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AUGUST .V. ESSEX SLIMMER ASSIZES. CIIELMFIFORD, JULY IT. Afore the Sox. Bums C ARROW arld.'plia: IMtTII V. ELSEK. Thif vi sa metion.ri ttespas ngai wit the defendant for pulling down a shed banighlg Wilts plaintift; sittlat.: id Epping. Mt. Gurney, Mr. Itergenut-hatetm, Mr. WAford, con. atieted tho cuse; anal Mr. Marryst mad Mr. Chitty the defradane4. It appeared in evidence. that the OM:Mit from being en hum ble journeyman aupenter, had, by In* industry and good oanducts boeow a nte.ter carpenter In a aimed way. lie had obtained permission from the Lord of the Nlanor to erect a *lied and sink a !ass pit on part of the 44:i*ti: of I I nitiault lorest, of about to ur rods in length, in consideration of his surrendering to the I.ovd a small piece of land in his possession. The defendant, who is a man of considi Lade tiinime and substance in the same neighbourhood, bring dissatisied with this supposed enzmacis• rnent upon the ea ,te. in the year IRui attempted to remove the plaintiff's shc.l. but di. n failing in his purpose. he renewed his prsseedings in the year ISt?. and with the assistance of a horse and csrt, aided by other persons who complained of the alleged encniaahnient• pulled down the pile*. which supported the idled, which was itself demolished in the end. Fur this; injury the present action was brought. It was contended in defence, that :h.: plaintiff hail no right to 'aux into any bargain with the laird in the Alanor, us the injary of other elaintints of the waste. and that consequeney thr sap posed trespai*s was justifiable, in uLler to remove the enema:At riums. Mr. Raron .Carrow. in his charge to the Jury, remarked, that if the delimdant had been disposed to dispute the supposed en croachment in a Court of Law, he ought to have done so with a rich man. and not tight the rptestion in . with a man in an.inferior station. It appeared to hint that ihe defendant's con duct was completely unjustifiable, r.rid consequently that the plaintiff' was entitled to libentl damages. The Jury found fur the plaintiff--ibunagcs 1501. S:01E v. CAME. This was en action by the same planuiragairist the same de fendant., for assaulting and falsely impri:oning hint. for thee:to. of three limns. on a malicious and unfounded charge of felony. l'he lama learned counsel conducted thisctse. It appeared that. pc - ding the last-mentioned anion., wa • a remand from the Lit *adzes, some of the fences and gat o, of Iluinatilt-foreA being out cf reprir. the plaintiff wits etnigoycd by the deputy steward in." the ferric to do the necesaary repairs, and for tni t purpose he was authorized to cut down some tunbcr in the forest, which.he did accordingly In the month of (toolier lint. in the moat public manner, drawing the dither to his pre mises for the purpose of preparing it for the object in question. The defendant, not knowing the authority which the plaintiff had received. discovered the titnber on the premises of the latter, and. supposing it was stolen. went before a Magistrate, named Layton. and !ALI an inforrnaeon again .t the plaintiff fir filmy. and under the dAendant's representation of the cac tie fag's trate was induesl to issue hit warrant for the ::?prehension of the plaintiff. Tn, defuLtnt that:teal the sear who .wr.: in trustod with the execution of the warrant. not to apreelienti him until six o'cloc's on the following morning. when he himself could he present to ace the plaintiff taken into custody. The plaintiff under these eiretinittance. was apprehoided in the morn ing about six o'clock, the defendant being present, and taken before the Magi•trate, who, hearing the plaintiff's statement of leis ease. clistMssed the complaint as being perfectly groundless. The defendant in/it:AA that the Magistrate shintiti detain the plaintiff in custody until the c..ce was represented to the Com niissionera of Woods and Forests t but the Magistrate rejected the application. Under these circumstances the present action was brought. Wone;s:is were called to show that tl e.defendant had • reason able and probable cause for the act contplained of. It appeaud. Lowever, that islniait all the witnesses were friends of the defend. I.lt, an d Itut assisted him in pulling down the plaintiff's shed, which conaitmed the sithjectot the Lit action. Gamey replied oil behalf of the plaintiff with his usual ability. The Jury. after hearing a very eloquent charge from the learned Judge, found a vo.