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SIERRA- LEONE.

Sierra Leone papers have been received to the 26th of
June. 'rite Arno, Capt. Courtenay, arrived at Sierra
Leone on the 19th June from a cruise to leeward ; she left
Cape Coast orr the lath. It was currently reported that
the Ashantees were desirous of making peace. They were
suffering severely from small-pox and dysentery, and like-
wise from a scarcity of provisions, notwithstanding the
supplies which they obtained from the Dutch settlement of
Elmins. The Bann sailed from Sierra Leone on the 2.5 th
of June, for the liambia and Portendie. On the 13th
June the Thetis frigate, Capt. l'billirnore, arrived at Si-
erra Leone; on her way to Cape Coast from this country,
with a number of officers for the Royal African Colonial
Light Infantry and :Al %Vest India lieginient, and a de-
tachment of ltw non-commissioned officers and privates of
the former corps. 'fie 4%etis sailed ihr Cape Cows on thor•
17th June.

iIItETOWX. Juni: 6.—On Saturday last, the pocket Aleresi
der (:rnat arrived from Cape Coast with 12 .I%hantee prisoners and
his lamented late Excellency's servants and baggage. Our ad-
vices give a melancholy confirmation of the dreadful tidings re-
ceived by the Ravi. Mr. ifasiker Williams, the Secretary, whose
life. It appears, was saved by the interposition of a powerful ,%ahan.
tee Chief, has since been delivered tip t. the Governor of the Dutch
Fort at Elmira, upon condition that he should he kept there until
the close of the war.
Extract of a letter received from the Gold Coast, giving
some details of an action with the Ashaiitccs on the ':lst
of May last:—
At break of day (21%t May) we were all on our legs, limed cap-o.
pi., at the martial (though not most inviting) air of • Turn nut the
whole.' About II o'ckwk we marched with 4.,•011 men (which, as
manly as I could calculate, was the number of cur whole force) to
engage the Ashantecs. The attack commenced new with tremend-
ous volleys from right to left. our troops in the centre gave way
In the first onset of the battle, but they soon advanced again, and'
stood their ground like lions. lieutenant—, with every effec-
tive man of the 2d M'eat India regiment, was placed as a reserve,
immediately in the rear of the partite, cli;-,ttgetl. and across the main
path: this post he and his men maintained with great firmness the
whole day.
Here we came regularly into action mffs' every potoible local
disadvantage. The Ashantima occupied a high, thickly wooded,
steep hill. and we were in a cleared farm directly tinder them. (in
tile reed to the' l's (kilobit Faro, the plain of rock which looks
like a mrailow on the tight hand, will give you some idea of the
field of boa:le at' Fettle. Captain —of the Militia was severely
wonderl in both anus in tha commencement of the affair, and
every ten minutes of this there wassomebody going to the rear with
a broken head or leg. We taught until our ammunition wan ex-
pend, anti the sus threatened to leave us In the dark. Upon the
whole, we rather gained groaMt! on the savages; and from subse-
-lut &comma, it appears that they never before got mach a regular
thrashing in a' bush fight.' This they acknowledge themselves ;
fur we have bull mime of them taken alive, and received some
men who deserted from their camp, that were taken by them in Sir
Charles's action. Our ballets did great execution amongst tbetti,
I assure you.
lo emu:vim-nee of the circumstance before-mentioned respecting
ammunition, tee. we could not follow up our success ; for, in addl.
tone to those reasons, we afterwards found that ini less than 2,0(10 ofl
ear calamity allies scampered off during the fight, and left 2.f.00
cen to maintain the unequal contest ! ! There was but are alter
Poore; and the Major gave orders to retire to the camp at Garden
I Irish that i had ante to descrihe to you an African field of
tittle. Several heads ataring you in different directions—some
h_purm ei the eammamlers utrophies by the men who did the
""ml lollnoine and shouting on both sides when firing at one
another t the thrill Mona of the native home ; the warriors, almost
1151"detv•Pire from one ambush to another, to have a shot at the
etm", 1, at ite. give a curious anti awful effect to the conflict.
..1'417'133's account tallies with the precediag as to our having
lute" mem much the worst of it. The numbers of their killed and
:rll‘ , are, lam told, very great. So mtieh for the battle of
I sin quite gratifital at having witnessed the thrashing they
"'(•214 mill more so at having lent a hand in it myself. Captaiu
--141 this two days ago for Aran, to try to bring up forces from
Coat - • •
--Art that we may be enabled to attack the Ashan-
'ether he will Novice,' or tot, heaven knows; or
ores here can be rallied on again to glory, is equally
v ill keep my letter open till the lost, and give all

HOMR CIRCUIT.
SUSSEX ASSIZEg, Lam, Auaarr 17.

Robert Clerk, an °Seer of the Latina on the nrighton station,
was convicted of a breach of duty, in having granted, on the 24th
April, 1023, a false permit foe the removal of 120 galle la of foreign
brandy, and 60 gallons of Geneva, from the stock of Thos. Francis
to the stock of John Slee. The prisoner had borne an excellent
character, and in consideration of that circumstance wu sentenced
only to four years transportation.
/teary Roberts wax indicted on the Statute for making a signal
on the coast to smugglers, at Itognor, on the 11 June,
The case was pioved by Lieutenant Atcheana and two seamen
of the preventive service, belonging to the Reinilies, from whine
testimony it appeared that the prisoner was deter-led in exhibiting
• Lnthorn to the crew of a smuggling vessel, who were within fifty
lyards of the shore *hen the prisoner was seised. A party of men,
armed with bludgeons, attempted to effect • rescue, but some of
the itreventive men coming tip the prisoner was secured.
Mr. ADOLPH Ifs appeared for the prisoner, aad made an Inge-
nious defence.

The detains of the n•e were destitute of public intereet.
The prironer, under the elttections of the Learned Judge, was
found f:eilty, and, in default of prying 1801., the penalty pre-
scribed by the Statute, war sentenced to twelve months imprison-
ment.

Oo the Civil Side there was nothing of public isitenzt to.lay.
WCSTERN CIRCUIT.

