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RE RTFMWSIIIIIF ASSIZES. FIODAV. JULY M. tired with her till the death of ter huthar.d, an.l then she turned him adrift without money, and refused to give him a good cha. ratter, although he hail borne an irr:proarhable chi:Teeter.— Thus bereft of the means of as h •nest lirthilood, he was driven to the cowries which he had since purport'. He had been once in the House of Correction for tieing tourd ti the area of a gouleman't 'mute, in Betlionl.p/ace. This are since he had el't Mr. Bitinbridge . t. He had also been in trot, !Ile for uesdirg a 111111P . 1 hat at Chsring•censs, brine determined not to want mon.y. He would have gut his lirelibbod by honest industry it he had not lost his harmer. _ _ ROBBERY AT EARL. COWPER'S. Ismer Harris. James Davis, and James Grate, were arraigned ii ,„, n an indictment toe a burglary in the dwelling-house of Jabs w i nes, steward of Earl Cowper, at liertingfordbury, and steeli est Male notes and other vniestiles to a large amount, the ProPartf kis Lordship. The • HIM pleaded not gudty : but in canoe cometof the ex length of hich the ease wu likely le uke up, the trial was postponed H unt,l to-mortow mottling, at e a glet o'cioek. The l'ourt then prew.seded to the following case of burglary, which has excited considerable interest in the county : ll•i;'i.iiii Marslmilf the elder, William Alsrshall the younger, v o joi.o C41174 , 4;14 were indicte 1 for burglariously breaking and entering.the dwellte2-house of Charles Gordon, Esq. at Reek- Mooted, in the night of the 17th March last, and stealing there- Dein various articles of gold and silver plate, and bank rotes and g ,:ui coin to &considerable amount. Mr. Scot. TADDY and alribtoDßlCZeoetlucted the prosecution. The prisoners were not defended by Counsel. It was stated that the two Marshalls were relstions. but what degree of relationship they bore to each other was not mentioned. (inc was deseribed in the ealeodar, as of the age of 37, and the other of 39 yearn. Roth wer e tarn of drcest appearance. In the calendar the younger man was described as • waiter of Vioe-street. Westminster. and the other ea a geodensan's servant, af lihnensbury. The latter had her 'Man in the Simile of Mr. °MOWN the prosecutor of the present iaditiment. The ether prisoner, aged Itt, was described in tie calendar as a carpenter of Lambeth. In support of the indkt mut. it was proposed so call John Ingram, an accomplice. The Learned Sergeant pro to the Jury an outline of the ease. In the evening of the 17th of March, when the prosecutor and bit family had retired to rest the house was fastened. At an early hour ef the following morning, when the cockier es ne to his work on the prein.eli, he discovered that the horse had been entered at the Tame window and robbed. Ile iminelistely aroused the in-door ...ovants when it was discovered that !AMU* articles of plate were stolen irom the butler's pantry. and that the proueutoe's library had been entered. and his desk, containing thirty-two guineas. nine hal fsgu inns, four seveti-shiiling pieces, and fourteen five-pound Rank of England POI!. was missing. l'pors the lawn before the house the dank was found broken open, the valuable contents gone, and the peace" sasitered on the ground. The bullet's box had also been broken open, and a pair of his stnallclothos were missing, but they DM afterwards found upon& pe nce near the house. Suiteiclon failing upon the • they pprehend on suspaan of turn and other ro The arasmplice, Ingram, was araw M 1111 almlttert moo approver ; bet the Leaned Series's& wee nod the Jury that they might to receive his evidence with great maim I for idthough • ainspeast witness in point of law, yet as ho was dowdy imenotett himself in avoiding the eoreseqornces of his own crimes, it behoved them to watch his evidence with jealousy, and not give him foil credence, unless he was corroborated by other nremmanses, which would be peewee in evidence, by unsuspected testimony. Ingram would state that the prisoners and himself had planned the robbery in London, at the suggestion of Marshall, the dug, who having been a servant of the prosecutor, was well ac ounistod with his late master's premises, and had basely used that kibosh:4e to effect the heinous crime with which he now stood charged. Dosing planned the robbery, they met together at Wirt , hod oo the 17th March. and thence proceodoi to the prosecutor's lowest Berkhanated, and after the fiwaily had I tired to resr, they IMlCtede4 to effect the robbery tinder the direction of Marshall Weida. As onoutopt was effected at the pantry window, and af t? Vendettas that/wpm of the_paperty mentioned in the indict ment. they 'chased liLoodon bv the St. Alhan'a coach. In their way they shenttho o f which had been stolen. The rent of e ra the property they ' of to a Jew, named Barnett, in Cathe rine-whorl-alley, te-street, and divided the proceeds anianpt them. These ware the leading circumstances of the ac. ;sulpha's atory, and If he should he confirmed, as no doubt be would in many of the facts lie would state, the duty of the Jury would be, to pronounce their venlict according to the evidence. JAM. Grant, the provecutoe's healer, proved, that the family sod himself retired to bed between nine and ten o'clock on the night of die 17th March. In the morning he was aroused by the gsrdener, and then he discovered that the house had been entered and robbed. The tint entrance had been effected at the pantry wodow, which was then open. He missed from the pantry the 'woes articles of plate mentioned in the indictment. On the tan he perceived his master's desk lying, broken open, and the yawn scattered upon the ground. A pair of his own breeches siee:ying upon • hedge near the house. !lac box had been broken ern. John East. the gardener, proved that he went to his work on the remotes premises, about half-past five on the morning of the ilkh March. The first thing that attracted his notice, was a pair of die last witness's wroidklothes hanging on a hedge. He then went up to the how, end found that the pantry window had been failed down at the top. Around the premises were a great many footmarks, and the appearance of footmarks upon the set-off of the pantry wall, as if some persons had scrambled in at the win dow. The bark front door of the house was open. On the Lean he pea his toaster's desk, and the papers scattered about. The encumber frame, and nets used in the garden, were thrown into the foh.pood. Charles Gordon, Esq. the promeutor, who appeared to be far ad vanced in years, proved that the desk in question had been on his Library table on the evening of the 17th of March. it contained the merits and bank.notta mentioned in the indictment; it also vit....shied a pocket-book and tin ease. Ho saw the desk lying on t :t lawn next morning, robbed of Its contents. The prisoner, 11 ilium Marcha/1 the slier. had lived with him as a servant. f•ossexantined by the last-mentioned prieoter.