The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-25 00:00:00

NORFOLK ASSIZES, THETFORD, MARCH 23.

Saturday last being the day appointed for holding the Assizes of
this county, Mr. Sergeant Fatits: arrived in this town in the after-
noon, and proceeded to the Shire Hall to open the Commission
the Cater JrSTICE. being detained by the business at Cam!ridge,
did riot arrive till the following: morning, when he attended divine
service at St. Peter's ('hutch, and an appropriate sermon was
preached by the Sheriff's Chaplain, the Re,. Crompton. This
moraing. his Lordship proceeded to the Nisi Prins Court at nine
o'clock, m the carriage of the High Sheriff, Theophihn Therms%
Dillingham fitirdmi, Esq., and immediately proceeded to try causes,
of which there were eleven on the paws—two of them only with
Special Juries.

CIIAILES V. SMITH. •
Thi4 wax an action for assault and false imprisonment. The
'quiff wax a baker, anti tenant of the defendant (a tailor and

a plaint..
:eadt ; witness said it was rot there : she' again eaid it was. The draper),in a house adjoining his own, at East lfereluitm. Michael
ate then came forward half way in greet agitation, as if to look Jackson, a constable, proved distinctly that he was sent for on
)rrisZbe cradle. She then set,t her to Mr. listed* a, next door, to see Sunday morning, the litit of July, by the defendant, and told to
if the child was there; she immediately returned and said the child take charge of the plaintiff as a rogue and thief; that he hesitated,
els rot there. Witness asked her if Mr. and Mrs. dated were at but that the defendant insisted on his taking Charles into custody ;
h•nne ; she replied that they were gone upntaini to bed. She then that he did not actually apprehend him, knowing him to be a re-
espie erring round witresw, who desired her to go and search for spectable men, but took his word that he would not leave his
Mo. child; she asked where she should go ? She anewered that she house, and in the evening gave hint leave to go out to tea, hut
mpg go and loud: till she found it. Witness asked her if the wash- reconipanial him ; that he took hint before Mr. Warner, the 11s.
?eerie was lacked ; she answered that it was locked before the child gistrate, on the following morning, and that the defendant :mended
wis last. The ;dearer went and gave the alarm in the neighbour. lied repeated many time:. that ('harks was a mime and thief; that
Lerd. neighhouis came from all directions. The cradle was he was cautioned cot to use such language. but he said he could
-placed in the same situation as if the child was in it; the clothes , prove that Charles had stolen some chairs and other things front
were the same as when witness left the child there. Every search him ; that they were both bound over, but for what he dud not
wits made by the neighbours in the house, with the coalition of I know.
tlu wish-house; the reason why that was not marched ass. that Mr. Scones, for the defendant. reflected severity upon the
dki prisoner had a second time said that it was locked. When attorney who brought this action, end stated diet the dispute ori•
Mk prisoner was tent to alarm the neighbours, she remained out foe ginated in an assault committed by the plaintiff, and that mutual
some time; when she came in she was very wet, and said she had accusations of theft passed between the parties. The defendant's
been to a neighbour's a quarter of a mile off, to desire them to father-in-law, Iris Servant, and another witness, distinctly proved a
asvikt in the search: witness desired her to go and change herself. violent assault upon the defendant when he had a child in leh. arms.
Idliee course of the evening, seeing witness cry, the prisoner said, and also upon his rite; they positively swore that the plaintiff was
"Dee% ay, Me m, the child will be found." There is a Mtn given into custody for the assault. Mr. Palmer, clerk to the Ma-
between witness's *hop at,d the kitchen' the doers leading gisteutes, proved that the ebarge before the Magistrates was not ihr
=one to the other are opposite each other ; both doors had been felony, but for sesta; that high vont* passed betseen the parties,
I open Miring the whole evening. The child bad been ill with and the complaint was dismissed, both being bound over to keep
!moping cough, but at that time it was better : had the child the peace; and that afterwards, at the request oaf both of Mem,
• any couleedie must have heard it, from the relative situation the reargnitancee were withdrawn.
o shop and the kitchen. The wash-house is at a distance Mr. Rontresos, in reply, contended that the defendant had
iron
.the Mop ; persons might come into the other parts of the proved too good a are; for, if it were true, it would have been pat
omen Without her hearing the.n. Most of 4IC time she was upon the record in a special plea
etrAttgee in serving customers. When witness found that the The Lenrned JUDGE thought the plaintiff entitled to ersonahla
.c.die was empty, the prisoner was in an adjoining room, clean. and temperate damages, if the constable's evidence was tie ha.
shoes. Witisesei other children slept in a room up stairs, believed.
tire kleceetn, wtithm the prisoner had carried them, except her The Jury returned a verdict of Is. damages.
Nt.S Leery, wt r remained in the shop with witr.em There HILTON V. HUNDRED or TUXSTrAD.
doom altogether in the kitchen. Then is a copper in the This was an action to recover the amount of damage sustained by
.atilt lame. Is the morning, witnces had desired the prisoner to fire, believed to have been wilfully occasioned, on the peewees of

Mr%Ron, of Felmingham, in the evening of Christman-day,
Heil. li was admitted that this action was really brought by the
solicitors, and for the benefit of the Norwich Equhabie insurance
Office (which had 'swished the amount of Mrs. Hilton's loss); hut
thtt Learned Judge, in summing up, observed. that the liability of
the hundred to make good the damage by incendiary fire% notwith-
standing the preview' payment by an insurance tympany, had been
fully determined in the Umirts above, and rightly an, for otherwise
those offices mutt put a higher rate of insurance upon property lit.
lde to these dreadful aced ent.lignity, and therefore the cost to the
owners of such property would eventually be the suite.
Verdict for plaintiff, damages hill
POTTER v. ROBINSON.
The plaintiff in this action, who is a farmer and land-surverw
at Lakenhmth, sought to recover of the executory of the late John
Robinson, Esq. of the %ante pazi‘h, between Mel. and MI. for at.
tendaice upon him as ...companion during the last 18 months of
hi. life.

The defendant pleaded, first, that they were not liable: and, me'
foully, a set-off by two bonds (executed by the plaintiff after a
great part of the attendance for which he now claimed payment),
amounting with interest to 5501., and by ace.ommodations supplied
to the plaintiff:
The case had proceeded a considerable way, the object of the
plaintiff being to prove a contract with the deceased, when
The Learned J t DGE suggested that a juror should be with-
drawn, and that it should be lest to Mr. Storks and Mr. Robinson,
the leading counsel for the parties, to settle what sun should be
deducted from the amount of the claim on the bonds, for winch an
action had been entered for trial at Bury.
The calendar is very heavy. and many of the offences RTC of an
aggravated nature. The number of prisoners is 101, amongst whom
are—ii. Crowther, far the murder of his mothsl. by poison: one
for maliciously shooting, four for burglary and shooting at the in-
mate of the house, one for throwilg a reaphonk with Intent to
maim, five for rape, two for bestiality, five for shooting at a
wante-keepes, live for highway robbery, nine for sheerstsaling,
one for horst—stealing, nine for house robberies, and nine tot to.
multuously throwing down fences at Banniegliam.