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SUs.F.IC ASSIZES. LEWES, JOLT 30. Mr. Baron Hal- lIANI and Mr. Serjoant RUM NINO. ros arrived at this town, on Saturday evening, and o pened the Commission ; this morning they pro- ceeded to business. On the Civil Side, nine causes were entered fee trial, three of which vvere Special Juries, but they were all for assaults aad obstruetions on Revenue ID:ncers, and none of the causes are worth any de tailed report. CR:f AVM SIDE. Before Mr. :stricane RLNNINGTON. CHILD MURDER. Mara Gear, a gir I of seventeen. was indieted for the wilful murder o f her female bastard child, by El:rowing it down t' ie privy and suffocating it. S ara h Stamford said she kept the Anchor public house at Ringmoo r, in this county, and that the otironer lived servant with her in March last. On C !ch day of t! rat month, as she was passing the !-1. , . , 111 door !here the Prisoner slept, she heard I.er :•. • tning as tl rough in great pain. She went in to is tre what 'etas the matter; the girl said she was very ill, and that she had hurt herself by lilting large keeler (a h oiler). The Witness got her some warm gin and seater, and she said she felt herself better Soon afterwards, about eight in the even in r, the Piffles ; went up into the room again, and v....; surprised tit finding the Prisoner not there. She immediately went into the garden, and met midi her coming from thence. Suspecting what Led happened,. she asked her where was the child ? Vie girl imnicidiately replied, it was down the privy. Mary Stamford, the daughter-in-law of the last Witness, confirmed the above statement. Charles Stamford stated that he was in the gar den on the Bth. of March, in the evening, and he heard something, as it were digging. at the back of the privy ; afterwards hearing what had hap pened, he searched the place, and found a new born male child. James Moor, a Surgeon at Lewes, stated that he was called in to examine the child—he found it with out any symptoms of putrefaflion—there was a small Lceration of she scalp, behind the left ear, above that a small hole, through which a part of the hair had oozed out ; but there was no extravasation of blood, or any thing which could lead him to sup pose that any violence bad been used to terminate the life of the child. The lungs were florid and healthy, and seemed to have imbibed atmospheric air ; Lut, he said, that was no decisive proof that the clald was born alive. The Learned Serjeant who tried the cause told the Jury, that they first ought to be satisfied th. t the child was born alive, before they pronounces the Prisoner guilty of murder. He then recapitulated the evidence upon this point, and observed, that there was not a single tittle which went to demon state that the child was live b fn. If they were of this opinion, their next duty would be to say, whe ther she had concealed the birth, which would sub jetct her to another of punishment. And he coofessed, from the manner in which she answered to the interrogatory of her mistress, where the child was ? declaring. that it was down the privy, that he thougin there was hardly sufficient evidence to find her guilty of this part ut the case. The Jury, with soma hesitation, found her gene rally Not Gast*. Thomas KeJneiy, a soldier in the I lith regiment, was infieled for a burglary and violent assault upon William Marin, at the Parish of Icklesham. In this ea.e, which was of a very aggravated na ture, the evi 'ence was chietiv circumstantial. The Prisoner, a d some other soldiers, had been in the habit of using the house of the Proscutor, who was what is called in this county, a fair trader (that is a smuggler) who sepplied the soldiery with spirits, &c. and some time in February last they had behaved with a great degree of riotousness, for which they were s otenced to a severe punishment by a CA1(04411141. Till> was however remitted upon the appli :a:103 of Martin. The prisoner from this time conceived a design of revenge against the Prosecutor, and, it was proved, fiequently urged a man of thenarne of Wafer to break into his house, and not only to rob him, but alai to brat him severely. On the