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ROMS CIRCUIT.

SENT ASSIZES, MAIDSTOXI, A 170012 It

CIVIL SIDE.
?RI LINO v. LAIIIIWS.
This was an information at the instance of the Board of Custrims,
the defendant, for assaulting and obstructing a seaman,
named White, of the Ramillies, engaged in the sniuggliug pre-
venire service.
Eire Leartiesl Counsel (four being silk gowns) were engaged for
the nruseeution.
Tin detentlant appeared in person, without Counsel.
It appeared from the statement of White, the principal witness,
that on the morning of the 19th August last, he was on digs. near
the bathing machines at Dover, and about ten o'clock be saw *rveral
men go down to die beach and walk up to their inithllcs in the
water, anti fish up six or eight halta:Am of foreip. brandy. Ile
followed them, ►ut in his prow:eta he was stopped be the titf:nti.
eat, who seized him round the initiu7e and hove him down. Some
tc-her men kept hint down, whilst the smugglers walked off with
their loaf. A tier struggling some ni i 11l itcs he got loose, and over-
took ne of the smugglers, and drawing his cutlass compelled hint
to fur. having two half-sinkers behind, which he wised and de-
lirerel to the Custom-house. These were the circumstances of the

case.
The defendant said nothing in answer to the charge, and he VMS
fuurd Guilty.

SMITHETT r. STV 4AT.
Thia was an action upon the Cinque forts Pilot Act, to recover
peraltics against the defendant for refinting to take on board a li.
cursed pilot, to naiigste a vessel, of which ,he was the coaster, up
the Tham:s.
Mr. Sergeant TADDT and Mr. PLATT conducted the plaintiff's
case. and Mr. M Altel'Al• and Mr. Ano t. Wu. the defentlanea.
The defendant was master and part owner ut a trader from Calais
to Lon,!on, of the burden of 7U tons. By the Cinque Porte Pilot
Act. ti'' lieu. 111. vcmicls coming from tureiga parts are bum* to
take on board one of the pilom duly licensed under that Statute,
under a penalty not less than 2OL and not exceeding OOL except
towers, and persons who are residents of any of the Cirque Pons.
It WM proved that the defendant bad arrived trair Dover from Ca-
la.% to April. 1823. when a Cinque Ports pilot, named Gibbs, pat
off and tendered his services, which were refused, on the ground i
that the defendant was a resident housekeeper in the town of Dover.
The question in the case w 3-4, whether, in point of fact, the defend.',
ant was a resident of Dover within the meaning of the Act ? It
a pelted that he bad been many years an inhabitant of Dover, and
an Awil, 19r21. he took a small house in that town at IOL a year.
iltd boarded and slept there whenever be wee on shore. It wan
erntended that his residence was merely colourable, for the purpose
of evading the Statute.
The case went to the Jury, under the Learned Judge's direc-
tions. as a question of fact, whether the defuelant's rt.:deuce was
jf.k., or merely colourable.
The Jury found for the defendant.

WEDYEIDAY. Atmost 11.
CROWN SIDE.