DEVON ASSIZES, ExErget, AUGUST 17.
CROWN COITRT.
[Before Mr. Baron Onnaow.l
A ItSON.
Mimi Tapper. aged 111, wan indicted for setting fire nn the 11th
of May, to the stahle and cow houses of IV. Honeyed!, of Bove.
Tracey, and elm, on the 12th May, to the pound house of the salil
William Iloury will (she bring an apprentice to the said William
Honeywill).
The prosecutor stated, that he was a farmer in the parish of
gooey Tracey In this county. He knew the prisoner at the bar,
whet wet his apprentice. On the 11th May. he wait from home at
7 o'clock, and at half-past 10 he returned. He then found his trac-
heate* on fire, and the roofs falling in • it was the stable, cow
house, and pig-stie. The prisoner had been in the prosecutor's
service nine rears.
Elizabeth Ilammiek lived at Borer Tracey, and knew both the i
prisoner and prosecutor. On the 12th May, she was at Mr. ~
Hnneywill'a; she had then heard of the lire that happened on the
11th. The prinoner came into the room where witr.ess was on the
12th; she questioned prisoner, am to the fire, when she denied any
knowledge of the fire ; she afterwards began to cry and lament
herself, and then said she hail carried fire nut and placed it in a
wad; she also said on the 12th she carried nut more fire, and
I placed it in the roof of the sheep house, and put furze upon it.
i fin threat ne reward was held nut to the prisoner to induce hie to
make this confession.
The hearted Jena*, in summing up to the Jury, observed,
that they must, in common with himself, experience the deepest
regret at seeing a person of the prisoner's age and s. x at the bar on ,
so grave a charge: but without they could believe, in the absence
of all evidence as to the fact of her insanity, that she did not know
right from wrong at the time of her commuting the act, they had,
he feared, no alternative but pronouncing a verdict of guilty against
the prisoner. If he. as Judge, could suggest any pond etc timid
he construed farnorithly for the prisoner, It would he no more his
duty than his inclination to do so ; but that he could not do in the
exercise of his ditty.
The Jary immediately returned a verdict of Coihy against the
prisoner, but strongly recommended her to mercy on account of her
youth.
The prosecutor also joined in the rtvnmmendat! m 1 which the
Learned Judge said should be attended to.
Sentence of death was then recorded against the prisoner.
Jam Perry, ahas 31r. If'illians Barlt.tt, was indicted for stealing
a bine* gelding, value 405., the property of J. Barrett, of South
Brent, in this county.
The prosecutor's Wm proved that the horse was safe on the fith of
August, and on the 7th he was missing.
Andrew Schofield stated, that at halt-past six o'clock In the
morning of the 7th of August, a man wham he was sure was the
prisoner offered him a horse to purchase, which he declined because
he thought that the animal had ben stolen. Ile communicated
hi. anspieloret to his neighbour, Mr. Jordan, to whom the prisoner
bad applied to buy the horse in question. On being asked how be
became possessed of the horse, the prisoner said that he was a horse.
dealer living in tilotieester-street, Exeter, and that he had started
from thence with ten horses, nine of which he had 'odd the day be-
fore. The witneors knowing there was no such street as Gloucester-
street in Exeter. mused the prisoner tit be detained.
J. Jordan corroborated the testimony of the List witness in every
pninicular.
The prosecutor's son wits recalled, and swore that the horse he
saw at Mr. Schofield's, et Tive:ton, was the property of his father.
Grills—Death.
Jahn While and .darts Waterman were indicted fnt feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Mitre?, In the
parish of Tiverton, in the night of the Pith, or morning of the 21hh
April, and stealing therein one pair of boots, tour shirts, and
divers other articles. .
' . 111111iniSeritt;.it nereinfitr ?he prosecutor, proved cunt he wan
the last person up on the night of the 19th April. Ile went to bed
about ten o'clock, when he fastened all the doors and windows.
When witness got up at half-pant five the next morning, he Ihund
that the bark dour had been forced open at the bottom with great
violence, the staples having beta wrenched off
Francis Amott, another servant of the prosecutor stated, that in
consequence of some information ha had received, he went to %V ils-
come, and saw the prisoners there. In di:: room at the Bear pub.
lie-house at ifilscome, where the prisoners slept, lie found three
shirts that were his property, a pair of boots belonging to his mas-
ter, and several other things that he knew his fellow-servant had had
stoke. iVatertuan had a pair of his master's boots and a shirt of
veiencss's on.
John Webber, the landlord of the Rear public-house, rt`colletetrd
the prisoner coming to his house on the 17th of April. On the
19th they went away, and rotaries! on the 21st. They had each a
hag, which they called a wheat hag. The appeared empty when
the prisoners went away on the 19th ; iso r return the bags con.
tamed property, which was claimed by A .
Win. Scott was recalled to identify his own and his master's
property. After having proved that ll'et, he was asked by the
Court if he had seen any grease about the house, when he rose on
the 20th of April, or had noticed Isny circumstance indicative of a
light having been used in the house during the night ?
iVitness wad he had observed grease about several parts of the
house, and lie had found in the plantation the sconce oh one of the
parlour candlesticks, with grease upon it.
The landlord of the public-hose was again called hack,and
stated that he had found a flint and steel in 11'atennan's hag.
Ilia I-onto:mit in his address to the Jury observed, dun he had
considerable doubts until Scott was recalled, whether this could be
safely considered a burglarious entry, but he had now no doubt of
It. 11, however, the Jury entertained a different opinion, they were
bound to give the prisoners the benefit of it, and in that case they
would RA them guilty of stealing only.
The Jury found both the prisoners (hilly of the burglary.
CIVIL SIDE.
Ill!Pre the (lour Jt-s-rten.l
14 I:I2SL AXE AND WII";: 7-. ROT.
This was an action of Trespass brought by the plaintiff and
his wife, against the defendant, five an assault and battery com-
mitted on the person of the wife of the plantilf. ,
Mr. Sergeant Pact., in stating the case to the Jury, observed,
that the plaintiff and his wife were persona of respectability brim,
at filnitientown, in this county, and the defendant was a Scotch!!
man, named Robert Roy, who certainly did not possess any of the
gallantry of his namesake " Rob Roy," although some of the
blood of that celebrated person might possibly be flowing fn his
veins. lie should prove that this Scotehman had comnutted a
violent and most unmanly assault upon the plaintiff's wife. The
plaintiff rented • house of the defeuriant, and a dispute having;
taken place between Roy and Mrs. Kerslake, as to shscher a re-
reipt was claimable or not, the former, in consequence of this
quarrel, committed the outrageous assault complained of. lie'
should proceed to prove his case, and for that purpose would call.— I
Sandi (\afford, who stated that Robert Roy was a Scoechman,
and a mill.earpenter; that en the t'llth May the plaintiff's wife
went to the defendant's bruise, and asked him for a receipt for the
rent. Roy said he would not give her one, and she replied that
she must have something to slier the rent had been paid. They
both went into the house, and witness afteawards saw Mrs. Kers-
lake lying on her side against a cites; and Roy pummeling the
back part of her head. Ile also struck her tinder the rib*, and then
dragged her Into the washhous., where he beat her about her
breast; and tore her handkerchief. Witness ran cut and cried
murder. Mrs. Kerslake's eyes were very black, and the blood
flowed copiously dawn her face and neck. She at last got out of
the house, and witness went home with her. She was very poorly
and fail for some time, and could hardly keep herself alive. She
had the assistance of Mr. Knott, the Doctor.
Cm...examined by Mr. Sergeant WI c nr.—Witnein lived next
door to the plaintiff. There had been a distress In plaintiff's house,
and defendant had said that the broker was the proper person to give
the receipt. Witness called out as loud as she could, but it was a
small neighbourhood, and no one came. Plaintiff's wife did not
squall, and witness believed that she was too much ,hurt to do so.
She had never heard plaltitifi"s wife abuse Roy. Mrs. Kerslake
used no foul language; but witness would not swear that Mrs. K.
had not said Roy would be a disgrace to a gibbet. Witness tried
to pull the old gentleman back, hut he wan ton strong for her.
Mr. James Knott, a medical man in the neighbouthood, depriscd,
that the plaintiff's wife came to him on the 7th June. Ile perear.
cut marks of violence on her person.
f'reos-examined by Mr. Sergeant WI T.DE.--Witneat gave Mrs.
Kerslake some medicine ; something that would do her no harm.
Mr. Sergeant lVtkno then addressed the Jury on bti.alf of the
defendaytt, anti expressed ti wish that every mum could escape from
the doctors' hands as IVel. at the pliintifrs wife appeared to have
done. Even the 'mall portion of medicine she received front the
last witness nappeared more than her case required. The Jury had
heard, from the only witness called on the part of the plaintiff, that
no other person was present during this transaction, and therefore
it was quite impossible for his client to call witnesses, but the Jury
would judgeof the credit due to this witness, both by reason of the
exagoerations with which her testimony abounded, and by reason
of her suppression of material facts which had been drawn front
her in her cross-enntitination. One of this witness's answers, via.
that the plaintiff's wife eculd not ropinil out, reminded him of an
answer given by a witness, who, haring stated that he bad seen a
desperate wound inflived by a sharp instrument. and being inter-
rognted as to the quantity of blood that had Sowed from the part
that had bey, injured, replied, •• Oh, it went too dar to bleed !"

