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T ic k4,B37 (Class B ) £1.050 it :i iat ti r et was also entitled to 16 Pipes of \Vine ; and late sth te rec olleelion of the Public that BISH added to _the Grand erne, as a free gift from himself as Contractor, Four DISH 13:4 wine ; this Ticket was one of .them, and _ wil low the Holde of the Wine Prizes to select the ver y hest \Vine they c Merchant in the United Pi ck . rs out from the Stock of any Wine and he will pay for it, and rt-nd it, Carriage p fr r e e e fe , r to l iC i w i o n h gd er o e n ‘ i, the fortunate Holders re. sale ; or if they instead 'er of Wine, BISH will Any in Money for the Prizes w hatever the very best Wine r uid c° '• Exclusive of th above, BISH also sold on 15th , t .tstant, other C apitals • and in the Eight preceding _ a lonths a ~,, h our sold Three Prizes of £30,000, Nos. 1,804, 2,478, 4 4 ,14 i",,148; Pour Prizes of £20.000, Nos. 699, 7,034 ,' 15,301 ther e ; besides Prizes of £lO,OOO, £ 2 , 000 , & c. `"..F. Dot e ,is scarce a Town in the United Kingdom that has ; and not . ti.tten of lIISH'S unparalleled success. O.S: BISII regrets that Lotteries draw very near their , final to'' , ' but he is happy in having before that event takes place, hojeY. hefoTe them a grand Scheme, which contains Four Rath rich Prizes of 4 '25 000 each , and various other Capital.., se m 4 , 11 the other rich p oints that ' BlSH'S late Scheme NEXT cad A 1414 to he drawn in ONE DAY, 31st of NEXT UGUST). t 511 ,44 and Shares a re Selling at BISH'S Offices, 4, Corn. 411 d 9, Charing -Cross ; and by hi s A gents i n t h e C ountr y. ' Schemes, Gratis. It" ti B ROKEN PROMISES. , pi WIIO LE of the MUSIC i n t h e a b ove lit* 1 adMired OPERA, now performing at the Theatr e t.'„a, tnglish Opera House, arranged and part unposed ' 'lr. lAWFs litht Publish 4 b . y the Royal WELSH and HAWES . at ' t -street. iiMi,9nie Institution, Argyll Rooms. «36, it%42.n.. nozortes a ki P---An extensive assortment of Second-hand Piano-fortes •larPs on Sale and Hire. tir,,it r, Ll' This Day was published. p r i ce 4S. sewed; -1.. IMITISII REV! EW, and London , Cot t , Critical Journal, No. XIAX. %1( : "I's.-1, 1 loy lon reaching Christ-2. Letters of t -- " , ' • • 1- the State ' f ( I I p cl-3. Biddulph's Lectures on '1; Initotnl&orri re 's :History of the Jews Society __. t. i'lm-'lt'cin' Fasces -4. Expedition—Antommarchi's Last Days o Asl tn e -s--6. Select Christian Authors. with Prefaces by Aitiekl", trskin e k e 7. Laing'' 'fravels in Western --p. The Edinburgh Review, on Publie - Education.. ~....._ P rint for 1,. B. 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ChraPside ilttiirs Navorsi'atid ". •• e ,t‘4ll,,L.lherrizit,Lt'tTdenp.: .and by ihe '- iiriiiCil,""rthcl° ''' tkitc: sii ks , Le. ~. _.,l_ iit..,-I.Krisird ~,! , ~61„iFeiiti,:at! t, 0 I(litti, , 7.4. All,i ris 4 RT1e11i.A301%,9!•..7, rod Lill ,lc 1 ".t .4dttlitisC4;titt#o) iriin7"' . • ht!,.! ti,.. s,q.. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, .1825. ENG LISII and -BRISTOL CHANNELS SHIP CANAL.—The Act of Parliament having passed, constituting theSUBSCRI BE RS a CORPORATION, Notice is hereby given, that application for Shares, in lieu of those forfeited by the neglect of Holders thereof to execute the. Deed, may be made to Messrs. King and Lakin, No. 5, Gray's Inn-square; and to Mr. Clarke, Chard, Somerset, the respective Solicitors to the Concern. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. STAFFORD, MONDAY, JULY 25. (Before Mr. Baron GARROW.) CIIARGE OF MURDER. James Bartley,,a waggoner, residing at Newcastle-under- Line, was indicted for the wilful murder of WTilliain Price, on the 25th June last. _ _ It appeared from the evidence on the part of the prosecution, that the prisoner had sent the deceased, on the above day, to a distance cf twelve miles, with his waggon and team, for the purpose of bringing home a load of wood. The deceased, if he acted regularly, would have been at home at 10 o'clock at night. However; he did not attend to his business, and was not home till a late hour. The master of the prisoner at the bar went to meet him on the road, and came up with him about two miles from Newcastle. He found, on coming up to the waggon, that the deceased was drunk, and 'sleeping across the shafts of the waggon, and another man was on. the top of the load. They had some words; but it was denied by the man who was in the waggon that the prisoner struck Price at all then; they arrived at the prisoner's house between two and three o'clock -in the morning; the horses were put up; Price was drunk, and did notaesist ; the master was very angry with him ; ,they were alleged to have had a scuffle in the stable, and from that morning Price was not heard of until the Thurs day following, when his body was found in the basin of an ad joining canal, apparently after having lain there for some days; there were bruizes on the body, and a mark of a cord ,having been tied round the neck, and the spine and jaw -bone. were very much injured. .The circumstances of saspicion against the prisoner were, that he had been in a violent passion with Price on the above morning; next, that on the same morning, half an hour or so after the