-1 had no mom at all to doubt his honesty wham he hood fa my larvae John Ingram, the accomplice, was then examined. Ile was a young matt of decent appearance, and front the style of his lan gunge was ty no means illiterate. He seemed quick and intetli. gent. In the commencemont of his evidence he was manifestly trying to hang bank, and appeared disinclined to say any thing affecting the primmer'. He was named by the Learned Judge, that he must speak the troth, sad tell the whole story ; for if, as his Luna/tip told him, there was any . shofiling err attempt at ma. WM, he would not receive that twin which the law held out to hits as an approver. He still he tried foe this offence, and earefore he gave his tostinsaiy with a repo about his neck. The witness said he wished to tell the truth to the beat of his recollec tion. He said he remembered goirg with the time primuers ma house a. Berkhamsted, bet he had nen the least recollection of the day, nor even of the month. He had met them several time* be. free at the Cock public.bouse, In a street at the back of the Hay market, the name of which he did not recollect. He accompanied the prisoner Cartwright from London. They started together from laced-road, in the morning, by the Watford coach. They met the two Marshall' at Watford, where they stopped_ by appoint ment. They went to • public-house at IVatford and had sonic re fresh:sat. As the evening approoched they went to another pub ludiorrie• and drank a good deal of gin and beer. Witness, as well 1., the ohm, was almost intoxicated. Did not know how long tot traind at the last public-house. He did not know the sign of It: is was almost into:seated. Having quitted the house they median a lane, and came to a horel near a gentleman's house. Tbll at down • considerable time under the hovel, and from tiro they proceeded to the house, which they ett seed. They get RS the prden wall first. There was some Lind of a glass frame sada eta in he garden, sad he thought they tossed them into the ad, lea: wee not sure. He thought he migl t venture to say ttat on toad them Into the pond. Se many things had occurred 'se that e could not recollect. He thought he tossed them Lim vii Mc It e pond; indeed he could venture to say that he did ; it tamed I act carry the circumstance exactly in his memory. Tut proderead then to the house. The prisoner. IVin. 31anhall !sire, sheved him the pantry-window, and all round the house. I woe all in a state of intoxication at this time. ... Manure of the witness to say anything apinst his accom. P"?‘ Main became manifest, and the Judge warned him oh the asocumces it he did not speak the whole truth. . Ile tun bu t t i n to tears, and addrftsing the Judge said, to in 1 . .4 arfortanaie situation is which I am placed. 1 find it difficult 7' t ta tnywlr to la say thing against it. ~ fellow men at the bar ; qt Karns( ay h e art; it a my duty to do sa, and 1 mean to rt tie lath. I hope your Lordship will have mercy upon ...°- I mural, sorry for die men, for they are not persons of ' 4 Na Maraca " atr:tt J( ''. ° G g 101,1 him he, 118 a witness. could make no bargains chima . . owl or hulk, : be must tell the truth, or forfeit his urn h e ' r hscs7. they Nana tha proceeded with more Freedom to state, that y,,,,,Z r ‘ th t , t ,__Nset an the night in question, by previous concert, n ht, u m sscdflhe prosecutor, in whose scffire alarnholl rite welt v on a llihile had lived. They had provided themselves • canary implements of house-breaking; a stock and CIIIML *t• keit ight,_. k eys a dark lanthnm, ate. The prisoner t.hipww, ma himself heat entered the house; they went in at odor, which Cartwright pulled down. The latter p y , 7 4l.l* . i s Til l! the . Mentions . the articles of plate found in the v , i, ...,„Y. us small snide% such as silver milk jugs, and • 1 aa,11 1 ;1:na. Cartwnght then opened the back front door, tiO n A mrsnoll.•ho had lived in the prosecutor's aervice. The atiche _ remained outside in the lane. The prisoner, Mar v^ he reilnwo smeared out the door of his old master's lib 04 t ,,j'nts cash. A pick-lock was applied to the door. Mar. as a . c. -"7. said. `• I'll sheer you where the old man keeps his w. (, c.- Pao entering the room they found a desk, which • fa alit by the latter prisoner to the other Marshall-- Zll o, ml clothes was also handed out, which were afterward. 7. 4 "7. b eige adjoining a walL Marshall the elder then said • - A scan it. The cupboarel where the family plate was generally , cr se lea+rs " _ u l t astlenglot. was proceeding up the stairs, when us ,„.._,,_...,'" 11 11 1 at the top of the stairs, he said he thought i c , h;c7"ahes nd he did not go up. The figure WAS only an .. ne .mg out a lamp in its hand. It was then agreed that k i , ‘," Preceded tardier they should seareh the desk, and see s totta mi d T st, md ,•__ , - hey returned to the lawn, broke open the eyed L. nt sh st to moan fourteen SC notes, 4SI. in gold, and hi the '.12.7" ei • Tha property they secured, but left die papers a i 6 .,'"'‘. tia lleon the la 'crn. 'They returned to the house, and erh I_, ?I. they quitted and proceeded in the direction to- S i ih ,"7 „ : „ by Ilen.elhameted, and on arrival at St. A lban's, I,7 li : ittai h t r e ach which had just come up at the moment. :::simie-,,,Thr. gold aim before they got to Hemel- Yriloncr Cartwright had the bank Sc When I lten t .o .4 .l.,__on they gm it i the coach in t. John-street. .',. in p„,,_"" mil Proceeded to a court called Catherine Wheel nin,e.,. :opagite.strtet, to the house of a man named Barnett. hie Z., y e:p a ssed of the lank -notes and the plate. Witness had s el • or three times before, and recei I money of hint ht., stolen r.,4„. Barn ett . vei. 't, , '''n. kW. an _ . weighed the silver, and he k i , iiim, . 4out 0 7;11bee tux st. Witness received as his share of sa "4 - 11 ""ch Till ' n t t ether t they then parted for their re- Ink ki w_. the ter end of July. last year. witness Nea t . `. ' , mahout 6 ... _ g o .,__ „ Ps a pentleman residing at No. 48, Ilar. "" men he had lived as servant w•th a lady in 'rests to whom he attributed a ll his maim:wan. 'He Cron-examine( by the prisoner 3larshall the elder—The witness had known him aboot ten years, the priwatter having stood go4l_ father tax him, on one occasion, when it was neetwoary (orbit,' to hive a certificate of baptism, with a view at some property which ►e expected to inherit, but he had not been in the habit of seeing the prisoner limit the last tour months. He believed that the pri soner had never been concerned in soy other robber, but dds t never said that he was a thief fain his infancy. but he did once say, that his father. and he and some farmers had ►illed a deer which had got upon his hither's farm. His father had lived near Salisbury. Witness after that time went to Bath, when' he lived for seven 'Tani with a pocer named Pierpe.int. He admitted his having said to several prisoners in the gaol, that if he tmly gm clear out of the present business, he knee whet to get 1001., as his share of some Property which was (planted) hid. In saying this he alluded to the rubbery which hat been committed at the house of Mr. Pym, at Rodwell. in April last ; bitt the property having been since ills. covered, his expectations in this respxt were disappointed. The witness negatived a great number of questions put to him by the prisoner, tend:rig to show that he had plaired various other rob beries, and had eutleamared to seduce gentlemen's servants to rob their toasters. —.