-diet for the platniq—Datnages tool. These 1/DA nu case sorthy of noti , e in the Crown Court to-day, the buitintsw of which finished this evening. BUCICINGILIMS1111:1s ,LSSIZAS, JULY 28. ATROCIOUS AAA SUET WITH INTENT TO lIIRDER. The fqlluttring WO, which has excited great interest from its peculiar atrocity, came on this mos isistg before a erowslad Uun•t. Several persons of distinction News pre osent,.among whom we nutleaLortiTemple, Los d Nugent. Los d A lel, &c. Thomas Mitchell, axed 16, was capitally indioted for having wilfully, maliciously, and uidawfully stabbed mid cut Elizabeth Rawls, spinster, on several parts of her neck and body, with intent to minder. There were seve ral other counts, charging him with having stabbed and cot her with intent to do her souse grievont botbly harm. The following is a brief sketch of the case as detail( d in evidence. It appeared that the parties lived in the parish of Ruriiam, Bucks. 'that on Monday 'veiling, the tat or March, the, proseentrix was sitting alone in the !totem about eight o'clock, licr father having guns from home ; that the prisoner, Mitchell, %%bons .she hail known Irmo ISIS infancy, anti who had lived lief\aut with her fatlier,.came to the door and knocked ; on her enuniring who was these, she was ausweied " Toni Mitchell,: ou which else opened the door, and admitted him. He requested to have a tile and a pair of hinges, which she gave to him, bat lie said they would nut do, anti that lie must have a larger pair : she 'Watched for a larger, but could nut find any, on which lie said lie knew there were larger, anti she again looked. While so doing, she 1 . .11 a seosation as ifshe was shot, and fell down. '1 he candle well out, anti white (mill, ground she felt a conitig at her neck anti throat, on which she cm ird out '• Mettler" in a fee it , toile, and saiii to the pri er, " I never injured you." He threatened her to be quiet ; her ciies, though feeble, brought a Aim. Lovell, who lived in die next house, to her assistatice. Airs. L. easily gained admittance, and while groping Mr the pro secute ix, Clime in contact a i•li a man, whom she laid fast held of :will called to her husband for assistance, who was pi oceetlitig to the spot W1111411:01, ; the wind biew it 01st, and while tilling back the man disengaged ilillllelf 14111 i escaped. Pi evions to this, however, Mrs. Lovell asked the prosecutsia, who was bleeding on the Hour, if it was her fattier who beat her? WI which the proserittrix N', it is Tom Mitchell ;" ou which she prison er exclaimed, " How do you know it is Tom Mitchell; , it it was quite dark at the time, and Mrs. Lovell said, you have betrayed yourself by your voice. The prisoner, however, as we have belMe sheet', escaped. The prose - cutrix was then takes, by Mrs. Lovett to her apartments, and a surgeon was sent (Or ; a ilea di essed the wounds and else recasts eel ; one of the wound* C.is eight inches in length and two deep. The prisoner then absconded, and war. traced *brunch Reading to Loudon, whcic he was talcs; tutu custody, •NATION'AL7 REGIS' IM. Jiido Dallas summed up the e% with creed per vieuity, mid the Jury a irt cosefitilimiun pro nuunccd a verdict of and the Judge immediately parsed the awful I...faillee of the law. he imam( r daring the time of the trial Ifelmved iii IA Very ut summer, and alien he well* Wow' , 'malt) , and while the ..114.1gc Mac prunwittritug sentence, he ap fleeted quite callous, cud was taken to the gaol latighiug 13etce. M NSION-UOUSE. On Friday a Fenton of gentle:airily appearance and address re. retested the Chief Magistrate's under difficulties against *Melt Ito had teen lute: comending. Tile object was to obtain charity, or the means of working agairst starvation. which the petitioner said was rapidly pressm• upon hint. 