arrival of the waggon, the great coat of the deceased was brought to his father's house, .which is a short way from the prisoner's house, and a little &s -tance from the canal, and the parlour window shutter, which was apparently fastened, but really was not so, was taken down, the sash raised, and the coat thrown into the room ' • the sash was then let down and. the shutter restored. The father of the deceased was alarmed, got up, looked out of the win (low, but could see nothing. Another circumstance of sus picion was, that the prisoner never made inquiry about his ser vant as he used to do, if that person were absent. It was also given in evidence, that the prisoner, on the day that the body was found, was in a public house, when the landlady asking him upon the subject, he begged she would not men tion it, as he was so greatly troubled about it the night before that. he could not sleep. Upon that occasion he volUntarily. acknowledged that he-had struck the boy in the back of the head. For the prisoner, his own son, his daughter-in-law, and his daughter, distinctly proved that they were in his presence, ex cept for.very short intervals, during the time that elapsed from his entering his own premises that morning and his going to bed ;.and during all that time a single blow had not been given to this boy by the prisoner; but that having taken his coat soon after he came in, he left the yard, and was not heard of. There was the additional circumstance in his • favour, that it required the greatest exertion of strength, and it must have been after..a violent struggle that the injuries were inflicted on the deceased; whereas, by the account of the different witnesses, the deceased was a powerful, well-formed young man, more than a match for the prisoner. The Jury, after an eloquent charge from Mr. Baron Ganhaw,.returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and• the prisoner was discharged. . Before Mr. Justice Bunnouon. TREASON. The civil buslnns being concluiild at one o'clock to-day with a Special jury cause, entirely destitute of interest. Mr. Justice BuultOUGH sat in the Nisi Prius Court for the trial of pri soners, while the trial for murder proceeded before Mr. Baron GAII.IIOW. Theodore 'Moore was indicted for high treason on the Bth and 9th William 111., c. .6, sec. 1, which subjects any person to the pains of that crime who shall, without lawful authority, knowingly have in his possession any instrument used in coin ing the current money of the realm, not having been employed in any other manufacture or trade. The indictment charged him with so possessing certain edged and edging tools, for the purpose of milling the edges of counterfeit shillings and half crowns, in the manner employed in finishing the coins of that description bsuLd from the Mint. The prosecution was insti tuted by order of the Mint, and• conducted by Mr. ISRVIS, Mr. TAUT4'IOI:, and Mr. SHEPHERD. Mr. CURWOOD and Mr. PHILLIPS defended the prisoner. It appeared in evidence, that on the 26th of May last, a cart was observed by the constable of Stoke-upon-Trent standing in a Reid near the Antelope . public-house; ih that parish, without any one in sight to manage it. As the field in which it stood had no path, and it seemed to be loaded, the constable suspected some thing wrong—probably smuggled spirits—and determined to search it. About three o'clock in the afternoon, he, with two others, went to the cart, and found there the prisoner and John Lawly, who had been admitted to give evidence for the Crown. The constable asked what they had got there; to which Moore replied with an oath, "what is that to you ?" The constable stated what office he held, and declared hit intention to search ; and while he was beginning to examine the cart Moore slipped away, but was. shortly taken. In the cart was found a cask containing the implements which were the subjects of the prose cution, called collors, being round pieces of iron, open in the centre, and formed to mill the edges of coin of the size of half crowns. Five of these were discovered'; and also a press taken to pieces, and 14, 000 blank pieces or metal of the size of half crowns, but no edge. The collars, according to the evidence of officers of the Mint, resembled those used for milling the edges of : genuine coin ; but these instruments had only •been used since the year 1825, as before that time the coin was milled by a different process. , John Lawly, the accomplice, gaVe a history of his connexion with the prisoner since . November last, when he entered into his service on his marriage with his sister. According to his testimony, they had gone from place to place, coining and dis posing of shillings and half-crowns to a great,extent, chiefly at Burslem and Hull.' A hundred dozen shillings were made in one day at Burslem, and 400 half-crown at' H ull,which were disposed of to circulators in exchange for linen, stuff,, gold watches, and other light articles. This evidence was confirmed by other tes timony, showing :that Moore had gone from place to place in company with Lawly; that he had taken ; houses under suspi cioils circumstances ; and that he had received from Jews linen an 4 watches, and given casks in return. It was suggested, on behalf of the prisoner, that the case was not within the statute ' as the instrumenp feundln . -..his ;Imes, Mori were not tired in the milling of 'coin till long after it had begun to Operate. . , -,,, • • - .. : --:' ' • . --' - r. Justice Htutitortau said.; '!'h . at •ip..caffe the s p i ri sone , 1 'sllo Icl be convicted, he, would reserve the objectiOn for the opi. nio of the twelve Judges. i . ~. ...., . . , , • , s ,t , An atteiiipt Waithen made to suggesnlat 'the collars' might 11 1: 1 4 a h C instruments et fan c 3' ; . 'lie intended for the finishing of an y e im ela il l; vd ; ifiettals were pzoduced, : obvinuld and a'aister of ],awry I,is called to contradict him, but failed to sha the Material. Parts of his story , j aw Taegu ug 4sier, all th ft evid e nc e . / . lt .Justi ati#PAAGP4 C. Wr i the Jury to say whether the collar was an batstnn - nent used Fs m in btriet , ; „t et h er is was tralloynti is any °tint. won al.. facture ; and whether the prisoner had it ipowiugly in his poA session. 'rho Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty. ' Air. Justice Bunuouoiz Tespited sentence, in order that the opinion of the Judges might be taken on the point reserwd, and oidered the prisoner to be detained till the next Assizes. Nothing now remains for trial at these Assizes but traverses indictments for not repairing roads. NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY, JI!LY 25. Beftre Mr. Justice PARK. muliDElt. Thomas Dervey,,aged 30, was indicted for the wilful murder of Maria Austin, by stabbing her in the side, on the 2d of July last.—lir. READER, for the prosecution, called . . Mary Fallowel, who deposed, that she lodged in a mom op posite to that occupied by the deceased, and that she boarded with her. On Saturday, the 2d of July, at about 10 o'clock at night, witness went into the apartment of the deceased. • The prisoner was then standing near the door. He also lodged op posite, on the same landing-place. The prisoner went with wit.. ness into the deceased's room, and then asked witness what he had said on the preceding day to th4,daughter of the deceased. Witneas replied th 4 he had Neatened to beat the child. He acknowledged that he had done so: upon which the deceased said' he should not order her children about. The prisoner turned away without speaking, and went into his own tooth. He returned immediately, and struck the deceased a very violent blow on the left side, saying, at'the same moment, " There, then."— This was done with great rapidity. Witness did not see whether the blow was given with any weapon. The prisoner, as soon as he had struck the deceased, went hack into his own room, and witness heard him' lay something down upon the table. The deceased put her hand to her side, and groaned very loudly. 'Witness told her daughter to fetch her uncle Heenan; but the deceased opposed this. Witness held her up. She was sitting on the same stool where she hail been when she received the blosi% Her head hung down on her left side ; she could scarcely . speak, and seemed very faint. The prisoner soon came again into the room, and said, " Don't send for arty body; she is a murdered woman." — There was no light in the room ; the curtain was drawn. Wit ness asked the prisoner to fetch a light: he said, " Its of no use, she is a dead woman." He took the deceased's hand and kissed her ; he afterwards went out of the room, when he met Heenas, the deceased's brother, on the stairs, who' asked him what he had been doing. He replied, " Nothing," and then went away. Witness sent for the deceased's mother-in-law. The deceased died in witness's arms within three-quarters of an hour after she bad received the wound. When the deceased was undressed; witness found that she had been stabbed through all her clothes. On the following morning she saw a butcher's knife on the table in the prisoner's room, which fitted the wounds in the deceased's clothes. On cross-examination, the witness said she had known the prisoner half a year, who always appeared to be a quiet inoffen sive man. _ _ _ Sarriuel Spencer, a constable, produced the knife and the clothes of the deceased. _ Maria Austin, the child of the deceased, who was present at the murder, stated the same facts as had• previously been deposed to by the first witness. Joseph White, a surgeon, examined the body of the de. ceased, and found a wound under the left breast, through which the liver had been perforated. A great effusion of blood had taken place in the cavity of the abdomen. The wound had occasioned death ; in its size it perfectly corre sponded with the butcher's knife now produced. The de ceased was in the third month of pregnancy. S. Moore, clerk in the NottinGliam police-office, produced the prisoner's confession of having stabbed the deceased. The prisoner said he had committed the murder under the in fluence of a Haden impulse, for which he could not account. The witness said the prisoner appeared in a state of great agi tation when he made this confession. _ _ _ The prisoner's Counsel submitted, that in consequence of the last statement, the confession ought not to be receiver). The Judge said, the Jury would consider what weight should, under the circumstances, be given to the confes> an. The prisoner being called on for his defence, said that he was subject to a disorder in his head, which deprived him of reason. He had, under the influence of this disorder, several times attempted to commit suicide, and had once nearly suc ceeded. A witness was called, who proved that the prisoner had attempted to destroy himself by taking laudanum. He thought him subject to a melancholy, which interfered with his reason. Ann Tapley saw the prisoner four or five hours before the murder, in a state of great dejection. The prisoner's father said he had once attempted to drown himself in the Trent. Several witnesses gave him a good character, and stated that he was subject to occasional dejection. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty ; whereupon the Judge passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, and ordered him for execution on IVednesday morning. The prisoner was a slight, sickly-looking man, whose appear ance and demeanour corroborated the account given of him by the witnesses. . • _ _ _ YORK, MONDAY, JULY 25. ( Before Mr. Justice BATLEY.) FALSE IMPRISONMENT. HUTCHINSON v. HAWKSWORTH AND ()Tutus. 'Mr. D. F. JONES opened the pleadings. This was an'action brought by the plaintiff, to recover a compensation in damages for an assault and false imprisonment which he had wrongfully suffered by means of the defendants. The defendants pleaded they were not guilty, and upon that point issue was joined. Mr. SCARLETT stated the case to the Jury. Hawksworth, the principal defendant on this occasion, had been drinking, with several others, at a place called Pennistone-bridge, in this county, on the evening of the 6th of April last. lie was as saulted on his return from that place to Holyland Swaine, where he lived, by a person of the .came of Dukes,. and, as he afterwards declared, by some ethers. On mentioning the cir.. cumstance to his family, he stated that- HutchinSon, the pre sent plaintiff, had been a witness to the whole ofwhat occurred. A constable was immediately sent for, who, on hearing of the transaction, went immediately to the plaintiff's house, took hint into custody, handcuffed him, and held him in distance 'luring the whole of that night, and to the middle of the ensuing day, under no other pretence than that of having hint ready to pro duce as a witness before the Magistrates. On the parties being taken before them, a charge was preferred against Dukes, on • which he was committed to prison, and subsequently tried and convicted at Pontefract Sessions; but no complaint was made • against the plaintiff, neither was he examined by the defendant as a witness. It was to recover damages for this assault and imprisonment that the plaintiff now appealed to a Jury of his country; and when he tolddhem that in conse quence of the injury which the plaintiff bad Then received, he bad ever since been afflicted with a spitting of blood, and had , never been able to carry on his business as formerly, he trtisted that they would give him such damages as would indemnify hitn for the loss of health and comfort which he had sustained from the cruel and wanton conduct of tire defendants. Thomas Radford.- - -I am a nail-maker. I know the plaintiff. On the Gth of April last-I saw at a publie.house. in Pennistone, the plaintiff, Mr. Burley, Joseph Dukes, James Hawkesworth, and Benjamin Cressley. Hutchinson, Burley, rukes, and I went 'away together. The others came afterwards.' Burley and Flawkesworth went home first, but 'the others followed soon after Crossley and Hutchinson remained at Pennistone. Dukes and awksworth had a fight, but the plaintiff was not present at it. They went home after it. On the next .day- George Senior went with me to Hawkswortit's house. When I got there, I heard a noise of tables and chairs rattling together. and also a man screaming out " murder." I tried to get into the room, but Hawksworth pulled me back. Some other persons forced thir way into it, and when the door seas opened, I saw the plaintiff strug gling under several persons, and calling out murder !" On see ing the plaintiff thus. maltreated, I wanted to assist. him, but James Hawksworth would not let me. The plaintiff received a great many blows, and cried bitterly. He was handcuffed by the constable, but for what reason I cannot tell. Shortly afterwards he went to bed, and the constable h ta t bl e e re w , e a n: a w ls i o th s h h i a u w i. I was also taken into custody. He was taken the next. day he -fore Mr. Wortley. - Leonard Crossley was and 'the constable. They said that they had no complaint to make against the plaintiff; but merely wanted him as an evi dence. Dakes was tried and convicted at Pontefract sessions, i d d b h u ea r r h h e i ‘ lily but flutchiason was not called as a witness. • • • cross-examined—l did not hear • the 'plaintiff gay at the public-house that he would Ilawkswo"L'a ; but I heard. say•Altat he would lick him. l 'that he would kill. him. They begged of bins to " harkl.his f o r ye dinna ken wha may bear Zee I" but they did not add. ' ye." I did not hear Dukes ss f y, 1411 sitestortls .isk,dit. 4 .the amid I%o'am Dukes g7i upon Hawksworth, , •and heat him severely. Witless saw no stone either taken up or thrown at that time. • • Mr. Justice BAY LEY wished to know whether the plaintiff was present at this transaction. • 31r. IlnovouAm wished to know the contitqty - ol'all the transactions. . 111 r - Justice BAY LEY—Supposing that you do that still will you contend that . a . constable has a right to handeufa man to insure his attendance as a-witness ? • . • Mr..l3EouGHAlt—We did not handcuff hin3. on that ac ctinni, my Lord ; we apprehended him on a eliiirge of felony ; and I contend that if a person so apprehended attempts to escape, the constable is bound to take all reasonable precautions to semre him. The cross-examination of the witness was then continued.— Hawksworth was cut about the eyes. B e desired the constable to arrest the plaintiffon a charge of robbery. Re-examined—l know Hutchinson was under the care of the doctor some time. Several witnesses were examined to corroborate this story, but the details of their evidence , would be too great an infliction on the patience of our readers. 141 r. Ellison,. a surgeon, who attended the plain' ifrduring an illness whichhe had immediately after his apprelieuSicm, stated,: that, he found hint labouring under an internal disoase, which' might have been occasioned by external violence. Mr. Ritout;.HAat _gave a very different version of this trans action to the Jury. He said, that the plaintiff, a man of the name of Dukes, and the witness Radford, had been drinking at a public-house, together With the defendants. The plaintiff' and his party attacked the defendants, ,and they, naturally enough, retaliated the assault. The defendant 1-la*kswortli lost his money, amounting to 1001., in the Tort which took place, .arid conceived that the plaintiff' had robbed him of it. In consequence, he gave him in charge to a constable, who did not handcuff him until he attempted to escape. Hawksworth had intended to prosecute the plaintiff; but, owing to the soli citations of his friends, gave up his intention. If he 'should make these circumstances out in evidence, he trusted that they would return a verdict for the defendants. . . . A host of witnesses were.called to substantiate this story ; and Mr. SCARLETT afterivards called several to . weaken thi effect of their testimony. In cross-examining one of them, Mr. BnouGmist asked him, whether: he had not on one occasion been present at a pro. cess which had occupied for some time the attention of a Court and Jury. The witness replied that lie had, but that he was not guilty. Mr. 13nou GUAM-Guilty ! God bless you ! 1 never yet saw a guilty man placed at a bar. It is slander and calumny to say that you were guilty, I know ; but 'were you not tried upon one occasion ? _ The witness—l repeat, Sir, that I was not guilty of the charge made against um. Mr. SCAIILETT—And I should like to ace the fellow that would say that you were. If he makes such a charge against you, he must at least do it legally. . Mr. BROUGHAM.—But the man at least was tried for it. ScArtLETT.:--So you say, Mr. Brougham ; so you say. Mr. Bnou GIIAM, addressing the witness.—l ask you;Sir, and I expect a direct answer to my . question, were you was not tried on home charge that was Made against you ?—Yes, Sir, but I was acquitted.. The person who prosecuted me on that occa sion was so convinced that he was mistaken, that he has since befriended me upon several occasions. My. SCARLETT observed, that as the witness had been ac quitted, it was not fair that he should be attacked as if he had been guilty : Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up the evidence, which ex tended to an amazing length, with groat impartiality. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 10/. The case occupied the Court from nine o'clock in the morn ing till halt-past six o'clock in the evening. HUNTINGDON, JULY 25. CIVIL SIDE.—( Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) LIBEL.—WELLS rens; MARGITTS._ This case, which came on for trial to-day before a Special . Juey, excited very considerable interest throughout Hunting don and its vicinity, from the political notoriety of the plaintiff: It was an action for a libellous paragraph, of which the de fendant was the reputed author, The paragraph was con tained in a Newspaper, recently established at Huntingdon, opposed in its politics to a Journal said to be under the con troul of the plaintiff, if not edited by him. In the " Liberal Journal," there appeared certain animadversions upon the Police of lluntingdon, for suffering noisy and idle persons to disturb the peace of the town on Sunday evenings. The im puted libel was inserted in " the Government Paper," as_it is called, and professed to come under the very original title of "An Old Inhabitant of H untingdon," The Oldln habitant" expressed his indignation somewhat in " the Cambyirs' vein," upon the appearance of such observations in the " Liberal Jour nal," a paperunder the management of the plaintiff,.*ho, ac cording to the publication of "The Old Inhabitant," had stirred up more of insubordination in the quiet town of Huntingdon than any liberal since the days of Robin Hood. He had vio lated the Sabbath, and encouraged the little boys to throw stones at the apple women, and to break the church windows and " the Ten Commandments." He got drhnk in the even ing, and started as a popular candidate for Peterborough the next morning. Though a disciple of Cobbett's, he was a lover of wine, anti though, 'he held a sinecure, he was a notorious fledford) " leveller." To these and various other allegations, the defendant, who, like the plaintiff; • " Is—can he help it ?—a special attorney," pleaded a justification. The damages were laid at 6001. The publication having been proved, and its authorship by, the Editor, and the libel put in and read, the defendant 'a Counsel proceeded to cross-examine the Editor as to his recol lection of certain bills placarded about Huntingdon, signed by Mr. Wells. They contained invitations to the people of Hunt ingdon. The plaintiff's Counsel objected to their reception, but they were received as proof of correspondent papers having been cir culated at Huntingdon. Witness recollected the acquittal of the Queen. Mr. Wells's house was illuminated, and beer was distributed ; and M. Wells spoke from a waggon to the lower orders. • What did he say ? To this question it was ()fleeted,'" that the words spoken " were not in any of the pleas set out. • . • On the other side, it was contended that the words need not be set out; but on a suggestion from the Court, it was agreed that the witness should be called again at the close of the speech for the defendant. This was the plaintiff's case. On the part of the defendant, it was very ingenuously admit. ted that Mr. Margins " loved the Constitution because he , was a member of an ancient Corporation," and was attached to 'the thirty-nine articles and the Established Religion, a"tl therefore, with !11r. 'Wells's character for notoriety; it was surprising ha should against such a man-be in-an action for libel. His poli tical life was freely and fully animadverted upon, and• it was contended that the libel was of a public nature, violating no. thing that was was private, and touching not in the slightest degree upon his home, but reflecting upon his known princi 'plea, and the natural tendency of these principles. Various passages from his " Conciones ad Populum" were read. His addresses to the electors of various. boroughs, the independent representative of which he was anxious to become. and his Sun. day nights VaUxhall, it was contended, had the inevitable effect of rendering lax the morals of the lower orders. Weston Hatfield, the proprietor of a Huntingdon news.: paper, said, ,1: r. Wells was a friend of his; he produced cer tain papers containing " the Petition of the Paupers," " In vitations to Vauxhall," &c., 'paragraphs eulogizing these gar dens. One of the ,paragraphs contained this passage—" The entertainments At Mr. Wells's ,gardens form a striking con trast to the usual dulness of a summer's &ening at Hunt ingdon." What tunes were played ? National melodies, such as I re- . member to have heard when a boy in the market place of Huntingdon before all the constituted authorities of that place. (Some applxise was manifested at this answer, and the Chief Baron declared. he would send any person guilty of such mis conduct out of Court.) Cross-examined—Was not Mr. Margitt a captain of the vo lunteers when you heard these tunes ? The question was objected to by the defendant's Counsel. The CBIEF BARON thought this .question could not be asked. • • . . . ' Were the persons whoittended these pc.'imenade4 decent and respectable females, and gentlemen of the town;? —yes t• I think so. • • The , . Petition of the Paupers" was then read, chargin g th a t 'the fruits-of their labour had been applled - to Support tax-eaters • • and sinecuri.sts. • The .A4dresii to the Electors of Eye wr-s also rual• It ann.. latticed by &doling. that " NO place, nOt even the corrupt and PRICE SEVENPENCt. degraded , Borough of thin tihgd on, owed &larger atone! i;ent to the public, than the:Borough of Eye." . • Ttionias- Lovell produced the manuscript (in Mr. Wells's hand-writing) 'Of a letterdated January, 1318,-.:1 letter to the Freeholders orthe County of iluntingdon—" Of myself I may truly say I live - in' the hot-bed of sedition and corruption" Nrati its commencement. Seven hundred of these were printed. The advertisement communicating the plaititifrs intention 'to' illuminate- his house, and calling upon :" the ragamuffins of Iluntingdon to join him in the expression of their triumph on the Queen over Ministerial Persecution" was then read. The wit ness said about one-third of the houses in Hunting-doll was illu minated,- lie was sworn in as aspecial constable; he h a d h e ard the plaintilf make 2pecches at various times, but .he could nit mention particular Occasion. • The master of " The National School" proved that n man was employed to take care that no improper per Son was ad mitted. Mischievous boys assembled outside, attracted by the music. • •.A Special Constable proved that on the night-of the nAtion a waggon came from towards Mr. Wells'a house. He I;e:trd ,Mr. Wells speak of the Corporation collectively._ , • .• What did he say? This was objected to, unless• the particular occasion was The witness was unable fo specify any particular occasion.— 1897- he heard Mr. Wells speak from a wheel-liarrow, but what he said he don't recollect. Mr. James was recalled, and stated, that at various periods he had heard Mr. Wells declaiming in a powerful way abort the Corporation. He remembered being present at a supper ivf the Burgesses, where Mr. Wells spoke of a ,Corporation in a degrading. manner, charging them with venality and corruption. lie spoke violently of Lord John Russell' for having favoured the doctrine of .I%lalthus. • • This was the defendant's case. . . _ • • The Learned 'Counsel for the plaintiff having . replied. The LORD CIIIEF J USTICE summed up the evidence, anti the Jury having deliberated for half an hour, returned a venlig for the plaintiff—Damages 40a. The trial occupied the Court from nine o'clock until sir in the evening. • In the Criminal Court there was not a single prisoner for trial SCOTLAND. POLICE COURT, EDINBURGH, JULY 20. On Saturday a most singular case of assault occupied the attention of the Magistrate. The complainer was a Miss Balleny, and the defender a Miss Pirie residing, in, and the proprietrix of certain goodly. tenements in Lady's Stair'S close, and, so far as a dignified mien and appearance go, a re. presentative of her Ladyship, Both' ladies were elegantly dressed ; the green bonnet of Miss Pirie, in particular, was of such dimensions, that it all but shut out of from the sight of the audience, the 31agistrate and all the other func tionaries within the bar, and the rays of the sun reflected mediately from it upon Mr. Al‘Conochie's face, gave.a pea. green tinge •to that gentleman's conrplenion.. Miss B.'s left arm was bound up in a string. Each of the ladies spoke with wonderful . slowness and composure, every. word from either dropping upon the ear like the ticking of a clock at midnight ; but bitterer words never proceeded -from . the mouths of in: furiated women. They continued for nearly two. hones: esti fire away their minute guns,. the one at the other ; and Miss Pirie begged leave to read to the Court, and . aettaidly did read certain documents, and Miss. Balleny coniraenteci upon/ these docunients and witnesses were examined ; and in :short the patience of the Court was exhausted. Miss Balleny, it op. peered; being more. than usually devout, anti very ascetically inclined, took lodgings in Miss Pirie's house, but. according to her account, Miss Pirie having got her into her house, affected theairs of a lady abbess, anti took it upon her occasionally to lock her up in her own roomeseenrlng the door with a pafi. lock; and when she became restive under confinement, Miss. P. made her appearance with a drawn sword e and reduced her to a state of quiescence. At length, according to the same ac. count, they agreed to separate • and Miss ehaving sent for a porter to remove her effects, Miss P. flourished • the sword at her, and then beat her with a stick ; and, indeed, her arm bore marks of extreme violence, which she had exhibited de rreerni to the neighbours. Miss Pirie on the other hand, re flected upon the sincerity of Miss Balleny's devoutness, in. no very measured terms, and complained of the extravagant noise which accompanied her pions exercises—she'read• the draft of a letter she had written to her, giving her leave to remove when. ever she pleased, and even discharging .ber of all -claim for. bygone rent ; and she asserted, that on the occasion in question, so far from assaulting Miss falleny, that lady had assaulted her, and conducted herself like a perfect Tu - rv.— Only one witness proved the assault upon Miss Balleny. The porter's testimony only went this far, that when ha called for Miss' Balleny, Miss Pine appeared at the door; and', insteittl of giving her lodger • her proper tides, called her " that woman," and that 31iss Balleny, in. return, desired him not , to . heed Miss Pirie, " as she, was not in her reason."—The maid servant of Miss Pirie was called on behalf of her mistress ; and occasioned enormous laughter by a trick ahe has got when speaking, 'of .shaking her head like the hopper of a mill, delivering herself of her words in the same way that the said hopper gives .out its contents. She proved, nothing. The Magistrate reconarnoteded a private and amicable settlement to the Ladies. A few days ago, three Highland milkmaids appeared iii battle array against three masons, whom they accused of hat'. ing most rudely handled them in Maitland -street, on their way home with their pitchers full of milk. Being ignorant a .tlie• English dialect, Shairley Stewart, a watchman, as a most skd ful linguist, was sworn in as their interpreter; and 'his 'transla tions afforded infinite amusement. " Which of thes& men • seized hold of you ?" said the Superintendent to the fair cool, plainers. Mr. Stewart communed with them, and gave the 4- Ols lowing response: " She no be knows." • " Did they mai treat you ?' . replied, " she no be ; English' fou that." " What was dons to you ?" " 0," • replied this interpreters, " she no likes to tell all; but they makes nse of violence Net ! and would gar her drink good whisky ( ugh t I" Nothing being to be expected from the. complain. era, recourse was tad to the witnesses, from whose testimony it would appear that the girls had been dragged' into a house by the masons, when two of them' escaped ; and stated what' had happened to their masters,. who came to the house, and found the third girl in convulsion fits upon the floor. A mob was collected about the door but yet, though the outrage was PO flagrant, there was pot sufficient evidence to convict the pri soners, and they were dismissed from the bar. DESTRUCTION of TWO FLOCKS of SHEEP by napS. in the night. of Wednesday last,- eight,y , fi . ewes and lambs, part of the highly-esteemed Southdown flock belonging to Mr. John Bawtree, of Sciutlimiaster, were de.: stroyed by two dogs,. a pointer and a terrier: but for the presence of the shepherd, a' more extensive destruction op pears to have been contemplated , by these caning Fortunately the shepherd had that morning risen somewhat earlier than usual, and when he had reached die spot where lie had hoped to find the objects of his care in perfect safety, the dead and dying presented' themselves in such nurribefs as to cause the most poignant grief to his mind. Sixty of these in. .ofrensive animals were lying dead, and presented a most shock ing spectacle; twenty-five others were so mutilattd . ns 'to be — past recovery, which were very humanely relieved of their sufferings, but which produced but little beyond the offal.— Even. after all this damage the murderers had not fully sa. dated their thirst for blood, but were pursuing !the remnant of the flock, as it. would appear, with a determination to its final destruetion. The Reverend 'Gentleman u whom the. dogs belong was from home, and this truly lamentable occur rence is said to have arisen from the negligence of his Servants • in not confining the dogs as ,directed. About forty sheep.wtre destroyed in a similar manner a short time since at. Manifold Wyck Farm, in Tolleshunt Knights, the' property of Mt. Wood, of Langford. The shepherds of ancient days '• wateheti their flocks by night," to protect thqn.frpEn raVeninia -wolves , it appears equally necessary in order to secure this valuable property against the like ditsitiop,hich • .4 s most domestic animals appear to retain. • . • • • • • t • L . . . As Vtof= on giv eg -day m n, " :e e lE ytl inmg : : : ut- a 1: 7: 4-41 wh cc o ls: li ciCr h f :l ro 'i rn u"g6 t :r h e e t ir a e g ad l f es ul anie ki cks }:Gin by a hrickmaker, named wizaam rLtlatv, alias Tetlaw. Verdict— Trilfirt Merrier against Tutlaw. ST. KATHARINE DOCK COMPANY. AT a BOARD of the DIRECTORS of the ST. KATHARINE DOCK COMPANY, held this 28th day of July, 1825. Resolved—That the Residue of the Capital Stock having been subscribed, Scrip Sheets, with a Receipt for the amount of the deposit. paid, be immediately issued to the Subscribers. In pursuance of the above Resolution, the Scrip Sheets will be ready for delivery on Friday and Saturday lieu, at this Office, or on any subsequent day, Saturday and Sunday ex cepted, between the hours of Twelve and Three. JOHN HALE, Secretary. 27, Austin Friars, July 26, 1825. N. B.—lnterest, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, is now paying upon the amount of the Deposits made previous to April, 11324. V ICTU-iLLING.OFFICB, July ,„.5. T E COMM /SS lONERS for VICTUAL LIwG His 3rdjEsTrs N„I vy, lice. do hereby glee 291 ice• that on Friday, the v9th lasla74, they will be re ady to receive Tenders in writing - (sealed up), and treat for 7'44 tY - Ton: of OATMEAL °l'se Hundred • . MUSCOVADO SUGAR Ten • BUTTER „„ y - CH EESE FOY COCOA • Thirty - VIRGINIA LEAF TOBACCO ?" Le. delivered into his illafrstn's Victualling Stores• at PC/4d ' "e-half by the Ist September, and the remainder 6v the tit. Ordoher nest. SamPle' o f m the Oat meal, of not less than two quarts e ac h, axrl °f SHgar and Cocoa, of not less than three pounds : e ght each, w i ll be required to he prnducrd w ith the Ten. "7" flee eupply of those artifles respectively. C°7 " liti "s of the Contracts mail be seen al this 0p... :eh Tender must specify the Price in words at lengt h, "" 4e delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed; "d the Person who makes the Tender, or so,ne Person on his 44441 f, mast attend to answer when called for. Al. E CLIFTON. EAST 11131 A HOUSE. July 13, 182 . THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the uNITED CONIPANY of :SERI:HANTS of ENG , LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, du hereby give That the COURT' will he reads. to - receive ritoposAts writing, on or -before WEDNESDAY, the 10th August next, for the HIRE, fur a further number of Voyages, of suc h SHIPS, of the llnethen of 000 Tons and upwards, !ladders' Measurement, as have performed their contracted I.lnaiber of Six Vorages, in the Company's Service. The 'renders, with th e words "Ship Tender" on the corer, to be severally se -tied op du d left with the Secretary, at or heforeTwelve. o'Clock at Noon, on the said 10th August next, latond which hour the Court will nut receive any Tender. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. The Particulars of the - Terms and Conditions under which t he Ship s wi l l . be engaged fur the Company's Service, may be had ° Pon application at the Office - of the Clerk to the Coin mittet of Shipping, on or aftei Friday next, the Isth inst.