--.... The other prnionent asked the witness no questions. Several other wonesse. were then examined to prove other ports of the ea.e, in confirmation of the accomplice. • . The case far the prosecution being closed, the prisoners were me. rally called upon for their detente. The elder )larsujl, who had been servant to the prosecutor. de nied that he had. in point of fact, any share in the robbery, but he admitted that Ingram had met him at a house of call for servants oet of place, and asked him several questions respecting the family I and the house oldie prosecutor, conceiving that his obieet in so I doing was to get engdoyed in the prosecutor's service. Ile amen- I panied him into Hertfordshire on the day in question, and drank with him at several public.houses at Watford, but in consequence of their haying some dispute they parted in the evening, and be never had any participation whatever in the robbery with which be was charged. He called a person named Clark, a shopkeeper in Market-street, Haymarket, who gave the prisoner ao excellent character (or many years. The younger Marshal said nothing, but that he had been a ser- vant for a great many years in several respectable families, and lie , put it to the Jury whether it was probable that he should have par ticipated in the robbery in question. Cartwright said nothing. The Lemned Judge summed up the evidence with strict Impar. tlali:y, and left it to them to consider the guilt or innocence of the prisoners. The Jury considered of their verdict far about five minutes, and found an the prisoners C Death. Another charge against tlic prisoners for rol*ing the house of the Rev. Mr. Rm. a gendeutan of fortune, resitlirg at Itudwell, was not proceeded in. Ingram, the accomplice, applied to the Court to have thirty-nine sovereigns returned to him which had been found upon his person when he was apprehended, but the Learned Judge refused the ap plication, on the ground that the money was part of the proceeds of the robbery in Mr. Pyin*s house ; but his I.ordship ordered two watches, which were Lot identified, to be given up to him. OXFORD CIRCUIT. OXFORD ASSIZES, THURSDAY, JLLY 29. [Bsfo►t Mr.Justke I.ITTLEDALII9I CIVIL SIDE. _9lllll AND ANOTHER. EXECUTOR', OE MIS r. COZ. Mr. Cm oss opened the pleadings. 111 r. Jr: a els stated, that this was an action of trove, to recover the possession of a note fur one hundred pounds, which had be lamed to the testator. The testator, it would appear, we an ex tremely parsimonious old gentleman, who lived in a small house with only one female servant, who was, in fact, the wife of the de fendant. The testate himself appeated to think that all was not right with those about him, and a few days before his death those who became executors caused the defendant and his wife to be taken before a Magistrate, on a charge of improperly obtaining this note, when the wife said, in the presence of her husband, that it was given to her eight weeks before. This he should prove to be un:rue, as it ass in the testator's own hands at a later paiel than eight weeks before that examination. John Billing stated, I knew the testaor. On the 10th of De cember last I saw him; he was then in Sad health; he died on the 14th of January; he wished me to look over some notes of band; he took them out of his bureau ; he wished me to put them down in a book; 1 did so; I saw the note in question; the notes were replaced in the bureau. 1 also counted some sovereigns, a five pound note. and some silver, being in all 171. 14s. He said he had about 70 sovereigns up stairs. In the course of conversation he said, " some one may rob C." lie said be had 2501. Of 25411. more in the house. The defendant's wife was his servant. Frees time to out. I was at the house. The testator grew worse and worse, and after his death I aseissad the etsentestsin home few the maw end notes. We esultnet find the proni note in question. e found two 20/. notes, three one pounds, anti fifteen sovereigns and a half sovereign ; that was all we could find. Crose.examined by Mr. TAUNTOX.-1 am not related to the testator. The defendant's wife was very attentive to her muter, and had lived with him three years. I have heard him say he would take care of her when he died. He said he would provide for her. lie often promised me too, but 1 never got anything. This was about three quarters of a year before he died. He-examined—lt was before the deferdant's marriage. The marriage displeased him. I never heard him say he would do any thing for her after the maniage. Joseph Harper stated--1 saw the testator a short time before his death ; he said he wished his massy to be equally divided between them; but he did not say who be meant by the word them ; I asked him what muney he had ; he said eery little; but what he had was in very rod hands; I asked him in whose hands; he said be had 408/. in the hands of Godfrey and Chiddingworth, on notes, two of WO/. each, and one of 2Plk ; and that Godfrey and Chaundy had given two notes for lOW. each (one of these was the note in question): he enumerated various other notes and sonic bonds, and said the whole was between 8 and WO/. ; I saw none of these securities. The d..fentlant's wife Caine up stairs, and the ' coarersatios dropped; but the defendant's mother, who acted as his nurse, said that the defendant's brother had a right to have his will altered ; the defendant's brother, James, cattle into the room ; James Cox bad married a relation of the testator; this was on Christmas-day, about seven o'iloek in the evening. (hi the 2d of January I asked the testator if he had given ('ox any note of band ; he said he had nut; he asked why I wished to know; he retained his faculties up to the time of his death; I went to fetch the executors, who came to Oxford with their wives; the testator nests kept more than one servant; I bare often heard hint say, " the Coss shall never have iny motley to waste." 31r. Ilanntio, the elat to die magistrates, proved, that when th d:feridant was before the magistrates, nothing was taken down in writing. Mr. Harper's examination resumed—Before the magistrate, the defendant's wife said she had had the note given her a month be fore; they were before the magistrate about an staslult. The pkintid's Counsel here called for the production of the note. It was read; it was a note for 1001., payable to the testator or his order, and on the face of it was written, John Sims. John Penton stated, I keew the testator for forty years ; I know his handwriting; 1 btlieve the name, John Sims, to be of his hand-writing. Mr. Tat w Tim addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant, and obserreu, that the witness who was acquainted with the hand wr ring of the testator was not called to prove the name John Sims to be of his handwriting, but to prove that that name was forged ; that had completely tailed, as he trusted would every part of the plaintiff's case; but lie would dispose of the lace and ruffles of the ease before lie stripped off the shirt, and show the rotten carcase that it shrouded. The other party did not directly charge forgery against his client, but it was strongly insinuated, and such an in siim Mon was worse than a direct charge, because it was harder to falsify. But his case was this; he had clearly proved that the tes