Society of Arts has attained its twentieth
rhich evinces in a ray gratifying manner the
Fine Arts in our county, not merely by the
but by the merit of the performances. The
Piece is "A Poker Drawing," by Mr. Robert
eston, which includes a representation of the
Stack-prritervers, a Piize Bullock, and a
leads, of varied expression, all executed with
implement Upon a piece of board.—Norwich

greatest improvetnerts of metlern times is,
tt has of late been given to the diffusion of
. every description, by means of re-publica-
best standard work; in forms which enable
'take diem their own. We have just seen an
he A robing Nizfidr, the most popular of all
'eh at once has the merit of amusing our
the vividness of its fancy, and informing
ears as to the manners of a people with whom
nac comparatively but little actrainted, pub-
. I,imbird, and embellished with wood-cuts.
sold at a price so billings* be within the reach
;ho is plactsl above the pressure of immediate
"'system of publishing valtiabk works which
the property of the public by the expiring of
ila, continues, we see no bar to the lowest
country becoming equal, in useful informa-,
miry highest.

He knew that the Jury mutt give a verdict against his client, but
h e was confident they would think very small damages would amply
as defy the justice oldie case.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said, if the Jury believed the account
that had been originally given by Sarah Cu!llford, It was an assault
that would call for considerable damages, but if the plaintiff's wife
had used the ill language, which the witness would not swear had
not been used, the amount of damages to which the plaintiff' was
entitled, would in that case be greatly diminished.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 40s.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.

DURIIAM ASSIZES, 111oxnAy, Avo. 16.

