the Jury ?eve their verdict, " Wilful murder against some Ilk ?son or persons unknown." An officer of the Valli regiment, from the Ber. ryllead barracks, and sereral women, attended the Inquest, anti re cognized her to be a Mary Good, wife of -- Good, a private, just sent off to join the second battalion serving under Lord Wellington. It seems that the unfortunate woman had been vilify of some little tuiicletueanour, and was turned nut of the garrison, when site fell into the hands of u ratan who had been confined in 11, and - whom strong suspicion fallen. his apprehensions ; and this morn, on board a cutter, the Lie utenare in the accounts of himself, and clothes, and the poor woman's, when the body lay. been confined in goal, and on 1. Great exertions have been used for riling, I am informed, he is confined nt suspecting him, as he prevaricated put him in irons ; souse of she fellow)) hen been tumid bid in a• field sin • • 1." NCO LN. David ipreadhory was capitally indicted for uttering forged notes, particularly one ten pound ovtr, purism ting to be of the bank of John ion and Eaton of Stainfore, know iog tine same to be fory{c d. The prisoner. it mpp.oired, irrived at Der-ping on the r6th of March tact, in the Peterborough coach, an 1. ordered 4 Chill!4. from the New saying be was going to Liorolo. Before leaving Deeping, hr passed away into the hands of Mr. Sprig's( (landlord of the New Inn) a 101. note, purporting to be of the bank of Johnson and Eaton, of Stamford, which NlNSprieht .ifserwards found to be a forgery. Ile was nest t and on the road from Newark to Grantham, having .hired chaise sit Ore Kingston Arms there, and paid away anothor note as one of Johnson and Eaton's, receiving eight good one's ill retson, together with Os. 6d. in sliver. The prisoner soil at Newark, that his loogage had gone on by the coach, and that he was anxious to overtake it He accordingly set off in hate in his chaise, but the waiters at tie- Kingston Arms were trot lung in discovering wh st sop of a note had been given by the prisoner. Joseph Appleynrd, who received the note, showed it to Mr. Lawton, koci er of the inn, who at first t •oliolit it good, but speedily thou& of s , nding Joseph But tery to the Ba..k with it. The Bank was shut, add Bwrery shooed it to some gentlemen on his way hack, who were of opinion that it was a forgery. He therefore got upon one of his 'motto's horses and pursued the prisoner, with whom he came np at lovoit which is the second bar on the road tram Newark to Grantham. In the mean time R chard Beecroft, the post-boy, who drove Spreadbury, had his suspicion excited regarding the views of the prisoner; for al though he hail received chanee at Newark, he waisted change for a iOl. note at Balderton toll-bar, where it could not be obtained, pad he actually left the toll unpaid there in conseqnence. eft Vinton toll-bar be also wanted change, and ut it for a 101. note. Buttery observed this and cotoinied to holow. The post-bov seeing a person in pursuit, and knowing Lis master's mate from her manner of troolog, was then sure that all was not tight, and determined to aid the detec tion. Buttery. strove to co. coal himself until they should get to Gran tham, but he was observed by Spreadbory. who kept urging the post boy to go quicker, but who minded not his pnce. Spreadbury ex pressed - apprehensions that flick pursuer intended to rub him, and jumped out of the chaise a little before it got to Grantham, but was nut lust sight of, and lie seemed well aware that he was pursued. Be was observed to go up a pass:see in the town of Grantham, which was not a thoroughfare, but which terminated in the entraoce to some workshops, where he was taken into custody by a constable. On search iug him, about 401. iu good tholes fad CAA! silver were bound iipou