tator had often said he would do something for her, and lie should show that lie told other versuns that lie had done an; and as to his dislike of the Coes, the note was not given to tlieni, tut given to the defet dant's wite for services and attention she had herself yen dt red ; and he would prove that about a month before the testator's death he r-quested llewlet, his nurse, to help him into the room where the defendant's wife then was ; she did so, and he went to a human and got three notes of hand, and went up stairs. Eliza liulton was in the room at this time, and she will tell you that she Law the old man deliver two of the notes to Mary Cow, and the third, being the one in question, to the defendant's wife, Ante' ; Cox, to whom he said, " If I get better you must give me this again ; but if I never recover you may k rep it ;" and then taking up a pen, the old titan wrote the name John Sims on the front of I the rote: and if this was not a complete gift, his witnesses must be grossly perjured, and his client and his !amity must be guilty of theft, forgery, and conspiracy. They would hear his witnesses, and he had no doubt of a verdict being given in his favour. The I.,arned Counsel then called l'atherine Ilewet, who stated, about a week before the testator's death he asked Inc to help him to go into the parlour. I did so. Ile unlocked the bureau, and took out three notesof 111111. each. Ileread them to me, and lie took one and gave it to my daughter. I fetched him the pen and ink. Ile said lie was going to make presents of the notes. I left him 111114111 I had given him the pen and ink. I made his bed. and then returned; and she said .Mr. Sims has girth el , rO - die me a note for lOW. Crosa-examined by Mr. JE a v 15.—1 suppose he gave it her out arid out. I heard nothinv about its being returned. The testator said, she Was to take care of it. lie was not pleased with my er's marriage. Examined by the litgicr —I was not in the room when the rote was actually given. I did not see him write his name. I have seen the note since several times ; she has 'hewn it to me ; she shelved it to me because she was pleased with it. My hus band is alive; his name is Philip I saw my daughter read it to him. My husband can neither read nor trite—my daughter can 'write a little, but she rewind write well. 31 r. Sims, the testator, always kept the key of his bureau himself. My daugh. ter never kept it. Line B ohan, a g i r l of 13, stated, I am a relation of the testator. it I know the defendant's wife: she used to bt *errant of the testator. :tire.. flewlet was his curse. !remember the testate, coming into the bedroom of the defertuit's wk.. Mrs. Hewlett was with him. This way shoot n month Watt his death. When they came into the room, 3lr. Sims calks: foe • table and a t•en and ink, s "•i c h Mrs. Heyde hmught. He had three notes ; he wrote his name on them. Ile put his name at the bottom of the notes. Ile gave Mrs. Mary Cox two, 8:31 310.. Anne (:ox, the wife of the defendant, Moe. Mn. Heald was out of the nssii at this time. Mr. Sims said, " 111 gel weld, yon must give me them back again ; but if I , die, you may keep them." Mary (ot stated the circumstances nearly as they were detailed by the last um". Examined by the .1 vac E..—Mrs. Godfrey is not a relation of Mr. Sims. I have been warned three years. The plaintiff* are nephews t f the uatatur ; I did net give the note, to my husband then; he las got them now. I gave them to turn soon after. The notes were two of one hundred pounds each . • he gave me a bond about three days after to apprentice my little b.l. The reason I did not give the notes to my husband was, that Mr. Sinn desired I would not. :they Walker stated, I knew Me.ilims; I have often heard him say the defendant's wife wns a very faithful *errant to him, irsd be would give her something handsome. Mr. JF.RIII9 replied. Mr. Justice I.llTi.enAut summed up the evidence, and left it to the Jury to say whether they believed the witnesses called act the 1 1 part of the plaintiffs, or those called kr the defence. The Jury, after a few minutes deliberation, found a verdict fbr the deferthuit. !isiten the (hand Jury were charged, his Lordship thought there was luirtlh a possibility of his being aeluitted. Alta, a very impresaive admonition from the Learned Judge the prhainer was discharged. We heard that the prisoner had been before indicted for a similar offence, Jeltdekale Taker was indicted for sterling a sheep, the property of Thomas Salmon. Mr. Kings was tasting the case, when the learned Judge asked. him whether he was aware that the ;misuser was totally blind ? Mr. EDEN answered in the negative. The prosecutor proved that his sheep was killed in his field, and • part ui the mat stolen ; and that some mutton was after. wards tound in the prisoner's bed. The meat so found carte specdtd in quat•.tity with, the p'.rts that had been taken away. The prosecutor stated, that he believed that the prisoner was not blind. Whtn the Learned Judge asked. the prisoner if he had any questions to put• to thiapro.ecutor. lie answered in the negatiter but we o b served, on looking carefully at the prisoaer's eyes, that though his face was turned toward% the Learned Judge, his ever rolled shout without being directed to any object, as those of ► blind person often do. . . _ A b'utcher proved that the different pieta of the meat four d corresponded with the meat left. But in answer to a question by the Learned Judge. he stated, the only reason for his saying it corresponded was, that it wait of the lame cuisine; the joints were so mangled that they could not couspate than. The Learned Judge then directed an acquittal; sod after the verdict was found. . se Governor of the gaol stared that the Int ✓anet wail totally blind. co: r. GIMP. Jr. Cuawonts spend the pleadings, and stated, that this was an action for an assault. . Mr. TAUNTON stated, this was an action brought by the Quar tcv-Master of the Oxfivdshire Militia., and the defendant was a master builert in Oxford. The parties met, with other persons, et the Vine Tavern the 11th of May last. The Jury were, no doubt, aware. that at the coronation of his Majesty the Corporation of Oxford prearnted his Majesty (as is Customary) with three maple cups, receiving in return the bontrur of a gold cup, which is pre sented the Mayor of Oxford. This was spoken of at this tavern, and the defendant spoke very irreverently of the King, and the plaintiff said, " You are MA a fool for laying so. " On which the defendant said, " If yea say so again I will knock you down." The plaintiff did say ae main, and received a blow which loosened several of his teeth, -a- d made him ill for some time after. 