'Fite a .plicant , who appeared to be 33 or 3s. heal,' by his own statement, entered his Nliveaty's service at a very early age. as Ensign in the 27th, or Enniskillen regiment of the line. I e hail served in Egypt in every cainpai h m, purticulatly in that engagement in whiten Sir Ralph Aberceumby host his life, and lie obtaniett the rank of Lieu tenant in (114: field, and was presented by the Grand Seignior with a gold mental, counterparts of which were conferred upon the officers of that army as tokens of gratitude fosthcir services. In time war that followed the treaty of Amiens, he served in the 20th -regiment of the line in the north of oi:ru h usy, where e rgt r or w e re Made by the British army under the orders of Getyaat I.ord Catheatt, to rescue the Continctital dominions from the power of the enemy. sabsequently tee I.ieutenaat was oUliged. front the preamre of a:domestic edaruity, to dispoar of his coutiontion. A combination of unfartunatr circunstatves, unforeseen atid in evitabla. colmadled him to enter die solace in a situation but little adayed ta. his habits, educators', or choice. lie entered the 25di regiment of tout a: a private seedier, :tful. in that humble and laberious capacity send in the whale l'eninsular war, up to the period of the ratification of the treaty at Faris in tat I. In the course of the campaigns this poor wanderer aervol in the Ml battlrs and s:egesf—Vitnetra anti Releias Talavera. Ba tor°, Abneida, Salamanca, Vittoria. I'vreneea, Echialla, Thottiouse. Elva% Ciudad ltodrige. L'AsjOS. Burgos. Pampe lune. Upon the termination of hoitiiitica, his regiment, wrack) was a 2tl battalion. and a merwakekton, front the rigour and variety of its services. tva, disbanded, and he WAS I.ll,Cllalred.—. Thus thrown upon the world. without pension or remuneration of any kind for what he had done for his zotintry. he endeavoured to obtain the preatriotts subsistence afforded by attentling schools as an assistant. in his S mrch lately for a ritiuttion of the kind, he had unfortunately laded, in cor.stainane of' the great multittalo of *mil:cents who were, perhaps, as needy and more cligibk than he was, but who could not hl more zealous in attending the duties of any situation by which the means: of an lienest livednood coald be:that:need. ender aU these circien.staaces lie had presumed to wait upon the Lent Mayor, in the hope that, as his Lordship was the friend of those who detested idleneas and dependence. some oppsw amity might be is.l6ided to prove tll4 an untiartunate salaam Was actuated by an lamest and manly principle. The Lord Mayor expreasal some surprise at the great extent of those unrequited servius, took peculiar interest in tit:: poor sddier's ease, and aantr.si Lim that if he pracitred testimonites of his conduct trout those under whom he hail served. a supporting arm shetild not be wanting 'o him in the hear of adversity. The applicant was eatrefaely grateful. Ile aas realy..to pro. cure testimonials from. Sir E. Puget. Colonel of tbe 2ith, and from Sir J. May. of the royal harm artillery. lie would maharani the most menial employment by abieli honest bread Quaid be earned; was conscious of bin inutility, from early Itabiis, to tills laborious situation as well as many others ; but his assiduity should compensate fur other deficiencies. 'f he Lord Mayor gave hint the means of preant say:port, sad re-:issue:if his hope, by ,eating that the e.t..e should la< laid Isefore Lord PahntrAon. BOW FIIIERT. WEST END I' ' AID:.LIn Coast the outrageous daring scene of ilisanit r, robberies, wounding and treatiag a number of persol:s at West End Fade, near Hampstead, on 3loa.lay evening, and daring tile night, an miiiitin.tal 'lamina. of C 3.10.11. bles belonging to the above oaks., at welt as writ:era from Nation Garden °the: were ordexod io attend for detecting and appar. bending die oil: niters. nutnlier of the inhabitant iof klainpstead acre sworn in as special eonstablei by Mr. Cartwright. the