right of the 2d of Mty the proisecutor arid his wife being both in bed, where awakened by seve ral heavy blows : uotwithstanding their cries, they were continued ; the is ife had her arm broke, her bands and aides dreadfully bruised ; and in their retreat the villains Carried off a watch and other ar ticle.. They could not identify the prisoner ; but one of the persons supposed to he the prisoner spoke with an Irish accent, and wore soldier's cloaths. When the alarm was given at the barracks, which was done immediately, the prisoner was found in bed, a; though not having been out that night; but the serjemr, searching about the bed, found his Ineezi.es concealed under the bed, the seat of them Le rig very much dirtied and mudded ; and looking round, they discuyered that amass had evidently got ern Oi a window and had slid down a window frame, wh•ch would have the effeff of dirtying the cloaths in it as his were. It was also proved, that a person • keht 1 w as seen a's-iitt that street on the riutside of , Lebar:Af:s.-1 he Salty f, uri lam Credo. J W tU P 3 ha sp be by tl, Fl T.O 01 iil ra RI bi 2 TCI tic . • 011 ♦; rn t; 131.1 L. 3 rt. vi l lit ;It ..1 1., I , • , • . 1: te ii. • v iiLREFI)RD TN! 1C1,V3 v. LLIAS JINICIMS. At the Hereford Ass zes on the 2tith inst. was belute Mr. Justice LAWRENCE, and a Special an information filed ex rjrcio by the Attorney t'beral, a• the instance of the Honourable the :nimissioaers for the affairs of Taxes, against a Ix. Elias Jenkins, an Atterney, at NeAth, in Gl.l - for a misdemearotir in obsti ucling the C c: , ..aissirncrs excels ing the Property Mt for the 1 :! ...died Nuath, in the ciezution of their duty. . 1 e Defendant pleaded not Guilty to tlw irfor n'ittr t, and resisted the prosetiiti.in. Hut the Jury tea...d the Defendant G!.-."..% I" the Crivrt rf Charccry yesterday mrrning el? , filter c cf the Case of Dc MA N. ':" t 4:1,1 Vs tie was agial postponed ti:i ihurs •—a n:: '"e a;rs of the rile de Per. t. of 110 guns, e - , '*; , bred i n a fer• d.tys Sqetsr-onth, • Adn..•4t ittswatt.is t:•'.!! prneeeTto resame m . a.ard ui the Channel &.t. *fist gallaqt ••• L. at bc.use near Lynn.;gton, '• to c.anie to town. . MIDDLESEX ELECTION. . Eton Ts, DA v.—During the early part of the Jay, the votes were considerably in favour of Mr. Main vraring ; but at the close of the Pull, both Candi dates appeared to have polled an equal number, there being announced For \J,. Moovraring For Sr Franci.Burd.rtt. . . . 2030 Majority for Mr. Miinwaring . 64 Sir Fa ANCIS BURDLTT as usual stepped forward, amidst the plaudits of an exulting populace, and delivered the following speech : " Gentlemen, you will see, with considerable sa tisfaCtion, that, notwithstanding every advantage that can be used against us, our poll rem.iins this day equal, and the majority the same as yesterday. When I say this, I can speak to the Freeholders in the language of success, and insure the event of this contest. I have to state, that were it not for the multiplied obje!lions which have been made to my votes, I should have stood at the head of the poll; I do not say this loosely, I have forty votes thrown out by the Sheriff, most of which I hope to have established. I beg leave to return my thanks to the Freeholders, many of whom have been obliged to return without voting, and have met with inconvenience ; but I hope they will not consider such inconvenience of much magnitude, when they refled that their exer tions are intended to assert the Liberty and Inde pendence of the county, or resign it for ever nuo the Sands of Contra tors, Magisterial and Ministe rial Jobbers (Lied end rower' 'philtres, sod (relent's. rims of Burden for erer !) I say, if they consider the cause in which we are engaged, they ought not to feel any trivial inconvenience. It is no less than the freedom of our Constitution ; and, although I am sorry for any loss or prevention in their respec tive avocations, by an attendance here, yet I hope they will treat the same with indifference, and, by coming forward to-morrow, join in nobly defending ;heir honour, their independence. and eledive fran chises (laid Nordin). I am obliged to make a