CROWN RIDE.
On Sunday Mr. Baron llut.t.oce proceeded from the Castle to
the Cathedral Church, where an excellent sermon was preached by
the Rev. Bulkly Itardindl, D.D. Rector of Ilaughton le ikcrne,
the high Sheriff's l'haplein, front Jashua 23, v. 6:—" Re ye,
therefore, very courageous to help, and to do all that is written to
the book of Me law of Moses, and that ;e turn not aside therefrom
to the right hand or to the left." From this text or scripture the
Reverend Gentleman made a very suitable discourse. Ili% principal
object went to show that ourlawa could rot flourish without the aid
of religion, nor would religion be sufficient in itself to flourish
without the ad of the laws —thatcivil and religious liberty were
both necessary to the well-being of the State, and conjointly with
each other reformed the wayward, and made the virtuous inure
happy. Ancient philosophers had inculcated (said the preacher)
these doctrinist; arid even the Atheist had not denied, that political
polity, as set down in the five books of the law of !doses. blended
with religious morality, was the foutidatioii-stone and the firm basis
of all that was good.
The Jo not walked front the Castle to the Church,
" Where the solemn Anthem peeled the rota of praise,"
attended by a few Officers with white viands in their hands, Tie-
I ceded by two trumpeter.. After his Itonlsitip had received the Sa-
erament he returned Castle. The choristers chaunt in
very delightful manna; and although it is rather fatiguing, the
last words fall with melancholy cadence on the ear. A very little
parade!. dbeerved io Durham to whet there used 'to be. It was
once a very Imposiog sight; but now all grandeur ant! magnifi-
cence are lost, and there is only a semblance of its former great.
fleas " Farewell flail" (as it f.tcnuedlia a little public house,
known by the sign of the Durham Ox, kept by a person of the
name of F. Johnson. To this place 'formerly the friend% of tra-
yeller% csed to petered from Derham, to bid them farewell, sup-
posing from the length of the journey to London, and the time it
would necestatily take them to perform it in, they should probably
never see than again. It is said, moreover, that they used to make
their wills before they 'left their homem. The journey, which in
those days occupied a fortnight, is now petfornied in little more
than thirty hours. Mr. Justice Bayley ;unwed in Durham about
six o'clock on Sunday evening. Tins day the Judges proceeded
Ito their respective Courts. Mr. Justice Bayley sat on the Crown
Side, and Mr. Baron Ilullocktt Alai Fritts.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.

PEREFORD ASSIZES, AUGUST 17.
(Before Mr. Justice PAII.)

At the sittingof the Court, his Lordship announced. that in eon.
sequence of the heavy state of the Alai Prins list, he should sit
for the trial of those causes till Saturday night at twelve o'rock,
and then adjourn these Assizes to some day soon after the (lion.
rester Assizes, when he would take such causes as could nut be tried
before Saturday night.
Mr. TAUNTON stated it to be his belief, that the civil, busi-
aeas would not last over Saturday.
Mr. Justice PAIK-If by the Gentlemen of the Bar only dis-
cussing in their speeches the points really in dispute. and not di-
verging into extraneous matter, ran shorten the cues in:orcasnnable
length. 1 shall be glad. 1 shall he sorry to trouble the Jury to
come here again, but 1 must not suffer parties to be ruined by an
endless delay of their causes.

PRICE r. SOULTRY.
Mr. easitnnet.t. stated, that this was an action brought by the
plaintift, a aunt respectable builder, against the defendant, a gen.
denten of fortune, on account of certain alterations made by the
plaintiff' in the defendant's house ; the work war done partly accord.
trig to an agreement and specification, and partly not—he should
prove the work done, and a balance due. '
To prove what work the agreement and specification were for,
they were offered in evidence, but
Mr. TAUNTON objected that these documents were only 'damped
with a IL stamp, whereas, as they contained more than 1,080 words,
the stamp ought to have been I!. llts.
Mr. CAMPBELL sawed, that originally the papers in question
had been without stamps, and were sent a few weeks since to the
Stamp-Office in London, to have the proper stamps affixed, and
that the Stamp-Office had put this stamp on them as proper,
the plaintiff having paid at that Office a penalty of U. to get
it done._

(Before Mr. J y.s.r ice BAYLEY.)
The usual preliminary fords having been gone through, the
following gentlemen were sworn is as the Grand Jury t--. The
Honourable W. J. V. Powlett, of Raby Castle. M.P., foreman; the
lion. Archibald Cochrane, of Little Eppleton ; the lion. 11. S.
Liddell, of lartiaerca; 11'm. Hutchinson, of Egglestone, Esq.;
Cud). Ellison, Esq., of Ilebburn Hall, M.P.; Arthur Aylmer.
of It'abrorth Castle, Esq.; R. E. D. shaftoc, of Whitworth,
Esq. ; John Ralph Fenwirk, of Diirliaro, Esq. Wm. Claytoa,
of Wition Castle, Esq. ; J Allen, of Blackwell, Esq. ;
Richard Wright, of Sands, Es ; Thomas R. (hey, of Norton,
Esq. ;W. T. (ireenwell, of 6 nwell Ford, t:sq. ; It. M. Dins-
dale, of Newsbani, Esq.; G. T. heaton, lloppyland l'ark, Ear. ;1
Robert bhaw, of Usworth-placa, Esq. ; John Cartwright., of
Norton, ltaq. ; U. T. Fox, of N'eatoe, Esq. ; R. Abbs, of Clea-
don noose, EN. ; G. Fenwick„ of Ford, Esq.; Thos. Cookson,
of Ilensiitage, Esq. ; Daniel Sodden, of Durham, I:sq. ; and I'.
Johnson, of Aykley Heads, Esq.
His Lordship then chargid the Grand Jury in a short but rom. ,
prchenaive speech, and which principally alludes! to the state of
the Calendar, anti was in substance precisely the same as that de-
livered by Mr. Baron Bullock at the York Assiz si.
The Grand Jury having four.d a bill against John Parkin, aged
3'2, late of IludifersHeld, in the West Biding, of Yorkshire,
butcher, on a charge of stealing from Mr. Thomas Briggs, a lOU/.
Bank of England note ; he was put to the bar, and arraigned. He
pleaded Not Gaily.
Mr. C a oti kerstr conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Briggs said be was a clothier at Longwood, near (Judders-
field. I have known the prisoner tire or six years. (In the 4th of
November I was in his tympany at the Cherry Tree Inn, at Hod-
derslield ; I was in his company about three hours, and I was a
littlii in liquor; the prisoner was so also. I had my pocket-hook
out to shew a lON. Bank of F.nglaad note to John Brook, of Long-
wood ; I had no particular reason for spewing it to bin, ; I was not
at that time far gone in liquor. He was waking a good deal of
noise about his brother's money, and I pulled tt out, saying his
brother could not spew such a nasa as that was. It was then about
i eight o'clock is the evening. I put the note in my pocket-book
again, and put it Into my coat pocket. 1 continued there about
two hours afterwards. The prisoner was there when I produced
the nate, but not when I went away. He went away shout Lin
nil:lutes before inc. Sometime 'he was sitting Here nee, and some-
'times ho was not. Ile was at times near enough to me to get hit
hand WU) 111.1 Porkcl. Ind satiwy packet-book eras,— I missed my
pocket-book before I Went out of the house. The prisoner was gone
when I missed it. There was no 'mark on the note by which I
should know it again. I saw it again at Darlington on the 19th of
March. I got the note from Mr. Abraham Gibson. I gut the note
of Mr. Gibson on the 10th of October, and kept it from that time
till the •:iiie I lost it. I have a letter in my possession written by
the prisoner to his wife. I know his handwriting. I got the letter
of my broths.
.. -- _ __ . . ..