Magistrate of Hampstead, to assist the regular Nile.: on l'uesday evening. Notwithstanding the increased number of the police, they were not equal aho;;Alier to cope with tite vitlaina, who as embled in numerous bodies, armed with bludgeons and other weapons, acting in a inure Miring and outrageous manner than on Monday. The ruffians were divided into g:tngs, and were esti mated at more.than lan. Not satisfied wiut obtaining the pro• petty, they b.:at and otherwise maltreated the persons of their victims. Money was not sufficient ; buoy deprived those Wile came under their grasp of even their wearing, apparel. and. left themmauly naked. Hate. shoes. coats, hantikere.iiefs, all were considered as booty by . thet. , stapacious .Nor were tlie disgradeful scenes of riot and plunder confined to the fair. Simi. lar acts of violence and depredation were practised in the fields. and on the roads in the vicinity. The pfiliCe, by great exertion. and at much personal risk, succeeded in securing thirty of thew miscreants, the strengia of two gangs I one of consisted of about a dozen, and the other of about Yu. 7 hey appieltended them in the huotha. These gangs on Wednesday underwent an examination before Mr. {licks, but as many of the persons who had been attieked were unable to attend, all the evidenc: against thrni has not yet been collected. The este:Mauston °tempted the Magistrate till 5 o'clock. T.ie smaller gang. consisting of 11, were first put to the bar. Their na.sies are, William Brook:if, William Burke, Henry Lovell, Ltlwanl Cassany, .Tames Smith. 'flaanas Howlett. %Viliiala John Head, Henry Hancock, and John Smith. Thos. Hunt, no:instable of Hampstead, being nest examined against them, lowa general description of their conduct at the fair, iu robbing, knocking down. stripping. and beating. the weak and defencele.s, with every aggravation of inhumanity and brutal mange. James Friend,* plumber in Chelsea, gave an account of the treatment he waived at their hands. he walked with a friend to %Vest End Fair, about 9 o'clock in the evening of Tuesday. As he was passing a field noir the fair. he was attacked by a aatng. amounting. as lie thought, to 17. The that person that 'kneel him by the collar and arm. he was confident, wits the prisoner Caasady. The winters was then knocked down with a bitulgion, and reetivol a stab on the side, winch fortunately was not dangerous. They tore lib clothin, and rubbia: him of a 11. Ba.lk note. _ _ _ Thomas Cooke. a printer. in Long Aero, ittentifk , l the prisoner Butke am one of the depnatators. Diehard Hinds, one of the larger gang. was charged with assaulting and wounding a Mr. Cl srlte, who app earned to give evidence against him. Several others of the larger gang were identified by 1.1010 WiMill they had attack.: tor phtoderal. Toosc of the ratsoncrs against whom chaun were brought by proper witnesses were committed. Tae mil were reminded for anotiver examination. Thursday Cie investigation was resumed before Sir N. Conant and Mr. Brayton. Nothing tan. be compared to the sevues dincribod. but ;al enemy's army let louse to plunder the di:few:e -h...4 ionabitant, of a conquered town. A yotang man, who had bum extremely ill treated, atteadal to ehtleuvour to identify some of the wretches in e.utody, who attached and rebbed 1,, 0. Hoverer, there was eery little chance of success. as the villains blind ridded his eyes to prisrentlia.soan4 :hem, pu..htel him into a pout] is a field adjoining the fair. &id then drugged 'aka duenglt it, :ebbed hi. nit, Ilia boots, ^.s7 _ . watch. and handkorenier- their m:atraient of him ito.i av 4,3rlNs • mos and crud, that lie expected to be andreleted bzfore he is:ap.4 from diem. 'file) , pushed another gentleman into a ditch . . after intlictiiij upoa him every kind of indignity. euti robbing hint of all his property, even to las boots hat. Ti a eldrei gentlesnan they showed eve:, a twee gratudoeu inhumanity and cruelty. They robbed him of ail ids patina/. beat him, add Ps they could net tle.tsr off his boots. cut thew off. A fourth was not only be:den and roStoetl, but stripe of his clothes anti Icik in a s. of complete nudity. 