few observations on the very scurrilous and foul calumnies cast on my character and those of my friends. the freeholders who have voted in my fa vour, in an advertisement published by my op ponent : with all that modesty peculiar to youth, he describes the Freeholders in my interest to be a set of raggamuffins, having no votes, and me as the leader of a set of vagahonds—(Mary rliAe ennui here ercloissed, Do nu w ref Moe, we win/ dr►rg you thrsksh is trireitA!) Such insinuations, however, I trust. will operate so as to become a stimulus on your part to increase the spleen of my adversary, by producing similar majorities to those which have displeased him. (Hesse! hu-sa! drew!) " Gentl %nen ! in off. ring myself here as a candi date, I must observe, ttst no man will disdain to be assisted by that species of support more than the per son who now addresses you ; but I think I may re tort that the most unparalleled influence of magis terial and ministerial ps-ver has been exerted against me. It has been the language or my opponent, " that he thought his father at the late election bore his faculties too meekly." Now, Gentlemen, there is no man can attribute that peculiar foiling to the Father, but it has been an ii.vatiable custom with them, to impute every degree of crime, perjury, guilt, &c. to your side, and to reserve for them selves, purity, and the most virtuous motives (plaudits). They would wish to impose on us; but, whatever b.: the taunts they use, I trust the independence of the Freeholders of Middlesex will triumph, and restore the Constitution to its pristine vigour and privileges . Gentlemen Freeholders, I beg leave to say, this is the last struggle you will have for independence; if it should fail. It is to those Freeholders in particular, who feel a lust sense of the duty they owe the Constitution of their coun try, that I speak ; their votes will never again be offered on public and popular grounds. They vajll fail a sacrifice to Contradors and Plaeemen. Before I take leave of you, I must repeat, this is a struggle against corruption ; therefore, I intreat you to continue those exertions yon have already made, which will place us in a similar situation to that which proved the cause of so many splenetic ob.erva- Lions on the part of my adversary." The usual cheering followed this address; and Mr. MAINW ANINGI began to speak in hit turn. but the clamour of the populace forced bim to retire without being heard. A great number of persons crouded round the hustings, and the place was a scene of noise and uproar; but the vigilance of the Peace Officers pre vented any outrare. POLICE. Last night a man WAS brought to the Public Office. Bow -street, and underwent an exeninAtion b.:fore Mr. BOND and Sir Whs. PARS as, on a charge of throwing a tin kettle at Mr. Main. Waring as he v. s passing through Knightsbrige on his wp• from I:rentford. It appeared that when the kettle was thrown, Mr. Mainwatiog, and two Gentlemen who were within his carriage, jumped out and seised the Prisoner, having observed him throw the kettle. and gave him int 3 the custody of two of the Bow street patro!e. The Prison• was comm;tted for want of sureties. TWO 11.1:11 were brought in custody of several of the patrole, who charged them with behaving in a riotous manner in Piccadilly, yesterday evening, and assaulting some gentlemen who were passing in a carriage, and whom they supposed to nee friends of Mr. Mainwaring. The Prisoners were ordered to find hail. Another man was charged with violently assault ing and wounding a constable on Monday. in the execution of his office. The wounds given being deemed by a , urgeon to endanger his life, Mr. Boa D retuseu to admit hint to bail. The fornwing curious fan is inserted fnr the infor mation of Beemasters :—Mr. LuNor:e o, of Hand cross, a ke.Ter of bees, had missed a great number ftom his stock, w•i.bout being able to account for the . I . e cte.he, until one afternoon last week, when his wile and 3 ,, n, being in the garden, discovered nn one of .hv stoalstrhereon the bees are placed, a large toad, at the entrance of the hive, eagerly devouring ;Ivan es they passed I/1 =clout Of IL, the