.Mr. Justice PARE—If these papers contain more than IMO
words this stamp is wrong. The Stamp-Otfke ought to take a
great deal more care, and not put improper stamps ; but as I bare
no evidence before me that these papers do contain more than 1,030
words, they must be counted.
Mr. Bellamy then counted the wools, but whilst he was doing
so the Learned Judge strongly recommended a reference to arbitra.
lion, as inch objections as the present went to defeat the justice of
the case.

A Wag conference took place between the Counsel and .Ittorneys,
which terminated in the cause being referred.

WELSH RIOT AND FORCIBLE ENTRY.
VEX r. DAVIES MID OTHERS.
Mr. Cants stated, that this was an Indictment for a forcible
entry, a riot, and an assault on Thomas Reid, Esq.
Mr. LUDLOW stated, that this case arose out of a transaction in
Glamorganshire. Mr. Reid was the landlord of a person named
Dunn, and Mr. Dunn being in arrest for rcnt, proposed to give
up the farm, and make an arrangement relative to the rent. This
was seceded to, and the farm and crops were given up. Mr. Reid
cut down the crops, according to this agr;enaent, and on the 23.1
of August several men came with waggons, to take the ricks. 'l'hey
came with violence, and Mr. Reid being a very infirm man did
not resist them ; he, in fact, having been formerlly an officer in
the army, hail been severely wounded. The defendants were all
present, and harnessed two horses to a gate which was locked ; they
tore the gate open, and drove the horses against the prosecutor,
which knocked him down, and he was then trampled on by the
horses. For the purpose of chewing that the parties did not come
in a peaceable way, he would mention that one of them had a
pistol.
Mr. Reid, a very infirm old gentleman, who appeared to have
Inert his left hand and Mit right leg. stated—l am the owner of the
farm which was occupied by Dunn ; he owed me rent; he agreed
to give up the farm and crops in payment. I had the crops, and
they were in my farm.yard for nine months. I was alarmed at four
o'clock in the morning of the 23d of August 11122; 1 saw the de-
fendant Davis ; f also saw David Thomas, David Morgan, and
Thomas Reece; they are defendants. I said, "By what authority
do you conic to my yard One of them produced a warrant.
" This is a warrant from the late Sheriff', and not the pre-
sent." I had the warrant in my hard, but Richard Thomas snatch-
ed it away, and anon after there came ten waggons, two carts, and
two spare horses, besides those to the waggons and carts, and seve-
ral 'men; the gates were locked; they hitched the horses to the
gates and drove them on ; the lock gave way and the gate was open.
I stood in the gateway with a stick, and said 1 welidd defend it as
long as I could. I was term years in the army. I had not a ati, k
heavy enough, or I would have levelled some of the horses and
men. The defendants beat the hones; and Mils said—" Drive
ore? him." The horses came against me, and pushed me, and I
was near falling, but two people caught me and prevented It by
hauling me away. The people then put the stick into the waggons
and carts and took it away.
Cross-examined by Mr. C‘straxer..—l left the army in 1714.
I was a Lieutenant, and have been on half.pay ever since. I fought
in the American war, but not in the French. Dunn occupied a
farm under another landlord named Yereday, wl o put in a distress
about Candlemas, 11122. I don't remember that Mr. Griffiths ever
asked me whether Dunn owed me rent. Mr. Griffiths is something
of a lawyer. I never said that Dunn did not owe ma rent. I never
told him that Dunn was an honest man. I have heard that Dunn
owed a sum of money to a Mr. John Davis. I swear that there
never was any agreement that Dunn's crops should be a security
for my rent and Davies debt. It was agreed that I should have
Dunn s crops. John Allice and four other persons were present at
it; they are some of them here. The defendants said —" We arc
bailiff's." I did not get a stick to beat them, because 1 was one to
six or seven, and I have but one leg and one arm, but I could have
got plenty of men to have murdered every person there. Several
persons offered to assist ine, and would have murdered the bailiff's
if I had wished, but I desired them not to do so, risking to be
peaceable.
Re-examined—Dann himself helped to carry the crops to my
yard.
John Thomas, a Welshman, applied to he examined in Welsh.
He said, " I beg your pardon, my Lord, but I really cannot speak
English." (A laugh.) But on his Lordship telling him lie must try,
he was examined in English, which he spoke very fluently. Ile
stated that he saw the men and waggons come up to his master's
gate ; he saw them tear open the gate ; Davis was there ; 31r. Reid
said hr would lose his life to keep his property ; Mr. Reid lifted up
his stick, and Davis said, " Drive en, send him to the Davila '
One of the horses went towards Mr. Reid, arid he was thrown
back, but was saved berme the waggon went over him. Several of
Mr. Reid's friends were there, who said to hint, would you want
to keep the wheat on tke premises, but he said. "Let it go, let
them do as they will."
Cross-examined—Mr. Reid had a stick as thick as a man's
finger ; it would not knock down a horse ; it was not so thick as a
man's wrist