'rue audacity of ma rattians us is increased, and their force rendered irmoit4kle by numbers :J e d cone.nt. They were formed into ;tangs, etku , nitt , :tl thsir robberies or barbarities at die instigation ee.ti under tie guitiar.en of acknow:paged leaders. They seemed to have a ic,pilar orga nization, and to azt on a previously arranged piaa. were re,peetably dressed from the fruits of forma a I.red.itions• They were till armed with bluelkons, or other mote elhertiis weapons. The jri rota, if Cieylll4 be called do s of tic gar.ts whir are in custody. spur to lit: of die low,st description--tree most. desperate out-caas of society. Among diens tire whirs, until of colour. Jews, and gipsiee. The office pre%untol a cu. loos assem blage of complain:nits to be coafronted with these Arlisuy of mem kiwi aeon wountle.% ti:Uhied, and imiintd. home were lame. and some ball blind. There is a tong ha of wounded still unable to :wend. It is Fortunase it mere is none on tlle list of killed, though some ure missing. &nil: are w daogerawsly woand,:d, teat trimester eiverteined for their life. Tric ,tna.r It at individual. wise as protection; a so:dier of t!ta Life (.2,,,ard., ix teat and strong in proportion, had t e:nmee. but 1.:411 C oil b.uissi.. _ . . —.-.—... Townsend. the officer, was present at the olive, ant dectrali, thin durn,g his practice of su y,arc, lie iiid not iceall.et such . nitinerow ?acanthi:4;e acid coca 4otina.sid uistragLous conduct. Henry firir.sk. wamickntiticil by I.iens. Edmond ask:s. of the 14)0.1N:ivy. who that on yfonuay evvu:kig h. w•as with Ins brother to Weit Yair. flttwi.an 0 .a.. 1 iu o'ckstk he was attacked in a field by about petsmil . ..- The sudsier; • contrived to muffle his mouth, se tri.t lie w-c unthle to %%Ili tae assir.ance, and 1w Will robbed of h s hat ln.l the contents uf bia rochet.i. Leparated and %Levi:N:ll irons his ie.ther. was cure the pci.duer w.O one of the tut. who violethly .1 and robbed hun. . . Mr. 11 alter (fakes, the brother of thalxit.witneis, appeared with a bandage over hi is' gin rye. He continue:l doe stateuiept bf hi: brother. and also ia.i4titiohi the prisoner limn uek.. Jo.cpit linutimtel, a young 1214.1. W2st iLleTeLied it the sluer-err passage of the o:lice, as being one of a king at the fait Jia Al.: - day night. Thomas T.urnis, a dealer in milk. of Little Carterdane, tot's Conunon.:, stated. that on Monday evening he weid West-end fair, white he was wracked by a gang of 3thnr tau tar a, armed with stielui they knee:tat him down. anal moh cruehy beat him ; they afterwards robbed him of his watch, hat, and handkerchief. The prisoner denied being at the ...lid lie was in his master's noose all that uht:it ; he had then leic tie master's home, who is Mr. Rural:. Bloomsbury, to take miss • things to the Master of the Rolls in Chnnix:ry Lane. and ha stalls . came to th , e office to we some per,nis.—ll is imut:r tftcrwastle came to the orrice and offered to bail him, bast he vr.ta informo4lll, was not a imitable otleoce, except before a Judge. Friday, toe men who were examined before Mr. Beenie,fin Tuesday. were re-0%3111410d before (lie same Magistrate. Richard Harris and Samuel lbelsensen were .I,lioUtett to bail, they giving a sathifactori.vaccoant et. then:salves, eel re - portable-- , bail being ordered for tnem. (ha IValter Ellis was found tl.e skirts of two good blue coats, anal which no (loam had been tore oil coats, bang both from the rig . it aide, anti diners sly liucd. No persoo who nail been tUb'J.SI UT ill treated at:chard ke identify them. &lb was,. thyr:fore, kaminiitml fur trial, en se I chart of ideating the two skirts. the property of some person or persons unkcown. lie will be brought to the udwa again togive those pe sons who have beer, reamed anti ill•treated at the for, oe in toe neighbourhood of it, an opportunity of seeing Mtn. Sattittley brume the day fat the re-enmnination of the persons apprehended at tVest End lair. on suspicion of beiag concerned in the atrocious outrages committed there oat Monday and Tota diy, the office was crowded with persons who had been plunden,4 and id used. The plisoners, 1u in number, were brought up band mEed and cliatual together, and were follow..d by a !arse concourse of people. 