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tints, and the Pririoner was found Goalig, and sen-
te„red to four'. en yeNra transportation.
A statute of lottery having hero taken nut against
Jan Keg, who was chorea
If at Thos. Bryant, Gent. of Newmarket, t lir Pro.
escuirseit recognizant-es were di•charged, and the
Prtsotivr delivered over to proper custody.
Robert Brunk, gamekeeper to A. 11. Steward,
F. 41. was itillicird for haying maliciously shot at
Charles Bantirk, in the period, of Knorldishall.
I'. Itintiok said he was coming from Sizessell
MI the Cl§ rif f)vrember lest ; other persons were
with !bias ; they were welkin-, in the mirk then the
Prisoner went up to Mills, and was going to seise
hint, and as he was running away. the Prisoner
Imint.ll his goo at him at five yard. off, het it missed
lire. Wit ileps being alarmed, was running nwty, and
when he hod got about ten yards, the gun went of,
unit shot him it the legs. Burt and Mille aseiercd
him home. the Prosecutor limping nil one leg.
After he got home he are nothing of Prisoner. He
upptied to a surgeon. who, finding a mortification
had ensued, amputated one of his legs.
Burt and Robert Mills were called, and
cormborated these facts. Upon the cross-exarnina.
firm of there witnesses, they denied they were
pouching.
51r. King, the surgeon, spoke to the arnpution
of the leg, and also to some conversation with the
Pristmer, tending to chew that lie was perfectly cool
at t'ae time lie fired the gun.
Several witnesses were called to shew that the
three first witnesses were poaching at the time with
a dog and nets ; and many respectable gentlemen
spnke to the humanity arid general good conduct
of the Prisoner.
The Jury found him Gaily; but, from the pe-
r-ohm oircumstarices of the OM, judgment is re-

spited.
la the ewe of froriledge, who Was charged
tinder the gauze laws with a misdemeanor, iu br-
ill.; found in t. close at Alpheton, with nets and a
!archer dog, mid armed with it bludgeon, i! was
contended, that the stick he carried being inertly
is walking slick, did not come under the denomi-
nation of a and tile offence was only •
tiespass iu the eye 4a the law. It was the Prose-
cottir's owls fault if the Prisoner escaped psi ssih-
ment, as he might have been informed against for
pinu•liinsg. and plinislied upon his purse.—A simi-
lar nhjrdins's was entitle nod admitted on the trial
of Robert Pleasants, rharged with being in a wood
called It'd° Stubbs. in the parish of Rougham.
called upon to plead, and also us his de-
fence, the Trivanier said. that he was committed
for the offence on the 24th of November, 1817.
and brought up for trial at the Quarter Sessibions in
January last, when the Grand Jury threw out the
bill, and be did snit etpect to have heard any more
of the matter.
Both Pilsoittrs were accordingly acquitird, much
to the satisfiction of a very crowded Court.
lit the .eases of Fairweather a. Edwards, four

Knights (if the 'Shire, viz. Sir Robert Harland,
Mort. Jame. Reed, Esti. A. H. Steward, Esq. mid
Thomas Western, Eq. Uncurled with their pwords
and belts, and took the oaths upon a writ of right,
respecting a cottage, butcher's shop, and an ucie
of land no DArcishain.—The proceeditig is very
unusual, WA perhaps such an action has not been
tried for many years.
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