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had allegrd is her evidenee, na her reason for
telling the Officer, en his first coming into the
stable, that she did not know any of the men, that
she was afraid, not knowing they caner to :twist her,
and being agitated le) the ill usage she had rreeived.
Ten respectable witnesses, whose csaminettion
took:up u consielcrable•
Prisoner ; they proved that the P.rosecutrix was a
Karl of light character, and uncle addicted to drink-
ipg ; several of them heing imblicans, and in !those
employment she haul lived, called her a very fro-
lickeserne girl, and oneQf them poSitively.swore to
her drie.king live glasses of sum at one sitting.
Thomas Mills, Esq. master to the Prisoner, gave.
him a character for sobriety, decency, mildness of
temper, a good husband. nod an atfeetionate fa-
ther: Prisoner had been iu his service nearly from
his infancy.
Mr. Conyers, brother-in-law to Mr. Mills, and
several other gentleuien, also slave the Prisoner an
excellent character. St'vcral traidesinen also came
forward on the occasion.

Jastice Ctumuni: summed up the evidence with
great previsioa to the Jury, %rho, after half au
hour's
.deliberstiou, returned, a verdict of—Nut
Cirifty.
The Court was unusually crowded. The trial
lasted floor half past ten in the morning until half
past seven in the r.renitig.
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TO THE satrox OF MI BETTISIT PRESS.
Sin —A paragespit in year Paper,alr•dass sieve, respect-
ing the Rusimgh l't trete, *as, in use vory material Filial, is-
entree,. it slated that John D. d flitsborgh sae the last
artiste stale kle, whereas, u should bare specise,l, eftie.M,
Musa; sr Witham, the late puke, vas the lett is die oak
Mae of the Linet unit tastily, aid sessided 1. Web 11111FOWINft
briselp: 114 Grave nag also the last node brit of the Utite7-
4111 (aaasly,.aud, by.Ls aL suss is new, Ilse Wit of ikauedsia
Ilsameasiact.

PCI ICP
IitION-UnesT.
Jo.‘...estas aad,Joie Arr..* were everwire w the pe-
=4 of 301. each, for irarluag a private stilt, at Pie. e, new-
eastlaeoart, Coll..er-tall. It appeared to evidertia that the
aleadanti were baud is the house, suit that /be min am, at
work a ill, too gallons of wash wad 2., althea, of spirit*. The
Defearhaas sot beieg able to pay tha-..prolty, were eons-
matted to prima.
The Court of Sessitn in Scotland rose, on Satur-
day last, fur the summer r:tc4ttoo. 'When the
Court meets in November next, it will be divided
into two Catats, in one ei which, consisting of
eight Judges, the present Loao AllikatlnkT will
I preside. la the other, consisting of seven Judges,
the Loup Jterrtx Ct.t.ca will preside.. 'hits
division into two Courts w;l1 greatly accelerate the
public beeriness, by lkAtatittg toe determination
of lawsuits. • -
The Steeple; Reveal 'Was last week confirmed
by the Bishop of CritaU*.iste, in Cuckfield Church,
Somer. Sete has been te-cently married, and we
are glad to end, has since 'hewn no disposition
that tares her nusband any thing to fear f.mui the
isinre embraces of her old frietal, Master Moe-
pAe44.
The Susan, STUART, from the Baltic, for LOC-
.dea, was 104 Oil JUthcat io November last.
During the night of Friday ste'unight, the tithe-
rick of rye-grass and clover, standing mar the
chterch-yatd, in tho parish of Lituseerreu, klere-
feedobire, containing about fourteen tuns, was oil-
falls set on tire, awl totally capanteseM 41, reward
ofektO'gneneas has been offered for too discovery of
the offenders.
futsury Riess., on lirloadae, Tuesday, and Wed-
nesday se'unight, were but thinly attended, and-the
sport wee indifferent. name is some proles/act,
however, of a better Meeting next yea ea there
are no less theta 21 new siebiscribers, ad the Wel-
ter Stakes are to be revived.
A melancholy instance of the etits:3 of canine
madams lately occurred in the aeigbbourbood of
Leelbirry. A girl, about nine years old, was bet in
the month, on the 15th of 1149, by a pointer bitch,
which immediately ran off towards Leeibury, end
In passing through the town, bit several dings—the
bitch was shot at and wounded, but made her es-
cape ; and it being apprehended she was mad, the
girl was taken to the sea, and the usual method of
cure vaearted to ; however, a little time after her
return home, symptoms were observed which ren-
dered more than probable that the remedies used
had failed ; and, what was singular, six refused to
eat her food, but mopped at it ; during the fore-
noon of Wednesday last she foamed violently at
this coati), and in the afternoon of the same day
expired in maeulsive agonies.
On Sunday morning, the Royal South Gloneeti-
ter Militia were marched in companies to the
beach. at the can ai.d west ends of Lewes, to
partake of the salubrious exercise of sea-bathing,
and the teett respectively snipped, and were sport-
in,;, like so many doiplum,,anald the rippling waves,
regardless of aught behind them, till. on faciug
about to the cliff, they found the title had made
such rapid forced marches towards it, as overtook.
and set nearly every article of their dress aluat ;
sod many were under the necessity of marc:iing,
half-naked, and dripping, Zile Tritons, to their seve-
ral barracks

As the Gams Season is now approaching, we
think it our duty to give the following extract Iran
the Game Act respoctiag Grouse, Bieck Game,
and Bostarii:-.
N. renown *4 epos say peter*, abalones-ft, awfully
take, kilt, or dristrey, ferry, sell, bey, or hire is his pus-
*swim, or use, ass brash awl, eusiarionly tilted Blatt
Gamma, betties Decimals, the Rob, sad auras the seal
riff sap Grouse, essmaiessly called Red Gime. kneels the
Both of De amber, sad the lath of Angst ; aer aii) Bassani
batiretta Marrh the tit, and September the lit, in every
peer, oft pain of feetritin fee the Rest (greet ally 40131 sot
Oterfaifir /01. nor leas than 1,.i. and fee the- arcnr I, and
every sabeespeat egret*, out esownima MIL or Iran thin
sal. half to tie infestrxr sad hail to the poser...-iatis fires.
111. e as.
a Last Saturday evening a man, and a woman, of
rtspettable appearance, travelliti..; in a one-horse
chaise, were pursued from Uckfield to Mailing
Turnpike-gate, near Lewes, eheee they were
stopped and taken into cu.fndy,Char.-eil with liar-
lava their possession, and circulating at Uckfield,
ticbtinun Bank Notes. purporting to be Notes of
the Southampton and KIIIIIriiirC Gaol, of eve.
two, and our pounds velne. Lite at night they
*ere . privately examined Inli‘re J. Ilsaittsoe.
'Esq. ohs' committed theta to the Hussar of Correc-
tion for fitrilier examitittion. at. which. it is ex-
pected,,piore of tLis apparently swiodLing transit e-
flog wiß tie brought to hg!it.
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