'l'. Smith. keeper of a drinking buoys . 1.1 the fair, Whit' Vie 3 stated by the otliters to-have been the guild rendezvous of the '..hievot, and the plasm of deposit for their booty, appeared on a summons by order of the Magistrate. A box. oxtuuning ails handkerchief's. two black leather pocket boots, and a qiianiity of woinee's apparel. was fiend in ha bootli. The .4agierate (Mr. llieks).told this neon, that, from the evidence slreatly given, there was ration to believe that Ile Mt; a receiver of stolen goods. and if proof amid be obtained, he should assuredly be committed to Nesgete. Smith denied the imputa tion, and add he walnuts/rare that his booth was resorted to by thieves. The htnilkherchiefi hail been left with him as vrearlty foe liquor. and the lelll.iibllCT of the property belonged to liim and his female i errant. Most of the p.iioters hive:. ; ; beat a;i• preheated in or near Smith's booth, and those who were pursued having. it was aid. taken refve there, 31r: Hicks declared, with much warmth, that he was determined to strike at the root of the evil, and retimtaded Smith. Smith acknowledged that lie luol no licence to vela liquor, and :dr. Hicks expressed a hope that he would be proceeded against by the Excise. One of tli• prisoners. nanresl(hoshly. who had been before identirisd. was anualitted. Loren was recognized by Mr. Elan:toil, law sationer. who stated, that as he T././11e0VElg the fair, oh Tuesday niAnt, he was attacked by a ging of about 511, with the pianist at esor heal. Ile w:.a the lint to knock his hat ell; and he was died knocked down, and beat about the head until he was senseless, and robbeilof ens witteli, silver shod' but, and his money. At the tint onset. the witnow knocked down taivell, and a cry of '• Stall him, cut his b—y throat !" was immediately raised. Lovell was fully committal fur trial on the capital charge. His father. who happened to by present. weor also recognized as being in Smith's bontli at the timeof the rubbery, and wits examined and remanded. Another prisoner, named Fletcher, was essuninal and ream:dol. having been identified by a young gentleman as the Ica ler of el gang by whom he was asssacial and rubbed. Thejollowing were also remanded. tic. Burk:. Eteike, W hitaker. and Ilan ett. Hinds, Talbot, Goidemitit. Starnes, and Coombes. were rosy crarimitted, charged with atrocious assaults, with intent to commit felony. The rom:siader, with the excoption c ol -two boys, were ordeted to be detained for the purpose of being identified. Mr. Flicks, in the coarse of the examination, repeatedly expieswil his dctermlitution to do all in his power to ado; r, means IoT putting down the fair altogether. Shoald he be satiated uy the miter inagistratcs of tiw cour.ty, he would prevent any drioking front being erecte I ; as I the pabhe might &peed on it, mat every RUM/ should be taken to avoid a the disgrace • fad and outrageous proeeedings which, had been so much the sub ject. of Mutation duriag the Gist week. Gt-11.011.1 STNCULArt AND EeTr:Ns:l - g Foitt.r.aY.--infarmaties was prm'aired oa Wcdsa tbay W t:ie ;L:itting Aid...filial:. Sir Javies Slaw. r:siieeting a siogular a. 1.1 extensive ,ystem ut for.4..ry. sion:11 had b- en carried ott fur so.ne length of time tio4r. raoalya lartin. Sm. and [fugues, wera;musemeri gist tes pemability. at the earner of Ca:croon Stte.t end King Strtu!. Chwysitle. by a young n.wi of th ; name of Riclard i'r) o r. II 60 bad had see:re! years in employ as a tro From the facts discloszi, it appealed tnat fruit tic nature of his employmeN. uz-zt.asstily luesaii: accraiiintal with the con cerns of the hou e. and the mares and particulars of the of the pzrstras far whom they did business ; and avialiric f of tins knowledge. ha.l at several tiniei /mg -xi bia. payti oros its beilrasn by Mr. 11:01 Ga.. 1.111, an ea-146114 namafochaes at