31r. John Curtis statedLl was with these fatties at the Vine Tavern • there were three et four more there. The Coronation was spo ken of, sod the Maple Cups. l o offence had been g r ven by the plaintiff to the defendant. The defendant said •• Tire Corporation of Oxford have agent a great deal of money belonging to the woor Freemen, to put the crown on sculs a • • • as that. He said he was better coif then the King, as he could go to his cupboard and get what he could, but the King could only have what his servants gave him. The plaintiff on this said, you are but a fool for saying so; and the defendant said, if you say so again I will knock your head off The plaintiff said, you are a d—d fool, and the defendant gave him a blow, and the blood gushed out of his mouth and nose. The defendant was going to beat him more, but 31r. Wyatt took him away. The plaintiff at the time he received the blow, was looking towards Mr. Wyatt. Cross-exaniined—l don't know that the defendant was drill-ser jeant of the Oxford Volunteers. I never saw these parties drink together. It was at five o'clock in the evening on the 14th of May. The defendant Grub was drinking. Box was not. Grub asked him to drink wine, and he refused. Wyatt anal Cox drank to. tl Mr. Wyatt is a member of the Corporation. Mr.eth" one Grub said he was happier than the King, for he could make a • glass of gin and water, but the King could not do that, and could only have what his servants gave him. Ke-examined—Cox is quartered at the house. and he called the defendant a fool, because he used such improper language about the King. Mrs. Fanny Maryets—l remember the day after this occurred the plaintiff came to my house and complained of being unwell. He laid in bed all day, and said his teeth were very loose from a blow. Cmss.examined—l keep the tap of the Cross. That is Quart.- ter-31aister Cox (pointing to an elderly gentleman in black.) He encoded the tight between Spring and Langan. The Split Crow is another name for the Vine tavern. Mr. J ERV I s addressed the Jury for the defendant. Mr. Justice LITT LEDAI. E summed up to the Jury. and ob served, that though the immediate cause of the blow was the plain tiff calling the defendant a fool ; yet that was provoked by the de fendant using some highly improper language of the King, which he must know the plaintiff, as a military man, would resent. The Jury found fur the plaintiff, with one shilling damages. Mr. TAUNTON obseryzd, that tome of the Jute's had not joined in the verdict. _ _ _ The assocaate—Avv you all agreed, Gentlemen ? 31r. Cu swoon—One of the gentlemen says " No." Mr. Justice LIT T LEDALT—I'OU must consider of your verdict. The Jury consulted together for a few minutes, and found a rm. diet for the plaintiff —Damages Is. Mr. TAUNTON' applied to the Learned Judge to grant his certi ficate to entitle the plaintiff' to his costs, which his Lordship said he would do before the Assizes were concluded. CROWN SIDE, FRIDAY. Bc,tiire Mr. Justice Pane. Sainte? Kasai was indicted for cutting and maiming George &infield, with intent to murder him. Mr. Carves stated the case. George Barelield stated on the ith of June last I was at a public house, about a mile from Cavertham ; it nu Whit-itemday i about isitlf-post 10 1 en out to Genuine', where 1 bee in company with Elizabeth and Catharine Hawkins, who are mother and daughter. and Robert Hatt, and another man, whose name I do not know ; we overtook the prisoner, and Joh n Home, T. Crry. and Walter Warret ; I don't know what begun it, bat we all got lighting toge ther; it was about a young wonting kips ahem Elizabeth Haw kins ; the prisoner pulled her abotie r l f Lesu la k her part, and we all got fighting ; I fought with the ;,M ran away, and I ran atler him, and overtook him ; f n. and he fell on me, and cut me; 1 fell accidentally, and he fell backwards on me; he then cut me over the back ; I turned on my back, being in great pain, and he cut me on the side t I bled math. Croswezamined by 3lr. RWOOD-1 had been at the Black. hone revel ; we had been drinking ; as semi as lie affronted E: ta beth Hawkins we got to fighting ; 1 was the best man, and be ran away. On Tuesday, the remains of the Baron de Itfontesquieu, of Bridge ill House, were de:posited in a vault in Bridge church. The Baron was an heretlitlry Marshal of France, of an ancient family of Guienne, and descendant of the il lustrious Montesquieu. Napoleon restored bis paternal estates, which had been coatiscated during the French Re volution, from a regard to the memory of his ancestor. — Kent Iletald. ATTEMI'r TO ASSASSINATE AT THE ROYAL Ex ' CHANFF.—A most violent semistion was excited amongst the assembled multitude of English And foreign merchants at the hour of high 'Change yesterday afternoon, on the appearance of a ruffian (shabbily dressed, and apparently ' in the occupat'on of a mechanic), who rushed into the en , trance from Cornhill, whit a pistol in his hand, which he hastily presented at a mercantile gentleman (Mr. Archer) I with inttnt to destroy him, as lie levelled it at his breast, instantly pulling the trigly,er ! It was the business of a moment ; but providentially the pistol httrig fire, or the immediate destruction of Mr. Archer was inevitable. The lassassin was instantly secured, his arms pinioned, and de livered over to two of the attending officers on 'Change. , Upon examination, the pistol proved to be heavily loaded. I Mr. Archer has no knowledge of the ruffian, who was con- I veyetl to the Mansion-llouse to await the Lottl Mayor's directions, where he now remains in the custody of the officers. RLSTOR•TION OF TRANQUIL! ITY.--The DeNin Ga zette, of Tuesday night (says an Irish paper) contains three new proclamations by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, by which the Insurrection Act is re moved from the city and county of Limerick—from the Baronies of Clanwilliam, Owneybetr, Coonah, and Small County, and the Liberties of Kilinallock, in the said county—and fiem the county of Kerry. The proclama tions state that the districts in question are restored to tranquillity. These proclamations are all dated at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 24th day of July, 1824, and signed " Manners, C. W. Dublin, William 51•Mahon, W.C. Plunket, J. RadclifFe, ii. Uoulburn." We observe that the Bishop of Chichester's valuable li brary is to be sold at the Auction Mart, by Mr. Williams, in the course of next week. We call the attention of our readers to M. Douville's Frzneh Grammar, just published, in two volumes ; the first contains, exercises admirably adapted to the quick attain ment of that elegant language. The second forms a col lection of sentiments most used in conversation, with notes, letters of clmpliments, business, and a number of choice pieces of poetry. The general approbation which has been bestowed upon the first number of Views in Austerlitz, and the extraor dinary degree of patronage with which the work has been already honoured, have stimulated the Proprietors to re newed efforts, in the hope of rendering each future num ber more and more worthy of the extraordinary encou ragement it has received. With this design, they have determined (without incrersing the prise) to call in the aid of the copper-plate engraver, in order that the accurate and highly-finished drawings of Mr. Lycett may be pre sented to the pribitrieffh that full and complete erect of light and shade in every part of the plate, which expe rience has taught them, it is almost impossible, with the nicest care, always and uniformly to produce by the art of Lithography. In the second number, the view of New cattle, in New South ‘Vales, and that of Mount Drome dary, in Vast Dieman's Land, it will be perceived, are en gravings on copper. as in future the whole will be ; and the most zealous endeavours of the proprietors will be ex erted, that every successive number shall be an improve ment on the one preceding it.