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MOMS CIRCUIT.


• 'AssIZES.
Mokunum, MONDAY. HAIGH 91. ,
INDECZNT BATHING AT BRIGHTON.
THE XING V. JOHN CIIIINDON.
• The Defendant was indicted for indecently re-
vising himself on the brach at Brighton, ou the
26th of June, and td of July last.
Mr. GURNEY hiving °penes the indictment, Mr.
Serjeauttintrukati stated the circumstances of the
case. He observed, that it had long been the prac-
tice...various persons to undress and bathe so near
to the houses, and a iihin view of the inhabitants of
the town of Brighton, that at length many respect-
able persons had associated themselves into a Com-
mittee to prevent such an indecent nuisance. They
had accordingly met and pointed out the limits
• within which persons, not using machines, might
bathe in the sea, sad in general most persons ac-
quiesced in their resolution. lit order, however,
that no person might complain of any hardship,
they resolved that all persons who were invalids,
and to whom it might be inconvenient to walk
to the distance prescribed, should have tickets

F ern to them, on application to the Committee,
which would entitle town to the use of a machine
wads. And sull further, to preserve public de-
ceucy, they had built a hut on thy beach,
wherein any firma might undress himself smiler
CoVIPT. Notwithstanding these different iteecnn-
rtiodations, the Defendant, who was a tailor, at
Brighton, refused to conform to these reasonable
'regulations, but obstinately persisted in the indecent
practice of bathing within a few yards of the houses.
He had been frequently remonstrated with, but his
uniform answer was, the sea tcasfree, and he would
bathe when and where he pleased. Nor was he merely
penitent in doing this in his own intriton, but lie hail
'miner(' many others to follow his example, and he
cnostantly tense at the head of his companions, by
whom he was denominated the Contain, and iu de.
• fiance of all decency and remonstrance, daily ex-
posed himself naked on the beat h.
Mr. Ellis, a gentleman who resided in Bedford-
place, Brighton, proved that the Defendant bathed
on the days stated in the indictment, and that the
Defendant persisted lie would continue to do it, as
the sea was free. He also stated the precautions
taken by the Committee to prevent such indecen-
ClOl.
This testimony was confirmed by F. Gunn, one
of the bathers employed by the inhabitants of
Brighton, to warn persons against bathing in ex-
posed situations. Ile stated, that he had given to
the Defeinlent one of the head-bills, in which per-
sons bathing without T11:1C11111e0 were desired to go
Fmstsrard of the Crescent. sod Westward us far as
Hove. Upon which occasion the Defendant ►unt
he would babe wln•re he pleased.
Mr. Maanrsir addressed the Jury for the de-
fe:.ce, in which lit stated it had been the CLI9IOIII at
all times for persons to bathe where thei Defendant
new bathed, and they ought Pot to be di-turbid
because Mr. Ellis, the witness. had thought pro-
per to run tip his houses within view.
The Crtcr BACON thought this is serious question,
and stated his opinion. that it war au offence ai:sinst
sleeeney acid morality. If a town grew up, the in-
halntants must not be annoyed with indecent
spectacles, and therefore it became the duty of
the bather to retire to remoter situations.
the Jury found the Dec. pliant—Guilty.
My. Justice Hearn passed sientend!e, on the
Crown Side, oa Ha and Emil, for robbing Mr.
Halsey on the highway ; and John Klletr, and If.
dense, for stealing from dwelfing-bouses.
The Assists for this County finished.
1JU84../N SOCIETY.

The following interesting subject principally
occupied the last meeting of the Dahlia Society,
la log a Memorial from the IVorking Poor, bred to
the woollen manufacture, in the liberties of Dub-
lin, and addressed to the Lord Nlayor, the liar' of
Meath, Mr. Li Touche. the Representatives in
Parliament, the Recorder and Aldermen of the