toad was of course killed. RAMSGATT, Jul* ti. The fashionable season commenced last week a ith the usual routine of public amusements. On Tues day, weirad our first Ball at the Assembly Rooms, which were attended by upwards of 150 persons. The company consisted of all the must distinguished personages now in the Isle of Thanet, among whom were, Lord KEITH and daughter, Captain and Mrs. fiv No, Mrs. Tows' LEY, &c. The military form ed not the least proportion of the gay assemblage, there being present the Officers of the Nottingham shire and Hertfordshire Militia ; the Scots Greys, Oxford Blues, and those of the 19th Reg. of Light Dragoons. 'I he Ball commenced about half-past nine o'clock, with Aloarr Sttwell, by Capt. Bea. NET, and the Honourable Miss ELPHINSTONE, daughter of Lord KEITH. The second dance was ON' As Roil. About thirty couple tript it on the light fantastic toe until midnight, when the music ceased, and the company, after partaking of the usual refreshments, retired. Ramsgate is expected to be this season uncom monly full; the principal houses are alre a dy a ll en gaged. Lady HA NS s Lrum has taken that enviable mansion, No. 10, in Albion-place, where Lord NELSON'S sister, Mrs. NELSON, and daughter, are on a visit to her Ladyship. The Duchess of Sus s': (Lady AUGUSTA &Liam) arrived here last sverk, to pass the season with us. Her Grace re sides on Albion Mount. Major-General Ross and Miss Ross have taken No. 4, Prospect-rovi. Lord Ca aLZIon and Lady are at No. 7, Albion-place; Lady MOORE at No. 15 in the same place. EAST BOURNE., JuLv 30. The 44th Regiment, 790 strong, marched into Lewes on Saturday, and to-morrow they encamp on Boxhill•down, where they halt one night; and on Wednesday they are to proceed to Fanlight, where the Regiment will encamp. The German Legion, 2200 strong, which were expelled to encamp near East Bourn, are now posi tively to march in two divisions. 'lie first, on this day, march to Heinbrook Common, near Chichester, and encamp; to-morrow they resume their march and proceed to Clapham Common, near Arundel. On the Ist of Au pot they will encamp near Brigh ton. The ed division are to follow this route on the 3d and 4th of August. Tne 211 d, or Royal Welch Fusileers, and the 48th regiment of Foot, now encamped near East Bourne, are to march to Hailsham on the 10th of August, and to occupy the barracks there. The Bth Foot are to march from the same ground to Pevensy, and the 88th Foot to Shingle Barracks, to the eastward of East Bourne. Upon the whole, with regard to the regiments of the Line, the camp near Last Bourse win, before a fortnight, be entirely broken up. LEWES, Ju'y JO. Our annual wool fair was well attended last Thursday, by the London and other wool staplers, but as usual no busineu was done before dinner. Lord Sheffield, who presided, having propelled the health of Sir Joseph Ranks, as a principal promoter of these meetings, expressed great concern at his absence, occasioned by a fit of the gout, especially as there was no man better informed on the business most interesting to those who were assembled, and who could have communicated more complete infor mation on every part of the subjetl. His Lord sh;p then stared that he had not yet obtained very complete intelligence respelling the Ross fair, but that he had acquired some knowledge of what had passed at the Thetford fair, which might be more interesting to the meeting, as a considerable quan tity of wool of the South Down bred was sold there. He observed that the price of fine wool was gener ally higher than it was last year; the best Hereford shire 2s. per stone of 1211 b. advance. Little of the South Down wool bad sold at Thetford fair at more than 21. per pound, some not more than at eSd.; but if South Down wool in Norfolk or Suffolk be worth 2s. per pound, surely the wool of this neigh bourhood, being in greater perfection, was worth more; and it was never supposed we had sent our best wo. 1 sheep out of the county. He said he had great plrasitre in observing, that it was now proved beyond a doubt, that we could raise wool in England of die Spantsh kind, as good as any that is usually imported ; and, addressing himself to the wool staplers, added, that if they would give an ade quate price, it might answer to the farmer (which it had not hitherto date) to cultivate the best kind of wool ; and he learned with much satisfAion that a Staffordshire gentleman, who had obt a ined some of His Majesty s Spanish sheep, had raised the wool in such perfection as to sell it at tis. Sd. per pound. He remarked, that without taking advantage of the occasional difficulty of obtaining Spanish wool, a moderate price for that article considered, South Down wool ought to produce at leaA 2s. ed. per pound ; that a tcw pence difference in the pound amounted to very little on a yard of cloth ; and that it would ultimately answer best to the mann taSurer to give that price, which would encourage the farmer to look t o the qua l it y rat h er t h an to the quantity of the wool. None of these statements were controverted. In the evening a great deal of buiiners was done at advanced prices. Several Lits of wool wave sold at 645. per Todd, of 321 b. or .2s. per pound, and we hear Lord Sheffield sold at tiss. Monmouth Assizes produced a considerable por tion of business at the Mai Priu, Bar—eleven causes were entered for trial. That of the greatest con sequence (the points decided in which well deserve the attention of tenants, and, as such we report it). was an ejectment commenced by asost a sSwt assa- To,s,s, Esq. of Wonastow (Recorder of Stafford), against his tenants, Messrs. Noirrn, of Brecon, grounded on a notice to quit. In the course of the trial, the following points arose, and were deter mined by Mr. Justice LE ANC, in favour of the DPfeadants—ls:. That a notice to quit, if served on a servant, must be delivered either on the pre mises demised, or a: the dwelling honse of the te nant, should he reside elsewhere.—And Skil. If a notice to quit is delivered to a servant off the Pre mises demised (and n t at the dweling-house or the tenant), the truant's acknowledgment of its re ceipt will not render such service valid, unless the acknowledgment is made a) is hnl :gar previous to the termination or big tenancy. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY. As harvest is so near beginning, a tolerably correct state ment of the crop: may be given. On the stroog lanes, the grain of all descriptions is best; but even here a ern great failure in the wheat w;11 be experienced. IV.: hardly OM knew so much mildew and so much Lind .arld to w:.ich. the heavy thunder .torms have so much 14161 it Alt t canse very considerable injury.--itariey on site mn of sail is about an average crop. (AL-, the same —Rana, much better than was expeled, but far Lou a great crop: on light pUls, the crop, with vet y few exceptions, is bad.---The Seed Cloven urunsise but indifferently for crop, a. it Lilmms very UheqUi:l7. The early sowed Turnips have bmn fleshy all d.otroy. it by _ Vat fly; many farmers have been o'4 cell to sow them the third time.—The scion has been favnuralile for the which are in gen,ral in a very forward state of tillage, and give hope of goal Wheat sots'ilg.—The average price ,af Cure throughout England and Walt, is, for Wheat, 534.9 d —Rye, 345. id —Barley, 28s. 8..1 —.Oats, 245. I 3;s. 5d -.- Pr ee, 59s gd. The liay has been all carried in. and in end eider and quantity —ln the Fens, the Hay is not yet all g it up, though it is aii cut, the cr.nv goof.—Oats ar.: good—Wheat much m.;dew-si and sinotty.—/Sirley ppd.—A cousnlerah'e Tian t.ty of Culeseed hai been sowed, but them it aill some laml burning. Livestock ii ...lady the same as last market, K.,..11 hum es. 64 to S. lid —Mimeo, 4i .0 ss. 44 4.. ed. to 6, s.. 1.1 411. !W.—Laub, ss. ti 6i. STATEMENT of the DISTRIBUTII NAVAL FORCE, to till In Port and fitting . Guards.dps. ' In the English and Irish Chin- nets . On the Downs and North Sea sta- Lions . At the West hulls islands, and on the Passage On the Jams. y stdion American and Newfoundland stn tion4 C. of G. Hope, East Inner, and Le the Passage Coast of Africa 0 Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltst.• • 4 Mediterranean an♦ on Passage l2 Hospital and P;isou Ships.. lt lON of the SRI VIM as DAY. Total in Commirrion 106 2/ Receiving Shios. Serrirraill and repairing for Sere lO 3 In Ordinary Bedding.... ' l5 6 Total 17$ 3i I . IS 1 3 19 411 STATI OF THI ORDINARY AT IA Lt.e. s;is Portsmouth 2l P:ymouth Cnothaos 22 1 4 I Sheerness River. 1 4 1 I 41 b 7 $ : , 9~ I )114 I 4.1. 841 LCII poaT. trig In 5I • „ Is 4 _s 7 1 n 3; 101 71 13 t• ry Total... • 66 1 16 1 54 I 2. I IvJ Yestnclay morning, a tire bri,k , : out in Denmark Court in the Strand, which did much d . - n17,! be fore the engines were able to subdue the if, , tes. Yesterday, about two o'clock in the at .e n ion, as a horse wis standing in a c.trt in Petttc.i.. -line, Whitechapel, a chili playing in the street walked under the belly of the horse, which not being ob served by the carter, he drove on the hone, whO unfortunately trod on the child's arm, which was broken to pieces, besides its head being much hurt. It was taken to the hospital, without any signs c.f life. Yesterday, a singular circumstance occurred at the house of Mr. Bkowx, the sign of the Bear in Lambeth -street, Whitechapel: in his back-yard, wham he kept some ducks, he heard an unusual noise: Fd went to the place,where he obs-rve.l the neck of one of the ducks, between the bars of an iron grating over the common sewer, strugdtrg to disengage its.l4 when he perceived that an un:ommonly Large rat, nearly as big as a full grown Cat, was endeavnurirg to pull the creature through. Mr. BNOWPI endeA vowed to pull it alive from the rapacious Animal, but in vain, for he held it fast by t to thrrlat, though he saw Mr. Bowser+ over Lb+ grating, en deavouring to save the duck. Mr. Baows cut the neck fr ins the body, when the voracious animal plunged into the soul, with the head and p in of the neck. Monday mn•ning, the Edifystone boat And a traul boat ran foul (f eacii of Lr s near the Pier I-1-ad, Bristol. by whi:h Atchient uae of the lien keepers. coming Asilre, Iva , . muck s 4 violently on the breast by the tiu-k of the b.nesprit. as to occa.inn immediate dea•h 'I he tempest, on 'f uesiay last, fell very heavy in some parts of Susses, and particularly at Lox wood. where the houses were shaken by the violence of the thunder, and a poor boy struck dead by th ning. The decea..ed, with a man, his comparison. were at plough together in a field IrAirigitig to Mr. Kis°, and, to avoid the pel Ings of the storm, left their work, aul ran to two n, ighbouring ter, s, under wlich they were.'wth struck d.ovn by the vivid fluid but the man, received no material injury. soon recovered, and perceiving the situation of tile boy, hastened to his assistance, but to no prirpos., as he found him quite lifeless. with the hair of his head burnt to a crust, and his clothes 4.n fire. The above fatal catastrophe furnishes anothir instance to canfirm the truth of what we have repeatedly s at. .d, that there is extrem., danger in seeking shifter !rum lieitning under trees, whose power of attraftion it made manifest by almost every Uni t ies'. that hap. pens. _ _ The Ccroner's Inquest sat on the body of Captain Smith, the gentleman who, in a fit uf insa ity, made away with himself in so dreadful a manre-, at Gloucester, last week, and returned a verdiCt of— Lr 'cry. For several weeks, previous to the la bae which terminated his existence, he had been i dispos ed with a nervous cornplaintr• once in partic , ilar late ly having felt the effeSs of this disorder very severely, he told his valet the next morning. that he ought to have slept in his room, for that he had tre..n haunt. ed with devils all night. From that time he grow daily y :•-se ; and not having res o rted to med ca As. sistance, the influence of the disorder became so strong upon him as to produce an aft of insanity by which he so prematurely felh He was a very worthy and much respelled Gentleman. The Saturd. y previous to his decease he made his will, leaving whole of a very ample fortune to his two sisters, ex cept a legacy of 10001. which he bequeathed to his atturney in London, whom he has left executor. The redurt of a disappointment in love having in. duced the unfortunate state of mind of tt.is Gentor man, aiTears totally void of foundation. 7 i I i