('rocs-examined by Mr. Losn —There were ten persons drinking
in the room a'. the tune 1 pre:Weed the note. 1 was not drunk
when I produced the note. John Brook was four seats off me.
One Scholtield was there, and he sat next to me. I had twenty-
eight pounds in other notes. which I produced at the same time.
I can swear I put my pocket-book into my packet. The last time
I felt it in my pocket Schollield was siting next to one, and I
taxed him with it when I missed it. The next morning the pri-
soner went with me to look after Seholfield. I did not suspect the
prisoner at the time. I did not advertise it. I told all the persons
that were there I had lost it. I lust my pocket-book and the other
notes and ail. I saw my note again on the 15th March, at the
banken in Ihrlington. I saw the pitmen after I got the note.
I never advised hint to run away, and toW him it would he no worse
for him—that I swear. I had some conversation with the prisoner
after I gut my note. John A ynsley Was present then. I was with
the prisoner alone, and I told him he had used me very badly to
keep the note when he knew it was mine. The prisoner was an
acquaintance of mine. The prisoner was in the custody of
Eveitiog when I saw him. I drank with him then. We were to-
: Fiber many times after the note was tued.
Mr. Nathaniel PICWA—I an, clerk with 3lessrs. Deckhouse and
('a. at Darlington. (In the 17th of (larch, about half-past live
o'clock, as I was leaving the Bank, I met the prisoner coining
in. He dined me a IDOL note which he had in his hand, and
said he wished to have notes for it. I looked at it ; I have that
note now; 1 titill 1 • that we wcte not in the habit of giving our
toss; for such a note, unless we knew something of the party. Ile
said he wanted the notes to pay fur same sheep be had bought in
the neighbourhood. Ile went away eller I refused to give him the
notes. I watched the prisoner alter that, and Fot hint apprehended.
I RIM him about a (Fierier of an hour after that in Evening s house ; I
told him then 'het if he would inform rue of whom he had purchued
the sheep, nod I knew the parties, I would give him the notes. lie
tit en said that he had bought the sheep in the neighbourhood of It iron,
and that he had bonght than on the marl, when he was on the Te-
legraph coach, which he stopped. The coachman of the Telegraph
coach, in the prisoner's protence, denied this. The prisoner theta
said if I would write to Thomas Briggs I should find that every
thing was correct. Ile said that lie had received the note of Thomas
Briggs. I did write to the bookers at 11..ildendield on the subject,
and Mr. prigs came over. Mr. I'lews then produced the note.
51r. Ev..n mg, the constable, said, that the prisoner told Min that
he had found the pocket-honk one morning neer to Itritrm's house,
and that he believed it to be lkiggs's, but poverty intinAd hint to
keep it. Ile said that he had been drinking with him the night he
lost it, and that he went with him to Scholheld's house. The pri-
601Ief at that time wrote a letter in my home directed to his wife.
Richard Stead.—l was driver of 'lie Telegraph between Catterick
and Darlingten, and brertight the prisoner. I did not stop the coach,
and the prisoner never bought any sheep on the road.
Mr. William Gibson and Mr. Abraham Gibson proved that the
note produced by slr. News was that which was paid by Mr. A.
Gibson to the prosecutor.
Mr. T. B. Jervis, a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Jones,
Lloyd. and ('o. proved that the note was the saute raid by him to
'3lr. m. Gibson.

John Hams carroborated the evidence of Mr. Reid, and stated,
that
,just before the gate was broken open he saw the deentiant
Davis takeout a piitol and load it. Alice Harris saw this.
Mr. Russ:tit—She is here, my Lord, but she is as deaf as a post,
anti therefore Alr. Campbell nisy like to truss-examine her.
She was called, and said that Davis had a pistol, as stated by the
last witness ; he was loading it.
Mr. /MBE ht. addressed the Jury for the defendant, and con-
tended, that the case might hare been disposed of very well by
Michael Nolan and Robert Matthew Casberd, Esqrs. the Welsh
Justices of that Circuit, who were very learned persons, and quite
competent to have decided this or even a much more important
cause. The man's charge was, that the defendant hail turned the
prosecutor out of possession. But this was rot so. The fact was,
that these parties clahned a right ta the crops, and took possession
of them, using no nines force thsa necessary. The Jory were not
merely to corsider whether th- defendants had done what was not
right only, Out whether they had committed a crime : but there
was no riot, and In fact no breach of the peace of any kind. They
Caine peaceably to take possession of the corn.
The Jr DO E—At four o'clock in the morning.
Mr. CAM PIE LL—But it was in summer, and aft. Reid's peo-
ple were up ; there were six waggons, but they were necessary to
carry away the torn, nor more people than were necessary to load
the waggons, and Mr. Reid made the breach, and was determined
at first to thein it, but his military ardour relaxed ; he told them
to do what they chose ; they broke open the gate ; that was a civil
trespass, for which he might hare brought his action ; the
horse going against him was pnrely accidetaal, and the pistol
was not used, and the prosecutor, in fact, never saw it ; there-
fore, there was no breach of the peace, and, of consequence, could
be no riot.

The letter written by the prisoner to his wife was then put in.
The letter infotnicd his wit.: that he was in custody, and that he
had found the pocket-book about three weeks after Briggs lost it.
near to the place Where it was lost. The carman:l6on of the pri-
soner before the committing 3lagistrates was read by (lie Clerk of
the Court, in which be adniitted having found the pocket-book on
the morning after it was missed.
This closed the cue for the proseeution.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence.
Mr. Justice BAY LET summed up, and said he would reserve
the point for the consideration of the Judges, whether this was a
case properly indictable in this Court, or in Yorkshire, where the
offence was begun.
The Jury found the prisoner Net as they could not de-
cide whether he found the note on the 4th of November.
As the prisoner was shout to leave the bar, a Juryman stood up
rod said, that what had been stated by the Juryman who pro-
nottneed the verdict was not what they had agreed to.
Mr. Justice BATLEY said, then they had-better return again ;
and before they did so. he explained to them, that if the prisoner '
took the pocket.trook from the packet of the prosecutor, there could
be no doubt upon the case t and if he picked it up, knowing it to
belong to the prosecutor, and with the Intention of applying it to
Iris own purposes, he was liable to be found guilty ; hut if lie took
it or and kept it merely out of a frolic, at first intending to restore
it to its owner, but afterwards changed that intention, he thought
they should acquit hint, as there would be no guilty intention at the
time of taking.
The Jury again retired, and in about an hour returned with a err.
diet or-1:Nilly.
Mr. Justice ISAYLT.T intimated that he wolibl also give the pri.
owner the benefit of this point—whether he ought to have sent the
Jury bark after their tint verdict had been recorded.

Joseph William Ilmtgemi, aged 26, of Sunderland, surgeon, was
brought nr to -lend to the indictment round against him for ad.
ministering corrosive sublimate of mercury to his wife, Charlotte
Hodgson. with intent to produce her death. He was fashionably
dressed in a blue cost, light weisteout, and drab trouser. Ind did
not on first entering the dock arrest to feel-much for the situation

itir. PARK, In his summing tip to the Jury, observed,
that the question was, whether the defendants did not connt in a
tuinultuoes manner to pnssess themselves of these crops in the dead
of the night ; and they would have to say, whether the conduct of
the defendants was not most disgraceful in going to overpower
this old gentleman, who had lust a leg aid an anti, and take away
the crops, which, as far as appeared, were fairly and honestly
his property.
Verdict—Gstilty.

The new church in Langham-place is to be consecrated
on All Saints' thy (the lit of November). and is on that
accour.t to be denominated All Saints' Clutch.

in which he was placed ; but whllet Mr. Rays was reeding the in-! • IRISH CIRCUITS.
dicement he became much agitated, and burst Into tears. Ile re-
covered his composure, however, before he was required to pita& I TRALEE ASSIZES, Avousy 12.
and he replied •• Not Guilty," and " by God and my country, "1
to the usuaLquestinns, in a firm and audible voice. The trial was THE ROCK SYSTEM_MURDER.
then fixed for to-morrow morning, and the prisoner retired ham • 7'. Cater was indicted far the murder of Braretere, on the
the bar. 124th of January, 1821 Deceased was principal clerk in the tuna
CIVIL SIDE. coach establishment at Trafee ; the prisoner, it was alleged, was
C•MPSELL •IND ASH/THEIS V. BOWMAN. one of the leaders of a body of insurgents who assembled es the
COLTIS•O opened the pleadings in this case, and said it high road, intercepted the deceased, who win conteOng the mail
we en action brought to reed-er the sum of 200 e, being so much to the city of Cork, and put him to death ; for this offence Ire per.
Miley lent by the plaintiff's wife before her marriage to the de- sons had alresdy undergone the sentence of the has ; prisoner was
Indent, for his use. The defendant pleaded the general issue and the sixth who was put on his trial. The case excited a great degree
Statute of Limitations, that he had made no promise within six of public interest. The prosecution was ordered by Government
part to which the plaintiff had replied ; and to prove the negative i Mr. H. WALSH appeared as Counsel for the prisoner.
the Learned Counsel celled I The first witness called was Bryan M•Guire.—Witness nog-
, fkitatel Soplin—lle is the brother of the plaintiff' and uncle to leeted the 24th of Ja nary, 1822; he and the deceased yet of from
the defendant; he owed money to Mrs. Hall (now Alm Campbell)! Tralee at half-past live that morning ; the deceased went with the
111812; it was 200!., but he had since repaid her lete.; defendant • mail bags, because the mail of the preceding day had not arrived ;
had. informed him that his aunt had, in December, 1021, lent him I they arrived at Killarney without interruption ; from Killarney
MC, for which she was to have interest. This was, said the wit- I they proceeded to Mill street • between Killarney and hhinock-
: Mims ow a cup of tea. I crews they met an assembly of persons who were armed with scythes
Cesin.examined by Mr. SCARLETT—She hail done witness a , and pitchforks, one had a gun—they met no obstruction then ;at
wed tern, and one good turn deserved another. lle came to speak the chapel they met more than MI persons armed in the same man-
the truth between both parties. nee—here they were desired to halt; witm.sa halted, he was taken
After several witnesses. had been examined on both spas, by the broom, dragged off his horse, and marched as a prisoner to
The Learned JUDGE said, the fury would nay whethet they be- Shinockerme. 'When Brereton saw thi.t witness was seised, he
Steed such a promise had been made, and if it had, their verdict 'purred on his horse, several blows were made at him, and stones
meat be for the plaintiff with interest due thereon from the day of were thrown at him. Witness saw deceased's horse receive a blow
the_prontise made. of a scythe, which bad neat:) cut off his hind quarter; he saw the
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 100/., Interest 15/. horse afterwards dead nil the road. When witness came to the
Cross he was marched to a field, where he s-vir the deceased : there
were many persons there armed like the others ; the rood was full
of persons ; the dercnsed and witness were then marched into an
old road. Witness asked to see the Captain of the party, in order
to get liberty to wash the deceased, as he was full of blood. They
went into a cabin on the side of the road, but were soon after
marched out. There were two priests on the road.
Mr. Sergeant Gone n here ribserveff.that he would not Drawees-
easily prolong the examination. It was enough to say that theta
were two clergymen who exerted themselves to the Utmost, of their
j power to protect the deceased, and to disperse the crowd.
I The examination then proceeded.—Brereton and witness were
then separated. Witness was put on his knees to be Alma one
man presented a gun at him, and said that he should be shot lest
he should hang the whole country. A man named Collins inter-
fered and saved him. Witness was put on his oath not to disclaim
the names of any of the party ; it wee added, that If be did, they
would put him and his family to death in whatever part of the
kingildin they should go to. The prisoner at the bar, whom he
identified, was one of the party. Witness saw the prisons at tho
moment he was marched from the field out on the road; he was on
horseback ; he hail a piece of paper is his hand. Witness did not
see him do, or hear him any anything. Witness was gloss to him
fora quarter of an hour. Witness was then put into a home.
After having been put there, he heard a shot fired. Witness saw
the dead hotly of Brereton on the Monday following.
Daniel Sulivan, an informer, examined—Knows the prisoner;
remembers the day hi question t saw the deceased that day at Knock-
agopple ; saw him after at Shinockeross; the deceased was killed
there ; the deceased was cut with a scythe before he was shot ; wit-
ness saw hint shot ; witness heard the prisoner, who was Captain
that day, give directions to some of the persons who have been ex-
ecuted, to shoot the deceased or that lie would shoot them ; in about
ten minutes after the orders were given, the deceased was shot; he
fell ; after he fell the prisener dismounted and fired at him.
Crews-examined-11e gave evidence because he was taken up
himself; witness would himself have fired the shot if he were hid ;
he had no ill-will towards the deceased, yet if he had been ordered
he would hate blown out his brains ; after the murder of Brenton
he had some apprehension of being hanged himself; he swore in.
formations about two years ago; he swore against seven persons,
five of them have been executed ; he got the coat he had on from
Government. He does not correspond with Government. (A laugh).
He got money to buy it ; the deceased wan put on his knees, and
desired to say some prayer*. :Michael Foley, who was executed,
was the pernin who nit off Breretotes ann.
Patrick Flynn, a soldier in the 29th regiment, found the body
of the deceased it Shinnekeross ; the body was on its left side ;
one of the arms was cult oft; the body was coveted with wounds
front the feet to the head.
John Kid}, is chief constable ; the prisoner was given up to him ;
he told rime* that he would be prosecuted because Bryan M'Cluiro
knew him at the affair of Carrigenema.
John Lynch, for the prisoner, stated that there was a baele
at Carrigenema, which was eleven miles from Inch. \Pintess
cannot sey that Carrigenema and Inch were known by the same
name—lnch and Shinockeross ate near each other.
The case having closed,
The Learned Jenne charged the Jury, who, after a few minutes
delay, returned a verdict of Guilty.
lite Learned Jenne now pronounced the sentence of the law,
that the prisoner be hanged on Monday, the 16th of August, and
his body delivered up to the surgeons.
The prisoner heard the terrific sentence with great Ramat and
composure, arid bowed respectfully to the Court.
CONVICTION (WA MAGISTRATE FOR PERJURY.
The next case was the trial of Edward Orpett. Esq. a gentleman
who had served a great number of years as Magistrate for the
county of Kerry, and was put upon his trial for wilful and cermet
perjury. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to leansportasiop for
seven year&
DUEL PREVENTED.

On Tuesday evening, betweei five and eiX o'clock/
as one of the local constables belonging to Turnhsna-
green district, was going on duty, he observed Afro
private carriages and a hackney post chaise draw up on
the toad within about half a mile of the above place, from
which there descended a party of gentlemen, five or
six in number, who instantly struck off the road towards
a small enclosure on the left. From the appearance of
things, the constable judged that they were actuated by to
very kind intentions to some other of his Majesty's liege
subjects, and therefore, by virtue of his constabulary office,
felt called upon to put a stop to such proceedings. The
gentlemen having got within the fence, the constable
passed on unperceived, and made directly for the house of
Mr. Forrest, one of the County Magistrates, wh!eh was
close at hand ; hay* hastily explained the object of his
mission, the man ventured to express his opinion of the
gentlemen's intentions, when Mr. F. having heard enough
to satisfy him that there was mischief brewing, ordered his
horse and gallopped to the spot, closely followed by the
constable and his man servant. At the extreme end of the
field, and entirely concealed from public observation
by an intervening shrubbery, the persons described were
assembled, consisting cf seven persons ; two of whom
were principals,• two seconds, two respective friends,
and a surgeon ready and willing to operate on any
or on all. The preliminaries were adjusted, and the pico's
were being delivered, when Mr. F. leaped the little fence,
and in the King's name charged them on their peril to
desist from hostilities. This interruption was, it would
scent, not only unexpected, but unwelcome to the com-
batants, one of whom impatiently called for his pistol, and
said, that no person should interfere in his quarrel with
impunity. Mr. F. with much urbanity, but with equal
firmness, declared that could not be; he come there as a
Magistrate, whose duty it was to put a stop to all proreed-
ings whereby the lives and safety of his Majesty's subjects
were endangered. This reply, however, did not seem to
abate the gentleman's irritation, and walking to his friend,
he said, " For God's sake, come away, and we can decide
this business elsewhere—then turning to Mr. F. he said,
" sir, we arc met here u gentlemen, to decide a private
quarrel, aril though you may prevent our fighting in ills
county, you cannot in another; it is, therefore, useless
to interfere." To this observation the Magistrate Mack
no reply, except by gently dispossessing the seconds
of their fire-arms, and informing the acting panics
that they might consider themselves under arrest,
begged the favour of their company at his own
house, where they would get every possible satisfac-
tion as to his right of interference. The party then
quitted the ground, accompanied by the magistrate, his
servant, and the constable. On reaching the house, Mr. F:
kindly entreated them to take refreshment. This was,
however, politely declined by all, and the principals and
seconds being bound over in heavy recognizances to keep
the peace, they were sulFred to depart for Zentlon at
e'ght o'clock. °The quarrel is understood to be ouc of a
nature so peculiarly delicate as to admit of no chalice of
adjustment, and it is therefore presumed thatameeting has
already taken place in some distant county. The princi-
pals in this &fair were, Colonel de D--, formerly cf
the Honourable East India Company's service, and H. It.
Esq. The former was attended by Captain D—, of the
Royal Waggon Train ; the latter by Cornet Gs-s—, half-
pay t f the late ISth Light Dragoons.

DOO CAC.—We arc wavy again to have to record
another un'ortunate occurrence, with respect to palms
not &•eying the order of the magistrates of St. Mary-la-
bonn-. Yesterday, a young gentleman, named Harrison,
residing at 31, Crawford-street, was rettirr.ing Item:, when
he was assailed by a dog, belonging to Mr. Steven 3, of the
same street, lamp total actor, who bit him severely hi the
left knee. Mr. Harrison was so alarmed from the conse-
quences which might arise, that be immediately went to
Mr. Bryant, stwgeon, who instantly eut the piece out, and
gave Mr. Harrison medicine to counteract any ill On.ts
that might ensue. Our reporter visited Mr. Harrison
yesterday, who seemed in rather a desponding state, in fear
of serious consequences. We have learned that Mr.
Stevens has visited Mr. Harrison, and has also assn'wt
him that the auimal is in good health, and tied up is his
yard.

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