-73, St. Paul's Church-yard, Ist August, 1824. The lands in the levels between Ilehester and Bridge water, Somerset, being frequently inundated, to the great loss of the proprietors, it has been resolved to apply to Par liament for an Act to improve the river Parrott, so as to prevent the frequent inundations of the lands on its banks. On Sunday evening a boat, near Hastings, with 40 tubs was fired on by the Coast Blockade ; one man was killed, and the remaining three, in attempting to escape, were drowned. Elizabeth Hawkins.—l was in tympany tint' Barefield, Hatt, two children, and my mother. floe of the children is a baby. I carried it in my tums. We overtook the prisoner and some others. I did not see who began, but 1 saw the prisoner strike Bluefield a blow ; whether he had received a blow first or not I do not know. But before any of this happened the prisoner had laid hold of my shoulder, and Ilarefield took my part. I gave nay mother the baby. and, as the rest went on. I saw the prisoner lift up his frock, and I soon after heard Barefield hallo " murder !" three times, and I went to assist him. Ile was then on the ground, and the prisoner on hint. At the time I saw the prisoner pull up his frock Bare- field was six or seven yards from barn. The prisoner had a knife in his hard. When the prisoner got from off the prosecutor, be said— " I hare done murder, — and began to run. Cross.exanained by Mr. Cuawoon.—They seamed together, and the prisorer ran away, and the prosecutor followed him. At this time the prisoner had no knife. Catherine Hawkins, mother of the last witness.—As we were. renting along, Kessal meddled with my daughter's shawl, which she did not like, as we lied rot been drinking with them. We heard a cry of flaunter !" and my daughter gave her child to me, and tan to Ilarelield's assistance. Mr. Harris examined.—l am a surgeon at Reading. I saw Barefield between twelve anti one o'clock at night at Carenham. He is not a minks! mar. lie was not in bed or undressed. He was supported by uveml persons. There was a wound on his shoulder six inches tong and going down to the bone. It was an incised wound—a cut. I then found ♦ wound in the hollow of the I side, between the hip-bone and the lower ribs ; and, on further examination. I found a smaller wound near It, as if this hail been a first cut which had not taken effect. The wounds were certainly dangcrous. Bluefield remained in danger for eight days. He was much reduced from loss of blood, but was not insensible. The wounds At the assizes for the county of Rutland which com menced yesterday, there were not any prisoners for trial, but it was expected (from the renirei) that as many as five or six law causes would be entered. I mroar•xx Cssr.—At the Dublin Police, on Mon day, 26 instant, an elderly man. of gentlemanly ap pearance, was brought before the Magistrates of the Head Police Office, when Mr. Gibbons, of the firm of Williams and Gibbons, Notaries Public and Stork-brokers, of this city, stated, that the prisoner had represented himself as a West Indian merchant, and brought them a letter of in troduction from Messrs. Large and Adams, of Cork: that in consequence of that letter, they discounted for him two , bills for 2,2501. each, purporting to be drawn by Messrs. Joseph Haythorne and John Wright, of Bristol City Bank, at forty days date, from 26th Jnne, on Sir Peter Pole, Bart., and Messrs. Thornton, Free, Down, ' and Scott. Bankers, of London, and endorsed F. Burke. The bills wire ofilred to Gibbons and Wiliiatnr, on the 16. h, and the money was paid to prisoner on the 17th inst. I After remitting the bills to London, Messrs. Gibbons and Williams were advised, by Messrs. Coutis of Lon : don, that the bills were protested for non-acceptance as forgeries. On Monday a young man in the employ of Gibbons and Williams, having occasion to go to Lord Neweorr.int's Bank, discovered the prisoner skeins in the office, and waiting to receive bills on London fo 4,000.1 in Irish notes, and in consequence the prisoner was arrested and brought before the Magi►trates. On being searched, there was found upon him 2401., and Lord Newcomen's bank received a caution not to pay the 4,0001. laway. The prisoner stated that there must be some prat I mistake in London as to the bills. The :Magistrate corn ' witted him to Newgatc for further examination. The l'alriol states, that this person " went by the name of Burke, of Newbridge."—Doblia F,eeman's Journal. were not healed till within this week. The large wound on the body was near ten inches long. Francis Ifolyland, a constable of Reading, Meted, I took the tri mmer ;he produced the knife—it was a large clasp knife, about eight inches long; it had been newly ground, and there werespots of blood on the handle. The prisoner said to me that he did not take out the knife to cut Vareficld, but to cut a stick out of the hedge, and if any one went to the place the stick would be found. I accordingly went there and minutely examined the plate, but there is no hedge at all for a considesabledistance—that is, for near a quarter of a mile ; I could tint no stick • 1 knew the place by the quantities of blend. H are em b e i n g recalled, stated, there was no hedge near the place; the prisoner could not have gone to any hedge. Mr. Harris also stated there wen no hedge. He, Craw/ion contended, that this Indictment could not be supported, because it was necessary, to support such an indictment as this, to show that if death had mums' it would have amounted to the crime of murder. Now here, the parties in the heat of blood p Into a conflict on equal terms, and they being on heated, one draws a deadly weapon and kills the other,this would be, if death ensued, manslaughter, and not murder. The Learned Gentleman then entered into an elaborate argument on the distinctions between mur der and manslaughter, and cited several eases decided by the twelve Judges, and at the 01.1 Bailey. one of which, decided by Mr. I Justice Bailey, was precisely similar to the present. eI7A-5102 1111E111. Mr. Carols contended, that this case was distinguishable from Dress of levantine or gros dc Naples. of a pistachio colour, with those cited by 31r. Curwood. five hyoid folds in bias across the border. each headed by a names, The Learned J r net E thought the ease bad better go to the .1u silk cordon of beautiful rose colour; the corsage made a k to , and he would make such observations the law a the case as the with falling divided cape, narrow, and elegantly pointed at the env ciremnstances required. I net, nf the same noueriel as the truss. French long sleeves, en 31r. Cr aw onto then called John Hawes. who Said, that he was gigot; the part from the wrist to the elbow sitting close to the arm. in company with the prisoner, and stated, I saw she scuttle, but and corliieed by bands corded with rose colour. The waist incireled did not see particularly what took place. by a bend, the same material as the dress, bound with a narrow eon leau nse coloured satin, with a rosette in front. Fine muslin Thomas Gray stated, I saw the light, but not aU of it. It was moonlight. petticoat trimmed with Urling's