.1,4* litter and Thomas Hormel.* were indicted for stealing a•
pesky, on the 13th Febnaste, two sheep, the proper.y of the
Dowager Countess of Londonderry.
31r. Braces conducted the prosecution, and Mr. CLARKSON
the d fence.
It appeared that on the me.rning of the 16th February. • le' P',-
secatrie's shepherd missal from her Ladyship's Sack two sneep,
out of one hundred and live. The prisoners and a man named
Raker were soon afterwards apprehended on suspicion, and the
latt:r being admitted as an approver, swore that the prisoners and
birracif went to the prosecutrix s fold, in the nigh: of the 13th Fe.
bruary, and tool: two South Downs, killed them, and divided the
To eirrobnrate Ilecker's statement, a next-door neighbour of the
prisoners, named William Tamer, was called, and trout his state-
ment I: appeared that he saw the prisoners conic home loaded on
the morning of the 16th, with two bags which appeared to be
bloody, and in the evening they concealed the same bags in it gra.
eel pit, which, on searching the next day, be found to contain
miens parts of a sheep.
On his cross-examination, Turner admitted he had had a quay.
rd with the wife of the prisoner Ilorrocks. and had told her he
wield thin her family. This he said in a passion. He
Ind riven information agaiast the prisoners immemately after
the discovery of the bags.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoners asserted that they were innocent, and mailed seve-
ral • 'incases to character.
The Jury, under the Learnsl Judge's directions, found the
pri-
sesen NO
William Furter was indicted on the 62d George 111. c. 143, for
frlaniimsly assembling with other persons unknown, at Minster, in'
the Isle of Thanet, on the Lth of May, armed, in order to be aid.
big and assisting in the illegal running, loading, and carrying
sway certain uncustomed goods. The prisoner was also charged
with assaulting certain officers of the revenue.
Mr. °VIXEN and Mr. Knox conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. ADOL PHU. the defence.
It appeared in evidence, that on the morning of the 13th May
last, a seaman employed in the preventive service, being on the
List-out at Minster, saw several men corning up the beach from
the sea. with bales of goods on their backs. Ho called out to them
to stop, when they serried round, and some of them van away.
lie then bred an alarm pistol, on which some of the smugglers
ram back, and beat him must cruelly, leaving him senseless on
tiegroundi In a few minutes he recovered a little, and fired •
second alarm pisioL which had the v IFect of bringing Lieutenans
Riley, of the Ramillies, and a party of his men, to his assistance.
The Lieutenant ordered his men, in a loud voice, to cock their •
pistols and search the ground. They had not proceeded many yardsi
when the pr:soner, who had probably heard the order of the officer,
started up from a place of concealment, and said, `• I will give
myself up: don't hurt me." The lieutenant said, •••• glow can
pm expect mercy, when you have shown none to one of my men ?"
The prisoner was secured.
Mr. Riley, the Lieutenant, Paine, the man who had been M-
used, and several other witnesses, proved the cue.
Several of the bales carried by the smugglers lead been seized, and
were found to contain Bandanna silk handkerchiefs, and other on.
cumonied goods. I'uine could not swear that the prisoner was one
of the persons who struck hiin, but he was positive be was among
the smugglers.
Before the case for the prosecution was dosed,
Mr. Apemen us interposed, and said, that after the evidence
which had been adduced, he could not hope to slake the case for
the Crown, and therefore he should advise the prisoner to with-
draw his plea of Nut Guilty, and tnrow himself upon the mercy of
the Court.
Mr. gen ET, on the part of Crown, said that the only object
et this prosecution was to impress misguided men engaged in this
11411 traMe with the magnitude of their offence, and to warn them
nine penal consequences which must follow conviction. Under
the fevuliar circumstances of this case, he should not press fur the
mint severity of punishinent upon the prisoner.
Mr. A DOLPH V s said that the prisoner was a young man of ex.
alien character, who had lately returned from India, and hail been
inprudently drawn into an association of smugglers on the occasion
in qnesi ion.
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found the prl.
sneer Geiley.
Judgment of death was recorded, but the Learned Judge told
his that he should be recommended as an object of Royal clemency.
Michael Hood!g and Thymus Melia rdwor were indicted for burg_
!snowily bresking and entering the dwelling-house of Richard
Cmodall, of Leigh, on the night of the 24th of April, and stealing
therein a quantity of bacon, candles, and other goods.
*ANDREWS was for the prosecution, and 31r. CUITTN for
the defence.

It appeared that the prosecutor was a shopkeeper at Leigh.
Ahillt dyer in the morning of the 2leh April the family were dis.
tartsd by s noise of some persons entering the warehouse. The
prosecutor's son got up and procured a gun from his father's bed.
room, with which he went to the warehouse door, and saw two men
Lading puts on th backs. He presented the gun at one of ,
then., and said eir
mowed he would shoot hint. Neither of the
awn said anything, hut dropped their loads, and one of them ran
alas. Ile tailed again to the man to stop, which refusing to do
Defiled, awl shot him in the back and be fell ; he then turned to
the other man, siren the wounded person got up and went away.
Ilemetript.rd Instrike attire second man with the but end of his
but tettivlng a blow from behind from a third man, he. was
11°''1., and all three got clear off. On searching the
"are""e it arpeared that the door had been broken open, and
amide the ditv eat found a quantity of bacon and candles which
hal bun ?emeriti trom thewarotiouse. Prosecutor's son could not
Mar to the prooners, though he knew lioadley to be a hawker.
Totem the prisoners John Senteeost, an accomplice, was called,
sad he mere positively th.a the prisoners and himself had, by pre-
Lms ageloent, met at the prosecutor's house. The prisoners
wo,,keitto rite warehouse, and he remained outside to watch, whilst
Buy :raged carrying off the booty. A shot was tired,
"Inch wour.sed witness in the back. They dropped their booty,
wad all this ran of:. Witness remained concealed the following
41, m sank lAy and straw. The prisoner Richardson had pro.
pied the nilibrry. The accomplice was corroborated in several
ta4terZl
Inc prisoners stron;;ly denied their guilt, and called several wit.
7`..lts prove an alibi.
''' rTh jury.,d.r the Learned Judge's directions, found them
'41./iaad'Judgment of death was recorded.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.

'AFFORD AS TutsoAT, Arc CST 10.

IXL Jaitift Litticdale bad pmcluded the criminal business of
'awAlaireit, and Mr. Jawire Park •as occupied during the whole
lliag • case relaiive to a dispute between two real
itl-'4, an eleetruent ease. Neither of them possevacd the
pantie it terct.
• AViltlh-ving terminated, the Judges proceeded to open" 4 Mission at ril.mee......„..,..e4revisitury to-morro Zednesday).
Philadelphia authorities, in pro-
hk'vtiag the eitizt ns from hydrophobia, have ordered all the
la be taken up and imprisoned. The dogs arrested
Pare
into a prison built for that purpose ; whac those
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