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CROWN RIDE.

Andrew and Thomas Sienna,, e, and John Clish,
were charged with an assault on Ralph (lose•, and
Anne Close, his %kite. anti the said Andiew `teu-
bou•e with violating A:me Close. On the part of
the Prosecutors, it was sworn, that Ralph Close,
ou Tuesday'. May t!,, went to the house of Mr.
Robert Hawthorn, of Walbottle, publican, between
tea and elet•en in the morning, to transact smile
business, and that he rem:Oiled there till between
eight and nine im the eVer:llig ; that during that
limited he 113 d drank three ;;lasses of spirits and
water, and some ale ;- that about two in the after-
noon his wile came to get him home; she, how-
ever, stopped with him, and Intel also a glass of
spirits, and between eight and nine they set out
with the intention of returninq home. They called
at Mr. Armstrong's public-house, a short disunite
from I lawthorie's, and Inid route more ale. It was
here they met with the Prisoners, with whom they
were well acquaiutol. They remained till tea
rielock, when Close and his wife went away, both (as
they stated) sober. At a short distance from A
ntag's, the prisoners came np to them, and John
Clish instantly knocked Close demo; he, however,
grit up itnuiediately, and they them pushed Inns and
los wile over the looth-path, and they both fell or
sled down the bank into %%Abrade Dean. The
Strolionses pursued them, and Thomas held Close
down by putting his knees upon his breast, and
holdin;.; his hands whilst Andrew violated his wife.
(lisle at this time was staitehieg on the top of tha
Wilk. Aim Close made all the resistance she was
a lile, and screamed as loud as she cuulet, hit A.
Stesalimise succeeded iu efli ding his purpose. All
the l,rir••mers then rim awiiy.—lti the course of the
examination of Close and his wife, they rep. atedly
stated that they were both perfectly sober tl.e
time. 'Phis, hi.e.er, was refuted bt• a number of
Oil the part of the piisinlers, who all agreed
that Close anti his wife were very druid:. One
st% ore that tilts. Close, when taking a cup of tea at
Armstrong's posited a glass of ale over the int•ail
she had in her had, and said it was cell• good but-
ter; and that her busbiod, on the fullowilig dav in-
quired at Armstrong's what t•umpany he had been
with the Hight before.
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The 3114ige, iu hts charge to the Jury, comment-
ed. at scat length, on the rvitlence of ('lose and
lite wile, which he paid ought to he received with
great caution ; and on the respeetubility of the evi-
&nee on the 'tart of the Prisoners,
The Jury. after u few tiiiiiitteo consultation, re-
t time' I a verdict of —Nut Cesifiy.
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This triad lastill above sox honors. and footinleot end
weie axeludeil Irma the Court during its
coototinounoce.

IVelrium Gahm was charged with committing a
rape on Eliza Itussiek, an infant, thirteen years of
taw,.
It appeared, that the Proseentriz lived at the
home as a servant, where the Prisoner (a married
noiti) lodged, in the neighbourhood of Felton.
She swore, that early one morning in July last,
she was asleep, he got into her bed, mid en-
deavoured to violate her prison. This awoke her,
and she attempted to shout out; but lie prevented
her by putting his hand to her 'mods, and telhog
I::•r that he would burn her with naming brimstone !
Ile then succeeded in effecting his purpose.
The Paisoner, in defence, stated, that the family
all lived in one room, anoi the Prisoner's wife was
in a bed close ailjniuiu;; to the girl's at the time.
Th, Jury acquitted the Prisoner.
nomas Ilimlntarsli was indicted for burglary in
the house of John Chicken, of Nes hum.

Elizabeth, wife of John Chicken, who keeps a
public-house at NVWbUrn, Ilelat•ed, that on Sun-
flay night, the Inth of August, 1414, she fastened
all the floors mid windows of her house before she
roiled to bed M a 1100111 on the groom! floor ; wheu
she undressed, she put her pockets, which contained
7/. iii notes, sonic silver and copper, a table
under her Imsbuturs clothes ; that the next morn-
ing her limbund got up at U. o'clock to go to his
work, and her daughter got up and fastened the
dour after her father, and then mut to bed with

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her mother,---lei• datigl►ttr rase at six o'clocil,
and mold her her father's clothes were: taken
front the table ; she got up, mid also missed her
pockets. Footstep:. were traced on the etairs, and
a small window was found open, by which ►ome per-
son had entered the house and taken away all her
husband's clothes and her pockets, also a ',air of
shoes winch stood below the table. Suspicion fell
mi the prisoner, from his selling a pair of shoes to a
neighbour, to whom he represented that he had
made then► for himself, but they were rather too
small. When taken into custody he wits carried be-
fore a Magistrate, and committed to Morpeth gaol,
and on the road to that place, he confessed to Sto-
rey the constable, that hr committed the robbery,
and had hilt Mrs. Chicken's pockets in a wood.
These, after a diligent search, were brand, and the
whole of the property was produced and identified.
The Prisoner tnade no defence, and the Judge,
iu summing up the evidence, explained the law on
the act (11 burglary.
The inry returned a verdict, Guilty of stealing
in a doelling-horse, to the value of 40s. and the
Prisoner was sentenced to Death.

John Johnson was indicted for Ktrilling' plate and
lint it, the .property of Capt. Boswell, of North
Shields.
Tile circumstances of this ease were briefly
these : —Capt. Boswell being in all infirm state of
health, shut np his house in North Shields (leaving
the care of it to a Nlft Pelham, who had carefully
locked up the key in a closet), and along with his
aifr went to Croft Spa, to drink the water fur the
recovery of ilia health. lit consequence of some
suspicion, Mr. (lark, brother-ill-law to iNIr. Bos-
well, went to Pelham's, got the key, and along
with Alias Pelham entered Boswell's house, and in
a hack parlour found a Mali sitting asleep, with
two hottles of wine before biol. Mr. Clark seized
him, and on the man endeavouring to escape, he
knocked him down, sent for a constable, and had
Into secured. On examining his person, some rings
and trinkets belonging to Mrs. 13oswell were fouud ;
and, nu golog up stairs, plate alai linen to a consi-
deralile amount were packed, ready to be taken
away. I%lrs. Boswell identified the property. It
appears the fellow had entered the house from the
bark part, having forced the shutter by all iron
mow, which was found near the prensises.
called on for his defence, he said, that he had sailed
along with Capt. Boswell, who would not pay I
his wages, but told him he might pay himself the
hest way he could, and lie had taken this measure to
repay liiinself.—The Jury, without retiring, found
hint (:uiily, and sentence of Ileath waN passed oil

Thomas Corr was indicted for wilfully and un-
lawfully shootint, at John Gleuright, Illetiry Ren-
wick, and Stephen Pearson. The Prosecutors
live na Allendale, and within a mile and a half of
the Prisoner's home. They were all returning
from Anemiale town, about twelve o'clock at night,
on ;23d June lust, and their road lay by the Pri-
soner's house. When they Caine near it, they
heard Carr call out, "Who's there ?" They did
not answer. Carr then said he world shoot amongst
them, and instantly fired a gun. The shot slightly
wounded two of the party.
They all went up to Curr, whom they found
in his viden, and after sonic altercation and blows,
the gun was wrested from him and broke.

On their cross-examination, thee acknowledged
that he charge-II 11101111 N.
h robbing the garden; and
that they knee• he had been before u Magistrate to
lay a Cthilplaitit against them.
For the defence, several of Cares neighbours
swore that on the night the gun was tired, they were
disturbed by Annie persons, vs ho swore they would
murder Curr if he said they had been in his gar-
den, and also of Carr begging they nould not mur-
der him.

Several respectable persons were rolled, who spoke
of the Prisoner as if very quiet nod inoffensive wail.
Verdict—Nut Guilty.

Before the JuDGE left luocaster he WAS pleased
to reprieve the whole of the cavital convicts under
sentence of death.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have
;wen pleased to direct that Officers hearing the
were names, shall hereafter be distifignislied from
each other by particular letters, whillt shall always
afterwards continue annexed to their naiwes, whether
they remain in the same, or rise to ;my superior
rank. It is supposed the Navy List of next mouth
will produce this arrangement.
An order was issued some time ago from the
head-quarters of the troops eurauthrd near
Paris, prohibiting all officeis from entering the city,
es.cept in uniform and with side-arms.
fly accounts loom Trieste of the 17th ult. the
Austrian Ooveriinient has laid a contribution of
i 50,00() florins no the inhabit illth of that place._

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Letters have heeti received front 13:act:lona of the
llitli tilt. A new dirty is imposed on cork of 5 per
cum. This is a principal article in the export thole
from ('atalotsia, and it has been chiefly vent to
G cat l3ritaiu.
11'e are informed that Dr. CeOPER and three
eminent Surgeons, of thirty years experience
in Strictures, Debilities, &e. &c. have establish-
ed a 3letlical Board at Clatilotte-liotisc, Great
Charlotte-street, opposite Rowland Dill's Clet-
pet, Illat;kfrinrs-road, London, where the public
are relieved front the nutst dangerous diseases,
without salivation or confilientetit. The. Institu-
tion claims the attention of those who may have
attempteil the care themselves, or who have been so
blind and unfortunate u 5 to consult uteri ignorant of
so important a branch of the profess'.on, whose im-
proper treatment have merenrialized thousands out
of their existence—eruptions on their head, face, mid
body; sort: eyes, throat, mouth, raid cost ; vertigo,
noise iu the ears, deafness, dimness of sight, often
eittliiig in blindriess ; pains iti the heat! and limbs; fre-
quently mistaken for rheumatism ; extreme weak-
ness 111 the knees, swelled ankles, with it gelierril de-
bility, sc. are only a few of the dreadful symp-
toms which frequently appear years after, and too
often inibitters the matrimonial state. Messrs.
Coo vErt mid Co. are consulted daily by all ranks
of people, from ten tilt eight, or by letter, enclos-
ing a ire (for so others are answered), stating their
case, when medicine awl the hest advice are sent to
all parts of the kingdom. They also core the piles
and fistula, without burning or cutting, and give
advice gratis, Olt Tiresdriv, Thursday) and Sunday
tuorwiegs, till twelve &clot IL

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EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.

PAY:IS, AWL 31.

The sittings of the Cour d'Aitize are crowded
every day by 'Jerson* anxious to liter the trial of
these who tlistutbed the public peace in several
parts of Paris, by crying Vine 1 Empureur ! No,
thing orally interest conies out, undone trial is ex-
actly like Another. The prisoners are in general
persons of the lowest order. They call no wit-
nesses either to fact or character. The Law Officer
( Procureur du Roi) corresponding with the At-
torney-Genelal in England, states, upon almost
every trial,• that the prisoner before the Court was
but a subordinate agent—that the principal authors
of the crime were per,ons of rank and influence,
hut that the Government had not been aide to
reach them in such a manner as to bring then► be-
fore the Court.

One ol• the most inter, time of these trials was that
of an old mu,,, a I wggar and cripple ; he was con-
demned to five years imprisounient, and to pat•
(the usual practice in France•) the expenses of the
pespecution. The Court corresponds. in its ob-
ject with the sessions at the Old Bailey—a pine-
cipal Judge presides. The proceedings are seine-
what peculiar, but perfectly impartial and decorous.
Neither witness or juryman is sworn on the Gm,-
pel, they simply repeat the declaration read by the
Officer, each holding up his right hand. • The pri-
tomer had counsel, but the witnesses were all exa- •
mined and cross-examined by the Judge exclusive-
ly—neither the counsel fur the prisoner or the pro-
seention asked them a single question. Another
peculiarity is, that the prisoner was asked by the
Judge, at the close of each witness's evideuee,
whether what the witness said, was true. To this
the prisoner nnifuntly replied, " upon his honour
it was false, every wend." The ludicrous affecta-
tion of grace awl solemnity witle which he disposed
of his crutclves and large cocked hat, in order to
deliver his asseverution upon his honour, itau ap-
propriate anomie, and the palpaple falsehood
of what he declared, created much merriment
--even the Judge scarcely resisted .it. lie was
defended by a vety young Advocate, and with great
ability. Ile touched upon jeulitical circunisiances
with much freedom, in mitigating the offence unite,'
'prisoner. The defence set up for hisne was, that his
offence did not l'ollke within the laiv, which applied
only to harangues, placards, and pamphlets, nut
in-
cluding seditious cries—that it was absurd to impute
to a wretched mendicant (an mendicant inalliereux)
at design to subvert the existing GovernMent ; that it
was out any political clisposi!ion to one putty or the
other, but the wretchedness of his condition that
made him cry " Live the Emperor, who gave us
bread;" and, therefore, that to inniish him would be
to punish his misery, not his crime. There is a studied
correctness and elcvation of style in the speech or a
French Advocate upon every occasion, even where
neither the case or the parties are of much import-
alne•e. The following was, as nearly as I could col-
lect it, the sentence with which he concluded, re-
ferring' to the miserable condition of the prisoner—
•' Soyons udliereux,"--(the Procureur de Roy had
drawn a very animated picture of the calamities
brought by the return of Bonaparte upon France)—
" Suyons malhereux --panissuns les (swears de nos
mallicurs—mais tie Joyous point cruels—ne penis-
sans point le inulheur dant res." The opening and
conclusion of their speeches, have, iii grueral, au our
of preparatiou—they make fiequeot alio-Mos to
the ancient 'natters, particularly to those of Rome.
—From the extebsive field of declamation into
which they enter, both hist.nical and ethical, in
what is limo:trendy u.goestion strictly to he tutu led
by municipal law, it would appear that law oith
lino dues not hold the b3IIIC suprenu;ic•y as in Eiig-
hated. They will in some instances sacrifice it to a
pointed sentence•, or !vita is call, d effect. The
King's Attorney, in this c 'se, conteleled in h s
statement, that the ulkence cause within the law—
but in his reply, lie admitted that it did not, in or-
der• to have tit opportunity of saying, "that it was
fortunate far the prisoner the law had not spieke,,u_
for if it did speak, its voice would he death."
—Yet it was nud.•y tins silent law, that he de-
manded and obirtined the conviction of the. prisoner.
—The verdict was brought in with great solemnity
by the Foreman of the Jury ; be presented it in
writing, declaring, upon his honour, upon his con-
science, god in the presence of• (lent and of men,
that it was the verdict which t tee Jury had fund.
—The Judge then took '•wt, I belicre, Glen his
pocket, IL terry small copy of the criminal code of
Frillier, read from it the punishment which the law
assigtitil to the offeuce, and then pronounced it upon
the prisoner. A few days before, I was present at
a very curious case in the Court of Correctional
Police. The parties were two Ladies, evideutly of
a respectable rank in society, each of whom charged
the other with Innen% rematched her face. Both had
upon the it cheeks very distinct mai ksola sharp con-
flict. The dispute was political—one was a Boor-
boolte, the other a Boimpartite. They had, it ap-
peared, g !IWO a COtrl'eAllOU*C Oil the Boulevards to
read the newspapers. •this isquite the emulation )rac-
tier of Frenchwomen as well as men ; at first they
talked with great temper, but upon the point whe-
tlu•r England was justified ill seinliog _Bonaparte to
St. Ilelena, the debate grew violent, dud terminated
battle. The Homboilite lady said, all the melt
iii the coffee-house were Bunaltartists, and' refused
to niterlere. It turned out, however, that she was
the aggressor ; she oas filled tell francs. Within
the last few days, " Vice Napoleon!" has appeared
chalke.e on the walls ill several places, pat Ocular IY ou
the Palace of the Legislative Body, mid the triumphal
arch in front of the Thuilleries. 'Plie relief figures
and emblems of Bonaparte are partly removed t•
bath. I have seen political disputes ill two or (lime
instances soooog. the !ample who assemble to look
at the worklueu who are employed. The labour-
ing classes, ill Paris, are in a state of extreme ells-
'tress; provisirms are grown dearer, 111111 there is no
employment far their labour. It is quite certain,
that tltc•ir hopes and fears are studiously acted upon,
in order to inflame their passimis. 1 have beet told,
that it is a very general opinion among the lower
classes in Paris, that matte's will not Clad without
another struggle. I hove 'ward of officers, who had
made their ornegements to go into the Russian ser-
vice, having abandoned that nitention.
The Kiug of Prmesia is raising an extraordinary
contiugeut of 60,000 well, fur winch purpose bets