lace. Bat of pink pop de Naples, The prisoner, in his defence, m id b y w as men/vim,' and ran ; the crown ornamented with satin, in treillage work, and full blown away. roses with follep on the summit. Lappits to the hat of rise pure . ttat The Learned Jrnc r said it was important for the, ury to de. in bias Kid and gloves. cide, whether ths running away was only feigned. and to give an l EVIENING coarse. opportunity to the prisoner to craw his knife, with a wicked in. I Ikea of white gauze lime, with superb horsier, en treillage, of tention of returning to stab the other; or whether he was really Vie lightest shade of rose colour, each •eseau edged with narrow running away from an opponent of superior force, and fearing that silver cordon. The corsage rade plain, beautifully marking out he shoutd Le overtaken and injured, be turned round in the heat the contour, with a trimming round the bust to correspond with of blood to defend himself, that of the skirt. Mancluvons of treillage work, uniting with the Tbe Jury, having consulted together for a considerable time,' ornament tourist she bust. Rich ecinture of a tidiest. pink silver said. they thought lie ran away for his own safety. gauze placed on the left side. Sicilian hat of rose trnnsparent net His Lordship then charged the J ury to acquit the prisoner, which edged with silver. Feathers shaded with pick. The hair arranged they immediately did. in full curls (on each side of the hue). on which are seen a few His Lordship then observed, that if the prisoner had been found white roses slightly intermingled with blood. Earrings, necklace, guilty to his satisfamion he must hare been left for execution ; and and armlets of pearls. FASHIONS FOR AUGUST. 'From tie World of Far!don and Coml;nerflol renilltioas.] LAY iNTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CUANCERY, Fitmai-, JULY The Court was occupied all day en a motion for the remora! pr. a receiver for abusing his powers. Judgeseot be give* es Monday. 1 COURT OF gIRONRE NM. GUILDHALL, rIIIDAY, JvLt 30. FALAN IMPRISiDN3IENT. BRADLEY V. •RTHII2. . L. _ _This was so anion brought by the plaintiff. lair Lieutenant 'Colonel of the lid Went India Regiment, to recover from the de fendant, late Colonel of the York Chasseure, comet wenhon in Oh mage% for having been illegally arrested, gild impruioncel for ten months in Honduras. _, The ease toe the plaintiff was conducted by Mr. lbougham, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Camerae t and the defence was conducted by the Attorney-General, Mr. Gurney, and Park. Mr. Cement's opened the pleadings. The defendant first pleaded the general Pate n There were besides 47 plena, stating In defferan forms that die defendant being Commaader of Hie Majesty's troops in Mellen's, was justified on *creating the rah,- tiff, who was then a m i i i t i t y o ffi cer under bpi counreerW, and even had then been guilty of disobedience of orders. The plan:eel; by his replication, denied those pleas, and upon that home w-s joined. Mr. BROUGHAM—The plaintiff, whom be had the honour t 3 represent, was a gentleman who, after • lug eenuct„ having main tamed on unimpeachable character, had at toe eitn3, by ?"" ee't exertions, attained In th e rank of locutenant•Colonel i n his 31a. jest's army, which he entered at a very early period Of lire. and during his service had exposed himself to all the vicissitudes of a military life, in that barb of the serene wheel) was MIL dal with the least reward, and taut calmed to atsconifiture—he meant the West India service. Colonel Bradley obtained his promotive, nee by wealth, nor by the interest of powerful friends, *hid he was much afraid was the causeof the remotion of many, but by merit. land by that alone. In the West Indic" the plaintiff served his King for t i a t i s r;:x . years, actively, diligently, and with a slasicattee without b lanish. In the year 1818, when be (the plaintiff) ass a Major of long standing, he was ordered wi th a detachment of his metterrent to the settlement of Honduras, at which plasm be found In command the present defendant, Col. Arthur, who mead is the double ca pac ity of Civil Superintendent of the Colony sad lema e totiant-Coel of the York Chancery, which weft not at tbet time stationed at /laridonesond the plaintiff's detechtnent of cultic was under the command of the defendant, who was thek a superior officer as full pay. lie believed no man ever yiti led. a more full and ready obedience to his superior otfcem, or went farther to compel those over whom he had command, to pay oee thence to their superiors thee the plaintiff: Nay, he might go far ther, and say that the plaintiff went further, because he went be. yond the line of his duty, so inxioui was he to discharge his ditty ; and un one occasion the inhabitants of the settlement voted to Line and the men under his command, a suiu of money for their seri ices in clearing sway pan of the forest, and draining and rendering ha; bitable a surrounding swamp. The thanks the plaintiff accepted& but he declined the money. Ile mentioned this circumstance merely to thew that the plaintiff was the last man against whom any Cilia I.J of disobedience of orders could with propriety be iron east ; yet ace it was, that a charge of this kind was the origin of the present act oi . the circumstances of which he should now eine into detail. le the early part of 1819, information had reached Honduras of the contemplated disbanding of the York Chaseretrx, and it .wait the subject of frequere conversations with the defendant, who them, in common with the other officers, was of opinion that he would Ipso facto be deprived of all military coalman?. 1 because, being on the half-pay, he could not be a military offices. apd therefore could hot exercise any military authority. The Vote Chanters ware disbanded in August, 1819, and the commend and charge of the forces naturally fell upon the plaintiff, who *as then senior officer . of the colony. When information of tee diseadding bad reached . Honduras, the plaintiff naturally expected that the den:Want would of himself deliver up the command, and the plaintiff was of course delicate about reminding the defendant of the situation eetifett lEir reduction had placed him In. One morph. two menths, throe months passed after it was well known that :he Voile (-Teasers had been disbanded, and the defendant still exercised supreme military command in the Colony. The plaintiff at length Neese les consider the situation in which he was placed, and the re-mouth/thy which be incurred by not taking the liability *hid, would attach to Nee for anything which might go wrong to the Colony, tied he Pc'eetil *ugly remonstrated with the defendant, who upon ng occasion al leged his right to retain the cominah , het intleljesaid s elist he had gent for instructions to England, and that he had Oat yet riches lee them. The plaintiff stiff forbore, hat considering that he bail done many acts under the command of the defendant. who had is fact no military power, he so the eld of nay, 18M, waited upon, him, said that he considered himself the military commander, mei that he could not receive any more orders Rom the defendant, un• lees he chewed his commission, or stated by *hat Lethality he acted. What