city of Dublin, the Farming Society, Surgeon fie-
' Siena Stewart, Surgeons Hume, Cratnpton, &c.
The first part of the said Petition stated. that the
principal part of the inhabitants of the Liberty were
bred to the woollen maoufactare ; that during the
inclemencies of winter they are all thrown idle, as
their is:irps or cloths cannot lie dried ; the miseries
'they encounter in consequence ere not to be con-
ceived ; their families are detached in consequence
'of the various disorders induced by wet and cold,
numbers being compelled to seek relief in infirma-
ries, public hospitals, :mil, as a LW refuge, the
streets—they state that live hundred loains in the
Liberty, on an average, afforded employment to
eight people, who are constantly employed in tlw
season of the year when the wool warps cud cloths
can be dried—allowing the moderate computation
of live in family depending ou each, will leave
.2'2,000 relyino reclusively for support on the ma-
nufacture, whet the weather perinits—but during
the heavy rains and snows, tie greater part of such
as are in heslth,erek relieffrom the public, through
winch calamity numbers of itidustrious and alien-
tive persons are for ever precluded from returning
to their trades sad families. Thou conclitimi hi-
comes hopeless, as every winter overturns the
iM-
dnstry of the preceding suinmer. The prayer.of
the Petition is to devise some means to have their
material dried in the winter.
The statement is verified by the Monger and
Deputy Aluagers.
The Lord Mayor, with the Committee of the
Farming Society, in consequence, preferred a pe-
tition to the Dublin Society, recointnendieg a large
stone tenter house, as as effectual expedient to
obviate the calamities incident to rainy winters,
and concert the year as it were into a working
mower ; *moil many good effects calculated to
result from this yoidnvance, one is moat forcibly
striking, wit. that the grants to Infirmai les, hospi-
tals, Houses of Industry and Correction, together
with the COUITAti gaols, which poverty so rower-
&ally ems:tibiaes to people, would be lower when
relieved from the multitudes of unemployed poor.
The Cot 'tire of the Dublin Society nave con-
sideted the subject of great impurtance, and fully
entitled to the protection and recommendation of
the Society at large, hot that no application at pre-
seat can be made to Patbarnent on the subject;
they have, however, entered the matter. ow their
asjuute% for subsequent coosideratione •

ingraidITILION 7u* RECTIVENT.
VIC ro•sewrire U ♦ CoItRIOT fur or rut u♦Ms/
or ♦LL TUE sir or TIM VII NIGINENT, WIIO
Wilt FANGIO PRISONERS IN THE LAMS CAMPAIGN
3. Gray, dreamer, lames Clorher, William Reid,
Wm. Brothers, Ales. Dram, Alex. Reid,*
Pat. Meagan,* Mir Beat, A. M'hllliar,
rms. Dorsgbie,* Rowan Crawford,
M'Kersie, Jobs P I John
Mitchel J

Jolt.. M'lntosh, • , .. Brown,
GO). lk . Morrison, drum- Rubt. Fletcher,
John Hamilton, mer, Duncan Frazer,
Wm. Wallace,' John M'Kim, James Cowan,
Wis. Hamilton, Bill Monday, James Shaw,
Ralph Hilmar' John Robertson, John Bishop,
Donald M'Donald, Alex. ganglier,. John Campbell,
Ales. M'Donald, John Wilson, Hugh Chisholm,*
Donald il'Grins, Win. Connell, Peter Doinghie,
I Hugh Nicol, Alex. Whiteburn, Win. Ritchie,
Jamn Stuart, Jas. Mason,* Wm. Scott,
John Sharer, Jas. Thompson, John Brice,
Chas. frighten, Jas. U re, Thos. Eleranten,
Robe. Craw, Jae Downie, P.Smith,drnitnst,
And*. Duncan,* John Granger, Peter Tall,
Muhl Berwick, Ales. Dollar, Alen. Macpbersot,
Arch. Buchanan, Hold. Stuart, Alex. M'Donald,
H. M'Leod, drum- Chas. Murphy,* Geo. White,
user' Wm. Fairweather, Red. Al ar hewson,
Robe. Chile, James Campbell, Lewis Morrison,
Jas. Jamison, Dond. M'Auley, Arch. Sinclair,
Jai Hamilton, .13113CX Harvey, John 311‘Leed, cor-
Arehd Stuart, James Liddle, pursl.
Jas. Kennon A. Montgomery, J. Heiderbrandb•
Posts Herill;ser,• James Murray, John Murray,
Thus Lockheed, John Watson, James Christy,
And.. Perry, Peter Kier Alr x. Anderson,
Dood. Grard,• • Hugh. Eglistome, T. Watson, dram.
John Anderson, G. Halliday, John Morrison.
I
John Buchanan, Bawd. Speiser, In all 91.
N B. Those marked thus • originally belonged to the lit
battalion. D. PACK. Lieut.-Cul.
The Regiment had oily irr. Man killed since the Battle of
Vistula, on the gist of ,kr,,rsi—his name is William Wil-
son ; a native of Kilsvi'.