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Commeneed on Monday, the llth inst. Nn
vision, of of consequence, took place in the Crown
Court. A great number of informations against
parishes in which unlicensed stills had been found,
were brought forte;trd, and many .3 ere tried ; but
the convielions were but few, and Mr the gieater
number of the informations wete given up or post-
poned.
In the Civil Court, the ease of Waucliob v. Dill,
from its circumstances, excited particular attenticas.
It was an aftion of slander. brought by the keeper
of a public-house at Castlefin, against his Pastor,
for words spoken of him before the congregation
at the Meeting-house The defence was, that the
Plaintiff had given•scandal and offence to religion,
by encouraging cock-fighting, cards, hazard, and
other irregularities at his house, during the prepa-
' ration seek precesling the holy sacrament ; in con-
'sequence of which. the Defend tot had thought it
his duty to admonish the elaintttr, and, finding him
refraltory.had proceeded to a public rebuke, which
it was insisted he had a right to do, by the rules of
the Presbyterian Church. Ott the othqr side, it
was alleged that the Defendant aracd rather from
motives of private malice, than of Teal in the dis-
L charge of his duty. After a long tzi :1, the Jury
retited, and bromzht in a verdid for the Plaintiff*
405.—This at'lion had been tried at a former As
sizes, when the Plaintiff recovered 6d damages, bu
the proceedings were set aside for some legal delea

IPES7.IIOI:LLAND ASSIZES.

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These assizes ended on Friday.—There were only
two prisoners, against neither of whom was there a
bill of indiament found.
In the Court of /Viri Prins there was no cause of in-
terest or moment, except the following ; whirl), from
its nature, and the reputation and respeEtability of
the parties accused, had eseited a general in:erest
not only in Appleby and its neighbourhood, but
generally throe/gin:nit the county.
he KING e. ROBIiRT nosiest:in and Orates.
This was en indiament, preferred by the inhabit-
ants of Kendal, against the Defendants, (who, at
the time of committing the supposed offence, were
Guardians of the Poor of the united parishes of Ap-
pleby and Bongate) for illegally removing a pau-
per, his wife, and three children, from Bongate to
Kendal.—The cause came on to be tried before &-
TM GRAHAM at seven o'clock in the morning, and
continued until half-past four; when the Defendants
were honourably argertred, to the manifest satisfac-
tion of a very crowded court.
It appeared, in the course of the trial, that these
Defendants had concluded themselves, not only on
the present occasion, but through the whole course
of their lives, with the greatest humanity and ten-
derness to persons in distress. Yet these wretched
and unprincipled paupers (who ate strolling players)
had the address to impose upon the inhabitants of
Kendal, a Tale of W.7e, alleging various circum-
stances of unprecedented trreltas exercised upon
them by the Defendants.
These vagabonds, when esarnined. sheaved them-
selves possessed of the mo•s depraved minds, by as-
serting the same tale, upon oath. which they had
previously told to the inhabitants of Kendal.—For-
tunately for the Defendants, almost every circum-
stance these wretches stated was contradiaed in the
moot unequivocal manner, by sevetal a itnesses of
undoubted veracity and
.the most unimpeachable
chara&'r.
Thus, by a patient investigation of the truth, have
the condua and charaffers of these gentlemen (who
were, some time ago, most licentiously and daringly
abused in some of the public prints, and even repre-
sented as monsters in human shape") been rescued
from all the infamy and disgrace which would other-
wise have &tended them through life.
Mr. Passe, the leading Counsel for the Defend-
ants, made one of the most aathetic addresses ever
delivered in that, or perhaps in any other Court.—
The piaure he drew of the situation of these pau-
pers, who had, in the course of tl:eir examination, in
support of the prosecution, stated so many circum-
stances, which he should be able to prove were abo-
minable falsehoods, was truly affeaing ;—but when,
with peculiar energy. he dwelt upon the vane of
rAaraBer and repsotetrun. so essentially necessary to
every one, and particularly to the Defendants, (who
are men in the most respeaable situations in life)
and what their feelings and sufferings must have
been on the present occasion, there was scarcely a
dry cheek in Court. The Jury consulted together
abont two minutes, and returned a verdi& of Net

Gulay.
Counsel for the Prosecution, Mr. Seijeant COCK-
ELL, Mr. Range, and Mr. RAlNCOCK.—Attormies,
Messrs. WiLson and SoNs. Kendal.—Counsel for
the Detendanu, Messrs. PARILI, Tome4o, and
Wooa.—Attorney, Mr. STIPHI,IIIOI4, Appleby.

EXheUTIONS.

Fatly on Friday morning, Wdliwn !Nathan aid
Cuddick, were executed in front of the county
gaol, in Warwick, for coining at Erdington, near
-Birmingham, pursuant to their sentence at the Late
assizes. The unfortunate men (as usual for the
crime of coining) were placed upon a sledge at the
door of the county ball, and drawn to the plate of
execution. Soon after they ascended the platform,
they were joined by the Rev. Mr. Langhorne, to
whose discourse they listened with the most fervent
attention, and from whose pious instruedions they
appeared to derive all the consolation which, ia
their unhappy situation, they were capable] of te-
ceiving s Robathan, in particular, was must de-
voutly penitent. When every thing was ready, the
sufferers took an affeitionate farewell of each ether,
the Clergyman, and Mr. 'Fatnall ; and, about half-
past seven o'clock. the drop fell, and ►hey were
launched into eternity. Robathan was in the 551.1 s
year of bis age, and Caddick in the 65th.
Matlett, the Tall found guilty of shooting at, and
wounding, Robert Teryford, the watchman, at Bit-.
mingham, was condemned to be hanged there, and
on Friday, the dreadful sentence of the law was
put in force. Ab-.ut ltalf•past eight o'clo,:k in the
morning, Mr. Tatnall. the keeper of the county
gaol, set out from Warwick with the criminal, ac-
companied by the Under Sheriff, and escorted by the
proper officers and the javelin mess. At Knowle,
they halted, and Matsell took something to eat, .u.. 1
dr ask a few glasses of wine. When the malt:Fodor