did the defendant do ? lilies his commiatilon or state 'to the plaintiff upon what authority he acted ? No, no, no such Ibe teak what in &Jitney life wall a nneel course. He em hider commanding all the garrison officers to assemble at MN. To do what? To state to them that he bad god a mmenholon from England? No, he got together what a.e get together in a large building at 1 estminster-4e got together a set ofdebsters, and imitating the ennicrier of the people of great building at Westninster, he stated to them in a speech the et bit ~hem Mt = and, de an Irnereee t = WI at Weistavienter,tne ase re l meed in nonessr . to sleet him as their ommuandant e avid tiny agodemody did so. A society of de ettir.g soldiers was Ins beta solecism be on, language ; in fact, such a society was Meanie pstibh with ear military institutions, which made it imperative on soldiers to obef„ sod not to discuss ; but when a society of soldiers have mixed with civilians, and proceeded to conferse preme command upon eny man, then indeed was the moment lot Glenn. This society. which the defendant charmed by his rhetoric, and convinced by his logic, consisted of seven military officers of the gartison, twe. amide (ant commissaries, sod the 'mensal chaplain. The plaintiff also re; seised a sasmoons to attend this meeting. Indeed be could not sae a sehaessma, because it commenced with.—" You are regoested, ' ant bat such as it was, it was delivered to hint, and lie declined going to the Government House, unless the defendant should pro mise that he would state by what authority he cm:reeled the so. wee military command. When this military conclave was ai. ambled, the defendant, in order of course to give them time to consider of the important objects for which they were coovened, despatched two of his officers to the plaintiff, to order him to attend at the meeting. This order the plainti ff said he woule not obey, unless the defendant would contleneend to state by what authority be acted. This refusal having been conveyed to the defendant, be again despatched the officers, with inn/yeti-as to angst the plaintiff, if he refused to obey the niter. The plain. tiff again tensed to comply, except upon the conditions which he had before proposed, and the officers immediately deprived him of his sword, and put him under close arrest ; that wet confined him in an unhealthy disagreeable climate to one small mom. One would have thought that the defendant, having dune this, would have read the Articles of War, and hare seen that it was impera tive on him to bring an officer to a Court-martial within eight dais ' after his green, or within as short a period as possible. But na ; this self-proposed and military elected l'otuntander-in-Chief die. dained to look at the Ankles, and took his own time to forward a deepen* to the head-quarters at Jamaica, where he at last sett: one, to which an answer was received from Iles:tend Walker, then in command, on the 3d of August, 1129, directing that the close arrest should be altered to arrest at large, that was, that instead of being confined in a narrow room the plaintiff wee permitted to have all the range of the garrison. The plaintiff had when this order arrived front (emend Walker, suffered seventy-fire days of close imprisonment, whereas, if the defendant had sued due del:- genee, the plaintiff might either have been see t toJamaica to be trine or officers might have come to Houduras to try hint. After this, the Jury would, of curse, think that the defendant took active steps to bring the plaintiff to trial; but no such thing, not a Angie step was taken for that purpose. In the Noven.ber following the defendant received a letter from sir Herbert Taylor. stating that his Royal Highness the Duke of York had reeminnendsd to his Memory to dismiss the platutiff from the snake. Nos, surely the defendant, having thus received such infonnatigo, immediately said, "This is enough to convince me that the plain. tiff is no longer a military man." But no, no SIAM thing; be must waft for an ofilcial communication, forsooth; and in March following, that communication having been made, the plaint:lC was treed from arrest, after having been derived of his tenet fie upends of ten months. The plaintiff immediately . lisstowsi to England, depressed is spirits. and nearly begg ut ared pocket. to lay before that Illustrious Perannage who was ever ready to hear the complaint of the humblest soldier, and to allied him re deem, on account of his sufferings, but, unfortunately fur him. that application, which, if made earlier, would have insured him le dress, was disregarded, not, he would admit, from any bed feel. ing towards the plaintiff, but because theme was formerly decided upon, when that Illustrious Personage mull only : lodge from the imperfect written statement of the plaintiff, opposed by the officially and carefully drawn up statement of the defendant. supported by the oral explanations of his Mende at home. To the unwillingness to again investigate a case which had been de cided upon, after hearing these two unequally matched statements, and to nothing else, did he attribute the non success of the plain. tiff, who was therefore driven to the only resource lett so him— namely, an appeal to a Jury of his countrymen, for the very Pa ' dequate and insufficient compensation which they could ailitel him for the lose of that situation which was the well-earned rewiud of long, dangerous, and meritorious services, and of that ultimate remotion and rank in hi prokesion, which was the highest am bition of every honourable soldier, And to which the plaintiff legi. Ornately aspired. Having now plainly, and without entourage. stated the sufferings of the plaiotiff, he should beg to ofer a few obeerratiane upon the difficult situation in which the plaintiff watt placed by this conduct. and by the matinee in which the proeectiegs 'in this cause had been condoned. He did not mean to ear, that in that quarter from which emanated all the rewards of military scr. vices, any thing like a bad feeling towards the plaintiff' extsesse but an opinion that such a feeling eeisted was very general in the military profession, and therefore worked to the plaintiff As much injury as if the opinion had been wellegundete torn a.i or being, as it was, erroneous. The plaintiff route nut, on that ac count, have had that advantage which plaintiffs generally had, of communicating with his witnesses beforehand, and knowing what they could prove; he was obliged to summon them to give el derce in a came in which their evidence might, in their opinion, work :o their prejudice. Although he knew this opinion was wrong, still he could not marvel unseb that It was roast aiming military men. when they saw what had , namely, that the defeuelsitt had. instead of beingewprirraaM, smoked promotion. and that the plain. tiff wan dismissed the servos. Me wished he could as *meiy sari it that in no abet publ i c depmhuent did the defenclaie Fevre' e sup port, but he rill not do so when he saw the Solicitor for the trea sury conduct the delleem, and in support of that defenac the (it i •1 I $ll . • it; 1. , . 1 ; A . . ) • il , 11 .. I I It i, i k! 1 • i • ill • , I li 14 i ; 1 . . . . 1 • , Vt . 1' i,, i „ '1 . . L-.. il I 1 ~i - t f I _: